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  5. “You can’t ride…You can’t hunt…You can’t shoot …You can’t fence”
    Start The Revolution Without Me: EXCITED !
    Warning – Gene Wilder

  7. Judy Rebick .
    the 60s gal with the 70’s hairdo, the 80s confidence and the 90s pension.
    to think that the MSM still thinks this wrinkled fossil has any relevance is utterly embarrassing . or in her case udderly.

  9. Ditto Cal2, Steffi is on his own network right now, This fool is completly crazy, his constant rant about climate change is downright scary. Earth to Steffi, there is no such thing! The climate has been much the same for all the years I can remember, you can fool those twits in Quebec, but the rest of the country better wake up quickly to the danger of your idiotic lack of direction. You Steffi should be locked up, not given a podium.

  10. Please tell me that Craig Oliver of CTV “News” is not a paid operative of the Liberal Party of Canada.
    From the CTV National “News” tonight:
    “Canadians don’t like [Harper]. They’ve never warmed to his brand of conservatism. And they’re scared and the Conservative government just doesn’t get it.”
    “If you’re a Canadian and worried about your economic security, I think you’d rather put your faith in the hands of someone [the Liberals] who seems more sympathetic and ready to spend money to help you through.”
    Goebbels would be so envious.
    http://watch.ctv.ca/news/#clip101089, at roughly the 10:00 minute mark.

  11. Check out a column by Barry Cooper in todays Vancouver Sun (Lefty Rag) he says Harper still has a shot at a majority!

  12. Saw that despicable display of yellow journalism too Richard. This is becomming almost surreal, the CTV and CBC might just as well put shorts of old owl face Oliver give him some red pom poms and let him look left and yell” go Steffi your our man” add in Lisa Laphelemn and her derogatory comments about Harper, along with the giddy Tom Clark on the great Demarais toady Paul Martin and you have a trivecta of E. Jack Laytons greates triumphs. Useful idiots all. The lack of shame in this new Turdopian Canada will cost us everything, these embarrassing journalists couldn’t pack Paul Harveys piss bucket!

  13. I’m still wondering about that earlier (now gone) Kate post/query about a NORAD base in Manitoba.
    Have the aliens landed and Kate’s not telling us about it due to “matters of national security”?
    I’m starting to get worried.

  14. Richard & Bartinsky,
    Oliver was bang on with his assessment. Canadians want to be coddled. You, like Harper and the CPC war room, just don’t get it.

  15. PiperPaul,
    I’d tell you but then I’d have to kill you.
    (I was trying to get verification on a tip about increased jet activity at the base, it turned out to be nothing.)

  17. Breaking News … “Kate confirms that the recent activity at NORAD (WPG) was not jets – shrugs off alien invasion”
    Local buses seemed to have no one but the driver in them, suggesting that the aliens can make themselves invisible. More at 11.
    CBC

  18. This poll says free fall … but how do the other parties split the 184 other seats? I would guess 100 Liberal, 45 Bloc, 38 NDP and 1 Green.
    That would leave the Anglophone left with 139, no dice. Harper could govern with Duceppe’s co-operation.
    Voters may come to realize that they are being misled by the media as they talk amongst themselves over the long weekend. Then the final results may be closer to 135 CPC and take a few off each of those others.
    A while back I really thought the NDP were going to move past the Libs, but when you own 90% of the media in a country as docile as Canada, you can overcome a lot of bad karma. Dion’s interview on CBC today was little more than an infomercial.
    This is not doomsday. It might be better to throw the situation into the hands of Dion and Layton, let them screw up horribly and give Harper a while to reflect on what a crummy bunch of advice he has been getting. If he’s lucky, that’s as far as the recriminations will go.
    Tomorrow, the dead cat bounce? Maybe the markets will rally a bit, people will stop panicking as they relax for a few days, and the turkey may remind them of Dion. Do you really want to vote for something you just carved up?

  20. FYI Kate, we *have* seen a few more F-18’s come through, but it looks like it’s just a normal training rotation. Plus, there’s a few Alpha Jet trainers based out of here and they’ve been busy also.

  21. “Poll shows Conservatives gaining again
    Wed Oct 8, 2008 10:57pm EDT
    OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Conservatives, who have been hammered over the financial crisis, have regained a sizable lead in support before next Tuesday’s election, a new opinion poll showed.
    The Ekos survey, which included three days of polling through Wednesday, showed the Conservatives taking an 11-point lead over the Liberals, up from 9 points on Tuesday and 7 on Monday.
    Two smaller surveys, in which polling ended a day earlier, put the Conservative lead over the Liberals at only 4 points.
    “It is important to note that across the country, the Conservatives hold significant leads among many of the demographic groups most likely to vote, such as seniors, men and baby-boomers,” Ekos President Frank Grave said.”
    http://ca.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idCATRE4978ME20081009
    …-
    “Ottawa warned banks: Flaherty
    Finance minister says two financial institutions were told to shore up capital strength `months ago’
    Long before Britain moved yesterday to prop up its banks, Canada directed two of its financial institutions to shore up their capital strength, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty has revealed.
    Flaherty let the revelation slip as evidence that things are well under control in Canada, then he jetted off to join talks with his G7 counterparts in the midst of a widening financial crisis.
    “I can say with confidence (to) Canadians that today our financial institutions are well-capitalized in Canada, which cannot be said in a number of another countries in the world,” he assured reporters in Toronto.”
    http://www.thestar.com/Business/article/514549

  24. Incredible AP/MSM headline from Asspress.
    It’s a msprint.
    …-
    “Accused Palin hacker son of Democrat
    By Duncan Mansfield, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS”
    KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – The son of a Democratic Tennessee state legislator pleaded not guilty Wednesday to hacking the email account of Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin.
    David Kernell, 20, of Knoxville, Tenn.”
    http://tinyurl.com/4frzkh (ap)

  25. Letters to the Editor-Toronto Sun oct 09/08
    Best one IMO
    “When people go to vote in Ontario & the rest of Canada, Here are 4 words to help clear your minds
    Finance Minister Bob Rae”
    Editors response-Chills just ran down our spine
    another topic that seems to be gaining speed.
    My local radio station had an interview with some whacky yesterday, i only caught the last 5-10min & did not catch the group or person, She & her group are Enforcing & struck up a website to Vote Strategicaly Anything to Stop Harper she said.

  28. Message for Taliban Jack Layton (NDP):
    Taliban suing for peace in Afghanistan.
    …-
    “In a recent statement, US Defence Secretary Robert Gates ruled out defeat but said talks with Taliban are possible. All these messages are pointing to the fact that there is an urge for peace among the international community, the Afghan government and the Taliban, said the analyst.
    Common Afghans also support the peace initiative.”
    …-
    “Peace talks bring hope for war-weary Afghans”
    http://www.khabrein.info/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=17458&Itemid=57

  31. Kate…problems with comments on your ‘End Times’ post:
    That New World Order sounds like the Liberal platform.
    Globalisation, nationalism, and state intervention.
    Those who have kept themselves well informed will recognise the term New World Order. It’s been around for awhile. At the core of the movement is the theory of evolution and suppression of Christianity…in subtle strides.
    But like the frog in warm water ‘we’ won’t worry even when it reaches the boiling point.

  32. Remember, we in Canada have made it extremely difficult for a federal party to achieve a majority, and thus, govern with a clear agenda, by allowing one province, Quebec, to have its own federal party. A party that is not available to voters outside of Quebec. In a province that is constitutionally allotted 75 seats.
    The Toronto GTA economic area has a population of over 7 million; that’s the same as Quebec. Does Toronto have its own federal party? Open only to voters living in that area?
    The result of allowing Quebec its own party is that the Bloc becomes the default party. Nothing to do with separation; everything to do with the reality that its agenda has to be local, focused only on Quebec. So, naturally, people vote for it.
    That takes a significant number of seats away from the valid federal parties – and ensures a governance that is always a minority.
    Get rid of provincial parties acting as federal parties.
    The Bloc’s existence, developed during the Liberal era, assisted the Liberals in maintaining control when the opposition was split into four parties (reform, progressive conservative, ndp, bloc). So, out of five parties, it was easy to come up with a majority, no matter how small. Now, with three opposition parties, it’s obvious that it’s more difficult.

  34. I cannot believe how Dion and Layton are getting a free pass from the media on their scare-mongering!
    They can’t tell the future one iota better than anyone else, which means they are DELIBERATELY SCARING the sick , the elderly and the uninformed solely for political gain.
    That the the media is not acknowledging this is the lowest point in Cdn. media’s history. SHAME.

  35. Yomi. Wow!
    “If everything rumored here is true, it looks like David Axelrod, Howard Dean, Donna Brazile, SoetorObama himself, and possibly even Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid were all involved, together, in massive RICO violations, and thus federal fraud, if the DNC and party leadership knew what the SoetorObama campaign and ACORN were up to and allowed it to proceed. Knowledge of federal crimes being committed makes all parties accessories to those crimes — and part of the conspiracy to defraud the public. ”

  38. Wondering why economic leadership in the world is passing to Asia? Here’s one possible reason; scientists and politicians who have retained common sense.
    “What makes the Indian report so interesting is that unlike our Ross Garnaut, who just accepted the word of those scientists wailing we faced doom, the Indian experts went to the trouble to check what the climate was actually doing and why.
    Their conclusion? They couldn’t actually find anything bad in India that was caused by man-made warming: “No firm link between the documented (climate) changes described below and warming due to anthropogenic climate change has yet been established.”
    In fact, they couldn’t find much change in the climate at all.
    Yes, India’s surface temperature over a century had inched up by 0.4 degrees, but there had been no change in trends for large-scale droughts and floods, or rain: “The observed monsoon rainfall at the all-India level does not show any significant trend . . .”
    It even dismissed the panic Al Gore helped to whip up about melting Himalayan glaciers: “While recession of some glaciers has occurred in some Himalayan regions in recent years, the trend is not consistent across the entire mountain chain. It is, accordingly, too early to establish long-term trends, or their causation, in respect of which there are several hypotheses.”
    Nor was that the only sign that India’s Council on Climate Change had kept its cool while our Rudd and Garnaut lost theirs.
    For example, the Indians rightly insisted nuclear power had to be part of any real plan to cut emissions. Rudd and Garnaut won’t even discuss it.
    The Indians also pointed out that no feasible technology to trap and bury the gasses of coal-fired power stations had yet been developed “and there are serious questions about the cost as well (as) permanence of the CO2 storage repositories”.
    Rudd and Garnaut, however, keep offering this dream to make us think our power stations can survive their emissions trading scheme, when state governments warn they may not.
    In every case the Indians are pragmatic where Rudd and Garnaut are having delusions — delusions about an apocalypse, about cutting gases without going nuclear, about saving power stations they’ll instead drive broke.”
    http://www.fcpp.org/main/publication_detail.php?PubID=2278

  39. …by allowing one province, Quebec, to have its own federal party. …Posted by: ET at October 9, 2008 10:11 AM
    That is quite literally, one of the dumbest things I have ever heard said in awhile ET. And given this is election season, quite a distinction.
    Say – naturally, you must have a framework with which to define who and what ideology people in Canada can vote for? And of course, rules governing who and what qualifies for authorization to appear on a ballot beyond existing requirements.
    You’ve been drinking your bathwater.

  40. hardboiled – opinions require causal reasons. I provided my reasons for my opinion against the Bloc.
    Now, what are your reasons for your rejection of my objecting to a province having a political party, confined only to the electorate of that one province, but sitting in judgments in a federal legislation?
    I await your reasons for objecting to provincial-only federal parties.

  41. OTTAWA — Saskatchewan carbon capture project gets $240-million…the Harper government has clearly identified carbon capture and storage as a key plank in a climate change effort…“Carbon capture and storage presents an opportunity for Canada to develop world-leading technology that can significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions,”
    Step #1 – Alberta’s ‘Con’ Government establishes Loony Toon Ministry and stacks with partisan lawyers, hacks, and party bagmen to reward for loyal service.
    “That the government establish an agency to oversee the implementation of climate change policies on a government-wide basis. The agency should establish standard protocols for departmental reporting requirements and should table a consolidated progress report annually.”
    Step #2 – Establish $4 billion dollar fund from surpluses for CO2 capture and sequestration (called CCS, it’s also known as ‘turning the smokestacks upside down’)
    Step #3 – Start cutting checks to larger pool of party bagmen and loyalists – all on the citizen’s labour. Former premier submits bids for land use as injection site – after having amazing foresight to acquire land in time for announcement. Staff up at Alberta Environment, Alberta Resources, and Alberta Wherever Else You Need a Position for Party Sycophant Department.
    Problem? Well, maybe because CCS is unproven, expensive, and non viable.
    “Unfortunately, CCS has four fundamental problems
    1. Timing: The world does not even have a single large-scale (300+ MW) coal plant with CCS anywhere in the world. The first moderate-sized (30 MW) pilot plant with CCS just started up this month in Germany. And it has failed. “How can we expect to build hundreds of these plants when we’re having so much trouble building the first one?“
    2. Cost of coal gasification with carbon capture and storage at a staggering 16.9 cents per kWh (you are likely paying 7-12 cents per kw now, unless you are getting screwed by your local monopoly – say, SaskPower anyone?)
    3. For CCS to be even one of those would require a flow of CO2 into the ground equal to the current flow of oil out of the ground. That would require, by itself, re-creating the equivalent of the planet’s entire oil delivery infrastructure. (how much do you think that would cost?)
    4. Permanence and transparency: If Putin’s Russia said it was sequestering 100 million tons of CO2 in the ground permanently, and wanted other countries to pay it billions of dollars to do so, would anyone trust them? No. The potential for fraud and bribery are simply too enormous. But would anyone trust China? Would anyone trust a U.S. utility, for that matter? We need to set up some sort of international regime for certifying, monitoring, verifying, and inspecting geologic repositories of carbon — like the U.N. weapons inspections systems. The problem is, this country hasn’t been able to certify a single storage facility for a high-level radioactive waste after two decades of trying and nobody knows how to monitor and verify underground CO2 storage. It could take a decade just to set up this system.
    Despite all of the bull coming out of politicians, all the platitudes, all of the nice happy speak, Canadians are getting ripped off by political parties and their hacks. These kleptocracies are built for one purpose: to get a linkage onto the treasury, and begin suckling.
    Partisanship is for weak willed supplicants. Free your mind. Think for yourself.
    http://tinyurl.com/3tnez2
    http://tinyurl.com/3eznsf
    “….the Harper government is providing subsidies to industry to capture and sequester carbon dioxide – money the companies themselves would spend if Ottawa imposed strict emissions limits….”

  42. While you have good point of regional party disguised as national, how could/should we prevent the formation of these parties?
    The Reform party, at its inception, was primarily a regional party, until it matured into CPC. Should that have been prevented, if so how?
    If nightmare scenario unfolds and LPC/NDP seize power in coalition coup after, and without benefit of another, election (with Harper forced out), don’t be surprised to see block type Alberta and BC parties, which will talk about “separation if necessary, but not necessarily.”
    We can’t tell people, no matter how harmful or ludicrous their thinking, that they can’t form federal political parties on this or that basis.

  43. An armed militia, deeply corrupted and politicized, now just another vehicle for slushing money around – whether part of their mandate or not…..
    “RCMP defends paying for negative Insite reports
    Updated: Thu Oct. 09 2008 09:25:13
    The RCMP is defending its decision to commission reports that raised questions about Vancouver’s safe drug injection site. ”
    The nation’s ‘police force’ is now just an armed branch of the politicos in power. What Cretin and his band of thugs began with APEC has become completely, and utterly, institutionalized. I can hardly wait until the militia uses force against one of the ‘conservative’ ideals….oop. Forgot about the bullying and intimidation of Francois Beadoin & Juliette O’Neil’s underwear inspection.
    You’d hope a ‘conservative government would be concerned about a politicized and deeply corrupted RCMP.
    Your hope is misplaced.

  44. MSM is all quiet on the Iraq front.
    …-
    “U.S. Officer Reports ‘Tremendous Success’ in Southern Iraq
    DoD ^ | Oct. 9, 2008 | Gerry J. Gilmore American Forces Press Service
    Security and stabilization efforts in three southern Iraqi provinces are going well, a senior U.S. military officer posted in Iraq said today.
    The 1st Cavalry Division’s 4th Brigade Combat Team is responsible for an area that includes Muthanna, Maysan and Dhi Qar provinces in southern Iraq, Army Col. Philip Battaglia, 4th brigade commander, said during a satellite-carried news conference with Pentagon reporters.
    “We’ve seen the security in this area improve significantly since our arrival in July,” Battaglia said. “The provinces are overall very stable, with occasional attacks by special groups and other criminal elements.”
    “Special groups” is the term military officials use for illegal militias believed to be trained, equipped and financed by Iran. Maysan province, the colonel noted, shares a border with Iran.
    All three provinces under his purview are under Iraqi government control, Battaglia said. His unit’s main mission, he explained, is to work as partners with local Iraqi security forces to increase security and stability and assist regional reconstruction efforts.
    Battaglia said his soldiers live among the Iraqi population and work very closely with the 10th Iraqi Army Division, Iraqi border enforcement units and Iraqi police on a wide variety of security tasks.”
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2101519/posts

  45. “”It will be a blast.”
    …-
    “German Satire Magazine Shocks with ‘Unbelievable Competition’
    A Muhammad look-a-like competition is slated to take place during the Frankfurt Book Fair, and it has already offended and outraged people far beyond Germany. But Titanic, the monthly satirical magazine behind the inflamatory event, insists: “It will be a blast.”
    Titanic, the German satire magazine, is never far from polemics, but its latest action takes its reputation for controversy to new heights: It is staging a Muhammad look-a-like competition — and has invited the Turkish President Abdullah Gül to take part.”
    >>>> “A drawing submitted to “Titanic” as part of its Muhammad look-alike contest.”
    http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,583132,00.html

  46. I’m awaiting hardboiled’s reasons for his rejection of my opinion against provincial parties acting within the federal legislature. Yoo hoo, hardboiled – how about providing some reasons for your opinion?
    Shamrock – that’s a different issue. The Reform started up, as all parties must do, in one place – and spread. Its agenda was not to remain as a local party but to act as a national party. And it did.
    The Bloc has no such agenda. Its focus has been confined to one province. I maintain that allowing a party to confine its electorate strictly to one province, and yet enable its members to make federal decisions, is undemocratic. It holds that party and its decisions accountable only to an electorate in one province. What right does it have to make decisions about Alberta – if the Albertan voters can’t rebuke that party?
    If Alberta and the West decided to mount a campaign to separate, that’s not a political party but a referendum. That’s a different issue.
    However, think of a scenario where each province has its own political party. This would see the demise of the national parties, for their relevance to each locality would soon fade. How would that enable Canada to function as a nation?
    There are provincial concerns – and the duty of the provincial legislatures and their premiers ought to be focused on this. That includes the interaction with the federal concerns.
    There are, or ought to be, federal concerns, and the entire electorate ought to be able to participate in these concerns. Harper is trying to give more power to the provinces, and reduce the federal centralist control. I’m fully in agreement with that.
    But, I don’t think that a federation of closed populations, each an isolate entity it itself, each with their own political party..coming together for federal decisions, is a democratic or robust process.

  49. The Red-Green Show, courtesy Mao Stlong, and his nephews: Boob & John Rae, Power Corp, et al.
    The Green Shift to the Red Liberals is underway. May has betrayed the Green Party.
    …-
    “Green Party candidate’s support for Liberal candidate demonstrates Stéphane Dion’s unifying leadership
    LONGUEUIL, QC, Oct. 9 /CNW Telbec/ – Ryan Hillier, Liberal candidate in
    Longueuil – Pierre-Boucher, believes the support that was given to him today
    by the Green Party candidate shows that the momentum of the current election
    campaign is now shifting to Stéphane Dion’s Liberal team.”
    http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/October2008/09/c5000.html

  50. The Red-Green Show, courtesy Mao Stlong, and his nephews: Boob & John Rae, Power Corp, et al.
    As predicted by PM Harper, the Green Shift to the Red Liberals is underway. May has betrayed/sold out the Green Party and its members.
    …-
    “Green Party candidate’s support for Liberal candidate demonstrates Stéphane Dion’s unifying leadership
    LONGUEUIL, QC, Oct. 9 /CNW Telbec/ – Ryan Hillier, Liberal candidate in
    Longueuil – Pierre-Boucher, believes the support that was given to him today
    by the Green Party candidate shows that the momentum of the current election
    campaign is now shifting to Stéphane Dion’s Liberal team.”
    http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/October2008/09/c5000.html

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