Given the anaemic run defence the Stumps showed against the Bombers tonight the result was an early call.

Winnipeg 27 Calgary 13

An entire two field goals and a garbage time TD by Calgary’s offence.

Now then, RIDERS CLINCH A HOME PLAY-OFF GAME!

Green is the colour
Football is the Game
We're all together
And winning is our aim

So Cheer us on
Through the sun and the rain
Saskatchewan Roughriders
Is our name!

Go Riders,
lance

A transparent and open government:

The Calvert NDP has violated The Elections Act by refusing to disclose the sources of over $2.5 million in party donations since Lorne Calvert took office.

Saskatchewan Party candidate Nancy Heppner today demanded that Lorne Calvert immediately disclose his $2.5 million hidden donation list.

Talk to the hand….

The Premier’s handlers have referred calls to provincial secretary and campaign manager Doug Still. He has not yet returned those calls.

Cheers,
lance

Environics Research in Afghanistan

Forty-three per cent of all Afghans surveyed say that foreign troops should stay as long as it takes to get the job done. Only about 15 per cent of all Afghans surveyed want foreign troops to leave their country immediately, and the rest want time limits.

CBC’s poll

Cheers,
lance

The Sask Party demands that CUPE refrain from doing their masters bidding.

“No one is disputing the right of unions or other agencies to speak
out and make their views known to the electorate — that’s part of our
democratic process,” McMorris said. “But, for a union to distribute
this pack of lies in a deliberate attempt to scare vulnerable people
truly goes beyond what’s acceptable.” – Don McMorris

Sorry, Don, but that’s like asking salmon to pass on the run.

CUPE is, has been, and will be in the pocket of the NDP. They’re the trump card. Demanding they not lie about Sask Party intentions in seniors’ homes and hospitals is like asking the sun to not rise in the east.

Asking that people go and read the Sask Party policies and guidelines for themselves isn’t as easy as scaring people by having the union’s representative drop off propaganda.

Too bad.

Cheers,
lance

With Bumper Stickers

What’s So Great About America?
We Need Your Money More Than You Do.
Fighting Back Against Terrorism Is Too Hard.
The Decline and Fall of the West Is Inevitable Anyway.
Maybe al-Qaeda Will Be Gracious in Victory.
Everything’s Free if You Force Someone Else to Pay For It.
There’s Still Some Silverware Left in the White House.

Please be kind enough to show your support in the comments.
Cross-posted @ Cjunk

Let’s go back to the beginning:

Division of the human family into two distinct groups began some 12,000 years ago. Humans existed as members of small bands of nomadic hunter/gatherers. They lived on deer in the mountains in the summer and would go to the beach and live on fish in winter.
The two most important events in all of history were the invention of beer and the invention of the wheel. The wheel was invented by Man to get to the beer. These were the foundation of modern civilization and together were the catalyst for the splitting of humanity into two distinct subgroups: Liberals and Conservatives.

Keep Reading

NOT:

Canadian support for the military mission in Afghanistan remains surprisingly stable, including in Quebec, despite the loss of three soldiers from that province in the past week, a new CanWest News Service/Global National poll suggests.
Conducted by Ipsos Reid, the poll found 51 per cent of respondents across the country said they support the mission, while 45 per cent oppose it. The numbers remained virtually unchanged from a month ago.

I know that many of you disagree with me when I say that DND and the PMO have done a horrible job of explaining the mission to Canadians; but imagine the support, were our government to regularly inform us of the tremendous progress being made.

With the endless clamor coming from the anti-Afghanistan faction, coupled with the Harper government’s no-show in explaining “the mission”, it’s amazing that young people are still lining up to join the Canadian Forces … especially the army, which is enduring the brunt of casualties. Yet they join.
Canadians join for any number and combination of reasons as varied as adventure seeking to a genuine desire to serve and make a positive difference in the world. They come from all provinces with several contributing an unusually large share despite their small populations:
Nfld. and Labrador 1.4%
PEI 0.3%
Nova Scotia 11.8%
New Brunswick 6.4%
Quebec 20.3%
Ontario 33.6%
Manitoba 4.4%
Saskatchewan 1.3%
Alberta 10.2%
British Columbia 8.3%
Yukon Territory N/A
Northwest Territories 0.2%
Nunavut N/A
Outside Canada 1.8%
From Cjunk:

All of this raises the question; what are you willing to give for the cause? Is the cause worth it? Is any cause worth it? Hell, do you even believe in “the cause?” Are you in the 18-30 bracket and have you ever honestly considered joining the military? Would that be too much sacrifice for you? Try this then; what government handouts or percent of your paycheck are you willing to part with in order to ensure that those who fight in your name do so with the deadliest and best possible weapons and equipment in hand? These questions may seem obvious, but I can’t help but feel that few have taken the time to seriously ponder them.

Just remember, it’s all about saving the planet:

Barto is more sad than angry. He is a leader of a Dayak Kanayan community in a remote part of the rainforest in deepest Borneo.
Gazing out over a vast expanse of freshly planted palm oil plants, he says: “This is our ancestors’ land which we have had for years, and now we have lost it.”

And in Canada

The publication also said 48 to 52 per cent of Canada’s total corn-seeded area and 11 to 12 per cent of the wheat-seeded area would have to be used – all this for Canada to reach its domestic biofuel target of 5 per cent of the national fuel consumption by 2010.

Remember This

The pasta crisis is the latest in what may soon be a regular rise in global prices. In January, Mexican consumers were hit with a tortilla crisis, as grain prices doubled and tripled the cost of tortillas and caused riots in some places. Beer prices in Germany ticked upwards in May partially due to the increased production of biofuels.

cross-posted @ Cjunk

But, how can this be…

In the U.S., religious people who say they devote “a great deal of effort” to their spiritual lives are 42 percentage points more likely to contribute to charity than secularists who have little or no religious faith. Moreover, religious Americans do not just give to their churches: They are also significantly more likely than secular Americans to donate money and time to non-religious charities such as the United Way.
Brooks also found a strong and specific correlation between political ideology and charity. In both the United States and Europe, conservatives who believe in limited government are far more likely to make charitable contributions than are liberals who think government has a responsibility to reduce income inequality.

cross-posted: Cjunk

Another open thread to keep Friday nite rolling. I’ll start it off with this … haven’t offended anyone lately … so Friday evening seems as good a time as any:
Pimp My Jihad
Tagline: More Bling for your Bang!
This show features young upstart Jihadis who send in audition tapes trying to convince show host Mullah Xplozive to “pimp their Jihad”. After the audition segment, the Mullah pays a surprise visit to the participant’s home (usually under cover of darkness and in disguise) where he commences pimping the Jihad. With the help of Al Qaeda Costumes, the Jihad is “totally tricked out”. The final segment of the show is the trademark “Xploding” finale. In addition to their new pimped Jihad, all participants receive 72 virgins.
Keep your links coming!

From Cjunk:

After reading the NYT piece, one can’t help but think of how totally unprepared and Naïve “progressive” apologists for Islamic Totalitarianism are. They are truly destined to become the road-kill of life when faced with crude and harsh forces like Islamic Totalitarianism.

Here’s a great follow-up to THIS discussion on troop support.
By: Rosie DiManno

Nearly six years after 9/11 – plotted in Afghanistan – the country is far from achieving what donor nations and military custodians had hoped. Reconstruction has been laggardly, corruption flourishes.
But those who demand quantifiable benchmarks to justify continued intervention also ignore salient evidence, all that’s been achieved by empowering traditional district councils, micro-credit funding of small businesses, schools built and reopened, vital thoroughfares constructed, irrigation systems repaired, national troops trained and mentored and Afghan currency stabilized. Those stories are under-reported because combat deaths and poppy production are so much more dramatic and easier to tell.
Afghanistan is far from guaranteed a stable future. The international mission to bring that country off its knees might very well fail.
But without Canadian troops there, providing such a large and integral fighting part of the NATO commitment, it’s more likely that embryonic future will die in utero.
Who’s the baby-killer now?

Read it All.
Then from Lorrie Goldstein comes Our Troops Deserve Better:

… some people who claim they “support our troops but not the war” are lying through their teeth.
In fact, they don’t support our troops, or even think about them very much.
But they are fanatically opposed to any public displays of support or affection not just for our soldiers, but for all things military — stickers, rallies, parades, concerts, Red Fridays and similar events.

crossposted @ Cjunk

No, it’s not Kansas … it’s Manitoba:

Moving on from the discussion HERE, a tip from SDA reader Wimpy Canadian led to THIS:

If you listen to the global warming alarmists working for the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or folks like soon-to-be-Dr. Al Gore, sea levels across the globe are rising at a rate that will eventually doom us all.
According to Swedish paleogeophysicist Nils-Axel Mörner, who’s been studying and writing about sea levels for four decades, the scientists working for the IPCC have falsified data and destroyed evidence to incorrectly prove their point.
Mörner was recently interviewed by Gregory Murphy of Executive Intelligence Review, and began by making it clear that the sea level claims made by the IPCC are a lot of nonsense (emphasis added throughout, h/t Eduardo Ferreyra):

crossposted @ Cjunk

From Ted Byfield:

The second goal was far more devastating. It came with a book just published by Henrik Svensmark, director of the Centre for Sun Climate Research at the National Space Centre in Copenhagen. He calls it The Chilling Stars: A New Theory on Climate Change.
Like Patterson and the Russians, Svensmark contends the sun is a major factor in climate change, but he has been working for eight years to back this up with experimental proof. He has established a laboratory in which the sun’s rays and Earth’s atmosphere have been set up in model, and the cosmic effects on the Earth thereby observed.
The results, detailed in the current issue of Discovery, the highly respected magazine of science, are startling. They show solar activity affects cloud formations on Earth, which in turn determine the Earth’s climate. Paradoxically, it seems meteorological conditions do not determine the cloud formations; rather, cloud formations determine meteorological conditions.

Commentary on the Harper Connection @ Cjunk