Powerline’s�Paul Mirengoff is helping with an ABC documentary about the US political landscape, in which a segment about blogging is planned;
During a break, Stephanopoulos mentioned how difficult he thought it would be for him to blog. This surprised me since he was a key part of the famous Clinton “war room” that during the 1992 campaign produced hard-hitting responses to breaking developments on short notice, which is the essence of blogging. He demurred that, although he was fast by the standards of 15 years ago, he doubts that he could keep up now.
I thought everyone knew about this oilfield technology. Guess not.
Speaking of oilfields – remember those 17 greedy Albertans who won the largest lottery jackpot in Canadian history? They’re still showing up for work. (Cue responses from certain “personalities” on the left about stupid Albertans).
“It is rumored that Earnscliffe Strategy Group will be contracted to coordinate the effort, that Abotech will be hired to set up the computer databases, and that the amount of funding increase for this registry will be well over 2 billion dollars.”
OK. I’ll up the ante. Find a Special Ops team with time on their hands and I”ll provide the bullet.
Add your own (on any topic) in the comments. I have a lot of work to get out today.
RE: Liberal Corruption
The Liberals days are numbered…
Everyone I talk to wants an early election…
They want the theft to STOP NOW…!!
Before KyotoScam becomes the next AdScam…
Allowing the theft of BILLIONS this time…
When we elect the conservatives…
First come the audits…
Then the criminal charges…
If I were an elected liberal now, I’d be thinking of doing the (Jane Stewart) thing and disapearing with her ill gotten booty…
Yes Jane, we haven’t forgotten you or the BILLION dollars that vanished under your watch…
Yes Alphonse we haven’t forgotten you either and your (money trail) cleanup posting to the Netherlands…
Just how many sidetrips did you make to Switzerland…??????
Yes Misters Martin and Chretien
of Earnsclife and sold hotels fame…
[u][b]The audits are comming…!!!![/b][/u]
Long live truth and justice and the Stephen Harper way…
Breaking…the Federal Court has overturned the firing of Jean Pelletier and re-instated him as chairman of VIA Rail.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/cpress/20051118/ca_pr_on_na/pelletier_victory
Our next PM: Stephen Harper
Andrew Coyne
National Post (Editorial)
Thursday, November 17, 2005
I wonder if anyone fully realizes what happened last weekend. The political ground has just shifted beneath our feet, even if the tremors are not felt until after the election. Which is to say: Sunday’s agreement among the three opposition leaders has not just put an end to this government. It has also chosen the next. Jack Layton has just made Stephen Harper the next prime minister. >>>>
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1524581/posts
Who claimed the Albertans who won the lottery were “greedy”?
I saw them on TV and they remind me of our Rural clients here in Southwestern Ontario. We have a lot of Dutch Farmers and they have the same modest, hard working, conservative attitudes that were reflected by those people on TV. It doesn’t surprise me one bit that those people weren’t going to let their company suffer. It’s the difference between urban and rural attitudes.
Our rural clients are people who have huge net worths and very modest spending. They have worth because they save. Some of our millionaire clients make below average incomes – but they’ve been saving every penny for several generations. It’s just a different mindset. There are no BMW’s out there. But there are a hell of a lot of good people.
Greedy? Where does that come from?
guess you missed the Macleans hatchet job on Alberta…
The link is dead now. Perhaps someone can find it elsewhere.
Scientists remove sissy gene from lab mice.
Super warriors of the future will know no fear
May signal a cure for liberalism?
I don’t read Macleans. Aside from Don Coxe, the whole magazine is a write-off.
I suppose if anyone claimed they were greedy for nothing more than being lucky, it would be Macleans, the Red Star or the Globe. None of which are worth the cheap paper they’re printed on.
Pathetic really.
The “news item” in Macleans on the winners was presented in context of “just what filthy rich, oil-soaked redneck Alberta needs – more money.” It was beyond silly, and downright offensive.
Takes one way back to “Pepper Spray” Chretien, non? >>>>
Privacy czar blasts police for secrecy
OTTAWA – The Ottawa police cannot simply invoke “national security” to withhold information about their handling of the G20 and G8 meetings, an adjudicator says in a ruling that could set new standards for openness. (The Citizen
via primetimecrime.com
Typical of the media. I suppose no one in the rest of the country owns stock in Alberta’s oil companies? They do trade on the Toronto stock exchange. I guess they believe that all Albertans have been issued all the stocks of these companies and that the oil revenue has made all Albertans so rich, 54 million wouldn’t be noticed?
Bloody media. It ought to be legal to beat them… maybe then they’d smarten up.
Canadian Army’s surplus Grizzlies en route to Darfur via Russian-made IL-76 transports:
http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2005/11/17/grizzlies051117.html?email
They have been sitting in Senegal since September:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20051115.wxsudan1115/BNStory/International/
Martin promised military help for Darfur in May in a fruitless effort to buy David Kilgour’s vote in the Commons.
Better late…
Mark
Ottawa
Kudos to the Albertan work ethic. Little wonder Alberta (with a million less people) out produces British Columbia. A nurse I knew said that in Alberta they often stayed after the competion of a shift to discuss work matetrs on their own time. She said in BC it was dangerous to walk in the parking lot two minutes after the shift ended, for the cars leaving so fast.
Good for the Catholic Church, which has learned its lessons of history:
VATICAN CITY � The Vatican’s chief astronomer said Friday that “intelligent design” isn’t science and doesn’t belong in science classrooms, becoming the latest high-ranking Roman Catholic official to enter the evolution debate in the United States.
The Rev. George Coyne, the Jesuit director of the Vatican Observatory, said placing intelligent design theory alongside that of evolution in school programs was “wrong” and was akin to mixing apples with oranges.
“Intelligent design isn’t science, even though it pretends to be,” the ANSA news agency quoted Coyne as saying on the sidelines of a conference in Florence. “If you want to teach it in schools, intelligent design should be taught when religion or cultural history is taught, not science.”
Hard talk on soft wood. It’s not about lumber; it’s AdScam Martin’s Aunty-American BS: It’s about Canada. Yes. >>>
Why can’t this trade dispute between two neighbors with the longest undefended border in the world be resolved quickly and fairly? We are, after all, two great democracies, and the problem is but pine boards.
The answer is that it’s not about wood from Canada, of course. It’s about Canada.
Canadian conservative leader Stephen Harper knows it: he said the softwood standoff is due to the sour relationship between the Liberal party and Washington.
Indeed, last April Secretary Rice’s first scheduled trip to Ottawa was cancelled when Canada decided not to join the U.S. missile defense plan, deciding to accept American protection, but declining to pay for it. And then there’s Canada’s lack of support in the war against Islamist terrorists. And Prime Minister Martin’s penchant for bashing the United States in order to divert attention from his Liberal party’s scandals. The most recent demagoguery came during Martin’s October 24 dinner with Rice where the prime minister blamed America for rising Canadian crime rates. Martin said weapons were being smuggled into his country from the States. (The National Post was quick to point out that no evidence exists that gun smuggling has gotten worse.)
No, the softwood dispute won’t be settled soon. Condoleezza Rice had been secretary of State for nine months before she finally journeyed to Ottawa. Canada was the 40th country she had visited since taking office, even though Ottawa is a 90-minute hop from her office in Washington, D.C. To most Americans, 40th seems about right.>>>
http://www.rapp.org/url/?7PPD7X3X
weekly standard
maz2
So what is Stephen Harper saying?
He would sweeten the relationship between the Canada and Washington by joining the U.S. missile defense plan, and help to pay for it?
Ya got ‘er, Seve. Canada pays its own way, Seve. Canada will be a real country at long last. >>>>
More BS from Librano$$$$$$$$$$$$
Did Bruno, PP’s Fifi, stand security for Scotty,protecting Brison from Joe Volpe’s KKK squad? while Brison pilled the beans/playing the same old tune on a one-string fiddle with a broken bow?>>>
Brison attacks Harper as anti-Charter, anti-gay in harbinger of election fray
TORONTO (CP) – In a harbinger of the mudslinging that could shape this winter’s expected federal election, a senior Liberal cabinet minister on Friday attacked Conservative Leader Stephen Harper as a socially conservative dinosaur opposed to gay and charter rights. >>>>
Librano$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ redux: Goody says, Free taxes for all Canadian suckers.
Goodale says Canadians overtaxed but cutting GST not the answer
OTTAWA (CP) – Canadians may be overtaxed, but cutting the goods and services tax is not the answer, Finance Minister Ralph Goodale said Friday. [Goody is from Sask.] >>>
via cnews
Elisha Cuthbert is blogging about hockey for NHL.com
English professor, John Daly, said that �Real freedom will come when soldiers in Iraq turn their guns on their superiors.�
College President Defends Professor�s Harassment of Young Conservative
Regarding the new Oilfield technology.
Carbon Dioxide is apparently a Good chemical to inject to perform an Enhanced Oil Recovery.
C02 is acidic, which makes black oil into a brown emulsion with water(think water soap and oil), making it more viscosous. Under high pressure, the thicker CO2 oil will easily push the thinner black oil into the wells and towards Chicago.
Ten years ago, Oil wells vented gas. The Alberta government then forced all of the Oil companies to capture the gas. It was the best thing the government ever did for Big Oil, as they are all now making a fortune selling the gas they used to waste. They NOW trap the gas emitted from the oil as it awaits processing, and flow it through the sales meter.
The same effect will happen with carbon dioxide. Why would the Oil companies want to WASTE a chemical that can make them money???
Two stories worth reading:
“White males need not apply: Internal e-mail reveals hiring ban at Public Works”, National Post, Nov. 19:
http://www.canada.com/national/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=8b38e8a9-f7de-460b-9bd7-723991e9d12e
“Brison attacks Harper’s Tory views”, Ottawa Citizen, Nov 19
http://www.canada.com/ottawa/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=18c196da-3fcf-429c-adcc-1a7dbf1cd803
Excerpts:
‘Scott Brison warned that Harper would turn Canada’s social clock back in time.
Harper has consistently found himself at odds with such core Canadian values as multiculturalism, bilingualism, publicly funded health care and the Charter of Rights and Freedom, Brison said.
“During the great debates around those issues…people like Stephen Harper consistently stood four-square against the types of policies that built the Canada we love,” said Brison.
“As head of the National Citizens Coalition, Mr. Harper (and) his organization, held positions that were contrary to publicly funded health care, that were contrary to bilingualism and the charter, and to multiculturalism.”
In past elections, Harper’s social values have been his Achilles’ heel, especially in riding-rich Ontario and Quebec, where the Liberals played to voter fears by portraying him and his party as intolerant…
Brison told his audience that Liberals understand the importance of the charter and other policies that “have shaped one of the most progressive societies in the world.”
The Conservatives, he argued, would undo the progress if elected…’
See National Post story for progress.
Mark
Ottawa
“Jihadists born here pose new threat: Hard to detect, CSIS says”, by Stewart Bell, National Post, Nov. 19
http://www.canada.com/national/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=cb4b3799-46b2-4bff-b42e-852d05978222&page=1
Excerpt:
‘Counter-terrorism investigators are finding an increasing number of “homegrown” Canadian extremists like those who bombed the London transit system in July, and some have undergone training inside Canada, a new report says.
A “secret” intelligence study obtained by the National Post says a “high percentage” of the Canadian Muslims involved in extremist activities were born in Canada, a marked shift from the past when they were mostly refugees and immigrants.’
Mark
Ottawa
why wouldnt the Albertans show up for work , the nova scotians still show up for pogey, and the Liberals are still at the trough after more than 100 million.
Re. ten years ago oilwells vented gas.
no !!!!gas has been collected since about 1949 at the “gas conservation plants” think Leduc, Turner valley, Redwater. all gas conservation plants. gas is still vented at oil wells where its not economical to collect. there is a request by the AEUB to conserve but it is up to the company to prove it economic or not. All the cheap 20cent gas was burnt long ago.
gas was 3.00 temporarily about 15 to 20 years ago.
that was when most of the gas conservation was put in.
enjoy your $11.00 gas now, its going to stay that way till the “first nations” allow the pipeline to cross . Imperial oil first submitted that project over 30 years ago, it was first cancelled in 1977 due to the feds. now 29 years later they are no further ahead.
I should stop saying first nations. – they were second—kennewick man and the earliest stone tools were causcasian not oriental like the first nations.but would anyone understand me if I kept saying “second nations”
Is Al Zarkaoui dead?
Posted by Kristopher
On 11/20/2005 8:02:44 AM PST � 60 replies � 1,846+ views
guyse..com | 20.11.2005 | kristopher
Rumeurs dans les m�dias des pays arabes : l’archi-terroriste Abou Moussab Al Zarkaoui, le leader d’Al Qa�da en Irak, aurait �t� tu� lors d’un attentat suicide dans la ville de Mossoul au Nord du pays. Les forces am�ricaines et irakiennes alert�es sur les lieux v�rifient la v�racit� de cette information. (Guysen.Isra�l.News / 20 novembre 2005 17:30 GMT+2 ISRAEL)
via freerepublic.com
X, Y, Z ? No more Z? >>>
To: KCRW
If he is dead, my money is on Jordanian intel >>>>
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1525620/posts
BEST OF THE BLOGS
Do I have to stop shaving my armpits?
Monica McGregor, Late Bloomer
I never imagined I would turn out to be a socialist. My chagrined and hair-splitting examination of that quiz from yesterday�First of all, the chagrin comes from my rather negative impression of socialists as people who don’t bathe and would love to see business vanish from the face of the earth while the government pays them comfortably to lounge around drinking tea and reading books. (That last part sounds kinda nice, actually� Oops�just woke up!) Secondly, there was no allowance for ambivalence or case-by-case in this test. They should perhaps have had an “it depends” option, because it would have comprised most of my answers. My answer in bold. My explanation in italics… READ >>
http://osm.org/
AdScam Cluck Martin opened his mouf in S. Korea and in-flu-enza, bird that is. Cluck, cluck, dumb. This quote is da proof, is da proof of Cluck’s dumbness:
“He said there was a “general recognition that containment absolutely requires openness and transparency, virtually instantaneous.” Anyone have a soundbite of Martin’s beak-in-mouth disease; Payola needs a shot of that Clarity Act serum. . Getta read on his knowledge of bird/animal husbandry… pure hensh*t. The farmers have the influenza?? Rushing to market, to market, to sell a sick hen/chicken/Peking duck/Rhode Island Red; someone call the CEMA. Take Him away to the coop/co-op.Off with his (political) head. >>>>
CTV.ca News Staff
Updated: Sun. Nov. 20 2005 7:30 AM ET
Prime Minister Paul Martin urged rich countries to help compensate the farmers in poor ones if culls are required to contain avian flu.
“If in fact we want transparency, we will avoid these problems if we are prepared to pay compensation,” he told reporters Saturday at the conclusion of the APEC summit in Pusan, South Korea.
Without compensation, farmers might rush suspect livestock to market, causing the disease to spread, Martin said.
Martin also promised that Canadian farmers would likely receive financial compensation if bird flu ravages their poultry.
Later Saturday, CTV News reported that 6,000 birds will be culled on a B.C. farm after a dead duck there tested positive for the H5 strain of avian flu.
Martin said the 21 world leaders were urged to be open about any cases in their respective countries.
He said there was a “general recognition that containment absolutely requires openness and transparency, virtually instantaneous.” >>
http://www.rapp.org/url/?V2ESRRGO
ctv.ca
What’s Got Into TIME Magazine?
Oh man. Is CAIR ever going to be seething over this one: TIME.com Cartoons of the Week. (Hat tip: Laurence Simon.) >>>
links at LGF
The MSM is taking a sh*t-kicking from the ‘Net. Here is the NYT :
……………….
And the worst of it? Those were not the worst of it.
The scariest development for the newspaper industry was the announcement (on that same Wednesday) that Google, the search engine company that wants to be the wallpaper of the future, was going live with Google Base, a user-generated database in which people can upload any old thing they feel like. Could be a poem about their cat, or their aunt’s recipe for cod fritters with corn relish.
Or, more ominously for the newspaper industry, people could start uploading advertisements to sell their ’97 Toyota Corolla. Craigslist kicked off the trend, giving readers a free alternative to the local classified section. If Google Base accelerates the process, the journalism-school debates over anonymous sourcing and declining audience may end up seeming quaint.
Google Base reverses the polarity on the company’s consumer model. Instead of simply sending automated crawlers out across the Web in search of relevant answers to search queries, Google has invited its huge constituency of users to send and tag information that will be organized and displayed in relevant categories, all of which sounds like a large toe into the water of the classified advertising business, estimated to be worth about $100 billion a year.
This could be a fine thing for consumers, but for newspapers, which owe about a third of their revenues to classified advertising, it could be more a spike to the heart than just another nail in the coffin.
LARGE national newspapers like USA Today, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times have already absorbed a big hit as advertising categories like travel and automobiles have moved online. According to estimates cited by The Associated Press, newspaper advertising revenues will grow less than 3 percent in the current year while online revenue, much of it coming from search advertising, will jump by more than 25 percent. >>
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/21/business/21carr.html?pagewanted=print
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1526061/posts
“How Did Buckhead Know?”
Rather, the schmuck, would not wish to know.
http://homepage.mac.com/lordofmooses/Menu8.html
via powerlineblog.com
Captain AdScam/CSL Martin’s lakers dump cargo “garbage” into Great Lakes in violation of laws. Other shipping companies in on the act, also. CSL assets are in a “blind trust”; however, Martin is allowed to see/manage all the same.
Link to thismagazine via warren kinsella. Why is Kinsella dumping on Martin? Tell us more, Mr. Kinsella. Let the voters be the judge. More, please, & faster.
http://thismagazine.ca/issues/ 20…pingitunder.php
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
More: Kinsella also linked to this:
According to a recent story in This Magazine, Canada Steamship Lines (CSL) has been routinely dumping excess cargo, much of which is toxic, into the Great Lakes for decades. CSL�s links to Prime Minister Paul Martin are well-documented.
Do the Right, Honourable thing, Mr. Prime Minister:
Stop polluting our drinking water!
WE the undersigned:
WISH TO REGISTER OUR DISGUST at the ongoing practice of cargo sweeping by companies shipping cargo on the Great Lakes.
DEMAND that Prime Minister Paul Martin set an example for all shipping company owners, and order an immediate investigation of Canada Steamship Lines cargo sweeping practice through Transport Canada and/or Environment Canada.
REQUEST an immediate apology from the Prime Minister for Canada Steamship Lines� cargo sweeping during the time this company was under his direct care and control (1981-93). >>>
Sign petition here:
http://lists.thismagazine.ca/?p=…=subscribe&id=2
How Selling Pixels May Yield a Million Bucks
Wall Street Journal ^ | 11/22/05 | Gwendolyn Bounds
Posted on 11/22/2005 6:52:32 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
It was just a few months ago that 21-year-old Alex Tew of Great Britain was stumped about how to pay for college. He’d filled a notebook with ideas before jotting down this simple, if rather audacious, query to himself: How Can I Become a Millionaire?
In the annals of entrepreneurship, what followed is an instructional tale of how a brainstorm, coupled with the Internet’s powerful word-of-mouth culture, can set a trend in motion with lightning speed. Mr. Tew says his strategy was to find an idea simple to understand and cheap to set up, with a catchy name that would garner attention online, where he gained experience from having free-lanced as a Web designer for a few years.
Ultimately, his solution amounted to making money via Internet advertising — but with a twist. Instead of selling banner ads, text links or splashy videolike ads that fill a screen, Mr. Tew opted to hawk the simplest graphical denominator of a computer screen: the pixel. A pixel is a tiny dot of light and color, and each screen has tens of thousands of them.
Mr. Tew created a home page, http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com, where he divided the screen into 10,000 small squares of 100 pixels each. His plan: to sell the pixels for $1 a piece, with a minimum order of 100 pixels. In each space, buyers could put a graphical ad of their choosing that links to their own site when clicked on. The end result is a cluttered collage of ads in various shapes and colors all amassed on a single digital billboard. (Mr. Tew doesn’t charge his advertisers anything when a visitor clicks on the ads.) >>
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1527118/posts