Menu & Diversity File, Bud: Civil Service Scandal & Ban Islamophobia?

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Until I have time to play around with the template, what follows is a list of the posts after this one, since the menu is now at the bottom. I don't know why.

Harper: Emerson & Others Crossing the Bar & What You Should Know
Regulating Vice
More Peace
You Will Learn to Love Big Brother [ I have changed the title since this seemed inadequate for what I was writing; it had been "I Love Big Brother" -- hindsight being 20/20 and all that.]
Funding Politics, Nukes, Bud: Irony-Muslims & CBC Smear, SPARC
NB Justice Drew Stymiest found guilty
PM's Appointments & What Harper Said
The Peaceful Ones in Canada, Recount, Sex Ring, Money Laundering Indictment
Canada's Prime Minister Harper and Family
Impartial Justice
PM Harper & Short-term PR Hit
Know Radical Islam -&- Feminists' Plans for Marriage
PM Harper, East Coast Perennial Problem -&- Plans
SCHOOL ANSWERING MACHINE Only in California
More 'Peace' & CBC Concern: Offending Islam, Hirsi Ali -&- More
Updated: The Peaceful Ones Being 'Peaceful' -&- More
Welcome & Congratulations, Prime Minister Harper, MP's & Cabinet -&- Islam
Template Shenanigans [Feb. 3, 06]

It has been suggested that I choose which of these Appalachian Redneck Bird Dogs is really me; after all, the Applachians do end in the Maritimes. I like to think I am more like the squirrel that doesn't quite fit into the family, but is fed anyway. Whatever, I hooted over the dogs and went all sappy over the squirrel. Thanks those who give me my daily chuckles.






















MORE CBC BS! Sask-AZ, 2/09/2006

Now the glorious CBC is rounding up a plane load and heading to New Orleans in an attempt to raise up to $10,000 for charity. Spending how much? - they refuse to say - but you have to know it is ten times what they hope to raise.

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/MediaNews/2006/02/09/1434157-sun.html

It is time to privatize this black hole of tax dollars. If they can't support themselves why should the taxpayer put up with their outrageous effrontery??

Call or write to the new Heritage Minister, Bev Oda at:
National Headquarters
Canadian Heritage
25 Eddy Street
Gatineau, Quebec
K1A 0M5
Tel.: (819) 997-0055
Toll-free: 1-866-811-0055
TTY/TDD: (819) 997-3123

I agree. I believe the CBC is so biased that it is subversive to democracy; it promotes one view, a leftist/Liberal/NDP view. It promotes more government control but gives little airtime to the views of those who want less government control, more independent initiative and more personal responsibility. I could go on ad nauseam since CBC has come to symbolize the power of the state and of incumbency to garner support so as to remain in power forever. That is what the Liberals were accomplishing. The system must allow the citizenry input, whether the Toronto-centric media elites like the views or nor. The journalists' work is to investigate and to report. Since nobody is completely neutral--nor am I--my preference is that journalists state their personal biases, ties and networks (What is the political stripe of the boyfriend, husband, family member or friend in government, for example.), and then report as faithfully as possible. Media must be untied from government support. I hate advertisements but they are preferable to media control. I have become an expert at not seeing ads, fortunately.

"Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself." Mark Twain

Thanks to J from California who noted parallels between the Martin government and his own government. His pet peeve? He decries the handling of the border, in particular, the tunnels constructed between Mexico and the US, along with the incursions boldly being made by Mexicans into US territory. (See www.wnd.com for an article on the situation.) There are comparable problems not explored enough having to do with tunnels and also with our seaports, airports, the North and all along the Canadian land border.



The scandal in the civil service

CTV reported the fact that the Liberals were paying for luxurious hotel rooms and resorts, obstensibly to accommodate travelling civil servants. These rooms were in hotels stretching from Morocco to Mexico to Hawaii. The cost to the taxpayer for these comfy digs was about a million dollars a week. While some top civil servents have to attend conferences, surely they weren't there for the 800 nights of racked-up-for rooms in Cancun, or the 400 in Hawaii. The Canadian Taxpayers Association used the Access to Information bill to expose this They tried to match official government business against the locations. Even though there were a sizable number of rooms rented in Barbados, there was no business ever registered for that country. Do these people think they are operating out of Louis the Sun King's Versailles palace? The Liberals certainly dodged a bullet when this was revealed only after the election. Dingwall, Radwanski and the other bloated lads have their counterparts in the civil service. Harper had better drain this cesspool quickly. What other outrageous perqs are being exercised that have been hidden heretofore? This came to light only through expert diggers like the CTA. The honchos that approved these "free" rooms to vacationing civil servent must be sacked forthwith. This is just another blow to the public's confidence in government. The Conservatives must extend the Auditor-General's beagle eyes over the Civil Service, the Foundations and the Crown Corporations, and any other taxpayer-funded avenues for princely pork and porkers.

© Bud Talkinghorn


Ban Islamophobia?

This was one of the demands that a Montreal imam made at a press conference. Even if this phobia were more imaginary than real, one cannot erase an emotion without some new reality taking its place and, unless we want an Orwellian society, we can't have thought police. To even suggest such a law reflects on the totalitarian mindset which posited it. The litany of atrocities committed expressly in the name of Islam, their prediliction for even slaughtering those of other Islamic sects, and Islam's failure at stopping the extemism that flows from their mosques, has led to deep concern in the non-Islamic world. Whether you are a Thai Buddhist, an Indian Hindu, or an Indonesian Christian, you are fair game for radical Islam. Canadian-Muslims have to show more outrage at Darfur, Beslan, and the Sept. 11 Twin Towers atrocity. The poll out of Britain that showed the average Muslim-Britain hates his adopted culture and a scary minority sympathized with the London tube bombers. This causes huge apprehension among the native Brits -- as it should. Canada is listed consistently as one of the world's best countries--number one, at times. Not a single Muslim country makes the A list. However, they crowd the bottom, with Sudan anchoring them.

Canadians are correct to say: We have allowed you to flee those worlds; you have to adopt your attitudes to Canadian norms. We are not going to allow sharia law here as it is an affront to our ideal of gender equality. As well, some of your past customs are simply considered criminal in this society. Finally, this is not a theocracy that can punish "thought crimes". Accept these demands or return to your native lands. Multiculturalism can only be stretched so far. The recent firebombings in France, the breaking up of a large terrorist group in Holland have led to much stricter immigration and refugee legislation in those countries. Germany is screening Muslims much more closely, to weed out the hardcore extremists who will never assimilate. Remember, Muslims, that your actions speak louder than words.

© Bud Talkinghorn