I’m not going to bother with exerpts from either one. Just read both in their entirety – Michael Coren and Salim Mansur.
“Carbon Neutral” Means Staying Home
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But nice try. Give the enviro-left credit – they start the hypocrisy training early. They even have a little logo! |
– Liz McDowell (Vancouver, BC)
– Azra Shivja (Markham, ON)
– Robert Hamon (Montreal, QC)
– Sasha Pippenger (Vancouver, BC)
– Joanna Dafoe (Toronto, ON)
– Olivier James Lavoie (Montreal, QC)
– Katrina Genuis (Sherwood Park, AB)
– May Jeong (Toronto, ON)
– Claire Stockwell (Montreal, QC)
– Rosa Kouri (Saskatoon,SK)
– PJ Partington (Toronto, ON)
– Nicolas Nadeau (Hanwell, NB)
– Hannah McKinnon (Deloraine, MB)
– Courtney Price (Toronto, ON)
– Lise Richard (Antigonish, NS)
– Adam Scott (Guelph, ON)
– Laura Zizzo (Toronto, ON)
– Marley Parker (Halifax, NS)
– Aiden Abram (Guelph, ON)
– Jeff Beyer (Ottawa, ON)
– Jessica Wishart (Halifax, NS)
– Trevor Bennett (Guelph, ON)
– Genevieve Gilbert (Ottawa, ON)
– Josh Darrach (Charlottetown, PE)
– Jennie McDowell (Guelph, ON)
– Adriana Hoogenboom (Ottawa, ON)
– Adam MacIsaac (St. Peters Bay, PE)
– David Noble (Guelph,
– Micah Melnyk (Ottawa, ON)
– Johnathon Constantine (Conception Bay S, NL)
– Derek Pieper (Guelph, ON)
– Catherine Gauthier (Montreal, QC)
That’s right – there are thirty-two names. All members of a “youth delegation” that flew to Bali to demand a meeting with John Baird to discuss their earth inheritance.
Six of these motivated young “heroes” are from Guelph (about 6 hours from Ottawa by minivan), including David Noble, whose “consulting company” 2degreesC, is credited with allowing all 32 to travel “carbon neutral”. Click on the link if you wish – but there’s not much there.
Apparently, his principled objection to Canadian environmental policy fell just short of preventing the carbon neutral Mr. Noble from going taxpayer funding neutral – he secured contracts worth nearly $50,000 from Natural Resources Canada in 2007, for 15 weeks of work.
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Facebook Fatwa
Cruising Facebook with the Jawa Report;
The last group of terror supporters are perhaps the most despicable in my opinion: for example, a group called “Support Our Troops!” No, not American troops, silly, the one who are trying to kill American troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. Note that the group Administrator is from the University of Arizona and that of the 128 group members some are from from TX, Raleigh, Pittsburgh, Celeveland, New York, LA, DC…
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Mulroney Testimony: CBC On The Hotseat
CPC Director of Political Operations Doug Finley has written an official letter of complaint to the CBC Ombudsman.
On the TV program Mike Duffy Live, Mike Duffy stated the following.
“Liberal researcher Jay Ephard approach him and say, no, Jean, it’s not true. The CBC didn’t write those questions that were asked by the Liberals. We wrote them. Yes, the CBC phoned us up and suggested questions we should ask but we actually typed them out ourselves.”
Previous.
Update – CBC has announced search for sacrificial lamb.
The Sound Of Silenced Science
Just as Gore has refused requests to debate the warming threat, Bali organizers cancelled a scheduled press conference Thursday morning by the International Climate Science Coalition (ICSC) – a group of international scientists who protest the scientific basis of climate alarmism.
It’s the second such incident in a week.
The Heartland Institute reports that “earlier in the week. . . (UN official) Barbara Black interrupted the press conference and demanded the scientists immediately cease. She threatened to have the police physically remove them from the premises. (In addition) ICSC scientists have been prevented from participating in panel discussions, side events, and exhibits.”
The Sound Of Settled Science
An open letter to the Secretary General of the UN;
The IPCC Summaries for Policy Makers are the most widely read IPCC reports amongst politicians and non-scientists and are the basis for most climate change policy formulation. Yet these Summaries are prepared by a relatively small core writing team with the final drafts approved line-by-line by government representatives. The great majority of IPCC contributors and reviewers, and the tens of thousands of other scientists who are qualified to comment on these matters, are not involved in the preparation of these documents. The summaries therefore cannot properly be represented as a consensus view among experts.
[…]
In stark contrast to the often repeated assertion that the science of climate change is “settled,” significant new peer-reviewed research has cast even more doubt on the hypothesis of dangerous human-caused global warming. But because IPCC working groups were generally instructed (see http://ipcc-wg1.ucar.edu/wg1/docs/wg1_timetable_2006-08-14.pdf) to consider work published only through May, 2005, these important findings are not included in their reports; i.e., the IPCC assessment reports are already materially outdated.
Signed by over 100 independent scientists, engineers and economists who work in the field of climate change. (link fixed)
Churniyuk On Crack
“Jason Churniyuk still hasn’t disclosed who paid off his recreational drug debts from 2000. Could Karlheinz Schreiber have had anything to do with it? Until Jason Churniyuk discloses who paid his bills, we simply cannot know for sure. At the very least, he should be given the opportunity to deny such a possibility before it becomes a widely-spread rumour.”
And in unrelated yesterday’s news, in July of 2000 Stockwell Day took over leadership of the Alliance Party from Deb Grey.
I Smell A Human Rights Complaint Coming On
Dr. Elmasry, call your office….
Michelle Malkin;
The person who posted it claims: “I don’t know what happened here. But this happened on my Air Canada plane ride to London, England in December 6th, 2007 from Toronto…My partner and I decided we should videotape this in the interest of sharing the experience we went through on this plane with those interested.”
(Emphasis mine.)
“They like this war. They want this war to continue,”
She is really a piece of work eh? I mean I’m just trying to wrap my tired little melon around her sad belief that you can just end a war, you can’t. You either lose it or win it. We know what she and the nutroots want and all their efforts this year have led to a sad Christmas where victory looms menacingly on the horizon. Heck Fitzmas fizzled last year and they get a Warry Christmas this year. They are gonna get a complex.
Actually that just upped my holiday spirit thinking about sad progressives huddled around their organic, free range, holiday celebration statuette hand-crafted in the Amazon by a blind crocodile, and bemoaning another year where the mongers triumphed over the will of the people. “How could they not follow our tremendous examples of moral superiority?”
Despite their best efforts, success keeps breaking out all over. Just think how bad it could be if media actually reported on victory?
As the Ace notes, this considerable victory [in Afghanistan] has been—how shall I put this?— somewhat underreported. Rather like the Really Big Story which is the defeat of al Qaeda in Anbar Province, and the transformation of the Marines there from fighters to civil reconstruction workers…
Caution in the comments – “The year isn’t over yet, there is still time for the much vaunted Taliban spring offensive…”
Related: It’s not a complete blackout. Bringing you all the quotes from fictional characters fit to print…
The Sound Of Settled Science
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Musa Qala
After a five-day operation to take back the only remaining town in Afghanistan under the control of Taleban insurgents, the Afghan flag was flying today over Musa Qala.
British and US troops began the operation on Friday, before Afghan forces moved in and took the market town in Helmand province. It has been one of the biggest operations carried out by the fledgling Afghan National Army so far.[…]
Musa Qala was a crucial stronghold for the Taleban because of its importance in the opium and heroin trade. Helmand province reportedly supplies half of the world’s opium and around 90 per cent of the heroin on British streets.
Afghan soldiers searching the town after the operation came across several opium warehouses, including one containing up to £150 million worth of opium.
“This may be one of the biggest finds in Helmand so far,” said Lieutenant Dan Hopwood of the 2nd Battalion.
They also found back street bomb making factories, used to churn out roadside bombs for attacks on British soldiers.
Most of the town’s civilians had fled before the operation. Buildings were shuttered and the streets were deserted. But they are already starting to return. Mr Wafa said he and a delegation from the capital Kabul would travel to Musa Qala this Thursday to hand out 5,000 tonnes of aid, including wheat and blankets.
After the Taleban were pushed out of their Musa Qala stronghold, they turned their attention to the neighbouring Sangin district of Helmand province.
“The terrorists, after being defeated in Musa Qala, attempted to put pressure on Sangin district,” the Afghanistan defence ministry said in a statement today.
“During 48 hours of intense clashes around Sangin, over 50 terrorists have been killed.”
More here
h/t Maz2
Mulroney Testimony
I note that a few of you are discussing the Mulroney testimony in the reader tips thread. I’m too busy today to follow it, but you can use this thread for links or on topic discussion if you wish.
From the comments;
“Lapierre stated, while on with CTV’s Mike Duffy, that the Liberal MPs on the Ethics Committee were given today’s questions to ask by the CBC.”
If true, this merits an investigation, followed by a housecleaning.
Stephen Taylor now has an official CPC release on the allegation.
Update:
The Sound Of Settled Science
Who to believe? The computer models or your own lyin’ satellite data?
The Trouble With Teenagers
“Here, listen, my dear daughter, do you know that this is the last day. Tonight, you’re going to die?”
Tina responds: “Huh?”
Zein Isa replies: “Do you know that you are going to die tonight?”
The girl’s mother asks her questions about items in her schoolbag. In the midst of her conversation with her mother, Tina begins to shriek in fear.
“Keep still, Tina!” says her father.
“Mother, please help me!”
“Huh? What do you mean?” the mother says.
“Help! Help!”
“What help?” the mother responds.
Tina screams, and Maria says: “Are you going to listen? Are you going to listen?”
Screaming louder, Tina gasps: “Yes! Yes! Yes, I am!” then coughs and adds, “No. Please!”
The mother says, “Shut up!”
Tina continues to cry, but her voice is unintelligible.
“Die! Die quickly! Die quickly!” the father says.
The girl moans, seems to quiet, then screams one last time.
“Quiet, little one! Die my daughter, die!” the father says.
Tina was stabbed six times in the chest with a boning knife, which pierced her heart, one lung, and liver, investigators said.
More pavilions at Folkfest: Kids today, right? It’s like Bye Bye Birdie – The Director’s Cut. But much of the media have rushed to echo him. Canada’s Number One news anchor went to weirdly contorted lengths to avoid the word ‘strangle’: “Her neck was compressed, to the point she couldn’t breathe.”
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A Happy Silence
A Conservative cabinet minister says the Canadian Islamic Congress is attempting to undermine basic Charter freedoms by filing complaints against a journalist who wrote a book on the Muslim world.
Jason Kenney, the secretary of state for multiculturalism, weighed in Wednesday on the controversy surrounding columnist Mark Steyn’s bestseller America Alone. The Canadian Islamic Congress has filed complaints with federal and provincial human rights commissions based on an excerpt of Steyn’s book that appeared in Maclean’s Magazine in October.
“To be attacking opinions expressed by a columnist in a major magazine is a pretty bold attack on the basic Canadian value of freedom of the press and freedom of expression,” Kenney said in an interview. “I think all Canadians would reject that kind of effort to undermine one of our basic freedoms.”
I note that the CBC can’t bring themselves to write an original report. This one’s borrowed from the Canadian Press. But they’re hardly alone – a search on Google news suggests that virtually no Canadian media have reported on it at all.
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