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In tonight’s tips music, from a Japanese cellphone commercial, J.S. Bach’s Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring is performed by….gravity. And a wooden ball.
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  1. WSMV TV in Nashville:
    “For the first time, the leaders of the controversial mosque that’s being built in Murfreesboro (Tennessee) are speaking out about the death of terrorist leader Osama bin Laden. ‘We don’t celebrate the death of any human being, but in this case, I believe justice has been served,’ said Saleh Sbenaty of the Islamic Center of Nashville.
    “Islamic Center of Murfreesboro Planning Board member Sbenaty took time out for noonday prayer. At the same time, he is still digesting the news that bin Laden is dead. ‘It was a sense of undescribable (sic) relief,’ Sbenaty said.
    “Sbenaty said Muslims in Murfreesboro have been waiting on this day, but he wishes bin Laden wasn’t killed. ‘We were hoping he would be captured alive because we need to know more about al-Qaida and his collaborators so we can dismantle this terrorist organization,’ Sbenaty said.”

  2. Technically quite well executed, I thought, but somehow it lacked passion.

  3. Poll at Saskatoon.CTV.ca. Should Cdn Wheat Board monopoly come to an end? Please vote.

  6. An irrelavant 1/6,000,000,000 human soul, desperate to differentiate and be relavant. Sad because that much vehemence usually means that Daddy did things that Daddy’s buddies would not have approved of. I see right through you Heather dear and I’m sorry for you. Like Maureen Dowd, your politics probabaly have more to do with your “relationship” with your father than with your education.

  7. Sun TV has launched a full scale mulitfaceted frontal assault on the CBC and its billion dollar budget and its leftist bias. They took Frank Graves at EKOS apart piece by piece.
    Shaw has begun to directly poach Bell’s customers off Twitter for their failure to carry the network.
    Sun is starting to cover the criminal defamation charges being pursued by Pete Nygard (clothing magnate out of Winnipeg and the Bahamas) against CBC.
    Most of this should be available online -they’re putting their segments up on the website to offer Bell customers an alternative until Bell gets the message. They’ve also file formal complaints to the CRTC alleging protective bias by Bell of their own offerings.

  11. “Conservative Heritage Minister James Moore says his government believes in the CBC as a key cultural institution and has no plans to cut its funding following his party’s recent electoral victory.
    “We believe in the national public broadcaster. We have said that we will maintain or increase support for the CBC.”
    http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2011/05/03/bc-moore-cbc-funding.html
    I am one of those who were at the birth of CPC. Looking for a new political home . Any opinions on Freedom Party of Canada?

  12. xiat, that news absolutely breaks my heart
    Can’t say I’m surprised though. Just wait until we get definitive news that the trampling on our free speech rights will continue 🙁

  14. Posted by: xiat at 12:02 AM
    You are right, the propaganda arm and finacial lifeboat for many ‘activist’ leftards is a very serious threat to cementing our recent victory for common sense.
    When i gave my donation to my local cpc candidate i said selling off ceeb tv is job one.
    If we all repeat that message, they would be dumb to ignore it.

  16. xiat Check the comments at the CBC on the story of no picture. There is a comment by a Green they are picking on the NDP. The poster used to feel Cons were full of shite for calling CBC biased and now he knows it is and apologized for previous comments.
    They can kaput the TV but the radio is all there is in parts of the country and although some shows are horrible some are pretty good and some are very good. ‘Ideas’ can be very informative.

  19. Some new policies at the CBC would go a ways to address some of the issues — like bidding up the cost of sports programming and popular US shows. Like refocusing the mandate, so they do not think they are supposed to put up biased interactive web sites to steer people to vote Liberal. I think reducing funding would help tighten things up a bit, but I can see why Tories are hesitant to move on that too quickly.

  21. “http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2011/05/03/bc-moore-cbc-funding.html”
    ha ha ha ha ha !!!!!
    thanks for the link whoever.
    ha ha ha ha ha !!!!!!!!

  23. Found a great Canadian ambassador while watching Charlie Rose tonight.. New NDP foreign affairs critic?
    “BettyB 05/04/2011 10:02 PM
    I am a Canadian. We are wondering why some Seals couldn’t come into our country and just murder someone they had something on or thought they had something on? Also wondering why Americans dance so enthusiastically on graves? We hate the doubting but we can’t help but wonder if it is true? You shoot an unarmed man but make sure you respect and bury him in accordance to his religion??! No photos? Something smells bad.
    Why don’t the Americans realize that they are, all over the world, treading on other people’s property and THAT is why they are disliked. They are like England with all those colony/countries engraved in stone on Buckingham Palace! Stay in your own back yard guys!

  24. http://amongthetruthers.com/
    Since the 9/11 terrorist attacks, millions of people around the world have convinced themselves that the actual perpetrators were not al-Qaeda terrorists but elements within the U.S. government seeking a pretext to launch wars abroad and enact draconian laws at home. These “9/11 Truthers” are not alone. They are part of a vast conspiracist subculture that is spreading like wildfire and beginning to influence mainstream politics. For two years, Canadian journalist Jonathan Kay has been researching the underground world of conspiracy theorists by immersing himself in their ranks. He has attended their conventions, infiltrated their Internet discussion boards, become a connoisseur of their propaganda videos, and engaged them in in-depth, revealing interviews. While many individual conspiracy theories seem harmless, even amusing, the phenomenon is doing real damage to the unity and health of North American society.

  27. “Here’s why Stephen Harper really won”.
    Wente sums up the reason.
    For the evidence, re-read the threads & comments here and at SDA.
    “If you want to understand why Mr. Harper loathes the mainstream media, look no further. But if you want to understand why he won, you’ll have to look elsewhere.”
    >>> Wente is wrong in her conclusion which is: “But if Mr. Harper aims to turn the Conservatives into the Natural Governing Party, he’ll have to govern as a moderate.”
    >>> PM Harper will govern as a conservative.
    Too bad for Wente. As an MSM pundit herself, she doesn’t get it.
    …-
    “Here’s why Stephen Harper really won”
    “Thanks to the central Canadian punditocracy, I now know why the Conservatives won an overwhelming election victory, and why the Liberals were pulverized. It was those nasty attack ads on TV.
    So powerful were they that they persuaded millions of gullible voters to rise up against Michael Ignatieff and vote for someone else. Mr. Ignatieff himself blames them for his demise. Fellow Liberals think their leader was just too darn high-minded to strike back. “This is a blood sport,” griped Jim Karygiannis, one of the last Liberal MPs standing. “There is no Mr. Nice in this business.”
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/opinion/heres-why-stephen-harper-really-won/article2010333/

  28. trappedintrudeaupia and others, I’m going to keep at the Harper Government (cc The Honourable James Moore) re funding to the CBC.
    I’ve already had one answer which was just a form letter thanking me for writing. Have yet to hear from Mr. Moore (of course, the government’s not even sitting yet).
    I’m not going to let this one go, like the woman importuning the judge. They may get very tired of hearing from me!
    (Best case scenario, is that bit by bit, the CPC will chip away at the CBC’s budget and influence; would they tell us or the CBC that? No way! There may be method in their madness — but, if not, they’ll be hearing from me — often!)

  29. The Ad$SCam Chretien Liberals foisted Kyoto on Canada. The Red-Green-AGW fraud is well known & documented.
    Down with the Liberal Party forever. It’s dead and buried in the PET Cemetery. Say Amen, Liberals.
    Amen Liberals. Your party is history.
    Like the ancient pyramids of antique Egypt, the Liberal Party is dust.
    …-
    “Get out of Kyoto while it’s still possible”
    “Stephen Harper should guide our nation away from the most costly hoax in the history of science”
    “t the end of 2012, Canada’s international reputation will suffer a black eye unless Prime Minister Stephen Harper comes clean on the climate file. The Kyoto Protocol will then expire and, if we are still party to the agreement, our gross violation of this treaty’s emission limits will be highlighted to the world.
    Canada’s ratification of the protocol was one of the last acts of prime minister Jean Chrétien’s regime and taints the Liberal party to this day. Harper should feel absolutely no obligation to protect any part of that legacy. He knows that much of the science that props up the climate scare is unfounded and he has stated repeatedly that Canada has absolutely no chance of meeting our Kyoto commitments.
    For that reason alone, the new government should work toward making it politically feasible to withdraw from the agreement by the end of this year, rather than break what many around the world regard as international law.
    According to the protocol’s article 27, we have been able to withdraw without penalty from Kyoto since early 2008, “three years from the date on which this Protocol has entered into force,” i.e. 2005. The article also specifies that our complete divorce from the treaty would come into force one year after the notice of our intention to quit the agreement. This means that, for Canada to not be in violation of the Protocol when it expires, we must announce our withdrawal by the end of 2011.
    To set the stage for this important action, the new Conservative government needs to do several things.
    First and foremost, it must stop using the rhetoric of climate alarmism and call a spade a spade: Carbon dioxide is not a pollutant and the influence on global climate of human emissions of this benign gas is highly uncertain. Climate always changes, sometimes dangerously so. Consequently, we should focus on helping our most vulnerable citizens prepare for whatever climate change nature throws at us next, cooling being by far the most dangerous possibility. But the vast sums being funnelled into trying to halt this natural phenomenon is a grossly inappropriate use of Canadian tax dollars.
    Next, the government needs to invite scientists from both sides of the debate to testify before the Commons committee on environment and sustainable development so that MPs, mass media and the public are exposed to a balanced perspective of the issue. Harper promised to examine the climate file from top to bottom before first forming a government in 2006. This never happened. While the environment committee occasionally heard from well-qualified climate skeptics while the Liberals were in power, not a single scientist skeptic has testified on Harper’s watch.
    The government should freeze all spending on campaigns that are effectively oriented toward furthering the climate scare and supposed “solutions” such as carbon dioxide “sequestration” underground. This includes suspending the funding for all climate mitigation education being conducted by environmental non-governmental organizations and government-supported agencies, such as the National Roundtable on the Environment and the Economy.
    Environment Canada’s activism needs to be reined in, with its climate-change-related Web site and other promotional material withdrawn pending a complete review and re-creation with the input of independent experts.”
    http://opinion.financialpost.com/2011/05/04/get-out-of-kyoto-while-it%E2%80%99s-still-possible/

  30. The plan should be to take over the CBC . . clean house, de-vermin the staff, fire/furlough all the commie marxist wannbe’s . . . ya I know there would only be Rex Murphy left but it would be a good start.
    Then the CBC can start being the Conservative Broadcasting Corporation.
    Time to give the leftoids a bitter taste of their own medicine.

  32. My Deepest Condolences to Kitchener Consetoga MP Harold Albreht on the passing of his wife.
    Blue Like You
    From Blue Like You
    Prayers for Harold Albrecht
    Posted on May 5, 2011 by Joanne
    Kitchener Conestoga MP Harold Albrecht’s wife Betty passed away yesterday as a result of a spontaneous intracranial hemorrhage that occurred just as the couple was preparing to go to Monday night’s victory party.
    This is tragic beyond words. I didn’t know Betty personally, but I’ve talked to Harold on many occasions over the past few years. He is such a warm, affable man. I used to call him my adopted MP before Conservative MP Stephen Woodworth won Kitchener Centre in 2008.

  33. Just thought I’d try out for sardonic comment of the day so bear with me:
    o yea rich men trying to tell the poor that they are representing the working mas while picking pockets how much carbon does your mansion use Mr Jack Layton?

  34. It is my opinion that CBC should be de-funded, or de-licensed, as a News broadcaster. The rightful role of CBC is to continue producing the great Canadian entertainment programming it is capable of. As a public broadcaster it could purchase the newscasts of the privately owned broadcasters such as Sun News and CTV, and re-broadcast them on a rotating basis.
    I wish the “defund CBC” crowd would refine their demands along the lines that I have just outlined. Only then will I cheer them on.

  36. Re The Hill Times article referenced by RFB, here’s part of it:
    “NDP whip Yvon Godin (Acadie-Bathurst, N.B.) told The Hill Times on Wednesday he understood . . . that the government may intend to call the 41st Parliament to begin sometime in mid-May.
    “With 68 new MPs to swear in, all but two of them newcomers to Parliament and some not even familiar with politics, let alone federal politics, the NDP needs time for training, establishing new offices, constituency offices, hiring and swearing in, among other issues.
    “‘I think it’s too early,’ said Mr. Godin. ‘The House is not on fire there. . . .’”
    Then he went on to say, “‘To be fair to the [sic] democracy, to be fair with the process, leave people to take breathe [sic] a little bit. . . . you want to be fair to your constituents, you want to open an office . . .’”
    Well boo hoo: way too high expectations—“Make exceptions for us: we’re the NDP”—way too late. It’s altogether clear that the NDP has treated democracy and being fair to constituents with the utmost disdain. In case Messrs. Godin and Layton don’t know what the rest of us do, “being fair to democracy . . . and to . . . constituents” is supposed to occur DURING the election, not after one’s party has allowed a troop of unfit, tiny tots to stand for public office.
    Get this, NDP, just because you’ve been caught—again—with your pants down, doesn’t mean that it’s the responsibility of the rest of us to pull them up for you. Grow up, get a grip, and damn well do it yourselves—now!

  37. More NDP double standards: Jack said to Iggy, “If you are going to apply for a promotion, you at least ought to show up for the job.”
    Now it appears that his candidates in Quebec got their $157 000/year MP jobs without bothering to qualify. The NDP’s so full of idiotic hypocrites, the next four years are going to be very interesting—and, hopefully, enough to send this deluded, dysfunctional, and immature party the way of the Bloc.
    Thank goodness for a majority Conservative government! If the Conservatives treat the NDP ankle biters the way the head of the pride treats the cubs—sometimes he eats them!—it couldn’t happen to a more deserving crew.

  38. “Que. flood victims greet soldiers with joy
    CBC.ca”
    Just one comment: “Que.” = Quebec.
    What does “CBC” =?

  39. The first day of parliament aught to be very entertaining as the NDP move from the crib, past daycare, kindergarten and right to first grade all at once. Expect to see lost souls wandering the halls, scared adolescents acting brave so as not to cry in front of everyone and probably a few who will need their Pampers changed. The new speaker of the house will have their work cut out for them, monitoring the playground. Too bad Mister Dressup isn’t around anymore.

  40. Socialism’s social media didn’t twit on this.
    The socialist brothers/sisters’ death struggle.
    The socialist brothers, Joe and Adolf, fought to the death.
    The left has learned nothing and forgotten nothing.
    …-
    “Liberals seek revenge on Quebec MP who won without campaigning”
    “There are calls for a new election in a Quebec riding won by the most unlikely of NDP candidates after losing parties discovered irregularities with the winner’s nomination papers.
    All election candidates are required to obtain 100 signatures of support before they can run in a federal election, but the Liberal party in Berthier-Maskinongé says it has discovered signatures backing the NDP election winner that may have been forged, of people that may not live in the riding or who weren’t clear what it was they were being asked to support.
    It’s just the latest problem to emerge as the media and political parties scratch beneath the surface of Ruth Ellen Brosseau, a single mother who lives in Gatineau, Que., but won the race 300 kilometres away by nearly 7,000 votes.
    Midway through the campaign, Brosseau was found to have taken a vacation in Las Vegas. When she returned to Canada, she was leading the race in a riding near Trois-Rivieres, Que., propelled by NDP Leader Jack Layton’s popularity in the province.
    Asked by a local radio station for an interview upon her return, it was discovered she didn’t speak French, unlike 98 per cent of her constituents. To date, Brosseau has given no media interviews. The party has promised to bring her out of hiding this week, but she remains a mystery, most of all to the voters who hired her to represent them in Ottawa.”
    http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/politics/article/985610–liberals-seek-revenge-on-quebec-mp-who-won-without-campaign?bn=1

  41. I am also curious about the guy who beat Lawrence Cannon, Mathieu Ravignat. He is a former Communist — though I guess that suits the riding well enough. But he was plugged into the NDP spot half way through the campaign when someone else backed out. Can you just replace someone midway through? What about filing deadlines? Would he have the necessary 100 signatures?

  42. From the internet:
    Thomas “UFO” Mulcair (as in, unidentified-flying-Osama)
    Jacques “The Crotch” Layton (or simply, “Crotch” Layton)

  45. lookout — so funny. The great irony here is that when Parliament was shut down for three weeks in advance of the Olympics, there was a great cry of democracy not being able to function. At the time I thought the prorogue had to do with too many balls in the air (and not the detainee issue as put forward by the media and the cynical Opposition). I think this is pretty much a reap what you sow affair and I have no sympathy for the NDP.

  46. Very amusing article referred to by Ace. The NDP barely respects provinical authority on things like health care (witness Layton’s remarks on hiring doctors and nurses). The party that’s forever calling for a “national strategy” on this, that and the other thing is going to have to do some serious circle squaring to ignore provincial autonomy in 9 provinces while “respecting Quebec soveriegnty”.

  47. From the internet:
    (The scene: Jacques and Orivia embrace after the surprising NDP showing on election night.)
    Jacques “The Crotch” Layton : “You know Baby, now that we’re the Official Opposition, all of you NDP Chicks — and Lizzie — will have to begin shaving your bums.”
    Orivia : “You mean shaving our butts, or our husbands and boyfriends?”
    “Crotch” Layton : “Yes … both.”

  49. The Cons are already at work expanding censoriship with their ‘crime’ bills. From The Volunteer:
    C-51 modifies s. 319 in two ways, neither good.
    C-51 expands the definition of “identifiable group” to include “national origin”, which it didn’t include before (question: why make this change? I have an idea…)
    Worse, C-51 expands the definition of “communicating” so that it includes simply making available hateful material.

  50. Canada can survive for a few extra weeks without MP’s gathering in Ottawa. We will function just fine without them.
    Lookout you have made some fine points wrt to Layton and his motley crew.
    However, I am concerned for PM Harper and his family. There was something very deep and moving about Laureen’s tears on election night. She must be relieved, but exhausted. I would love for them to hibernate as a family for at least a week…
    because family is really important.

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