Better late than never ...

The message said: "Proof that marriage exists in the animal world."




I have some commitments today, one of them involving checking on and feeding a dog similar to but larger than the one pictured, and she may also be part malamute. She has a massive ruff and her eyes are brilliant blue -- a marvellous dog. That's my excuse for why this is such a hodge-podge of what I found; perhaps you won't find it that different from the usual. Have a good weekend. NJC





BCE's Telesat Canada reports annual profit up 6.6% at $88.9M -- "Highlights for the year included the launching of the Anik F1R satellite, which provides capacity for Canadian direct-to-home satellite TV and other services." Mar. 10, 06



Mark Bonokowski: Hackers' gun paradise

[....] According to an Access to Information request -- File: 03ATIP-20402 -- which was filed in late 2003 and responded to in early 2004, the federal force admitted that there were 1,495 breaches of the CPIC system reported between 1995 and 2003, and that 306 of those breaches had been confirmed, with another 121 cases categorized as still under investigation.

According to the RCMP, all these breaches of the CPIC system were considered to be inside jobs by those with security-cleared access to the database, complete with its link to information stored in the national gun registry.

The sanctions imposed were as follows: [....]

The following came from my friend J in California--the lucky sod with his warm sunny days and hummingbirds--and thanks, J. Letter -- soon come.

Mr. Bush, who do you trust running our ports?

How they vote in the United Nations:

Below are the actual voting records of various Arabic/Islamic States which are recorded in both the US State Department and United Nations records:

Kuwait votes against the United States 67% of the time
Qatar votes against the United States 67% of the time
Morocco votes against the United States 70% of the time
United Arab Emirates votes against the U. S. 70% of the time.
Jordan votes against the United States 71% of the time.
Tunisia votes against the United States 71% of the time.
Saudi Arabia votes against the United States 73% of the time.
Yemen votes against the United States 74% of the time.
Algeria votes against the United States 74% of the time.
Oman votes against the United States 74% of the time.
Sudan votes against the United States 75% of the time.
Pakistan votes against the United States 75% of the time.
Libya votes against the United States 76% of the time.
Egypt votes against the United States 79% of the time.
Lebanon votes against the United States 80% of the time.
India votes against the United States 81% of the time.
Syria votes against the United States 84% of the time.
Mauritania votes against the United States 87% of the time.

U S Foreign Aid to those that hate us:

Egypt, for example, after voting 79% of the time against the United States,
Still receives $2 billion annually in US Foreign Aid.

Jordan votes 71% against the United States
And receives $192,814,000 annually in US Foreign Aid.

Pakistan votes 75% against the United States
Receives $6,721,000 annually in US Foreign Aid.

India votes 81% against the United States
Receives $143,699,000 annually.

Disgusting, isn't it? [. . . . ]



I see the left's "hero" Castro, is getting a couple of brand new Ilyushin jets from Russia posted by robmik43, Mar. 11, 06 -- no source given



Don't put her on a pedestal -- New YWCA boss wants others to know they can move ahead, too Brian Gray, TorSun
Exactly what do you mean by "moving ahead"?

[....] a role model of what a Jamaican-born woman of colour can become in Canadian society

[....] Among the concerns the YWCA addresses on behalf of Canadian women, the three that form the cornerstone are violence against women, childcare and housing.

[....] possible re-opening of the abortion debate.

[....] a single mother by choice.

Young Women's Christian Association = YWCA

Which Christians does this organization speak for? Does it include those who are against or who would put some regulations back into abortion? I am thinking of late term abortions which are horrible from what I can read. When did the YMCA begin to speak for Canadian women? Who chose this (nominally) Christian association to speak for Canadian women? I don't remember having a choice about what associations--YWCA, NAC, etc.--speak for me. Do you?



Canada vetoes key UN motion on refugees -- Sides with U.S. on non-binding resolution to return Palestinians to their homes -- "resolutions that pose as human-rights measures but in fact single out one country, Israel, for criticism." Jeff Sallot, G&M

[....] The previous Liberal government had abstained on the identical resolution last year. But on instructions from Ottawa, the Canadian delegation at the UN joined the United States to vote against a non-binding motion calling on Israel to allow all Palestinian refugee women and children to return to their homes.

[....] Hussein Amery, the president of the National Council on Canada-Arab Relations, said that unlike the Liberals, the Conservatives did not even consult with Canadian Arab and Muslim groups before making such a significant policy shift. [....]

Why would a government consult with them? From what I read, it would simply be more demands that the government or individuals give in to their demands. Consult to bargain for votes? Leave that to the Liberals -- imho.


The Myth of Occupation

The governing document that remains at the core of any resolution of the conflict is neither the Geneva Conventions, nor The Hague Convention, nor even UN Resolution 242, but the Mandate of 1922 which encouraged “close [Jewish] settlement” of the land. Whereas the Mandate allowed the mandatory power to “postpone” or “withhold” Jewish settlement east of the Jordan River (in what is now the Kingdom of Jordan), it does not, in the words of Eugene Rostow, “permit even a temporary suspension of the Jewish right of settlement in the parts of the Mandate west of the Jordan River.”

According to Hussein Amery, "Now we [Canada] sit isolated, alone with the United States, against a resolution calling on Israel to allow displaced persons and refugees to return home." Isolation is often the result of doing what you think is right, particularly when it happens not to be what is supported by one of the (Liberally) favoured vocal groups.



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Quebec preparing for a possible influenza pandemic Mar. 10 2006, CP

QUEBEC — Quebec is preparing for a worst-case scenario in which 2.6 million people in the province would be infected in the event of a human influenza pandemic, says Health Minister Philippe Couillard.

The other provinces? There are related articles on that site.



VirtualDave.ca -- Was Paul Martin ever the Liberal Prime Minister? -- AngryGWN

At the Liberal Party website, Paul Martin is still listed as the leader of the party, and so he is. But the biography, which runs over 500 words, makes no mention that he was ever the Prime Minister of this country!

A Paul Martin flashback

A few days after he was elected Prime Minister of Canada -- 83 kilograms of cocaine with a street value of between $12 to $14 million was found during a random search of Paul Martin's family vessel. [. . . . ]

Search: giving billions to China and Russia , Kyoto , Maurice Strong has promised





Federal ethics battle gets nasty Bruce Cheadle, The Canadian Press, March 10, 2006

[....] Most ethics experts, including former NDP MP Ed Broadbent, say the cabinet inducement argument is seriously misguided and doesn't fit in the conflict code.

[....] Conacher of Democracy Watch argues a merit-based appointment process and a new ethics commissioner is the only solution.

"If the opposition parties wanted to show any integrity now, they would be as interested in passing a resolution firing Shapiro as they are in passing a resolution to find the prime minister in contempt of Parliament,'' said Conacher.

Darcey: The Closing of the Indian Mind -- Search: "federally funded lobby groups....They create nothing, do nothing, solve nothing" Mar. 9, 06, which leads to Raskolnikov



Hugo Chavez threatens bloggers here


Joe Warmington: Rape defended -- Sick -- This one included use of a bottle Mar. 11, 06



Dying for Values Mar. 10, 06 -- also here: William Gairdner's website



FREE MUHAMMAD AL-ASADI Michelle Malkin, Mar. 10, 06

Muhammad al-Asadi : Marked for death for publishing the Mohammed Cartoons

The bloodthirsty Cartoon Jihadists want to execute an Arab newspaper editor in Yemen. Via BBC:

Link for the details and "Sign a petition to help free al-Asadi by sending an e-mail to moyen-orient2@rsf.org".



`Out of Canada, you have no help' -- U.S. rushes to aid of citizens abroad -- Our rules weaker, as Ianieros found Linda Diebel, TorStar, Mar. 11, 06

[....] The Canadian government's response to its citizens in crisis abroad appears informal at best and deficient at worst — at least compared to the U.S., a country that moves heaven and earth to help distressed Americans. The U.S. has a special Washington-based agency within the State Department, named the Office of American Citizens Services and Crisis Management and devoted to serving out-of-country Americans. There is a strict diplomatic protocol in which officials must be on site within 24 hours, and ready to report to Congress within 72 hours, of any crisis involving an American.

Canada has no such protocol and the Conservative government last month abolished the cabinet-level post of parliamentary secretary with special responsibility for Canadians abroad.

[....] Still, there are other reasons U.S. officials have such clout. They are backed by a powerful weapon not available to Canadians: the immense power of the U.S. media/entertainment industry.

Lengthy and worth reading.

Search: Zahra Kazemi , Luc Ethier , William Sampson



The Three T's -- a must read Editorial Cartoons, Cox and Forkum, Mar. 9, 06 via newsbeat1



The Perils We Face By Rep. Curt Weldon, FrontPageMagazine.com March 10, 2006

Rep. Curt Weldon, R-PA, delivered the following speech at Restoration Weekend, which took place at the Arizona Biltmore in Phoenix February 23-26, 2006. -- The Editors.

The Clinton Years: The Gathering Storm [. . . . ]

I think of Notra Trulock, a member of the Cox Committee back in 1996 and 1997, who sat for seven months behind closed doors with the CIA and the FBI, looking at all of the information about the allegations of China stealing our technology. As you all know, the Cox Commission was established because of Congress’ concern that the Chinese had been able to obtain some of our most sensitive technology. The job of the commission was to answer a simple question: was our security harmed by the transfer of American technology to China? Even though the Commission had 5-to-4 Republican/Democrat margin, the vote on our final report wasn’t 5-to-4; it wasn’t 7-to-2. It was 9-to-0 that our security had been harmed by the technology China ended up acquiring.

[....] Unbeknownst to me, that team, known as Able Danger, was doing unbelievable work on al-Qaeda cells in 1999 and 2000. Now, I knew the operation of data mining, but I didn’t know the specifics of what they were doing until last May, when I went to publish my book, Countdown to Terror , and I called them back in to give me a chart they had given me after 9/11 occurred. They said, “Congressman, let us tell you what we were doing in Able Danger.”

Now, these weren’t people off the street. These are career military intelligence officers:

* Lieutenant Colonel Anthony Schaffer, a 23-year Army veteran, bronze star recipient; letters of commendation in his file from every DIA director; deployed in Afghanistan with our troops under cover under an assumed name as an intelligence officer.

* Scott Philpot, Navy Captain, commanding one of our newest destroyers next month. An able intelligence officer working as the point person for the head of SOCOM.

* General Schoomaker, leading Able Danger.

The two of them – Schaffer and Philpot, came to me privately and said, “Congressman, our unit identified five cells of al-Qaeda a year and a half before 9/11.”

Scott Philpot said, “Congressman, I’ll stake my reputation, my career, and my family that I identified Mohammed Atta and three of the terrorists in January of 2000. We knew we had a hit of the New York cell and we knew these players were bad people. We had to transfer this information to the FBI for them to follow-up domestically, because the other four cells were overseas. We asked Lieutenant Colonel Schaffer, who had been working with the FBI on other cases to transfer the information about the Brooklyn cell. Three times, in September of 2000, on three separate occasions, Lieutenant Colonel Schaffer set up meetings with the Washington field office of the FBI.”

The woman who set up those meetings, still in the FBI, one of Tony Schaffer’s high school friends, will testify she knew the purpose of those meetings. In each case, at the 11th hour, those meetings were shut down by lawyers in the Clinton administration – perhaps because of Jamie Gorelick’s firewall, the memo that said you couldn’t share defense intelligence information, even though this was all open source. There was no reason to protect this data, and three times they were shut down. [. . . . ]

9/11: What I Saw at Ground Zero [. . . . ]

A New Heroism [. . . . ]

What I Saw, Part II: Beslan [. . . . ]

A Trip to War-Torn Iraq [. . . . ]

CAIR: Islamists Fooling the Establishment by Daniel Pipes and Sharon Chadha

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), headquartered in Washington, is perhaps the best-known and most controversial Muslim organization in North America. CAIR presents itself as an advocate for Muslims' civil rights and the spokesman for American Muslims. "We are similar to a Muslim NAACP," says its communications director, Ibrahim Hooper.[1] Its official mission—"to enhance understanding of Islam, encourage dialogue, protect civil liberties, empower American Muslims, and build coalitions that promote justice and mutual understanding"[2]—suggests nothing problematic.

Starting with a single office in 1994, CAIR now claims thirty-one affiliates, including a branch in Canada, with more steadily being added. [....]

Steven Pomerantz, the FBI's former chief of counterterrorism, notes that "CAIR, its leaders, and its activities effectively give aid to international terrorist groups."[5] The family of John P. O'Neill, Sr., the former FBI counterterrorism chief who perished at the World Trade Center, named CAIR in a lawsuit as having "been part of the criminal conspiracy of radical Islamic terrorism"[6] responsible for the September 11 atrocities. Counterterrorism expert Steven Emerson calls it "a radical fundamentalist front group for Hamas."[7]

Of particular note are the American Muslims who reject CAIR's claim to speak on their behalf. [. . . . ]

There is much more.



Andrew C. McCarthy: Sanctimony and Silence -- For all the bluster, mum’s the word on the main question as the ports debacle ends. I have this simple question that no one seems to want to answer.

Andrew C. McCarthy, a former federal prosecutor, is a senior fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies.

So I’ll ask the same question I asked last week on NRO’s Corner. The same question a number of us have been asking for the last several weeks, with deafening silence the lone response: Does it matter that the UAE appears to be in violation of our fundamental antiterrorism law?

[....] Oops. It looks like the UAE continued to underwrite terrorists long after that [9/11]. Even to this day. The regime remains a booster of Hamas, an organization pledged to the destruction of Israel by violent jihad. An organization that has been designated as a foreign terrorist organization under American law since we began officially stigmatizing such entities in the mid-1990s. [. . . . ]

Libel Law: The Chilling Effect -- Intimidation writ large or goad to good reporting? by Mary Annecchiarico -- or here

The journalist's badge. That's how Ron Adams, host of CBC Radio's Media File, referred to getting sued. He was questioning Jock Ferguson of The Globe and Mail about libel chill. Lawsuit phobia, if you prefer-the notion that the threat of fighting legal actions, with their high costs in time and money, often inhibits aggressive reporting. For some journalists, getting sued may well be a badge, a testament to their profession. For many others, including those who make the final decisions, the possibility can be intimidating in the extreme.

Though there is nothing like a consensus on how pervasive libel chill is in Canada, it has nevertheless become the basis of a movement to liberalize our libel laws, particularly their onus on the media to prove the truth of what they publish or broadcast. American law, under which the burden of proof is on the plaintiff, is looked to as a model. [. . . . ]

A must read article BEST rebuttal to those who blame us for Islamic terror Posted by Ron on 21:36:05 2006/03/08

Serge Trifkovic received his PhD from the University of Southampton in England and pursued postdoctoral research at the Hoover Institution at Stanford. His past journalistic outlets have included the BBC World Service, the Voice of America, CNN International, MSNBC, U.S. News & World Report, The Washington Times, the Philadelphia Inquirer, The Times of London, and the Cleveland Plain Dealer. He is foreign affairs editor of Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture. This article was adapted for Front Page Magazine by Robert Locke.

In view of the varanasi blasts this is very relevant now. Viji

Islam's Other Victims: India
FrontPageMagazine.com November 18, 2002 Serge Trifkovic
www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Printable.asp?ID=4649 [....]

Adapted from The Sword of the Prophet: A Politically-Incorrect Guide to Islam by Dr. Serge Trifkovic.

The fundamental leftist and anti-American claim about our ongoing conflict with political Islam is this: whatever has happened or does happen, it's our fault. We provoked them into it by being dirty Yankee imperialists and by unkindly refusing to allow them to destroy Israel. But two things make crystal clear that this is not so:

1. The political arm of Islam has been waging terroristic holy war on the rest of the world for centuries.

2. It has waged this war against civilizations that have nothing to do with the West, let alone America.

This is why the case of Moslem aggression against India proves so much. Let's look at the historical record.

India prior to the Moslem invasions was one of the world's great civilizations. [. . . . ]

Moslem invaders "broke and burned everything beautiful they came across in Hindustan," displaying, as an Indian commentator put it, the resentment of the less developed warriors who felt intimidated in the encounter with "a more refined culture." [. . . . ]

These massacres perpetrated by Moslems in India are unparalleled in history. [. . . . ]

Sound familiar? All I can suggest is that you read it.

My question is: Why were those Canadians who knew what to expect of certain kinds of immigration not listened to? Why were they made fun of, called racists and bigots when that had and has nothing to do with it?




Crisis at Columbia: Janaki Bakhle Hugh Fitzgerald, FrontPage Magazine, March 6, 2006 -- or here

The wife of a Columbia University administrator, Assistant Professor Janaki Bakhle shares the teaching duties for a basic course with Joseph Massad, called "Introduction to Major Topics in the Civilizations of the Middle East and India" in which students explore a "range of cultural issues, institutional forces, textual sources, and figures of authority."

Bakhle's field is Indian Music, a field that one would suspect would not lend itself to politicizing. But even here politics manages to intrude. She has just published a book called Two Men and Music: Nationalism in the Making of an Indian Classical Tradition. As one might expect it is Muslims who [. . . . ]

Film: Obsession: Radical Islam’s War Against the West

[....] Obsession uses unique footage from Arab television to create an ‘insiders’ view of the hatred Islamic radicals are teaching in the Middle East, their incitement of global jihad, and their goal of world domination. The film features interviews with Daniel Pipes, Steve Emerson, Alan Dershowitz, a former PLO terrorist, and even a former Hitler Youth commander.

Perhaps the most interesting aspect of Obsession is the link the film draws between radicalized Islam, or what is sometimes called ‘Islamo-fascism,’ and Nazism proper. [....]

Dateline Hollywood: And the winner is... Oct 24, 2005, Ryan Zempel

[. . . . ] Perhaps even more chilling, however, is the 3-1/2 year old girl shown shyly remarking (when prompted) that she doesn't like the Jews because they are "apes and pigs" and that she knows that because Allah says so in the Koran.
Also disturbing during the showing of "Obsession" was something not found in the film but found in the reaction to it. There were clearly some in the audience who consider all Muslims to be terrorists. If we are to win the war on terror, this is an attitude that will have to be eradicated from the conservative movement. Besides not being terrorists, moderate Muslims are essential to winning the war on terror and alienating them is the first step to losing the war. [. . . . ]

The Current Crisis -- Better Than Oscar Night R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr, 3/9/2006

[. . . . ] "[T]here was not one word of tribute, not one breath, to our fighting men and women in Iraq and Afghanistan or to their families or their widows or orphans."

And Stein went on: "No doubt the men and women who came to the Oscars in gowns that cost more than an Army Sergeant makes in a year, in limousines with champagne in the back seat, think they are working class heroes....They would be heroes if they said that Moslem extremists are the worst threat to human decency since Hitler and Stalin." Now wait a minute, Stein, mixing Stalin in with Hitler is not going to play with the Hollywoodians. By their lights Stalin was a progressive. Hitler was a brute racist. Hollywood has always been conflicted about Stalin. About Hitler there is no ambivalence. He was a very bad fellow, notwithstanding his abhorrence of tobacco and his vegetarianism.

Perhaps we could get Hollywood on our side in this war against Islamofascism if the Hollywoodians could be apprised of the Islamofascists' enthusiasm for Hitler. [. . . . ]

Earl McRae: Peaceniks shame nation , Ottawa Sun, Mar. 7, 06

Too many decades of peace in the North strong and free have bred too many generations of spoiled, selfish, pampered, clueless, anti-military softies.

We've lost all sense of proportion. A single Canadian soldier is killed or wounded, either in combat or a vehicle accident, and you'd think a thousand had fallen, his photo and story on the front pages of the newspapers, the top of TV newscasts, flags lowered, eulogies across the land.

In the Second World War, there were instances when hundreds, even thousands, of Canadian soldiers were killed in action in a single day, and that in combat. You didn't splash a big front page photo and story of every Canadian soldier killed every single day of the war, you didn't have the room, nor would you anyway, and the public didn't expect you to.

REALITY OF WAR [. . . . ]

CBC types, might I suggest you read this or is your utter zeal to see a coalescing of the NDP/Liberals to bring down a Conservative government so intense that you can no longer reason about what you are doing to the troops? Besides, it was the Liberals who sent them to Afghanistan; now, of course, that isn't the spin you want on it. For many Canadians, hatred for the CBC grows.



This came from another friend; thanks R.

I don't know who wrote this but I fully agree....

One of my sons serves in the army. He is still here in Canada. He called me yesterday to let me know how warm and welcoming people were to him, and his fellow soldiers, everywhere he goes, telling me how people shake their hands, and thank them for being willing to serve, and fight, for not only our own freedoms but so that others may have them also. But he also told me about an incident in the grocers' shop he stopped at yesterday, on his way home from the barracks. He said that ahead of several people in front of him stood a woman dressed in a burkha.

He said when she got to the checkout she loudly remarked about the Canadian Flag lapel badge the cashier wore on her blouse. The cashier reached up and touched the badge, and said proudly," Yes, I always wear it and probably always will."

The woman in the burkha then asked the cashier when she was going to stop bombing her countrymen, explaining that she was Iraqi. A gentleman standing behind my son stepped forward, putting his arm around my son's shoulders, and nodding towards my son, said in a calm and gentle voice to the Iraqi woman: "Lady, hundreds of thousands of men and women like this young man have fought and died so that YOU could stand here, in MY country and accuse a check-out cashier of bombing YOUR countrymen. It is my belief that had you been this outspoken in YOUR own country, we wouldn't need to be there today.

But, hey, if you have now learned how to speak out so loudly and clearly, I'll gladly buy you a ticket and pay your way back to Iraq so you can straighten out the mess in YOUR country that you are obviously here, in MY country to avoid."

Everyone within hearing distance cheered!

IF YOU AGREE ------- Pass this on to all your proud
friends . . . .

Immigration fraud exposed....... via newsbeat1



If the King of Pop Converts to Islam Daniel Pipes, New York Sun, March 7, 2006

[. . . . ] These and other examples establish Islam – in both its normative and Nation variants – as a leading solace for African-Americans in need. That helps explain why the United States has by far the largest Muslim convert population in the Western world (about 750,000 adherents). Each black public figure who converts to Islam or accepts Nation of Islam support creates an added impetus for other blacks to change religions, a pattern that has also emerged in other Western countries.

Thus do the actions of an erratic celebrity in distant Bahrain have significant consequences.

Link for the list.



'Everything happened after five o'clock,' says François Perreault -- official spokesman, who just released a book on the Gomery commission Mike De Souza, The Hill Times, March 6th, 2006

Mr. Perreault described a wide range of backroom manoeuvers, drama and emotions throughout the commission's proceedings in his book, but he said nothing shocked him more, even after a 36-year career as a journalist and public relations expert, than an orchestrated attack on Feb. 1, 2005. After reporters told him that they were getting calls from the office of then-public works minister Scott Brison about the Gomery Commission being tens of millions of dollars over budget, he admitted losing his patience when he called Mr. Brison's then director of communications Susan Murray for an explanation. [....]

The Gomery Commission cost $30-million, but Mr. Kinsella claims the commission and spin-off costs were $100-million.

"Gomery has permitted Perreault to pocket the proceeds of the French and English editions, even though his PR underling had already received approximately $250,000 in public monies in a contract awarded without competition," Mr. [Warren] Kinsella wrote last week in the National Post.

Mr. Kinsella, once a top strategist in Mr. Chrétien's government, also criticized the author for writing and promoting the book while the commission was still underway. [....]

"Mr. Brison's then director of communications Susan Murray" -- Is Susan Murray not a CBC employee? Or is there constant interchange and cross-pollination between the CBC / Liberal Propaganda Organ and Liberal governments?