What would a Liberal do?

Demonstrating that famous progressive contempt for anyone who disagrees with their agenda... Liberal dream teamer Michael Ignatieff shits all over the widow of a man killed on 9/11...

-- "Sideshow? I was a victim of terrorism. My husband was murdered. I don't like to be a victim of politics.

The issue here is the security of Canadians," Basnicki remarked.

UPDATE: Where's Iggy on Harkat?

As long as the fiberals are kowtowing to the gods of political correctness...

-- OTTAWA (CP) -- Accused terrorist Mohamed Harkat was back in court today seeking to ease strict bail conditions that accompanied his release from custody last summer.

Let's just trust everyone... right, Iggy?

Technorati Tags: Michael Ignatieff, Stephane Dion, Ken Basnicki

Do as I say... not as I do

I saw this item on Global News the other day and wondered if it was going to be picked up by the larger mainstream media. Just something to think about, the next time the CBC tries to "warn" you about, the danger of, well... anything.

-- TORONTO -- Despite Ontario's strict prohibition on smoking in the workplace, employees at the CBC's downtown Toronto headquarters are legally lighting up inside two smoking lounges outfitted with plush sofas and ashtrays, a Global News investigation has found.

Hidden cameras captured smokers puffing away and ashtrays filled with cigarette butts inside the public broadcaster's Toronto building, and the CBC says its workers can smoke in similar designated rooms at its locations in Montreal, Moncton, St. John's, Nfld., and Saint John, N.B.

The same smug, sanctimonious twits who prattle on about helmetless tobogganing and the scary, hidden conservative agenda... in direct contravention of Ontario's prohibition against smoking in the workplace, nevertheless provide smoking lounges for their own employees.

Apparently, some legal loopholes are acceptable.

CBC BULLSHIT EXTRAVAGANZA: Butting Out: The Slow Death of Smoking in Canada

Technorati Tags: CBC, smoking ban, hypocrisy

Dion couldn't whip cream

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UPDATE: Steffi ready to do, uh... "something." -- just not to Paul Martin or Bill Graham.

-- OTTAWA -- Liberal MP Tom Wappel will face unspecified "consequences" for breaking party ranks and voting with the minority Conservative government on an anti-terrorism law vote, Liberal leader Stephane Dion said yesterday.

However, several of his colleagues, including three Liberals who also sided with the government but abstained from voting with Mr. Dion's blessing, say they do not believe Mr. Wappel will be, or should be, disciplined.

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Lemme see... this vote was supposed to be a three line whip... but what does it mean when the former Prime Minister and the former interim Party Leader run away and hide on the day of the vote?

Dion should have asked himself, "Do I really want to die on THIS hill?"

-- There were 12 Liberals unaccounted for, one who abstained and one who voted with the Tories. --

NOT IN HOUSE

Paul Martin

Bill Graham

Derek Lee

Ujjal Dosanjh

Brenda Chamberlain

Keith Martin

Colleen Beaumier

Roy Cullen

Bryon Wilfert

Larry Bagnell

Don Bell

Gary Merasty

ABSTENTION

Irwin Cotler

VOTED WITH GOVERNMENT

Tom Wappel

RELATED: 84,000 Muslim Canadian Jihadis

Fully 12% of Muslim Canadians polled by Environics said the alleged terrorist plot -- that included kidnapping and beheading the prime minister and blowing up Parliament and the CBC -- was justified.

LAST WORD: Blinded by the light

Today’s vote ordered by Stéphane Dion may have effectively killed the ongoing police investigation by making it impossible to compel testimony from material witnesses.

One must question the determination of the Liberals to leave unexamined the worst act of airline terror in history and its bungled 20-year prosecution, and to abandon those whose lives were shattered by this atrocity.”

Technorati Tags: political correctness, Stephane Dion, Mr Dithers redux

I vote Kathy Shaidle...

For Federal Finance Minister...

Seriously, there is a solution to the Indian problem: give every card carrying Canadian Indian a million dollars cash.

Al Gore... hypocritical whore

All hail the ECO-HERO...

Gore’s mansion, [20-room, eight-bathroom] located in the posh Belle Meade area of Nashville, consumes more electricity every month than the average American household uses in an entire year, according to the Nashville Electric Service (NES).

Much like the gospel of St David.

RELATED: Heroes sometimes fail

"As for David Suzuki, no one seems to think it should be held against him that he spent decades spreading nonsense about overpopulation and ended up not only being factually wrong but somehow siring five children along the way."

Technorati Tags: Al Gore, David Suzuki, State of Fear

Kill em all...

Let Allah sort em out...

-- KANDAHAR, AFGHANISTAN -- Taliban fighters say they have executed dozens of suspected informants, as they hunt for the spies who helped NATO target several of their leaders in recent weeks.

Muslim custom requires a quick burial after death, but the Taliban told the families of the executed men to leave them hanging for up to three days, as a warning to others who might work for the foreign troops.

A question for Taliban Jack Layton... "Can we book you that flight to Afghanistan now? You know... the one where you negotiate peace with these guys."

That's what I thought.

Technorati Tags: Afghanistan, religion of peace, Jack Layton

Down boy... down!

Fresh off his " -- Nationalise the Oil Sands and piss off the West 2007 Tour -- " Liberal pit bull Mark Holland has now turned to biting his friends and neighbours...

-- OTTAWA -- Two Liberal colleagues are in a dogfight over two different bills aimed at cracking down on animal cruelty.

Senator John Bryden has authored a private member's bill that would dramatically stiffen penalties for those who abuse animals.

But MP Mark Holland is urging his Liberal colleagues to defeat Mr. Bryden's "placebo" bill, arguing that it's meaningless to impose stiffer fines and jail terms without simultaneously closing loopholes that allow animal abusers to escape conviction.

Thank goodness Holland is bringing his unique talents to this matter, rather than, say... wasting energy on foreign policy, or the kerfuffle over domestic security.

Hey Mark... that constant barking and messy foaming at the mouth thing?

They've got an operation to fix that.

RELATED: Lib sled dogs also off the beaten path

"It's a mistake, it's divisive and has affected the morale of the caucus. If this was brand new legislation and the Liberals didn't have their fingerprints all over it from before, then it would be different but it's not.

Technorati Tags: Mark Holland, Liberal Party, all bark, no bite

Too many chiefs...

Not enough research.

Discussions in the media and among the public are tainted by the general sentiment that "the Indians have been treated badly," as if all Indians have been treated the same, and are equally deserving, and have identical histories, and have identical legal claims.

h/t to -- SDA --

UPDATE: Unhappy Anniversary

Step aside McShifty... let's have some leadership...

“There's a tool (Mr. McGuinty) has in his toolbox — it's called being the Premier of Ontario and acting like a premier,” Mr. Tory said.

“He should say to these people that it doesn't matter who you are, it doesn't matter what your claim is. We have certain ways of resolving disputes in our society.”

Technorati Tags: land claims, history, research

So, even two thirds of...

The commie-pinko rabble at CTV, believe it or not... are in agreement with Stephen Harper on the terrorist threat...

I'm thinkin', the way things are goin'... if I saw Stephane Dion on the street today and he said, "Good morning" to me... I'd turn around real quick and head for my tornado shelter.

RELATED: See also -- Liberal dominated Senate gives Dion a good spanking...

LAST WORD: You can't handle the truth...

Some people will read that and say, “ Big deal, all journalists are liberals anyway." They’d be mostly right.

Most of us are indeed urban, middle-class liberals with that point of view embedded in our collective consciousness. That doesn’t make it right, but it’s true.

Rolling the bones...

I guess you gotta have faith.

-- If you took the entire population of Jerusalem at the time," says Dr. Taber, "and put it in a stadium, and asked everyone named Jesus to stand up, you'd have about 2,700 men.

Then you'd ask only those with a father named Joseph and a mother named Mary to remain standing. And then those with a brother named Yose and a brother named James.

Statistically, you end up with one person.

Technorati Tags: Jesus, what are the odds, DNA

Bob Rae only swings one way

C'mon guys, he got naked with Rick Mercer... that should count for something.

With Bill Graham's recently announced resignation, the parliamentary seat in Rosedale is apparently up for grabs... but not just for any candidate.

Who you nuzzle at night is apparently an important job qualification... to gay United Church minister Rob Oliphant anyway.

"I've been a Liberal all my life. Bob Rae has been a Liberal for a number of months," says Oliphant. "I think it's time for this riding to have an openly gay representative."

Representing the lesbian constituency is lawyer Meredith Cartwright...

"My political consciousness was formed in 1993 over the [failed] same-sex omnibus bill before the Ontario Legislature, and like so many of my peers, I have been working tirelessly to achieve these rights for the LGBT [lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans] community," says Cartwright.

OUTtv host Mathieu Chantelois, with the blessing of his partner Marcel is also apparently in the running.

So if you're a straight white guy with lifelong leftwing credentials, you better not show your skinny ass in this neighbourhood.

The sign is out, "Heterosexuals need not apply."

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RELATED: Birthing a Pink Dynasty?

I'm certainly not outing the man. Almost everyone in the gay community knows that Graham is gay -- even if he is married -- but mostly the press is not willing to say it in plain English.

So spake novelist, poet, filmmaker, director, actor, and drag queen extraordinaire.... Sky Gilbert.

Admittedly, Graham, instead of admitting his sexuality, deftly evades the topic.

"I was made foreign minister by the prime minister," he says. "I believe I have his support and I have the love and support of my family and friends. People might be interested in that aspect of my private life, but it is not relevant."

Say what you will about ole Sky... he isn't running some peek-a-boo game about his homosexuality... like some career politicians.

I can respect that.

Technorati Tags: Liberal Party, we're queer, we're here, Bob Rae

Safety Break!

Nobody works... nobody gets hurt.

Veteran cartoonist Robert Weber had sketched two children chatting at a bus stop with the caption, “My parents named me Zbigniew because they were drunk.”

Let's see whether the Poles break out the guns and molotov cocktails.

RELATED: Accommodation OR surrender?

When it comes to specific questions about faith at work, though, managers often have to improvise.

IBM was faced with a tricky situation several years ago when a new hire, a veiled Muslim woman, showed up for her first day of work and was told she had to have her picture taken for her employee identification badge.

The woman objected on religious grounds to showing her face.

Technorati Tags: political correctness, dumbing down, The New Yorker

Ahmadinejad pisses on United Nations

Again.

While the Canadian Supreme Court remains determined to err on the side of individual rights and freedoms, Iran takes another path.

Madman "Apocalypse Now" Ahmadinejad is so sure the Hidden Imam is just around the next corner, he's willing to battle the rest of the civilised world "to the end."

-- "The Iranian people are vigilant and will defend all their rights to the end," Iranian news agency Isna quoted Mr Ahmadinejad as saying, at a rally in northern Iran.

"If we show weakness in front of the enemy the expectations will increase but if we stand against them, because of this resistance they will retreat."

No fair play on this man's agenda.

UPDATE: Apocalypse Soon

Iranian officials have told the IAEA that they ultimately hope to install 54,000 centrifuges, a facility potentially large enough to provide fissile material for 20 bombs a year.

Technorati Tags: Iran, nuclear, apocalypse soon

Liberal dominated Senate...

Gives Dion a good spanking...

If it wasn't for bad luck, it seems Stephane Dion would have no luck at all.

-- OTTAWA -- A Senate committee says controversial provisions in the anti-terror law should be extended for three years, but it has also suggested more safeguards for civil liberties be built into the Anti-Terrorism Act.

The special Senate committee says the two elements of the act dealing with preventive arrests and investigative hearings have a place in dealing with terrorism and should be renewed.

In a rare display of "appreciation of the greater good", the Senate has decided to back the Harper government's intent to renew the anti-terror legislation for another three years.

This should have been a no-brainer for the Liberals -- after all, it was their legislation originally -- but in his headlong rush to differentiate himself from Stephen Harper, Dion apparently decided to chuck common-sense out the window.

For all his reputed intellectual credentials, I have yet to see Dion pull a rabbit out of his academic tophat.

Oh yeah... he named his dog Kyoto.

RELATED: Read the decision

The Supreme Court of Canada has voted unanimously to strike down a controversial federal procedure used to deport suspected terrorists as being a violation of life, liberty and security of the person.

With Canadian troops fighting in Afghanistan, most law enforcement and security specialists agree that it is only a matter of time, before the jihadis bring the holy war to our backyard.

While I see what the Supreme Court is saying regarding "security certificates", I think that this will all go by the wayside, once that first explosion kills Canadian citizens on Canadian soil.

At that point the families of the dead and injured will no doubt be screaming, "Where is OUR justice?"

I hope they have an answer.

Technorati Tags: Stephane Dion, Liberal Party, one trick pony

Like OHIP cards... only better

They did such a great job with those new OHIP cards... I'm sure this will work out just fine...

The Ontario government plans to start issuing new "high-security" drivers' licences by the end of the year, the Star has learned.

The government believes it can convince the U.S. to accept the new licences as alternatives to passports, which American lawmakers are saying must be used to cross the border by land as early as next January.

RELATED: Don't worry, Dalton will protect us

It has been estimated that there are as many as 18 million OHIP cards in the province, but we only have 12 million citizens.

How much of our health care budget is spent on services provided to people with counterfeit cards. The budget this year is $25.5 billion dollars, a 7.3 % increase over last year.

No wonder McGuinty lied about the "OHIP tax."

Technorati Tags: Dalton McGuinty, Liberal Party, OHIP

Worth every megaton

Which megalomaniacal Islamo-Prez is willing to risk national incineration for nuclear bragging rights?

"Obtaining this technology is very important for our country's development and honour. It is worth it to stop other activities for 10 years and focus only on the nuclear issue."

Yes... once again it's Madman Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the man who is waiting for the return of the Hidden Imam, the man who says, "Israel is a tumor" that must be "wiped off the map."

"O mighty Lord," Mr. Ahmadinejad intoned to his surprised audience, "I pray to you to hasten the emergence of your last repository, the promised one, that perfect and pure human being, the one that will fill this world with justice and peace."

And, apparently, nuclear devastation.

UPDATE: Book now... avoid the rush

Iran plans to create a paradise for women tourists by banning men from an island on a northwestern lake. All public transport, restaurants and facilities on Arezou in Lake Oroumiyeh, near the Turkish border, will be staffed exclusively by women.

"There will be no men on the island," said an official for West Azerbaijan province. "It will also boost tourism in the area."

Tourism, maybe... aggregate IQ... for sure.

Technorati Tags: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran, apocalypse soon

No room at the trough...

As Federal and Provincial Liberals sweep the Golden Sow Awards...

The Canadian Taxpayers Federation offered up its dubious golden sow trophies on Parliament Hill yesterday and named Liberal Sen. Colin Kenny as its national prize-getter for leading a $150,000 fact-finding defence committee trip to Europe.

Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty won a lifetime achievement award for his election vow not to raise taxes and signing a Canadian Taxpayers Federation pledge confirming the promise. He introduced a new health tax in his government's first budget.

Wow... who could have seen this coming?

Technorati Tags: Liberal Party, Colin Kenny, Dalton McGuinty

David Suzuki wants his mummy

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ECO-RAGE UPDATE: Mt Suzuki blows again

Albertans have always had the highest standard of living of any province in the country. What the hell do you need all this unlimited expansion, for God's sake, that's crazy," Suzuki told reporters Friday.

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I saw Saint David and his huge global warming campaign bus on the Rick Mercer show the other night. For the love of Gaia... somebody please tell me he's running that bio-cidal behemoth on recycled french-fry grease...

While Suzuki normally presents as the jolly old elf of environmentalism, it seems the glaciers aren't the only things having a very public meltdown these days.

The perpetually smiling, cherubic Eco-Hero, apparently stormed out of an interview when confronted with science that suggested, in the words of Michael Crichton... "that global warning is at best unproven and at worst pure fantasy."

I recently read the book that Barbara Kay references in her article... it's an absolute must have for anyone interested in the increasingly celebrity dominated "global warming" industry.

Oh yeah... I'm not so sure about the planet, but maybe David Suzuki needs to cool off a little.

UPDATE: Who exactly pays the freight here?

The David Suzuki Foundation also received donations from EnCana Corporation, a world leader in natural gas production and oil sands development, ATCO Gas, Alberta’s principle distributor of natural gas, and a number of pension funds including the OPG (Ontario Power Generation)...

LAST WORD: How gullible are you?

Fix the problem of climate change, but only if the Liberal Party is in charge.

And being organized by two Liberals who for years, and until only a few weeks ago, were lobbyists for industrial concerns who were aggressively opposing any attempt to regulate bromines, recognized as one of the worst contributers to ozone depletion and temperature rise...

Technorati Tags: David Suzuki, global warming, State of Fear

Forget about your RRSP...

Have I got a sizzling hot stock tip for you...

-- MEXICO CITY -- Feb 20 (Reuters) - Mexico's armored-car makers predict 2007 will be a record year, their business boosted by reports of severed heads and heavily armed drug gangs murdering police.

Mexico counted more than 2,000 gangland-style killings last year, including grisly decapitations. Killings in northern and western states have continued at the same rate this year.

Sunny, friendly Mexico... where Kevlar is King.

Technorati Tags: Mexico, stock tip, severed heads

The shooting is the least of it

Is there anything anyone can possibly do, to make the situation in Afghanistan more of a mess?

The answer, apparently, is yes...

-- In its most recent effort to clamp down on Taliban activity within its borders, Pakistan has announced that all 2.4 million Afghan refugees, most living in camps, must return home by 2009.

This will take the pressure off Pakistan, in a directly inverse proportion to the weight it drops on Afghanistan's fragile emerging democracy. It's a shift that creates more problems than it solves.

-- According to Western media reports, the camp has incubated several high-profile terrorists, including Ramzi Yousef, the mastermind of the first attacks on the World Trade Center in 1993, and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks.

Now, I'm no geopolitical genius, but short of 25 of the world's wealthiest countries taking in 100,000 refugees apiece -- and that just isn't gonna happen -- I can't see a solution here.

Is there? Anybody?

Technorati Tags: Afghanistan, Pakistan, refugee

It's a problem alright.

It's not easy to know what to do, when, like so many other third world hellholes... there's a dozen villains for every decent person.

-- “Unfortunately, the majority of the lower and upper houses of parliament are warlords and people with blood on their hands,” said Nafas Gul, a female senator for Farah province who voted against the resolution.

“It's a betrayal of the rights of Afghans.”

There are those, like Jack Layton, who would have left all the warlords to their own devices... which translated into a society based on murder and torture and wholesaling heroin to the civilised world.

And there are those who opt to attempt to move such a society into the company of modern democratic nations.

Sometimes... I believe, despite all obstacles and compromises, you have to do what you can.

Technorati Tags: Afghanistan, heroin, murder

Natural Floundering Party

There is blood in the water as Liberals begin to realise that Stephane Dion is more of a dog paddler, than a distance swimmer.

In view of his less than stellar performance, even party stalwarts are looking to toss Dion the water wings.

-- "The tendency must be to defer long-term efforts at party renewal in favour of short-term plans for an immediate election," Mr. Axworthy wrote in the letter to Mr. Dion.

So much for refitting the Good Ship Lollipop.

UPDATE: My apologies to the Doggerel Party, and indeed, to dogs everywhere...

"We think Dion swims like a cat, or possibly a brick."

-- The Corgis --

RELATED: What are Liberal core values?

Paul Martin solicited the support of the terrorist International Sikh Youth Federation in his failed bid for the federal Liberal leadership in 1990, The Vancouver Sun has learned.

At the time of Martin's spring 1990 speech, the ISYF had already been identified as a terrorist group by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service.

Four in the group had been convicted in B.C. of the attempted assassination of a visiting Indian politician. Other B.C. members had met with a young would-be assassin who shot newspaper publisher Tara Singh Hayer in 1988.

Any port in a storm, I guess.

NUMBERS UPDATE: Ipsos Reid -- Dion in a tailspin

"Even on Dion's ballot question, which is commitment to deal with global warming, someone else is ahead of him and he's tied with the guy who he points out as being the worst on this," he said.

Technorati Tags: Stephane Dion, Liberal Party, one trick pony

Gazing into the crystal ball

He screwed Ontarians over with his, "it's not a tax" health care premium... how long will it take Dalton McShifty and his oh-so-green buddies, to throw up toll roads?

If he goes with the flow, we could see a few a changes...

-- Monday, London's controversial toll zone, in which motorists pay an £8 ($15.60) daily fee to drive, was extended westward into the upscale neighborhoods of Chelsea and Knightsbridge – home to such landmarks as Harrods department store. At almost 16 square miles, it's nearly double its original size. --

Never happen in Ontario, you say?

Premier Dalton McGuinty's plans to use tolls to pay for the four-laning of Highway 69 has an Ontario truckers group "nervous" about the province's objectives.

He calls upon the Liberals to spell out their plans with a policy framework, such as a toll-road user protection act, to ensure highway users "aren't being taken to the cleaners."

I wouldn't be so sure.

Technorati Tags: toll road, automobile, urban vs rural

Re-inventing Shakespeare

Hope nobody's dreaming about an indefinite run on Broadway, cause I'm thinkin'... not a snowball's chance in Jedda...

Britain's Royal Shakespeare Company is for the first time putting on a play in Arabic at its main theatre in William Shakespeare's birthplace, Stratford-on-Avon.

"What we've done is uproot the play from its Englishness and its Christian framework - and replant it in an Arab context," he said.

From the comments...

"A Midsummer Night's Beheading"

"The Stoning of the Shrew"

Technorati Tags: Shakespeare, Arab, political correctness

Taliban Jack craps on Canada

Yet again...

-- "The tragic fact is that we lure people to come here, we give them points for their experience, and their professional credentials," Layton, speaking in front of Toronto's Union Station, said Sunday. --

Yeah Jack... we lure them, you know... like pedophiles lure unsuspecting children.

Lure them... to a country where every citizen has the right to vote. To a country that doesn't shit on people because of their gender, race or sexual preference. To a country with due process, instead of kangaroo courts. To a country where you can spout any sort of socialist nonsense... and not be disappeared by the local dictator, or opposing religious faction.

"We ask them to go and drive cabs for 10 years and the come back and do your residency and practice your medicine. It's a very, very painful situation," said immigrant Abdul Khan.

To immigrant Abdul, I say, "Buddy, you're full of cous-cous."

The unfortunate reality is, there are places in the world, most notably the so called "third world" where accreditation just doesn't meet North American standards. And I for one, want the surgeon who is operating on my child to meet and indeed, exceed the standards. If you can't write the Ontario medical board exams that existing doctors have to pass... I don't want you operating on me, my family... or the guy down the street, for that matter.

If immigrant Abdul thinks he can snaffle up a surgical residency in Baluchistan, Baghdad or Bumfuck, Minnesota... then he should, by all means, hie off to paradise.

He'd be a fool not to.

But if he decides to stay, he should understand very clearly... that he has to meet the same standard as every other Dr. Tom, Dick or Mohammed.

RELATED: The Globe wants a piece of this

They start off with the headline, "Popular MD gives up hope to settle in Canada..."

The article bemoans the sixty months it has taken this doctor to try get citizenship, then casually drops in a few little wrinkles... like moving out of the country which, quite reasonably, restarts the paperwork clock....

The doctor and his family moved between Canada and South Africa a number of times -- including moving back to his home country twice.

Dr. Kruger thinks his two-year compulsory stint in the apartheid-era South African army might be to blame. In 1987-88, he served as a lieutenant in the medical corps.

Some army units, and their medical officers, have been implicated in torture and other war crimes.

Can you imagine the international furore, if Canada actually let in someone who was accused of conducting experiments on blacks?

Perhaps the Globe needs to find another example.

Technorati Tags: Jack Layton, one people, one law, political correctness

Life altering invention

This man affected the lives of hundreds of millions of people... in retrospect, perhaps not in a good way.

-- Robert Adler, a US inventor best known for the creation of the couch potato's dream device, the TV remote control, has died at the age of 93.

His widow Ingrid said the remote was not his favourite invention, that he rarely watched television and was "more of a reader".

I wonder if, like Robert Oppenheimer, he ever regretted this one particular part of his life.

RELATED: Gone to the big info-mercial in the sky

-- NEW YORK -- Police called to a Long Island man's house discovered the mummified remains of the resident, dead for more than a year, sitting in front of a blaring television set.

Technorati Tags: couch potato, Robert Adler, spirit of invention

Is Dalton letting this law die?

One of the few things the Ontario Liberals did, that I could actually support... was shutting down the use of sharia law. Now it seems Dalton is having second thoughts...

A curious delay in proclaiming into law changes aimed at shutting down the use of sharia law in this province is cause for alarm for one Muslim spokesperson and an MPP demanding to know why the government is dragging its feet.

Oddly, although the changes were passed Feb. 14, 2006 and given royal assent shortly thereafter, they have not formally been proclaimed into law.

A spokesman for Bryant said the law hasn't been proclaimed because the "nuts and bolts of the regulations" are still being worked out with religious leaders.

Well, let's hope the amendments get proclaimed before the election writ is dropped -- and everything dies on the order paper.

You can email Dalton McGuinty and Michael Bryant to let them know where you stand on sharia law in Ontario.

Or you can let it slide too.

RELATED: Dalton is no sloth on taxes...

The McGuinty health tax will siphon $2.5 billion from your wallet this year. Some on the left might find the outstanding tax performance marred by McGuinty's solemn promise not to raise taxes, but hey, it was election time.

Technorati Tags: sharia law, Dalton McGuinty, political correctness

Quick... get Amnesty International

Here's everything you need to know about prisoner abuse in Canada... and Bloc Québécois MP Meili Faille...

-- Ms. Faille stopped short of saying whether detainees had suffered ill-treatment. But she noted that the guards' habit of observing and making notes on the men's most minute movements could be perceived as abusive. --

Allegations that guards were also making silly faces at the detainees will be investigated by a separate committee.

Technorati Tags: Oh, no... Canada, Amnesty International, for the love of god

Lloyd dismisses all charges

Just watched trained monkeys Lloyd Robertson and Bob Fife "exonerate" the Fiberals on Income Trusts on CTV's national newscast. They actually used the word "gossip", which I hadn't previously recognised as a legal term.

Of course, Lloyd and Bob just read what's on the teleprompter... they're not actually allowed to think for themselves.

You get a different opinion when you ask, say... a Forensic Accountant.

"It's just, to me, impossible that it was only person involved," said Al Rosen, a prominent forensic accountant who has accused the accounting profession, governments, regulators and police of failing to protect ordinary investors.

"So, unless this guy's a multimillionaire and has dozens of brokers he deals with, this charging of one person makes no sense."

"I can see why the RCMP wants to close the whole thing down with one prosecution. But there was just too much trading volume that particular day in just too many stocks. So it can't possibly be one guy trading on his own behalf."

Let's also not forget how forthcoming former Liberal Leadership candidate Scott Brison was, when asked about emailing a stockbroker buddy... just before the announcement became public...

When asked later whether he personally had a communication in which he might have speculated on the outcome without firm knowledge, Mr. Brison said "No," adding, "You're asking me something in terms of communication that I don't remember."

"I don't recall anything."

UPDATE: MSM not totally on board

The force set out to find a stock market schemer who whispered a big secret to serious money players who, overcome by greed, drove up trade volumes and prices of several trusts in such ham-fisted form it was impossible for market watchers not to flag the trades as suspicious once the Goodale announcement on income trust taxation rolled out a few hours later.

LAST WORD: Business as usual?

Eight years ago, The Globe and Mail analyzed 28 friendly deals over a one-year period, each with a value over $150-million, and found half of the target companies saw their share price rise at least 25 per cent between the time the two companies first began talking and the night before the deal was disclosed to the public.

Technorati Tags: Liberal Party, Income Trust Scandal, RCMP

You want terror... I'll give you terror

I'm thinkin'... you start to make "Commie Bob" Rae look like Augusto Pinochet... all the rules have truly gone out the window.

-- "For the first time in history we have a leader of the opposition who is soft on terrorism," -- Prime Minister Stephen Harper said during Question Period.

-- "He is refusing to take the advice of Bob Rae, John Manley, Anne McLellan and to back the anti-terrorism provisions that his own government put in place." --

That's Stephane "You can't get there from here" Dion.

RELATED: Dion the ladies man

Steffi slips Lady Dippers some tongue...

-- OTTAWA -- The federal Liberal party is attempting to increase its contingent of female candidates by trying to poach elected or formerly elected politicians from Jack Layton’s New Democratic Party, The Vancouver Sun has learned.

Technorati Tags: Stephane Dion, Bob Rae, we're gonna need a bigger boat

Gearing up for the threat

So much for the bucolic image of the inoffensive, unarmed British Bobby...

Armed officers will be patrolling the streets as part of a new task force set up to tackle a spate of fatal shootings in south London.

It will run alongside Operation Trident, which investigates gun crime in London's Afro-Caribbean community.

Exactly how long do you put up with this kind of crime before you take off the rose coloured glasses. I guess the answer is... until you have "a spate" of killings.

The lack of role models in some households is an issue, he admitted. "Some of these young people have got very little connection to stable community lives," he added.

Oh please, spare me the politically correct leftbot mumbo-jumbo. There's a problem here and it's time for the good guys to gear up and resolve it.

Root causes my ass... "use a gun, you're done."

UPDATE: Tony Blair weighs in

"What has happened in south London is horrific, shocking and, for the victims and their families, tragic beyond belief.

"This tragedy is not a metaphor for the state of British society, still less for the state of British youth today, the huge majority of whom are responsible and law-abiding.

"It's a specific problem and a specific criminal culture among a specific group of people."

Technorati Tags: criminal, politically correct, armed response

Don't get sick...

If you live in Belleville, Ontario...

The Belleville hospital emergency department is full and Quinte Health Care officials have asked that people seeking medical attention find alternate care such as a clinic or family doctor.

Calling the situation serious, "three elective (non-urgent) surgeries have been cancelled, patients are being transferred to other QHC sites and more beds have been opened at Belleville", said Bruce Laughton, QHC’s president and chief executive officer.

“The bottom line is that our emergency department in Belleville is full,” he said, Thursday. “People should still come to the emergency department if they feel they need to; however, they should be prepared for a long wait if it is not a critical case.”

Ontario Health Minister George Smitherman, says he can't do anything because the cupboard is bare.

Strangely enough... Dalton McGuinty and his pal George found enough cash to vote themselves a big fat 25% raise just before Christmas...

Ontario is working toward measuring and reducing wait times for all surgeries but there's not enough money in provincial coffers right now to fund the extra nurses, anesthesiologists and operating rooms, Health Minister George Smitherman said Wednesday.

At least we now know where the OHIP Health Care "Premium" went.

Let's toss these crooks out.

Technorati Tags: George Smitherman, politics of deception, 25% pay raise

Liberals accuse Harper government...

Of making partisan judicial appointments.

What I found similarly interesting was another judge related matter...

TORONTO — An Egyptian who has been jailed in Canada for nearly seven years on suspicion of possible links of al-Qaeda was ordered freed on bail this morning by a Federal Court judge.

Mohammed Zeki Mahjoub worked on a Sudanese farm for Osama bin Laden in the mid-1990s but has faced no criminal charges since coming to Canada in as an asylum seeker.

He has been jailed under the Immigration Act's national-security provisions since 2000, but is now to be freed on some form of conditional release. Mr. Justice Richard Mosley has ruled that any threat that Mr. Mahjoub may represent has been effectively neutralized by his years of being locked away.

So what the judge is saying is... "Even if he was a terrorist... he can't be one ever again."

Which is typical Liberal pretzel logic.

Who is Mr. Justice Richard Mosley?

Appointed Justice of the Federal Court and ex officio, member of the Federal Court of Appeal, November 4, 2003. Appointed as a Judge of the Court Martial Appeal Court of Canada on March 23, 2004.

This one's not on Stephen Harper.

RELATED: Liberal Hypocrisy abounds

The president of the National Liberal Women's Commission is Nicole Foster Woollatt. But besides being a top level Liberal Party executive, Woollatt moonlights as a lobbyist, and has been doing so since 2004.

Dion has already made it clear he intends to strongarm Alberta's energy sector, bending it to his will for both economic and environmental reasons.

But that same sector has hired Woollatt to help bend Ottawa to its will. That must put Woollatt in a difficult situation:

• She is being paid to influence the government, but she is currently working hard to defeat that government.

• She is working to elect a leader who has made it clear that Alberta oil sands development will be brought under severe restrictions should he come into power, but her corporate bosses are almost certainly eager to make sure he never gets that chance.

Technorati Tags: Mohammed Zeki Mahjoub, Court Martial Appeal Court, al-Qaeda

Pay no attention...

To the man behind the curtain...

A senior civil servant has been charged following a 14-month probe into the income trust investigation that helped turn the tide of the last federal election campaign.

The RCMP began their investigation in December, 2005 following a preliminary review of allegations of Liberal-inspired insider trading in income trusts.

On Nov. 23, 2005, trading of income trusts and related stocks spiked hours before an anticipated announcement by then finance minister Ralph Goodale.

Despite irrefutable evidence of trading activity in income trusts and related stocks -- prior to the actual announcement -- as well as Scott Brison's not so cryptic email to a stockbroker buddy, the Libranos kept insisting everything here was above board.

Finally we're getting some action... let's not stop here.

WHAT THEY SAID: That famous Librano misdirection...

Former Liberal prime minister Paul Martin refused to say during the campaign which staff members in his office or in the Privy Council Office knew in advance about the announcement.

During the campaign, Mr. Martin said members of his staff and the PCO take oaths to keep such information secret.

"I am satisfied that every single person in my office honoured those oaths," Mr. Martin said in January.

Technorati Tags: income trust affair, politics of deception, Liberal-inspired insider trading

The Houdini Party

While I'm sure the Liberals are patting each other on the back today for ramming through the Y2Kyoto Bill... which, in reality, will have about as much effect on reducing global warming as sacrificing virgins to the volcano god... I was outraged to hear about a very real problem caused by the Libranos thirteen year practice of progressively filling government positions with their idealogical brethren...

Records show 102,116 pardons were granted since 2000 -- including one for a first-degree murder conviction, another for a second-degree murder conviction and 162 for manslaughter convictions.

Even if I wasn't already a Harper Conservative supporter, the issue of cracking down on criminals, -- which the Liberals oppose at every turn, -- would be enough to turn my head... and my ballot.

It's time to get real about crime.

RELATED: Say what!!???

According to a National Parole Board "fact sheet" posted on the government website, pardons allow people who have proven themselves to be law-abiding citizens to have their criminal record kept "separate and apart" from other criminal records.

The record is removed from the Canadian Police Information Centre (CPIC) database and can't be disclosed without permission from the Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Canada.

"The Canadian Human Rights Act forbids discrimination based on a pardoned conviction," the NPB website reads.

UPDATE: Pierre's graven image

Peter Bowal, a University of Calgary law professor, said the judicial selection committees, which Mr. Harper has just altered, were set up two decades ago in response to rampant Liberal patronage.

When former prime minister Pierre Trudeau left office, he said there was a "stampede" of party loyalists into plum positions, including the judiciary, that successor John Turner did nothing to stop -- giving rise to Brian Mulroney's 'You had an option, sir,' zinger during a televised debate.

ASK A REAL PRIME MINISTER

Prime Minister Stephen Harper said the statistics are proof the Liberals were soft on crime while in power.

"I would like to know how he explains today the report that under his government, the National Parole Board awarded more than 100,000 pardons over the last six years, including two for murder convictions," the PM said in the House of Commons yesterday in response to a question from deputy Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff.

Technorati Tags: Stephane Dion, politics of deception, first-degree murder

I came, I saw, I shook...

We either deal with this or we don’t. We will vanquish or we will be vanquished.

If you aren’t sure about that truth, use a Decision Tree of your own.

-- h/t Alice the Camel

The real deal

I hope the Crown Attorney who negotiated the Karla Homolka deal... dreams about it every night... especially after seeing this.

-- A teenager has been jailed for at least 30 years for the murders of a woman at a christening and a student teacher.

Roberto Malasi, 18, stabbed Ruth Okechukwu, 18, to death in Walworth, south-east London, in September 2005.

Two weeks earlier, he shot Zainab Kalokoh, 33, in the head when his gang raided a christening party in Peckham, south London.

Technorati Tags: murder, life sentence, Karla Homolka

Never mind the Great Satan...

Iran can bite itself on the ass just fine... thank you very much.

-- Eleven people were killed when a car bomb ripped through a bus carrying members of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards in a sensitive south-eastern border province.

An attack of this size and nature -- a bomb strike on an elite force in broad daylight in an open street -- is unprecedented in Iran.

Things haven't been so Sunni lately.

Technorati Tags: Iran, Islam, religion of peace

C'mon Kathy, spit it out...

Tell us how you really feel.

Blogging is supposed to be rude, anarchic and distinctly "unofficial". Hiring a "campaign blogger" is like hiring a "campaign farter" or setting up a "campaign mosh pit."

Guys, I've written of Justin Trudeau that "there's never an avalanche around when you need one."

I've called Arabs "violent retards" repeatedly.

The Conservative Party of Canada would, if they thought of me at all, which they don't, dearly like me to go very far away.

She's the Jack Russell Terrier of the Blogosphere and much like that fierce little mutt... fascinating to watch, especially when she gets hold of something soft and juicy.

Coffee and Kathy, the pause that refreshes.

RELATED: Just another Invisible Woman

To Kinsella and the fembot army anyway...

The Obama campaign is running on melanin because it can't run on track record.

Having elevated a biomolecule to the status of "political virtue", what other outcome is possible, than to provoke debate about whether it is present in sufficient purity and quantity?

The lefties are always dancing around inconvenient truths... no wonder they're always trippin' over their ballet slippers.

postscript: I'm guessin' SDA will get 30,000 hits before end of day. Not bad for someone the leftbots have tagged as "beneath consideration."

Technorati Tags: Kathy Shaidle, relapsed catholic, politically correct

There's good news and bad news

First, the good news...

Winners and HomeSense customers can breathe a bit easier after a security breach was revealed last month. Company officials say Canadian banks apparently weren't affected by the problem.

The bad news... well, apparently they lied...

Thousands of CIBC and Bank of Montreal customers have been issued new credit cards from their banks along with warnings their old cards may have been used fraudulently, CBC News has learned.

Well, at least they're coming clean about the mistake...

The banks wouldn't say how many customers have been affected, what the security breach was or whether any credit cards have actually been misused. They also wouldn't disclose why they have reissued cards when other banks have not.

Crap.

Technorati Tags: CIBC, Bank of Montreal, full disclosure

UNICEF nails Child Abusers

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UPDATE: So what makes a winning country?

Here's how it's done in the Netherlands...

"It's almost a caricature that children are the ones that decide what happens within the family," says Mr Vangeert. "Their wishes become so strong that parents have to work very hard to give them what they want. Sometimes, there can be a lack of balance between the happiness of the child and that of the parent."

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If only I'd been born in Baghdad...

"The UK has been accused of failing its children, as it comes bottom of a league table for child well-being across 21 industrial countries."

CHILD WELL-BEING RANK 1. Netherlands 2. Sweden 3. Denmark 4. Finland 5. Spain 6. Switzerland 7. Norway 8. Italy 9. Republic of Ireland 10. Belgium 11. Germany 12. Canada 13. Greece 14. Poland 15. Czech Republic 16. France 17. Portugal 18. Austria 19. Hungary 20. United States 21. United Kingdom Source: Unicef

Technorati Tags: UNICEF, politics of deception, United Nations

Bodies falling from tall buildings...

Watch for a trading panic... if Dion and the Liberal Doom-meisters ever get their hands back on the levers of power...

Companies representing 40 per cent of the Toronto Stock Exchange's total market capitalization would be directly affected by a legislated system of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions caps and trading, and that impact will be negative for most of them, a new report from CIBC World Markets says.

Maybe Mark "Hugo" Holland will be "Minister of - Save the Planet - ."

Of, course, there's a good chance we don't really have to worry... when's the last time the Liberals kept their word anyway?

Technorati Tags: Stephane Dion, politics of deception, carbon market

And they're off...

It's only February and we have a promising contender for "Dishonourable Member of the Year."

Of course, lately, nothing seems to be taking a Fiberal bounce...

The latest poll shows that, on trust and competence and sleekness and teeth quality and all the usual indicators, Stephen Harper is performing way better than he did the weekend before he won the election.

And Stéphane Dion is, by most measures, doing measurably worse than Paul Martin was before he led the Liberals to their second-worst popular-vote performance since Confederation.

Technorati Tags: Stephane Dion, Stephan Harper, the big picture

Hillary, Billary... round and round

Maybe it's just me, but when you have to invoke the memory of a disingenuous serial adulterer -- who also happens to be your husband -- to drive the vote... I'm thinkin' you're in trouble.

“It helps her because we know Bill Clinton and we love Bill Clinton. We know him and his foibles. We know he loves his Dunkin’ Donuts; we know his love for burgers,” said State Representative Patricia M. McMahon, a longtime ally of both Clintons.

Yeah... that's not all he loved... is it?

Technorati Tags: Hillary Clinton, politics of deception, Bill Clinton

A little off the top please...

And you thought toboggan helmet laws were going too far...

"Please do the needful within two weeks and let your son report back to school with you immediately he is well," a letter to parents from the school said.

Circumcision is not obligatory for admission to secondary school, but a study released in December said it reduced the risk of contracting HIV/Aids.

Technorati Tags: circumcision, Kenya, surgical strike

Pop goes another weasel

While the mainstream media seems determined to only cover NATO setbacks, there is continuing good news in the War on Terror.

-- KABUL (Reuters) -- Several Taliban fighters were killed on Monday in an attack targeting a senior guerrilla leader closely linked to the Islamist movement's fugitive leader, Mullah Mohammad Omar, the U.S.-led coalition said in a statement.

There appears to have been a change in tactics. For anyone not following the minutiae of the conflict... in recent weeks there have been increasing numbers of surgical strikes on the Taliban leadership cadre.

I'm guessing the Tali-bosses are sleeping a little less soundly these days.

Technorati Tags: Taliban, Islam, surgical strike

Iranian Idol

Just when you think you've figured Iran out...

The key to Rajabpour’s success and why he is an unlikely modern revolutionary is that he succeeds as a pop entrepreneur by having a very good grasp of the laws and jurisprudence of the Islamic republic.

He’s now working on what he thinks is the perfect rock band for Iran. “It has the usual things: drums, bass, guitars . . . but with girls!”

They’re going to be Iran’s answer to the Spice Girls...

It's sometimes hard to believe this is a state that aspires to feudal theocracy...

I discovered a mass of contradictions. Tehran has one of the highest rates of cosmetic surgery among young people -- and terrible poverty.

One day I went to a pro-Hezbollah protest in the morning and a recording studio with Benyamin in the afternoon.

No wonder Ahmadinejad seems so schizophrenic.

RELATED: The Mother of all Delusions

In the interview with ABC Television in Tehran, Mr Ahmadinejad was asked if he feared a US military attack.

"Fear? Why should we be afraid?" he asked.

Hey, Mahmoud... you wanna play a little poker?

Technorati Tags: Iran, Islam, business is business

This could be very bad

I'm having a little difficulty getting my head around all the possible ramifications here...

-- STATE COLLEGE, Pa. -- A mysterious illness is killing tens of thousands of honeybee colonies across the United States, threatening honey production, the livelihood of beekeepers and possibly crops that need bees for pollination.

A recent report by the National Research Council noted that in order to bear fruit, three-quarters of all flowering plants -- including most food crops and some that provide fibre, drugs and fuel -- rely on pollinators for fertilization.

What the hell is happening here?

Technorati Tags: bees, pollination, disaster

Little dialogue in Herouxville

I, for one, am pleased to hear that these Muslim women have stepped up in Herouxville and are willing to answer questions about their faith.

-- HEROUXVILLE, Que. -- A delegation of Muslim women is visiting a Quebec town that passed a controversial code aimed at immigrants.

The women were clad in traditional Muslim headscarves as they met with about 50 residents of Herouxville, where the town council passed the list of societal norms that would-be immigrants would have to adhere to.

I'm even willing to ask the first question...

If you found out your daughter was in love with a non-Muslim man, would you...

• Support her decision, even though it is anathema to Islam.

• Forbid her to ever see the man in question again.

• Persuade the man in question to convert.

• Arrange a quickie marriage to an older man back home.

• Kill her to redeem the family honour.

• It's none of your "sons of pigs and apes" infidel business.

• Other (please elucidate).

Hey, relax... I'm just askin'.

RELATED: Then there's the Liberal line

"I think it's reflective of the fact that Canada is actually fracturing into two nations, he said.

"The urban nation where 80 per cent of Canadians live, and the rural parts of Canada which do not have a lot of interaction with immigrants and different cultures."

Which one are you... sophisticated, urban metro-sexual, or dumb-as-dirt rural racist?

It has to be true... CTV called an expert.

Technorati Tags: Herouxville, Islam, political correctness

And then the aliens...

Sorry... but if the IPCC can choose to ignore whatever science contradicts their political agenda... why would my extra-terrestrial theory be any different?

And what about those crazy, whacked out Solar Physicists?

Twenty years ago, climate research became politicised in favour of one particular hypothesis, which redefined the subject as the study of the effect of greenhouse gases.

The best measurements of global air temperatures come from American weather satellites, and they show wobbles but no overall change since 1999. That levelling off is just what is expected by the chief rival hypothesis, which says that the sun drives climate changes more emphatically than greenhouse gases do.

Solar physicists warn of possible global cooling, should the sun revert to the lazier mood it was in during the Little Ice Age 300 years ago.

What does the Intergovernmental Panel do with such emphatic evidence for an alternation of warm and cold periods, linked to solar activity and going on long before human industry was a possible factor?

Less than nothing.

But hey, screw it... it's easier just to hitch a ride with Al "Pinochio" Gore.

You can trust Big Al.

Technorati Tags: Solar physicists, politics of deception, Antarctica

Steffi the Safety Elephant

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UPDATE: 14 Feb 2007 - What now, oh wise Steffi?

Al-Qaeda has called for terrorist strikes against Canada's oil and natural gas facilities to "choke the U.S. economy."

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Stephane Dion and Taliban Jack know that Canada is "number one with a bullet" on the Taliban's shitlist. They know there's a pretty good chance that there will be a major terrorist incident... that will cost Canadian lives.

The Liberals know all this, because the anti-terrorism measures designed to prevent such attacks were introduced after 9/11 by, well... the Liberals.

So they must realise the danger of renouncing their support for those laws at this particular point in time.

Turns out... they're willing to take that chance.

-- OTTAWA -- Liberal Leader Stéphane Dion will join forces with the Bloc Québécois and the NDP next week to strike down the two most controversial anti-terrorism measures introduced by the Liberals in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

Looking for any way to try to undermine the Stephen Harper government, Stephane Dion is teaming up with Taliban Jack to try make cheap political points.

That's how desperate Steffi is... he's playing with the safety and security of Canadian citizens.

Let's see what he says when the first bomb goes off.

RELATED: Let's just suppose...

“I ran to help and I saw destruction everywhere, along with charred bodies and body parts. Blood was spilled across a big area,” he said.

“I carried six people who I thought were still alive but then realized they had died after being torn apart by shrapnel.”

What would you say then?

LAST WORD: Hmmm, a total flip... since October?

As recently as October, the Liberals had said they would support extending the provisions that allow preventative arrests of terrorist suspects and investigative hearings.

Gee... what's changed since then, Mr. Dion?

Technorati Tags: Stephane Dion, politics of deception, Jack Layton

Home Owner 1, Home invader 0

Forget about reality tv... let's play "Shank the Skank..."

A 23-year-old man who was wanted by Toronto police on a first-degree murder warrant has been stabbed to death in Montreal during a botched home invasion.

Ga-Yves Gandwimbi was fatally stabbed by a homeowner after he was involved in an early evening home robbery on Perraf St. Jan. 25, Montreal Police Const. Robert Mansueto said.

Proving the old saw about "honour among thieves", Gandwimbi was apparently abandoned and left to die at a gas station by his "home invasion homies".

Technorati Tags: Justice, home invasion, first-degree murder

More stupid-ass pot stirring...

From the Globe and Mail...

"PM drops puck, but won't divulge when he'll drop the writ"

From the G and M comments...

-- I can see the G M Sunday headline: "Harper takes a piss, but not a drop about an election -- "

Then Monday: "Harper drops his car keys, but unlocks nothing about an election"

Then Tuesday: "Harper takes his wife to dinner, drops his napkin. Is an election far off?"

UPDATE: What about real news?

In the wake of the Adscam scandal, it was revealed that of all judges appointed by the Liberals -- not advisory panel members, but judges themselves -- nearly two-thirds had personal ties to the governing party.

If one added in those from law firms with Liberal connections, the total shot up to nearly three-quarters.

Technorati Tags: Globe and Mail, politics of deception, no talent hack

Protesters attack the whaling ship...

That saved them.

-- WELLINGTON, New Zealand -- Two activists attacked a Japanese whaling ship with a bottle of acid and a smoke bomb Friday, slightly injuring two crew members after the vessel helped rescue the protesters from the icy Ross Sea off Antarctica, officials said.

Another proud moment in eco-warrior history.

RELATED: Gore, on lying for the "Greater Good"

"Nobody is interested in solutions if they don't think there's a problem."

"Given that starting point, I believe it is appropriate to have an over-representation of factual presentations on how dangerous (global warming) is... " said Gore in a May 2006 interview with Grist Magazine.

Technorati Tags: ecology, politics of deception, Antarctica

I read the news today, oh boy...

Damn that scary Stephen Harper.

Killer Karla

This is as much as I have to say about this homicidal, self-involved piece of shit.

She murdered her own sister. Then she murdered two other families' daughters. The only upside here is that this must be driving Paul Bernardo crazy.

Mahaffy was only 14 when she was abducted, tortured and murdered in 1991. Her body was then dismembered, weighted down with concrete and thrown into a lake.

One year later, Bernardo and his then-wife Homolka kidnapped French, 15, before raping, torturing and killing her. They videotaped the brutal crime, as they had done with Mahaffy.

The question is, "Why should Killer Karla get to have a "happily ever after"?" And don't talk to me about paying her debt to society... you can't "pay back a life."

How about a private member's bill to sterilise anyone convicted of murdering a child?

Make it retroactive.

A Brave Nuked World

This has to be where the Fiberals are storing Chretien's DNA...

The final design for a "doomsday" vault that will house seeds from all known varieties of food crops has been unveiled by the Norwegian government.

The vault aims to safeguard the world's agriculture from future catastrophes, such as nuclear war, asteroid strikes and climate change.

Technorati Tags: Plan B, doomsday, seed repository

Cauldron bubbling at Liberal coven...

Hey Steffi... what about the percentage of transgendered members... ah, candidates... in the upcoming elections?

In fact, while you're at it, why not just go all in... and even out all the lopsided percentages?

Dion's campaign strategists contend that declaring certain ridings off-limits to men at the outset will ultimately be fairer to all concerned. Still, they acknowledge that the measure is bound to be controversial.

"We're going to pay some price," Gerard Kennedy said.

However, Kennedy said the party's dismal record in recruiting women in the past "justifies disappointing some and requiring accommodations from others.

I'm sure a troll through the safe injection site and Vancouver's lower east side, would do wonders to square the lack of junkies and, uh... "sex trade" workers in Parliament.

Let's get the affirmative action juggernaut rolling.

Of course... maybe we already have enough old whores.

RELATED: Liberals all about helping women.

I can hear women all across Canada, cheering for former Liberal Cabinet Minister Judy Sgro's ambitions for their daughters.

OTTAWA -- Immigration Minister Judy Sgro is defending the government's policy of admitting foreign exotic dancers to work in Canada, saying the strip club business is "a strong industry" with "lots of customers."

LAST WORD: Dream candidate for Fiberals

A very single, passionate, working mom...

A fight over their soured relationship and a shared child led a South Shore Mountie to fire her semi-automatic pistol nine times through her bathroom wall and into a dirt pile while her ex-lover was still on the property.

Const. Adree Zahara described her affair with fellow officer Const. Chuck Simm as "tense" and told a probation officer that she had a "lot of conflicting feelings of guilt and uncertainty," court documents say.

Const. Zahara, an eight-year force veteran who has served only in Nova Scotia, was handed a conditional discharge Wednesday for careless use of a firearm. She was put on probation for a year and must not possess weapons, except at work, for two years.

Caution... don't try this if you have a penis.

Because you'll go to jail.

Technorati Tags: whores, junkies, Liberal Party

Nefarious Harper Cabal strikes again...

No, they haven't quite gotten around to "guns in our streets", but there is this...

OTTAWA — Canada is contributing $200-million (U.S.) toward an international effort to develop vaccines for the world's poorest nations.

Finance Minister Jim Flaherty, has been in Rome before meeting with G7 finance ministers in Essen, Germany, said Friday that the vaccination initiative could save millions of lives.

Damn you Conservative devils!

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NUMBERS: Paul Wells has the latest.

Léger polled after the he's-not-a-leader Tory ads against Dion started running in English. It's a damned interesting poll.

Highlights:

• National horse race numbers give the Harper Tories their strongest score since a week before the 2006 election, 38% to 31% for the Liberals, 14% for the NDP and 8% for the Bloc.

• Tory strength in Ontario too: 40% to 35% for Liberals.

Technorati Tags: Jim Flaherty, scary, hidden agenda, Conservative Party

Scary, unhidden lack of agenda

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UPDATE: Young Offenders Act kicks in

So I have to censor this murderer's name and picture.

The teen, who can no longer be identified under the Youth Criminal Justice Act, turned himself in early Friday morning.

Just over 12 hours earlier, Toronto police Homicide Det. Graham Gibson had released the youth's name and photo, after getting a judge's order to do so.

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I don't get it... why is the Liberal Party opposed to cracking down on the "worst of the worst" violent young offenders?

Police are hunting for a 14-year-old boy, wanted in the shooting of Kemar Long-Thompson who was killed in the city's far east end Sunday while attending a birthday party for his 16-year-old cousin.

In a move reserved for the most serious of crimes, homicide officers were granted judicial authorization to identify Xxxxx "Xxxxx" Xxxxxxx for five days in order to seek help from the public, Det. Graham Gibson said at a press conference at police headquarters this afternoon.

BACKGROUND: The murder of Kemar Long-Thompson.

This is precisely the type of offender the Conservatives proposed legislation is set to target... murderers and violent thugs who slip through under the current insanely ineffectual Young offenders Act.

Why are Stephane Dion and the Liberals so opposed?

RELATED: Remember Jane Creba?

Richard Steele pleaded guilty in an Old City Hall courtroom to being a gun runner and drug trafficker. He was arrested seven months ago during a Toronto police raid dubbed 'Project Green Apple.'

LAST WORD: Dug up by Kathy Shaidle

Here we go again: another specious racial-profiling controversy.

Al Sharpton has announced his intention to sue the New York Police Department for allegedly racially profiling black New Yorkers, based on recently released data on police stop-and-frisks.

Technorati Tags: YOA, aggravated sexual assault, murder

This shouldn't be news

If you have an incurable, communicable and ultimately fatal disease... you are legally and morally obligated to tell people... before you have sex with them.

It's just common sense & human decency.

-- REGINA -- A former Canadian Football League linebacker committed aggravated sexual assault when he exposed two women to HIV by having unprotected sex and not telling them he had the virus.

Unless you're Trevis Smith.

Technorati Tags: HIV, aggravated sexual assault, CFL

That ain't Chanel No. 5 you're smellin'

Nosiree, ladies and gentlemen, that can only mean -- it's Car-B-Q season in Paris...

Break out the wine bottles and the hi-test...

-- PARIS, Feb. 7 -- Hearings began Wednesday in a suit brought by two influential French Muslim organizations against a satirical weekly newspaper for printing cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad that had touched off international rioting.

The issue of whether revisions to the 1901 law separating church and state might be needed has become a topic of discussion in the presidential campaign.

Time once again, to hide the family sedan... preferably across the English Channel.

UPDATE: Israelis, Frenchmen, Canadians... whatever

Palestinian teenagers attacked a bus carrying a small group of Canadians and threw rocks at police.

The bus was carrying vacationing Canadians on a tour of the Mount of Olives holy site in east Jerusalem.

Technorati Tags: France, Prophet Muhammad, politics of fear

The highest bidder wins

The Iraqi government is a lot like the Liberal Party... the rot is so deep, you don't know where to stop cutting...

US and Iraqi forces in Baghdad have arrested the deputy health minister during a raid at his offices. The minister, Hakim al-Zamili, is a key member of the political group led by radical Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr.

He is accused of aiding Shia militiamen and using ambulances to move weapons, a ministry source told the BBC.

That, unfortunately, is simply the Middle East... where a Garth Turncoat is the rule and not the exception.

There will be more surgery, before this is over.

RELATED: Celestial Junk has this synopsis

For example, when Iraq’s interim government moved to arrest Muqtada Al Sadr for murder in 2004, it sparked a bloody confrontation between his Madhi army and American forces.

The coalition was given the perfect opportunity to take out Sadr permanently, yet it chose not to for reasons so illusive that one can only attributed them to Political Correctness.

Technorati Tags: Iraq, Muqtada al-Sadr, politics as usual

Mohawk Nation piles on Dirty Joos

Guess who has equal billing at the University of Toronto's... END ISRAELI APARTHEID WEEK?

It's the same old bunch of professional native protestors from Turtle Island... authors of such paranoid parables as, "Preparing for Invasion: A Guide to Current Threats Against the Mohawk Nation."

The Aboriginals even provide a somewhat jarring image of one of their solutions to oppression... which, to no one's surprise, is the same solution their Palestinian brothers are currently employing... albeit, against their Muslim brothers, at the moment.

Looking at the picture it's hard to imagine why the government is having such difficulty "negotiating" aboriginal land claims... I'm sure the clan mothers have some perfectly good explanation, for equipping clan kiddies with assault rifles.

So drop on in to the University of Toronto and celebrate Israeli Apartheid Week.

Just one suggestion.

You might wanna leave your Star of David at home.

ADDITIONAL INFO: Email -- Chancellor David Peterson -- or the University of Toronto -- Office of Donation Management -- to express your support for these worthy initiatives.

Technorati Tags: University of Toronto, Mohawk nation, politics of deception

Dalton's crapping his pants

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UPDATE: Get out the diapers.

NDP candidate Paul Ferriera -- who parlayed opposition to the 25% pay hike for MPPs and support for a $10 minimum wage into a strong campaign theme -- delivered a stunning blow to the ruling Dalton McGuinty Liberals in the York South-Weston byelection last night.

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Hey... nice to know that sometimes, the chickens DO come home to roost.

In York South-Weston, the New Democrats have tapped into a deep vein of anger over the 25-per-cent pay rise the McGuinty government awarded MPPs just before Christmas.

Their increase has become entangled with the province's minimum wage, which rose 25 cents to $8 an hour on Feb. 1.

"If politicians can give themselves a 25-per-cent raise and the Premier himself can take $40,000 into his own back pocket four days before Christmas, then surely the lowest paid working people deserve a bigger raise as well," said Paul Ferreira.

Technorati Tags: Dalton McGuinty, minimum wage, politics of deception

Monkey see... monkey do

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UPDATE: Oy, lads... wot's all this fussin' about?

Schools minister Jim Knight has ordered an inquiry into an Islamic school accused of promoting religious intolerance.

Crikey!

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When I hear about this type of thing, I always picture a ramshackle building... full of malnourished children being turned into robots.

I hadn't imagined the King Fahad Academy in west London.

A Saudi-funded Islamic school says it is removing from text books controversial passages which allegedly brand other faiths as "worthless".

In another textbook for 12 and 13 year olds, dated 2004/2005, the author allegedly says that a Koranic verse, which talks of turning people into monkeys and pigs, is about Jews and Christians.

The author quotes an early Islamic scholar as saying: "The monkeys are the Jews. And the pigs, they are the Christian infidels at Jesus's table."

The head insisted pupils were never taught religious hatred or intolerance.

Actually... they're not being taught anything at all.

They're being programmed.

Technorati Tags: Muslim, Koran, Great Britain

Global Ear-Warming

I had thought the politicians and bureaucrats -- not the scientists, mind you -- who write up the scary summary to the infamous IPCC report might have a little bit of a problem with misleading the public.

You know, especially after the scientists involved complained publicly that their work was being misrepresented.

In June 1996, Dr. Frederick Seitz, past-president of the National Academy of Sciences and president emeritus of Rockefeller University, wrote with regard to the 1995 IPCC report: "I have never witnessed a more disturbing corruption of the peer-review process than the events that led to this IPCC report."

He continued: "This report is not what it appears to be -- it is not the version approved by the contributing scientists listed on the title page."

I had foolishly imagined that somebody's ears would be burning.

Apparently though, much like abandoning newborn babies in the middle of a prairie winter... there is no such thing as shame anymore.

And no such thing as truth.

Technorati Tags: global warming, politics of deception, politically correct

This used to be called...

Attempted murder...

Try doing this with a puppy... and I guarantee you'll be hunted, charged and vilified on national television.

Apparently, with babies... you get a pass.

"She was upset, extremely confused," Staff Sgt. Kirby Harmon of the Saskatoon police service told reporters Tuesday.

"She didn't have supports in place and it added to her bad decision-making."

Uh, excuse me officer... she dumped a newborn baby on a stranger's doorstep at sunrise and walked away.

Oh yeah, one more thing I forgot to mention...

The temperature was –29 C.

LAST WORD: If you get caught driving drunk, they take away your licence. Fire a gun in your back yard, they'll prohibit you from owning firearms.

This twinkie can go out and get pregnant again next month.

Because society has loudly and clearly affirmed she's just a victim.

Technorati Tags: attempted murder, cultural bankruptcy, politically correct

I'm just sayin'...

I'm usually a freedom of speech kinda guy... but I'm thinkin' maybe Canada Post wants to rethink this brainwave.

Because you don't need a weatherman... to see which way this shitstorm's blowin'.

Technorati Tags: Canada Post, commemorative stamp, oh-oh

Attacking the Net

Who is attacking the Internet?

-- WASHINGTON -- Hackers briefly overwhelmed at least three of the 13 computers that help manage global computer traffic Tuesday in one of the most significant attacks against the Internet since 2002.

The attacks appeared to target UltraDNS, the company that operates servers managing traffic for websites ending in "org" and some other suffixes, experts said.

Among the targeted "root" servers that manage global Internet traffic were ones operated by the U.S. Defense Department and the Internet's primary oversight body.

Technorati Tags: UltraDNS, root servers, hackers

Garth misses an opportunity

The Liberals??!

"Everybody had expected frankly that maybe Mr. Turner would join the Green party. He was certainly close to Elizabeth May, the Green party leader, and had flirted with them for some time," Fife said.

Not sure Garth thought this all the way through... think of all the attention he could have focused on himself if he had just defected to Hamas.

UPDATE: Violating his own principles

From Garth's blog...

Some will wonder if the defecting Liberal should now go back to the people of his riding and have his decision ratified.

I would say yes.

AND ANOTHER: Courtesy of AGWN

I am a democrat who believes everyone in the House of Commons, including the cabinet members who make up the government, should be elected.

They should sit in Parliament as they were elected. If they decide to change parties, they should go and get re-elected.

INKLESS WELLS: It's not me, it's all those other guys

My favourite moment came when Turner - asked, rhetorically, what his decision meant for his oft-stated belief that floor-crossers should face the voters in a by-election.

"I didn't leave my party," he explained; "my party left me."

Ah. Original and persuasive! You know what this means, don't you. The entire Conservative caucus having crossed the floor to get away from Garth, they will now have to face by-elections.

All of 'em.

LAST WORD: Like Captain Kirk, Garth has a Prime Directive

Technorati Tags: Liberal Party, Garth Turner, politics of self-promotion

Sugar and Spice...

And everything nice... that's what the leftbots promise.

In the end, what exactly do they deliver?

-- And here's Satel on what she learned working on mental health issues during a Capitol Hill fellowship:

My Hill experience gave me a startling insight: Liberals and conservatives seemed to have mirror-image approaches to paternalism. Liberals made intrusive laws for the competent while conservatives preferred to rely on individuals to make their own decisions.

Conversely, conservatives preferred intrusive laws for the incompetent to whom liberals applied a hands-off policy.

Hadn't quite thought of it that way...

Funny though, the consistent inconsistency of the elastic left... as it hand-tailors supposed principles to grease the one-size-fits-all nanny state mentality.

Liberals were comfortable with public health paternalism: intrusive nonsmoking laws, taxes on unhealthy products, strict risk-averse EPA and FDA regulations...

...yet, when a person was incoherent, defecating in the streets, or freezing a limb off in the park, then -- and only then -- did the principles of autonomy apply.

h/t to SDA

Technorati Tags: Liberal, Conservative, politics of deception

How low will the Loony Left stoop?

Steve Janke has already caught one prominent Liblogger creating false propaganda videos on his blog.

One Liberal blogger is trying to counter with his own ad. But it flops. He manages to find a clip of John Baird, Minister of the Environment, stating "our party has got into a mess on the environment".

The problem is that Baird was quoting Liberal Michael Ignatieff.

And Ignatieff was talking about the Liberal Party.

But the beat goes on...

Here's the latest leftbot skullduggery... false flag entries intended to undermine conservative posts.

The Libranos must be proud of their winged monkeys tonight.

UPDATE: I did a little searching.

905neocon.blogspot.com -- the blog doesn't exist, he just uses the id -- has been busy running around Conservative blogs dripping his poison. He slags the Prime Minister, he lays out false positions.

It's disgusting.

Here's one of his sleazy offerings...

Fuck off is what i'd like to say to the many whom keep our party down. More guns, more fear, more inolerance. This is what our party says when we act like this. Why do we leave intelligent discussion to the left?

Technorati Tags: Libranos, dirty tricks, politics of deception

British soldiers... and Muslims

Zeeshan Hashmi, currently a student at Cambridge University, is a Muslim as well as a former British soldier.

His brother, Lance Corporal Jabron Hashmi, had also enlisted... and was killed on July 1, 2006 in Sangin, Afghanistan.

I do feel increasingly impatient when engaged in debates about my faith, its so-called link with extremism and its so-called rejection of democracy.

So why did my brother and I decided to join the British Army, having been born in Pakistan and being proud Muslims?

It's a voice we rarely get to hear.

RELATED: He will be remembered

The family of the first British Muslim to be killed on active duty in Afghanistan laid the foundation stone of the new Armed Forces Memorial on Tuesday 23 January 2007.

LAST WORD: The opposing point of view

LONDON, Jan. 31 — British police conducted a series of raids today, starting before daybreak, to arrest nine people whom the authorities said were terrorists conspiring to kidnap and torture a British Muslim soldier, behead him and broadcast video images of his execution on the Internet.

Technorati Tags: Muslim, Afghanistan, Great Britain

There's no avoiding it

Taking responsibility for your personal choices.

Margaret Somerville, founding director of McGill University's Centre for Medicine, Ethics and Law, says early testing will essentially eliminate Downs syndrome as women opt to abort affected fetuses in “humanity's quest for perfection.”

“It's a search and destroy mission,” Dr. Somerville said.

I'm afraid I have to part company with Dr. Somerville here.

The fact is, in an increasingly complicated, technology driven world... there is one unvarying constant in this situation.

You still get to choose what's right for you.

In this case, there is first... no way that your doctor, or the government, can force you to take these tests against your will. Second... in our current societal paradigm, there is similarly no mechanism that can force a person of conscience to abort against their wishes.

Unless the nanny-state Liberals choose to take this power away from the masses... this is still your call.

Totally.

Just as it's entirely your call... to drive on your side of the dotted line on your next trip to the grocery store. The only thing that's stopping you from slamming your two ton rubber and steel projectile into oncoming traffic, or the young kid walking his dog, or the local storefront chapter of Planned Parenthood... is you.

And you make that choice daily.

So choose.

Technorati Tags: choice, crime and punishment, life its ownself

Dion oratory inspires Canadians

The Doggerel Party has the edits for Stephane Dion's op-ed.

In the spirit of Martin Luther King, Steffi pulls out the inspirational stops -- "I... HAVE A DOG..."

"I call on the Prime Minister to cure cancer by the end of next week."

"I call on the Prime Minister to provide free daycare spaces to every child in Canada - two each..."

You go Steffi... because it's not about what you actually accomplish... it's simply about flappin' yer piehole.

Technorati Tags: I have a dream, Y2Kyoto, Stephane Dion

"We're all gonna die... I think"

If the science is so solid, maybe they could drag it out to the Arctic for the poor polar bears to live on, now that the ice is melting faster than a coed's heart at an Al Gore lecture.

Could it happen? Who knows?

But that's the point: Who knows?

You could take every dime spent by every government and NGO and eco-group to investigate "climate change" and spend it on Internet porn instead, and it wouldn't make the slightest difference to what the climate will be in 2050.

Technorati Tags: global warming, Y2Kyoto, junk science

Where there's smoke, there's gunfire

There was a big hue and cry in the msm recently, about how Scarborough is unjustly being tagged as a bad place to live.

Toronto Councillor Norm Kelly had issued a call for city council to ask the media to sign a "protocol" in which news outlets would agree to stop identifying Scarborough as the location of crimes occurring east of Victoria Park Ave.

The facts tell a different story.

Another couple who live nearby said they watched as carloads of teens pulled up around 10 p.m.

"There must have been 40 to 50 of them in very short order," the man said. "They all had their cellphones out because you could see them lit up with the little blue lights."

A 17-year-old boy was shot in the chest and pronounced dead at hospital, police said. His name was not released as police were trying to contact his family.

UPDATE: Shooting victim identified

Toronto Police have identified the teenager killed at a birthday party early Sunday morning as 17-year-old Kemar Long Thompson.

RELATED: When dealing death... is no big deal

When the pattern of black-on-black violence is occasionally broken, white fear and outrage are redoubled.

This happened earlier this month after the killing of a white filmmaker, when thousands of people marched on City Hall to demand change, a majority of them whites.

The small showing of black marchers saddened Mr. Raphael, the minister.

In the 2006 murders, he said, “99 percent of them were black-on-black, and we did not march. As a community, we could not bring ourselves to respond to that.”

Technorati Tags: Scarborough, homicide, politically correct

More welfare obviously the answer

Because the culture of dependency has been working so well for the last hundred years...

One in 10 aboriginal children is in foster care, compared to one in 200 non-aboriginal children...

I'm sure the nanny-state fiberals would agree... it's the government, not the parents, who are responsible for child-rearing. Or you can just dump the kids on the grandparents...

Esme Fuller-Thompson, an associate professor of social work at the University of Toronto, said 17 per cent of all caregiving grandparents are of First Nations origin.

"This was easily more than five times the numbers you'd expect to find given the population," she said.

Today, however, Fuller-Thompson and other researchers are finding children are usually driven into their grandparents' homes when their parents succumb to substance abuse.

Hmmm... could it be that generations of never-ending government welfare is driving all these numbers? Or have the parents just given up?

Even after midnight during a weekday, many children can be spotted roaming through the town, which sees less than five hours of daylight and temperatures often hovering between -30 and -50 during January. “I don't know,” an eight-year-old Inuit girl said, when asked where her parents were.

Don't worry about the statistical carnage, you can blame it all on Stephen Harper... despite the fact that the Liberals did nothing to improve "the problem" during their 13 years in office.

Nunavut has the highest per capita homicide rate in Canada.

This list could go on and on, but you get the point.

The fact that the aboriginal community feels that, rather than taking responsibility for raising their own children, they can just sue the government for more welfare... speaks to a serious moral and cultural deficit.

The aboriginal community could take an honest look at its own shortcomings, with an eye to taking some responsibility... but, let's face it, it's easier just to sue.

And these huge problems are all about taking the easy way out.

Technorati Tags: aboriginal, cultural bankruptcy, politically correct

Taliban raises, Nato calls...

When a 30 man contingent of British soldiers pulled out of the area under an agreement with village elders... the mainstream media dined out on stories of Taliban over-running the countryside.

MEDIA FREAKOUT:-- "Afghan peace in tatters as Taliban seize district"

The reporting fails to mention... the peace ain't the only thing that's "in tatters."

NEWSFLASH: Seems the local Tali-boss is gonna be seeing Allah a little sooner than he thought...

NATO has not released the name of the Taliban leader, but Mohammed Wali, a resident of Musa Qala, said the strike killed Mullah Abdul Gafoor and some of his associates while they were riding in a truck through a small village near Musa Qala.

On Saturday another resident, Lal Mohammad, told The Associated Press that the Musa Qala militants were being led by Gafoor. He was the Taliban's militia corps commander in western Afghanistan before the Taliban was ousted from power.

Yeeeeowww... that's gonna leave a mark.

UPDATE: A Taliban reconstruction project

The Taliban's version of reconstruction in Sangin turned out to be a rotor salvaged from a helicopter crash, inscribed with lettering in English.

They had placed the lightweight blade across a creek, and invited children to stroll across the makeshift bridge for the benefit of the camera.

Technorati Tags: whatever it takes, Afghanistan, Musa Qala

If Israel gets nuked...

It ain't gonna be because they were asleep at the switch.

Rheva Bhalla of Stratfor, the US intelligence company, told the Sunday Times on Friday that Hassanpour had been targeted by Mossad and that there was “very strong intelligence” to suggest that he had been assassinated by the Israelis, who have repeatedly threatened to prevent Iran acquiring the bomb.

I've said it before... I'll say it again.

There will be no Iranian nuclear bomb.

Or, to be more precise, it'll only ever happen over Israel's blackened smoking corpse.

RELATED: Israel takes self-defence seriously

The Israeli Government has been known to go to extreme steps to maintain its position as the only nuclear power in the region.

In 1986 when a former technician in Israel's nuclear reactor, Mordechai Vanunu, revealed to London's The Sunday Times that Israel had about 200 nuclear warheads and provided photographs of the reactor, Mossad kidnapped him in Europe. He was convicted of treason and spent 18 years in prison in Israel.

Technorati Tags: whatever it takes, Iran, Israel

I don't need a special reason

Just because.

The politics of self interest

Are you prepared to make some sacrifice in your own standard of living to help fight global warming?

Yeah... that's what I thought.

2ND LAST WORD: Says Doug... from the comments

How far are you willing to bend over if you have a niggling suspicion that you are about to be shafted?

LAST WORD: An inconvenient truth

Well, what can we do, Canada? We can offer symbolic action, and, let's be clear, nothing more.

Canada could shut down tomorrow completely, and if the projections of Mr. Gore are correct, it would have no meaningful impact on global warming.

Ever feel something wasn't quite...

The next time you're having a really bad day and absolutely nothing seems to be going right... think about this...

A Malaysian Chinese couple are considering taking legal action against a hospital for sending them home with the wrong baby nearly 30 years ago.

But wait.. it gets better.

Now the family has gone public with their story because Zulhaidi wishes to take a Chinese name and renounce Islam.

That is very difficult in Malaysia, where the Islamic authorities regard abandoning the faith as a grievous sin.

Kind of a sequel to, "A boy named Sue."

Technorati Tags: Malaysia, bad day, life finds a way

As Canadian as suicide bombing

The U.S. military has filed murder charges against the only Canadian being held at Guantanamo Bay prison.

Khadr, who was born in Toronto and lived for years in various southern Ontario communities, was arrested in Afghanistan in July 2002.

The U.S. military alleges that he killed an American medic in a grenade attack, which wounded several other American soldiers.

Just how Canadian was Khadr and his family anyway?

Like Gamil Gharbi... he was "not one of us."

As Licia Corbella wrote in an excellent article in the Calgary Sun, Gharbi/ Lepine was "Not one of us". He wasn't a hunter, farmer or gun collector, but the product of an abusive, misogynistic father.

This so obviously affected young Gamil that, at 18 years of age, he legally changed his name, trying to erase the bad juju his father had inflicted on his family.

It really doesn't matter what it says on your passport... you can't be a Canadian AND a Jihadi.

So choose.

Technorati Tags: jihad, Afghanistan, Khadr

From the people who brought you...

Peace on Earth.

Hey... they've done such a great job in places like Rwanda and Darfur... why wouldn't we hand over the environment to the United Nations?

PARIS — Hundreds of scientists, business leaders, and non-governmental organizations have called for a new United Nations agency to manage the environment.

The new agency would transform the existing UN Environment Program, into “a fully-fledged international organization that is genuinely universal,” French President Jacques Chirac told delegates to the Citizens of the Earth conference, which was organized by his government.

Hell... if it's good enough for France... I'm in.

RELATED: What's this about a Jacques Attack?

Ok, relax... it's just some Frenchified version of "Who's on First..."

The Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett said: "It is not a sentiment I share and from what I understand, the French President doesn't share it any more either."

But in France, Le Monde newspaper said the comments had seriously dented the country's credibility. "One asks what credibility the French position will now have."

Not to worry, French credibility is actually a constant... not a variable.

Technorati Tags: global warming, politics of fear, United Nations

Why is pissing on religion...

The new cool..?

People assume that because I use the sobriquet "neo conservative", I must also be a fundamentalist zealot of some stripe. Now, as happy as that would have made my dear departed, somewhat schizophrenic father... nothing could be further from the truth.

In the interest of putting that perception to rest, I reprise this entry I made last year...

I should preface this by saying that, as a 'staunchly former' Catholic, who had religion jacked up his ass a nickel at a time by fierce nuns at a Catholic primary school, this piece by Charles Krauthammer resonated to the soul I may be closer to believing I possess.

So come with me, friend and foe alike... and experience the wonder of the Church of Charles.

ps... getting naked is totally optional

Technorati Tags: Roman Catholic, secular humanist, life finds a way

A lot of hot air...

And how often do the doom-mongers bring up China?

Carbon dioxide is responsible for about 80 per cent of the world's human-generated emissions of greenhouse gases.

Most of this comes from coal, and China is responsible for 90 per cent of the rise in world coal consumption in recent years. This country is hooked on coal.

From all the noise, you'd think Stephen Harper, or that evil George Bush are the guys we'll really have to keep an eye on, but the reality is a little different...

The latest projections show that China will overtake the United States to become the world's top producer of carbon dioxide by 2009, nearly a decade quicker than projected in previous studies. China will soon produce 20 per cent of all the carbon dioxide on the planet.

So with all this potential for environmental mayhem and the effects on the health of its citizens, China must be a huge proponent of the Y2Kyoto accord.

Wrong.

China and other developing countries are exempt from the Kyoto Protocol's rules for cutting the production of greenhouse gases.

And that's the way things work... in the real world.

Technorati Tags: global warming, Kyoto, China

Resistance is futile...

The best CTV push-poll yet...

The question here isn't, "Do you believe in Global Warming", because, of course... only an idiot doesn't get it... but, "When did you become convinced global warming is caused by human activity?"

I'm amazed they actually included a fourth option at the bottom, for those of us who don't blindly buy into the premise simply because Dr. Did Little named his dog Y2Kyoto.

I'd have to guess crusty, old Craig Oliver, dreamin' about one last shot at the Senate, is the left-leaning Gumbybot who thought up this oinker... well, either him, or the real Gumby.

Despite the obvious bias and implicit scorn for anyone who won't bite... 34% of participants registered "their ignorant disbelief."

Technorati Tags: global warming, politics of fear, CTV

Its 9 o'clock...

-- Do you know where your children are? --

He was in kindergarten, in Grande Prairie, Alberta when he first looked up at me with tear-filled eyes and said the war was over and they didn't wait for him. That was Desert Storm.

It was the first I knew of his desire to go to battle but it was not the last.

h/t to Celestial Junk

Technorati Tags: Iraq, 82nd Airborne, mother love

A long, hard road to democracy

You don't turn a 15th century feudal theocracy into a democratic state overnight... but that doesn't mean it isn't worth the fight.

And there are the usual setbacks...

For instance, the Afghani parliament has once again managed to cover itself in glory.

KABUL - Afghanistan's warlord filled parliament has come under criticism after passing a bill granting immunity from prosecution to all Afghans involved in the country's 25 years of conflict, despite calls by human rights groups and the United Nations for war crimes trials.

Parliamentary officials said it covers Mullah Mohammad Omar and other Taliban figures, as well as former prime minister Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, a warlord who now heads his own militant group, and several sitting members of parliament and senior government officials.

Hey... if it was easy, Bill Clinton could have done it.

Technorati Tags: Afghanistan, democracy, religion of peace

Guess who I-ran into?

Seems the Iranians aren't content simply to stir the pot in Iraq... they have a Gaza branch of Murder Inc. as well...

Overnight members of the presidential guard stormed the Islamic University - long regarded as a Hamas bastion - parts of which were later set on fire.

A Fatah official said seven Iranians were arrested at the university and an eighth blew himself up during the operation. Hamas denied that any non-Palestinians were inside the campus.

And it looks like business is booming...

Fresh fighting in the Gaza Strip has left at least 20 people dead over the past 24 hours, after a truce between the Fatah and Hamas factions collapsed.

Technorati Tags: Iran, Hamas, religion of peace

Pop Quiz: What do leftbots...

What do leftbots like Libnip have in common with Arab dictatorships?

They're both actively engaged in deciding what's acceptable for you and I to read.

Obviously, when they put their fingers in their ears and start chanting so loudly they can't hear you... you know they're starting to panic.

-- It's time to reclaim the word "critical." --

Critical thought, free speech... that's MY Canada.

UPDATE: Worshipping at the Church of St. Stephane

The Renewal of Green Vows

Celebrant: Do you renounce fossil fuels and all their emissions?
All: We renounce them. Next year, or maybe the one after.

Celebrant: Are you prepared to turn off the lights and sacrifice your economy?
All: There will be no economic consequences.

Celebrant: Are you willing to save the planet by reducing your 2% contribution to greenhouse gases while the rest of the world may or may not?
All: We are Canada. Somebody notice us, please.

Technorati Tags: censorship, Liberal Catnip, principles

Murderers and rapists...

Deserve real time.

The government is considering possible changes to the Youth Criminal Justice Act that would sharply increase the number of young offenders sent to adult jails, according to a memo obtained by CTV News.

The memo sketches a "preferred option" that would "give the Crown discretion to use adult criminal justice procedures for youths aged 16 and 17 who are charged with murder, attempted murder, manslaughter or aggravated sexual assault."

I'd sooner pay to keep murderers in jail, than for senators to vacation in Dubai.

UPDATE: Well, speak of the devils

The 19-year-old former high school football captain and first-year Mohawk College business student was attacked in May 2001 and beaten with sticks and bats after leaving a house party with his girlfriend.

He died the next day from head injuries

Sam Nop, 24, and Fadil Mujku, 23, can apply for parole in six or seven years.

Due to a two-for-one credit for time served, Stephen Papadopoulos, 26, was released from Maplehurst prison last night. He was convicted of manslaughter.

UBER-UPDATE: The Big Apple bites back

A man who shot two undercover police officers in the head has become the first person in more than 50 years to be sentenced to death in a federal case in New York and could become the first man executed there since the 1960s.

Technorati Tags: Youth Criminal Justice Act, Stephen Harper, murder

Leahy strangely silent on Arar

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UPDATE: -- An Arar rundown --

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I was taken to the woodshed last week, by left-leaning blogonauts over my stated willingness, to... rather than join the genuflecting hordes begging for Mr. Arar's forgiveness... wait a week for more facts on this murky affair to surface.

You'll recall that, last week, in front of the rolling tv cameras, Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy was almost insane with rage...

"We knew damn well if he went to Canada, he wouldn't be tortured. He'd be held and he'd be investigated. We also knew damn well if he went to Syria, he'd be tortured.

Now that they've been briefed by the Justice Department, Leahy and fellow senator, Arlen Specter, suddenly don't have much to say...

WASHINGTON — Two U.S. senators who have been briefed on the Maher Arar case say they have a lot more questions.

But Democrat Patrick Leahy and Republican Arlen Specter clammed up about what they were told by Justice Department officials on Thursday during a meeting that lasted an hour and 40 minutes.

C'mon boys... it's vindication day!

Or is it?

Oh well... I can wait.

Technorati Tags: Maher Arar, Patrick Leahy, Syria

Stop... drop... and cover

If you can't stand the heat, OR free speech... get the hell out of Hiroshima.

Kinsella tosses the ladyblogger bomb back to Liberal Catnip... triggering a predictable schmaltzy, partisan lovefest... that could've made the Romper-Room lady blush.

February 1, 2007 – Here’s a great way to start February – and, so, I hereby and herewith adopt this list.

Despite Libnip's petulant refusal to even allow a mention of the most popular blogger in Canada... who also happens to be a woman...

That decision is not open to debate. Period. Anyone who attempts to dispute that decision will have their comment removed since I'm not interested in wasting my time reading any defences of her behaviour.

Where exactly is Warren Kinsella on this type of censorship, the suppression of free speech?

The short answer is nowhere... he apparently can live with it.

From Supreme Arbiter to Supreme Asskisser in one fell swoop.

UPDATE: Blogger Lovefest gets a facelift

Shsssssshhh...

Like those black and white photos of the politburo, where some old guy just disappears, there's a new version of the post at Liberal Catnip.

I'm grateful to all of you who have broadened my horizons and please if your blog wasn't linked to in that list, don't take offense.

Unless, of course... you're that evil Kate.

HYPOCRISY UPDATE: -- Warren, ok... enough with the tease

Lemme see... you're ok with a little stalinism on the blog thing above... but suddenly this other info has to be "set free?"

One former politician has told me that the Liberals and the Conservatives have made a deal — silence about the $300,000 in exchange for silence about the income-trust affair with its allegations about leaks from Liberal insiders to Bay Street.

What of the Canadian news media? What is their excuse? What possible reason could they have for ignoring an extraordinary story like this one? Scandal fatigue, perhaps. Fear of lawsuits, maybe. But no one can deny the Gazette’s modest plea — namely, that “we need to know more.”

Well hell buddy, you're the ultimate insider... let 'er rip!!! -- Don't just point out how cowardly everyone else is... man up -- .

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Another reason to vote Conservative...

Think this would happen under a Liberal government?

OTTAWA — The federal government has called in the RCMP and ordered a forensic audit of the Kanesatake Mohawk Police Service after allegations of mismanagement of funds.

Oh yeah, it ain't just about someone making off with petty cash...

7 Glocks, 6 Tasers and 2 Berettas... No, that's not a parody of the Twelve Days of Christmas.

It's a list of Kanesatake Mohawk Police weapons that have disappeared.

Technorati Tags: Kanesatake, accountability act, Conservative Party

Politics, ideology and scaremongering

Margaret Wente is taking questions live at the Globe.

Kyoto always was unworkable for a number of reasons. The only countries that are meeting their Kyoto commitments are those whose economies have seriously declined (like Russia).

In all the other signatory countries (not just Canada), greenhouse gas emissions have increased.

It's also worth keeping in mind that even if all the Kyoto targets had been met, the reduction in greenhouse gas emissions would have been negligible.

A singular truth on this much ballyhooed topic...

Only one thing is for sure: Science isn't all that is driving this debate. Politics, ideology and scaremongering are too."

GOTCHA UPDATE: Let's not forget outright lies

One Liberal blogger is trying to counter with his own ad. But it flops. He manages to find a clip of John Baird, Minister of the Environment, stating "our party has got into a mess on the environment".

The problem is that Baird was quoting Liberal Michael Ignatieff.

And Ignatieff was talking about the Liberal Party.

Technorati Tags: global warming, politics of fear, Liberal Party

"Keepin' it real" in Iraq

The problem with Iraqi reality TV shows is Iraqi reality.

This week that cruel fact caught up with Diya al-Meqoter, a prominent Shia academic, who starred as the judge on two popular shows offering business loans and university places to impoverished fellow Iraqis.

He was ambushed and shot dead in the street.

Technorati Tags: Iraq, reality tv, religion of peace

PBS does Generation Next

And it's not good news for everyone.

Generation Next -- those young adults born in the 1980s -- are by and large healthier than their recent predecessors. Compared to the late 1980s when Generation X came of age, drug and alcohol use, teen pregnancy and teen suicide are all down.

Unfortunately there's a huge anomaly in the statistics...

One out of three black men in this generation will go to jail or prison by the time he is 35 years old, according to Harry Holzer, co-author of "Reconnecting Disadvantaged Young Men."

From 1979 to 1999, the risk of imprisonment for black high school dropouts by the age of 30-34 rose from 17 percent to nearly 59 percent, according Western's calculations. That rate is more than five times what it is for white high school dropouts.

It's being characterized as a "lost generation."

Technorati Tags: Generation Next, crime and punishment, statistics

Got your honour back now?

The recent ordinance against "stoning" and likeminded barbarity, passed in Quebec last week, had a very serious point... some behaviour is simply unacceptable.

Another atrocious example of "justice" from Pakistan.

KARACHI: A group of men has been accused of raping a teenaged girl and forcing her to parade naked through her village because one of her relatives eloped with a young woman from the men’s family, police said on Wednesday.

Such attacks, known as honour crimes because they are committed in response to a perceived slight on a family’s honour, are common in Pakistan, especially in backward, rural communities.

Perhaps some of the professional activists protesting animal testing, or greenhouse gases, could find some room on their busy schedules for "honour crimes."

I'm guessing this is just the tip of the iceberg.

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