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  4. For Shamrock & a few other Ex Owen Sounders out there, the Owen Sound Salmon Spetacular wrapped up on Sunday with a local winning @ 22.44lbs
    Now before others on here compare to west coast salmon this derby is for fresh water Salmon & takes place in Owen Sound Ontario on Geo.Bay.
    Great time had by all in the Big Tent, Great fishing, entertainment, prizes. This Derby puts a lot of money into the local economy & raises alot of monies for local Conservation.

  5. Dave Batters,Cons.MP for Palliser riding in Sask. has announced he’s stepping down.Has been dealing with depression and anxiety,and asks for ‘understanding’ in dealing with this long battle.I saw link to this at Kady’s blog…and she was quite compassionate re same..has stated in the past Dave was ‘one of the good guys’

  6. 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. Posted by: ET at September 2, 2008 1:36 PM
    Proportional representation would achieve that as well, and be far more democratic.
    Funny, Harper doesn’t talk about it anymore. Wonder what happened to change his mind……

  7. Lt. Gen. (ret.) Moshe Yaalon, A New Strategy for the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
    I have a great personal desire to see the Israeli-Palestinian conflict solved, for the benefit of Israelis and Palestinians, and for the benefit of all the region’s peoples. Nevertheless, it is clear to me that it is not the epicenter of the region’s many ills. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is only one of many afflicting the Middle East, and it is by no means the dominant one.
    The most important fault-lines of the strife in today’s Middle East are found rather in non-localized conflicts such as pan-national Islamic ­Jihadism against the West, the Shia-Sunni divide, and the Persian­-Arab contest for power and influence. Within Muslim societies, across the region and beyond, there is a struggle between nationalists and Jihadists. Many, if not most, Muslim nations in the Middle East are torn internally between groups that believe happiness is achievable in this world, and groups who preach martyrdom (istish’had), the killing of infidels, and happiness in “the next world.”

  8. Yaacov Ben Moshe, Who is to blame for evil?
    It is fashionable in some circles to blame religion for the evil that men do. Hitchens, Dawkins and others are leading a new resurgence of aggressive atheism that seeks to vilify all religions as the source of a large part of the chaos and misery in the world. They specifically negate the value of all religions and blame them for most of the violence and misery of the human race…
    The constant battle between The Judeo Christian West and the various retrograde Western ideologies, (Nazism, Socialism, Communism, Utopianism, religious fundamentalism, etc…) of which I believe Humanism and its corollary, Progressivism is one, is the same battle that divides the west from Islam. It is the conflict between utopian approaches that believe the human being is neither good nor evil but can be molded and remade in a political or religious image and the liberal western approach that acknowledges the human character accepts the good and the evil, acknowledges the human freedom to take responsibility for choosing between them and attempts to devise a system that balances and restrains the two sides of human nature in the most liberating and productive way possible…

  9. Breaking: >>>>> Hurricane Harper on track to come ashore at Winnipeg, Manitoba. Could be a Cat5 Political Storm, experts say.
    Libs are larding/caching their rooms with scotch&soda&water&pepsi and beavertails.
    Informed sources say, polar bear tallow candles from Alaska are in short supply, according to anonymous sources.
    Citoyen Dion socialist-Liberals will slog through a “three-day caucus meeting” starting Wednesday, 03/Sept.>Friday, 05/Sept.
    …-
    “Liberals MPs gather to draw up election strategy
    Party unity expected to dominate agenda”
    “[The Liberals] are a bit fearful of fighting it on the Green Shift because they don’t want to make themselves the issue,” CBC political correspondent Keith Boag said Tuesday.
    “That would be giving the election away to the Conservatives.””
    “Disagreement over changing the plan
    Several members of the party, including Agriculture critic Wayne Easter, have voiced their objection to the plan, believing it does not have enough voter appeal to oust the Conservatives from power.”
    http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2008/09/02/liberal-caucus.html

  10. “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 (daily tech)

  11. Warmites say, Sol is passe/an evil eyeinthesky. Sunshine has to go. Sunshine bad, CO2 worser.
    >>>>> “such as blocking out the sun”.
    …-
    “Political inaction on global warming has become so dire that nations must now consider extreme technical solutions – such as blocking out the sun – to address catastrophic temperature rises, scientists from around the world warn today.”
    …-
    “Extreme and risky action the only way to tackle global warming, say scientists”
    http://wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com/

  12. hardboiled – I don’t see how proportional representation would solve the Bloc problem. I’m against proportional representation because it removes accountability of the elected person to a local riding.
    It’s a different type of representation rather than the spatial one we have now. To whom is the elected person accountable – if there are no ties to a riding? To a party..and the party is not the electorate. So, it’s a system that sets up a representative system that is not connected to the electorate.
    Plus, it tends to set up multiparty legislatures, which spend a lot of time trying to set up coalition governments. The focus moves from duty to the electorate, to strategies of maintaining legislative control.
    charles macdonald – fascism (Nazism) isn’t a belief that humans are neither good nor evil, but a belief that SOME humans are good and others are evil. Other utopian ideologies do posit that humans are neither good nor evil but ’empty vessels’ to be defined and created by a higher authority – the state.
    The Greco-Roman world, the basis of the Judeo-Christian tradition, saw humans as ‘material’ rather than utopian and therefore, as flawed and capable of both good and evil. The individual use of Reason was the key to this choice. [Aristotle – not Plato, who was a utopian totalitarian.]

  13. National socialism also embraces irrationalism, which trivialises any rational, individual choice of good over evil.
    A snippet from Roger Scruton, A Dictionary of Political Thought, *national socialism:
    “…Thus, part of the nationalistic idea consisted of a belief in Lebensraum or ‘living space’… and in a Herrenvolk or ruling people with a right to expand into that space, expelling those peoples who had occupied it, and eliminating those races whose degeneracy justified their extinction. There thus resurged the idea of the Volkstadt: a state in which there would be no distinction between political institutions and national relations, so that all political activity would bear immediately on society, and all social activity immediately on the state. In practice this meant the emergence of the one-party state… as a necessary part of the transfer to the state of the powers thought necessary to ensure the maximum social unity; this in turn led to totalitarian government.”
    I thought the general thrust of Yaacov Ben Moshe’s post was valid enough regardless.

  14. So Strategic Counsel partner, Peter Donolo(former Chretin Communications director) has a poll showing the Conservatives well ahead.
    Will the meme be Harper is trending down?
    Or is the meme, fear the majority?
    Why can’t one throw a brown paper bag anywhere in Canada without hitting a former/future Liberal in positions of public influence?
    Nanos’ recent poll that showed both parties tied had a funny design. It asked for your top 2 choices. Guaranteed to favour the Liberal Party.
    It’s going to be fun watching the MSM embarass themselves with their bias.

  15. Right Sammy, Dave Batters has withdrawn from Palliser because of anxiety and dependence on prescription drugs, and that’s the same riding as Cal Johnston is running in, as Dion announced this morning.
    I may have to retract my earlier statement about Johnston not getting elected here because with Batters giving no notice, the CPC will be hard pressed to come up with a stellar candidate to beat Johnston, who is well liked in Regina since his days here as top cop.
    I just can’t believe he’s running as a Liberal with their wimpy hug-a-thug soft on crime ideology.

  16. On another topic, I haven’t seen anyone mention this around here.
    Sarah Palin is suing the U.S. Government for declaring polar bears an endangered species.
    She talked about this on Glenn Beck last week and mentioned that the polar bear populations around Alaska have never been so high.
    Go Sarah!!

  17. Left-liberal MSM/Canpress “fisks” a Conservative Party ad free-of-charge/at no charge on behalf of the left-liberal Liberals.
    Warning from the left/MSM:
    “But given the ad’s last endorsement, it must be said that only voters in Calgary Southwest can actually vote for Harper, while everyone else must choose a candidate in their riding.”
    The “Expert” drops his pearls:
    “The Expert Says:”
    The Postscript:
    “Postscript: Because the election writ has not yet been dropped, the cash-rich Conservatives can pay to air the ad as often as they wish without the cost counting against their campaign spending limit.”
    …-
    “Conservative pre-election ad focuses on Harper, stresses leadership
    OTTAWA — The Conservative party is airing pre-election ads lauding Prime Minister Stephen Harper in the run-up to this weekend’s federal election call. Here’s a look:
    Title: “Main Street Canadians.”
    http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5h46Ab73ZeLhhIaXvZ04CVXY5EknA

  18. “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…..”
    I like Hans but the above is still funny: )

  19. “Not really that strange Dave. The Liberals still don’t really believe that they are not the government. It goes beyond thier limited imaginations.”
    Liberals in opposition are like a trout out of water, they jump and spasm all over but they just can’t breath. Think of this election as the humane fisherman (P.M.S.H.) clubbing the Liberals in the head to put them out of their misery.

  20. The ‘regular Joes’ have given Dion a not so warm welcome in Wpg!Big blockade by some truckers in rush hour traffic to protest the Green Shift right in front of the Town Hall where Steff to speak.

  21. The focus moves from duty to the electorate, to strategies of maintaining legislative control. Posted by: ET at September 2, 2008 4:43 PM
    That’s what we have now. What we don’t have now is an individual’s vote matters only if they are the key vote in a swing riding.
    Otherwise, you’re a nobody. In perpetuity.

  22. Danny Williams has been very quiet up till now on the carbon tax. It will screw Nfld’s oil industry, so that seems a little odd that he isn’t having one of his usual tantrums.
    But now he’s doing his anti-Harper shtick again.
    The likely answer is that he’s cut a secret side deal with the liberals.
    The liberals figure the Nfld voters will do anything that he says, and the voters in Ontario will think there is no side deals. After the election they’ll get the news that they are paying Danny’s share once again.
    Sounds like a hidden agenda to me.
    http://www.cbc.ca/canada/newfoundland-labrador/story/2008/09/02/abc-conservative.html

  24. Bricker the Poller say,
    “”It’s not like it’s Obama-mania, where they’re all crazy about what he says about them.””
    Bricker say to Citoyen: get ‘Arper; “”to rough up Stephen Harper a bit,””
    Sic Kyoto onim, Citoyen; allez-oops.
    But, Bricker also say, “”If this election is going to be a referendum on leadership, Stephen Harper has a heck of an advantage,” said Bricker.”
    Here is Bricker’s Big Lie:
    “That’s because the Conservatives have failed to make in-roads in Quebec, where the Bloc Quebecois remains strong, or in Ontario, Bricker said.”
    …-
    “Harper carries leadership edge into possible election: Poll”
    OTTAWA – Stephen Harper heads into the federal election as the country’s preferred choice as prime minister, says a new poll for Canwest News Service and Global National.
    That means Liberal Leader Stephane Dion’s best chance of winning is to mount negative personal attacks, “to rough up Stephen Harper a bit,” according to Ipsos Reid president Darrell Bricker, whose firm polled 1,003 Canadians in an Aug. 26-28 telephone survey.”
    http://preview.tinyurl.com/69otvr

  25. The always fair and balanced Cbc show’Politics’ with future GG Don Newman had a short bit on today about election goodies. They did bring up how the libs went around the country promising 24 Billion in spending. Then a cbc radio guy took over and told us how the Conservatives have made many announcements in the past week.To be fair he did say that some were re-announcenants,but there was also new spending. Such frivilous items as $1,500 for a centotaph in Red Deer,and money for veterans exposed to atomic waste.The total so far,new and old spending is approaching the $60 million mark. These things add up,you know…..I did the math,60 mil is about .25% of 24 billion,less than one percent of what the libs were trying to bribe us with.Unfortunately,this little fact never made it on to the brawwwdcast.Beware people,cbc is about to become a 24/7 infomercial for the liberal party. When Harper gets the majority that this country needs,I hope one of his first acts is to get out a large broom and sweep these leeches off the taxpayer’s back. Also,peta has won the hat squabble in England.The English would have stood up to them but the muslims had already liquified their backbone.

  26. Shed no tears for the MSM.
    …-
    “Air Canada cancels its Gazette subscription
    Air Canada is no longer offering Montreal customers the Montreal Gazette.
    An Air Canada spokesperson says the decision to cancel its subscription has nothing to do with bad press but is just another way to save weight and fuel costs.”
    http://www.cjad.com/news/565/782157

  30. Indiana: “Liberals in opposition are like a trout out of water, they jump and spasm all over but they just can’t breath.” I like this description.
    Maz2: Re Air Canada Gazette cancellation: “is just another way to save weight and fuel costs.” This makes no sense. What if passengers decide to bring on the Globe — or some potentially thicker paper. I had noticed that many of the air line newspapers are used in the lounge anyway.

  31. Speaking of infomercials. CTV News had Dion on for about ten minutes this evening. He was addressing an audience and answering questions. I lost interest in the first minute, left the room . . .and when I came back about 8 minutes later he was till on. I could not believe it. I also do not recall this type of intensive coverage when the Conservatives met at an earlier point in the summer. In fact, I don’t recall any coverage (although I may have been away.) I found the coverage of the Liberal event a bit overdone.

  32. Further to my previous post — I just went to the CTV site. They must have about 25 video clips all focussing on the Liberal Caucus meeting. I detect a hidden agenda.

  33. Just finished watching the republican convention and it seems the talking heads at cnn are again caught off guard. Fred Thompson gave a great biography of John McCain. Lieberman’s speech has really surprised them. They seem upset that Joe gave an endorsement to Sarah.
    All the videos highlighting country first were very touching. The video and essay by the 15 year old girl that led the Pledge of Alligiance was great. Pres Bush referred to the angry left.
    Much better than the democrat first night.

  34. Shouldn’t the liberals have to declare the CBC and CTV’s biased ‘news’ coverage as donations?
    What is the cash value of Peter Mansbridge’s furrowed forehead?
    What is each grave intonation of his worth?
    I’m guessing it’s valued a lot higher than Julie Van Medusa’s hairdo.
    What the hell is up with that anyway?
    Is she trying to scare us?

  35. Hans
    don’t circum to peer pressure, don’t forget to add your long-ass sign-out.
    Cheers
    Hemperor
    Tha Illest Kat
    @ the Def Star
    Leader of the Galactic Hempire

  36. Linda…Have you noticed that in almost every hotel the globe is every where for free,on every floor,the lobby,not a Post to be found.

  37. hardboiled – I don’t see how proportional representation would solve the Bloc problem.Posted by: ET at September 2, 2008 4:43 PM
    ET – the bloc is not a ‘problem’, this result is called democracy.
    The problem is votes made that don’t matter.
    And Proportional Representation fixes that.

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