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  2. *
    why does the word edsel keep popping into my head?
    According to the poll, 33 per cent of Canadians feel the economy is getting
    worse, and only 13 per cent believe it’s getting better. The possibility of an
    economic downturn has become the top political issue facing the country.
    That could be difficult news for Dion, who has made the environment and
    his “Green Shift” plan a central issue to use against the Conservatives.
    “The risk here is that he’s shown up at a baseball game in full hockey gear.”
    *

  4. OK everyone, Dion met Arpurrr today and did a number in his Swiss Army shorts, an election is upon us. Here are my seat breakdowns by region.
    Atlantic Canada- CPC get 15/31 seats
    Quebec CPC get 29/75 seats
    Ontario CPC get 42/106 seats
    MB CPC get 10/14 seats
    SK CPC get 12/14 seats
    AB CPC get 27/28 seats
    BC CPC get 20/36 seats
    Yukon/NWT/Nunavit CPC get 1/3 seats
    CPC 156/307 seats, Majority by 2 seats. Seats picked up in ON are from Liberal held, seats in Quebec are mostly from old bloc ridings, couple from Libs.
    Barring any unforseen scandal not already disclosed.

  5. “without families like this our nation would have no chance of affording the social welfare programs proposed by the Democratic Party.”
    Tyler Cowen about Palins

  7. CNN CONDEMNED FOR IGNORING GENOCIDE IN CHINA
    http://thecanadiansentinel.blogspot.com/2008/09/msm-condemned-for-ignoring-genocide-in.html

    There is plenty of gravity to this matter if it sinks in that this is real—a confirmed crime against humanity that may still be in progress. And, it happens in a context that has also gone unreported—the crackdown against Falun Gong in China. To be fair, it was reported back in 1999 when it began. To be accurate, it dropped out of the news after, late in 1999, U.S. President Bill Clinton signed a “free trade” deal with China.

    Got to read it all, folks. Why would a respected international news organization, based in America, where the press is supposedly free, who had heard about a possible holocaust happening today, choose to ignore it, not even investigate?

  9. Harper, Dion, Layton, Duceppe, May.
    The only grown up in the bunch, the only leader who knows how to lead IN THE REAL WORLD, is Prime Minister Stephen Harper. The other four live in La-La Land.
    No wonder 87.6% of CFRA listeners trust him the most to lead a majority government?
    Go, Stephen, go!

  10. Whoops, scratch the ? in above post. Sentence should read:
    No wonder 87.6% of CFRA listeners trust him the most to lead a majority government.

  11. A few weeks ago, Dion was musing that its looking more like Canadians want an election, and the editorials listed on National Newswatch appeared to be in general agreement that it was time for a clean slate, and we should have an election.
    A few short summer weeks later, and it’s Harper calling the election,
    and just peruse the editorials now.
    Remarkable.

  12. Ad$Cam Chretien’s Red-Green slush fund busted.
    More, please.
    …-
    “Ottawa pulls $100,000 from B.C. Sierra Club’s climate-change initiative
    VANCOUVER — Environment Canada has terminated a funding contract to the B.C. chapter of the Sierra Club of Canada, causing the possible closing of a climate-change program initiative.
    Pat Dolan, executive director of Environment Canada’s outreach and biodiversity priorities division, telephoned the environmental non-profit group last week to say that the $100,000 funding contract, signed May 16, was terminated.
    The grant had been approved through the EcoAction Community Funding program, a federal initiative created by the Chrétien government in 1995 and supported by subsequent administrations.”
    http://tinyurl.com/5ptla4 (g-m)
    From Comments:
    ” Frank Godfrey from Canada writes: PC internal polling is telling them that it’s ok to do hatchet jobs like this across the board. Most Canadians are not this simple-minded.”
    http://tinyurl.com/67mfeu

  13. Seems strange to see the “leader” of the opposition announcing that Canadians are heading to the polls.

  14. (Via SWJ) David Montero, Pakistani tribesmen organize private armies to fight Taliban
    Pakistan’s Taliban might be getting stronger, wreaking havoc along the country’s border with Afghanistan, but they are also growing wildly unpopular, inciting their own tribesmen to turn against them.
    In the latest of a series of incidents, a lashkar, or private army comprised of Pakistani tribesmen, torched the houses of Taliban commanders in Bajaur, near the Afghan border, vowing to fight them until they are expelled…

  16. Just in case anyone’s wondering about Todd Palin’s DUI:
    http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/09/todd-palins-dui.html
    He was arrested 22 years ago, at the age of 20, for driving under the influence and spent a few hours in jail. There was no accident and no one was hurt. He was dating Sarah Heath (now Palin) at the time.
    So how much deeper does the Left have to dig in order to find dirt on the Palins? It seems to me they’ve got quite enough of their own: Slick Willie’s willy, Biden’s drinking and plagiarism, Obama’s drug past and connections to Ayer and Reznik, Teddy Kennedy’s Koppechnie scandal, need I say more?
    What’s that saying again? People who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones?
    Yeah, that’s the one.

  17. Was that Hans Christian of SDA commentary fame being interviewed on NewsNet this weekend?
    My first thought was it couldn’t be as the TV screen would have been full of all of his ‘Frankenstein Brigade’ and pseudo army shit he usually signs off with…..

  20. Uh- batb, yes they did.
    You were probably watching a news carrier other than Fox. There was indeed security at the DNC, and it was required. Seems the protest focused mainly on the Dalai Bama’s plan to send more troops to Afghanistan. Other whacko usual suspects were there as well.

  21. batb, I don’t have a link and it may have even been CBC NewsWorld (I was only flipping channels). Anyway, this Christain dude is a college instructor and I think he was talking about the upcoming CDN election.

  22. Not really that strange Dave. The Liberals still don’t really believe that they are not the government. It goes beyond thier limited imaginations.

  23. Thanks, Malcolm.
    I realize there were demonstrations by peace groups and others–but what I meant to say was that I don’t remember there being demonstrations or attacks AGAINST Democratic Party delegates.
    There have been a number of individual Republican delegates to the RNC who have been attacked by demonstrators in St. Paul. The police there have also seized tools and substances–among them gallons of urine–that were to be used in the demonstrations.

  24. Jeremy Page, Triumph for British forces in Boy’s Own-style Kajaki mission
    British forces completed one of their most complex and daring operations since the Second World War early this morning when they delivered a giant turbine to the Kajaki hydroelectric dam in Afghanistan’s insurgency-racked southern province of Helmand…
    About 2,000 US and Canadian forces protected the convoy for the first 50 miles of its journey from the southern city of Kandahar, but 3,000 British troops handled the perilous final leg through known Taleban strongholds…

  25. Ten years ago today,
    http://www.thechronicleherald.ca/Front/1076349.html
    I can remember getting woke up by the XO of Preserver getting on the PA system at 2330 telling us that we were headed towards the scene of an airliner crash near Peggy’s Cove. My first thought? This is one stupid exercise, what are the odds that we are ever going to be only twenty miles from an aircraft crash?
    38 hours later I got back to bed.

  26. Eskimo:
    Nope, never interviewed. Don’t see why the MSM would want to talk to me in any case.
    Cheers

  27. (Via Comment Central) David Brooks, What the Palin Pick Says
    The main axis in McCain’s worldview is not left-right. It’s public service versus narrow self-interest. Throughout his career, he has been drawn to those crusades that enabled him to launch frontal attacks on the concentrated powers of selfishness…
    When McCain met Sarah Palin last February, he was meeting the rarest of creatures, an American politician who sees the world as he does. Like McCain, Palin does not seem to have an explicit governing philosophy. Her background is socially conservative, but she has not pushed that as governor of Alaska. She seems to find it easier to work with liberal Democrats than the mandarins in her own party.
    Instead, she seems to get up in the morning to root out corruption…

  28. Essential reading:
    Spengler, How Obama lost the election
    DENVER – Senator Barack Obama’s acceptance speech last week seemed vastly different from the stands of this city’s Invesco Stadium than it did to the 40 million who saw it on television. Melancholy hung like think smog over the reserved seats where I sat with Democratic Party staffers. The crowd, of course, cheered mechanically at the tag lines, flourished placards, and even rose for the obligatory wave around the stadium. But its mood was sour. The air carried the acrid smell of defeat, and the crowd took shallow breaths. Even the appearance of R&B great Stevie Wonder failed to get the blood pumping…
    Obama will spend the rest of his life wondering why he rejected the obvious road to victory, that is, choosing Hillary Clinton as his vice presidential nominee… [R]ejecting Clinton in favor of the colorless, unpopular, tangle-tongued Washington perennial Joe Biden was a statement of weakness. McCain’s selection was a statement of strength. America’s voters will forgive many things in a politician, including sexual misconduct, but they will not forgive weakness.
    That is why McCain will win in November, and by a landslide…

  30. ‘Conservative’ Alberta is wildly outspending everbody else
    Alberta’s right-wing, fiscally responsible, red-tape hating, big government-loathing, strong and free “Conservative” government will spend $37.8-billion on government programs in fiscal 2008-09. What makes this figure exceptional is that it is higher than spending in British Columbia, where the government is slated to spend “only” $37.7-billion this year and they have nearly a million more citizens than Alberta.
    http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/editorial/story.html?id=f991ac90-be0c-4041-968c-8f09993b98ab

  31. MND: My pleasure.
    (Via Israpundit) Hike of the Week Urban Hike with Sarah Palin
    http://alaskapodshow.com/index.php/2008/02/20/
    The segment with Sarah Palin runs from about 3:40 to the 8:30 mark. N.B. around the 7:12 mark the Israeli flags on her lapel pin and by the window in the governor’s office. Hot and sensible…

  32. Dion and Goodale just now announce a ‘star’ candidate in regina..retired RCMP, Calvin Johnson.Dion,in making the announcement looks on the verge of tears! As well,he is sounding like Law and Order will be a big campaign platform….yeah,right.

  33. Obama puts it to rest. He has more experience than Sarah because he is a good …… campaigner ?
    [BO: Well, you know, my understanding is that, uh, Governor Palin’s town of Wasilly [sic] has, uh, 50 employees, uh, uh, we’ve got 2500, uh, in this campaign. I think their budget is maybe $12 million a year. Uh, uh, we have a budget of about three times that just for the month. Uh, so I think that, uh, our ability to manage large systems, uh, and to, uh, execute, uh, I think has been made clear over the last couple of years. Uh, and certainly, in terms of, uh, the legislation that I’ve passed just dealing with this issue post-Katrina, uh, of how we handle emergency management. The fact that, uh, many of my recommendations were adopted and are being put in place, uh, as we speak indicates to extent to which we can provide the kinds of support and good service that the American people expect.] hotair.com
    Talk the talk counts for more than walk the walk. There are voters out there who actually belive that. WK, for one.

  34. Old Obama.
    I notices too that he uses ” Uh” alot when he is away from his teleprompter,
    maybe its the Kenyan translation of “like”

  36. Heads-up
    Columnist David Warren will guest on the CTS-TV Michael Coren Show with NDP’s Marilyn Churley and commentator David Menzies, Wednesday, Sept.3 at 8pm Eastern, repeating next day at noon.
    CTV’s Mike Duffy Live recommences today at 5pm Eastern, repeating at 8pm.
    You’ll probably have to crank up the VCR or PVR for something folks.

  37. Isn’t it interesting how the polls are all of a sudden showing the Conservatives to be on the verge of a majority?
    The last poll we saw had the Liberals ahead 33-31 and now, a couple of weeks later, the CPC is ahead 37-29.
    Could it be that the pollsters have to quit pandering to their Liberal buddies once an election call is imminent so they can avoid looking totally stupid?
    Remember last election that Nanos was within a tenth of a point on all counts on election day and he’s had the CPC marginally ahead for a while now.
    Watch for Nanos to have the CPC at or just below 40% now that an election call is around the corner.
    They have a reputation to maintain, after all.
    BTW Sammy, Cal Johnston is the former police chief in Regina and a good one, but he won’t get elected here, even Goodale will have trouble holding on to his seat as we look for a CPC sweep in Saskatchewan!

  38. According to a post over at Blue Like You,with link to a cbc article of 2003,Johnson wasn’t a fan of the gun registry.How will that sit with the Libs?

  39. It’s Hans’s fault. The Red-Green himmel ist falling, ja?
    …-
    “Science Sun Makes History: First Spotless Month in a Century”
    “Article Update, Sep 1 2008. After this story was published, the NOAA reversed their previous decision on a tiny speck seen Aug 21, which gives their version of the August data a half-point. Other observation centers such as Mount Wilson Observatory are still reporting a spotless month. So depending on which center you believe, August was a record for either a full century, or only 50 years.”
    http://tinyurl.com/596wph (dailytech)
    …-
    More from comments:
    ” By phxfreddy on 9/1/2008 10:28:33 AM
    -1- Sell me your coastal land at 10% on the dollar… it is soon to be worthless because of rising ocean levels. 10% is a generous offer under those circumstances. http://www.amarketplaceofideas.com/hey-coastal-lib…
    -2- Promise to subsidize fossil fuel usage if cooling occurs http://www.amarketplaceofideas.com/global-warming-…
    -3- Eat insects. Much lower carbon footprint than beef! A large percentage of the world eats bugs. You can too if you are serious about saving the world. http://www.amarketplaceofideas.com/global-warming-…
    -4- Live like the Amish do. Do not use a car. Admit it you hate technology so show us how its done. Use a horse and buggy. http://www.amarketplaceofideas.com/if-you-believe-…
    -5- Show us your are serious. We are about to be inundated. Build an Ark so it will be ready for us all to live in when we need it. Show us how visionary you are. http://www.amarketplaceofideas.com/global-warming-…
    Or … you can do nothing and demonstrate its all just a cheer-lead con job by a bunch of frauds and followed by a bunch of poor saps feeling irrelevant because they have insufficient skills in a world that is increasingly technical and globalized.”
    …-
    ‘Nother Comment:
    “By JohnnyCNote on 9/1/2008 11:02:13 PM
    quote:
    NJF / MSG ( Neurotic Joyless fkcu / Militant Stalinist Green … because the people worrying about global warming appear to be very neurotic germanic white people who worship nature. If you have been to germany you KNOW what I mean!
    How do you connect “Stalinist Green” with “neurotic germanic white people”?
    …-

  40. Sammy, dad was a cop for 38 years. I have NEVER heard any cop that was outside of the management circle have anything good to say about gun control laws. Dad figured we had reached the point of diminishing returns wrt to gun control laws around 1970.
    They are like locks. They are only any good for honest people.

  42. Dion introduced a former police chief in Sask. as a new Liberal candidate.
    Not one to EVER exagerate (barf) Dion proclaimed that this police chief was the most effective crime fighter in the history of Canada!!!!!
    Wow.

  43. “CPC 156/307 seats, Majority by 2 seats.”
    I certainly hope that this turns out to be accurate.
    However, after years of Liberal stupidity, corruption and outright thievery, one has to wonder …. why is it so close?

  44. Wow, a law and order guy as a star candidate for the Liberals and a retired RCMP one at that.
    Bet Ralphy Goodale was jerking proudly at that little announcement.
    Any sign of strain on Goodale’s face these days?
    Don’t they still have a few more ridings to find candidates for?

  46. biff jr – remember, we have set up an election infrastructure that makes it extremely difficult for any party to get a majority.
    We have done this by removing 25% of the seats from full and fair contesting by national parties and have instead, handed over those seats to a situation where a non-national party is defined as ‘default’ and privileged. This is the Bloc Party in Quebec, which is not a national party but is open only to those electors in one province – which province has 25% of the seats in the House.
    Because we have given one confined set of electors their own Private Party, this Party naturally becomes their default party. It represents them in a far stronger manner, because it is local, than any of the other three parties which are national rather than local/provincial.
    This leaves 75% of the seats in the House, to be split up between three national parties: the Conservatives, the Liberals and the NDP. Assuming that one of these parties will be a minority, taking about 30 seats, that leaves about 200 seats split between the two main parties. In a House with 308 seats, you need at least 155 for a very narrow and even fragile majority.
    How easy is it for one party to get 155 seats – which would leave the other national party with about 50? It isn’t easy – particularly since we are also dealing with a generation long brainwashing by the Liberal party, which set itself up in power and installed the Civil Service as loyal appointees, installed the MSM as loyal publicists, and locked all new immigrants into isolated, non-integrated and dependent blocs.
    Now, if we didn’t have that default non-national party in Quebec, the Bloc, then, it would be far easier and fairer – for a parliament to be elected that represented a majority of the citizens.
    With this default party – it makes it almost impossible because it removes so many seats from fair competition.

  47. AtlanticJim,as the Mom of an RCMP member,I would ‘ditto’ your comment.My other son is an avid hunter,both my boys were brought up to respect guns,hunt,and shoot competitively (and very well I might add)None of us could understand why a criminal would respect a gun registry,I mean,criminals and respect for the law just don’t go hand in hand.

  48. clair voyant – nail on head !
    Anyone ever seen the media’s raw polling data ? A list of who were chosen to be polled ?
    Skewed – to influence voters intentions. Before the Internet it worked.

  49. Lowell Green recommends/links to SDA.
    …-
    “The Democrats are Going Nuts!
    The granola crunching, tree hugging thug loving mind is a wonderful thing isn’t it?
    Whether here in Canada—or the United States. Progressives they call themselves. Hypocrites is a much more apt description.
    Consider this situation with Bristol Palin. She’s the 17-year-old daughter of Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin. You know the story: She’s unwed and pregnant. Mind you, she’s not going to abort, she’s going to wed the father.
    Both of Bristol’s parents say they love their daughter unconditionally and are proud she’s going to have the baby.
    The Democrats are going nuts! I actually heard a caller to CNN describe it as “Babygate!” Can you believe it? Babygate!
    Here are the Democrats, the American progesssives who fell all over themselves defending a President who’s junior assistant was servicing him on her knees, upset over a 17-year-old unwed mother.”
    http://lowellgreencfra.blogspot.com/

  50. Jason Kenney was on ctv today talking about Dions green shaft
    this can be viewed at ctv.ca
    And while your at it you can see Dion taking questions before liberal love in Winnipeg
    ***Also take note of the commercial before his(dion)video, Its a Conservative Ad!! lol

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