I was peacefully watching Canadian Idol tonight with the sound off when Kooky Suzuki invaded my TV space.
I thought he was a contestant, though I thought he was older than 26. Supposedly he DID perform at the Luminato party on Saturday. Maybe he had a new career up his sleeve.
On second glance, I saw that Suzuki was also invading someone else's space.
He was peering through the bushes before sneaking up onto some dude's front porch to change his lightbulb. It was really creepy, man.
He looked weird; wild eyed, wild haired, creepy. Very creepy..
The dude came out the door, like us, ya know - forty-some, a little follicly challenged, a little belly over the belt wearing a white TShirt. Man, he looked pissed, this freak who looked like something from the Manson gang was on HIS front porch playing with HIS lightbulb.
I thought (actually hoped) that the dude was gonna slap him. But no. . .
Instead, I guess knowing that the penalty for slapping a cat burglar is heavier than actually cat burglaring, he held off. At least long enough for the freak on his porch to point all the way down the block to a whole streetful of clonish Stepford husbands installing new low energy lights.
I'm still quivering in fear.
When will he creep onto MY front porch?
Are my neighbours acting strange, zombi eyed, being extra careful with their recycling this week? Am I the last hold out?
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Tuesday, June 05, 2007
Lemon: Ontario to go Nuclear!
I read a lot - all the dailies by 7 am. But I haven't seen this, don't know if it's been reported. It should be...
Have the media not noticed? - I mean in this age this is pretty big news.
Frankly, I think Nuke is the only option we have for sustainable energy. It can even power electric cars.
But why isn't this (if it hasn't been) on front pages?
Government Takes Prudent Next Step To Ensure Long-Term Power SupplyNow, if it hasn't been reported upon, why?
Study To Assess Nuclear Technology Options And Economic Considerations
The McGuinty government has engaged consultants to provide an independent, strategic assessment of the nuclear energy technologies available to Ontario, Energy Minister Dwight Duncan announced today. Link
Have the media not noticed? - I mean in this age this is pretty big news.
Frankly, I think Nuke is the only option we have for sustainable energy. It can even power electric cars.
But why isn't this (if it hasn't been) on front pages?
Evening Lemons Report Bonner Duff June 5 - Casey Votes NO!!
Fire Casey's Butt - NOW!!!!
Duff: Calls his show a Broadcast . . .
Bill Casey says he has no choice. Will he get the boot? PMSH in Paris on Kyoto and Afstan. GWB trying to chill Putin's new cold war. G8 Preview, etc.
Bonner: Bill Casey - vote is in 45 minutes. Issue is Atlantic Accord. Won't spend much time with Bonner. Not up to the challenge.
Duff - Bill Casey is reading a "contract" in debate with Van Loan. There is a simple solution to this - call the NSers bluff, withdraw the other deal - Heap insults on Paul Martin for doing such a stupid deal and how it was a stab in the back of Ontario / Quebec / Alberta / BC and how Nova Scotia and NFLD will be driving BMWs while Ontarians and Quebecers will be riding in wagons. Give up on winning any more seats on the East Coast - there aren't enough to matter anyway.
PVL explains how if the NSers vote to defeat bill, then huge benefits will be withdrawn.
Ralphie Hedgehog says it breaks promises - bad outweighs the good - does this mean the Grits will vote against it? Ralph admits that tradition would call for Casey to get canned. All of a sudden Bill Casey is a very respected and thoughtful MP according to Libby. Did she say the same think a week ago??
Can His Ass if he votes against it!!! He can run as an NDPer next time.
PVL explains they have an option - they can stay with the old arrangement and give up the new money. Up to them - there's the answer. Take it OFF THE TABLE. And MAKE SURE the productive provinces know that the Grits did a stupid deal and that THEY have to pay for it. Duff says NDP surging in NS - Maritimers (I'm one by the way) never look after their own interests. NDP... Puhleeze.
Fixident, Reverse Mortgages, Comfy Bathtubs - wow - do these shows ever know how to target their audiences: grumpy old farts. I'm more of a grumpy not-old-yet fart.
PMSH on climate change and Afstan with French PM. Generally on the same page.
Sarkozy is a shrimp!!! Gotta be worried about short French leaders . . . Remember Napoleon - he actually wasn't that short - about 5'7". And look what he did. Be afraid. Be very afraid.
Babs MacDougall doesn't think Putin wants to disrupt the G-8 - needs the other 7.
Phil Fontaine sans pony tail - fast track on land claims. He's optimistic. Hard to believe that Phil has become the voice of reason in the aboriginal community. Let's see if Mike asks about the Day of Action... He does - Phil says position is clear - never advocates breaking the law. Wants to reach out to Canadians.
The bells are ringing - Bill Casey to get his moment of fame.
Bonner - Grit Senators still trying to kill 8 year term limits. Blames provinces - Sen Oliver says this is horse manure. Provinces have no right to be consulted. Port Elgin's John Bryden hangs on to the blaming the provinces right to approve amending formula for Senate. Trudeau gave them a gift that keeps giving. Bryden wants a reference to the SCOC - means all the siting Grit Senators will have another 5 or 6 years.
Sorry - was having a snack.
Ian MacDonald & Greg Weston - hangover from the Martin Open Bar Yard Sale deals with provinces. That's the only way that this whole thing can be sold - that Martin sold out Ontario, QC, Alberta and BC for a few seats in the Maritimes. Macdonald says Dion is Dead, Dead, Dead in Quebec - 12% - 6 months after getting elected. Most Canadians can't picture Dion as a PM.
That's it - I kinda took a little break in the middle but don't think I missed anything meaningful.
Kinda peed off that Paula Todd always gets the last five minutes.
Overall, a decent hour of pathetic bafflegab. 5/10
Note - Voting for Budget Implementation Act...
Casey VOTES AGAINST Amendments to C-52
Grits voted against, PQ for. NDP weren't sure what they were voting for or against and teh Greens don't get to vote.
Duff: Calls his show a Broadcast . . .
Bill Casey says he has no choice. Will he get the boot? PMSH in Paris on Kyoto and Afstan. GWB trying to chill Putin's new cold war. G8 Preview, etc.
Bonner: Bill Casey - vote is in 45 minutes. Issue is Atlantic Accord. Won't spend much time with Bonner. Not up to the challenge.
Duff - Bill Casey is reading a "contract" in debate with Van Loan. There is a simple solution to this - call the NSers bluff, withdraw the other deal - Heap insults on Paul Martin for doing such a stupid deal and how it was a stab in the back of Ontario / Quebec / Alberta / BC and how Nova Scotia and NFLD will be driving BMWs while Ontarians and Quebecers will be riding in wagons. Give up on winning any more seats on the East Coast - there aren't enough to matter anyway.
PVL explains how if the NSers vote to defeat bill, then huge benefits will be withdrawn.
Ralphie Hedgehog says it breaks promises - bad outweighs the good - does this mean the Grits will vote against it? Ralph admits that tradition would call for Casey to get canned. All of a sudden Bill Casey is a very respected and thoughtful MP according to Libby. Did she say the same think a week ago??
Can His Ass if he votes against it!!! He can run as an NDPer next time.
PVL explains they have an option - they can stay with the old arrangement and give up the new money. Up to them - there's the answer. Take it OFF THE TABLE. And MAKE SURE the productive provinces know that the Grits did a stupid deal and that THEY have to pay for it. Duff says NDP surging in NS - Maritimers (I'm one by the way) never look after their own interests. NDP... Puhleeze.
Fixident, Reverse Mortgages, Comfy Bathtubs - wow - do these shows ever know how to target their audiences: grumpy old farts. I'm more of a grumpy not-old-yet fart.
PMSH on climate change and Afstan with French PM. Generally on the same page.
Sarkozy is a shrimp!!! Gotta be worried about short French leaders . . . Remember Napoleon - he actually wasn't that short - about 5'7". And look what he did. Be afraid. Be very afraid.
Babs MacDougall doesn't think Putin wants to disrupt the G-8 - needs the other 7.
Phil Fontaine sans pony tail - fast track on land claims. He's optimistic. Hard to believe that Phil has become the voice of reason in the aboriginal community. Let's see if Mike asks about the Day of Action... He does - Phil says position is clear - never advocates breaking the law. Wants to reach out to Canadians.
The bells are ringing - Bill Casey to get his moment of fame.
Bonner - Grit Senators still trying to kill 8 year term limits. Blames provinces - Sen Oliver says this is horse manure. Provinces have no right to be consulted. Port Elgin's John Bryden hangs on to the blaming the provinces right to approve amending formula for Senate. Trudeau gave them a gift that keeps giving. Bryden wants a reference to the SCOC - means all the siting Grit Senators will have another 5 or 6 years.
Sorry - was having a snack.
Ian MacDonald & Greg Weston - hangover from the Martin Open Bar Yard Sale deals with provinces. That's the only way that this whole thing can be sold - that Martin sold out Ontario, QC, Alberta and BC for a few seats in the Maritimes. Macdonald says Dion is Dead, Dead, Dead in Quebec - 12% - 6 months after getting elected. Most Canadians can't picture Dion as a PM.
That's it - I kinda took a little break in the middle but don't think I missed anything meaningful.
Kinda peed off that Paula Todd always gets the last five minutes.
Overall, a decent hour of pathetic bafflegab. 5/10
Note - Voting for Budget Implementation Act...
Casey VOTES AGAINST Amendments to C-52
Grits voted against, PQ for. NDP weren't sure what they were voting for or against and teh Greens don't get to vote.
Lemon: Student Job Program - Shouldn't be for all
I expect a fair amount of comment on my opinion on this.
A student summer hiring subsidy program has become a bit of an expected entitlement for small businesses and non-profits. But the basic principle of the program is to provide opportunities for students, not subsidies to employers.
We are in a 6% unemployment economy. Almost any able-bodied student should be able to find work on normal terms. The most able-bodied might be willing to live in tents or trailers near Alberta for a couple of months.
Disabled kids and those with other disadvantages don't have these options. They need a step up to support their education.
The Spryfield B&G Club is unwilling - for unknown reasons - not to make an application to explain why they need an exemption. And unemployment is higher there, which is likely reason enough to get an approval. By not so doing, they're not helping anyone.
A student summer hiring subsidy program has become a bit of an expected entitlement for small businesses and non-profits. But the basic principle of the program is to provide opportunities for students, not subsidies to employers.
We are in a 6% unemployment economy. Almost any able-bodied student should be able to find work on normal terms. The most able-bodied might be willing to live in tents or trailers near Alberta for a couple of months.
Disabled kids and those with other disadvantages don't have these options. They need a step up to support their education.
The Spryfield B&G Club is unwilling - for unknown reasons - not to make an application to explain why they need an exemption. And unemployment is higher there, which is likely reason enough to get an approval. By not so doing, they're not helping anyone.
Poor, Poor Temporary House of Commons Workers
Liberal MP Marlene Jennings called the situation "inexcusable," adding "how can we as legislators allow employees of the House of Commons to be forced on to social assistance?"
-- Well, Marlene, maybe because the Liberal government looted the EI treasury and toughened up the regulations so almost no one (outside of Newfie fisherman) qualify.
The Post reports on this...
"We've actually found a few of our former members that are currently on welfare, social assistance, right now because they didn't work enough hours to even qualify for EI," said Mr. Cashman. He said the union identified two members on welfare last summer and others in previous years.
So - 2 lazy saps out of 150 workers - 1.5% of the group - go on welfare and this is a story?
This in a place where unemployment is 4.7% and these two can't find a job? Or just won't take a menial job that pays less than their normal $13.80 an hour?
-- Well, Marlene, maybe because the Liberal government looted the EI treasury and toughened up the regulations so almost no one (outside of Newfie fisherman) qualify.
The Post reports on this...
"We've actually found a few of our former members that are currently on welfare, social assistance, right now because they didn't work enough hours to even qualify for EI," said Mr. Cashman. He said the union identified two members on welfare last summer and others in previous years.
So - 2 lazy saps out of 150 workers - 1.5% of the group - go on welfare and this is a story?
This in a place where unemployment is 4.7% and these two can't find a job? Or just won't take a menial job that pays less than their normal $13.80 an hour?
Monday, June 04, 2007
Where have all the Liberal MPs gone
Has anyone seen Paul Martin, Billl Graham, Belinda, Scott lately in the House of Commons?
Does Volpe and the rest of the dream team show up?
As someone asked in comments, why are we paying these missing liberals. Bloc and NDP are also missing, but they are not a government in waiting, and never will be.
Senators are deducted pay for missing days, how about MPs?
Maybe all those Grits that are leaving the sinking ship have taken early retirement, or maybe they think the House is in recess.
Does Volpe and the rest of the dream team show up?
As someone asked in comments, why are we paying these missing liberals. Bloc and NDP are also missing, but they are not a government in waiting, and never will be.
Senators are deducted pay for missing days, how about MPs?
Maybe all those Grits that are leaving the sinking ship have taken early retirement, or maybe they think the House is in recess.
Sunday, June 03, 2007
Kyoto Has Cost $344 Billion and Has Reduced the Temperature by .003 Degrees
As of 2240 hours on June 3, 2007, anyway
Counter is Here
Counter is Here
What If We Didn't Have Climate Scientists?
I've been going through the comments on THIS blog from a prof at Harvard.
I asked myself, "Self, what if we didn't have anyone measuring ice in the Antarctic Continent and the width of trees in Oregon. What if we didn't hear all the chatter about Anthropological Global Warming. What if the temperature went up 2 deg C in the next 100 years. What would we do?"
And I answered myself, "we'd likely build big dykes around the big cities on the ocean and a lot of us would move inland. In the winter we'd go to Han Island for a week."
I asked myself, "Self, what if we didn't have anyone measuring ice in the Antarctic Continent and the width of trees in Oregon. What if we didn't hear all the chatter about Anthropological Global Warming. What if the temperature went up 2 deg C in the next 100 years. What would we do?"
And I answered myself, "we'd likely build big dykes around the big cities on the ocean and a lot of us would move inland. In the winter we'd go to Han Island for a week."
Nicklaus Loves O'Reilly
Jack Nicklaus, one of my four lifetime heroes (along with Martin, Muhammad and Nelson) admits to being a conservative and watching Fox News, especially Beck and O'Reilly.
Yea!!!
Thing is, given today's political temperature, I think Martin, Muhammad and Nelson would likely also be conservative, given the state of those philosophies that are not.
Yea!!!
Thing is, given today's political temperature, I think Martin, Muhammad and Nelson would likely also be conservative, given the state of those philosophies that are not.
AGW Fatwa Against NASA's Michael Griffin
Also, his comments about the arrogance are a very dangerous thing, not only by irritating all the policymakers and climate scientists, but also by injuring our holy faith and rendering whole chapters of the IPCC report, obtained by the scientific method, false. Publication of further opinions of Michael Griffin shall be forbidden and Atlantis shall be renamed to Hansen the Space Shuttle. Should Griffin resist the decree, stronger action would be taken.
Entire Inquisitional Statement Here.
Entire Inquisitional Statement Here.
The Democratic Bobblehead Show
I've been watching the Democratic debate in Manchester, NH.
Frankly, the Miller, LeDrew, Pitfield debate was stronger.
I will state at this moment, in this place, that the Republican nominee will be the next President of the United States. . .
The gang on stage are apologetic, weak, and unattractive.
The old secret to getting elected is to have people believe that you think like they think.
There is (on a relative basis) almost no one in the USA that thinks like these people think.
George Bush could at least own Texas - none of these saps will own anyone.
Obama? Obust
Hilary? No thrillary
Joe Biden was the most impressive, and he has no chance.
Bill Richardson stated that he wants to open the borders. Do any voters want this?
It will be Giuliani or Fred Thompson. Period.
Frankly, the Miller, LeDrew, Pitfield debate was stronger.
I will state at this moment, in this place, that the Republican nominee will be the next President of the United States. . .
The gang on stage are apologetic, weak, and unattractive.
The old secret to getting elected is to have people believe that you think like they think.
There is (on a relative basis) almost no one in the USA that thinks like these people think.
George Bush could at least own Texas - none of these saps will own anyone.
Obama? Obust
Hilary? No thrillary
Joe Biden was the most impressive, and he has no chance.
Bill Richardson stated that he wants to open the borders. Do any voters want this?
It will be Giuliani or Fred Thompson. Period.
Golfers eat your heart out
Jackie Gagnon, female, age 46, who took up this game 4 years ago, has made 13 holes in one since Jan 23/06. Via Jacksnewswatch.
Lemon is a golfer. He thinks she's probably also has invented a political solution to global warming and an end to global hunger.
Lemon is a golfer. He thinks she's probably also has invented a political solution to global warming and an end to global hunger.
The One Question I Want Answered on Climate Change
If the worst case scenario as described by the latest "summary report" issued by the International Panel on Climate Change occurs, what will be the net effect on the quality of life of humans in terms of total food production, number of deaths due to climate, overall standards of education, overall quality of housing and the per capita level of disposable income and level of wealth.
Gore Admits He Ain't Got It
GORE DOUBTS HE HAS THE RIGHT STUFF FOR WHITE HOUSE
CHICAGO -- Al Gore isn't sure he has the "aptitude for politics" -- but he has not ruled out running for president in 2008. The former v-p said at a signing event for his new book, The Assault on Reason, that he wasn't sure he has what it takes to be elected president in today's political climate. "I don't expect to get into this race," he told the Tennessean newspaper. "I strongly prefer to serve in other ways. I haven't definitely ruled out a return to politics for the rest of my life, but I don't expect to re-enter politics because I don't think I'm very good at some of the things that the modern political system rewards and requires."
The Sun
Likely because he knows he'd get hammered for all his hypocrisy, exaggerations and outright lies.
Naturally he'd preferred to just be exalted as the new prophet.
CHICAGO -- Al Gore isn't sure he has the "aptitude for politics" -- but he has not ruled out running for president in 2008. The former v-p said at a signing event for his new book, The Assault on Reason, that he wasn't sure he has what it takes to be elected president in today's political climate. "I don't expect to get into this race," he told the Tennessean newspaper. "I strongly prefer to serve in other ways. I haven't definitely ruled out a return to politics for the rest of my life, but I don't expect to re-enter politics because I don't think I'm very good at some of the things that the modern political system rewards and requires."
The Sun
Likely because he knows he'd get hammered for all his hypocrisy, exaggerations and outright lies.
Naturally he'd preferred to just be exalted as the new prophet.
Saturday, June 02, 2007
They Went to A Garden Party
That must have been some garden party at PMSH's home. It is an annual event, and all cabinet ministers were there and the PRESS were invited, and seems they were impressed.
If Jane Tabor can report on it (nationalnewswatch) kindly, and in the same article can report on the PM praying in his office with a group of students, and not get snotty, wow.
A photographer was there, a former skier from Germany, and PMSH was told he was a fan of the terminator, he set up an introduction between the two of the.
Wonder if she will mention it tomorrow on QP.
MaryT
If Jane Tabor can report on it (nationalnewswatch) kindly, and in the same article can report on the PM praying in his office with a group of students, and not get snotty, wow.
A photographer was there, a former skier from Germany, and PMSH was told he was a fan of the terminator, he set up an introduction between the two of the.
Wonder if she will mention it tomorrow on QP.
MaryT
Suzuki to "Perform" at Luminato Festival in Toronto
Driving home from the links today I heard on the radio that Kooky Suzuki was one of many stars performing at the opening of the Crystal Room at the ROM.
My question (which I obviously couldn't get an answer to) was what talent was he performing?
Stand Up Comedy? His Impressions of Science? Carbon Neutral Magic Tricks? Throat Singing?
Never knew The Kook was so talented.
I suspect he will be hypnotizing the audience to commit to spend all their money on his mischevious cause.
My question (which I obviously couldn't get an answer to) was what talent was he performing?
Stand Up Comedy? His Impressions of Science? Carbon Neutral Magic Tricks? Throat Singing?
Never knew The Kook was so talented.
I suspect he will be hypnotizing the audience to commit to spend all their money on his mischevious cause.
Who provides the money for protestors
100,000 protestors are expected in Germany for the G8 meeting.
Of course TV is giving lots of coverage to the mobs in action.
Police in riot gear-things being thrown. Police having trouble containing the idiots.
Peaceful protestors have been infiltrated by trouble makers.
Also wonder where the guy with TB got all the money for his world trips.
He has been around, and supposedly knew since last April he had the disease.
Of course TV is giving lots of coverage to the mobs in action.
Police in riot gear-things being thrown. Police having trouble containing the idiots.
Peaceful protestors have been infiltrated by trouble makers.
Also wonder where the guy with TB got all the money for his world trips.
He has been around, and supposedly knew since last April he had the disease.
Read it to believe it.
The Nat Post has a positive story on PMSH and his family today. Julie Smyth writes about the garden party for the press and their children. He has got the under 10 vote wrapped up. Hey in 8 yrs they will vote for conservatives, remembering all that cotton candy and the clown. Surprising how loyalties are formed.
Story also states the Greens are looking for Media Response Team Volunteers, to write letters, call radio shows, e-mail news dept etc.
(the notice mentions the Elizabeth May/Stephane Dion pact and some trouble the party got into over the abortion)
The above sentence is directly from the story.
Nationalnewswatch-Harpers lifestyly on casual side:
Story also states the Greens are looking for Media Response Team Volunteers, to write letters, call radio shows, e-mail news dept etc.
(the notice mentions the Elizabeth May/Stephane Dion pact and some trouble the party got into over the abortion)
The above sentence is directly from the story.
Nationalnewswatch-Harpers lifestyly on casual side:
Just Another Dead Gangsta
Below are a series of links that track the history of reportage on this sad story
Media critics knew the story would turn out this way. The poor dead boy was reflected as "the brightest star" as a prince, as well liked, friendly and with a promising future. Now that he's only a memory his good is not interred with his bones, it's dismissed and his evil lives after him.
The script is pre-written: "We made you, we can destroy you..."
Hands are being wrung feverishly as blame is being tossed around at the school system.
I know the Jane Finch community very well. I know the struggle that Moms have, under great duress , to try and keep their kids away from the influence of gangs. And the great majority are extremely successful at producing fantastic citizens who then are always seen by others in the light of the gangstas.
Local governments piss and moan about Federal Gun Laws.
Where should fingers be pointed?
Indeed, at a system. If fingers are to be pointed, point them at the Mayor and Council of the City of Toronto and at the Provincial government that have decided to warehouse poor immigrant families in gang factories. Underserve the communities and don't provide positive outlets or opportunities. Let poor kids without hope only be given the opportunity to hang around other poor kids without hope.
It is our local system that is at fault here. Miller and McGuinty are responsible for housing and education. They are the ones that are warehousing poor kids in neighbourhoods where the dream is to flash around wads of cash.
Would anyone who might read this deny the benefits for our city of spending the money needed to provide housing that is clean and safe and provides an expectation of hope? (Don't point to the 'new' Regent Park- this is replicating the existing disaster.)
We should also point our fingers at poverty activists who march on Rosedale demanding more high density, no income housing that are the kilns that harden kids.
Will the Jordan Manners story change things. No.
Homicides are up almost 25% over last year, and Miller and his minions are saying they've turned the corner on gun crimes...
The Star: Hours before Manners was shot he had told Miles the world would be better off without police. One week before that, the same teacher recalled Manners flashing a wad of bills in class – one of many that earned him the nickname "Stackz."
So much for "The Brightest Star":Jordan's aunt, Louisa Manners, gave the eulogy and talked about the boy's favourite basketball player, Michael Jordan, who wore number 23 — the date of Jordan's death.They were both stars in their own right, she said, adding: "Our star is now the brightest in the sky."
(Note: Michael Jordan, however, born to a poor family with an alcoholic father who was murdered somehow grew up as a very bright star.)
A heartbreaking sendoff for the 'Prince of Shoreham': The gifted child had his art, his theatricals, his poems, his love for nature, his passion for basketball; he planted trees in the ravine behind his school and built birdcages that still hang in those boughs. He oozed self-confidence, a youth going places, didn't matter where he'd started out.
Media critics knew the story would turn out this way. The poor dead boy was reflected as "the brightest star" as a prince, as well liked, friendly and with a promising future. Now that he's only a memory his good is not interred with his bones, it's dismissed and his evil lives after him.
The script is pre-written: "We made you, we can destroy you..."
Hands are being wrung feverishly as blame is being tossed around at the school system.
I know the Jane Finch community very well. I know the struggle that Moms have, under great duress , to try and keep their kids away from the influence of gangs. And the great majority are extremely successful at producing fantastic citizens who then are always seen by others in the light of the gangstas.
Local governments piss and moan about Federal Gun Laws.
Where should fingers be pointed?
Indeed, at a system. If fingers are to be pointed, point them at the Mayor and Council of the City of Toronto and at the Provincial government that have decided to warehouse poor immigrant families in gang factories. Underserve the communities and don't provide positive outlets or opportunities. Let poor kids without hope only be given the opportunity to hang around other poor kids without hope.
It is our local system that is at fault here. Miller and McGuinty are responsible for housing and education. They are the ones that are warehousing poor kids in neighbourhoods where the dream is to flash around wads of cash.
Would anyone who might read this deny the benefits for our city of spending the money needed to provide housing that is clean and safe and provides an expectation of hope? (Don't point to the 'new' Regent Park- this is replicating the existing disaster.)
We should also point our fingers at poverty activists who march on Rosedale demanding more high density, no income housing that are the kilns that harden kids.
Will the Jordan Manners story change things. No.
Homicides are up almost 25% over last year, and Miller and his minions are saying they've turned the corner on gun crimes...
The Star: Hours before Manners was shot he had told Miles the world would be better off without police. One week before that, the same teacher recalled Manners flashing a wad of bills in class – one of many that earned him the nickname "Stackz."
So much for "The Brightest Star":Jordan's aunt, Louisa Manners, gave the eulogy and talked about the boy's favourite basketball player, Michael Jordan, who wore number 23 — the date of Jordan's death.They were both stars in their own right, she said, adding: "Our star is now the brightest in the sky."
(Note: Michael Jordan, however, born to a poor family with an alcoholic father who was murdered somehow grew up as a very bright star.)
A heartbreaking sendoff for the 'Prince of Shoreham': The gifted child had his art, his theatricals, his poems, his love for nature, his passion for basketball; he planted trees in the ravine behind his school and built birdcages that still hang in those boughs. He oozed self-confidence, a youth going places, didn't matter where he'd started out.
Friday, June 01, 2007
New Paris and Nicole Reality Show
"The Simple Con's Life"
It's high-jinks in striped jump-suits as Paris Hilton and Nicole Ritchie do the Prison in Prada and go slumming again, this time in a jail just outside of Los Angeles.
They spend hours chatting, remembering their hours spent chatting about times spent chatting and doing makeovers for other inmatrons. The makeover of Massive Marj is especially madcap as "the Marj" relates her sexual identity problems and the girls make jokes about her hairy pits.
"The way that Paris's whole entire case was dealt with was, A, out of her control but B, really unfair," Richie said. "Sometimes people just get exploited so I can only hope that doesn't happen to me."
The duo will be visited by friends and family members during the series and to maintain a sense of reality, the visits will take place in a real prison interview room. No one's talking about it, but there might be a little surprise planned for when Paris' boy toy shows up for a connubial visit. Will Marj be hiding in the closet? No one's talking...
It's high-jinks in striped jump-suits as Paris Hilton and Nicole Ritchie do the Prison in Prada and go slumming again, this time in a jail just outside of Los Angeles.
They spend hours chatting, remembering their hours spent chatting about times spent chatting and doing makeovers for other inmatrons. The makeover of Massive Marj is especially madcap as "the Marj" relates her sexual identity problems and the girls make jokes about her hairy pits.
"The way that Paris's whole entire case was dealt with was, A, out of her control but B, really unfair," Richie said. "Sometimes people just get exploited so I can only hope that doesn't happen to me."
The duo will be visited by friends and family members during the series and to maintain a sense of reality, the visits will take place in a real prison interview room. No one's talking about it, but there might be a little surprise planned for when Paris' boy toy shows up for a connubial visit. Will Marj be hiding in the closet? No one's talking...
Evening Lemons Report Newman Duff June 1
Duff - Red Day on Parliament Hill, Report on Benefits to Cdn Soldiers, Pirates of the Canadian Being
Brawdcast - Sale of Stelco, New Anti-Pirate Law, Charest Govt Survives to screw up another day
Duff: Greg Thompson on supporting Canadian soldiers - Minister O'Connor addresses problem very quickly. Was Treasury Board guideline left over from Grits. Duff asks, what about the big events in Arena's? Should Feds pay for this? Greg - what are reasonable expenses? Gagetown had event on the base. Tough issue. What about wounded soldiers? Get 3 years to rehab then lump sum if can't get back to service. Vet's Charter - among most generous in world - lump sum and % of salary based upon level of disability. Death payment receive $250k tax free plus education benefits for spouse and education for children.
Newman talking about foreign takeovers. No complaints about how Canadians buy more foreign companies than the reverse. Collin Carrie on for first time - does pretty well.
Duff on NDP supporting soldiers but disagreeing with mission. Peggy Nash says their job to ask if correct mission. Say biggest fan of soldiers - even knows a family that had a son that knew someone who actually met a soldier who was wounded in battle, so she knows what it's really like.
What about another $1.2 mill in travel budget, sez Duff. Ablonzcy says travel is part of the job.
Judy Sgro of Moncton and stripper campaign worker fame goes on and on and says nothing. Says 90% of world not accounted for in foreign policy. What about Vanuatu and Paul Martin using it as a tax haven?
Captain Jack Sparrow on to discuss film piracy. Actually it's Sam Bulte's fundraiser Doug Frith - amazing resemble to Johnny Depp. (Sam was in charge of this under the Grits and Doug is head of Motion Picture Association in Canada). He does give credit to Oda and Nicholson for pushing bill through.
With Newman, Oda explains that Canada was put on the watch list many years ago. 2 year sentence for first charge. Will try to rush through House before recess.
Duff - Quebec Budget passes. Old news.
Newman on Quebec budget passing. Old news. Time for a spellcheck.
Sask has bought ad on Duff - another one of our starving provinces with extra cash lying around.
Scott Reid against Powers on Duff. What is up with Power's hair? Dom Leblanc, multi-generational Grit member from Shediac has comparison of Harper statements and GWB's. Powers says MacCallum said that Iggy was a right wing American. Come on, scotty - get loud and stupid - you're more fun. Reid mentions presentation doe to CPC leadership by US pollster. Powers reminds Howard Dean and Jim Carville both acted as consultants to Grit.
I am falling asleep.
Galloway and Blinky Oliver on Duff next.
Travesty and the rest of the Liberal Media Team on Newman - 2 Star opinion heads, 1 CBC, a CP and Greg Weston - lotsa Grit fans there - no CPC types from the Post. Delacourt seems to be bored - certainly is dull. Needs a makeover. Weston might see better but doesn't look better without specs. Tit for Tat in QP - Newman says that Grits need to continue to be disappointed about Dion - even Travers agrees with this. Newman says Dion is unintelligible with no enthusiasm. CBC geek says HOC will be on til June 22 - says Iggy always overshadows Steffi. Newman says there is obvious competition between Iggy and Steffi. Everyone looking for Cabinet shuffle this summer. Delacourt leaks story that Grits want to bring down government after Ontario election.
Says Grits will campaign on big Grit team and history not on leadership. (Of course the CPC will make it about leadership).
Travers says unlikely - all parties have to vote against CPC and means Bloc and NDP will both do what the Grits want.
Weston says that Dion can only get better. Guess what, Greg, ask a golfer - when you think it can't possibly get worse, it gets waaaay worse. Dion if he stays the same will more and more every day be seen as a weak leader.
Blinky says that O'Connor bad at politics. Duff says that the bureaucracy is frozen as far as having initiative. Forgets about how anxious they are to leak private documents.
Dull and dreary program. Everyone is just putting in time in the media and in the house. Steffi, for your own well being and my sanity, let PMSH know that you will let a couple of bills go through and let him call this session mercifully to an end!!!
3/10 because of Delacourt's leak that some Grits wanna take down the CPC after Ontario election. Too bad she doesn't talk to anyone but the Liberals or she'd know this dog don't hunt. Shows her limited breadth of relationships.
Brawdcast - Sale of Stelco, New Anti-Pirate Law, Charest Govt Survives to screw up another day
Duff: Greg Thompson on supporting Canadian soldiers - Minister O'Connor addresses problem very quickly. Was Treasury Board guideline left over from Grits. Duff asks, what about the big events in Arena's? Should Feds pay for this? Greg - what are reasonable expenses? Gagetown had event on the base. Tough issue. What about wounded soldiers? Get 3 years to rehab then lump sum if can't get back to service. Vet's Charter - among most generous in world - lump sum and % of salary based upon level of disability. Death payment receive $250k tax free plus education benefits for spouse and education for children.
Newman talking about foreign takeovers. No complaints about how Canadians buy more foreign companies than the reverse. Collin Carrie on for first time - does pretty well.
Duff on NDP supporting soldiers but disagreeing with mission. Peggy Nash says their job to ask if correct mission. Say biggest fan of soldiers - even knows a family that had a son that knew someone who actually met a soldier who was wounded in battle, so she knows what it's really like.
What about another $1.2 mill in travel budget, sez Duff. Ablonzcy says travel is part of the job.
Judy Sgro of Moncton and stripper campaign worker fame goes on and on and says nothing. Says 90% of world not accounted for in foreign policy. What about Vanuatu and Paul Martin using it as a tax haven?
Captain Jack Sparrow on to discuss film piracy. Actually it's Sam Bulte's fundraiser Doug Frith - amazing resemble to Johnny Depp. (Sam was in charge of this under the Grits and Doug is head of Motion Picture Association in Canada). He does give credit to Oda and Nicholson for pushing bill through.
With Newman, Oda explains that Canada was put on the watch list many years ago. 2 year sentence for first charge. Will try to rush through House before recess.
Duff - Quebec Budget passes. Old news.
Newman on Quebec budget passing. Old news. Time for a spellcheck.
Sask has bought ad on Duff - another one of our starving provinces with extra cash lying around.
Scott Reid against Powers on Duff. What is up with Power's hair? Dom Leblanc, multi-generational Grit member from Shediac has comparison of Harper statements and GWB's. Powers says MacCallum said that Iggy was a right wing American. Come on, scotty - get loud and stupid - you're more fun. Reid mentions presentation doe to CPC leadership by US pollster. Powers reminds Howard Dean and Jim Carville both acted as consultants to Grit.
I am falling asleep.
Galloway and Blinky Oliver on Duff next.
Travesty and the rest of the Liberal Media Team on Newman - 2 Star opinion heads, 1 CBC, a CP and Greg Weston - lotsa Grit fans there - no CPC types from the Post. Delacourt seems to be bored - certainly is dull. Needs a makeover. Weston might see better but doesn't look better without specs. Tit for Tat in QP - Newman says that Grits need to continue to be disappointed about Dion - even Travers agrees with this. Newman says Dion is unintelligible with no enthusiasm. CBC geek says HOC will be on til June 22 - says Iggy always overshadows Steffi. Newman says there is obvious competition between Iggy and Steffi. Everyone looking for Cabinet shuffle this summer. Delacourt leaks story that Grits want to bring down government after Ontario election.
Says Grits will campaign on big Grit team and history not on leadership. (Of course the CPC will make it about leadership).
Travers says unlikely - all parties have to vote against CPC and means Bloc and NDP will both do what the Grits want.
Weston says that Dion can only get better. Guess what, Greg, ask a golfer - when you think it can't possibly get worse, it gets waaaay worse. Dion if he stays the same will more and more every day be seen as a weak leader.
Blinky says that O'Connor bad at politics. Duff says that the bureaucracy is frozen as far as having initiative. Forgets about how anxious they are to leak private documents.
Dull and dreary program. Everyone is just putting in time in the media and in the house. Steffi, for your own well being and my sanity, let PMSH know that you will let a couple of bills go through and let him call this session mercifully to an end!!!
3/10 because of Delacourt's leak that some Grits wanna take down the CPC after Ontario election. Too bad she doesn't talk to anyone but the Liberals or she'd know this dog don't hunt. Shows her limited breadth of relationships.
Green Ties
Finally caught a picture of Arnold and the BC Premier. Are those green ties they are wearing supposed to be sending a message. And May was nowhere to be seen.
Thursday, May 31, 2007
Anyone Else Tired of CPC Commentators and Tight Control?
If I get disappointed, how about the rest of the CPC Nation?
I can understand the strategy of moving to the middle. Frankly, (even as a one time Reformer) the middle is the place to be. And those CPC members who won't accept any concessions whatsoever to the big lazy group of small l libs and small c cons are determined to let the Big S Socialists run our country. And thereby let the Grits rule in perpetuity.
My tipping point to be a critic of some of the stuff going on came with a refusal of the PM to revisit capping of the FedTax on gas. I was pissed off when the Grits wouldn't do it, and I'm pissed off that PMSH won't.
I can also understand the desire to control messaging. But the dumbo eruptions of Gallant, Thompson, Anders et al are in the past.
And the Facebook ban is plain dumb.
The Grits send out their A Team to represent their positions: Goodale, Hall Finlay, Rattard Kennedy, (even Raccoon Reid) et al.
We send out Van Loan, Norquay, Jiro, and Hill.
Jay is okay, but the rest are duds.
Our party looks like it's composed of cementheads.
Unless the PM wants to do all the public appearances himself (he IS our Gretzky) Helen Gorgeous, Jaffer and Powers should be front and centre.
Let's get some people in front of cameras that can make an impression and put up an argument, not just avoid embarrassment.
I can understand the strategy of moving to the middle. Frankly, (even as a one time Reformer) the middle is the place to be. And those CPC members who won't accept any concessions whatsoever to the big lazy group of small l libs and small c cons are determined to let the Big S Socialists run our country. And thereby let the Grits rule in perpetuity.
My tipping point to be a critic of some of the stuff going on came with a refusal of the PM to revisit capping of the FedTax on gas. I was pissed off when the Grits wouldn't do it, and I'm pissed off that PMSH won't.
I can also understand the desire to control messaging. But the dumbo eruptions of Gallant, Thompson, Anders et al are in the past.
And the Facebook ban is plain dumb.
The Grits send out their A Team to represent their positions: Goodale, Hall Finlay, Rattard Kennedy, (even Raccoon Reid) et al.
We send out Van Loan, Norquay, Jiro, and Hill.
Jay is okay, but the rest are duds.
Our party looks like it's composed of cementheads.
Unless the PM wants to do all the public appearances himself (he IS our Gretzky) Helen Gorgeous, Jaffer and Powers should be front and centre.
Let's get some people in front of cameras that can make an impression and put up an argument, not just avoid embarrassment.
Eco-terrorist Crybaby
Poor little Eco-terrorist Crybaby
Cdn eco-terrorist sentenced to 37 months in a US jail. His girlfriend got 9 yrs.
Cdn eco-terrorist sentenced to 37 months in a US jail. His girlfriend got 9 yrs.
This brave arsonist cried in court when sentenced. Wonder if he cried when he started fires that resulted in 40 million in damages.
ht Dust my Broom
Interesting - there was an episode of Criminal Minds on Tuesday night with a similar plot line. I assume this was the source of the plot.
ht Dust my Broom
Interesting - there was an episode of Criminal Minds on Tuesday night with a similar plot line. I assume this was the source of the plot.
Miller Makes Moves to Mug Metro Masses
There are no limits to the amount that David Miller will stretch the truth to take more in taxes to feed his socialist spending binge:
Fact: If the scheme were in place this year, the mayor would have been able to raise taxes 3.8 per cent plus an extra 2.8 per cent in "user fees" for garbage, for a total of 6.6 per cent. That would be an obvious violation of his election promise on taxes – but it would be hidden and he wouldn't be held responsible for the garbage tax portion.
Royson at The Star
Fact: If the scheme were in place this year, the mayor would have been able to raise taxes 3.8 per cent plus an extra 2.8 per cent in "user fees" for garbage, for a total of 6.6 per cent. That would be an obvious violation of his election promise on taxes – but it would be hidden and he wouldn't be held responsible for the garbage tax portion.
Royson at The Star
Send Out The Legal Hounds!!!
The Opposition, like all Canadian political parties (except the NDP) is composed more of lawyers than any other line of work. And when your only tool is a hammer, all your problems look like nails.
The Grits are proceeding with legal suits to "protect their reputations".
First Gerard Kennedy who wants to nail Jon Kay and the National Post to a legal cross.
The Grits are proceeding with legal suits to "protect their reputations".
First Gerard Kennedy who wants to nail Jon Kay and the National Post to a legal cross.
Although Dion, Bains and Alghabra have also been upset by such allegations, Kennedy says in the statement that he's in the best position to challenge the "unfounded and defamatory allegations" published in the Post article.What's interesting about this (previous post) is that it has been alleged that Mssrs Bains and Alghabra were the ones working behind the scenes, not Kennedy. Gerrard is possibly in the best position to challenge the allegations because discovery will not be undertaken against any other parties.
Wednesday, May 30, 2007
Miner Trapped in Sask
The CBC is reporting that a miner is trapped in a gold mine in Sask.
Apparently it happened yesterday. Rescue teams are on the scene.
Apparently it happened yesterday. Rescue teams are on the scene.
How Did I Miss the Horton's Sign Story?
Yesterday I read our local paper and read the small item re the sign on a Tim Horton's window, in Lethbridge. I thought of posting on it and then figured it was a non story. Boy, was I wrong.
Today it is in the g&m.
A national boycott of Tim Hortons is being called for. Some of the comments are vicious. It was done as a joke, a very bad joke, by a teenager. Management has punished the guilty party and apologized to everyone that may have been insulted.
There is more outrage against this teenager than there is against the teens who murdered a student or stabbed a BC youth, or attacked a ref or killed a taxi driver.
I wouldn't be surprised to see it brought up in the House of Commons by the ndp as proof that Alberta is full of racists and evidence the govt will do nothing for the natives. Too bad the g&m didn't feel it was important to publicize all the evidence re the sponsorship and adscam scandals as it was developing, or to tell the truth re the algore scam or the liberals inaction for years on the kyoto scam.
MaryT
Today it is in the g&m.
A national boycott of Tim Hortons is being called for. Some of the comments are vicious. It was done as a joke, a very bad joke, by a teenager. Management has punished the guilty party and apologized to everyone that may have been insulted.
There is more outrage against this teenager than there is against the teens who murdered a student or stabbed a BC youth, or attacked a ref or killed a taxi driver.
I wouldn't be surprised to see it brought up in the House of Commons by the ndp as proof that Alberta is full of racists and evidence the govt will do nothing for the natives. Too bad the g&m didn't feel it was important to publicize all the evidence re the sponsorship and adscam scandals as it was developing, or to tell the truth re the algore scam or the liberals inaction for years on the kyoto scam.
MaryT
Tuesday, May 29, 2007
Lie by Gro Harlem Brundtland
We're used to environmentalists lying. They're congenital at it and are severely harming the human race by spewing their nonsense.
This morning on The Current on the Ceeb, Gro Harlem Brundtland went on and on about saving the world, trading facts and lies faster and more furiously than a three card monte player changes cards on Broadway.
I was getting numb until she got to: "and Global Warming is causing an explosion of tropical diseases."
Ooops. The most common and most deadly tropical disease is malaria, which was almost eradicated in the 60's through the use of DDT. Until dogooder environmentalists got their nasty teeth into it and saw this wonder-pesticide banned.
And since then millions upon millions of innocent people have contracted this most prevalent and dangerous tropical disease and millions have died.
All that is necessary for evil things to triumph is for do-gooders to do something.
This morning on The Current on the Ceeb, Gro Harlem Brundtland went on and on about saving the world, trading facts and lies faster and more furiously than a three card monte player changes cards on Broadway.
I was getting numb until she got to: "and Global Warming is causing an explosion of tropical diseases."
Ooops. The most common and most deadly tropical disease is malaria, which was almost eradicated in the 60's through the use of DDT. Until dogooder environmentalists got their nasty teeth into it and saw this wonder-pesticide banned.
And since then millions upon millions of innocent people have contracted this most prevalent and dangerous tropical disease and millions have died.
All that is necessary for evil things to triumph is for do-gooders to do something.
Tragedy in Texas
CNN-Breaking news. 3 children and a female adult, found hanging in a mobile home. One 8mos old baby found hanging but alive. Father located. Apparently the family was separated.
Monday, May 28, 2007
The Ultimate Good Riddance to Bad Rubbish
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But I bet we are gonna hear again from this festering blister on the butt of America.
But I bet we are gonna hear again from this festering blister on the butt of America.
Evening Lemons Report Newman Duff May 28
Reporting from New Brunswick
Duff is back!! G8 Leaders - Fed Grits pushing CPC to sell our souls for the Dog Name Kyoto. Steffi wants them to work til June 22. Expect HOC to burn down if this happens.
Brawdcast - Speculation on perogue - Dog Named Kyoto - Libby Davies being loud. CIDA failure in Afstan
Newman - Beginning of the end of Parliament - Both Sides blaming the middle for standstill. Peter Van Loan, Ralphie Hedgehog, Michel, Libby. Libby nicely dressed - musta lent her mumu to Van Loan - complaining about how CPC is not bowing to their demands. Newman say closing down sooner not later - PVL says will wait til bills are passed - though trapped in committee. Nothing interesting here. Newman on Jay Hill's guide to managing committees - PVL says untrue - trying to get agenda through and the stalling tactics of the Grits that are stalling the platform bills. According to Separatist in a minority government the opposition decides what gets done, not the government. Newman disagrees and asked Ralphie - He bristles and says Gov Propose and Opp Depose. Says CPC has to suck up and do whatever they say.
Duff - pushing CPC Climate Change Plan (which doesn't require and will not go through Parliamentary approval). According to New Doctor Bruce Cockburn, the CPC recent conversion to saving the planet doesn't count because they weren't involved when it wasn't cool. The lefties wants everyone to convert to their fundamentalist religion and then still want to call them heretics.
Duff with Whips - Redman has finally coloured her hair - I guess image consultants are back in vogue. Jay Hill very neatly coiffed - says Redman's new dye job has caused the stalling in the House. Summary:
Goodbye Joe,
Me gotta go,
Mee-Oh My-Oh,
Me gotta go pole the pirogue down the bayou.
This Pahtee's Ovah!!
Margi McDiarmid Official CBC Critic on the Environment - says too many loopholes in Fed Program, under-estimates growth of oilsands, says double counting initiatives. Good to see that a reporter is the best critic of the CPC that the Ceeb can get - likely means that it's a great program. All she is competent to do is read material from enviro lobbyists. Quotes Pembina Institute's Matthew Bramley (Pembina was paid lots of $ by Dion when they were in Govt - small wonder they want them back.)
Birdie getting sued by Friends of the Environment?? At least they're not using the Court Challenge Program. Baird says for the first time there is actually action instead of talk - they will use regulation instead of legislation which means action not more talk. Newman says that CPC can't get total consensus from Premiers. Surprise. These cats can't even chase the same mouse. More to come from PMSH at G-8 conference. NO MENTION of UPCC rep saying he understands and accepts Canada's need for targets as established (die to Grit delays).
Lorne Calvert on Duff - wants more money. No, really, wants more money. Says he doesn't but he wants more money. Not all of it, will settle for anything that the Newfie Doofie Danny doesn't get. Calvert is colouring his hair - wonder if he has image consultant. But it boils down to him wanting more money. Even a dollar, so he can say he won. I cannot believe Flatlanders voted for this guy - I have lived there, and generally they're a pretty bright, sophisticated group and know BS when they see it. What went wrong?
Lorne also on Newman - worse than one Lorne Calvert is Stereo Lorne.
I have no place to click to.
Lorne's hair is combed nicer on Newman - must have an image consultant. Needs dental work.
PEI Election on Duff - why the heck would anyone outside of Summerside want to watch this? Aha, of course, Duff is an Islander - started out on CKDH in Amherst.
PMSH cheering on the Senators - both groups wear red, one of them actually get something done.
Official Afstan strategy critic for CBC, Norine Macdonald of Senlis, says that war is lost, peace is lost, CPC are fascists only in it for the big oil companies.
Duff with Journalists - Joel Denis and Rosie: scandal in Quebec on funding for Referendum in 1995. Anyone going to jail here? No. No story. Just fodder for the Pequistes.
Maybe I'm desensitized by all the yelling and screaming (not from the House but from my golf game) but this was a remarkably boring and non-descript program duo.
Shut down this house!
3/10
Duff is back!! G8 Leaders - Fed Grits pushing CPC to sell our souls for the Dog Name Kyoto. Steffi wants them to work til June 22. Expect HOC to burn down if this happens.
Brawdcast - Speculation on perogue - Dog Named Kyoto - Libby Davies being loud. CIDA failure in Afstan
Newman - Beginning of the end of Parliament - Both Sides blaming the middle for standstill. Peter Van Loan, Ralphie Hedgehog, Michel, Libby. Libby nicely dressed - musta lent her mumu to Van Loan - complaining about how CPC is not bowing to their demands. Newman say closing down sooner not later - PVL says will wait til bills are passed - though trapped in committee. Nothing interesting here. Newman on Jay Hill's guide to managing committees - PVL says untrue - trying to get agenda through and the stalling tactics of the Grits that are stalling the platform bills. According to Separatist in a minority government the opposition decides what gets done, not the government. Newman disagrees and asked Ralphie - He bristles and says Gov Propose and Opp Depose. Says CPC has to suck up and do whatever they say.
Duff - pushing CPC Climate Change Plan (which doesn't require and will not go through Parliamentary approval). According to New Doctor Bruce Cockburn, the CPC recent conversion to saving the planet doesn't count because they weren't involved when it wasn't cool. The lefties wants everyone to convert to their fundamentalist religion and then still want to call them heretics.
Duff with Whips - Redman has finally coloured her hair - I guess image consultants are back in vogue. Jay Hill very neatly coiffed - says Redman's new dye job has caused the stalling in the House. Summary:
Goodbye Joe,
Me gotta go,
Mee-Oh My-Oh,
Me gotta go pole the pirogue down the bayou.
This Pahtee's Ovah!!
Margi McDiarmid Official CBC Critic on the Environment - says too many loopholes in Fed Program, under-estimates growth of oilsands, says double counting initiatives. Good to see that a reporter is the best critic of the CPC that the Ceeb can get - likely means that it's a great program. All she is competent to do is read material from enviro lobbyists. Quotes Pembina Institute's Matthew Bramley (Pembina was paid lots of $ by Dion when they were in Govt - small wonder they want them back.)
Birdie getting sued by Friends of the Environment?? At least they're not using the Court Challenge Program. Baird says for the first time there is actually action instead of talk - they will use regulation instead of legislation which means action not more talk. Newman says that CPC can't get total consensus from Premiers. Surprise. These cats can't even chase the same mouse. More to come from PMSH at G-8 conference. NO MENTION of UPCC rep saying he understands and accepts Canada's need for targets as established (die to Grit delays).
Lorne Calvert on Duff - wants more money. No, really, wants more money. Says he doesn't but he wants more money. Not all of it, will settle for anything that the Newfie Doofie Danny doesn't get. Calvert is colouring his hair - wonder if he has image consultant. But it boils down to him wanting more money. Even a dollar, so he can say he won. I cannot believe Flatlanders voted for this guy - I have lived there, and generally they're a pretty bright, sophisticated group and know BS when they see it. What went wrong?
Lorne also on Newman - worse than one Lorne Calvert is Stereo Lorne.
I have no place to click to.
Lorne's hair is combed nicer on Newman - must have an image consultant. Needs dental work.
PEI Election on Duff - why the heck would anyone outside of Summerside want to watch this? Aha, of course, Duff is an Islander - started out on CKDH in Amherst.
PMSH cheering on the Senators - both groups wear red, one of them actually get something done.
Official Afstan strategy critic for CBC, Norine Macdonald of Senlis, says that war is lost, peace is lost, CPC are fascists only in it for the big oil companies.
Duff with Journalists - Joel Denis and Rosie: scandal in Quebec on funding for Referendum in 1995. Anyone going to jail here? No. No story. Just fodder for the Pequistes.
Maybe I'm desensitized by all the yelling and screaming (not from the House but from my golf game) but this was a remarkably boring and non-descript program duo.
Shut down this house!
3/10
The Funniest Honourary Doctoral Speech. Ever.
Honourary degrees are commonly bestowed on either a Capitalist who has built a dining hall, a Communist who has become a Celebrity (in either order) who can bring attention to the school, or local folk who have done some good in the university's greater community.
Readers will need to stay tuned as neither the transcript nor the audio versions are yet available.
However, it involves a certain Canadian do-gooding college drop-out folksinger and a certain Eastern Canadian University.
But I promise you.
It is very, very funny.
Readers will need to stay tuned as neither the transcript nor the audio versions are yet available.
However, it involves a certain Canadian do-gooding college drop-out folksinger and a certain Eastern Canadian University.
But I promise you.
It is very, very funny.
Michael Moore, Cuba and Health Care
By now most of us have heard at least a rumour of Tubby Moore's latest fictional documentary.
In this one (Sicko) he "proves" that Cuban Health Care is better than that in the USA. He quotes longevity and infant mortality statistics to support his conclusion.
As the author of a book on Cuba I beg to differ (as always he selects his facts, prejudicially applies them and then comes up with a fallacious comparison).
The New York Times also takes a run at him:
Dr. Butler said some of Cuba’s shortcomings may actually improve its health profile. “Because they don’t have up-to-date cars, they tend to have to exercise more by walking,” he said. “And they may not have a surfeit of food, which keeps them from problems like obesity, but they’re not starving, either.”
So if only America banned cars (and perhaps even movement between cities like Fidel does) and starved their people they too could brag about their health care system.
“Actually there are three systems,” Dr. Cordova said, because Cuba has two: one is for party officials and foreigners like those Mr. Moore brought to Havana."
And there are a couple of other considerations that once again bring into disrepute Moore's conclusions.
One is that Moore isn't the only liar. Fidel and his apparatchiks certainly have little familiarity with the truth and as noted in the NYT story, the exflux of huge numbers of refugees results in counting births not deaths and the huge number of abortions brings down the infant mortality rate.
In this one (Sicko) he "proves" that Cuban Health Care is better than that in the USA. He quotes longevity and infant mortality statistics to support his conclusion.
As the author of a book on Cuba I beg to differ (as always he selects his facts, prejudicially applies them and then comes up with a fallacious comparison).
The New York Times also takes a run at him:
Dr. Butler said some of Cuba’s shortcomings may actually improve its health profile. “Because they don’t have up-to-date cars, they tend to have to exercise more by walking,” he said. “And they may not have a surfeit of food, which keeps them from problems like obesity, but they’re not starving, either.”
So if only America banned cars (and perhaps even movement between cities like Fidel does) and starved their people they too could brag about their health care system.
“Actually there are three systems,” Dr. Cordova said, because Cuba has two: one is for party officials and foreigners like those Mr. Moore brought to Havana."
And there are a couple of other considerations that once again bring into disrepute Moore's conclusions.
One is that Moore isn't the only liar. Fidel and his apparatchiks certainly have little familiarity with the truth and as noted in the NYT story, the exflux of huge numbers of refugees results in counting births not deaths and the huge number of abortions brings down the infant mortality rate.
Sunday, May 27, 2007
Post Birth Abortions
Another woman on the Prairies has abandoned her child, this time in a toilet.
Are abortions non-prosecutable post birth?
That would seem to be the only defence that can prevent this woman from being charged with at least reckless endangerment or attempt murder.
But I betcha (as BATB wrote in a previous post here) that there will be extenuating circumstances that will result in no criminal charges being laid.
Are abortions non-prosecutable post birth?
That would seem to be the only defence that can prevent this woman from being charged with at least reckless endangerment or attempt murder.
But I betcha (as BATB wrote in a previous post here) that there will be extenuating circumstances that will result in no criminal charges being laid.
Saturday, May 26, 2007
Friday, May 25, 2007
George Jonas on Human Animation and Inanimation
My Grand-Dad said that life began when the kids left home and the dog died.
Jonas with HT to Joanne
Some put the question in terms of a woman's right to control her own body. That would be valid enough in the realm of smoking, diet, liposuction, or sex -- but abortion? Abortion means controlling someone else's body. (As a man, I have no authority to speak on the matter, I know, but I'm not speaking as a man. I'm speaking as an ex-fetus.)
Jonas with HT to Joanne
Some put the question in terms of a woman's right to control her own body. That would be valid enough in the realm of smoking, diet, liposuction, or sex -- but abortion? Abortion means controlling someone else's body. (As a man, I have no authority to speak on the matter, I know, but I'm not speaking as a man. I'm speaking as an ex-fetus.)
The Saigon Sopranos? Update
When I heard the CasinoRama story, and being the cynic I am, especially when it comes to Indian Reserves and Money I wondered if there was any possible connection, particularly since we've heard in the past about cigarette, booze and gun smuggling.
"Targeted 18 casinos from Washington to Connecticut, 10 of them owned by Indian tribes. The Emerald Queen Casino owned and operated by the Puyallup Tribe of Indians and the Nooksack River Casino in Whatcom County were among them."
Looks though, that it was an organized Vietnamese group.
It was a tough day for Vietnamese Gangstas everywhere.
"Targeted 18 casinos from Washington to Connecticut, 10 of them owned by Indian tribes. The Emerald Queen Casino owned and operated by the Puyallup Tribe of Indians and the Nooksack River Casino in Whatcom County were among them."
Looks though, that it was an organized Vietnamese group.
It was a tough day for Vietnamese Gangstas everywhere.
Battling MSM Propaganda is Exhausting
Just got into work, listened to Ceeb Radio en route.
"The Voice" on The Current did a "Bush to impose pressure on Iran with Allies, should make it tough on Albania" thing. Of course, this is untrue, not very funny, and trite.
But there is a steady diet of this type of manipulation of public opinion in almost all media, all the time.
The public continually sees headlines like "Focus groups reject Tory spin". (The Star this morning). Every phrase, every headline, every story, every tone is directed toward making conservatives look bad.
This is more than continual. It's massive. Overwhelming to the point of exhaustion.
Then the MSM has their other propaganda line - that they are unbiased, that they present both sides of the stories. We know this isn't true, and that they manipulate sources and angles to feature only points of view acceptable to them. Look what the Ceeb did to Michael Coren.
The MSM have massive resources, their staff are paid in real dollars. We opponents on blogs do our stuff in our spare time and might make $1.40 / month from Google Ads.
But if we didn't do this, who would.
(Can't wait to get the comments back that the MSM isn't biased...)
"The Voice" on The Current did a "Bush to impose pressure on Iran with Allies, should make it tough on Albania" thing. Of course, this is untrue, not very funny, and trite.
But there is a steady diet of this type of manipulation of public opinion in almost all media, all the time.
The public continually sees headlines like "Focus groups reject Tory spin". (The Star this morning). Every phrase, every headline, every story, every tone is directed toward making conservatives look bad.
This is more than continual. It's massive. Overwhelming to the point of exhaustion.
Then the MSM has their other propaganda line - that they are unbiased, that they present both sides of the stories. We know this isn't true, and that they manipulate sources and angles to feature only points of view acceptable to them. Look what the Ceeb did to Michael Coren.
The MSM have massive resources, their staff are paid in real dollars. We opponents on blogs do our stuff in our spare time and might make $1.40 / month from Google Ads.
But if we didn't do this, who would.
(Can't wait to get the comments back that the MSM isn't biased...)
Thursday, May 24, 2007
"Handguns are designed for one purpose only – to shoot people – and should have no place in Ontario or anywhere in Canada."
McGuinty is jumping on David Miller's fallacious and pretentious hand gun campaign and is taking political advantage of the death of a boy to do it.
Dalton....
Give your empty head a shake. Hand guns have been banned for 70 years. How many times would you like to see them banned? As far as stiffer penalties, why didn't you lobby your federal Liberal friends to support the CPC legislation that they stalled?
Using the death of this child to get attention for yourself is disgusting.
And you forget, Daltie, that handguns are also used for target shooting which is an Olympic sport. In the unlikely event that Toronto should win such an event (which won't happen with the City Council we have), would you ban the shooting event from taking place?
Moron.
Dalton....
Give your empty head a shake. Hand guns have been banned for 70 years. How many times would you like to see them banned? As far as stiffer penalties, why didn't you lobby your federal Liberal friends to support the CPC legislation that they stalled?
Using the death of this child to get attention for yourself is disgusting.
And you forget, Daltie, that handguns are also used for target shooting which is an Olympic sport. In the unlikely event that Toronto should win such an event (which won't happen with the City Council we have), would you ban the shooting event from taking place?
Moron.
Evening Lemons Report Bonner Akin May 24
Akin in for Duffy, so MDL is a loss. Quebec budget. Foreign credentials. Usual Grit and NDP opinion makers plus Goofie Newfie Doofus Danny Williams. Disappointed that Harper cancelled dinner with Premiers. Why the hell would PMSH ever even have tea with Williams.
Bonner in for Newman.
Both of the old farts don't see any reason to show up for work today. So we have two smiling pleasant faces, one male and dark, one female and blonde, filling in for two old farts who know how to do their job.
It does define the difference between CBC and CTV, though: Blonde/Dark, Male/Female. The only thing the same is the bias.
Michael Bryant on hand gun ban on Bonner. Bryant explains how murder yesterday was a terrible tragedy but that gun crime is down. I'm sure this will provide great solace to the young dead guy's family and friends. More fake compassion used for personal benefit this time by a politician. Not Canadian to shoot kids, Bryant says. Deep.
This night might have some promise afterall, second string interviewers and interviewees might lead to some real stupid questions and even dumber answers.
Oops. Spoke too fast. Looks like the Ceeb at least is gonna go to the Toronto Police Chief's news conference.
Don't they know what this does to my early eve blogging? Don't they realize that satisfying my audience and attracting readers is far more important than them doing the same? They don't get it. This hour is about ME!!! Memememememe.
God, Doofus Danny is a turd...
Akin on the Quebec budget, Ceeb is on the news conference.
Does anyone here care about the Quebec budget? Me Not. Except for the portion that comes outta my pocket.
Notice the Ceeb refered to the "shooting" of Jordan Manners.
Wasn't the event the "murder" of Jordan Manners.
Would they have treated it differently if Jordan had been murdered by a knife or rope?
I suspect they would have. Bang is much more newsworthy than the others.
Ceeb ducks out to get back to the Brawdcast.
Bonner on with Van Load (sic), Dom Leblanc and Joe Cromartin.
Complete ban? Van Loan offers sympathy. Says don't know how murder took place. Bonner uses Miller and McGuinty as sources to get CPC to ban handguns. Peter says not the day to grandstand on this issue. Thats what M&M do best. grandstand.
Leblanc is an idiot - son of Romeo - the bagman from Shediac who gave up his seat to get Chretien a safe entry to the House and then was named House Speaker.
Jope Cromartin can't remember JANE CREBA's name. Who was killed 200 yards from my place on Boxing Day. With a banned hand gun.
Like Van Loan said how many times can you ban something.
Cormartin agrees that the guys who wanna ban hand guns are grandstanding.
Bonner is better than Akin, she at least seems like she has a feel for the to and fro. Akin only gets the fro.
Leblanc, Shediac's favorite son, is a buffoon, brewed in the bad breath of Gritism.
Alghabra, Chow and Kenney on Akin . . .
Never has there been such useless self-serving panelists on either of these shows as Chow and Alghabra (who reportedly raised $250000 for his Grit nomination) and Chow (who with her hubby Talitubby Jack) who I have heard uses the Island Airport after making nuclear level noise to try and shut it down.
I wonder what the real story was on Alghabra's nomination? Something like this was "a victory for Islam" comment from one of his chief supporters. Alghabra rambles on, Kenney looks on with a bemused smile, like he knows something he dare not say.
Chow Chow gives NDP credit for program to recognize foreign credentials. I wonder if she would have minded a doctor from Zimbabwe who finished last in hsi class doing her surgery, even in a private clinic?
Danny the Dimwit wants AFN (the natives) to have seat on the Council of the Federation. What about ME!!!! It's about ME!!! What about German Scots!!! Why don't WE (represented by ME) get a seat on the Council. Huh, Danny? Separate your island back into the stone age. I'll buy my fish somewhere else. What's that? Oh, you don't have any fish left? Too damn bad. I'll eat cake instead.
Akin got Joy, Reynolds and Hall Finlay (is her last name Hall or Finlay?)(Why does SHE get two last names? Is she special or just act like it?)
Wooo, topic is having one securities regulator across Canada. That'll get Akin a lot of viewers.
Lunn on foreign credentials on Bonner. All has been said. I wonder how Canadians would react given a choice, a Russian Certified Accountant? an English Dentist? A Namibian Architect? a Borneo trained Brain Surgeon? or a Canadian homebrew of any creed.
I've had enough for one evening.
Got a BBQ to fire up.
If you had the patience to get this far I honour you.
Bonner in for Newman.
Both of the old farts don't see any reason to show up for work today. So we have two smiling pleasant faces, one male and dark, one female and blonde, filling in for two old farts who know how to do their job.
It does define the difference between CBC and CTV, though: Blonde/Dark, Male/Female. The only thing the same is the bias.
Michael Bryant on hand gun ban on Bonner. Bryant explains how murder yesterday was a terrible tragedy but that gun crime is down. I'm sure this will provide great solace to the young dead guy's family and friends. More fake compassion used for personal benefit this time by a politician. Not Canadian to shoot kids, Bryant says. Deep.
This night might have some promise afterall, second string interviewers and interviewees might lead to some real stupid questions and even dumber answers.
Oops. Spoke too fast. Looks like the Ceeb at least is gonna go to the Toronto Police Chief's news conference.
Don't they know what this does to my early eve blogging? Don't they realize that satisfying my audience and attracting readers is far more important than them doing the same? They don't get it. This hour is about ME!!! Memememememe.
God, Doofus Danny is a turd...
Akin on the Quebec budget, Ceeb is on the news conference.
Does anyone here care about the Quebec budget? Me Not. Except for the portion that comes outta my pocket.
Notice the Ceeb refered to the "shooting" of Jordan Manners.
Wasn't the event the "murder" of Jordan Manners.
Would they have treated it differently if Jordan had been murdered by a knife or rope?
I suspect they would have. Bang is much more newsworthy than the others.
Ceeb ducks out to get back to the Brawdcast.
Bonner on with Van Load (sic), Dom Leblanc and Joe Cromartin.
Complete ban? Van Loan offers sympathy. Says don't know how murder took place. Bonner uses Miller and McGuinty as sources to get CPC to ban handguns. Peter says not the day to grandstand on this issue. Thats what M&M do best. grandstand.
Leblanc is an idiot - son of Romeo - the bagman from Shediac who gave up his seat to get Chretien a safe entry to the House and then was named House Speaker.
Jope Cromartin can't remember JANE CREBA's name. Who was killed 200 yards from my place on Boxing Day. With a banned hand gun.
Like Van Loan said how many times can you ban something.
Cormartin agrees that the guys who wanna ban hand guns are grandstanding.
Bonner is better than Akin, she at least seems like she has a feel for the to and fro. Akin only gets the fro.
Leblanc, Shediac's favorite son, is a buffoon, brewed in the bad breath of Gritism.
Alghabra, Chow and Kenney on Akin . . .
Never has there been such useless self-serving panelists on either of these shows as Chow and Alghabra (who reportedly raised $250000 for his Grit nomination) and Chow (who with her hubby Talitubby Jack) who I have heard uses the Island Airport after making nuclear level noise to try and shut it down.
I wonder what the real story was on Alghabra's nomination? Something like this was "a victory for Islam" comment from one of his chief supporters. Alghabra rambles on, Kenney looks on with a bemused smile, like he knows something he dare not say.
Chow Chow gives NDP credit for program to recognize foreign credentials. I wonder if she would have minded a doctor from Zimbabwe who finished last in hsi class doing her surgery, even in a private clinic?
Danny the Dimwit wants AFN (the natives) to have seat on the Council of the Federation. What about ME!!!! It's about ME!!! What about German Scots!!! Why don't WE (represented by ME) get a seat on the Council. Huh, Danny? Separate your island back into the stone age. I'll buy my fish somewhere else. What's that? Oh, you don't have any fish left? Too damn bad. I'll eat cake instead.
Akin got Joy, Reynolds and Hall Finlay (is her last name Hall or Finlay?)(Why does SHE get two last names? Is she special or just act like it?)
Wooo, topic is having one securities regulator across Canada. That'll get Akin a lot of viewers.
Lunn on foreign credentials on Bonner. All has been said. I wonder how Canadians would react given a choice, a Russian Certified Accountant? an English Dentist? A Namibian Architect? a Borneo trained Brain Surgeon? or a Canadian homebrew of any creed.
I've had enough for one evening.
Got a BBQ to fire up.
If you had the patience to get this far I honour you.
David Miller a Soft, Slow-moving Target
David has another BIG IDEA.
Right up there with all his other BIG IDEAS.
Link
Dave - I know you're kinda thick when it comes to putting things into practice.
But there's a little problem - generating the electricity to charge the million or so batteries in these electric cars if this really catches on. (Unlikely because it is, after all, a Miller idea.)
Did you forget that you are also trying to cancel the new power station on the waterfront and that only a couple of years ago we had a massive power failure and that the costs of providing power are going through the roof and that the provision of power is one of those big CO2 spewing things that you hate so much.
And don't you remember how much you hate nuclear energy because your leftie friends tell you to?
Moron.
Right up there with all his other BIG IDEAS.
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Dave - I know you're kinda thick when it comes to putting things into practice.
But there's a little problem - generating the electricity to charge the million or so batteries in these electric cars if this really catches on. (Unlikely because it is, after all, a Miller idea.)
Did you forget that you are also trying to cancel the new power station on the waterfront and that only a couple of years ago we had a massive power failure and that the costs of providing power are going through the roof and that the provision of power is one of those big CO2 spewing things that you hate so much.
And don't you remember how much you hate nuclear energy because your leftie friends tell you to?
Moron.
David Miller Really, Really Hates Cars
Now he's installing devices to damage them.
I encountered these over the last few weeks.
Last night, alone, going 5 mph, I bottomed out.
Maybe should send him a bill for a new oil pan. But seeing as how his union garbage workers won't even pick up garbage, I doubt very much he'd do anything.
Arrrrgggh.
A mayor that doesn't provide decent roads, doesn't provide an acceptable transit system, doesn't pick up garbage, leaves the streets dirty and littered with pan handlers, doesn't provide housing for poor people, has sinkholes regularly appearing on roads, and wants to tax us to death and someone re-elects him in huge numbers.
Arrrrgggh.
I encountered these over the last few weeks.
Last night, alone, going 5 mph, I bottomed out.
Maybe should send him a bill for a new oil pan. But seeing as how his union garbage workers won't even pick up garbage, I doubt very much he'd do anything.
Arrrrgggh.
A mayor that doesn't provide decent roads, doesn't provide an acceptable transit system, doesn't pick up garbage, leaves the streets dirty and littered with pan handlers, doesn't provide housing for poor people, has sinkholes regularly appearing on roads, and wants to tax us to death and someone re-elects him in huge numbers.
Arrrrgggh.
Wednesday, May 23, 2007
Evening Lemons Report Newman Akin May 23
This may be abbreviated. With Duff in Winnipeg, Newman bored and no one on the Hill (except Dawn Black and Denis Codere who get their ten minutes in the sun on these shows) it is very unlikely there will be anything useful said, much less worth writing about.
I will be very light in activity starting on Saturday for 6 days. Will be traveling. But will see if I can add some stuff when I run across it. Meanwhile MaryT will surely kick in when she gets back on Monday, and we will have another unique point of view joining Blue Lemons shortly.
Brawdcast - starts with school shooting at Keele & Weston Road. MDL is also covering murder story. Kids killing kids in Toronto. What level of desperation must they live with? Where did they learn that it's okay to act out in such a violent way? Why does the media always insist on making these terrible events and their perpetrators so notorious? Kid was 14. He's dead. No junior high prom for him.
Newman on Manitoba Election. Leave comment to Darcey. Click.
Akin on PMSH in Afstan. Coderre and McDonough. Akin about to quote discredited poll written by Chretien's former communications advisor. Check out Kate at SDA on this.
CTV goes back to local coverage. It is important to them, I guess, to scare the crap out of as many parents as possible. Our media, in their desperation to pull our eyeballs out of our skulls insist on (a) showing every detail on such horrible crimes that they can, (b) try and prove that they are compassionate and give a shit about the victim, and (c) speculate at length with so-called experts in the media.
To paraphrase from memory Andrew Klavan, a brilliant suspense writer, in "Hunting Down Amanda" talks about how at a crime scene the media interview the police, then they interview the friends and family and then they interview each other which they seem to like best of all.
My dear sigother told me the other day that two girls in her daughter's rural high school had a big fight, arranged in advance, with an audience that resulted in bloody noses, etc. Someone filmed and put it on YouTube. Everyone wants to be an actor or director. Might get to hang with J Lo.
We are awash with useless and harmful information and thirsty for knowledge. Why do people insist at slowing to watch car crash sites and crime events?
This is a wrap.
There is no way that normal politics can compete with media having a chance to glorify their false compassion. And no way that I can continue to report on this media ignorance.
I will be very light in activity starting on Saturday for 6 days. Will be traveling. But will see if I can add some stuff when I run across it. Meanwhile MaryT will surely kick in when she gets back on Monday, and we will have another unique point of view joining Blue Lemons shortly.
Brawdcast - starts with school shooting at Keele & Weston Road. MDL is also covering murder story. Kids killing kids in Toronto. What level of desperation must they live with? Where did they learn that it's okay to act out in such a violent way? Why does the media always insist on making these terrible events and their perpetrators so notorious? Kid was 14. He's dead. No junior high prom for him.
Newman on Manitoba Election. Leave comment to Darcey. Click.
Akin on PMSH in Afstan. Coderre and McDonough. Akin about to quote discredited poll written by Chretien's former communications advisor. Check out Kate at SDA on this.
CTV goes back to local coverage. It is important to them, I guess, to scare the crap out of as many parents as possible. Our media, in their desperation to pull our eyeballs out of our skulls insist on (a) showing every detail on such horrible crimes that they can, (b) try and prove that they are compassionate and give a shit about the victim, and (c) speculate at length with so-called experts in the media.
To paraphrase from memory Andrew Klavan, a brilliant suspense writer, in "Hunting Down Amanda" talks about how at a crime scene the media interview the police, then they interview the friends and family and then they interview each other which they seem to like best of all.
My dear sigother told me the other day that two girls in her daughter's rural high school had a big fight, arranged in advance, with an audience that resulted in bloody noses, etc. Someone filmed and put it on YouTube. Everyone wants to be an actor or director. Might get to hang with J Lo.
We are awash with useless and harmful information and thirsty for knowledge. Why do people insist at slowing to watch car crash sites and crime events?
This is a wrap.
There is no way that normal politics can compete with media having a chance to glorify their false compassion. And no way that I can continue to report on this media ignorance.
Hard Health Care Decisions Needed
The following essay describes a couple of economic destroyers of the viability of our public health care system, and a solution - sure to be controversial and perhaps unacceptable for humanists. But hard decisions need to be made.
Our sacred cow of a health care system is leaking milk. Badly.
We all know that, and blame greedy doctors and nurses, crafty pharma companies, shifty administrators, unionized cleaners, and cowardly governments.
“But folks”, as Pogo said, “the enemy is us.”
The “Greatest Generation”, those parents of Baby Boomers, and the early stage boomers themselves are fully and wholly responsible for our health care crisis. Both in their age (which is their fault only by being born when they were) and their attitude (which humanistically believes that life is sacred.) Their descendants are also at fault.
A fact is that 90% of a person’s cause of health care expenditure occurs in their last two weeks of life.
Yes – that’s the figure. Hauling Pop off to hospital, keeping him in critical and then intensive care, the prescription of a pharmacy full of medicines, hauling in crash carts, settling him in a semi-private room and installing and removing catheters and respirators costs a bundle.
And reckless drivers, fit as fiddles, after a momentary lapse and a collision with a guardrail, all of a sudden need emergency surgery, and all of the after affects and treatments. Many die anyway.
Tens of thousands of dollars spent to extend a single life by a day, a week or a few months.
An interesting alternative statistic is that human beings that have been surveyed admit that the older they have gotten, the happier they have been; it is proven that people are not afraid to move along to their next existence. They even look forward to it: a reward for a life well lived.
I doubt that many, if any, of these deathly ill folks, in the event that they can think clearly, want the rest of their moments or days having their loved ones sit around the clock by their bedside praying.
So, why do we extend human pain of sick or injured people and the grief period of their loved ones?
Our society, in the last thirty years, has cast away the eternal spiritual philosophy in favour of the temporal humanist point of view. Most people in the western world, especially in the elite classes, eschew any real belief in a magnificent afterlife. So they, and their heirs, want them to hang on to the only form of existence in which they have faith. Hearts need to continue pumping so that we delay having to admit that we are now more alone.
And this costs society hugely.
It means that a sick little girl or boy can’t receive the optimum treatment to allow them to progress to adulthood. It means that funds are not available to offer better healthy lifestyle options, and that real progress can’t be made in helping people with addictions who might be turned around into productive citizens. That people with psychoses can’t be adequately housed and treated.
Our society needs to accept that a life well lived deserves a reward, and that reward is not to leave one's family with the last memories of Pop being of tubes leading from orifices, of scurrying hospital staff, and medicinal smells.
If pursuing options are necessary to retain any semblance of a public health care system, then surely one that needs exploring is to stop throwing good money after bad by extending lives for no other reason than to prove our humanistic belief in the sanctity of life. Life preserving treatments for those with little chance for long term health should be delisted, and if desired by heirs, then payable by them. People will say this is not compassionate, but I see nothing compassionate in extending the pain felt by those on the edge of death and the grief of those who have loved them.
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Tuesday, May 22, 2007
Latest Interesting Word Verification Graphic
Got this here as my word verification graphic. What made it interesting was that it was hospitals and health care. Sort of a Cockneyed spelling, though.
If It Says it Bleeds it Leads. . .
In case you have not visited Shogun, Kevin Steele is reporting the truth about this visit of the PM.
The issue of torture seemed to be a big one among my colleagues and why not--if it bleeds, it leads, and in the 24 hour news cycle, even if it says it bleeds, it leads. But I must confess it is not that big a deal for me. Just about every terrorism expert will tell you that all terrorist operatives are all taught to claim torture.
Kevin also quotes the Afstan PM who says Karzai sent his personal guarantee to the Canadian people that there was no torturing of prisoners in his country. Actually, he prefaced that remark by saying he there was some doubt about whether those who were making torture claims were even in the custody of Afghani authorities.
Gone till Monday the 28, and for 3 of those days I am in a retreat house, no tv, phone, radio, newspaper or net. I will survive, but will be anxious to read everything when I get back.
MaryT
The issue of torture seemed to be a big one among my colleagues and why not--if it bleeds, it leads, and in the 24 hour news cycle, even if it says it bleeds, it leads. But I must confess it is not that big a deal for me. Just about every terrorism expert will tell you that all terrorist operatives are all taught to claim torture.
Kevin also quotes the Afstan PM who says Karzai sent his personal guarantee to the Canadian people that there was no torturing of prisoners in his country. Actually, he prefaced that remark by saying he there was some doubt about whether those who were making torture claims were even in the custody of Afghani authorities.
Gone till Monday the 28, and for 3 of those days I am in a retreat house, no tv, phone, radio, newspaper or net. I will survive, but will be anxious to read everything when I get back.
MaryT
Evening Blue Lemons Report Newman Akin May 22
Yippee!!! Newsworld is gonna do the Manitoba election tonite. Can't wait.
Akin is in for Duffy- I tune in for Duff not under-informed and overly-opinionated talking head replacements. Click.
The Brawdcast - Harper in Afstan on Canadian Aid. Paul Hunter quotes poll "problems". I thinks polls ARE the problem. Karsai says that no evidence of any torture of detainees. Just the CPC government by Grits and Dippers looking to find something to complain about.
Pictures of PMSH with kids in orphan schools, visiting Tim's tomorrow and meeting troops. Might travel outside the wire - good, Ceeb, let's let the Taliban know that their chief Canadian opponent / leader is within rocket range.
Coderre not surprised PM there - says was a getaway with stylist girlfriend and to build up his airmiles. You remember Hezbollah Denis. He LOVES Islamic terrorists. He's an insult to the Liberal Party (and that says a lot). Dawn Black says clearly is not going great for government (like they're going great for the Dippers). If her political career doesn't work out she can go back to her old job, taking phone messages and counting paper clips. She does take a piece of Coderre. He on defensive.
Newman - What's wrong with seeing things for himself? Denis says, it's not that a PM is going, it's the himself. Should be me or Steffi Dion. Dawn wants PMSH to get his head cut off in a personal meeting with the Taliban.
The Grits have a Hezbollah supporter as defense critic and the Dippers a secretary. Very credible.
Newman shuts them up, when they speak over him, he shuts them down.
Akin does feature on pissed off Tin Hat conservatives. PMSH not right wing enough for them. Fine - they can vote Green or Grit. Gerry Nicholls also wants to go back to the days of splitting vote to let the Grits always win. Says that if this happens, it's Harper's advisors fault. Akin does have a good point that CPC can afford to lose support in Alberta.
So Harper is scary right wing to the Dippers and Grits and scary left wing to the ex-reformers.
Means he's probably right. I mean centre.
Ed Broadbent on electoral reform in Ontario. He likes it. I have written somewhere on this before - the proposed scheme is bogus. Newman says that unlikely people will vote for a different party and a different party candidate. Ed doesn't understand the formula. Stumbles. Then refers to the way it works in Germany. Does he know something we don't know - either he is talking out of school or doesn't know wtf he's saying. I say the latter. Broadbent says that he likes it because more Tories would be elected in Ottawa. No fool like an old NDP fool. Both old farts chatter about what it actually consists of. If they can't figure this out, how the heck will voters? Broadbutt won't let it go. He shoulda read up on it before the Newman show.
McGrath, Yaro and Steve MacMartin (kinnon) on Akin. Eastern Block is falling down. Falling down. Falling down. Eastern Block is falling down, My Fair Belinda. On Committee Playbook - I was aghast. First that it would be written down, then leaked. What is it about Mackinnon's bangs? He desperately needs a makeover. Cue image consultant.
Rick Anderson with Senators shirt on - doesn't he know the senate buffet is not gonna be offered to non-elected former reformers?
Robin Sears agrees that it's time to call it quits to this sitting of Parliament. Expects big picture nationalistic messaging. Baldy LeDrew asks to respond to question whether gov is serious about governing. What the hell would this bankrupt buffoon know about serious?
Duff in Manitoba for Election. Looks rough. Stay in Ottawa Mike. Winnipeg is beautiful in the summer. Have a martini in the lounge at the Fort Geary Hotel.
Weston and Galloway on Akin. Gloria says she hears from her inside contacts that the Tories are right wing nuts who will vote Liberal so long as the Globe and Whail continues to slag Harper. Calls Stefi - Mr. Dion and Talitubby Jack: Mr. Layton. No bias there. Gloria is acting silly. Red faced and flopping around.
Still in Silly Season. Will be for the next three months or so.
Won't be blogging the shows tomorrow - life things to do.
Especially for shows like today which was 3/10.
Akin is in for Duffy- I tune in for Duff not under-informed and overly-opinionated talking head replacements. Click.
The Brawdcast - Harper in Afstan on Canadian Aid. Paul Hunter quotes poll "problems". I thinks polls ARE the problem. Karsai says that no evidence of any torture of detainees. Just the CPC government by Grits and Dippers looking to find something to complain about.
Pictures of PMSH with kids in orphan schools, visiting Tim's tomorrow and meeting troops. Might travel outside the wire - good, Ceeb, let's let the Taliban know that their chief Canadian opponent / leader is within rocket range.
Coderre not surprised PM there - says was a getaway with stylist girlfriend and to build up his airmiles. You remember Hezbollah Denis. He LOVES Islamic terrorists. He's an insult to the Liberal Party (and that says a lot). Dawn Black says clearly is not going great for government (like they're going great for the Dippers). If her political career doesn't work out she can go back to her old job, taking phone messages and counting paper clips. She does take a piece of Coderre. He on defensive.
Newman - What's wrong with seeing things for himself? Denis says, it's not that a PM is going, it's the himself. Should be me or Steffi Dion. Dawn wants PMSH to get his head cut off in a personal meeting with the Taliban.
The Grits have a Hezbollah supporter as defense critic and the Dippers a secretary. Very credible.
Newman shuts them up, when they speak over him, he shuts them down.
Akin does feature on pissed off Tin Hat conservatives. PMSH not right wing enough for them. Fine - they can vote Green or Grit. Gerry Nicholls also wants to go back to the days of splitting vote to let the Grits always win. Says that if this happens, it's Harper's advisors fault. Akin does have a good point that CPC can afford to lose support in Alberta.
So Harper is scary right wing to the Dippers and Grits and scary left wing to the ex-reformers.
Means he's probably right. I mean centre.
Ed Broadbent on electoral reform in Ontario. He likes it. I have written somewhere on this before - the proposed scheme is bogus. Newman says that unlikely people will vote for a different party and a different party candidate. Ed doesn't understand the formula. Stumbles. Then refers to the way it works in Germany. Does he know something we don't know - either he is talking out of school or doesn't know wtf he's saying. I say the latter. Broadbent says that he likes it because more Tories would be elected in Ottawa. No fool like an old NDP fool. Both old farts chatter about what it actually consists of. If they can't figure this out, how the heck will voters? Broadbutt won't let it go. He shoulda read up on it before the Newman show.
McGrath, Yaro and Steve MacMartin (kinnon) on Akin. Eastern Block is falling down. Falling down. Falling down. Eastern Block is falling down, My Fair Belinda. On Committee Playbook - I was aghast. First that it would be written down, then leaked. What is it about Mackinnon's bangs? He desperately needs a makeover. Cue image consultant.
Rick Anderson with Senators shirt on - doesn't he know the senate buffet is not gonna be offered to non-elected former reformers?
Robin Sears agrees that it's time to call it quits to this sitting of Parliament. Expects big picture nationalistic messaging. Baldy LeDrew asks to respond to question whether gov is serious about governing. What the hell would this bankrupt buffoon know about serious?
Duff in Manitoba for Election. Looks rough. Stay in Ottawa Mike. Winnipeg is beautiful in the summer. Have a martini in the lounge at the Fort Geary Hotel.
Weston and Galloway on Akin. Gloria says she hears from her inside contacts that the Tories are right wing nuts who will vote Liberal so long as the Globe and Whail continues to slag Harper. Calls Stefi - Mr. Dion and Talitubby Jack: Mr. Layton. No bias there. Gloria is acting silly. Red faced and flopping around.
Still in Silly Season. Will be for the next three months or so.
Won't be blogging the shows tomorrow - life things to do.
Especially for shows like today which was 3/10.
The Assault on Reason
It sure is.
This book must be a diatribe against the Antropomorphic Global Warming Fraud. A screed against the desire of Democratic hacks to ruin America's reputation within and abroad. A criticism of the conspiracy theorists who believe that the nation's leaders are using Bond's Blofeld schemes to control mankind in its pursuit of world domination.
Nope.
It's a book by the guy who is in the middle of all this nonsense and wants to be king.
A guy who thinks that kids still watch TV.
The author of The Ultimate Guide to Walt Disney World loved it!!!!
Is there something bizarrely funny in this, or is it just me?
This book must be a diatribe against the Antropomorphic Global Warming Fraud. A screed against the desire of Democratic hacks to ruin America's reputation within and abroad. A criticism of the conspiracy theorists who believe that the nation's leaders are using Bond's Blofeld schemes to control mankind in its pursuit of world domination.
Nope.
It's a book by the guy who is in the middle of all this nonsense and wants to be king.
A guy who thinks that kids still watch TV.
The author of The Ultimate Guide to Walt Disney World loved it!!!!
Is there something bizarrely funny in this, or is it just me?
Hitchens and The Death of Neo-Liberalism
On GNN with Stephen Marshall from his new book, "Wolves in Sheeps Clothing".
Hitchens: "Liberalism was an attempt to drape capitalism with some kind of pious social conscience…It used to be preceded almost always with the term ‘wishy-washy."
"I think it’s a good thing that American national interests are present in, and can apparently be made congruent to, the spread of democracy. It doesn’t happen without people fighting for it. It’s not just objectively true. You have to fight to make it true, so that it becomes so."
Interview, fabulous. Comments, maybe not.
Hitchens: "Liberalism was an attempt to drape capitalism with some kind of pious social conscience…It used to be preceded almost always with the term ‘wishy-washy."
"I think it’s a good thing that American national interests are present in, and can apparently be made congruent to, the spread of democracy. It doesn’t happen without people fighting for it. It’s not just objectively true. You have to fight to make it true, so that it becomes so."
Interview, fabulous. Comments, maybe not.
Monday, May 21, 2007
Another Poll
The ctv and globe and mail are touting the results of another poll-Canadians support talks with Taliban. Again, do the math
1000 people polled
247 in Que
379 in Ont
279 the West
so the remaining 95 must have been in the Atlantic Provinces.
62% of 1000 =630 cdns want to have talks. Hardly a majority.
Poll done between May 14-17.
Who do these 630 cdns want to talk to. Maybe they could start by talking to all the wannabe suicide bombers in Calgary, that the Iman says he has tried to talk out of going to Afgan.
1000 people polled
247 in Que
379 in Ont
279 the West
so the remaining 95 must have been in the Atlantic Provinces.
62% of 1000 =630 cdns want to have talks. Hardly a majority.
Poll done between May 14-17.
Who do these 630 cdns want to talk to. Maybe they could start by talking to all the wannabe suicide bombers in Calgary, that the Iman says he has tried to talk out of going to Afgan.
Sunday, May 20, 2007
Michael Coren - Global Warming Special Monday Nite
THE MICHAEL COREN SHOW Week of May 21 Cable 36 (channel 9 in Toronto), Cable 25 (channel 32 in Ottawa),ExpressVu - 651/Star Choice - 355/Look - 19.
"MONDAY, May 21 - A repeat of our highly controversial Global Warming show."
"MONDAY, May 21 - A repeat of our highly controversial Global Warming show."
Saturday, May 19, 2007
Time for a Thank You
Thousands of Cdns and Americans are on the road to somewhere this long week end. But, many thousands of others are working. So, a Thank You to those that are taking care of business so the rest can have fun.
First and foremost-to our troops and their families.
To all the first responders who are there to help in case of accident or fire or illness. Let's hope they have a quiet week end.
To the members of the service industry, working to feed us, and clean our rooms etc. as we travel by.
To the clerks and salespeople in greenhouses and other garden and do it yourself stores.
To the customers of these stores, for making their yard beautiful for us to enjoy this summer as we drive by. For growing excess garden produce you will share with neighbors and food banks.
To all the staff in hospitals and emergency rooms.
To all of the above, and those I have missed, THANK YOU.
It is too nice a day to get serious or upset about anything. For a fun read, check our Steven Laurents in the Calgary Sun, re dating today and yesterday. Love his comment on a couple of today, telling their grandchildren on their 50th anniversay, how they met. Grandma, your grandfather grinded me on the dance floor and sparks flew.
A black bear got loose in Chicago (I think) and wondered the streets eventually ending up in front of a clinic. Went up to the automatic door and went in. Clinic evacuated, bear put down with a needle, and will be released in the wild. Video of it wandering around in the clinic.
Unless something urgent happens, that's it for today. Enjoy the week-end.
First and foremost-to our troops and their families.
To all the first responders who are there to help in case of accident or fire or illness. Let's hope they have a quiet week end.
To the members of the service industry, working to feed us, and clean our rooms etc. as we travel by.
To the clerks and salespeople in greenhouses and other garden and do it yourself stores.
To the customers of these stores, for making their yard beautiful for us to enjoy this summer as we drive by. For growing excess garden produce you will share with neighbors and food banks.
To all the staff in hospitals and emergency rooms.
To all of the above, and those I have missed, THANK YOU.
It is too nice a day to get serious or upset about anything. For a fun read, check our Steven Laurents in the Calgary Sun, re dating today and yesterday. Love his comment on a couple of today, telling their grandchildren on their 50th anniversay, how they met. Grandma, your grandfather grinded me on the dance floor and sparks flew.
A black bear got loose in Chicago (I think) and wondered the streets eventually ending up in front of a clinic. Went up to the automatic door and went in. Clinic evacuated, bear put down with a needle, and will be released in the wild. Video of it wandering around in the clinic.
Unless something urgent happens, that's it for today. Enjoy the week-end.
Friday, May 18, 2007
Everyone Must Buy an SUV by 2025
Here
Indeed, one of the more interesting, if not alarming statements Patterson made before the Friends of Science luncheon is satellite data shows that by about the year 2020 the next solar cycle is going to be solar cycle 25 -- the weakest one since the Little Ice Age (that started in the 13th century and ended around 1860) a time when people living in London, England, used to walk on a frozen Thames River and food was scarcer.
Using Kookyzuki and Algorerhythm's logic, then the government must act in less that two decades to see that everyone MUST own an SUV.
Indeed, one of the more interesting, if not alarming statements Patterson made before the Friends of Science luncheon is satellite data shows that by about the year 2020 the next solar cycle is going to be solar cycle 25 -- the weakest one since the Little Ice Age (that started in the 13th century and ended around 1860) a time when people living in London, England, used to walk on a frozen Thames River and food was scarcer.
Using Kookyzuki and Algorerhythm's logic, then the government must act in less that two decades to see that everyone MUST own an SUV.
Royson on Black Schools
I blogged the other day on Royson's opinion on the aborted Shabazz visit to Toronto.
Today, he's into the old "Black Focused Schools" theme.
So. What is it that these black leaders want? Don't want racial profiling, except when it serves their purpose. Don't want to be measured academically against all people in their age group. but only against themselves.
The ultimate racist in this article might be Royson himself. Because he suggests that all black young people are having the same societal problems. The fact is that almost all of them live the normal often trying lives of young people. Almost all of them never have a run-in with the police, aren't in gangs, and succeed in life.
And that won't be helped by Royson's "world view".
Today, he's into the old "Black Focused Schools" theme.
The sentiment of many emails received was: Why can't they just get along, work hard, stay in schools, grow up to be responsible citizens? Why all this talk about separation and race? We should be pushing a colour-blind society.Royson doesn't seem to mind the white supremacist sobriquet. Even though those white supremacists are almost exclusively simple, hard working, honest, friendly people. But he's okay to paint them with the same white supremacist brush.
Noble ideals, all.
My worldview is shaped by the Eurocentric world that dominates Western thought, philosophy and culture. Anizor and a large and growing number of Torontonians reject that view. They dub it "white supremacy," a provocative appellation that affects their credibility by engendering ill will where there might be cooperation. But, then again, that's my worldview.
So. What is it that these black leaders want? Don't want racial profiling, except when it serves their purpose. Don't want to be measured academically against all people in their age group. but only against themselves.
The ultimate racist in this article might be Royson himself. Because he suggests that all black young people are having the same societal problems. The fact is that almost all of them live the normal often trying lives of young people. Almost all of them never have a run-in with the police, aren't in gangs, and succeed in life.
And that won't be helped by Royson's "world view".
CP union members should do the math.
One report says the average wage of the CP maintenance workers 42,000/yr.
They want a 13% raise, over 3 years. So, after losing several days pay, should they win, they will get 47,460, after 3 yrs.
The company is offering 10%, over three years.= 46,200.
Let's break this down to a per day wage,
42,000 divided by 365 = 115.07 per day.
46,200. divided by 365= 126.58 per day company offer is a 4200.00 raise
47,460. divided by 365= 130.03 per day union wants is a 5460.00 raise.
So, the union is on strike for a maximum increase of 130.03-126.58= 3.45 per day.
Out of this amount they will face increased union dues and increased federal taxes of 22% on that raise.
But then again, these guys are paid to work, their union bosses are paid to manipulate.
But then again, these guys are paid to work, their union bosses are paid to manipulate.
Thursday, May 17, 2007
Get Michael Coren on the Internet!!!
Got the following email from Mr. Coren in response to an email I sent:
Thanks so very much. We're actually very available in Ontario - on basic cable in almost the whole province. I'll send your note on the boss types at CTS. Thanks again.
Michael Coren
Let's get him on the internet!!!
Send your emails to audience@visiontv.ca
My email to Michael
Michael,
All the best to you.I have a conservative blog (canadianbluelemons) and posted a plug for your show.
I got tremendous (for my little blog) positive response.
Conservatives (especially people of faith) are thirsty to see your program which they cannot now do. Do you have plans to stream it on the internet?
Thousands of Canadians would truly enjoy this.
Nightly, Michael Coren hosts the most balanced political opinion smack-down on Canadian TV.
Chances are it is easier for you to get Playboy TV than the Michael Coren Show, but if you can, I recommend tuning in.
Cable 36 (channel 9 in Toronto), ExpressVu-651/Star Choice-355/Look-19.
THURSDAY, May 17 - On The Hill. Federal politics with Gerrard Kennedy, Gerry Nicholls, Kevin Modeste and John Carmichael.
I wish I could check him out flattening Rattard Kennedy.
We would definitely have a spot for a guest author who might like to live blog some of his programs.
Thanks so very much. We're actually very available in Ontario - on basic cable in almost the whole province. I'll send your note on the boss types at CTS. Thanks again.
Michael Coren
Let's get him on the internet!!!
Send your emails to audience@visiontv.ca
My email to Michael
Michael,
All the best to you.I have a conservative blog (canadianbluelemons) and posted a plug for your show.
I got tremendous (for my little blog) positive response.
Conservatives (especially people of faith) are thirsty to see your program which they cannot now do. Do you have plans to stream it on the internet?
Thousands of Canadians would truly enjoy this.
Nightly, Michael Coren hosts the most balanced political opinion smack-down on Canadian TV.
Chances are it is easier for you to get Playboy TV than the Michael Coren Show, but if you can, I recommend tuning in.
Cable 36 (channel 9 in Toronto), ExpressVu-651/Star Choice-355/Look-19.
THURSDAY, May 17 - On The Hill. Federal politics with Gerrard Kennedy, Gerry Nicholls, Kevin Modeste and John Carmichael.
I wish I could check him out flattening Rattard Kennedy.
We would definitely have a spot for a guest author who might like to live blog some of his programs.
Evening Blue Lemons Report Newman Duff May 17
Duff - Income Trust Charges, Charges? Daily scraps.
Newman - Informal Committee Meeting - no Chair
Silly Season in the House...
On Newman
Red Julie on empty committee meeting. Liberal Hack Witnesses don't get chance to beg more money.
Attaran (Islam Iggy Lover) filibustered out of committee. Never has a filibuster been so well used. Aw, his nerves were frayed...
He can go and get sympathy from his patrone Iggy.
Jay Hill says opposition is acting like a coalition government and wants to have their way. Ralphie Hedgehog says Parliament going through rough patch... Master of the understatement was well as the under achievement.
Duff - Income Trust Investigation -- Of course the Grits say that the bulge post non-announcement was just good analysis on Bay Street. I will bet all my gains from the Income Trust scam that this was indeed a scam. Seeing as all those who know about it are likely to be charged, small wonder they're closing ranks. Millions of dollars were made on Bay Street by this leak. Dozens of rich people could go to jail.
Back to Newman - power struggle between unelected coalition and minority. Ralph and Jay scrapping hard - Jay - watch your ankles... The Hedgehog. Scary. Ankle-biter.
Libby barely gets a word in.
Much more active Newmanduff today and I gotta leave about 545.
Libby claims NDP are the only working caucus. Seeing as how they never actually have to ever do anything they probably are. Working hard on doing nothing. All they have is the power to do is screw things up.
Duff - George Baker calls someone a sookie baby. What the hell is a "sookie baby". That's before my time... Sounds kinda sexy. Is George Baker comparing some MPs to Eastern European immigrant stripper/hookers? It's humorous to see old washed up "no turbans in the RCMP" George Baker and cool low key westerner Terry Strattan going at it. Like a terrier trying to take a bite out of a sheepdog. Baker et al trying to nail Marjorie LeBreton. Don't tell Mr. LeBreton.
Complaints about summer school funding cuts. Given the non-existent unemployment rate, is there any need for a summer student program at all?? Why not do an analysis to prove that with a 5% unemployment rate we need the same funding as with a 15% unemployment rate? Know that in Ontario any student who wants a job can get one. Likely same in Alberta. New program is for those who genuinely have a problem getting jobs - rural, aboriginal, etc. Makes sense to me. Why not just eliminate all jobs and contribute funds to provinces to do with as they wish? Reduce tuition if desired. Hire needy Eastern Euro Strippers if the provincial MPPs prefer.
Committee Chaos on Duff - PMSH looks great in a nice suit. He tends to wear frumpy suits - improvement - thanks to image consultant?
Tom Lukiwiski bitches about the Liberal Senate - what happened to it being an advisory body? It was until the last 15 months. The Grits filled the old fart house with old used up hacks and they are now determining the legislative agenda. Fire all their old wrinkled asses. And Jimmy The K, who I believe exists purely with the support of Islamic nuts, is supporting the Senate. Throws dirt around on all Tories.
I feel like I'm live blogging a bar fight.
Martha Hall Finlay on Strat Session on Duff - no mention of whether nudity was involved with her sleep over. Joy is funny - I like her. For an NDPer she's cool. Reynolds, says Harper, tough, fair and honest. Forgets boring and controlling. Is anyone working on the uncalled election and tried to do anything locally?? Duff on Carroll, as soon as he got candid Iggy and Coderre demanding that he get fired. Blood on the street it's up to their ankles.
Gotta run.
Today was a 6/10 only 45 minutes in. Silly season in Ottawa is like the weather in November.
Newman - Informal Committee Meeting - no Chair
Silly Season in the House...
On Newman
Red Julie on empty committee meeting. Liberal Hack Witnesses don't get chance to beg more money.
Attaran (Islam Iggy Lover) filibustered out of committee. Never has a filibuster been so well used. Aw, his nerves were frayed...
He can go and get sympathy from his patrone Iggy.
Jay Hill says opposition is acting like a coalition government and wants to have their way. Ralphie Hedgehog says Parliament going through rough patch... Master of the understatement was well as the under achievement.
Duff - Income Trust Investigation -- Of course the Grits say that the bulge post non-announcement was just good analysis on Bay Street. I will bet all my gains from the Income Trust scam that this was indeed a scam. Seeing as all those who know about it are likely to be charged, small wonder they're closing ranks. Millions of dollars were made on Bay Street by this leak. Dozens of rich people could go to jail.
Back to Newman - power struggle between unelected coalition and minority. Ralph and Jay scrapping hard - Jay - watch your ankles... The Hedgehog. Scary. Ankle-biter.
Libby barely gets a word in.
Much more active Newmanduff today and I gotta leave about 545.
Libby claims NDP are the only working caucus. Seeing as how they never actually have to ever do anything they probably are. Working hard on doing nothing. All they have is the power to do is screw things up.
Duff - George Baker calls someone a sookie baby. What the hell is a "sookie baby". That's before my time... Sounds kinda sexy. Is George Baker comparing some MPs to Eastern European immigrant stripper/hookers? It's humorous to see old washed up "no turbans in the RCMP" George Baker and cool low key westerner Terry Strattan going at it. Like a terrier trying to take a bite out of a sheepdog. Baker et al trying to nail Marjorie LeBreton. Don't tell Mr. LeBreton.
Complaints about summer school funding cuts. Given the non-existent unemployment rate, is there any need for a summer student program at all?? Why not do an analysis to prove that with a 5% unemployment rate we need the same funding as with a 15% unemployment rate? Know that in Ontario any student who wants a job can get one. Likely same in Alberta. New program is for those who genuinely have a problem getting jobs - rural, aboriginal, etc. Makes sense to me. Why not just eliminate all jobs and contribute funds to provinces to do with as they wish? Reduce tuition if desired. Hire needy Eastern Euro Strippers if the provincial MPPs prefer.
Committee Chaos on Duff - PMSH looks great in a nice suit. He tends to wear frumpy suits - improvement - thanks to image consultant?
Tom Lukiwiski bitches about the Liberal Senate - what happened to it being an advisory body? It was until the last 15 months. The Grits filled the old fart house with old used up hacks and they are now determining the legislative agenda. Fire all their old wrinkled asses. And Jimmy The K, who I believe exists purely with the support of Islamic nuts, is supporting the Senate. Throws dirt around on all Tories.
I feel like I'm live blogging a bar fight.
Martha Hall Finlay on Strat Session on Duff - no mention of whether nudity was involved with her sleep over. Joy is funny - I like her. For an NDPer she's cool. Reynolds, says Harper, tough, fair and honest. Forgets boring and controlling. Is anyone working on the uncalled election and tried to do anything locally?? Duff on Carroll, as soon as he got candid Iggy and Coderre demanding that he get fired. Blood on the street it's up to their ankles.
Gotta run.
Today was a 6/10 only 45 minutes in. Silly season in Ottawa is like the weather in November.
CBC cameraman injured in bomb blast
Just heard a report on the cbc, that in the latest suicide attack in Afghan, (taliban taking responsibilty) that a cbc cameraman was injured. Also an Al Jezzera cameraman. Will the cbc now take this war seriously.
Will taliban jack demand all cbc employees leave Afghan and be brought home NOW.
Will taliban jack demand all cbc employees leave Afghan and be brought home NOW.
The Brawl
Lots of coverage of a brawl in the HofC. Are they referring to the attack by Sheila Copps, when she crawled over the back benches to attack, physically and verbally, a govt minister named Crosbie. That was shown on cbc, years ago. The Liberal Rat Pack of the day were always causing trouble.
It's the Messenger, not the Message
I could, should I feel tired and weak, accept the message that there is a risk of (Wo)Man-Made Global Warming.
Personally, I think the real problems are water pollution and smog. These cause sickness now, and something could be done about them now.
I also think that we need to develop more sustainable energy sources (read this as nuclear).
These three areas of actions would have huge benefits to our world.
But, in a weak moment, I could buy into action that would at least theoretically reduce the risk of Global Warming.
But not when the main messengers are hypocrites and as close-minded as 15th century inquisitors.
Goldstein confirms another of Gore's ethical failings this morning. Kooky Suzuki has his own that should be known.
If someone truly acting personally on reducing their negative effect on the environment delivered the message, like, say George W. Bush, than I might even be convinced.
Personally, I think the real problems are water pollution and smog. These cause sickness now, and something could be done about them now.
I also think that we need to develop more sustainable energy sources (read this as nuclear).
These three areas of actions would have huge benefits to our world.
But, in a weak moment, I could buy into action that would at least theoretically reduce the risk of Global Warming.
But not when the main messengers are hypocrites and as close-minded as 15th century inquisitors.
Goldstein confirms another of Gore's ethical failings this morning. Kooky Suzuki has his own that should be known.
If someone truly acting personally on reducing their negative effect on the environment delivered the message, like, say George W. Bush, than I might even be convinced.
Is The Star Now Using Blogs as a Source?
We'll see if Jason Cherniak makes hay on and takes credit for this Delacourt story.
The other option would be, I suppose, that The Star just used the same level of close relationship they have with Grit organizers that Jason does.
Canwest Global admitted their blog source.
Neither had the courtesy to at least give Jason the credit.
I guess the bigger question is why, like a dog walking on hind legs, was this even attempted?
Dr. Kriebel-Dion does not by definition have any political role.
If she is not a political activist, than why would local Liberal organizers try and arrange such a meeting? And then broadcast the news of the refusal for such as a political story?
If she was acting as a private individual (who happens to be a war professor on sabbatical), than this should be a non-story.
Or, is she just a tool of the Liberal Leader and Liberal organizers?
This meeting could be nothing but a political event.
She visits and the LOOO shows this as evidence of his love for soldiers. If she finds anything approaching a negative story, the LOOO announces this to much noise in the House. If she is refused, the CPC are bullies.
The other option would be, I suppose, that The Star just used the same level of close relationship they have with Grit organizers that Jason does.
Canwest Global admitted their blog source.
Neither had the courtesy to at least give Jason the credit.
I guess the bigger question is why, like a dog walking on hind legs, was this even attempted?
Dr. Kriebel-Dion does not by definition have any political role.
If she is not a political activist, than why would local Liberal organizers try and arrange such a meeting? And then broadcast the news of the refusal for such as a political story?
If she was acting as a private individual (who happens to be a war professor on sabbatical), than this should be a non-story.
Or, is she just a tool of the Liberal Leader and Liberal organizers?
This meeting could be nothing but a political event.
She visits and the LOOO shows this as evidence of his love for soldiers. If she finds anything approaching a negative story, the LOOO announces this to much noise in the House. If she is refused, the CPC are bullies.
Wednesday, May 16, 2007
Evening Blue Lemons Report Newman Duff May 16
The Brawdcast - Clean Air Act - NDP motion will not get debated until Friday - Libby is pissy about this - says Pete Van Loan is mean spirited and CPC are bullies. PVL says NDP missed chance last Friday. Libby tries to shout over Newman - bad move. Libby wasn't told that opposition day had changed. Click.
Duff - Grit MP said CPC MP crossed floor to pound him into putty, Ban on Foreigner Peelers
Phil Fontaine says a summer of unrest unless we fold and give them all our cash. Senate thinks this is a great idea providing none of the cash is their's. Let's start a new bureaucracy to manage (perhaps staffed with Senators who have served their 8 years?) Neville (LPOC) and Crowder (NDP) - says problem in Native community is delays in Land Claims and lack of hope. Some people - including many FN people - work and study to create hope.
Minister Prentice - needs to reform system. 60 years of discussion on Senate idea to have new bureaucracy.
Duff shocked that FN people can't use Human Rights Act. CPC wants to change this - Opps will not allow this to pass - undermined by their "leaders" who want to keep "their people" under their thumb. The Indian Poverty Pimps at work.
Newman - Bill delay on Kyoto Targets - Sen Tkachuk says Grits rushed through bill in an abusive way. Grits says Tories held it up.
So far tonight is deserving to be place on the do not watch list. Boooorrrring. Where is the Foreign Peelers debate?
Julie the Red on Campaign Life using GOC logo. Newman's Bobblehead panel. Nothing issue. Nothing worth commenting on.
Duff with Dom Leblanc, Jason K and Bill Siksay on dust-up in HOC - D.McGuinty and Royal Galipeau Orleans CPC member believed he was insulted for his race by McGeewhiz.
STRIPPERS!!! No more import of same. Suggested by NDP that senators booted out after 8 years apply for the openings.
Paul Dewar on Ottawa Senators - never knew the NDP were big on competition - thought that they always figured this was bad and all people should be entitled to share the Stanley Cup.
Even the Stripper story can't save this night's shows. The Alpaca commercial is way more stimulating. ALPACA stands for Allied Liberal Protesters Against Conservative Achievement.
Air India on Newman - turns out Air India were too cheap to pay the tab. How are we at fault for this?
Duff - Brad, Moors, Jaro all hope the Senators win. NDP hurt by change of Opp day. Ndpers angry cause means they have to work on Friday. Threaten to go on strike and put up pickets.
This program is depressing me. Looking for needles to stick in my eyes.
Duff smacks Moors for holding up Human Rights for Indians. Moors argues back. Never responds.
Lessard and Travesty on Newman.
Official Languages - Lessard says nothing happening on Committee so they act like kids. Downhill since Shane Doan - Grits and Dippers went too far. Newman says problem due to lack of experience by Tories.
Fife on Duff - Harper is right on rights for FN. Fife says leaders won't take responsibility - refuse audits, fair elections, against equal rights for women. Native leaders have to carry the can. Duff calls the FN Pimps "the Aeroplan Class". McCharles on Stock's security measures - needs to deport terror suspects.
If you PVRed the shows, erase. Do not bother reading this piece. Please.
This was the worst night ever. The first goose egg since I started doing this. 0/10
Duff - Grit MP said CPC MP crossed floor to pound him into putty, Ban on Foreigner Peelers
Phil Fontaine says a summer of unrest unless we fold and give them all our cash. Senate thinks this is a great idea providing none of the cash is their's. Let's start a new bureaucracy to manage (perhaps staffed with Senators who have served their 8 years?) Neville (LPOC) and Crowder (NDP) - says problem in Native community is delays in Land Claims and lack of hope. Some people - including many FN people - work and study to create hope.
Minister Prentice - needs to reform system. 60 years of discussion on Senate idea to have new bureaucracy.
Duff shocked that FN people can't use Human Rights Act. CPC wants to change this - Opps will not allow this to pass - undermined by their "leaders" who want to keep "their people" under their thumb. The Indian Poverty Pimps at work.
Newman - Bill delay on Kyoto Targets - Sen Tkachuk says Grits rushed through bill in an abusive way. Grits says Tories held it up.
So far tonight is deserving to be place on the do not watch list. Boooorrrring. Where is the Foreign Peelers debate?
Julie the Red on Campaign Life using GOC logo. Newman's Bobblehead panel. Nothing issue. Nothing worth commenting on.
Duff with Dom Leblanc, Jason K and Bill Siksay on dust-up in HOC - D.McGuinty and Royal Galipeau Orleans CPC member believed he was insulted for his race by McGeewhiz.
STRIPPERS!!! No more import of same. Suggested by NDP that senators booted out after 8 years apply for the openings.
Paul Dewar on Ottawa Senators - never knew the NDP were big on competition - thought that they always figured this was bad and all people should be entitled to share the Stanley Cup.
Even the Stripper story can't save this night's shows. The Alpaca commercial is way more stimulating. ALPACA stands for Allied Liberal Protesters Against Conservative Achievement.
Air India on Newman - turns out Air India were too cheap to pay the tab. How are we at fault for this?
Duff - Brad, Moors, Jaro all hope the Senators win. NDP hurt by change of Opp day. Ndpers angry cause means they have to work on Friday. Threaten to go on strike and put up pickets.
This program is depressing me. Looking for needles to stick in my eyes.
Duff smacks Moors for holding up Human Rights for Indians. Moors argues back. Never responds.
Lessard and Travesty on Newman.
Official Languages - Lessard says nothing happening on Committee so they act like kids. Downhill since Shane Doan - Grits and Dippers went too far. Newman says problem due to lack of experience by Tories.
Fife on Duff - Harper is right on rights for FN. Fife says leaders won't take responsibility - refuse audits, fair elections, against equal rights for women. Native leaders have to carry the can. Duff calls the FN Pimps "the Aeroplan Class". McCharles on Stock's security measures - needs to deport terror suspects.
If you PVRed the shows, erase. Do not bother reading this piece. Please.
This was the worst night ever. The first goose egg since I started doing this. 0/10
Arrest made in Cold Case
An arrest has been made in the Candace Derksen murder, in 1986.
Mark Edward Grant, 43, of Winnipeg has been arrested.
Grant was the subject of a community public notification in December 2005. Police said he was a risk to all adult females and children, both male and female.
Mark Edward Grant, 43, of Winnipeg has been arrested.
Grant was the subject of a community public notification in December 2005. Police said he was a risk to all adult females and children, both male and female.
David Miller Wows Empty Seats in New York at Green City Shindig
David Miller wants all his people who adore him to manage their "carbon footprint" by using a "pretty cool" website.
No one showed up.
I apologize to other Blogigng Tories for accidentally posting this at a time 12 hours in the future - I started drafting this last nite and changed the date but not the time this morning. Should be cleaned up with next refresh of BT.
Zerofootprint Toronto was announced at an environmental summit hosted by former U.S. president Bill Clinton and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, with mayors and local leaders from more than 30 major world cities in attendance.I'm sure he was a smashing success and Bubba Clinton, Red Ken Livingston and Michael Bloomberg are just as adoring as Miller's millions of minions in Toronto. Not.
“Where national governments can’t or won’t lead, cities will,” Toronto Mayor David Miller said. He challenged the other leaders at the C40 Large Cities Climate Summit to adopt the new model in their cities.
No one showed up.
While fellow politicians packed Mr. Livingstone's seminar on "beating congestion and surviving your next election," none attended the concurrent session where Toronto Mayor David Miller introduced his plan for a Web-based program to encourage individuals to reduce personal emissions.Poor Big Hat No Cattle Dave. The mayors of real cities don't think his dumb ideas are worth listening to.
I apologize to other Blogigng Tories for accidentally posting this at a time 12 hours in the future - I started drafting this last nite and changed the date but not the time this morning. Should be cleaned up with next refresh of BT.
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