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  1. Insane much?
    U.S. Warmongers Accused of Stepping up Military Moves against the DPRK
    Pyongyang, May 26 (KCNA) — The U.S. warlike forces are now contemplating forward-deploying two squadrons of F-22 in Japan and Guam after winding up the deployment of 30 land-based interceptor missiles targeted against the DPRK. Rodong Sinmun Tuesday observes in a signed commentary in this regard:
    These moves lay bare the sinister and dangerous scenario of the U.S. to put the Asia-Pacific region under its military control.
    The U.S. remains unchanged in its way of thinking and wild ambition that it can dominate the world only when it puts the above-said region under its control. The aim sought by the U.S. imperialists through the deployment of F-22s is to carry out its blitz strategy based on a surprise pre-emptive attack upon any target.
    Recalling that the DPRK is the first target of their attack on the Asia-Pacific region, the commentary notes: The present U.S. administration is talking about what it called a “change” and “bilateral dialogue” but it is, in actuality, pursuing the same reckless policy as followed by the former Bush administration to stifle the DPRK by force of arms.
    It goes on:
    The DPRK has single-minded unity more powerful than nuclear weapons and invincible military capability unfathomable in its range and depth.
    The U.S. moves to mount a pre-emptive attack on the DPRK are as foolish an attempt as taking oil to extinguish the fire.
    The army and people of the DPRK are keeping themselves fully combat ready with a high degree of vigilance against the above-mentioned moves of the U.S. imperialists.
    The U.S. would be well advised to halt at once its dangerous military moves against the DPRK if it wants to escape the lot of a tiger moth, bearing deep in mind that any attempt to make a pre-emptive attack on the DPRK is little short of inviting a disaster itself.

  4. Liberal bill aims to end pre-election ad binges
    By THE CANADIAN PRESS
    OTTAWA — The Liberals have introduced a bill in the Senate aimed at stopping political parties from going on pre-election advertising binges.
    Senator Dennis Dawson’s bill — which is aimed at the cash-rich Tories — comes amid renewed election speculation on Parliament Hill.
    FROM
    http://www.calgarysun.com/news/canada/2009/05/26/9577351.html
    It’s clearly time to pass legislation to limit the CBC’s roll as a free Liberal advertising source or at least blow the whistle on it.

  6. Stephen Harper in the House of Commons today: “… we need to raise taxes”.
    My jaw dropped.
    First, he sets records in spending BEFORE the election.
    Then, he sets records with deficit spending, something he vowed he would never do even in an economic downturn. No serious economist believes his numbers but he says they are sound (like his prediction of never having a recession?).
    Then, yesterday, even bigger record setting mind numbing deficit for this year of $50 BILLION.
    AND NOW HARPER SAYS WE NEED TO RAISE TAXES.
    Wow.
    Earlier this week, he said he had not given up on Quebec. But clearly he has given up on getting re-elected.

  7. allan, it used to be an axiom that for justice to be done it must be seen to be done.
    We’re living in a Brave New World, or at least a Stupid New World, you only have to have courage if you know what’s going on in it.

  8. What does Obama do? He instead focuses on a ‘soft emotional agenda’, calling for the release by Myanmar of opposition leader Suu Kyi. Ahh, such a statement will get him lots of brownie points whether it is successful or not.
    But N. Korea? Will Obama’s two basic strategies that he uses for everything, which are, first, The Charm of My Being, which includes: ‘we’ll visit and talk about superficial things and this shows that we get along and how much you like me’ ..or The Rejection of You Because You are Not Charmed by Me, which includes totatlly ignoring them and pretending their behaviour didn’t happen – will these two strategies work?
    Under Obama’s careful watch, which is to say, within his egoistic belief that they are amenable to his charm – while he utterly ignores their actual activities, both Iran and N. Korea are becoming nuclear powers, and are positioning themselves as key sites to control that area, and the Middle East.

  10. So, Vince Lee has “rights” as a patient, having taken away any “rights” that Tim McLean, or his family members, have?
    No wonder Mark Steyn calls Canada the “Deranged Dominion.” Can it get anymore bizarre than this?
    Thanks, PET. Thanks alot.

  11. That’s strange, ted. The news reports I’ve read are that Harper has DENIED that he plans to raise taxes. But certainly govt revenue will increase.
    Where will the increased govt income come from? Not from raising the tax rate but, as the economy improves, the taxes actually raised from corporations and personal incomes, according to their current percentage, will increase and also, govt payouts and unemployment insurance will decline.
    So, ted, there’s no prospect of raising the tax rates, but the tax income will rise, because corporate and personal incomes will rise. Get it? No? Oh well.

  13. My jaw dropped.
    ~Ted at May 26, 2009 11:15 PM
    Snakes do that when they try to swallow something larger than their head.

  15. Ted’s still making libelous statements that the PM bribed Chuck Cadman..his heads scrambled or he just likes to lie…alot…

  16. Man-Made Disaster in the Making!
    Rapid climate change is forcing scientists to consider for the first time whether to help wildlife relocate to places where they are not currently found, says a group of international researchers who have created a tool for evaluating such relocations[sic].
    Assisted wildlife migration was once a taboo conservation strategy because of its potential for harming ecosystems. It is still highly controversial because it’s not clear that we know enough to predict what will happen.
    SNIP[…]
    Many species have survived previous, slower periods of climate change by evolving or by moving to more hospitable habitats via their own power.
    But today, animals are faced with a double-whammy. Climate change is happening so fast that it’s hard for them to find suitable new homes, and escape routes to new habitat are often cut off by cities and other man-made structures.
    Without help, animals can become trapped in habitats that have become too hot or too dry for them.
    FROM
    http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/05/25/assistedmigration-wildlife.html
    The eco-freaks are going to destroy the ecosystem themselves and blame it on Global Warming.

  17. Hey, ET, it’s what he said in the House of Commons today. And I quote: “until we need to raise taxes”. His words, not mine.
    Kursk: What’s this about bribery? I did not say that Harper offered Cadman a bribe. I said “financial considerations”. Again, just using the Prime Minister’s own words and nothing more. One may wonder if “financial considerations” for a vote is what is contemplated in the Criminal Code as a bribery offence, but I don’t wonder if that is what the Criminal Code contemplated. Not one bit.

  18. OK, this has probably been discussed before, but those anti-Ignatieff ads seem so amateurish. They look like something produced by some graphic arts failure.
    Negative ads work in the US – no doubt. But do they work here? I’m not so sure. They don’t do much for me. I doubt if they appeal to the undecided voters.
    Bah.

  20. Robert: where did I lie? I have only quoted Harper’s own words. I thought this was called being “truthful”.

  22. So Cal2, are you saying that when Harper said “we need to raise taxes” he was agreeing with Ignatieff that if we truly want to eliminate the Harper deficit, after taking all other measures, we may need to increase taxes. Is that what Harper meant by saying “we need to raise taxes”?

  23. Poor Ted, he must be exhausted, flitting from blog to blog trying to justify the Liberals attempt at shutting up the Conservatives. Give it up buddy. Most of us can tell its you from the first couple of words and just scroll on by.

  24. Ted, you listen and comprehend just like a Liberal.
    (and no, that is certainly not a compliment)

  25. Context folks……..
    Of course Ted did not quote the whole passage.
    The Prime Minister was answering a question to do with EI.
    I dont have the exact quote, but he was saying that if they followed the Liberal wishes, they would be redoing the budget every couple of weeks ad infinitum UNTIL IT WOULD BE NECESSARY TO RAISE TAXES.
    And he closed by saying that was something the Government would not do.
    I am paraphrasing, but i saw that on question period today, and that was the gist of it.
    Ill check hansard and get back to you…….

  26. Here is the exact quote:
    “Mr. Speaker, let us be clear,” responded the Prime Minister “When we did our prebudget consultations, the Liberal Party wanted two more weeks of employment insurance. We gave five more weeks of employment insurance plus all kinds of additional money for training, for people both on EI and not on EI. These are measures to help the unemployed in this recession. What we are not going to do is, every two or three months, come up with another economic policy, another budget until we need to raise taxes. Our deficits are affordable but they will remain short-term.”

  27. Re: “The Liberals have introduced a bill in the Senate aimed at stopping political parties from going on pre-election advertising binges.” (this was posted in yesterday’s Reader Tips, but I decided to comment here)
    A number of cases involving freedom of expression during election campaigns have reached the Supreme Court of Canada in recent years, including Stephen Harper’s own case on behalf of the National Citizens’ Coalition in 2004. Most of the decisions went against freedom of expression, and in one case that didn’t, in which the Court struck down a three-day ban on releasing poll results prior to election day, the government later brought in a two-day ban in lieu. Personally I think that was contempt of court …
    Anyway, one argument often raised against respecting freedom of expression during election campaigns (coming from slimeballs like Democracy Watch, for example) is that outside of the election period, you can spend money to your heart’s content, so the impairment of your rights is minimal. But should this bill pass, apparently even that will no longer be true.
    There is no doubt about it: stifling freedom of expression even the slightest amount is a slippery slope that will ultimately lead to its complete destruction. The only just solution is to scrap all limits on expressing one’s political opinions during elections or at any other time and also to scrap limits on election spending by all parties, which includes “third parties” who are not political parties. Remember that freedom of expression, by definition, includes the right to spend one’s resources in its exercise. Possibly a measure such as the US practise of requiring that political parties disclose all donations within 48 hours of receipt would be justified, but apart from that, there should be no restrictions.

  28. Thank you Oz.
    I noticed that Mr. Goodale has the same problem with comprehension that Ted does.
    Must be a Liberal thing.

  29. So, Lee/Oz, are you going to ask Harper to provide the same sort of “context” in his ads? I thought folks were saying around here that, as long as the words were actually said, quoting them in any way is always going to be “truth”. Ergo, Harper said “we need to raise taxes”.
    I can see the Conservative-style ad already.

  30. I can see the Conservative-style ad already.
    ~Ted | May 27, 2009 1:05 AM
    No doubt you think you can.
    But it would be your style, Ted, you little projector you, not Conservative style.
    The Prime Minister’s sentence begins with the words-“What we are not going to do…”
    If you want to chop sections out of sentences and pretend the opposite was said, your credibility is going to be zilch, Ted.
    Chopping out words is how serial killers put together taunting letters to the authorities.

  31. “What we are not going to do…”
    and then he talks about not increasing the budget. He said that in the morning. In the afternoon Flaherty announced the budget was going up, way way up, to AT LEAST $50 billion.
    So: first of all, he was talking about budgets not taxes when he said “what we are not going to do”; second of all, he was wrong within hours of that statement just like he has been 100% wrong on ALL STATEMENTS HE HAS MADE ABOUT THE ECONOMY!; and third of all, he admitted “”we need to raise taxes” if the budget keeps going up, which it is.
    He is so toast.

  32. “If you want to chop sections out of sentences and pretend the opposite was said, your credibility is going to be zilch, Ted.
    Chopping out words is how serial killers put together taunting letters to the authorities. “
    Is that what you really think about the Conservatives, Oz? I agree with you and welcome to the growing majority of Canadians for whom the credibility of the Conservatives is zilch. Though I would not go so far to call Harper a serial killer. I think you are going a bit too far calling him that, Oz.

  33. Since we can’t rely on American defence we ought to go Nucular ourselves. Just to keep the Russian Bear trying to eat the North whole.
    With Obama’s Protectionist racket going full tilt, alienating all & sundry. I bet it wouldent take more than a few months to have real Nukes like Hydrogen bombs. Seems the fasion World Wide these day’s . We should extend our help to make Australia a partner in this. They too can have a nuke nest egg.
    After all in Canada we have the proud tradition under PET himself, that gave India & Pakistan nukes.
    Time to look after our own house.
    Problem: North Korea – Answer: Nuclear Japan
    http://www.therightscoop.com/problem-north-korea-answer-nuclear-japan/

  34. Pollster incredibly thinks Ignatieff’s “taking the high road” wrt the ads about him, plus he also said it’s currently summer…
    Fact Checking A Pollster
    http://thecanadiansentinel.blogspot.com/2009/05/fact-checking-pollster.html
    I think pollsters should be a little more careful when talking to the media, and should think before speaking, don’t you? Otherwise, what are folks going to think about someone who believes that Ignatieff, going around saying “don’t mess with me or I’ll mess with you” is “taking the high road” and that it’s “summer” in May.

  35. So Ted lies (again) and gets caught, so he employs the typical leftist approach…deflect (talk about negative ads) and change the subject (deficit is increasing).
    Who do you think you’re influencing here, Ted?
    I thought lawyers were supposed to be smart. I guess that instead of being smart, they just need to be sly, eh?

  36. “our president is a pathological narcissist”
    …-
    “Narcissus And Echo: Obama And The Mainstream Media
    It is troubling that our president is a pathological narcissist caught up in the thought patterns of Darwin, Marx, and Alinsky. Even more troubling is the fact that the Mainstream Media (MSM), suffering from an Obama-inspired narcosis, shirks its duty, refusing to publish or even explore any aspect of Obama’s dark side. There is room for much optimism, however. If the ancient story of Narcissus and Echo plays itself out as Ovid recorded it, and Obama and the MSM are their contemporary counterparts, both will fade away in the not too distant future.
    Narcissus did not fall in love with his own reflection by accident; he was thus cursed by Nemesis for his audacious mockery of others. As for Echo, it was her dishonesty and deception that caused Hera, queen of the gods, to curse her so that her body would dwindle away to a mere voice able only to echo the words of Narcissus.”
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2258894/posts

  37. A Salute to Alice Munro.
    …-
    “Munro wins Booker award
    LONDON — Alice Munro, one of Canada’s most celebrated writers, known for stories of small-town life, has won the Man Booker International Prize.
    The prize is awarded every two years to a living author for a body of work that has contributed to an achievement in fiction on the world stage.
    She told Man Booker officials: “I am totally amazed and delighted.”
    Munro has won three Governor General’s awards, two Scotiabank Giller Prizes and an O Henry Award in the United States for her short fiction.
    The judging panel was: Jane Smiley, writer; Amit Chaudhuri, writer, academic and musician; and writer, film script writer and essayist, Andrey Kurkov.
    The panel said: “Munro is mostly known as a short story writer and yet she brings as much depth, wisdom and precision to every story as most novelists bring to a lifetime of novels.”
    “To read Alice Munro is to learn something every time that you never thought of before.”
    Her latest collection of short stories, Too Much Happiness, will be published in October.
    Munro, 78, will receive C$105,000 and a trophy on June 25 at Trinity College, Dublin.
    Munro has said: “I want to tell a story, in the old-fashioned way — what happens to somebody — but I want that “what happens’ to be delivered with quite a bit of interruption, turnarounds, and strangeness. I want the reader to feel something is astonishing — not the “what happens’ but the way everything happens. These long short story fictions do that best, for me.””
    http://thechronicleherald.ca/Front/1124082.html

  38. Barf Alert:
    I-Iggy’s watchdogg, aka CerberusTed, is baying in the comments.
    Its drool is from the pool of the PET Cemetery.
    …-
    ““We created the country you live in. Never forget it”
    In this collection of clips,
    1) Ignatieff seems to forget he’s in Canada.
    2) An example of Ignatieff’s I, I, I problem
    3) A declaration that the election is, to Ignatieff, about the Liberal Party reclaiming its place in Canada.
    4) Not a hint of arrogance (because he says so)
    5) A tired old attack line.”
    http://www.stephentaylor.ca/2009/05/we-created-the-country-you-live-in-never-forget-it/

  39. Ted just had a brain freeze.
    But when you have a single, small, tiny, teensy-weensy brain cell, the result is the usual crap spewing forth from his mouth.
    Single cell creatures like Ted and other Lieberals should be pitied, not mocked.

  40. “THE VINDICATION OF CARBON MEANS THE VINDICATION OF HUMAN FREEDOM
    The evidence is piling up every day that the world is now getting cooler instead of warmer, the oceans are now cooling instead of warming, the ice is returning to the Arctic rather than receding, the sea ice in the Antarctic is at record levels, and that rising sea levels have moderated. The sun has recently gone into a less active phase of fewer sun-spots, and the ocean decadal currents have changed from a warming to a cooling phase. Before too long the global warming scare will be as dead as the scares about the Y2 bug or acid rain. Already some of the global warming alarmists, anticipating this may soon happen, are re-inventing their alarmism into the scare about the oceans becoming acidified by our CO2 emissions – even though the oceans already contains 90 times more CO2 than the atmosphere (Chilingar, et.al.) Beyond all these things, however, we need to get to what this debate and this climate change alarmism is really all about. Beyond all this alarmism about global warming or ocean acidification, we need to see that on a deeper level it is a debate about carbon, and when we dig into that level of the debate we will finally see that behind the demonization of carbon and CO2, it is all about an attack on humanity itself.”
    “THE ACQUITTAL OF CARBON DIOXIDE
    by Jeffrey A. Glassman, PhD
    ABSTRACT:
    “Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere [historically] is the product of oceanic respiration due to the well-known but under-appreciated solubility pump. Carbon dioxide rises out of warm ocean waters where it is added to the atmosphere. There it is mixed with residual and accidental CO2, and circulated, to be absorbed into the sink of the cold ocean waters. Next the thermohaline circulation carries the CO2-rich sea water deep into the ocean. A millennium later it appears at the surface in warm waters, saturated by lower pressure and higher temperature, to be exhausted back into the atmosphere. Throughout the past 420 millennia, comprising four interglacial periods, the Vostok record of atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration is imprinted with, and fully characterized by, the physics of the solubility of CO2 in water, along with the lag in the deep ocean circulation.
    Notwithstanding that carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas, atmospheric carbon dioxide has neither caused nor amplified global temperature increases. Increased carbon dioxide has been an effect of global warming, not a cause. Technically, carbon dioxide is a lagging proxy for ocean temperatures. When global temperature, and along with it, ocean temperature rises, the physics of solubility causes atmospheric CO2 to increase.
    If increases in carbon dioxide, or any other greenhouse gas, could have in turn raised global temperatures, the positive feedback would have been catastrophic. While the conditions for such a catastrophe were present in the Vostok record from natural causes, the runaway event did not occur. Carbon dioxide does not accumulate in the atmosphere.”
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2258870/posts
    “(Excerpt) Read more at climaterealists.com …”

  42. Ah, typical ConBot response. Don’t like the truth when it makes you and your guy look soooo bad and hypocritical so what to do but go for the insults and juvenile name calling.
    You have all trained very well under Stephen “sir Flip-a-lot” Harper: avoid policy and substance at all costs, bribe where necessary, abandon and break promises and principles if they are longer advantageous, and attack attack attack. The Con way to build a better country.
    He is so toast, indeed.

  44. Arthur Herman, The Gitmo Myth and the Torture Canard
    …What this account and others like it fail to take into consideration are the aggressive and unending efforts of a cadre of lawyers, activists, left-leaning Democrats in Congress, and civil libertarians against the facility, its purpose, its goal, and its existence. These efforts began even before it was opened, in November 2001, and continue to this day. The anti-Gitmo forces worked tirelessly to shape the public perception that Gitmo was the red-hot center of an aggressive policy approach that led the leftist financier George Soros to declare: “The biggest terrorist in the world is George W. Bush.”
    The enemies of Bush and Gitmo have succeeded brilliantly. But in so doing, they have done grave violence to the truth about the Guantánamo Bay facility, have aided in the release of prisoners who have since committed acts of terrorism outside the United States, and may yet succeed in having Barack Obama’s government release young men with terrifying ambitions for murder and mass destruction onto the soil of the United States…

  45. Stephen Taylor has a thread we should all be talking about, it’s another outrageous statement from I, I, I, Ignatieff: “We built the country you live in. Never forget it”.
    Let’s keep that one going, it’s an insult to all of us.

  48. B.C. election recount for South Delta now completed, with Independent Vicki Huntington winning by 32 votes.

  50. goofy business from da great white nort’ this week. Madame G G chomps on some raw seal meat and the EU goes berserk.
    a way of life that continues to exist in a small way for 15-20 thousand years but noooooo, gotta put the enviro-politico spin on it.
    next !!!

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