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Surprise! Hillary Clinton and Saul Alinsky were pen pals.
“Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s opponents are accusing him of violating the Occupational Health and Safety Administrations regulations in a campaign re-election ad …”
Indeed Kate like the Mayor of Hiroshima
the leader of the ISIS or whatever they are stylin’ their beardy unwashed selves this week.
He will be sayin’ “WHAT THE F*** WAS THAT”?
Heaven, and or paradise is only a split atom away.
Diane Watts wants to run as a Conservative. This would be one of the reasons she’s not on Team Justin. I’m sure Justin will want to know about the root cause of this crime. Me, I just want to know how Caissie got out of prison in the first place. http://www.cknw.com/2014/09/22/49674/ CKNW has learned a 43-year-old man has now been charged with second degree murder in Surrey. This, after 17-year-old Serena Vermeersh was found dead by railway tracks last Tuesday.
Raymond Lee Caissie has a lengthy, violent criminal history. When he was released from prison last year, Caissie was considered a high-risk sex offender. He had served a 22-year sentence for sexually assaulting a 21-year-old Abbotsford museum worker in 1991. His criminal history also includes theft, break and enter and possession of stolen property. CKNW has also learned that Caissie was on probation at the time of the killing. Last year, Surrey Mayor Dianne Watts said she was ‘outraged’ when learning of Caissie’s release. He was living in Surrey at the time. Watts said “at the end of the day, the safety of the public has to come first and foremost.” Meanwhile, neighbours of the accused say they are shocked to learn of the allegations. Caissie lived in a run-down apartment building at King George and 106th street in the Whalley neighborhood of Surrey. A neighbor, who didn’t want to be identified, but owns Surrey City Centre Jewellers, said Caissie didn’t know how to live in the real world after spending twenty-two years in prison. He says Caissie was canning fish at a location on Scott Road and lived with his loving girlfriend. The neighbor says Caissie was a good man, who even took him to his doctor appointments. The accused , who was arrested on Saturday, appears in court October 2nd. In light of the murder, there are again calls for reform of our justice system. Jennifer Wade has worked alongside police for years on child abuse cases and she says we’ve heard for years that the justice system needs reforming but she says nothing ever changes. “I think it’s partly a lack of will, I think it’s partly we need to revise the laws and really look at them and get really serious minded people to looking at what can be done.” Wade says the accused, Caissie, never should have been released considering his violent past.
@ John Galt — 8.7% more police and 26.3% less crime, you say?
I wonder if there could just possibly be some sort of connection here?
ROTFL… are you suggesting that 8.7% more police resulted 26.3% less crime?
Yeah, right.
Crime rates have been steadily dropping for decades because the demographic that commits the most crimes has fewer numbers every year.
Re: Volcano eruption in Papua, New Guinea!
Looks like my ex’s PMS!!
While we’re on the topic of violence. This is considered one of the most violent comedy clips in TV history!! Enjoy!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jocRd-aajW0
Toronto Star, Thurs., Sept. 18. Op-ed by Umut Özsu, professor of law, University of Manitoba, on the human rights museum in Winnipeg. http://www.thestar.com/opinion/commentary/2014/09/17/the_real_problem_with_the_canadian_human_rights_museum.html
“Designed in predominantly civil and political rather than social and economic terms, the rhetoric of human rights has since been mobilized to focus attention upon egregious violations of such entitlements as the right to vote, the right to assemble and the right to express oneself freely.”
“In practice, this focus on civil and political rights has prevented human rights advocates from tackling the problem of why so many people, in Canada and throughout the world, do not have their basic social and economic rights — chief among them the rights to health, housing, education, and employment — satisfied adequately.”
Maybe that’s because these “social and economic rights” are fraudulent. Health, housing, education and employment are all things that are largely provided by others. Thus they cannot logically be called “rights”, except to the extent that one can look after one’s own health, educate oneself, work for oneself and even build one’s own house. But there is no such thing as the “right” to the fruits of someone else’s labour — only the right to trade freely with the provider of that product or service.
Though the museum may have many problems, a failure to present these phony rights is not one of them. The problem itself, as presented by the law professor, is phony.
Toronto Star, Thurs., Sept. 18. La démolition de l’aéroport éléphant blanc, pardonnez-moi, Mirabel. http://www.thestar.com/business/2014/09/17/mirabel_airport_demolition_to_go_ahead.html
“Mirabel was billed as the airport of the future when it first opened in 1975. Officials predicted at the time that 60 million passengers would pass through its gates annually by 2010, but yearly passenger traffic never surpassed three million.”
“New infrastructures, which were to include a high-speed rail link and a highway linking Montreal directly to the airport, were never completed.”
“The federal government expropriated more than 324 square kilometres of prime farmland, but only used 16 square kilometres for the airport. A total of 10,000 people were also forced from their homes.”
This is what often happens when government officials have the “right” to expropriate land and/or incomes.
The moral of the story is that, if you have a bright idea to provide something you think the public might want or need, go to the bank and try to take out a loan like normal people do. Don’t rely on the “Isn’t taxation wonderfully civilized?” crowd, because half the time their airheaded schemes end up like this. Taxation is like a penny in the fusebox.
Businesses do make mistakes of course, but they only lose their own or their investors’ money, and a short track record of failure puts them out of business.
Toronto Sun, Thurs., Sept. 18. Op-ed by Cathy Crowe, Toronto “street nurse” and all-round social activist. http://www.torontosun.com/2014/09/17/why-i-support-olivia-chow
“[Olivia] has been at the forefront of just about every struggle for justice in this city. Talk about public good!”
“[When someone froze to death on the street,] she knew the value of the long-term solution — affordable housing.”
“For decades, Chow was the mover and shaker at City Hall on child and youth issues, women’s rights, affordable daycare, student nutrition projects, AIDS grants, immigration and literacy.”
In other words, expand municipal government services as far as possible, and convince people they should be dependent on government. Ugh.
So-called “affordable housing” is never affordable for taxpayers, and daycare will likely turn out the same. The major activity for “children and youth” should be preparing for a productive career through education and perhaps part-time work while still having a little freedom on the side — no government involvement outside of the current school system (which would be better off privatized). “Student nutrition projects” intrude into parental responsibility, perhaps appearing necessary because of all the government waste that drains the economy and parental incomes with it. Illiteracy is supposed to have been solved by the public education system, yet this well-documented failure is precisely the concept that is perpetually absent from any media coverage of the issue.
The last thing Toronto needs is more big-spending, big-waste, big-pushing-people-around government from politicians like Olivia Chow.
Globe and Mail, Mon., Sept. 22. Two short-tenured former Prime Ministers, a long-tenured failure to achieve that position, and a former president of the North-South Institute bewail the closing of said institution due to the discontinuance of government funding (and note that all are former members of its board). Boo hoo. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-debate/north-south-institute-weve-lost-a-canadian-asset/article20707340/
“The closing of NSI constitutes the jettisoning of a critically important tool of Canadian leadership internationally, exercised not through Canadian military or economic might, but rather through our capacity to generate and globally disseminate knowledge and best-practice alternatives.”
Critically important, and knowledge and best practices, according to whom? All I ever saw of the damn thing were occasional letters to the editor from a former president who seemed to think bigger government involvement (i.e., coercion rather than freedom), or hindering the West, was the solution to any problem. Good riddance to that nonsense.
“NSI’s policy recommendations – in areas as diverse as improving the impact of the private sector on economic growth; maximizing benefits for communities affected by mining and other extractives; ensuring benefits and human rights for indigenous peoples; enhancing for women the benefits from international trade agreements; and using ‘big data’ for more effective public policy – have all been recognized as significant contributions to international development.”
Again, recognized by whom? The only way to improve economic growth is to leave the private sector alone. This precludes almost all “public policy” – big data or no.
“All this at a time when we need an independent, non-partisan voice dedicated to dealing with some of the world’s most critical policy challenges.”
Why should we believe that NSI’s allegedly wonderful track record would continue indefinitely? How many other similar institutions are floating around? What if their recommendations disagree with those of NSI? And I don’t believe NSI was “non-partisan” when it obviously tilted left.
Government should not be funding “think tanks” of any description.
New Brunswick voted themselves a loss, they prefer to be on the dole, let the West carry the can rather than become self sufficient. May they live in interesting times.
They’ll pretty quickly adjust their behavior. Air strikes alone do not achieve much. Remember the blitz, or more recently Belgrade.
Ironically, the Trudeau-detested Dorval airport is now called Trudeau Airport.
Maybe it’s about time to put an end to Equalization as it is presently structured. Only in dire circumstances should provinces who develop and manage their resources,spend responsibly, budget wisely, be expected to pay money to those who refuse to do so.
@ John Galt — 8.7% more police and 26.3% less crime, you say?
I wonder if there could just possibly be some sort of connection here?
All we need do is increase police forces by 33% and by correlation crime will drop by 100%, right?
AGW Kills.
O’hummmm…………….
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“Stephen Rasey September 23, 2014 at 10:30 am
I don’t believe it!.
Obama speaking live at UN at 1:00 on Climate Change and guess who is carrying it live?
The Weather Channel and
CSPAN2. That’s it.
CNN, CNNI, HLN, BBC World, FoxNews, MSNBC, AJAM
These all were on Syria, Pentagon, Airstrikes,
FoxBus CNBC were business as usual.
CNBCW was a documentary re-run
Don’t know about OANN
Bloomberg broke away in mid-talk to the anchors within 10 minutes.
Talking about SpaceX by 1:21. still on SpaceX at 1:27
AJAM had some Climate Chate at 1:27” http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/09/23/its-time-to-stop-the-climate-scare-stories/
Ah our unbiased media, always willing to give the Tories and PMSH a fair shake – headlines:
Duffy trial set for April
Politically fraught trial set for April
Politically fraught trial set for April with Harper called as witness
Politically fraught trial set for April with Harper called as star witness
Harper to call snap election because of “his” trial
Followed no doubt by:
Harper found guilty by media in politically fraught smear campaign that ignore the deeds
of the scumbag Duffy
And my personal favourite:
Giving the taxpayers $50,000. is EXACTLY the same as stealing $20,000,000 from them
Meanwhile Justin has snubbed Sun Media (actually, old news – got to love his smirk when asked about the very serious situation of Canadians joining IS). Sorry it`s our fault for letting them feel isolated and now the poor buggers will be stateless –
At least until Kate finds somebody to go over and shoot them!
In related news, the Grit team has criticized PMSH for pretending not to be scared of them.
Surprise! Hillary Clinton and Saul Alinsky were pen pals.
“Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s opponents are accusing him of violating the Occupational Health and Safety Administrations regulations in a campaign re-election ad …”
Video: Megyn Kelly vs. Bill Ayers.
Indeed Kate like the Mayor of Hiroshima
the leader of the ISIS or whatever they are stylin’ their beardy unwashed selves this week.
He will be sayin’ “WHAT THE F*** WAS THAT”?
Heaven, and or paradise is only a split atom away.
Diane Watts wants to run as a Conservative. This would be one of the reasons she’s not on Team Justin. I’m sure Justin will want to know about the root cause of this crime. Me, I just want to know how Caissie got out of prison in the first place.
http://www.cknw.com/2014/09/22/49674/
CKNW has learned a 43-year-old man has now been charged with second degree murder in Surrey.
This, after 17-year-old Serena Vermeersh was found dead by railway tracks last Tuesday.
Raymond Lee Caissie has a lengthy, violent criminal history.
When he was released from prison last year, Caissie was considered a high-risk sex offender.
He had served a 22-year sentence for sexually assaulting a 21-year-old Abbotsford museum worker in 1991.
His criminal history also includes theft, break and enter and possession of stolen property.
CKNW has also learned that Caissie was on probation at the time of the killing.
Last year, Surrey Mayor Dianne Watts said she was ‘outraged’ when learning of Caissie’s release.
He was living in Surrey at the time.
Watts said “at the end of the day, the safety of the public has to come first and foremost.”
Meanwhile, neighbours of the accused say they are shocked to learn of the allegations.
Caissie lived in a run-down apartment building at King George and 106th street in the Whalley neighborhood of Surrey.
A neighbor, who didn’t want to be identified, but owns Surrey City Centre Jewellers, said Caissie didn’t know how to live in the real world after spending twenty-two years in prison.
He says Caissie was canning fish at a location on Scott Road and lived with his loving girlfriend.
The neighbor says Caissie was a good man, who even took him to his doctor appointments.
The accused , who was arrested on Saturday, appears in court October 2nd.
In light of the murder, there are again calls for reform of our justice system.
Jennifer Wade has worked alongside police for years on child abuse cases and she says we’ve heard for years that the justice system needs reforming but she says nothing ever changes.
“I think it’s partly a lack of will, I think it’s partly we need to revise the laws and really look at them and get really serious minded people to looking at what can be done.”
Wade says the accused, Caissie, never should have been released considering his violent past.
Policing costs and the number of officers continue to rise in some Canadian cities despite a decline in crime rates, according to a new study by the Fraser Institute.
The report, released by the conservative-leaning policy think tank on Monday, said between 2001 and 2012, police officers per 100,000 Canadians rose 8.7 per cent while crime rates during the same period fell by 26.3 per cent.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/policing-costs-rising-in-canadian-cities-despite-falling-crime-study-finds/article20734024/
The one place in Canada where racism is still tolerated — native reserves
http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2014/09/22/jonathan-kay-the-one-place-in-canada-where-racism-is-still-tolerated-native-reserves/
@ John Galt — 8.7% more police and 26.3% less crime, you say?
I wonder if there could just possibly be some sort of connection here?
ROTFL… are you suggesting that 8.7% more police resulted 26.3% less crime?
Yeah, right.
Crime rates have been steadily dropping for decades because the demographic that commits the most crimes has fewer numbers every year.
Prove it
Drunkest countries in the world.
https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/maps-show-drunkest-countries-world-184543451.html
Midnite humor:
Wunxputl Goes to Harvard.
http://www.fredoneverything.net/WunxHarvard.shtml
If you’re happy in Iran, don’t show it.
http://www.iranherald.com/index.php/sid/225941089
Re: Volcano eruption in Papua, New Guinea!
Looks like my ex’s PMS!!
While we’re on the topic of violence. This is considered one of the most violent comedy clips in TV history!! Enjoy!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jocRd-aajW0
Under the “nuts R us” column. When saying no seems ineffective you just add another breast. Yup….that should do it.
http://www.theprovince.com/News/oddities/Florida+woman+claims+have+surgically+added+third+breast/10225359/story.html
Pollster claiming Doug Ford only has 23% of the vote is a Liberal hack. Got destroyed on Sun News by Charles Adler 2 years ago.
http://www.subwaytodamascus.com/2014/09/the-pollster-behind-polls-showing-doug.html
Toronto Star, Thurs., Sept. 18. Op-ed by Umut Özsu, professor of law, University of Manitoba, on the human rights museum in Winnipeg.
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/commentary/2014/09/17/the_real_problem_with_the_canadian_human_rights_museum.html
“Designed in predominantly civil and political rather than social and economic terms, the rhetoric of human rights has since been mobilized to focus attention upon egregious violations of such entitlements as the right to vote, the right to assemble and the right to express oneself freely.”
“In practice, this focus on civil and political rights has prevented human rights advocates from tackling the problem of why so many people, in Canada and throughout the world, do not have their basic social and economic rights — chief among them the rights to health, housing, education, and employment — satisfied adequately.”
Maybe that’s because these “social and economic rights” are fraudulent. Health, housing, education and employment are all things that are largely provided by others. Thus they cannot logically be called “rights”, except to the extent that one can look after one’s own health, educate oneself, work for oneself and even build one’s own house. But there is no such thing as the “right” to the fruits of someone else’s labour — only the right to trade freely with the provider of that product or service.
Though the museum may have many problems, a failure to present these phony rights is not one of them. The problem itself, as presented by the law professor, is phony.
Toronto Star, Thurs., Sept. 18. La démolition de l’aéroport éléphant blanc, pardonnez-moi, Mirabel.
http://www.thestar.com/business/2014/09/17/mirabel_airport_demolition_to_go_ahead.html
“Mirabel was billed as the airport of the future when it first opened in 1975. Officials predicted at the time that 60 million passengers would pass through its gates annually by 2010, but yearly passenger traffic never surpassed three million.”
“New infrastructures, which were to include a high-speed rail link and a highway linking Montreal directly to the airport, were never completed.”
“The federal government expropriated more than 324 square kilometres of prime farmland, but only used 16 square kilometres for the airport. A total of 10,000 people were also forced from their homes.”
This is what often happens when government officials have the “right” to expropriate land and/or incomes.
The moral of the story is that, if you have a bright idea to provide something you think the public might want or need, go to the bank and try to take out a loan like normal people do. Don’t rely on the “Isn’t taxation wonderfully civilized?” crowd, because half the time their airheaded schemes end up like this. Taxation is like a penny in the fusebox.
Businesses do make mistakes of course, but they only lose their own or their investors’ money, and a short track record of failure puts them out of business.
Toronto Sun, Thurs., Sept. 18. Op-ed by Cathy Crowe, Toronto “street nurse” and all-round social activist.
http://www.torontosun.com/2014/09/17/why-i-support-olivia-chow
“[Olivia] has been at the forefront of just about every struggle for justice in this city. Talk about public good!”
“[When someone froze to death on the street,] she knew the value of the long-term solution — affordable housing.”
“For decades, Chow was the mover and shaker at City Hall on child and youth issues, women’s rights, affordable daycare, student nutrition projects, AIDS grants, immigration and literacy.”
In other words, expand municipal government services as far as possible, and convince people they should be dependent on government. Ugh.
So-called “affordable housing” is never affordable for taxpayers, and daycare will likely turn out the same. The major activity for “children and youth” should be preparing for a productive career through education and perhaps part-time work while still having a little freedom on the side — no government involvement outside of the current school system (which would be better off privatized). “Student nutrition projects” intrude into parental responsibility, perhaps appearing necessary because of all the government waste that drains the economy and parental incomes with it. Illiteracy is supposed to have been solved by the public education system, yet this well-documented failure is precisely the concept that is perpetually absent from any media coverage of the issue.
The last thing Toronto needs is more big-spending, big-waste, big-pushing-people-around government from politicians like Olivia Chow.
Globe and Mail, Mon., Sept. 22. Two short-tenured former Prime Ministers, a long-tenured failure to achieve that position, and a former president of the North-South Institute bewail the closing of said institution due to the discontinuance of government funding (and note that all are former members of its board). Boo hoo.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-debate/north-south-institute-weve-lost-a-canadian-asset/article20707340/
“The closing of NSI constitutes the jettisoning of a critically important tool of Canadian leadership internationally, exercised not through Canadian military or economic might, but rather through our capacity to generate and globally disseminate knowledge and best-practice alternatives.”
Critically important, and knowledge and best practices, according to whom? All I ever saw of the damn thing were occasional letters to the editor from a former president who seemed to think bigger government involvement (i.e., coercion rather than freedom), or hindering the West, was the solution to any problem. Good riddance to that nonsense.
“NSI’s policy recommendations – in areas as diverse as improving the impact of the private sector on economic growth; maximizing benefits for communities affected by mining and other extractives; ensuring benefits and human rights for indigenous peoples; enhancing for women the benefits from international trade agreements; and using ‘big data’ for more effective public policy – have all been recognized as significant contributions to international development.”
Again, recognized by whom? The only way to improve economic growth is to leave the private sector alone. This precludes almost all “public policy” – big data or no.
“All this at a time when we need an independent, non-partisan voice dedicated to dealing with some of the world’s most critical policy challenges.”
Why should we believe that NSI’s allegedly wonderful track record would continue indefinitely? How many other similar institutions are floating around? What if their recommendations disagree with those of NSI? And I don’t believe NSI was “non-partisan” when it obviously tilted left.
Government should not be funding “think tanks” of any description.
New Brunswick voted themselves a loss, they prefer to be on the dole, let the West carry the can rather than become self sufficient. May they live in interesting times.
They’ll pretty quickly adjust their behavior. Air strikes alone do not achieve much. Remember the blitz, or more recently Belgrade.
Ironically, the Trudeau-detested Dorval airport is now called Trudeau Airport.
Maybe it’s about time to put an end to Equalization as it is presently structured. Only in dire circumstances should provinces who develop and manage their resources,spend responsibly, budget wisely, be expected to pay money to those who refuse to do so.
“If you smoke in Ontario, we want to know who you are.”
-MPP John Abbot
http://www.cbc.ca/thisisthat/blog/2014/09/17/ontario-politician-says-it-is-time-for-a-cigarette-smokers-registry/
AGW Kills.
Ask EU commissioner for Climate Action Connie Hedegaard.
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http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2014/9/23/1411469903935/ddf09891-be7f-453c-9b64-13b0432f68e6-460×276.jpeg
@ John Galt — 8.7% more police and 26.3% less crime, you say?
I wonder if there could just possibly be some sort of connection here?
All we need do is increase police forces by 33% and by correlation crime will drop by 100%, right?
AGW Kills.
O’hummmm…………….
…-
“Stephen Rasey September 23, 2014 at 10:30 am
I don’t believe it!.
Obama speaking live at UN at 1:00 on Climate Change and guess who is carrying it live?
The Weather Channel and
CSPAN2. That’s it.
CNN, CNNI, HLN, BBC World, FoxNews, MSNBC, AJAM
These all were on Syria, Pentagon, Airstrikes,
FoxBus CNBC were business as usual.
CNBCW was a documentary re-run
Don’t know about OANN
Bloomberg broke away in mid-talk to the anchors within 10 minutes.
Talking about SpaceX by 1:21. still on SpaceX at 1:27
AJAM had some Climate Chate at 1:27”
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/09/23/its-time-to-stop-the-climate-scare-stories/
“‘F— PETA,’ says Inuit throat singer Tanya Tagaq”
“Handout photo”
http://storage.torontosun.com/v1/dynamic_resize/sws_path/suns-prod-images/1297609843999_ORIGINAL.jpg?quality=80&size=420x
Ah our unbiased media, always willing to give the Tories and PMSH a fair shake – headlines:
Duffy trial set for April
Politically fraught trial set for April
Politically fraught trial set for April with Harper called as witness
Politically fraught trial set for April with Harper called as star witness
Harper to call snap election because of “his” trial
Followed no doubt by:
Harper found guilty by media in politically fraught smear campaign that ignore the deeds
of the scumbag Duffy
And my personal favourite:
Giving the taxpayers $50,000. is EXACTLY the same as stealing $20,000,000 from them
Meanwhile Justin has snubbed Sun Media (actually, old news – got to love his smirk when asked about the very serious situation of Canadians joining IS). Sorry it`s our fault for letting them feel isolated and now the poor buggers will be stateless –
At least until Kate finds somebody to go over and shoot them!
In related news, the Grit team has criticized PMSH for pretending not to be scared of them.