Inspired by “Captain Me”, The Toronto Sun is crossing the editorial floor.
Speaking of Garth Turner, inflated egos, blogs and other such stuff – when is media going to begin verifying traffic claims before putting them to print or air? Traffic inflation is a phenomenon almost completely confined to politicians, journos and purple-dinosaur-waving talking heads – because real bloggers know tools exist to “fact check your ass”.
From a reader in South Carolina – “Our worst fears”.
Frank J;
“Were one to use Democratic Underground’s forum as an example, you’d think liberals are incapably of understanding simple nouns unless they are bookended with swear words. It’s almost like a typing form of Tourette’s syndrome.
Add yours in the comments.
The Global Warming Gestapo are now cracking down on the dissidents.
I put in a 16 hour day yesterday, (in addition to blogging), and a lot of deadline work on my plate this week. Blogging will be a bit slow until I’m caught up a little.
Military probes abuse allegations in Afghanistan.
Last Updated: Tuesday, February 6, 2007 | 10:36 AM ET
CBC News
Military officials are investigating allegations three Afghan prisoners were abused while in the custody of Canadian soldiers.
The allegations come from University of Ottawa law Prof. Amir Attaran, based on government documents he obtained under the Access to Information Act.
The University Professor is of course a Muslim, more than likely put up to this by the hissing snakes at CAIR.
He alleges two of the prisoners have cuts and bruises on their faces, which proves that they were abused by the military. Not that they received a couple of scratches while resisting arrest.
Of course the fact that one was arrested for posessing bomb making materials and another for spying on our military has nothing to do with it.
They are Muslim afterall, so due to Islamophobia and profiling, they must be innocent. Even in a war zone. Even with feral savages who blow themselves up and cut off the heads of innocent civilians. Etc. Etc.
Posted by: irwin daisy at February 6, 2007 12:44 PM
Sorry Kate,
I posted to the wrong topic. An honest mistake.
Chinese ‘Worse than Hitler, Stalin’: Report
http://thecanadiansentinel.blogspot.com/2007/02/chinese-worse-than-hitler-stalin.html
– The latest evidence of the massive human organ harvesting/selling in China. It’s staggering… the sort of thing one might’ve read in a Stephen King or Clive Barker horror novel… only it’s for real…
They keep political prisoners of all sorts alive for the purpose of having organs ready for sale. Once the cash is received, a prisoner is executed and his/her organs harvested and sold.
Gee Kate..working 16 hrs yesterday!You must be another one of those”easy money pipples”..you must slow down,I’m sure there is some Woman’s Rights group would take up the “cause”and get you a handout,so you wouldn’t have to work at all!
I checked CKNW’s Nightline BC on a lark – no Darth Garth. Sorry.
Kate, make sure you put up pics of that HHR with flames.
Sheila Copps repeats another big Liberal lie in her column today.
Wed, February 7, 2007
Mayan mayhem?
Our own ‘Tequila Sheila’ says Mexico is more fun than violent
By SHEILA COPPS
snip-‘And many backpacking Americans actually exhibit Canadian flags to avoid local hassles.’-snip
Personally, I have NEVER met an American who has worn a Canadian flag on their backpack or tried to hide their American citizenship while traveling.
I challenge Ms. Copps to show us exactly who are these ‘many Americans’ she claims ‘actually wear Canadian flags’.
And if you think about it, what does this claim really mean. IMHO, it is extremely disrespecful to BOTH nations.
In the USA, the joke is a Canadian backpack with the Maple Leaf plastered all over is the well known international symbol for “Please Don’t Hurt Me’.
Also many Americans follow strict flag protocol, which says it is disrespectful to wear the flag, except as a shoulder patch on certain uniforms.
IMO, Mexico is a fine place to travel IF you never need help from the police or a government agency or have an emergency medical situation.
And Sheila does not say a word about the storming of the Mexican AG office by masked and armed gun men.
Brazen attack on government offices kills 7 in Acapulco
Associated Press
ACAPULCO, MEXICO — Gunmen dressed as soldiers staged and videotaped simultaneous assaults on two offices of the state attorney-general in the Mexican resort Acapulco, killing at least seven people in violence officials blamed on a drug turf war.
The comment about liberals swearing (although I’m sure it’s true on some blogs) is a bit SDA is the most insult heavy blog I visit by far. Although I don’t doubt that there are other blogs out there (especialy american) that are worse.
If this piece of bunk were true then why did America’s delegation to the IPCC lobby (somewhat sucessfuly) to water down it’s findings? More rubbish from the head in the sand and creationism crowd.
Re: Global Warming, Rex Murphy had a balanced commentary on CBC.ca (buried in the back, not on the main screen). At the end of the article, CBC.ca added a link to a “Your View” entry…presumably to blunt any common sense that Rex provided. I scanned a couple of comments and found someone spouting nonsense regarding CO2 levels from human activities versus CO2 from volcanoes. I did a tiny bit of research and found the following on a Canadian Government website:
– CO2 from man’s activities = 5B tonnes
– CO2 from natural sources = 150B tonnes
But they conclude that the 5B tonnes is “tipping the balance” and throwing the system out of balance.
So, when you consider that Canada’s contribution is less than 5% of the global total contribution and man’s effect is less than 5% of all CO2 contribution, then the effect of any Canadian greenhouse gas reduction would be outrageously insignificant. Sure makes me want to ruin our economy to “save the planet”! (sarc)
On a somewhat related note, I check the CBC website almost daily and have for a couple of years. Larry Zolf’s opinions were seemingly a weekly “front page” feature with his pro-Liberal viewpoint…but I haven’t seen his articles on the “front page” since he wrote an entry supporting Harper’s support of Israel. Now, he is relegated to the back pages…couldn’t be any form of bias there, could there?
Jose, your comment re: profanity here is pure and utter garbage. I visited the Canadian Cynic website and saw you introducing yourself to that crew on a thread that was SOUNDLY cursing and libelling Kate. The language used on that thread alone was BY FAR significantly worse than ANYTHING I have seen on SDA. You’re either blind or a hypocrite.
The insults at SDA exist, true enough, but only in the comments…but the comments and commenters here are many and the posts are uncensored. Show me a leftist blog dealing with politics with similar numbers of uncensored commenters that doesn’t have anywhere near the same number of insults and perhaps your opinion will be considered. In the meantime, your claim will be considered unfounded.
And I read your whimpering at the Canadian Cynic site about how mean everyone is to you here (after claiming here that you aren’t so thin-skinned) and how Kate is such a poor debater (though you yourself don’t debate very much…you rely on the “one-hit wonder” statements and don’t actually debate). I tolerated your contributions here before, but you’ve lost any credibility you had with me.
Thought you might enjoy this one…
http://www.citynews.ca/news/news_7607.aspx
Bickering City Councillors Prompt Mayor To Call Off Group Photo
Wednesday February 7, 2007
They’ve been elected to run the city, with billions of dollars at their disposal, but when it came to assembling for an official photo Toronto’s politicians acted more like immature children than responsible public servants.
Mayor David Miller called off the group photo shoot after several politicians apparently refused to give up their front-row seats and others complained about being put in the back.
The schoolyard-like spat included comments from several councilors about being pushed around and another using the expression “hissy fit.”
“I don’t like to be pushed around,” Councillor Michael Del Grande was quoted as saying. “I felt I was being pushed and I pushed back. I said, ‘No.’ That’s the bottom line.”
Councillor Case Ootes added, “Staff asked some of us to move and we refused to move.”
The problem may have started when Miller’s executive committee was positioned in the front row.
Another councillor, Doug Holyday, suggested the whole scene was embarrassing.
“It just seems so petty,” he said. “It’s like Grade 4 kids getting their class picture taken and wanting to be next to the girl or something.”
The photo session will have to be rescheduled, if the councillors can agree on a time and place to do it.
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oh boy, people are now losing jobs over this climate nonsense….yet, these leftard dippers have been wrong on almost every environmental issue..
nuclear power – leftards wrong
recycling – leftards wrong
ddt – leftards wrong
global cooling – leftards wrong
incineration – leftards wrong
how many have died because of moonbat leftards???
how many jobs have been lost because of moonbat leftards???
and these are the folks who citoyen dion want’s to guide us through the current environmental “crisis”
maybe you westerner’s have a point about leaving if the king of the leftards is elected PM
The leftoids/CBC do not mention that these refunds are a result of the softwood agreement with the US. The agreement came about as a result of the negotiations carried out by the Conservative government of Prime Minister Harper. The key-men were MP David Emerson, and Canadian Ambassador to the United States, Michael Wilson, who was appointed by PM Harper. Good work. …-
Softwood duty refunds help Abitibi cut losses
Abitibi-Consolidated Inc. said Wednesday that a big refund of softwood lumber duties collected by the United States helped the company cut its fourth-quarter loss.
Montreal-based Abitibi said $239 million US in lumber duties were refunded. The U.S. had been collecting the duties on Canadian softwood lumber since 2002. (cbc)…-
Canada’s new government brings tougher penalties for fraud involving taxpayers’ money
GATINEAU, Feb. 7 /CNW Telbec/ – The Honourable Vic Toews, President of
the Treasury Board, today announced that tougher new penalties and sanctions
for fraud involving taxpayers’ money will come into force on March 1, 2007.
The measures are part of the government’s ongoing commitment to implement the
Federal Accountability Act, which received Royal Assent on December 12, 2006.
Minister Toews made the announcement in a speech to the International Congress
on Ethics in Gatineau, Quebec.
“Canadians expect the highest standards of integrity when it comes to the
management and use of taxpayers’ money,” said Minister Toews. “Bringing these
measures into force will ensure that the few who abuse this trust and commit
fraud will be subject to prosecution and tough penalties.”
“The government is moving quickly to bring all of the provisions of the
Federal Accountability Act into force,” Minister Toews added. “This sweeping
legislation has been a top priority. Our commitment to accountability will
continue as we move forward on implementation.”
The new measures toughen and expand on offences in the Financial
Administration Act and Criminal Code. The Financial Administration Act was
amended to add an offence of fraud involving public funds in departments. This
new indictable offence will carry a maximum penalty of five years of
imprisonment for fraud of $5,000 or less, and a maximum penalty of 14 years
for fraud over $5,000. The amendments also create a similar offence for fraud
involving money in Crown corporations.
Individuals convicted of these offences or convicted of the Criminal Code
offence of fraud against the Crown will be automatically dismissed from
employment in the government or in a Crown corporation, and will be barred
from contracting with the government or benefiting from a government contract. …-
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/February2007/07/c5691.html
David Warren’s current piece on Wobble Glomming – this is the definitive article:
http://tinyurl.com/2734ox
Liberal MP Karagiannis, on CBC Newsworld, is now suggesting that Canada should be supplying “tourist police” in Mexico.
Wonder what Mexico, or any other tourist spot, will have to say about foreign police inside their borders.
How many tourist spots are there again?
more global warming lunacy
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2007/02/07/co2-storage.html
With all this mid winter chill and gloom punctuated with turncoat tories and french citizens pimping kleptocratic socialism….we need to reflect on brighter times and great Canadian dreams that could have been:
Here’s my news item for the day:
This day in 1979 Peter Lougheed announced that Albertans would recieve a 28% tax decrease in provincial income taxing as this tax burden was now satisfied by increased oil royalties from the recent increases in crude oil prices.
At the same time, he announced that Albertan’s individual tax burdens would continue to decrease proportionately to the increase in Provincial oil revenues. He Announced a provincial trust fund to be filled by oil royalties as a rainy day fund or to possibly subsidize Alberta’s federal tax transfers to Ottawa. He also announced an aggressive infrastructure plan that would be funded by the new-found oil wealth in the province due to OPEC world pricing increases.
The future looked bright for Alberta as oil price increases guarateed the province would become Canada’s new wealth engine and a provider of an affluent, hands-off, low tax jurisdiction….a worker’s and investor’s utopia.
But it was not to be.
At the same time these OPEC increases made Alberta liquid, they were cutting profits of the then Liberal government’s patrons (KC Irving) and Quebec and Ontario industries who relied too heavily on foreign oil instead of buying Canadian Oil from Alberta. A plan was devised for a federal capture of Alberta’s oil and PET announced the intent of the NEP to ignore constitutional jurisdiction and claim full regulation of Alberta’s oil as a matter of national security in the phoney oil shortage crisis of the late 70s…an excuse to use POGG to raid this exclusive provincial jurisdiction.
After 2 years of threats and wrangling this same Alberta Primier who anounced Alberta’s low tax affluent future, reluctantly agreed to a lesser form of oil jurisdiction raiding settling for a share of the oil royaties under NEP. When Lougheed signed that agreement ( which constitutional scholars say he was not empowered to do) he sealded the doom of all the plans he had for the province….a year later he was successful in getting a “notwithstanding” clause in the Charter to defray some future Ottawa raid on Alberta…but by this time the damage was done and the NEP he signed into being with the sneering calculating Trudeau was having it’s full negative impacts on Alberta….Peter Lougheed decided to step down rather than face another electon with the NEP fiasco dragging behind him and we saw Don Getty take the PC Leadership and the only way he retained office was his free spending with borrowed money on make wotk projects…the Getty era rang up a 20 billion dollar debt that Klein had to rid us of in the next decade before Oil royalties actually went into government programs rather than debt interest payments…by 1992 recovery was underway.
Today Alberta is back in the position to remove the complete provincial tax burden from citizens and have surplus after budget requirements.
Problem is the same eastern elements who envied Alberta’s 1980 wealth covets its 2007 wealth.
This is Alberta’s crossroads to long term prosperity…we hope it is not given away by another weak premier who signs agreements with venal Ottawa governments to pillage our future.
GMOs to produce biofuel in Canada — too sweet.
http://www.greencarcongress.com/2007/02/iogen_receives_.html#more
The popping sound comes from ecoleftists’ brains exploding.
Tourist Police????
What’s this guy thinking? Oh, sorry he’s a Liberal.
Typical Left-thought.”I’m ENTITLED to do as I please and if something such as real life interferes with that, then the Government must take care of me.
Governor Plans to Fire Oregon Climatologist for Skeptical View on Global Warming
In the face of evidence agreed upon by hundreds of climate scientists, George Taylor holds firm. He does not believe human activities are the main cause of global climate change.
Taylor also holds a unique title: State Climatologist. …
Taylor has held the title of “state climatologist” since 1991 when the legislature created a state climate office at OSU The university created the job title, not the state. …
His opinions conflict not only with many other scientists, but with the state of Oregon’s policies.
(Excerpt) Read more at kgw.com …
KEYWORDS: CLIMATOLOGIST; ECOFACISTS; FIRED; GLOBALWARMING; SHOCKING
Drudge has a number of instances of political intimidation being used to coerce scientists into caving to the “Big Lie.” This is reminiscent of times so long ago, when powerful people wanted science to prove their political points. Consensus science is political science. But, this should embarrass every thinking citizen of this country. Not since the Brown Shirts went around smashing windows and beating up academics have we seen the like.
The really interesting thing is that this goes against everything the Secular Humanists have been preaching about the nature of science and the rise of the enlightenment. The facade is torn off. …-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1780772/posts
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The author quotes an early Islamic scholar as saying: “The monkeys are
the Jews. And the pigs, they are the Christian infidels at Jesus’s table.”
The head insisted pupils were never taught religious hatred or intolerance.
Actually… they’re not being taught anything at all.
They’re being programmed.
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How many time in my life I have completely agreed with a union? One: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/montreal/story/2006/11/16/qc-policeandhasidim.html
why is it that every time some idiot gets avalanched, lost at sea, stuck in a war zone, etc, etc, etc, my tax dollars have to bail them out….if you are too stupid to avoid skiing in an avalanche zone, or too stupid to avoid 3rd world shitholes, you should have to pay for your own rescue…add it to the income tax bill of the idiot requiring rescuing
Darn that Jose! He caught me with another Liberal misdirection. The item in the “Reader Tips” was about leftist blog PROFANITY and he started spouting about SDA INSULTS…to which I foolishly responded.
I’ve gotta remember…don’t feed the trolls.
The word from JC: No petition. …-
“However, don’t expect a petition on this one. I have good connections in the Liberal Party and can have my voice heard much more clearly without a publicity stunt.”
“Overall, things on the ground in Toronto are exciting.” …-
Meanwhile… Turner admits he has a blog.
“Do not fear,”” …-
Turner takes potshots at Harper as Grits meet
OTTAWA [CP] — Former Conservative MP Garth Turner made his debut at Liberal caucus Wednesday, assuring his new colleagues that he’s a team player….
Although they gave him a standing ovation Wednesday when Liberal Leader Stéphane Dion introduced the party’s newest recruit, some Grit MPs are privately worried that Mr. Turner will now turn his critical eye on them.
Mr. Turner went out of his way, however, to allay such concerns.
“I know some of you may have heard that I have a blog. Do not fear,” Mr. Turner told Liberal MPs and senators….-
Posted by: cal2
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2007/02/07/co2-storage.html
The researchers propose storing the gas in a solid form as a gas hydrate….an ice-like crystalline mineral that forms when gas and water freeze together at low temperatures and high pressure, with the frozen water molecules acting as cage for the gas molecules trapped inside.
Hasn’t the UN been telling us for years that mankind will be facing a serious WATER shortage in the near future. Maybe that’s why they’re working to find an alternative method of extracting the oil from the oil sands, so they can use the water to make a CH2O3 popsicle and bury it under the sea.
Another poll by Angus Reid.
http://rm.angusreidforum.com/?cid=178&rs=GgEnGW
Slashdot is reporting that the Conservatives are considering abandoning “net neutrality” (NN) in Canada. This is a serious issue for us. For those who don’t know, NN requires ISP’s to treat all data flowing across their networks equally. Without it being required, ISP’s will be free to tell content providers – like SDA – that unless they pay extra fees, their traffic will flow at slower speeds than companies that are willing to pay the extra. So the CBC’s web page will load in seconds, but SDA may take minutes to load, or even fail to load completely.
Naturally, Bell, Telus, and Rogers all think this is a great idea, as they will be able to get more money from big companies. Bloggers, Wikipedia, and websites not based in Canada are unlikely to pay the extra, and thus our websurfing is going to suffer. Write your MP’s and tell them what a very BAD idea this is!
The silence from the MSM on Garth’s coat-turning is absolutely deafening. Did they all have massive system failures or something? They’re all just kind of looking at their feet and not making eye contact with anybody right now . . . dum de dum, nothing to see here folks, move along.
Life is easy when you can get away with saying or doing anything you want. That’s our watchdog media for you.
Listening earlier to the Bill Good show here in the greater Vancouver area, and a caller to the show (sounded like a middle-aged white guy) stated how upset he was that we have a “Christian Zionist prime minister”, how dangerous it was for the country, and good for Joe Clark who spoke against Harper’s foreign policy. He reiterated over and over again how greatly upset he was by all this and then proudly stated he was pro-Palestinian. Of course Bill thanked him for his call and didn’t challenge him one bit. What planet do these people come from??
Telus is now selling porn.
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politics and science was always a poor mix…like media and politics…or church and politics…or gender and politics…or family and politics …or education and politics.
The pattern here is that modern agenda-driven politics corrupt everything they invade.
It’s becomming harder and harder to keep agenda politics out of our lives and personal relationships…..now it seems that western culture’s knowledge gaining institutions and processes are under attack from this same leftist agenda politics.
My mother wanted me to check up on who had been the first black [female?] M.P. because of a crossword puzzle she was doing. The answer had been Jean Augustine, but my mother thought that there had been another, earlier black M.P., so I Googled a likely set of parameters to check for her and got a pretty funny first response. Check for yourselves:
http://tinyurl.com/37f78w
8^)
Eeyore “I tolerated your contributions here before, but you’ve lost any credibility you had with me.”
If chucking insults my way was your way of showing tolerance I’d prefer the loss of credibility.
Pointing out that someone is throwing insults isn’t the same as not being able to take it. In what way is that hypocritical?
WL Mackenzie “politics and science was always a poor mix…like media and politics…or church and politics…or gender and politics…or family and politics …or education and politics.”
You left out the biggest culprit in the global warming “debate” religion and science.
If global warming is a purely scientific issue for instance why do evangelical organizations have a position on it?
This is a little OT but just heard Garth (ME!) Turner on the radio and he is advocating that to help reduce the GHG produced in Canada that we should all turn off our microwave ovens because the 11 million microwaves as they sit on our counters in idle mode consume as much power as the Nanticoke plant produces. The Liberals are welcome to him.
You mean the power to have the time on it? That’s all they’re doing while idling. Or are microwaves in league with Harper to take over the world by sending “vote for me” messages through microwaves to our brains?
With Garth, perhaps the best thing would be simply to ignore him, ignore his blog and leave him to sit with the Liberals.
In Halton, he now faces Conservatives who feel betrayed, Liberals who feel thrust upon and insulted, and constituents who likely have seen through his act.
Leave him to twist in the wind.
Feds, Alta. may be set for climate-change showdown
Quote:
“There’s a real question as to how far the federal government is willing to go in regulating Alberta energy issues. The last federal government that tried that got burned.” …-
Canoe files this spinner under “Science”; as in, political science?
Not a word about Holland-Dion’s bloviations/CO2.
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Science/2007/02/07/3550557-cp.html
As the MSM would say: There is widespread discontent in the Librano$. This pig won’t fly; it’s a one-trick pony; Dion is a dummy; Dion killed Bam, the dog. Kyoto mourns: oww-woooo…-
Grits want Dion to focus on more than just climate change
By JOAN BRYDEN
OTTAWA (CP) – Some Liberal MPs are worried that newly minted Leader Stephane Dion is too fixated on the environment, ignoring other issues that matter as much – or more – to voters.
During a closed door caucus meeting Wednesday, insiders say several MPs politely encouraged Dion to broaden his attack on the Conservative government and demonstrate to Canadians that he has a firm grasp on a wide range of issues.
The same sentiment was expressed during regional caucus meetings as well.
“It can’t be just climate change,” one MP said later, summing up the mood of caucus.
“There’s a lot of talk about how we can’t be one-dimensional.” …-
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Science/2007/02/07/pf-3550696.html
Great piece by Strata. The witch-hunt against credible scientists who don’t hold the right political view is disturbing. It’s mildly redolent of Maoism or Stalinism in that the public “truth” about a scientific matter is being determined not by scientists but by gatekeepers of a “true path” political ideology.
I know we don’t have people pulling each other’s hair in the town square or anything like that, squawking out true path utterances, but we are starting to see a pattern where people who are utterly ignorant about science are empowered by a political climate to effectively and officially label credible scientists as heretical and vile and unenlightened, to deem their findings illegitimate, and, as in the Strata-sphere link Kate provided, to fire them.
Finally, one thing I’ve always found curious, that’s getting curiouser: How is it that a prominent Canadian who is the architect of a burgeoning global economic rewrite manages to completely escape mention or reference over the years on, for example, CBC/CTV? I mean, the reporters and producers are pushing his baby nonstop, on behalf of future generations, apparently, and yet they never mention his name. Isn’t that…odd? If Maurice Strong’s idea is going to remake our economy, and if we’re all supposed to be behind his idea, shouldn’t he at least be as famous as, say, Martin Short?
Fox News has a story by Claudia Rossett
At the United Nations, the Curious Career of Maurice Strong
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,250789,00.html
First silence the outspoken critics then continue to reeducated the rest.
Any chance this bozo Ted Kulongoski will get his comeuppance over this?
Mike Duffy had Mark Holland on his show tonight. ‘Back pedalling like mad, but making pot shots at the CPC and Alberta’s oil sands as only an entitled neophyte never-been-put-down-till-now Liberal MP could.
But the real price of admission on Stuffy Live was watching Thoren Hudyma, Former Press Secretary to Prime Minister Jean Chrétien, eating crow and apologizing to Environment Minister John Baird for comments she made last week linking him to the Walkerton Water Fiasco (I tend to blame the two doofus brothers rather than Mike Harris and his government–but that’s another story).
Hudyma looked spooked. Her leering Liberal smile has definitely been wiped off her face. ‘Looks like the lawyers had been reading her her rights and she figured she probably didn’t have any. Sweet.
…is it me, or does a peculiar ad on Calgary Transit about taking control of your finances have the figurehead on the $100 Canadian looking like Jack Layton or what?
For a sec, I thought it was an NDP election ad…
I don’t know Tomax. What part of the transit? I don’t go on it much but I’ll check next time I do.
Leftists deny there is civil war in Gaza-West Bank where Muslims are killing Muslims.
The Arabs themselves, aka “Palestinians”, have said it’s a civil war.
Notice the cutesy words; “fraternal violence” to describe the civil war. …-
US millions fail to buy influence in deadly Gaza power play
The Age – 36 minutes ago
Watchful eyes: Hamas security men on patrol near the house of Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh. AFTER weeks of fraternal violence, many Palestinians accuse the US of stoking civil war in the occupied territories as part of a wider …
New poll on Charter of Rights…note, especially, the findings on property rights.
http://www. irpp.org/po/
“In conjunction with the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada’s conference, “The Charter @ 25,” Policy Options asked Nik Nanos of SES Research to drill down on the attitudes of Canadians towards the Charter. What came back was not exactly the stuff of conventional wisdom….”
“Canadians don’t equate Charter values with
Canadian values, while more than two Canadians
out of three would support an amendment to
include same-sex rights, as well as property rights, in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. As for the most controversial component of the Charter, the notwithstanding clause, only half of Canadians have even heard of it.
“…Then we tested support for the
inclusion of property rights in the
Charter, an issue that hasn’t been on
the public opinion radar screen for years. We found a much greater appetite for including property rights than might have been assumed by the political class.
Even though the question of adding the right to own property to the Charter has not received prominent coverage in the news media, more than
two Canadians in three, 68.9 percent, support (57.7 percent) or somewhat support (11.1 percent), while only 14.8 percent oppose (10.5 percent) or somewhat oppose (4.3 percent) including property rights in the Charter”
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Time once again, to hide the family sedan…
preferably across the English Channel.
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