May 2, 06: #1 updated -&- more "caring"

Update posts:

Your friendly tax department at work -- re: the goals vs the reality -- "CRA interpretation of tax law in this case seems bizarre" FinPost, May 2, 06

Arthur Drache, CM, QC, is an Ottawa-based lawyer with Drache LLP and is an associate counsel to Miller Thomson LLP.

You might want to read this one ... carefully.



Why did this come about? -- "Court refuses to list Jerusalem as part of Israel -- Student loses bid to have birthplace recognized as capital in passport" NatPost, May 2, 06

The Federal Court ruled that Canada's passport policy is neither discriminatory nor a violation of freedom of religion to refuse to list Israel as the birth country for Eliyahu Yoshua Veffer, a Toronto Grade 12 student.

Mr. Veffer, the 18-year-old son of a rabbi, was born in the disputed city and moved to Canada with his family eight years ago.

Search: Justice Konrad von Finckenstein noted in his judgment



Security certificate detainee [Mahmoud Jaballah] needs hearing delay -- lawyer Jackman -- And who is funding all the associated costs?


Biker charged with carrying gun in airport Calgary Sun, May 1, 06 -- h/t jacksnewswatch.info


Sad State of Affairs -- on youth crime and its deluded enablers CNEWS forum comments

[canadahoser ....] If found guilty of the crime, the young 12 year old girl faces a period of incarceration no longer then 7 years, to the best of my knowledge.

This gives her the time required to complete her education and attend upwards of 2 years university teaching, all at the expense of the taxpayers of Canada. [. . . . ]

[lied to ....] The "hug a thug" crowd honestly believe that they are doing the right thing, that every life is precious and that everyone has the right to a second, third, fourth, in fact unlimited chance(s). [. . . . ]

There are those who see a silver lining: zoomie54: "Amazing how these lefty morons can't stand to see Canada progress.

Under Dithering Paul there was NO progress on softwood lumber, NO deal for trade and the country was out 5 BILLION dollars. Now, in 3 months Harper has a deal, has trade flowing , has made the exporting provinces happy and recovered 4 BILLION dollars. 80 % recovery, by any measure, is a helluva lot better than the FIBERAL's 0 !!! It's call progress .... "

Now that the MSM is not in bed (metaphorically) with the PMO for the daily news spin since the ditherer left office, perhaps our new PM is more impressive than the MSM, would have us believe?

Some will love the fact that the new Minister Bev Oda is reviewing the mandate of the Liberal Propaganda Organ -- and it is time!


Pipes: Hugging Iraq's Leaders -- "makes it easier for the regime's enemies to garner support for their insurgency." May 2, 06 or NY Sun: "Sink or Swim Time for Iraq"

End of updates.








Stark beauty

Prime Minister's Web Site: Prime Minister Harper announces inquiry into Air India bombing May 1, 2006, Ottawa, Ontario

Prime Minister Stephen Harper today announced the appointment of retired Supreme Court Justice John Major as a Commissioner to look into certain aspects of the 1985 Air India bombing, including key questions raised in Bob Rae’s November 2005 report.

The Commission of Inquiry into the Investigation of the Bombing of Air India Flight 182, established under Part I of the Inquiries Act, will be free to hold public or in camera hearings while at the same time ensuring that the inquiry does not jeopardize ongoing criminal investigations or proceedings. [. . . . ]

Soar with the eagle ... before reading the rest

eagle photos -- Check out the LegalEagle photos, framed and captioned -- and LegalEagle's avatar -- the butterfly's colour appeals to me, anyway.



Photo from Caledonia -- Was it in the MSM?

As soon as violent protests bring a degree of success, there are always more. There is another way.


Gravy train has left station -- Liberal-friendly causes find tougher scrutiny under Tories Calgary Herald, May 01, 2006, h/t Jack'sNewswatch.info

[....] Harper's Conservatives concluded Canadians voted for change, not a continuation of the incestuous relationship between politicians, grantees and the sympathetic bureaucracy that puts the two together.

In particular, the government is not about to fund groups that would seek to undermine the mandate upon which it was elected. The government's action in cutting these people off seems natural. So do their laments.

I have mentioned these groups before:

daycare advocates
environmental activists
Court Challenges Program
National Action Committee on the Status of Women (NAC)
200 separate organizations through NACSOW.
Human Resources Development Canada
Heritage Canada

The real source of ghetto crime -- "The key point that is too often missed in Toronto and elsewhere is that such self-destruction is the product of a conscious choice." Jonathan Kay, NatPost, May 1, 06

It is not "isolation and despair" that cause men to abandon their children -- but rather the disgraceful fact that such behaviour is accepted by certain sub-cultures. The enormous discrepancy in crime rates among Toronto's ethnic communities is matched closely by discrepancies in fatherlessness. Overall, the percentage of Toronto households containing young children that are headed by a single parent is about 19%. Among economically successful minorities, such as Jews, it is closer to 10%. But among Jamaican-Canadians, the figure is an astounding 54%. [. . . . ]

My word! Free will? Conscious choice? And here we've been immersed in the idea that we were to blame for all their problems ... not enough understanding ... too racist ... and, they're victims of the system ...



Prohibitionist model vs the harm-reduction--give a druggie his fix--model

From bad to worse on drug policy? -- international conference Mindelle Jacobs, May 1, 06

Who is paying for this talk fest, anyway?

[....] "My fear is that we're going to fall more and more into the pocket of the American war-on-drugs approach," says Eugene Oscapella of the Canadian Foundation for Drug Policy.

First the writer brings up that 'scary' George Bush and tries to link Stephen Harper and Conservatives to it; later mentions that 'scary' Vic Toews. It sets the proper tone, don't you think?

"We're doing a bad enough job on our own but we don't need to go ahead and make it worse by getting more deeply involved in that punitive criminal justice approach, which doesn't work." [....]

The keynote address will be given by Stephen Lewis, the UN special envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa, who has been badgering world leaders for years to do more to save lives.

That punitive criminal justice approach vs the caring, leftwing, everybody is a victim of his own urges and passions approach ... you know, if the UN's Stephen Lewis supports it, then it must be good?

Druggies like the program: "Almost 500 addicts" are taking part. Doesn't that warm the cockles of your heart? So, should governments just get with the program and supply them with heroin, etc.? It's the new new "caring" thing to do?

Do the addicts eventually get weaned away? Or does this program mean they are on heroin or whatever forever? Should we just accept a permanent drug underclass, supply them, and get back to our own concerns? How would I keep my child from participating in this caring society of druggies being supplied by the authorities? Is this acceptance of a drug culture part of what you want for your own family?

Who would be the suppliers? Who would make money from this caring? Would our society be a better society?

Is nothing evil any more? Is there nothing we fight, nothing we fight for? Do we just give in to anything? ....... All because we "care"? You know, we all have urges and society should just take care of us when we give in to our particular urges. It's the caring thing to do.

First, they break down the family ... then ...



"Citizens as property of the state" -- more caring and compassion

West's official silence on organ harvest appalling -- "Orient Organ Transplantation Centre in Beijing" Ezra Levant, Calgary Sun, May 1, 06


Brave new world

Good movie, bad country -- "organ farming needs regulation" Shotgun, Ezra Levant, May 1, 06

Why, soon there will be need for a body of belief to address which citizens deserve to live and which group is disposible ... so, therefore, will supply their organs. A new world religion?


The value of a human life

Once again, time is running out for Andrea Clark.

Once again, time is running out for Andrea Clark. Starting at 12:01 AM, tomorrow, St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital has made it clear that they may pull Andrea Clark's life support at any time after giving her family a "reasonable" notice. This is despite the fact that the family and Andrea herself do not agree with the diagnosis, oppose pulling the plug, and have found a doctor with privileges at St. Luke's who disagrees with the medically futile ruling. [. . . . ]

Book

Day care bad for the brain? -- re: daycare and Steve Biddulph's book, Lydia Lovric, April 10, 06.
Also: www.lydialovric.com

Book source: Raising Babies -- Should Under 3s Go to Nursery? available in the UK. Search further for availability in North America.

[....] Raising Babies -- Should Under 3s Go to Nursery? is the latest offering from Australian psychologist Steve Biddulph. He argues that day care is damaging to babies' brain chemistry.

[....] in line with leading academic work gathered in Canada, the U.S. and England.
Neurobiological research indicates that brain development in children under the age of two is best served with one-on-one care, claims Biddulph. [....]

Today, perhaps one should make a choice -- choose to have a child or buy/go into debt for more junk. Come on; most of us have too much junk and we don't really need monster homes. (see below an article on recycling things) Surely, when you plan to have a child it should include the idea that you have a responsibility to do the very best for that child? But then, that would imply making conscious choices, planning ahead, a little self-control, not hooking up and getting caught, not expecting to have everything ... ah, that whole--religion-based--thing that the socialists/leftists/liberals got rid of. Of course, we wouldn't want to blame the victims who must have it all, would we? Bring on Big Brother who will look after all.

Certainly, there are circumstances in which society must step in to help ... but surely, not in the case of most parents' choices.

And speaking of choices, last night, late of course, there was an interview with the woman who is promoting the idea that there are no illegals, only undocumented workers who need to be given the chance for citizenship -- after all, they have jobs, children here who need to be educated, ..... oh, yes, and they will vote Liberal/NDP, we can be sure.

Remember, they have children who need to be educated ... on your tax dollars and you had nothing to say about their right to this.



Recycling Your Items -- keep unwanted items from ending up in the landfill. posted by davidvoisine, 5/01/2006

What do you do with 30+ bone china cups and saucers anyway ... when you drink coffee from a mug?

Did you intend to serve elegantly ... once upon a time? Then life changed and somehow, English bone china was no more part of it? It's that time of year when we swear to get rid of our junk so maybe this would help. Taking china to the local Goodwill seems a desecration of someone's dreams, doesn't it? But maybe someone else has dreams.

I have not checked the site yet so ... you have been forewarned. Someone has to make money from this, though trading stuff does seem like a good idea.



Joel Johannesen

Thanks to R, an example of Liberal media spin -- from ProudToBeCanadian.ca May 01, 2006

Just last week the Toronto Star breathlessly reported on the upcoming renewal of the NORAD treaty with the U.S.—as if it were a sort of sneaky secretive conservative hidden agenda government version of the Toronto Star’s favorite Girls Gone Wild video. The ominous headline was this: "Tories quietly expand NORAD". Then there was a sub-head which ominously stated this: "Signing ceremony kept under wraps". (Hat tip: conservativegal)

They went on at length about the “secrets” and the “under wraps”, and the “calls… were not returned” and the secret sources revealed that... -type blather. [. . . . ]

You see? Feed the media maw ..... or else.



Memory Lane

It's time the CBC stopped being terrified of words like terrorism The Province, 2005.07.26, Lydia Lovric

[....] The memo, issued by Tony Burman (editor-in-chief of news and current affairs) urges journalists to consider more "neutral" terms. [memo issued after the London bombings]

"Rather than calling assailants 'terrorists,' we can refer to them as bombers, hijackers, gunmen (if we're sure no women were in the group), militants, extremists, attackers or some other appropriate noun."

[....] What about child abuse? Will it now be fashionable to refer to pedophiles as "people who perpetrate an act of love considered immoral by a certain segment of the population?" [....]

Afro-centric school may help black students succeed--says a black educator Lindsay Jones, The Daily News, Halifax, April 29, 06

The board's African-Nova Scotian advisory committee found students and parents often feel unwelcome and picked on at their schools. They also say there are not enough black role models or diversity among teachers and administrators. Survey results also showed black students scored below average in literacy.

Who selected this advisory committee, anyway? What about blacks who are successful, who worked in schools and don't need special ... anything? In my knowledge, special usually means creating success where there is none ... but talking a lot. It often includes putting marks on a bell curve and claiming success. Think of the stories of the lack of success of native schools that have been in the news within the last few months. How about a reality check. You live in the world; get the skills to survive in it. Study. Work hard. Stay off drugs and whatever else will limit those chances--you know, keep your pants zipped and stop creating kids you can't afford ... especially before you're educated. Take responsibility and stop trying to create a racism industry for the whole country to excuse what have been conscious choices on the part of free individuals.

Also, did you ever hear of a pilot project that failed?

Also, the media should end the programming I've noticed lately which glorifies the music, lyrics, lifestyles of those who undermine society. I do not know what the current term for them is but the words pimp, ho', bling and the like seem to crop up.

Would it not be more effective for the ones who want separate schools to join society and create more black role models? Or is the whole idea to create another industry ... something along the lines of the native industry, the francophone language industry, the victimology for all and sundry industry ..... Diversity, multiculturalism, racism, victimology ..... and a new industry is born.

Libs will have to get on that bandwagon. Watch for it in an election platform.



Creating a need: Bureaucrats must be reminded to speak French on the job: federal contract Apr. 30, 06


Bureaucrats need to speak more French: federal contract Apr. 30, 06



Pajamas Media: Caesar's wife at the NY Times via newsbeat1, Apr. 30, 06

Powerline’s John Hinderaker takes on the New York Times today, pointing out how the Gray Lady is always ready to post corrections on trivial matters - as in this morning’s reference to a conflict of interest in the paper’s Sunday Styles article on “male socialites” - but is less forthcoming with serious subjects. [. . . . ]

Adnan el Shukrijumah: Osama's 'American Hiroshima' field commander studied at Hamilton's McMaster University Judi MacLeod, May 1, 06

And I'll bet his momma would say, "He's a good boy. He went to the mosque every day".

Book: The Dunces of Doomsday by Paul L. Williams.
Williams has teamed up with international journalist and CFP columnist David Dastych


A must read

The gangs, all here Rob Lamberti, TorSun, Apr. 30, 06 -- via newsbeat1

[....] Police pressure often causes gangsters to migrate. From Toronto to Hamilton, to Brantford and London. Or from Toronto to Durham to Peterborough. [....]

Lengthy, with details.



UN situation ignored by MSM

The U.N. Exposed : How the United Nations Sabotages America's Security and Fails the World (Hardcover) by Eric Shawn h/t newsbeat1

[....] As Shawn declares in his introduction, "I am disgusted by the fact that the altruistic efforts of so many U.N. staff members are undercut by the greed, corruption, and ineptitude of the bureaucracy they serve."

Veteran newsman Eric Shawn is a senior correspondent and anchor for the Fox News Channel. He has covered stories everywhere from the Persian Gulf to Somalia to the White House to the O. J. Simpson trial.

Hamas: Lorrie Goldstein: Why Harper is right Apr. 29, 06

[....] So let's take a quick look at the Hamas charter, unveiled in 1988, to better understand the organization Harper is being called upon to support with the tax dollars of Canadians in the interests of taking a "balanced approach" in the Mideast.

The following quotations are all taken from the charter:

- "Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it." [....]

Judge Calls Al-Arian PIJ Leader, Hands Down Maximum Sentence -- The new educator By Steven Emerson, counterterrorism blog.org

... U.S. District Judge James Moody sentenced former University of South Florida Professor Sami Al-Arian to 57 months in jail, the maximum allowed under Al-Arian’s guilty plea for “conspiracy to make or receive contributions of funds, goods or services to or for the benefit of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), a Specially Designated Terrorist.” [. . . . ]

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