Early morning, La Crosse Wisconsin – I’m here giving a seminar, and so I’ve got a long three days ahead of me as we tend to go late into the evening. Little time available to even check email and as soon as I’m finished up Sunday,we’ll hit the road for home, so blogging activity will remain slow here until Tuesday. You may use this thread for readers tips and whatnot. Hopefully, the weather where you are is better than it is here!
(Sorry some of your comments were held up for so long – I’ll try to get in at least once a day to release those caught in the filter. To prevent it happening, scroll down – there are a few posts below with advice on that score.)
Saturday pm; People will think I woke up drunk… I think I broke a record for typos with that one. Most are corrected now – I hope.
Kate, please tackle this crazy moonbat, Cindy Sheehan, and her views on Canada:
http://www.indybay.org/news/2006/05/1822652.php
Some highlights:
“Canadians are distressed that defense spending rose by 5.3 billions of dollars (roughly what the US spends for 2 weeks in Iraq) while the preschool budget is being cut and college tuition is rising. This increase in military spending coincidentally correlates with a push to recruit thousands of more soldiers who are still be told by the Canadian recruiters that their country only does peace keeping missions. This manipulation of facts and the exploitation of fear and false patriotism is being fueled by the Canadian media who seem to be turning, for the most part, into propaganda tools of their government a la our rightwing 4th estate.”
Is the CBC part of the rightwing 4th estage, in her opinion?
“The first day that I was in Canada, their defense minister, Gordon O’Connor, signed the extension of the NORAD Treaty with the Bush Regime without any debate or votes in Parliament. The citizenry was outraged in their courteous way. Not so coincidentally, Gordy just so happens to be a former defense industry lobbyist who has been using his position to promote the ” Canada First” position which ultimately removes Canada, once and for all, from their world peace keeping role. With Canada’s support of the Haitian Government’s overthrow and support of BushCo’s travesty in Afghanistan, Canada was already heading down this path of destruction.”
Yes, the Taliban’s dark ages-style oppression and fascism wasn’t a travesty at all, but opening up schools for girls is…
You have to admit, though, Brian Neale’s sense of irony is cool….
From Nealenews – “Cindy Sheehan: Harper is wildly unpopular”
Next Headline: “Tories riding wave of support, Polls show”
What could one deduce from this? Could it be that a more accurate headline for Sheehan might be, “Cindy Sheehan: Harper wildly unpopular amongst socialist moonbats”? This poor woman has relegated herself to be a comedic footnote in history
Cindy Sheehan must be in a different Canada than most Canadians.
http://www.theinfozone.net/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=788&highlight=
and
http://www.theinfozone.net/news_stories/infozone-news_Anti-War-Protests_.html
Covers much of her foolishness.
TIZ
“This poor woman has relegated herself to be a comedic footnote in history”
Right you are… i can imagine the history books of the future looking upon the ousting of the Taliban and Hussein as a bad thing and as the free countries that did so as the bad guys. Perhaps she’d be a little bit more believable if she was concerned about her buddy Chavez wanting to be prez for 25 years.
The more she lies, the more she deludes herself about what is really happening, the more she retreats into her self inflicted delusion, the more ordinary people see her as the feakazoid she is and reject her message.
The only people who get her message are the other moonbats and “pro-regressive” types who need the lies to reinforce their own delusions about the world we live in.
Keep it coming Cindy, you are living proof of the supremacy of of the conservative cause.
What a mother.
Smitherman, Liberal Minister of Health, Ontario.
Moonbattery in its glory; the crapola from the left liberals; narcissists; self-pitying media hogs.
Smitherman is a perfect specimen of the barf/exhibitionist syndrome of the left liberals.
You are an idiotarian, Smitherman.
Drawing attention to mental health
Toronto Star – 4 hours ago
How wonderfully appropriate that George Smitherman was inspired by the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health’s Courage to Come Back Awards ceremony to share his own successful struggle with drugs and alcohol with Toronto Star reporter Robin Harvey. … google news
Why is this story not front page on the Globe or Star? Or a lead item on CBC or CTV?
“Canadians back Afghan mission despite deaths-poll”
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/12052006/6/n-canada-canadians-afghan-mission-despite-deaths-poll.html
‘Fri May 12, 11:33 AM EST
OTTAWA (Reuters) – Support among Canadians for the country’s military mission in Afghanistan has slipped but is still relatively solid despite a rash of recent military casualties, according to a new poll on Friday.
The Ekos survey — provided to Reuters — shows 62 percent of Canadians support the mission in Afghanistan, down from 70 percent in early February. The number opposed grew to 37 percent from 28 percent.
Canada has 2,300 troops based in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar. Four soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb on April 22, bringing to 16 the number of Canadians who have died in Afghanistan since the September 11 attacks.
The troops are due back next February and the new Conservative government is under increasing pressure to outline whether it will extend the mission.
“In some ways, what is most remarkable here is how robust support for the mission has proven to be,” said Ekos President Frank Graves.
“After all, for the first time in many years, Canadians are seeing significant casualties among their armed forces,” he said in a statement.
The Ekos poll of 1,013 people was carried out between April 20 and 27 and is considered accurate to within 3.1 percentage points, 19 times out of 20.’
It was, however, carried in the Gulf Times; go figure:
http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=86288&version=1&template_id=43&parent_id=19
Actually it’s easy. For our media good news is bad news.
Mark
Ottawa
Two columns in the Toronto Star, May 13:
1) The sensible: “Darfur would be a mess, just like Afghanistan: Chances of success for our troops slim” by Thomas Walkom.
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_PrintFriendly&c=Article&cid=1147470610837&call_pageid=970599119419
2) The silly: “For Harper, it’s either Darfur or Afghanistan: But does it have to be one or the other?” by Jim Travers.
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_PrintFriendly&c=Article&cid=1147470610832&call_pageid=970599119419
Mark
Ottawa
“Hamas: We’ll recognize Israel within ’67 aborders”
The Hamas movement is ready to recognize agreements signed with Israel, and in fact recognize Israel, but only within the ’67 borders, senior Hamas member Khaled Suleiman said Wednesday.
According to Suleiman, the movement will be ready to accept a Palestinian state inside the ’67 borders and will not operate to thwart diplomatic negotiations held by Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3249568,00.html
Flying robot attack “unstoppable”: experts
It may sound like science fiction, but the prospect that suicide bombers and hijackers could be made redundant by flying robots is a real one, according to experts.
The technology for remote-controlled light aircraft is now highly advanced, widely available — and, experts say, virtually unstoppable.
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/05/09/060509055355.jjazoykq.html
Charges against a dozen students accused of harassing one of their classmates at a Toronto high school may be dropped if they agree to a deal.
The 12 teens – all of whom face lesser charges in the case, which stemmed from a female student’s allegations of abuse at James Cardinal McGuigan Catholic High School – would apparently have to admit responsibility for their actions, although they’d be pleading not guilty, and agree to a court-ordered program.
The program, likely consisting of counselling or volunteer work, would have to be completed before the charges were dropped.
The Youth Criminal Justice Act allows such an alternative, which is directed at teens who are accused in a criminal case but have no previous record.
The 16-year-old complainant came forward last November, telling a teacher she had endured 14 months of sexual abuse and threats from students. The teacher then contacted police, who arrested two teens a day later.
http://www.pulse24.com/News/Top_Story/20060111-002/page.asp
Pope: Lack of Love Behind Failed Marriages
Pope Benedict XVI said Friday that a lack of true love was behind an increase in failed marriages and a decrease in birth rates in much of the developed world.
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/04/28/D8H92CEO4.html
Girls ‘smuggled to UK for flats’
Young African girls are being brought into Britain and “deliberately impregnated” so they become eligible for council flats, MPs have been told.
Debbie Aruyo of Africans Unite Against Child Abuse (Afruca) said later some of the children were aged 12 to 16.
The victims were often sent alone into the UK, and placed in council care before falling prey to abuse, she said.
Israel will hit Iran in the next few months: Israeli officials
WASHINGTON: Israel will strike Iran’s nuclear facilities in the next “month or two or three,” an Israeli official has been quoted here as saying.
The unnamed official told Arnaud de Borchgrave, editor-in-chief of the United Press International (UPI), at the recently held national day reception at the Israeli Embassy that he believed Israel would strike Iran first in the next two or three months and that fighter bombers would not be involved as they had been to take out Iraq’s Osirak nuclear reactor before it went critical in 1981. For Osirak, Israel had used 14 F-15s and F-16s. This time, the Israeli said, it would be missiles. Asked if Israel would employ Cruise missiles, he replied, “with a gesture of his hand that went up and down again”, which meant that it would be the weapon of choice.
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2006\05\09\story_9-5-2006_pg1_3
Israel, the Third Rail of American Foreign Policy
“No lobby has managed to divert foreign policy as far from what the American national interest would otherwise suggest, while simultaneously convincing Americans that U.S. and Israeli interests are essentially identical.”
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2006/4/30/224418.shtml
Thank you, Angela and Fred, thanks to your posts I now know what “Bush derangement syndrome” (Kate)is.
Cindy Sheehan is a trivia. My concern is the MSM and their relentless biased attacks against Harper. They ignore and trivialize his accomplishments and create (I mean the word) events and arguments against him.
1) Anything constructive he does, is denigrated to one agenda – partisan politics, i.e., the agenda of obtaining POWER, by votes. That’s the traditional Liberal strategy but the MSM rarely commented on this when the Liberals were in power.
If Harper acknowledges Quebec’s cultural distinction via the UNESCO deal, the MSM claim, not that he’s defusing sovereignty, but that he’s ‘after votes’.
If Harper removes the exploitation by the MSM of deaths in Afghanistan, by RETURNING to due protocol, from Chretien’s abuse of protocoal – the MSM doesn’t inform the public that Chretien broke protocol to lower the PT flag, only as a tactic of anti-Americanism. Not respect for the military. Harper returns to protocol and the MSM claims he broke protocol!
Harper settles the softwood dispute, and the MSM claims that he ‘sold out to Bush’. This ignores that Canada WAS subsidizing its lumber – something that the MSM never educated the public about – by its low stumpage fees (I bet most of the public doesn’t even know the meaning).
And, that the Liberals kept the softwood from settlement because a key strategy in their maintaining power, is ‘anti-Americanism’.
Harper is called all kinds of names: ‘control freak’ ‘Big Daddy’, ‘cold and calculating’.. ignoring that centralist top-down governance is the mark of the Liberals – and Harper is gradually decentralizing and returning power to the provinces.
He’s compared to Bush, he’s set up as evil.
Two daily hour long shows on national TV, Duffy and Newman, present biased, partisan attacks. The nominal Conservatives are always outweighed by the Left – the Liberals and NDP, who are essentially identical, but, are set up as a majority voice against a minority Conservative.
Major papers, the Globe, the Star – all have columns and editorials against Harper. It’s incredible.
He’s done more constructive work in 100 days than any pm has done in a generation – and the MSM is falling all over itself to discredit him.
Blogs need to say more.
Kate,
I saw SDA mentioned on CTV News last night regarding the Think Sask story.
Congrats.
ET you have hit the nail right on the head. WELL DONE.
Left liberals claim “God” as theirs. “God” is an abortionist, don’t you know. …. “God” is calling all the left liberals to do “God’s” work. …
Viewing Abortion as “a Moral Good” (MSM Giving Lib Culture of Death Yet Another Boost! BARF ALERT!)
Posted by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
On 05/13/2006 6:40:01 AM PDT · 27 replies · 400 views
Seattle Times | 05/13/2006 | Carla Solomon
Marcy Bloom sat in a flowered sundress last week, surrounded by photographs of family and talking about faith. Down the hall were three exam rooms with white cotton curtains on the windows. Thousands of women have gotten abortions in those rooms. Bloom has held the hands of many of them. “I see this as the work God sent me to do,” said Bloom, 54, executive director of Aradia Women’s Health Center on Seattle’s First Hill.
freerepublic
ET
The way I read those items to which you refer is that they were basically already in the works. Harper just completed a process that was already started. We were already in Afganistan. The UNESCO deal was already in the works as was the softwood lumber deal. Harper just gave them his blessing(Afganistan) or gave it the final push(softwood deal).
I think you are far too over reactive on this MSM paranoia.
There is a nice article in the Saturday Toronto Star(a liberal paper) wherein Harper is reflecting on his first 100 days. Some might view it as a puff piece for Harper.
Att: Moonbats & steve d.: Ya want pairanoya: Here it is:
It’s OK to call mom in Canada. The spooks are not listening in.
Amurricans woke up to this reality….
But…in the US it is illegal to call mom.
Bush has made it illegal to call mom.
Canadians are so superior to those Amurricans….
Our Phone Calls Not Being Tracked: Agency
Canada’s electronic spy agency says citizens need not worry their phone calls are secretly being tracked by the government — a reality Americans woke up to on Thursday. neale news
From our follow-up analysis of L’affair Vellacott:
“…Vellacott never used the term “god-like powers’. Reporters like Tonda MacCharles did and attributed them to Vellacott.
…
What the Parliamentary Press Gallery missed is the fact that Beverley McLachlin is extraordinarily sensitive about this speech.
A good reporter would wonder why?
It’s not on the Supreme Court website and this is not the first time McLachlin attacked the credibility of someone who mentioned the speech.
The last time — it was a reporter.
‘McLachlin urges judges to go beyond the letter of the law;
Courts should defy legislation to protect rights, chief justice says
Janice Tibbets, The Ottawa Citizen
Monday, December 05, 2005’
This pipsqueak reporter had to be squashed.
And Nancy K. Brooke, executive legal officer, Supreme Court of Canada, was sent to do the squashing. In an official rebuke ( which found it’s way into the Globe and Mail), the first and well before Vellacott, she wrote:
“Janice Tibbett’s report inaccurately represented what Beverley McLachlin said in her recent speech in New Zealand.”
“The Chief Justice did not say that rights should be put before the constitution; nor did she say that judges should “feel emboldened to trump the written word of the constitution.” What she did say is that constitutions, including unwritten constitutional norms, may supplement and sometimes trump ordinary (i.e. non-constitutional) laws.”
Now compare this to how our Miss Brooke responded to Vellacott:
“I can categorically deny that Chief Justice McLachlin has ever said what Mr. Vellacott has attributed to her.”
It has, Brooke told the press, “always” been her (McLachlin’s) view that “it is a judge’s role to interpret and apply the law.”
“If a law is not clear, it’s ambiguous, judges are required to interpret it, and they’re required to make choices but those choices are always made in accordance with legal precedents and with the laws laid down by Parliament and the legislatures.”
Somewhere between December and May, the judge forgot she believed in sometimes trumping ordinary laws.”
http://blackrod.blogspot.com/2006/05/parliamentary-press-ignores-mclachlin.html
LONDON (AFP) – A British inventor unveiled a car he claims is the world’s most fuel efficient — capable of doing 8,000 miles (12,875 km) to the gallon (4.5 litres).
Andy Green, 45, spent just 2,000 pounds (2,925 euros or 3,732 US dollars) over two years creating the three-wheeled contraption in his spare time.
The car, named “TeamGreen,” is 3.1 metres (10 feet 2 inches) long and a mere 0.6 metres (2 feet) wide, weighing just 30 kilograms (four stone).
“It’s a labour of love,” said Green, a technician in the mechanical engineering department of Bath University, south-west England.
“I think the car is important because it is a reminder to us all that the way to achieve fuel-savings is to drive lighter cars — it’s the weight of this car that is the main reason for its fuel-efficiency,” he said.
Green’s car is powered by a single cylinder four-stroke engine with a capacity of just 35 cc.
It will be the only British entry in a global competition in France later this month to decide the world’s most fuel-economic car.
The winner of the Shell Eco-Marathon championships will be the car that runs the longest on an average speed of 30 kilometres per hour (18 miles per hour).
Two women, chosen for their slight frames, have been selected to drive the Briton’s invention for the three-day event.
Green is already a seasoned inventor of environmentally friendly motors, of which “TeamGreen” is his fourth.
He holds the British record for fuel-efficiency, having achieved 6,603 miles to the gallon in one of his previous cars.
Maybe there is an end in site to Albertnas environmental destruction of the country.:)
Eh, Rod Noir(e)…. en fancais, si palit for CJ MCl…?
Ici the toot news for da frenchies: Beacoup d’argent at paly, monsoireu. … Canada is La bilingu officiel bu not for Da Quebec province, non. It’s officially French honley. … (cf. pass as)…
Six Liberal contenders don’t pass as bilingual
All agree next leader must be fluent; only five give adequate replies to questions in second language
by CAMPBELL CLARK
“The others were varying degrees of catastrophes,” Prof. Knoerr said.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Conservatives now place first in Quebec polls, and many Liberals from the province now look aghast at the possibility of electing a leader who speaks French less well than Mr. Harper, a former Reform Party MP from Calgary.
Former heritage minister Liza Frulla, who lost her seat in the Jan. 23 election, said the party needs to rebuild after being battered in Quebec by the sponsorship scandal, and needs a prospective prime minister who can explain a new vision directly to Quebeckers.
“We cannot allow ourselves to have a prime minister who does not have the language. We can’t,” she said. “Not just for us, but the message we would send is that the prime minister, or the leader of the Liberal Party, is a leader for the rest of Canada.”
The Liberal leadership campaign has been sensitive about bilingualism: Two MPs who support Joe Volpe called a reporter when their candidate was not included in a mention of three MPs who speak “top-notch French.”
Scott Brison has complained that his French is better than people say. So has Carolyn Bennett, who says her French needs work, but that she is acceptably bilingual.
“I’ve got news for her,” Prof. Knoerr said. Ms. Bennett’s second-language skills rated last of the 10 who felt able to complete the interview, because her errors in vocabulary, grammar and syntax were enough that a francophone listener would have a hard time following….
http://www.voy.com/178771/11293.html
Jean Heads for Haiti
Jason McIntyre
Saturday, May 13, 2006 cfra.com
Jean who? Jeancula? Jean de Brebeuf?
Au revoir, Jean. Is Plafond wid ya to make a filme noire?
Bring a report back on the death of retired Mountie, Mark Bourque, shot down while serving in Haiti.
Was Bourque snuffed? Did he know too much?
RSVP
No, steve d. – the fact that the Star had a reasonable interview of Stephen Harper can’t obliterate that it had at least FOUR attacks against him. Three editorials – one that asserted that his actions in Quebec were just ‘about winning votes’; one setting up a stupid analogy about Ambrose, to convince readers that she is completely ignorant and wrong about rejecting Kyoto; another editorial asserting that all of Harper’s actions are merely ‘electoral strategies’ and that he is ‘ethically’ problematic. Can you imagine – editorials accusing Harper of ethical problems, when we’re realizing, all the time, just how corrupt the Liberal gov’t was.
And, another columnist asserting that Harper is fighting a ‘relatively small’ faction in Afghanistan while refusing to help the millions in Darfur. Wow. The fact that the writer’s data is false, is erroneous – is irrelevant; he’s asserting that Harper is inhumane.
So- in one paper, we have an interview of Harper saying that things are OK – and FOUR editorials asserting that he’s unethical, that he’s inhumane, that he’s just out for power and votes..and that Canadians will wake up and see him for what he is.
Hmmm.
Try the Globe and Mail – there, you have almost daily Jeffrey Simpson rants – with his referring to the Conservatives as Harper’s Gang, with headlines asserting that “In Harper’s Regime, Big Daddy knows best’ – and calling him a ‘control freak’. Two articles attacking Harper’s Kyoto rejection (and it should be rejected, for it has nothing to do with pollution)….
And, I’ve spoken about the CBC and CTV’s relentless attacks against Harper.
Softwood lumber? Don’t try the Monday morning quarterback tactic. The Liberals did NOT close any deal. Period. It wasn’t a ‘matter of time’ but of will. The public were never informed that low stumpage fees ARE, in effect, a subsidy and that therefore, the US was right to impose tariffs. Harper has dealt with the basic problem – those stumpage fees, which the Liberals did not deal with. Softwood was far too useful for their strategy, which rested on anti-Americanism. Liberal Politics rests on anti-Americanism – and that’s why, whenever Harper does something constructive with the US – out come the Liberal/NDP attacks that he’s ‘like Bush’. (I consider Bush one of the best presidents the US has ever had).
Afghanistan was a means for the Liberals to justify that Canada is involved in world problems, but, they had no intention of staying to help. Harper does. For the Liberals – it was an election tactic.
Nor was the UNESCO deal a ‘fact’. That was, for years and years, merely a promise. Now it’s fact. That’s quite a difference.
Black Rod – thanks for the update. That Janice Tibbett (another MSM attack against Harper’s team)…is quite wrong in her article. All you have to do is read McLachlin’s 30 page speech. She DOES assert that the judiciary has the right, the duty, the capacity to ‘discover’ these ‘unwritten constitutional principles’ that will ‘trump’ (her word) the legislature, the legislated laws, and the executive. She wrote it, and Vellacourt is quite right in his metaphors about McLachlin.
ET,good rant on the MSM,if given unlimited space I know you could easily add a few hundred more clear examples.
I see the same old lefties trying to convince themselves that this cannot be true,they are indeed the oppressed ones.They conveniently do not dare examine things closely.The Red Star indeed had a glowing editorial on Harper’s many accomplishments so far.EDITORIAL!Get it?We all expect editorials to be opinionated,that is what they are for.I don’t believe any regular supporter of this site would deny there are plenty of pro conservative opinions circulating,Adlers recent rant is another example.
The outrage is created when NEWS is presented in a biased fashion.I want to know the FACTS so I can make up my own independent evaluation then compare it to others.The MSM,in general,ROBS me of this ability because they cannot present a fact based story without spinning it first.
The CBC,in particular,has a habit of presenting only one view of a story,often omitting or massaging info to create a message that gives an untrue impression.
If you lefties believe coming across the odd editorial that rightfully rips the Libs a new a-hole is biased reporting,enjoy your oblivion.
Sensible people can see the difference between a good editorial openly expressing someones personal views and an unethical,dishonest press misrepresenting facts to discredit an entire political movement in this country.
Well now this is weird….
At lgf, a posting of a news item concerning Larry Darby, running for the post of Alabama Attorney General as a DEMOCRAT:
“In an interview Friday with The Associated Press, Darby said he believes no more than 140,000 Jewish people died in Europe during World War II, and most of them succumbed to typhus. Historians say about 6 million Jews were slaughtered by the Nazis, but Darby said the figure is a false claim of the “Holocaust industry.”
Darby said he will speak Saturday near Newark, N.J., at a meeting of National Vanguard, which bills itself as an advocate for the white race. Some of his campaign materials are posted on the group’s Internet site.”
Perhaps he can join Cindy Sheehan’s speaking tour…they’re both nutty enough to deserve one another…
Wonder if history will see Cindy Sheehan as ‘Iraqian Jane’?
Then again the Vetname War was a farce…
Guess two wrongs don’t make a right.
…before all the war loving peacniks get bent out of shape over my Vietnam statement (as in it wasn’t really a ‘moral’ war)
Two words:
Walmart and China.
Over at Western Standard Blog a poster jema54j makes a very interesting point:
“It has been our good fortune to be born in North America, it seems to me that a lot of North Americans spend a huge portion of their lives feeling guilty about their own good fortune; never educating themselves about the magnificent people who built this country.”
What tweeked my interest was the next point:
“How many of these ‘new immigrants’ would go to the empty lands in the north and build themselves a life with their own two hands – no medicare, no plumbing, no running water, no money except what they earned themselves, no infra structure.”
Yes, I wonder just HOW MANY…Gosh darn, Toronto and Vancouver would be half the population maybe?
Then the writer goes on with another good point:
“The people in the rest of the world should take back their own countries. We are allowing ‘guilt’ to trump Justice. United States is doing the same thing. I do not see this childish feeling coming from other good countries such as Australia, Switzerland, Finland, Ireland etc. We need to educate our people so Canadians know that the life we live in this country was not served up on a silver platter, it was earned by courageous pioneers.”
Posted by: jema54j | 13-May-06 10:05:03 AM
…well said.
ET
If all publicity is bad. All stories bad. All media bad. Where do those that are polled get the idea they like him better than they did 100 days ago??? It is logically impossible to think better of someone when you never(according to some) hear anything good about the man??
Since Canadians find out about their politicians through the MSM it is impossible for you to be correct about the media while seeing Harpers poll numbers going up. It just makes no sense.
As regards MSM bias, I am sick and tired of them (particularly mother corp) postscripting every report on Afghanistan with “16 people have been killed”.
If this is so relavent to every report why do they not do the same with everything regarding the federal Liberal party, ie: “The sponsorship program introduced by the previous Liberal government saw the theft of unknown millions of dollars.”
Gerry
tro said: “If all publicity is bad. All stories bad. All media bad.”
Try To Find The Hidden Message In These Hayden Photos
Posted by Sam Hill
On 05/13/2006 12:18:34 PM PDT · 50 replies · 1,673 views
Sweetness & Light | May 13, 2006
See if you can pick up on the subliminal message being provided us by our media masters: Subtle, huh? …
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1631733/posts
steve d- your logic is faulty.
You are claiming a direct causal link between MSM and people’s opinions. You are using a simple logical connection:
IF all MSM are bad, THEN people’s opinions will be bad.
People’s opinions are good, therefore, the MSM are good.
What’s the logical problem? First, you can’t make the link as universal as you attempt. It isn’t that ALL people’s opinions are good; it is only that SOME people’s opinions are good. Some,not all.
They are coming to a GOOD conclusion based on the data, the facts, of what Harper has done. Not the far more extensive commentary, analysis and MSM talk, that denigrates Harper.
The MSM is trying very hard to make sure that despite the actual facts of Harper’s impressive accomplishments, the proportion of people who think well of him, will remain a minority gov’t and not a majority and hopefully, will succumb to the Liberal New Era. That’s the agenda of the MSM.
Any MSM press that, on the front page, calls the PM ‘Harper’s gang’, control freak, that has four editorials against him in one day; where every paper denigrates him in editorials, in commentary, where every major TV show has ‘experts’ against him and his policies – that is why his polls are at the rate they are – still not majority. As I said, the agenda is to denigrate his accomplishments, to keep him in a minority.
After all – look how you reacted to his accomplishments. You tried to divert them to the Liberals! Softwood? You tried to assert that the deal was due to the Liberals. No it wasn’t; it had been ongoing for over a decade – so much for the Liberals making a deal. Same with Afghanistan – you tried to assert that it had a military and humanitarian role, when it had only a political role for the Liberals. And so on.
You are denying the reality of these MSM commentaries. Why?
Canadian observer – that’s exactly right. The MSM provide the news in a biased fashion. We aren’t reminded, for example, that lowering the PT flag is, by tradition, done only on Nov 11th and that Chretien broke with tradition, for political partisan, anti-American purposes. Harper was returning to due protocol.
The MSM never informs us that the softwood dispute was because of the unfair advantage provided to Canadian foresters (BC) by the low stumpage fees, which amounted to a subsidy.
Instead, the dispute becomes an ever-handy anti-Americanism for the Liberals. Harper stopped its use as a partisan tool.
The fact that the Liberal’s money laundering to divert funds from the taxpayer to their Liberal campaign in Quebec – leaves the taxpayer out of pocket by millions – is ignored by the MSM. Why aren’t the Liberals returning the money?
The MSM simply doesn’t provide people with facts; it provides a smithering of data and then, moves rapidly in, to distort, to expand, to create, its own view of the world. So- Harper is ‘cold and calculating’; a control freak’. That’s disgusting.
tomax7 – yes, Jema’s post is well-said. The West is consumed by guilt, which guilt is maintained and fed by the left post-colonialists. The guilt is nonsense, for there need be no guilt in expansion of territory. That has happened with every people since man appeared on this earth. End story. The only guilt should be a deprivation of human rights (life, liberty). AND, one cannot assume the guilt of one’s ancestors. No modern Canadian ought to feel guilty about what someone in 18th, 19th c Canada did.
One can pompously, now, define the Vietnam war as a ‘farce’, but it’s easy to describe the past. When you are in that era, which was consumed with a fear that communism was the new fascism, one’s conclusions must be different. Now, we no longer think of communism as a viable threat. At that time – it was overwhelming, and I think it is ‘hubris’ to act now, as if we are ‘just so much smarter and wiser’. We aren’t.
Wow ET…that pretty much says it all better than I could…
maz2:
You’ve mentioned Marc Bourque’s death before. I’m curious as to why you appear to think that there was something behind it other than that which was reported.
FOLLOW THE MONEY
how does this sheehan girl get around and afford everything???
To the gent whose car gets 6000mpg,try pulling a 60ft air drill with it or just drive from regina to Calgary against a nice stiff breeze and see how you do.
Here we go again with the MSM trying to drive an agenda. Canadian military ask photographer(French, by the way) not to publish pictures or the taliban captured by Canadian troops sparks controversy. Or so CTV says. Do these idiots not know that public display of prisoners of war is against the Geneva convention? Lets see, it was reported by every news media covering the Irag war many times and also in Afghanistan when Canadian snipers captured a bunch of thugs. Now it is a controversy, geeesh!
Kind of like Iraqi Cindy and her latest rant. Now she has her ear on the pulse of Canada. Unless she followed a deserter I doubt she could find Canada on a map let alone show up here.
I think Casey Sheehan joined the army and went to Iraq to get away from his idiotic mother.
Is there a filter on here?
I think Cindy Sheehan’s grieving mother act is wearing a little thin.
After two years, and a DOD payment of $250,000 life insurance to the “Peace Mom”, she has not had the time or bothered to have a headstone placed on this young hero’s grave. And, she doesn’t even have to pay for one, the DOD will provide one:
“The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) furnishes upon request, at no charge to the applicant, a government headstone or marker for the grave of any deceased eligible veteran in any cemetery around the world. For all deaths occurring before September 11, 2001, the VA may provide a headstone or marker only for graves that are not marked with a private headstone.
Flat markers in granite, marble, and bronze and upright headstones in granite and marble are available. The style chosen must be consistent with existing monuments at the place of burial. Niche markers are also available to mark columbaria used for internment of cremated remains.”
She can find time to protest on at least 3 continents, get arrested various times, go on vacation in Hawaii, have photo ops with the Marxists in Venezuela but can’t seem to find the time to properly mark her son’s grave.
oh yea — Cindy Sheehan recently treated herself to a brand new Volkswagen Beetle convertible. She still can’t be bothered to buy a grave marker for her son though.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/war/sheehangrave.asp
I think her “grieving Mother” act is wearing a little thin.
After two years, and a DOD payment of $250,000 life insurance to the “Peace Mom”, she has not had the time or bothered to have a headstone placed on this young hero’s grave. And, she doesn’t even have to pay for one, the DOD will provide one:
“The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) furnishes upon request, at no charge to the applicant, a government headstone or marker for the grave of any deceased eligible veteran in any cemetery around the world. For all deaths occurring before September 11, 2001, the VA may provide a headstone or marker only for graves that are not marked with a private headstone.
Flat markers in granite, marble, and bronze and upright headstones in granite and marble are available. The style chosen must be consistent with existing monuments at the place of burial. Niche markers are also available to mark columbaria used for internment of cremated remains.”
She can find time to protest on at least 3 continents, get arrested various times, go on vacation in Hawaii, have photo ops with the Marxists in Venezuela but can’t seem to find the time to properly mark her son’s grave.
oh yea — Cindy Sheehan recently treated herself to a brand new Volkswagen Beetle convertible. She still can’t be bothered to buy a grave marker for her son though.
I’ve done a follow-up post of my own on the Vellacott-McLachlin SCOC-Godlikeness thing, prompted by The Black Rod’s own follow-up, and I’ve included a link to a report on something a NDPer said which was far worse than what Vellacott said, but which isn’t being treated as a big deal by the MSM.
http://thecanadiansentinel.blogspot.com/2006/05/msm-again-being-unfair-to.html
Contrary to above info:
This will raise your blood pressure: Big Daddy is listening. Poon has the scoop; over to you, Poon. …
Hamilton Spectator – 18 hours ago
By Clement-Meoni Poon. A new national surveillance program has been launched to help …
googlenews
Bruce: Gut feeling only. Have read too much stuff, maybe? But, …
UN (hahahaha) was to probe his death, also. Seen anything?
“The bulk of the evidence used by Falcone to indict the Cuntrera-Caruana clan in 1989 was gathered by one single policeman from Montreal. Sergeant Marc Bourque of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police was appointed to investigate the financial aspects after the seizure of 58 kilo of heroin in 1985.”
http://www.tni.org/archives/tblick/aruba.htm
Cindy Sheehan’s son went to Iraq to fight and die for DEMOCRACY and FREEDOM which, one would assume, includes freedom of speech. Yet, isn’t it ironic that the same people who defend the war in Iraq as a battle against totalitarianism would like to muzzle Cindy Sheehan because they disagree with what she has to say. Cindy Sheehan paid a steep price and she has the RIGHT to say what she feels. Only a totalitarian or hypocrite would say that she doesn’t.
anon,
You don’t really believe that losing a son gives a woman a pass when she says things like New Orleans is occupied; when she cozies up to Hugo Chavez on his hate America rants; when she associates with, and is funded by, groups who believe the scum who explode IEDs in Iraq and kill children, moms and police recruits are the good guys?
Of course she has the right to say any fool thing she wants; we have the right to ridicule her for those statements. Only a totalitarian or hypocrite would say we don’t.
Dear anon: Fear not…we don’t bite…you can use your name or a more original “nom-de-blog” than anon. Regardless, I don’t believe that anyone really is suggesting she shouldn’t say ANYTHING…just that she shouldn’t say stupid, ill-informed, false, misleading things.
As the saying goes “Better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool, than to open it and remove all doubt”.
“…Arthur’s benediction to Bedivere: “The old order changeth, giving place to new,/ And God fulfills Himself in many ways,/ Lest one good custom should corrupt the world” …
Le Morte D’Arthur… Tennyson.
A still small voice
…
However that may be, Jaynes’ theory intriguingly suggests that hunches, guesses and intuition may hold some validity. They are the end result of a logical process inaccessible to the waking mind. My own hunch is that in the last two or three months there’s been a change in the tone of the blogosphere. Nothing definite, simply a change in atmosphere in proportion to the degree of abstract tendencies of the blogger. Authors who trafficked in ideas and concepts have altered the most. Some have paused to take stock, pleading disgust or confusion; still others have returned to writing as seemingly different persons; others seem to be suffering a kind of nervous breakdown, obsessed with hatred for one or more public figures or inventing new words and finding conspiracies in everything they see.
The least affected are authors who are largely descriptive. For example Michael Totten’s review of Arabs in Israel is one of those blogposts which describes what it sees even when it finds apparent contradictions. His latest post asserts that Arabs in Israel are the subject of discriminatory attitudes; yet despite this they would rather live there than anywhere else. The Lost in Space robot Model B9 had a phrase: “it does not compute”. And yet of course it does. Anything computes which has an actual existence. There are other examples. Publius Pundit is opposed to Evo Morales’ oil nationalization policies yet understands the history of Latin American class and racial warfare that politically drive it. The Big Pharaoh is able to cheer for Alaa and the Egyptian opponents of Mubarak while aware that the Muslim Brotherhood might be the ultimate beneficiary of an upheaval in Cairo. The ever-humorous Tim Blair points out there are things we want which we may actually dread: high fuel prices because it will wean us off imported oil and high prices because we must actually pay them.
My own theory is that all the old divisions so sharply erected between September 11, 2001 and April, 2003 have been slowly eroded by the uncertainties of the world. The Left and the Right have seen their champions turn out to be all too human, and are confounded. Issues which are a wedge on both sides of the spectrum — like immigration or Darfur — have scattered interest groups around like balls after a billiard break. New issues like the resurgence of a hostile Russia, the spread of Marxism in Latin America — even the malicious buffoonery of the Iranian President — are crowding at the fringes of the now comforting world of the War on Terror. The old play is ending and yet the new one has not yet begun. And this bothers abstract intellectuals far more than it does the men in the field. A soldier can write with perfect conviction that “the world was a slightly better place every time I pulled the trigger” because he lives in a world of specificity, but the agonized thinker can find no such comfort in cold abstractions; abstractions now in need of repair under the weight of experience. …
Behold, Yahweh passed by, and a great and strong wind tore the mountains, and broke in pieces the rocks before Yahweh; but Yahweh was not in the wind. After the wind an earthquake; but Yahweh was not in the earthquake.
After the earthquake a fire passed; but Yahweh was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice. It was so, when Elijah heard it, that he wrapped his face in his mantle, and went out, and stood in the entrance of the cave. Behold, a voice came to him, and said, “What are you doing here, Elijah?”
http://www.fallbackbelmont.blogspot.com/
Which “stupid, ill-informed, false, misleading things?”
Hey…Anon…How’s this for stupid,
ill-informed,false, misleading things…!
From Nealenews – “Cindy Sheehan: Harper is wildly unpopular”
Next Headline: “Tories riding wave of support, Polls show
So is Iraqi Cindy, a liar ..or just stupid.?
Maybe if Iraqi Cindy, hung around with her ideolistic sister Hanoi Jane, she might gain some stature,some recognition…
…………NOT…………………!
Harper probably is wildly unpopular with the people she hangs out with…although, I guess she could have said that there are WMD’s in Iraq and not be thought a liar or stupid, eh?