Liberals balk on gun crime

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UPDATE: Libs stall Accountability Act

OTTAWA -- The Conservative government has begun picking out planks for its re-election campaign as it faces the overhaul or outright stalling of Prime Minister Stephen Harper's cornerstone ethics legislation by the Liberal-dominated Senate.

Treasury Board president John Baird attacked the "unelected" Liberal-dominated Senate for revamping the government's accountability bill.

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Jason Kenney, Parliamentary Secretary to Stephen Harper is making a plea for Parliament to cooperate in passing the Conservative's 'get-tough-on-crime' legislation.

“We would be delighted to pass all of those bills in this place forthwith and in the liberal-controlled Senate tonight,” Mr. Kenney said. “But we don't think the Liberals are serious about this... We want to act. We'll co-operate with any party to do it right here, right now.”

Apparently the Liberals just can't support the 'getting tough' part. Let's face it, if you're not prepared to crack down on thugs who use guns and violent, repeat sex offenders... who are you actually willing to go after?

Other parts of the Tory's justice reforms need more consideration, the Liberals said, including mandatory minimum sentencing for gun-related offences and the so-called three-strikes-you're-out legislation for violent and sexual offenders.

The Liberals spent over a billion dollars on the Farmer Bob Rifle Registry, knowing that it was an empty gesture that would provide opportunities for endless soundbites about 'fighting crime'. It also put hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars in the hands of corporations and consultants.

Does that sound at all familiar?

Now that the Conservatives are actually proposing to crack down on the most brazen, violent offenders in society... the Liberals are running for cover.

So, the next time you read about a rape, or a murder, or someone killed with an illegal gun, remember that it's Bill Graham and the Libs who are losing sleep over the shooter's rights.

Just one more thing to keep in mind, come the next election.

LAST WORD: Why not use the Gun Registry?

There are always media quotes about police using the 'gun registry' 5,000 times a day. If that's true why is it useless here?

"Now the focus of the investigation is to determine the origin of the weapons seized and that will take some time," Palmer said.

"We need to know their background and whether they are registered or unregistered."

Palmer said it will take some time to trace the guns and police officials won't be commenting until they have more details.

Well, mostly because it's useless... period. As the Auditor General of Canada has stated previously, the Farmer Bob Rifle Registry is full of errors, dubious data and outright falsehoods.

In short, a waste of over a billion taxpayer dollars.

Technorati Tags: law-and-order, Liberal Party, Conservative Party

Mainly because of the meat

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UPDATE: 27 Oct 2006 - Now Hilali wants political "cleansing"

Asked today if he would step down, the cleric, who was welcoming worshippers to Friday prayers at the mosque, responded with a verbal assault on the US President, saying: "After we clean the world of the White House first".

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The G&M is covering the story of a senior Imam in Austrailia who has some revealing ideas about how Islam views women.

In short, women are meat. Oh yeah, if you don't package the meat properly, you can't really expect it not to be raped... uh, well, that is to say... spoiled.

Let's see how many Liberals stand up in the House of Commons to protest this absolutely unacceptable "unveiled threat" to women.

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA — One of Australia's senior-most Islamic clerics has triggered outrage after comments reported Thursday comparing women who don't wear a headscarf to “uncovered meat” who invite rape.

Mr. Hilali was quoted in the Australian newspaper as saying in the sermon: “If you take out uncovered meat and place it outside ... without cover, and the cats come to eat it ... whose fault is it, the cats' or the uncovered meat's.”

“The uncovered meat is the problem. If she was in her room, in her home, in her hijab, no problem would have occurred,” he was quoted as saying, referring to the headdress worn by some Muslim women.

If you listen really hard, what you'll hear is the sound of Liberals and new Democrats saying bupkas. They're a little busy defending Canadian women against Peter MacKay.

UPDATE: Imam weighs in on Sydney Gang Rape Trials

This isn't a one-off gaffe, as the Sheik has now started to spin. If the meat gets 'tenderised', it's their own fault...

While not specifically referring to the attacks on four women, for which a group of young Lebanese men received long jail sentences, Sheik Hilali said there were women who "sway suggestively" and wore make up and immodest dress ... "and then you get a judge without mercy [rahma] and he gives you 65 years... but the problem all began with who?"

Sheik Hilali, the top cleric at Sydney's largest mosque, is considered the most senior Islamic leader by many Muslims in Australia and New Zealand.

SIDENOTE: Who is Sheik Hilali?

A man who doesn't learn from his mistakes, I'd say.

Four years after his arrival in Australia in 1982, the then Labor immigration minister Chris Hurford tried to deport him for allegedly inciting "hatred", but failed because of pressure from other Labor figures.

Sheik Hilali again avoided being expelled from the country in 1988 following comments he made about Jews being the "underlying cause of all wars".

Labor's then new immigration minister, Robert Ray, agreed not to deport him after the cleric insisted he was misquoted.

LAST WORD: No big deal, says Muslim Association

The Lebanese Muslim Association in Sydney says it will take no action against one of the nation's most senior Muslim clerics over his comments that scantily dressed women invite sexual violence.

Technorati Tags: Belinda Stronach, Liberal Party, religion of peace

Is this important to you?

Apparently the Liberals would rather chase after cheap political points, than do something that would benefit all law-abiding Canadians.

I guess the real test of approval on the Conservatives 'tough on crime' legislation will have to wait for an election call.

"Canadians elected this Parliament - not just the Conservative party. They expected all parties to be tough on crime," Harper said as he left the House of Commons on Wednesday.

He went on to promise that "we'll keep trying to bring forward some tough-on-crime legislation but at some point, if the opposition won't pass it, they'll have to answer to the Canadian people."

I'm not sure why the Liberals are so determined to throw their support behind the people who perpetrate crimes, rather than their innocent victims.

Say... wasn't it also the Liberal Party's Court Challenge Program that gave prisoners in federal prisons the right to vote?

I just don't get it.

Technorati Tags: law-and-order, Court Challenge Program, Conservative Party

"Less jail, more hugs", say Liberals

Here's an experiment.

The next time someone tells you that there is less street crime nowadays, ask them if they leave their doors unlocked overnight. Ask them if they have a security system for their home, or in their cars. Ask them if they let their kids wander around the neighbourhood, like I used to do when I was a kid.

Remember this moment, the next time you read about someone being victimised by thugs.

One of the Conservative government's key law-and-order initiatives has been dealt a critical blow by opposition parties, who have effectively gutted a bill that would have severely curtailed the use of house arrest and jailed about 5,500 more people annually.

And next time around, unless you feel that Belinda & "Puppygate" is the most important issue facing Parliament these days, give Stephen Harper a majority government, so we can toughen up the ridiculously "soft on crime" legislation we have in this country.

Because, if it happens to you or your family, you don't get to pause, rewind and re-record your lives.

Technorati Tags: law-and-order, Belinda Stronach, Conservative Party

Fed Libs, Dippers MIA on Caledonia

Dalton McGuinty's latest tactic on the Caledonia file has been to try bumping it up the food chain to the federal government in Ottawa.

Strangely, the siege and the huge monetary outlay thus far, seems to be a non-issue for Bill Graham and Taliban Jack.

While Caledonia is very much on the minds of the opposition parties at Queen's Park, it isn't in Ottawa. There are 65 Liberal and NDP MPs from Ontario, but not one has asked a Caledonia question since the House of Commons resumed sitting on Sept. 18.

"We have 10 questions we get to ask a day," explains Pat Breton, spokesperson for interim Liberal Leader Bill Graham. Echoes Brad Lavigne, spokesperson for NDP Leader Jack Layton: "There are many, many issues we just can't get to."

So let me get this straight... the opposition parties feel it's ok to waste all their House of Commons 'face time' trying to make political hay out of "Puppygate".

Despite hypocrisy like this...

'I would therefore like to table this document for the benefit of the Leader of the Opposition this summer. It is a document called The South Beach Diet.'

Paul Martin, to Stephen Harper, June, 2005, in reference to Mr. Harper's weight.

Meanwhile Caledonia burns.

As my son would have said in his toddlerhood, "Thats makes tiny sense."

Technorati Tags: Caledonia, Dalton McGuinty, Liberal Party

Hamas just can't catch a break

They're coming for Hamas and it ain't gonna be pretty. Who's that you say... Israel, the CIA, Rambo... who?

Hey, wait a minute, that can't be right.

Fatah is preparing for a major showdown with Hamas in the Gaza Strip after the Muslim feast of Id al-Fitr, Palestinian sources said on Tuesday.

The sources said that Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas has instructed his loyalists in Fatah and the PA security forces to be prepared for a "major security operation" in the Gaza Strip in the coming days.

While it's true that the myriad Palestinian factions are typically, figuratively AND literally at each other's throats, it ain't just any Curly, Larry or Mohammed calling for the takedown...

Former PA security chief Muhammed Dahlan called on Abbas to use his constitutional powers to resolve the crisis with Hamas.

Accusing Hamas of carrying out systematic assassinations against Fatah operatives in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, Dahlan also accused Hamas of violating a cease-fire agreement with Fatah that was reached under the auspices of Egypt.

"Hamas's actions are leading us to civil war," he cautioned. "We call on President Abbas to assume his responsibilities and take decisive measures to end the crisis."

The tensions have been ratcheted up a little by the untimely and unexpected deaths of a number of Fatah functionaries, which for the geopolitically challenged, is the Gaza Strip version of heckling an adversary.

I'm thinkin', it couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of homicidal maniacs.

Technorati Tags: Hamas, Fatah, Gaza Strip

Dalton McGuinty believes in sharing

The pain, that is.

Not content to have piggybacked the costs associated with the Caledonia debacle on just citizens of Ontario, Dalton now wants every taxpayer in Canada to help pull the train.

TORONTO — Ottawa must pony up at least $25 million to cover the costs of an ongoing aboriginal occupation in Ontario, Premier Dalton McGuinty said Tuesday as he pressed the federal government to end what's being called the longest-running police operation in Canadian history.

The province's taxpayers shouldn't have to foot the bill for reimbursing local businesses, paying provincial negotiator Jane Stewart's $1,300-a-day salary and buying the land in question — a moribund housing development in Caledonia, Ont., south of Hamilton, Mr. McGuinty said.

Because that's the kind of guy he is.

Technorati Tags: Caledonia, Dalton McGuinty, Liberal Party

Iraq - the real deal

A letter from a Marine in Iraq. A must read.

Most Surreal Moment — Watching Marines arrive at my detention facility and unload a truck load of flex-cuffed midgets, 26 to be exact.

We had put the word out earlier in the day to the Marines in Fallujah that we were looking for Bad Guy X, who was described as a midget. Little did I know that Fallujah was home to a small community of midgets, who banded together for support since they were considered as social outcasts.

The Marines were anxious to get back to the midget colony to bring in the rest of the midget suspects, but I called off the search, figuring Bad Guy X was long gone on his short legs after seeing his companions rounded up by the giant infidels.

h/t Kate at SDA

Technorati Tags: Iraq, USMC, Dante's inferno

Keep an eye on Vancouver

For all those concerned about the possibility of a modern day pandemic in Canada, Andrew Nikiforuk suggests our west coast cities will be 'the canary in the coal mine'.

"The next pandemic, if it originates in Asia, will likely invade a West Coast port first, thanks to the volume of trade and traffic Vancouver or Seattle have with other Pacific Rim countries," said Nikiforuk, who won the 2002 Governor General's award for non-fiction for his book "Saboteurs."

Most of us are nowhere near prepared for a cataclysmic event that could disrupt the exquisitely co-ordinated, just-in-time supply chains that feed our utilities, factories and grocery stores.

Remember that, back in your grandparents' day, people usually kept a well-stocked larder, with home-canned vegetables, fruits, bags of flour and sugar and potted meat. Contrast that with our modern lifestyle, where keeping a very limited supply of consumables on hand will be one of the more significant factors working against us.

"Within a week of the invasion, people will have trouble buying food and medical supplies. The cemeteries will overfill and local meatpackers will store the dead in refrigerated trucks.

It isn't going to matter how much money you've got in your bank account if the food supply chain is disrupted. At that point in time, anybody with a hunting rifle and a box of shells will truly be 'the king of his castle'.

Consider also, what would happen if the electricity supply is compromised for any length of time? We saw what happened a few years ago, when we lost our power for only a couple of days. Even if you were prudent enough to have bought a standby generator at some point, unless you're a farmer, I'm guessing you don't have a 200 litre fuel storage tank sitting out behind the garage.

The essayist Ian Welsh thinks our new economic habits of living like hedonistic grasshoppers as opposed to Aesop's prudent ants will disastrously magnify the pandemic's impact. "Our society, as a whole, has no surge protection, no ability to take shocks. We have no excess beds, no excess equipment, no excess ability to produce vaccines or medicines, nothing.

It sure won't be pretty, as the inevitable breakdown of social controls in densely packed urban neighbourhoods spills out into the suburbs.

But hey... it could never happen in Canada, right? Right?

Technorati Tags: Avian flu, pandemic, Andrew Nikiforuk

Macleans Signature Liberal Leader Poses

The top Liberal leadership candidates seem to be developing their very own signature poses.

Michael Ignatieff has the hand-on-the-hip stance – very New York, very metrosexual. It says, “I am confident in both my sexuality and my ability to bomb a country if I had to”...

Technorati Tags: liberal posers, Liberal Party, Michael Ignatieff

The Deer Hunter

It isn't just a movie, as anyone in this neighbourhood can tell you. I woke up the other day to the dulcet tones of .30 calibre rifle fire, as one of the local 'deer-slayers' was tuning up his thunderstick down at the gravel pit.

Now I'm more of a recreational shooter than a hunter, but I know that oft-times, especially as the great stalker of beasts gets a little older, actually shooting stuff isn't even on the agenda.

Frosty has the goods...

Dedicated to all the wives and girlfriends who will soon be left alone while their men go off to the bush ... to snooze, play cards, drink with the boys and make up stories about the size of that rack.

Technorati Tags: deer hunting, reality show, politically incorrect

The next book on my reading list

Living out in the country doesn't necessarily mean you have to be isolated and uninformed.

The nearest small town to us, about 15 minutes away by car, has both a superb live theatre program and an excellent library. We were surprised not only by the selection of books available, but by the friendly and well-informed staff.

I recently asked if the library would be willing to order in a copy of Mark Steyn's "America Alone", and on my last visit, the librarian called me over to say the book was on its way. Given the events in France and the way Iraq and Afghanistan have been heating up, I have a feeling it will be a pretty popular book.

Felicitously, news aggregator and former diplomat Norman Spector, then pointed the way to a recent interview with the author of the book, the outspoken and always entertaining Mark Steyn.

I think you have to stand up and resist what I would call the phenomenon of creeping Shariah.

Because I think when you see things like, for example, England feeling that you can't fly the English flag because the Cross of St. George is offensive because of the Crusades--I mean every time you concede a little inch of ground like that, you are basically surrendering piecemeal.

And Muslim leaders--not just terrorists, but Muslim governments--draw the lesson from that, that the West is ideologically insecure. And not just Muslims, but all kinds of other fellows, from Chavez to Kim Jung-Il actually, see that too.

Does anyone remember reading about New York City deciding to crack down on littering a number of years ago? At first, it seems like such an inconsequential matter to focus on, but studies showed that as soon as that first piece of litter hit the turf, people felt free to toss anything and everything onto the ground in it's wake. Focusing attention on that initial offense, was the first step in reclaiming New York's reputation as a tourist, if you will, mecca.

Steyn, among other things, argues that even the tiny, senseless 'politically correct' gestures western society is making to any & all 'distinct societies' is the thin edge of the wedge that will inevitably undermine the civilised society we have built up in North America these last few hundreds of years.

Now, call me a Neanderthal, but I'm thinkin' it's about time, to stop and think about that.

Technorati Tags: America Alone, Mark Steyn, Islam

I only do it...

because it's fun to make them shriek.

Continuing our Canine Theme Week

The native contingent squatting on the former Douglas Creek subdivision near Caledonia have been calling for the Federal Government to get involved in negotiating the dispute.

It's very possible they will end up regretting that request. Unlike the pusillanimous McGuinty moonbats, the Conservatives apparently aren't planning to roll over and play dead.

CALEDONIA - Ottawa has told Six Nations it does not have legal title to a housing subdivision occupied by natives in Caledonia since February.

Six Nations officials are to return to a Nov. 3 meeting with evidence to prove the Argyle St. S. site was not surrendered in the 1840s. Doering said Ottawa has documents from 1844 indicating the Douglas Creek Estates land was surrendered and sold.

"If they don't convince us we're wrong, the federal government will stand by its position," he said.

It looks as though the Conservatives are going to be relying on that darned "law of the land", a concept that has eluded Mr. McGuinty from the start of this dispute.

As if using a tactic like jurisprudence isn't outrageous enough, the Feds are apparently prepared to, unlike ole' Dalton who even is paying the squatters utility bills, actually follow through on enforcement of a legal decision.

"The alternative to reconciliation is to use some type of force," Doering noted. "For my part, I'd rather negotiate than use some type of force."

Ok, clan-moms... over to you.

Technorati Tags: Six Nations, Caledonia, Conservative Party

How about we give them whistles instead?

Liberal MP Mark Holland is taking a break from being outraged about Belinda, to being uncomfortable with firearms.

"I'm not comfortable with the idea of border officers training other border officers on how to use weapons," Liberal MP Mark Holland said. "This may be a way to try to shortcut the process -- and we could be taking major risks in terms of safety by cutting those corners."

You're right Mark, I'm way more comfortable with Canadian Customs Officers running away like little children, every time there's a rumour about someone with a weapon approaching the Canadian border.

Hey, how about we gave our guys rape whistles? If there's trouble, maybe they could summon American officers from the other side of the border.

Safety break! Nobody works... nobody gets hurt.

Technorati Tags: Mark Holland, Liberal Party, politics of fear

CSI Ottawa

In an earlier post I made a joking reference to the Liberals bringing in some outside agency to analyze the "Loose Pooch Tapes".

Apparently though, the Liberals were serious.

While a poll was being released about the Tories' popularity with women, the Liberals were contracting an audio specialist to scan the question period tapes and confirm MacKay's canine comparison.

I'm just hoping Bill Graham and the rest of the, oh-so-suddenly, feminista Liberals aren't using my tax dollars to pay for this. Actually, knowing the loose Liberal ethics on paying for stuff out of their own pockets, they're probably trying to co-opt the Communications Security Establishment to do this on the down-low.

Meanwhile, I'm thinking Belinda should take a little time off from chasing the "Athlete of the Week" and use some of her fortune to get an acting coach...

She recoils at the suggestion that perhaps the disappointment is slightly forced, that she and her party are all too pleased to take advantage of a laughable embarrassment to MacKay and the Conservatives.

Good grief... if any of you sheeple actually think this compendium of fake outrage and candy-ass platitudes is as important as the Liberal Party of Canada does, by all means vote in the totally discredited ex-premier of Ontario to lead you down the muddy, socialist garden path.

I think I'll stick with the man and the party, who actually give a crap that things get done.

UPDATE: LPT officially upgraded to Silly Ass Farce

Taliban Jack takes a break from surrendering to the terrorists to weigh in on the "Loose Pooch Tapes"...

"His apology should go to all women members of parliament and members of the country because I'll tell you one thing, it's certainly going to discourage women from seeking public office and in that, he's done a great disservice," Mr. Layton said.

LAST WORD: Craig Oliver must've shat himself

What do you think of the latest MacKay Stronach dust-up?

Apologize. Sexist behaviour which must be addressed.
6311 votes (32 %)

Ignore it. Typical of workplace romance gone bad.
13123 votes (68 %)

Total Votes: 19434

Technorati Tags: Belinda Stronach, Liberal Party, politics of fear

Let's look at the bigger "News" picture

No wonder the Liberals are so desperate this week to make Belinda's "honour" front-page news. If I see any more carefully orchestrated outrage, I swear I'll puke.

Pick up a copy of the just released book, Nom de code: MaChouette for the latest scoop on the Liberal Sponsorship Scandal.

Three years before the political kickback arrangement behind the sponsorship scandal would become public at the Gomery inquiry, a friend of Jean Chrétien was bragging to aides of two cabinet ministers that the federal program was being used to assist the Liberals in Quebec, a new book reveals.

Defending Belinda sure beats having to explain stealing millions of dollars from the Canadian taxpayer.

During the sponsorship era, the well-connected Mr. Lafleur clinched more than $65-million in federal contracts and led a lavish lifestyle, wining, dining and entertaining high-ranking Liberals.

Honestly, these guys are lower than whaleshit.

UPDATE: He impugned her what?!?!

Asked if she felt the messy divorce allegations might compromise her role as head of the Liberal women's caucus, Stronach demurred. "No, I do not," she responded.

Asked if she was in a relationship with Domi, Stronach abruptly ended the media availability, only to appear later on CTV's Mike Duffy Live political show.

Let's ask Leanne Domi what she thinks of Ms. Stronach.

Technorati Tags: Belinda Stronach, Liberal Party, politics of fear

Ralphie reaches for the stars

Is there anything the Liberal Party will not stoop to... to avoid actually getting anything accomplished?

I've got an idea. Let's just pull out of Afghanistan because the Liberals have gone absolutely apeshit over Belinda's, and I use the word loosely, "honour".

“This is not trivial,” Mr. Goodale said. “The instincts that give rise to this insult are fundamentally inconsistent with the values that make us a respectful and decent people. After depicting a woman as his dog, how can the minister of foreign affairs pretend to promote women's rights in Afghanistan or anywhere else?”

But Mr. Kenney again stepped up to respond, saying the Afghanistan link was “a little bit absurd”.

If this is really your idea of something that is earth-shakingly important... then God help the planet.

QUESTION: How many women on the board at Magna Int'l?

If Belinda's such a powerful advocate for women and wasn't just Daddy's little "9 million dollar a year" girl at Magna International, how come there aren't any women on the Board of Directors?

I would suggest that the member opposite who had the opportunities, at one time being recognized as the most powerful businesswoman in Canada, did very little about it. Consequently, when we look at her board at Magna, there is no female representation on that board.

Technorati Tags: Belinda Stronach, Liberal Party, politics of fear

Well, that's certainly clear enough

Say what you will about Iranian President Madman Ahmadinejad, you sure can't accuse him of beatin' around the bush.

If we don't stop playin' footsie with the "Joos"... he's a comin' fer us.

"You (the Western powers) should know that any government that stands by the Zionist regime from now on will not see any result but the hatred of the people," he added. "The wrath of the region's people is boiling."

Mr Ahmadinejad, who has previously called for Israel to be "wiped from the map and described the Holocaust as a "myth," said his warning was an "ultimatum".

"You should not complain that we did not give a warning. We are saying this explicitly now."

Now, there's nothing new about this type of dyspeptic diatribe coming from the Muslim Middle East. The difference here is... this guy's hellbent on uncorking the nuclear genie.

What the Madman doesn't seem to realise is that he's amping up the only other faction in the neighbourhood that actually has the bomb AND the political will to use it.

For anybody who has been in a coma for a decade... that'd be Israel.

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UPDATE: Can you say "Osirak"?

People are gonna argue that Iran has distributed its nuclear facilities to prevent this sort of attack from disabling its nuclear program. There is a more optimistic than reality-based theory... that this strategy would render the Israelis powerless.

That, of course, is a fallacy. Israel will not stand by while Iran goes nuclear. It just isn't in the cards. If it means the whole region goes up in flames, they are ready and willing to fight.

To the death, if necessary... to another Masada.

Technorati Tags: Iraq, Israel, mutually assured destruction

Another reason to scrap the Senate

The Senate committee that blew big bucks on a weeks stay in a luxury hotel in Dubai after claiming that their trip into Afghanistan was cancelled, "at the last minute" has been caught in a lie.

Senator Colin Kenny, the committee chair, was told it was impossible to travel to Afghanistan before the four senators left Ottawa.

A document obtained by CTV News shows the military met with Kenny in his office on Sept. 2 -- one week before the senators reached Dubai.

It's far past time to shut down this luxurious Retirement Vacation Home for broken down political hacks and bagmen.

You'll recall that Liberal Senator Colin Kenny is the guy with personalised senate plates on his Jaguar, who wants to raise Senators office budgets from $135,000 to $200,000.

Technorati Tags: Senate, Liberal Party, fraud

So spank him and send him to his room

It looks like it's Sucky Baby Day in the House of Commons.

Sometimes it's hard to believe we pay these guys a salary at all. I'll tell ya, if I came to my dad with a pathetic story about someone calling me a name, he'd have taken off his belt and really given me something to feel badly about.

While the government was being peppered with questions about the new Clean Air Plan, Mr. Holland says a Liberal jokingly asked Mr. MacKay about the impact of pollution on humans and animals: "What about your dog?"

According to Mr. Holland, Mr. MacKay motioned toward Ms. Stronach's vacant seat and replied: "You already have her."

Liberal Mark Holland is leading the charge...

"And he owes Belinda an apology, he owes the House an apology, he owes women an apology."

Whatever McKay actually said, if anything, couldn't be nearly as offensive as the manufactured outrage these idiots puke up for the television cameras after they leave the Parliament buildings.

Again, it's another sad day in the "Land of Actually Accomplishing Anything."

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UPDATE: Dalton's brother has been...

... watching too much television. Stand by for CSI Ottawa.

That prompted Liberal MP David McGuinty to suggest that the recording should be sent away to a professional audio laboratory so the offending words could be separated from the background noise.

“For the sake of my wife, my two daughters and all women in this country, this is a transgression that's over the line,” Mr. McGuinty said after Question Period. “

For the sake of acting like a fully mature adult and not a yappy little, uh, well... dog - puhleeese, just shut yer freakin' piehole.

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LAST WORD: Well, two actually...

"It was a horrible, horrible awakening when I found it was nothing of the sort."

He said Parliamentary debate during question period is essentially a way for MPs to let off steam for the general public, but has no real constructive purpose in debating legislation.

Technorati Tags: Belinda Stronach, Liberal Party, Peter MacKay

Dalton caught with drawers down yet again

Are these guys just stupid, or is the sense of entitlement just that ingrained in Liberal brains?

OK, one more time. Slowly and clearly so every Liberal understands. Tax money is not the private piggy bank for Liberals and their supporters.

To...all...Liberals!...Tax...money...is...not...
yours...to...spend...as...you...wish!

Steve Janke has the details.

UPDATE: News starting to spread

The names of at least four staff members who work in Premier Dalton McGuinty's office or for Ontario cabinet ministers were listed as returning officers for the Liberal leadership contest.

The list was quickly removed from the Internet, but not before it was spotted by staffers in the office of the provincial Conservatives.

Opposition Leader John Tory said the workers should not list government e-mail addresses and government phone numbers as contacts for blatantly partisan work for the Liberal party, and dismissed claims the leadership work was all done after business hours or on weekends.

LAST WORD: 21 Oct 2006 - More Weasel Words

McGuinty said he wants to be paid back for the $20-million purchase cost of the disputed land, the $1.5-million compensation package provided to local businesses and extraordinary OPP costs.

Some observers estimate the cost of the Caledonia crisis at $100 million and counting.

Technorati Tags: sense of entitlement, Dalton McGuinty, Liberal Party

WSJ demolishes Iraq casualty claims

We're all familiar with the recent "study" that claimed over 600,000 Iraqis have died as a result of the Battle to unseat Saddam and his murderous regime.

Trouble is, it isn't worth the paper it's printed on.

From a researcher who was on the ground, in Iraq for 2 years.

After doing survey research in Iraq for nearly two years, I was surprised to read that a study by a group from Johns Hopkins University claims that 655,000 Iraqis have died as a result of the war.

Survey results frequently have a margin of error of plus or minus 3% or 5%--not 1200%.

Seems the methodology is a tad suspect... even by whiny, nonsensical moonbat standards.

However, the key to the validity of cluster sampling is to use enough cluster points. In their 2006 report, "Mortality after the 2003 invasion of Iraq: a cross-sectional sample survey," the Johns Hopkins team says it used 47 cluster points for their sample of 1,849 interviews. This is astonishing: I wouldn't survey a junior high school, no less an entire country, using only 47 cluster points.

This study should be filed away in the same "crazy" basket, as the reports from the university lecturer who thinks Dick Cheney and the Mossad brought down the World Trade Center with cruise missiles.

Saw it first over at David Frum's blog.

UPDATE: More on faulty methodology

Researchers at Royal Holloway, University of London and Oxford University have found serious flaws in the survey of Iraqi deaths published last week in the Lancet.

Technorati Tags: Iraq, David Frum, statistics

Garth is simply Belinda Redux

It's a script reminiscent of the fortunately infrequent toddler tantrums we experienced, when my son hit the 'terrible twos'.

During the emissary meetings, Stronach is said to have announced -- unbidden -- that she had no intention to run for the party leadership.

She then set out to procure the best campaign money could buy, spending $3.95 million out of her own pocket to secure the best resources, strategists and field organizers in the business.

When she didn't win the leadership, and when Harper didn't immediately embrace her as one of his top advisers, Stronach stomped her feet and refused to play in his sandbox.

She went out of her way to undermine his leadership at every turn, speaking out to the press on issues like gay marriage and abortion and accusing Harper of being completely out of touch with mainstream Canadians.

"The real problem, hidden not far below the surface, was leadership," writes Plamondon. "In short, Stephen Harper was leader and she was not."

What Garth and Belinda both needed was, dare I say it... a good spanking.

Technorati Tags: Garth Turner, Belinda Stronach, Conservative Party

Brave Jihadis slaughter more children

In a follow-up story to a botched suicide bombing that killed and maimed Afghan civilians, comes a report of another 2 children being slaughtered by Allah's holy warriors.

Associated Press - 10.19.2006, 07:02 AM - A suicide bomber in southern Afghanistan killed two children and wounded several other people, including British soldiers Thursday, as the country's president called on NATO to use caution during military operations.

Also Thursday, a suicide bomber hurled himself in front of a police car in eastern Afghanistan, killing one policeman and wounding four others, a police official said.

These guys are all about the slaughter. Whatever message they're trying to send... nothing justifies killing children.

Technorati Tags: Afghanistan, Taliban, senseless slaughter

Canadian (Political) Idol

The other day I received an email from a fellow blogger, asking me what I thought about the Garth Turner situation. I replied as follows...

I only know what I see in the papers, but I think Garth is all about, well... Garth. He obviously feels his own needs, whether it's just ego, or a totally separate agenda, are more important than the party line.

Do I think he was unfairly booted out of caucus? Lemme put it this way... if he was an outlaw biker, he'd be lyin' in a shallow grave with a small hole behind his ear.

When I think of Garth Turner, I am reminded of the vastly over-rated, televised karaoke show, hosted by the Ivy-League educated son of a former Prime Minister. The show's particular claim to fame is it that it has totally locked in the teenage girl demographic on whatever night it is broadcast. Like Garth Turner, Ben Mulroney obviously felt that his talents would be wasted if he were not constantly in the limelight, and this vehicle has been his rocket to a very sharply defined sort of fame.

Garth Turner, on his website, is bragging up his own creation, MP TV. It features, to no one's surprise, well... Garth Turner being the star of his own TV show.

Mr. Turner has gone out of his way since shortly after the election, to irritate the Conservative Party dog, if you will, every chance he got. He was extremely critical of the David Emerson defection, yet is now shamelessly flirting with any and all political suitors, including the Green Party, whose Leader Elizabeth May is best known for appearing on the Rick Mercer Report to publicly compromise her principles by cutting down a tree with a chainsaw. If Garth goes Green, he gets to be the only Green Party member in Parliament.

Anyway, I think Garth has accomplished what has been his primary mission all along, which is... to focus as much public attention on Garth Turner, as is humanly possible.

And it's been a pretty sad day in the "Land of Actually Accomplishing Anything."

UPDATE: See Stephen Taylor for the Garth Challenge.

LAST WORD: Party Discipline

More than a decade ago, Jean Chrétien ejected maverick John Nunziata from his caucus after the MP from York South-Weston refused to vote for the 1995 budget over its failure to scrap the goods and services tax.

In an interview yesterday, Nunziata said Turner should look forward to feeling greater independence and having a larger platform, for a while.

But Nunziata maintains Chrétien was still a more ruthless leader than Harper is turning out to be.

Technorati Tags: Garth Turner, Conservative Party, politics

Liberals cracking down on Aboriginals

Had ya goin' there for a second, huh?

No, no... this isn't an end to the Caledonia standoff that has so far cost Ontario taxpayers over 50 million dollars.

The fact is, the Dalton Gang isn't even doing anything themselves. They're tossing this unspeakable crime up to the Feds.

TORONTO (CP) - The Ontario government is asking Ottawa to investigate a series of cigarette billboards near the Six Nations aboriginal reserve that the province's health promotion minister believes are a violation of federal law.

The lighted signs and billboards, which line a highway leading to the southern Ontario reserve near the town of Caledonia, Ont., advertise native-made cigarettes for sale on the reserve.

That Dalton McGuinty sure is a stickler for law and order, huh?

If only they didn't offer this final insult to our intelligence...

"We hope the federal government takes its responsibility seriously and is very proactive in making sure the law is upheld."

Good Lord... they didn't just say that, did they?

Incredible.

Institutionalised Racism in Canada?

Or you could just as easily conclude that the present incarnation of a closed off aboriginal society just doesn't work.

Sapers pointed to statistics that show the total number of people incarcerated in federal institutions went down by 12 per cent between 1996 and 2004. But the number of native inmates increased 21 per cent in the same period.

The figures were even more dramatic for native women, whose numbers rose by a startling 74 per cent.

Just as troubling, said Sapers, is the fact that four in 10 natives behind bars are aged 25 or under, reflecting the frequency with which young aboriginals run afoul of the law.

Ah, screw it, let's just blame the wily white man.

Libranos: the final season

In a shady scheme that would have made Tony Soprano blush, the Liberals were apparently padding the Public Service with "phantom jobs" for Lib loyalists.

The Harper government wants to investigate how former Liberal ministerial aides landed jobs in the public service over the past decade.

A senior official confirmed yesterday that the Treasury Board and the Public Service Human Resources Management Agency are examining the issue following recent revelations that two former Liberal aides landed "phantom" jobs that gave them free rides into the public service after they lost their political jobs in the January election.

This was no 'one-off favour for a friend' deal. The Liberal rot that we all suspected is much worse than anyone could have imagined.

The commission found about 100 public servants joined ministers' offices and went back into the public service -- with no break in service -- over 11 years of the previous Liberal government.

The two cases at the centre of the commission's recent probe were bureaucrats who had taken leave without pay to work in ministers' offices as "exempt staff" -- which means they are exempt from the rules governing all bureaucrats under the Public Service Employment Act.

And no one is surprised to see "Alfie Gags" fingerprints all over the smoking gun. Is there any sleazy scam these guys weren't willing to pull?

The commission faced heavy criticism for failing to stop or raise flags about the abuse of the privilege when two of then- Public Works minister Alfonso Gagliano's ministerial aides were parachuted into key public service jobs to run the sponsorship program

Who's scary now folks?

Technorati Tags: phantom jobs, Liberal Party, fraud

Big Paulie, financial genius

It seems the Ghost of Liberals Past has managed to pick your pockets yet again... and no, I'm not talking about the Sponsorship Scandal.

The decision to allow Income Trusts, which someone in the Federal Liberal cabinet also leaked to a stockbroker buddy on the day before the decision was announced, will cost taxpayers bigtime.

OTTAWA — Income trusts will cost Ottawa and the provinces $1.1-billion in lost tax revenue annually once Telus Corp. and BCE Inc. convert to the corporate-tax-avoidance structure, a new study says.

The report by tax expert Jack Mintz shows that Canada's tax-leakage problem has doubled in two years — from $540-million annually in 2004 — despite efforts to solve it.

You may want to rethink the old canard about the Conservative Party being in bed with big business. It wasn't Stephen Harper handing more than a billion dollars over to these wheeler-dealers.

Technorati Tags: Income Trust, Liberal Party, Paul Martin

Robbing Peter & robbing Paul

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UPDATE SHOCKER: CANADIAN BAR ASSOC. WANTS MORE

It called on the federal government to not only increase funding, but also to ensure the program’s long-term financial stability.

CONTACT: Hannah Bernstein, Canadian Bar Association, Tel: (613) 237-2925, ext. 146
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The Harper Conservatives have announced their intent to stop pouring taxpayer dollars down the black hole that is the Court Challenge Program. Libs, Dippers and now the Canadian Bar Association are in a sort of frothing frenzy, attempting to portray this action as the Canadian equivalent of tearing up the Magna Carta.

So what's really happening here?

On a Liberal website, they trumpet the triumph of using taxpayer dollars to finance the decision that now allows Sikh students to wear kirpans to school. A kirpan is a knife that has some religious significance to devout Sikhs. You should note that this decision applies only to Sikhs. If your little Bobby is caught with the jackknife that Grampa gave him for his birthday, he's still going down the river.

I've just been waiting for the Rastafarians to use the argument that marijuana is their sacred religious artifact, and under this program, I can't see any way to reasonably refuse them the money to have their day in court.

And that way, my friend, lies madness.

Now, I’m no expert on political legislation, so I had to draw myself a simpler analogy.

I figured I could use my own experience, in this case my formative years, to try to better understand the situation. I tried to remember how the “law of the land”, or in this case, "the house"... used to work I was younger.

When I was a kid my father virtually ruled our lives. He had rules about eating, washing, bedtimes and going to church, as well as all the other mundane, day to day stuff. He didn’t just make rules up out of thin air, there was usually some sort of plan, vetted by his deputy leader, my mother, based on what they imagined was the common good.

You know the sort of thing I mean... staying fairly clean, neither impregnating nor being impregnated outside of holy matrimony, not being a serial killer. And dad, being the stern, unbending old sod that he was, enforced those rules variously with his belt, withholding allowances and what Steve McQueen would know as being sent to "the cooler".

Now after making up all these rules, there was a certain expectation on his part that we would toe the line. After dad came home from a brutal day at the anvil factory, he expected to have a shower, eat dinner without listening to too many stupid-ass arguments from his beloved family and maybe fall asleep watching the Leafs, with a half empty tumbler of Captain Morgan clutched in his fist.

What he for sure did not expect, was that my mother, who may or may not have felt dad was a bit of a hardass, would sneak money out of his wallet while he was in the shower, so me or my brothers could go grab a sixpack, or my sisters could buy makeup, or a subscription to teen magazines. Not that we didn't do stuff like that, there just wasn't any expectation that dumb ole dad would have to cough up for our expectations. And the system worked out pretty well as I remember. If we wanted to do something that cost money, we found ourselves part-time jobs. If we didn't like the house rules, we could always pony up for a seedy basement apartment somewhere else.

Now it may just be me, but it just doesn’t seem to make sense to obscenely overpay our elected members of Parliament, who take years to propose and pass the laws that keep society from tearing out each other's throats... which then face another level of approbation in the Nursing Home for Political Cronies & Bagmen (aka the Senate), and than hand out money to people who still aren’t happy with the situation, to challenge these very same laws.

If you have a beef with the law of the land and it's important enough to you, by all means raise some money with the help of like-minded individuals and go to court and challenge the law.

Just don't expect me to pay for it.

LAST WORD: Please contact your Member of Parliament and the Prime Minister to let them know you support this action.

Technorati Tags: Court Challenge Program, Conservative Party, political correctness

A new Sheriff in town

As expected, newly appointed OPP Commissioner Julian Fantino got right to it.

He said his first priority is to repair damaged morale the officers suffered under former honcho Gwen "Screw it, I'm Bailing" Boniface.

Fantino is the former Chief of the Toronto Police Force and he's had his run ins with the politically correct rope-a-dopers. Next on his list was the mess the Liberals have created in Caledonia.

"We certainly are very respectful of rights and entitlements of people but we also, I think, have to be very mindful and respectful that there is a rule of law, that anarchy can't prevail, and will do our utmost best to ensure that peace and tranquility prevail," Fantino said during a teleconference yesterday.

If Stephen Harper has any sense at all, he'll scoop this guy up after his contract expires and have him run federally.

Justice Minister Julian Fantino... that sounds good to me.

Technorati Tags: Six Nations, Caledonia, Julian Fantino

Allah's strange sense of humour

There are reports out of Afghanistan today, of a spectacularly unsuccessful suicide attack on Canadian soldiers, which nonetheless managed to expedite the involuntary journey of another three Afghani citizens to the Garden of Paradise.

A suicide car bomber rammed into a Canadian resupply convoy Monday leaving at least three Afghan civilians dead and one Canadian soldier slightly injured.

Canadian authorities were quick to inform the media that no soldiers had been killed. The families of the dead civilians were apparently unavailable for comment.

A number of Afghanis were also injured by the blast, which, despite allegedly being the will of Allah, damaged the local mosque.

Some bystanders were struck by shrapnel and debris and the windows on a nearby mosque were blown out. At least four Afghan civilians were also wounded in the attack, police officer Abdul Wasai told The Associated Press.

There were more Afghani casualties, after a similar incident further diminished the pool of crazies willing to act out their homicidal zeitgeist.

Another suicide attack near a school in Kabul has left three Afghans wounded, reported Reuters. Police were tracking the vehicle and surrounded the bomber when he blew himself up.

This is, at its simplest, a Darwinian conflict.

And I firmly believe the Taliban will run short of the religious equivalent of kamikaze pilots, before Canadian soldiers run out of determination and resolve.

Technorati Tags: Canadian Forces, Afghanistan, Taliban

Crying wolf... or am I?

There was a fairly significant hue and cry a little while ago in the media about avian influenza. Unfortunately, after people didn't start dropping like flies in a timely fashion shortly thereafter, all the fuss died away. This cycle, if you will, is referred to as the "law of diminishing returns" and it is part of human nature.

In some ways, "the law" serves a useful purpose. If, for example, men got as excited about every new vehicle they saw driving down the road, as they did when they were teenage boys on the cusp of getting a driver's license, there would be way fewer marriages and way more traffic fatalities.

In the context of avian flu however, this very human tendency could have disastrous results for humankind. Avian flu is a huge threat to us because we have no natural immunity to a disease normally found only in other species.

The first newly confirmed case occurred in a 67-year-old woman from West Java Province. She developed symptoms on 3 October, was hospitalized on 7 October, and died on 15 October. Diagnosis was complicated by the presence of chronic diseases. Chickens reportedly died in her household and neighbourhood prior to symptom onset.

I do know that major cities will be the tripwire for the next pandemic in North America and I will act on this information. At the first sign of a possible Canadian outbreak, I will be pulling my son out of school, stocking up on consumables and figuratively pulling up the drawbridge. We will then sit out the worst of this thing, which, when it goes human-to-human is predicted to burn through the populace like a hot knife through butter. Hopefully, the electrity supply will not be affected, but we will otherwise be ok, out here in the sticks.

The fact is, governments around the world are not at all prepared for another pandemic along the lines of the Spanish Flu. We saw how unprepared Toronto was for the relatively insignificant outbreak that was SARS.

This next pandemic, be it avian flu, or something even more virulent, has the potential to really 'thin the herd'... something nature seems to need to do in 80 to 100 year cycles. I should mention, by the way, that most scientists researching pandemics say we're overdue for another.

For an excellent read on what a real pandemic could be like I suggest picking up "Flu" by Gina Kolata, a science reporter for The New York Times.

Technorati Tags: Avian flu, law of diminishing returns, Spanish Flu

You know who scares me?

I've gotta say, as a Conservative, there's one person in the Liberal leadership roundup who scares me a bit, and that's... Martha Hall-Findlay.

Hall-Findlay, the only woman left in the race, broke up the tense exchange.

"Gentlemen," she interjected. "If I may, I recognize that this makes great television, but we are Liberals and we have a job to do."

After watching open-mouthed as the rest of these flapdoodles are soliciting the dead, gibbering on about non-existent war crimes, or running around naked in public... I'm tellin' ya, if I was a Fiberal, Martha's starting to look pretty damn beatific.

UPDATE: 16 Oct 2006 - Don Martin calls a winner

So the winner? Well, given the debate highlight was between two Liberal heavyweights accusing each other of being dithering liars on a key policy question heading into the next election, that would be Stephen Harper.

Technorati Tags: Michael Ignatieff, Bob Rae, Martha Hall-Findlay

Caledonia March

The much ballyhooed Caledonia March for Freedom is scheduled to take place today, under intense media scrutiny and police overwatch.

Dozens of police are keeping a close watch. There were a few tense moments before the march got underway.

The march is going ahead, despite pleas from the native community to the McGuinty government to (and I'm totally flabbergasted they can actually say this with a straight face) prevent this "illegal protest" from taking place.

Not surprisingly, the aboriginal contingent presently occupying the former Douglas Creek Estates were busy portraying themselves as stalwart, but gentle folk until... just before the march got started.

A convoy of about 12 vehicles with aboriginal people flying Six Nations flags drove through the protest site.

The aboriginal "drive-by" played out in sharp contrast to the publicly hyped “potluck for peace” image the natives had been attempting to project. This peaceful facade has previously cracked wide open when aboriginal protestors, among other things, set fire to a bridge, vandalised a hydro substation, assaulted members of the news media, tore up a public highway with a backhoe and in one case, tried to flatten a police officer with a car.

While Dalton McGuinty was doing his best to derail the rally, the local provincial member of Parliament, spoke up for the citizens of Caledonia.

Conservative Toby Barrett, opposition MPP for the riding of Haldimand-Norfolk-Brant and one of the speakers at the rally, said the event has kept a welcomed spotlight on the issue of policing.

"There does appear to be a double standard," Barrett told CBC Newsworld on Sunday. "People see a different application of the law, depending on which side of the barricade you stand."

UPDATE: 15 Oct 2006 8:00 pm

With so much media attention focusing on the rally, keeping people under control was obviously a balancing act for both sides.

After the rally, Mr. McHale led several hundred people to an elementary school bordering the Six Nations protest site. The school has installed several security cameras and built a 2½ metre fence to block any view of the occupation.

That's when several groups broke away from the main march and ignored Mr. McHale's pleas to stay clear of the site.

The group that broke away from the protest march evidently felt they were entitled to make a gesture similar to the earlier native "drive-by".

An important difference here is that the OPP had no compunction about arresting non-native protestors.

Which is exactly the point this march was trying to make.

SIDENOTE: 17 Oct 2006 - Double standard just fine with McGuinty

"I want to congratulate the OPP for the important work they did during the course of the weekend to maintain public safety," McGuinty said.

Technorati Tags: Six Nations, Caledonia, Gary McHale

Two more Canadians pay the price

Turning a brutal feudal theocracy into a democracy is a hard, dangerous job.

Another two Canadian soldiers have paid the ultimate price.

Kandahar, Afghanistan — Two Canadian soldiers were killed Saturday afternoon near the same dangerous road construction project in southern Afghanistan where three other Canadians have lost their lives this month.

Sergeant Darcy Tedford and Private Blake Williamson are both with the 1st battalion of the Royal Canadian Regiment.

They will be remembered.

These latest deaths do not put a halt to the important work our soldiers are doing to assure Afghani citizens freedom of movement.

Brigadier General David Fraser, commander of NATO forces in southern Afghanistan, said the Taliban attacks on the road projects reveals their contempt for average Afghan citizens.

"The Taliban do not like roads, because roads means [sic] freedom of movement, freedom of action, increased security because Afghan security forces can patrol it, people can move more freely," he told reporters.

Canadian troops are bearing the brunt of the fighting along the road. The Afghani army is mostly made up of young, inexperienced and apparently frightened recruits.

In the past week, an auxiliary security force of roughly 80 Afghans has been keeping watch for insurgents creeping around dirt routes used by Canadian armoured vehicles.

The new force, made up mostly of teenagers, has had a shaky start. When Canadian infantry soldiers have checked on them at daybreak, few, if any, are awake. Several times already, gunshots from the auxiliary officers have errantly landed near the Canadians.

Technorati Tags: Canadian soldiers, Afghanistan, Kandahar

You YELL, we SHELL

Funny, you never hear reporting like this from the CBC.

From a trooper via a military wife...

What do you do when the Taliban have you surrounded, and you hear over icom that they are laughing at you, because they have you surrounded, and think today is the day they take back the Panjawaii district from NATO forces?

You contact C Troop of Echo Battery from 2nd Regiment Royal Canadian Horse Artillery. If the Taliban were scared of our gun troop during OP Medusa, then they must be shitting their pants after yesterday.

Michael Ignatieff might be going on a mea culpa magical mystery tour, but Canadian Troopers aren't going anywhere but forward.

"You YELL, we SHELL - 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. *Contact C, Instant Taliban Relief*"

I think Taliban Jack might want to reconsider his plans to visit Afghanistan. Somebody might just use that yellow stripe running down his back for target practice... these boys want to win and you get in their faces at your peril.

Canadian snipers also had their fill, firing from their locations all over, picking off survivors and driving home the point that we own this area and refuse to give it up...

Found it at Kate's place.

Technorati Tags: Royal Canadian Horse Artillery, Afghanistan, Jack Layton

Re-emergence of Rattus Liberalis

It saddens me to report that there's been another serious outbreak of Rattus Liberalis, this time affecting the Bob Rae campaign.

Ignatieff Operations Director Sachin Aggarwal's attack on Iggy's former university roommate, is seen as an especially decency-resistant strain of the disease.

OTTAWA — The Liberal leadership race is getting ugly with Michael Ignatieff's camp urging the party to negate most of chief rival Bob Rae's delegate support in British Columbia.

In an appeal filed Friday and obtained by The Canadian Press, Mr. Ignatieff operations director Sachin Aggarwal accuses Mr. Rae's senior B.C. organizer of perpetrating "systematic fraud" during the sign-up of potential delegates in the province.

The Rae organisation is dismayed that the virulent nature of the latest attack may simply be an attempt to deflect attention from the recent "Iggy gets jiggy with Islam" brouhaha.

Mr. Rae's camp reacted to the appeal, and its leak to CP, with barely restrained fury.

"All campaigns should work through the processes set up to examine such claims rather than simply go to the media with appeals filled with hyperbole and allegations not rooted in the rules," said Alex Swann, a Rae campaign spokesman.

He said the timing of the appeal is "odd if not suspicious," coming just as Mr. Ignatieff is mired in controversy after accusing Israel of war crimes.

Technorati Tags: Michael Ignatieff, Bob Rae, fraud

Sid's kids are at it again

From the folks who brought you, "Resolved: That Israel is an apartheid state."


Flush from the success of it's monumentally epic, "Happy Birthday Tommy Douglas Campaign, CUPE has decided to bankroll the "Save the Court Challenges Program" website.

Unfortunately, there seems to be a dearth of examples of what this program has actually done to enhance the lives of all the taxpayers who have been forced to contribute over the last 34 years.

One of the prouder CCP moments must have been the decision that gave murderers & rapists in Federal prisons the right to vote. As much as this must have gladdened the hearts of Liberal & NDP activists, I'm still pretty sure how I feel about paying the freight on that one.

Now, I've been thinking... there's any number of things I'd like to see challenged in the courts. Can I get funding for my ideas?

Idea #1 - Anyone who murders an individual with dependent children, in addition to jail, should be forced to provide child support for said children in the same way a divorced parent would be obligated. If the homicidal individual was previously set free by the National Parole Board, said fiduciary duty will also be imposed on any & all moonbats who released the stipulated thug.

If the miscreant in question can't come up with the cash, we confiscate all his possessions & put a lifetime "murderer lien" on anything he owns, or ever hopes to own, in this lifetime.

Idea#2 - Any politician who makes a disastrous decision that costs the taxpayers millions of dollars, will forfeit his job and pension to defray the costs of said idiocy.

As above, if he can't cover the screwup with cash on hand, we take his house, his car, his dog... you get the idea.

Now... this is fun. And I probably could go on & on, but I'll stop here.

I encourage all sane, reasonable people to contact their MP and express their support for the dismantling of this idiotic program, that has principally served to enrich aging lefty lawyers for all the quackadoodles who think Canada is a terribly unfair place to live.

Come to think of it I've got one last court challenge. How about we pass a law that allows the Treasury Board to finance a one-way trip, anywhere in the world, for all the malcontents who are so sure they'll be better off living under a less repressive regime?

Oh yeah, that's conditional on surrendering your Canadian citizenship. Forever.

Technorati Tags: CUPE, Tommy Douglas, Save the Court Challenges

Another nine murders for Allah

Chalk up another nine "confirmed kills" for the Religion of Peace.

The Allah Sociopath Society has managed to kill another NATO soldier in a suicide attack. Of course this wasn't strictly a martyrdom operation... a crowd of Muslim bystanders were also shredded as completely as Ariela Cotler's Liberal membership card.

One NATO soldier is dead and another is wounded after a suicide bomber drove a car into a convoy Friday in southern Afghanistan.Eight civilians were killed and eight were wounded in the attack which took place in Kandahar City.

When contacted for comment on the civilian casualties, the Supreme ASS was quick to point out that the 'involuntary martyrs' were, at this very moment, lounging gratefully at the foot of the prophet.

There was no immediate word on the religious ectasy of the remaining horribly maimed survivors.

UPDATE 13 Oct 2006 - In the name of Islam

The eight wounded civilians included two children and a woman, said Masood Khan, a doctor at a local hospital where they were being treated.

Technorati Tags: Afghanistan, Religion of Peace, Ariela Cotler

Ignatieff says Stephen Harper a disgrace

Iggy attempts to use the tried and true O.J "Not Me" defense to squirm out from under his cowardly flip-flop... "If you'll just set me free, I'll go find the real slanderer.""

"Yesterday, Stephen Harper used my statement that war crimes were committed in this (Mideast) conflict to launch a personal attack on me and on my colleagues running for the Liberal leadership of Canada.

Mr. Harper's comments were a disgrace, a disgrace for a man who holds an office that is supposed to represent all Canadians," he said.

That's funny... the wife of Liberal MP and former Liberal Justice Minister Irwin Cotler, begs to disagree.

In a letter to the editor in Friday's National Post, the wife of prominent Liberal MP Irwin Cotler said she decided to give up her Liberal party membership because of Ignatieff's comments on Israel.

Ariela Cotler accused Ignatieff of lacking moral integrity and of sacrificing the truth for political gain in the leadership race.

In addition to Ms. Cotler and GTA Co-Chair MP Susan Kadis, the Ignatieff campaign has also lost the President of the Thornhill Young Liberals, Michelle Oliel.

I cannot reconcile his recent statements characterizing Israel's action in response to the kidnapping of its soldiers as a "war crime". As a matter of conscience, I, like Susan, am resigning as Director of Strategy and Operations for Ontario.

Technorati Tags: Michael Ignatieff, Stephen Harper, Ariela Cotler

One step forward, two steps back

Following in the wake of the Harper government's decision to go forward with harsher penalties for violent repeat offenders comes this piece of fluff.

A B.C. judge had no right to order a man convicted of sexual assault to submit blood and urine for testing on demand as part of his probation conditions, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled this morning.

So who is this fine, upstanding citizen whose rights were trampled on?

The case involved a Vancouver man, Harjit Singh Shoker, who broke into a woman's home on Sept. 7, 2003. The woman awoke when Mr. Shoker got into her bed naked.

Never mind that this guy was only sentenced to 20 months in jail. The result of the decision is that this convicted criminal with a substance abuse problem, does not have to provide samples of breath, urine or blood to his probation officer.

Will someone please explain to me why Harjit Singh Shoker's rights trump the rights of ordinary citizens?

SIDENOTE: It will come as no surprise that Madam Justice Louise Charron, who wrote this decision, was appointed by the Mr. Dithers government in 2004.

Technorati Tags: Charter of Rights, convicted criminal, Harjit Singh Shoker

Homebrew Arms Race Heating Up

How can you not love something titled, "Announcement of Glorious Nuclear Achievement to Gangster Stooges of Blogosphere"?

To the impotent yappings of the neighboring gangster devils, Iowahawk responds: howl away, bourgeois traitors of Lakewood Mobile Home Court!

Your pitious lamentations and cowardly 911-callings will never stop Iowahawk from the great leap forward into great and powerful prosperity, using his mighty quiver of nuclear-tipped cherry bombs and fully-fissionable bottle rockets for peaceful unity purposes!

h/t to Tim Blair

Technorati Tags: arms race, Iowahawk, bottle rocket

Brit General clarifies position

I hope Taliban Jack and his life partner Olivia didn't blow through too many returnable containers of organic champagne-like beverage last night, because it appears as though "cutting & running" isn't actually on the Brit agenda.

Britain's army chief, who set off a political storm by calling for troops to be withdrawn from Iraq "soon," said Friday he meant a phased withdrawal over two or three years, and denied that he was attacking government policy.

Any student of history knows what happens if a military man attempts to make policy, rather than just execute it.

For those less erudite, here's a clue... Douglas MacArthur.

UPDATE: A twofer - Wrong theatre of war & out of context

Gen. Dannatt said his interview with the Daily Mail was mainly about Afghanistan.

“It was certainly not my intention in a very general background interview ... to have this hoo-ha which people have thoroughly enjoyed overnight and tried to suggest that there is a chasm between myself as head of the army and the prime minister,” Gen. Dannatt said.

The newspaper declined to release a full text of the interview.

Technorati Tags: Richard Dannatt, Iraq, Douglas MacArthur

Speaking of a police state

Three Canadian men of Middle Eastern origin who say they were imprisoned and tortured in Syria are demanding an independent inquiry into their allegations.

The three — Muayyed Nurreddin, Abdullah Almaiki and Ahmed El Maati — told a news conference in Ottawa on Thursday that the federal government must follow the recommendations of Justice Dennis O'Connor, who investigated the case of Maher Arar.

This wouldn't suddenly have anything to do with Maher Arar and his multi-million dollar lawsuit would it?

Even though he is now free and back home in Canada, Almaiki said, his family lives in constant fear that he might be re-arrested or kidnapped.

Of course he's afraid... this is Canada, the land of brutal dictatorship, secret police and roaming death squads.

Technorati Tags: dictatorship, secret police, death squad