Just for a bit of of a Saturday night change-up, tonight’s music comes from an alt-rock band called from northern Sweden. There’s not much of a video to speak of, just a shot of the album cover, so I suggest that while listening to the music you look instead at the photo accompanying this report in the Toronto star.
Here are Swedish group The Wannadies performing I Love Myself.
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Excerpt from a Christine Blatchford column in the G&M:
“How amusing it is to see Toronto, press and public alike, whip themselves into a frenzy of outrage over alleged police inaction and then alleged police overreaction, when all of this, in terms even more stark, happened in Caledonia, Ont., from 2006 onwards, and no one gave a fig.”
Not one World Cup thread?
Messi: 0 Klose: 2
whoa, I’ve already missed their tour stop in Toronto? and good that he brought his mom with him. That’ll help.
* “they say” we get the government we deserve…
OK you guys are in trouble now. I brought my Mom!!
Blatchford nails it. I see in the “Red” Tor Star article that all the usual lefty special interest groups were assisting in the protest group calling for Blair’s resignation.
EBD
I Love Myself.
Fits the post modern mind completely.
While Americans are watching the Northern border, its the wild west on the southern. Obama likes it that way.Evan Al Quada is in on the action.
Drug hood: US Consulate infiltrated
MEXICO CITY – A drug-cartel enforcer told Mexican police that a rival gang infiltrated the biggest U.S. consulate along the border through a worker who helped get them U.S. visas, and that he ordered her killed for it.
http://azstarnet.com/news/local/border/article_f4432537-1d0e-5228-85a0-96ca9f6104d2.html
It’s a pretty dismal life if you don’t like yourself.
hmmmph!
the usual suspects demonstrating..
and in my opinion her ‘boy’ looking as he does deserved a sounder thrashing than he apparently got…
Posted by: nv53 at July 4, 2010 12:27 AM
Liking yourself is ok, it’s when folks actually take themselves seriously that things start to go south.
http://www.france24.com/en/20100625-north-korean-art-show-stirs-controversy-vienna-political-propaganda-mak-portrait-arts-kim
Interesting art from north korea
Michael Coren:
“Not that the G20 protests matter very much in themselves — middle-class kids playing as anarchists who will quickly return to their lectures and parental and state dependency — but they do expose a new and divided Canada that may shake us out of our complacency.
“What the police heard repeatedly over the weekend was, ‘This is my right,’ ‘These are my rights under the Charter’ — usually soaked in expletives. That the cops were initially told not to confront protesters by their politicized chiefs is yet to be proven, but I’d be amazed if it wasn’t the case and there were certainly examples of overzealous policing after this stage of passive non-resistance.
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“To a very large degree, Canada has been transformed from a responsibility-based society to one based on rights and from a country composed of individuals to one made up of communities. As such, the unwritten social contract that made this country not only possible but great is tearing down the middle. The general view of people walking around Toronto last week was not that they had a responsibility to help the police, obey the law and keep out of trouble, but that they had a right to do whatever they wanted and then the right to question, if not taunt and abuse the police if they were in any way challenged.”
Anderson Cooper’s complaining that 1st Amendment rights have been suspended in the Gulf Coast.
http://beingrightisnotwrong.com/2010/07/03/sixty-four-feet-is-a-felony/
When you head out to sight see or partake in at a protest that was prophesied to be violent by almost everyone that wrote about it for weeks before the event it is your own fault if you get injured be it at the hands of the police or the rioters.
I can hardly believe how many are complaining that they were just there to watch.. Ya sure you were. A lot of us may have been born at night but it wasn`t last night.
I celebrated Charter of Rights Day this year instead of Canada Day. You see, the Charter is what allowed Ezra Levant to rebel against the system, man. It’s the leading cause of our upcoming Digital Libertarian movement, whereas a society is based upon individual rights as opposed to responsibilities. To review: the Charter is NOT a deeply flawed document that contradicts itself in its own language. State broadcasting, HRCs, PQ language laws, increased entitlements, tax-funded arts complex: these are all signs of a cultural movement towards a Libertarian Utopia of the future. Now please excuse me while I go take some shots of middle-aged women.
nv53: “It’s a pretty dismal life if you don’t like yourself.”
That’s for sure and whence comes the Biblical Wisdom, “Love your neighbour AS yourself.” Anyone who doesn’t love themself is incapable of loving another; self-loathing people usually hate everyone and everything else.
Michael Coren: “What the police heard repeatedly over the weekend was, ‘This is my right,’ ‘These are my rights under the Charter’ — usually soaked in expletives.”
This train’s been coming down the track for a long time. This is what you constantly hear in the classrooms in the toughest schools from the toughest, most non-compliant kids. Hey, it’s even the unspoken mantra of a whole lot of “good” kids who no longer show any inclination towards leadership. We mostly have thugs and bullies “leading” and compliant sheeple following: There’s no percentage anymore to being a leader, from either admin or your classmates.
The cream doesn’t rise to the top anymore; it curdles and sinks to the bottom like a stone.
Oh looky here, http://www.cbc.ca/canada/manitoba/
Manitoba is proud to display one of the original copies of the 1217 Magna Carta.
This document is one of the corner stones of modern democracies because it limited the power of kings/govts.
It was the beginning of the human rights and individual liberty movement.
Does anybody know if the staff of the Canadian Wheat Board is going to see it and find out what it means?
Let’s see now, 2010 minus 1217 is ……..!
Oh man, it can’t get any more ironic than that, can it?
HAPPY JULY 4TH to our American neighbours!
God bless — and save — America!
What I hate hearing and is the biggest lie in this country is that the Charter is our constitution. It is not. It is a federal law that can be easily rescinded without the unanimous approval of the provinces.
We had more rights and protection under Diefenbaker’s Bill of Rights. Unfortunately it was deemed to be politically incorrect for the
“new Canada”
The preamble in the Charter is also incorrect and based on a lie. France had nothing to do with the creation of Canada. France had abandoned North America. They lost Quebec and sold off Louisiana.
The British created Canada and and gave us independence. Thus the BRITISH North America Act – which is our only Constitution. France did not sign off on it.
The photo of the little angry boy says it all …standing with his Mom….she is responsible for his attitude in life. I bet if a cop went to her door and said her son was involved in some criminal offence …she would attack the cop and defend the little twerp. Kids like this who are spoiled by their parents grow up to be jerks….the only time reality catches up with them is when some cop smacks them in the side of the head for doing something wrong.
You reap what you sow momman….you spoiled him and gave him everything he wanted…defended him against teachers when they attempted to correct him, agreed with him when he told you all his school friends were assholes…and now you will get your reward as this little jerk will cause you nothing but grief in your life. There is suc pleasure seeing what parents like you get in the end….a lifetime of the deal little boy sucking your energy…what goes around comes around…like take care of people like you and your brat son……ah life is so sweet…..
What I find interesting is that most of the protesters who base their actions on ‘it’s my rights’ and ‘the Charter of Rights’ haven’t a clue what’s in the Charter.
Mike Brock is one example. He kept insisting that ‘his right to no search’ was in the Charter; that his ‘right to remain silent’ was in the Charter. Of course, this is untrue. When I pressed him for the section, the one he eventually came up with didn’t apply to his case. the section that does apply (section 8) does not apply in his case because the search was not ‘unreasonable’.
Michael Coren and EBD’s points are valid; the other side of the coin of ‘rights’, which is responsibility, seems to have vanished.
The Charter is deeply flawed; its ‘fundamental freedoms’ of the individual in Section 2 are contradicted by the collectivist multicultural sections 15, 26 and 27. And the key term of ‘responsibility of the citizen’ is missing.
But the majority of people simply hear the name ‘charter of rights’ and assume that it means that they, as individuals, can do anything they want and that any and all restrictions or responsibilities are indications of an authoritarian state.
The “Cordon Sanitaire” around Geert Wilders hardens.
He will not be permitted into the Dutch government.
July 2, 2010
“Since it was the CDA that held the ‘keys’ to a right-wing majority cabinet, as Wilders put it, it was only fitting that it should be Maxime Verhagen who spelled it out, clear as day. The PVV is a threat to the democratic state.”
http://www.dutchnews.nl/columns/2010/07/the_parliamentary_debate_on_th.php
I know the difference between a peaceful demonstration and what went on in Toronto @ G20. The Tea Party rallies, gun owners protesting the Liberal gun laws on Parliament hill were peaceful and respectful – they also left no garbage behind or vandalism. The G20 was advertised to have violence in advance. The so called “peaceful protestors” the union goons, the radical environmentalists just provide cover for the violent ones a whom they know. In my mind they should be charged with aiding and abetting – its no different than the guy that drives the get away car from a bank burglary.
The Tor Star pic says it all, a stay at home son and the screeching harpy who snatched away any chance at independence or responsibility the little whelp ever had.
Pretty much personifies the nanny state and her dysfunctional, dependent, decadent offspring. All rights all the time, damn the consequences.
Syncro
MikeL- It’s a parent’s job to protect her kid from teachers, cops, and every other threat. Are you a daycare kid, or what? Your mom must have been a real loser.
After the revolution in Russia,a democratic govt was trying to be formed but it was hijacked by communists and other goons resulting in that repressive society.If Canada keeps on its path,sharia law will be introduced and then the protesters will finally be happy.Dead,maimed or jailed,but happy.
MikeL.: ” … ah life is so sweet…..”
The only problem with your scenario is that it’s not just this irresponsible harpy-of-a-Mom who’s going to reap the maelstrom of her entitled, spoiled-brat son.
As we saw last weekend, ALL of us are going to have to deal with the little twerp. AND, he’s cost us already in that some police officer had to deal with him. Like someone else said, it doesn’t look like they finished the job. This kid’s going to cause society a big headache, most likely, for the rest of his life — and, just think if he has kids … It’s a painful thought.
“unfeasibility”.
“The state’s computer system can’t handle the technological challenge of restating paychecks to the federal minimum of $7.25 an hour.”
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“Old technology foils Schwarzenegger’s wage order
As the Terminator, Arnold Schwarzenegger was the technology of the future, feared by humans. As governor, he’s being foiled by the technology of the past.
For the second time in two years, Schwarzenegger has ordered most state workers’ pay cut to the federal minimum wage because lawmakers missed their deadline to fix the state’s $19 billion budget deficit. The Legislature’s failure to act has left the state without a spending plan as the new fiscal year begins.
A state appellate court ruled in Schwarzenegger’s favor Friday, but the state controller, who issues state paychecks, says he can’t comply. One reason given by Controller John Chiang, a Democrat elected in 2006: The state’s computer system can’t handle the technological challenge of restating paychecks to the federal minimum of $7.25 an hour.
Chiang cited Friday’s ruling by the 3rd District Court of Appeals, which said “unfeasibility” would excuse him from complying with Schwarzenegger’s minimum wage order. He said a fix to the state’s computerized payroll system won’t be ready until October 2012.
Meanwhile, more than 200,000 state workers remain in limbo about the size of their July paychecks while Chiang asks the court for guidance on how to proceed. If wages are indeed cut to $7.25 an hour, employees will be reimbursed once a budget is signed.”
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_california_budget_minimum_wage
No, fiumara, the Charter is not a federal law. It is an act of the English Parliament. Since Acts of that Parliament do not apply to Canada, the Charter is not law here unless adopted as part of the Canadian constitution; and this was not done, since it requires the consent of all the provinces, and Quebec never consented. Instead the Supreme Court simply declared the Charter to be part of the constitution even though it wasn’t. So, nine provinces and the federal government currently pretend to have a Charter. In fact there’s no Charter at all, and this is openly recognised in Quebec.
Did you know that no private citizen has ever sued any government on a Charter right and won? Most successful charter cases have criminal, in which the government is suing the citizen. Every other successful charter case was brought by the Liberal party, and almost all by a Liberal government. As we saw during the gay marriage farrago, the Liberal party has more effective discipline over the judges it appoints than over the caucus it elects, and the Charter lets them use it.
“Due to financial difficulties(sic)”.
“Globe nad Mail(sic)”.
Dionsaore(sic) SSM(sic) is ded.
Internment/burial in The PET Cemetery.
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“Canadian Press to become for-profit: Report
By QMI Agency
Due to financial difficulties, the Canadian Press is going under a massive restructure by going from a not-for-profit industry co-operative to being under private ownership, the Globe and Mail reports.
CTVglobemedia, Torstar Corp. and Gesca will be equal investors in a for-profit collective called Canadian Press Enterprises, ending CP’s 93-year run as a non-profit.
“Our [pension] solvency problem has grown steadily worse,” wrote CP’s director of human resources Paul Woods in an internal memo, the Globe and Mail reported Sunday.
The three media partners demand that CP improves the financial status of its pension plans in order for the plan to carry out. The newswire service asked the federal government last year to delay pension payments because its pension plans were $34.4 million in the red.
“The investors are committed to securing the future of our pension plans supported by a profitable operation that can meet all of its obligations through cash-flow generation,” the memo continues to say.
If the deal goes through, Woods wrote that it would help “the large funding burden [defined benefit] plans place on employers in an environment of low interest rates and longer life expectancy.”
The Globe nad Mail also reported collective bargaining with CP’s union members is slated to be finished by late August and that a deal with the three media companies will hopefully be made by October.”
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/MediaNews/2010/07/04/14604761.html
ebt – I think I’d need some more information from you on your outline.
If Quebec doesn’t recognize the Charter, then, this means that it doesn’t recognize official bilingualism. If this is the case then why does it demand that official bilingualism exist?
To my knowledge, consent of all the provinces is only required
“In the case of an amendment related to the Office of the Queen, the number of senators, the use of either official language (subject to section 43), the amending formula, or the composition of the Supreme Court, the amendment must be adopted by unanimous consent of all the provinces in accordance with section 41” (1982 Act).
The 1982 patriation of the constitution was recognized as law by the Supreme Court of Canada, and, since Quebec is, to its chagrin and to many of us, still a part of Canada, then that court’s rulings are legally supreme over any provincial dissent.
As we know, Quebec objected to clauses in the Charter providing for minority language rights in each province (in the case of Quebec that would be English which Quebec wishes to restrict); and the mobility clause, enabling citizens of any province to work in other provinces – and Quebec wanted to set policies favouring Quebecers. Heh.
Therefore, I find your outline a bit puzzling.
A couple of news items from La Belle Provence:
A) “MONTREAL – A demonstration to condemn what organizers called ‘the oppressive apparatus’ mobilized last weekend for the G20 Summit in Toronto broke up peacefully just before 3 p.m. Thursday.”
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“More than 900 people had been arrested or detained last weekend in Toronto. About 200 Quebecors were among them, according to the Anticapitalist Convergence Network(CLAC)’s figures, said Danie Royer, a CLAC spokesperson…”
B) “The bomb threat was phoned in around 2:45 a.m. and soon afterward an explosion blew out windows and splintered furniture at a Canadian Forces recruitment office (in Trois-Rivieres.)”
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“An obscure anti-globalization and anti-war group calling itself Résistance internationaliste claimed responsibility, saying it had planted a ‘non-improvised device’ – police were close-mouthed as to the nature of the bomb.”
http://bigpeace.com/
Andrew Breitbart takes on another role with today’s new addition to his websites. Happy Independence Day to all Americans
“How fitting that BigPeace.com is rolling out on the 234th anniversary of the first Declaration of Independence! For, with the launch of this newest of the marvelous Breitbart web portals, the national security community can finally break the stranglehold the legacy media has heretofore had on what the American people know about the issues that are likely to have the greatest effect on them and those they love.”
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another fuzzy-bunny dead tree media poll… goes sideways.
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The pornography of GG’s Voodoo Haiti.
PM Harper: Get Canada and Canadians out of Haiti. Stop throwing out tax dollars down the sewer of Haiti.
United Nations is complicit in the corrupt/evil scheme:
“Imogen Wall, from the UN’s office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, said it’s impossible to say how long the tent camps will be in place.”
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“Haiti’s camps of despair
Six months after the earthquake, life in Haiti’s 1,300 camps is crowded, unsanitary and increasingly dangerous. Sue Montgomery goes back to Port-au-Prince and finds electricity, water and schools, but little real shelter in the makeshift settlements. And for most people, proper housing is years away.
Port-au-Prince- A raucous crowd surges from between two rows of tightly packed tents in Camp Dadadou, and from the middle of it, a young woman stumbles, struggling to regain her balance and escape the chanting mob.
Haitians of all ages jeer and push, some laughing, as the mass of sweating bodies moves along the perimeter of the camp. Unable to escape her captors, the young woman falls to the ground, and, after either being hit on the head with a wooden bat or slamming her skull against the concrete, her eyes roll back in her head and she falls unconscious, her thin, soaked body convulsing until it forms just a stiff board.
A few declare her dead. Several cheer the rumour, announcing that justice is served.
Most head back to their tents, the day’s excitement over in what has become a miserable, boring existence. Only one -an 11-year-old orphaned boy who looks as if he might cry -asks whether she will survive.
After six months of living first under bedsheets and towels, and now inside torn, sweltering and soaked tents suitable at best for weekend camping, the stress in Haiti’s crowded and unsanitary camps is beginning to grow. Normally patient Haitians, already traumatized by the massive loss of life in January’s unprecedented earthquake, are starting to lose it.
“I have to leave Haiti,” says Genevieve Joubert, a nurse living with about 10,500 others on the former soccer pitch now known as camp Dadadou. “But there’s nowhere to go.”
Joubert has delivered 126 babies in her camp alone, and is trying to find care for 24 orphans whose parents could very well be living in another camp, unaware that their children are still alive.
Around Port-au-Prince, which, six months after the Jan. 12 quake, still looks like a war zone, and in nearby Jacmel and Legane, about 1,300 camps erected by hundreds of thousands of Haitians in the hours after their lives were shattered, are becoming permanent slums.”
http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Haiti+camps+despair/3230461/story.html
Take Me Obama – Jeffrey Simpson in the Mop & Pail
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The United States gave itself the most gifted President in several generations, handed his party a majority in both houses of Congress, only to watch his presidency be swamped by the doleful legacy of the Bush years, a worldwide recession and its parlous aftermath, and a ferocious Republican opposition bent on a search-and-destroy mission of his presidency.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/happy-fourth-of-july-america-needs-it/article1626767/
J Curry @ 5:46 a.m.: “State broadcasting, HRCs, PQ language laws, increased entitlements, tax-funded arts complex: these are all signs of a cultural movement towards a Libertarian Utopia of the future.”
What on earth are you talking about? Libertarians believe the purpose of government is to protect individual rights, via police, military and courts. Not one of the examples you list in your statement would exist under a libertarian government. Not one.
I’m not sure exactly why you expect me to tutor you in basic civics, ET, still less why you so often sound off as some kind of authority when you clearly need such tutoring. But let’s see if I can help you out anyway.
You first question is nonsense. Bilingualism is a policy which anyone is free to advocate or oppose as they see fit. It is not a consequence of the Charter. It could hardly be, since the Charter is not in force. And as a matter of less contentious fact, both Quebec and the federal government were officially bilingual before the Charter was ever conceived of. Quebec of course does not “demand bilingualism”. Quebec demands that bilingualism be forced on the federal government and on other provinces, but forbidden in Quebec. It makes perrfect sense for them to demand that. The insanity is entirely on the part of those who give it to them. The Charter has nothing to do with it.
You cite the amending provisions of the 1982 act purporting to amend the BNA Act. That act can not come into force according to its own provisions. It can only come into force according to the previously existing provisions for constitutional amendment. Those provisions required unanimous consent of the provinces. That has never been obtained.
You apparently didn’t notice that I pointed out expressly that the Supreme Court had nonetheless declared the amendments valid even though they weren’t. Do you accept that we actually have a constitution – that is, a body of laws by which we are governed which has a fixed and independent existence and can be objectively understood? Or is the constitution whatever the Supreme Court decides to say it is? If the Supreme Court says the constitution makes us officially underwater, is it your duty to drown? It isn’t mine.
In fact the Supreme Court has not purported to apply the Charter so as to bind the Quebec government. They know any such attempt would be contemptuously ignored, and they know they could do nothing about it. They have no intention of pissing away their prestige like that.
I don’t know why you think I care what Quebec’s objections were. If I did, I’d want to learn them from a credible source, which means you’d be wasting your breath. But it doesn’t matter. Maybe they objected because the demonic voices in their heads were wailing so loud. Who cares? All that matters is, Quebec did not consent.
And many things puzzle the stupid. It comes with the territory.