“Would it be mean to tell Africa about the global economy?”
A Bad Week To Be A Liberal
Greg Staples is all over the carnage;
The first event in Halifax two weeks ago — a cocktail reception featuring Leader Stephane Dion and six of his erstwhile rivals — attracted about 60 people who paid $250 each. After expenses, however, party insiders say the event netted only about $5,400.
$5,400 down.
$3,994,600.00 to go.
Now that’s some kind of organization. Nearly $10,000 to pull off a cocktail reception that would have fit inside the Delisle community hall with half the floor space roped off. What were they serving for drinks?
Speaking of needing a drink…
The furor over the year-end grants to groups seen to be friendly with the Liberal Party began last April with a story that the Bengali Cultural Society received $250,000. The story had legs because one of the organization’s executives was vice-president of the riding association of Liberal MP Maria Minna.
The next day, we found out that the Iranian-Canadian Community Centre was given $200,000 just three weeks after it registered as a charity and that its directors included a Liberal candidate in the coming election.
More at the link.
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Someone Call The ACLU
Just kidding.
At LGF;
I’ve received an email from Stanislav Shmulevich, who has been arrested in New York for putting a Koran in a toilet at Pace University. And his case is even more outrageous than we first reported.
First, Shmulevich was arrested and jailed for 24 hours. Second, he’s not facing misdemeanor charges—he’s being charged with two felonies, criminal mischief and aggravated harassment.
Felonies. For putting a book in a toilet.
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Mr. Shmulevich is caught in a Kafkaesque nightmare right out of the Soviet Union, and it’s all happening at the demand of the Muslim Student Association and the Council on American Islamic Relations.
Discussion at the New English Review.
Iraq 1 – Terror 0
Allies In Sustainable Poverty
Clearwater River Dene First Nation and the neighboring community of La Loche are among the most economically challenged in the province, with all the accompanying social ills – crime, substance abuse, welfare dependence. But save your sympathies. Apparently, they like it that way;
Christopher Hopkins, the president and CEO of Oilsands Quest Inc., gets a steely look in his eyes when you ask him about the reason he’s moving the bunkhouses from one of the two camps his company had constructed at the Axe Lake oilsands project in the northwestern corner of Saskatchewan.
He’s moving the camp infrastructure, which can house up to 100 workers in hotel-level comfort, to the Alberta side of the border, where Oilsands Quest also has oilsand leases on land contiguous to its Saskatchewan property.
The move west to Alberta is more than symbolic to Hopkins, whose company was in the news this past June when road access to his camps was cut off on Saskatchewan provincial Highway 955 when members of the Clearwater River Dene First Nation, under the direction of Chief Roy Cheecham, refused access for vehicles or people headed to the Oilsands Quest camp.
The blockade left a lasting impression on Hopkins, who says he has no desire or plans in the future to meet with Cheecham again.
“I have told the chief. I have told anyone who will listen. We will never be caught in a blockade like that again,” Hopkins said. “And I mean it.”
That’s not the only barrier to development. Cheecham has allies in Regina.
Hopkins won’t say anything bad about the Government of Saskatchewan, but notes he had to submit 18 copies of his application to various government offices in Regina for the right to lay down more than 900 kilometres of new seismic lines, plus do additional drilling into the bitumen formation.
Many in the industry speculate that Saskatchewan’s oil sands deposits may rival those of Alberta.
Now you know why they speculate.
Related: Ending the desecration of Father Sky and Mother Earth through the miracle of outdoor plumbing….
An Old War Dog
Yes, I know there are legions of liberals, so blinded by their certainty that the Supreme Court cheated Al Gore out of the presidency that they actually profess to believe that there were no ties between Al Qaeda and Iraq. To them I would say consider this: Syria had ties to Al Qaeda; Jordan had ties to Al Qaeda; Egypt had ties to Al Qaeda; Yemen had ties to Al Qaeda; Somalia had ties to Al Qaeda; Saudi Arabia had ties to Al Qaeda; the various Gulf monarchies had ties to Al Qaeda; Iran had ties to Al Qaeda; Pakistan had ties to Al Qaeda; Indonesia, the Philippines, North Korea and several of the former Soviet satellites under Muslim rule had ties to Al Qaeda.
But not Iraq.
The Sound Of Settled Science
“It is clear to me that those who espouse and promote acceptance of the “killer AGW” scenario are highly threatened by serious auditing of the surface record and the network used to obtain it. I have been in both academe and industry, with a career spanning 25 years. I am responsible for world wide efforts with budgets well into the millions. I can well recognize when someone is trying to hide poorly done, low quality science. In this case, I smell blood.“
Ouch
But let’s be real here. The fact is, Hillary was wearing a fairly low cut summer top. She was not displaying cleavage, as the shot on Drudge indicates. Someone else wearing the same outfit might have done. But Hillary Clinton does not have cleavage to display. Period. Indeed, Hillary never forgave her mother-in-law, Virginia Kelly for pointing this out decades ago to the young Bill Clinton, a cleavage man if ever there was one.
Why Minivan Drivers Rule The World
Hey boys – mind looking up from your beers for a second so I can draw something to your attention?
If you – meaning “you” in the 18 – 30 male demographic – could rouse the sense to haul your asses to the polling booth in meaningful percentages, you might find yourselves with the political clout that helps prevents these legislative assaults on your property and liberty;
Police in Canada’s most populous province have the right to seize and destroy any car that has been modified for street racing, Ontario’s top prosecutor claims.
“If we can establish someone has parts and they’re juicing up their car — obviously for the purpose of street racing — then we can seize those vehicles,” Ontario Attorney General Michael Bryant said Wednesday, according to the Canadian Press.
“We will seize it and you will never see it again. We will crush your car, we will crush the parts.”
“We don’t need to wait until that car hits the road fully loaded,” he said, adding that modified cars are as dangerous as explosives, capable of causing catastrophic damage.
Mr. Bryant was also an architect of Ontario’s recent pit bull ban, which was designed to “protected from the menace” of “dangerous dogs,” which he characterized as “nothing but a loaded weapon waiting to go off.”
Otherwise, get used to that squeeze of nanny’s hand on your testicles. She ain’t nearly done with you yet.
John Edwards
The Only Real Mystery
Is why something like this hasn’t happened long ago;
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I guess in a way, it has.
Graphic video. More here.
And thoughts I can’t help but agree with.
While the tragedy is profoundly distressing, it is even more depressing to realize that the deaths of these men were as pointless as the story they were covering.
Four good men lost their lives because unimaginative television news directors over the years have come to prize live video collected with expensive toys over stories characterized by greater subtlety and significance.
No question.
CBC – AOL
Since August 2005, advertisers who want to buy ad space on CBC.ca, the public broadcaster’s web site, are directed to AOL Canada.
The CBC refuses to disclose any financial details about their arrangement with AOL. All that can be confirmed is that it is a revenue sharing arrangement, with AOL receiving a percentage of CBC’s online ad revenues. The exact percentage AOL receives and how much money the deal has brought in for the CBC is not known.
“We have an arrangement with AOL,” a CBC spokesperson told PoliticsWatch. “They act as sort of an ad rep for us. The Web stuff is kind of a niche product and they have expertise there so we’re happy to have their assistance.”
The CBC did not request bids for advertising partners nor was this requirement publicly competed. The CBC simply approached AOL Canada on its own, a spokesman confirmed to PoliticsWatch.
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CBC’s ad deal with AOL Canada isn’t widely known nor is it widely promoted. In fact, it is not mentioned in any of the CBC’s reports to Parliament. Even some MPs who have been studying the CBC were unaware of the deal.
Go Cheat Neutral!
The best part? You can trade in your Canadian Tire money for internet porn offsets.
That Al Gore – he just thinks of everything.
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A Canadian In Dubai
Bert’s job in Afghanistan was managing a team of Afghans to work on the ground with farmers, government officials, NATO forces, and aid agencies to try and bring drug production under control in a country that produces over 90% of the world’s heroin. He lived and worked in Kandahar, in the middle of a war zone, as an official with the Ministry of Counter Narcotics. Over the course of the 13.5 months that he was there, 44 of our country’s soldiers died in Kandahar, along with hundreds of Afghans including several with whom Bert worked directly. Bert himself narrowly avoided being killed several times by suicide bombers, including one whose remains rained down on his office after detonating short of his target. Despite these challenges, his team helped reduce the heroin yield by 18% in Kandahar during the first year, and similar results are anticipated this year. Bert credits this achievement to the Afghan members of his team, who risked death by both working in counter-narcotics and by working with Westerners.
Bert Tatham was sentenced to 4 years in prison in Dubai after a search traces hashish in the seams of his clothing during a stop-over on his flight home.
You can read more here.
When The Moccasin Is On The Other Foot
Canadian aboriginal leaders have for decades flown all over the globe eagerly denouncing this country’s human rights record against them.
What none has ever mentioned (at least none that I know of) is that aboriginal governments are themselves exempt from Canada’s most fundamental human rights laws.
The very rights violations they accuse non-native governments of, their own governments are unaccountable for.
Thanks to a “temporary” clause in the 1977 Canada Human Rights Act (CHRA), charges of bigotry, discrimination and harassment of the kind frequently levelled against non-aboriginal society cannot be brought against native councils and organizations.
After three decades of being shielded against the provisions of the CHRA, it is past time aboriginal governments were brought under the act’s mandate.
Equality cuts both ways.
Abe Lincoln once said that “he who would be no slave must consent to have no slave.” It works the same for aboriginals and human rights. The very rights aboriginals insist they be granted they must themselves be prepared to grant their own people — and be held accountable when they do not.
Not according to the opposition. Here’s a quote from Anita Neville, the Liberal aboriginal affairs critic that’s deserving of some sort of award;
“Human rights rammed down a community’s throats are not human rights,”
Since when, exactly?
“They won the riots, they lost the war.”
Debbie Schussel on the death of Detroit;
Forty years ago today, several days of race riots began in Detroit.
On July 23, 1967, Black Panthers and assorted other Black extremists (with White hippies and far-leftists backing and encouraging them) eventually wrote their political epitaphs with it (though their movement unfortunately died a long, slow death–far past its time, if there ever was a time). But they robbed and killed Detroit–and a significant portion of Black America with it.
Black Panthers and their radical allies, supported by a thousands of Black Detroiters, rioted for days, starting fires and destroying the city. They wanted more power in the city. They wanted a Black Mayor, a Black police chief, a Black city council.
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With a pimp daddy mayor, Kwame Kilpatrick, who dresses like a Gangsta and is involved in scandal after scandal, the city is the laughing stock. But, hey, the Mayor made an appearance on “Living Large,” a now-cancelled national hip-hop show. Thank you very little. Kilpatrick, whom I like to call Kwame the Kingpin, was suspected in the drivebuy shooting of “Strawberry,” a stripper who allegedly performed in the Mayoral Manoogian Mansion for “His Honor.” He used his 21-bodyguard posse of police officers to serve as his personal harem-recruiter and to ferret him to and from different girlfriends.
These are the people who betrayed Blacks in Detroit, not the Whites who took White flight (followed by Black flight) from the city and gave them free reign to “run” the city . . . and fail magnificently. And, yet, they still blame even this on the White man.
Read it all.
Photo Tour – the “Fabulous Ruins Of Detroit”. (h/t)
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