Sept. 1, 2006: #2 150 AIDS Delegates Remain--Refugees

AIDS delegates won't leave Toronto -- Up to 150 delegates to last month's T.O. conference have filed refugee claims, Tom Godfrey, TorSun, Sept. 1, 06
cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada
/2006/09/01/1792499-sun.html

[....] Most of the claimants have the deadly disease and include a large group of women from hardest-hit South Africa and citizens of El Salvador, Eritrea, Uganda and Zimbabwe.

[....] Tesfamichael said he was given his passport for processing on landing at Pearson and managed to bolt to a pre-determined meeting with men who spirited him to a waiting car.

[....] About 48% of all claimants are accepted in Canada as refugees.

Just what Canada needs -- a guaranteed drain on tax $$$. Incidentally, who were waiting to spirit Tesfamichael and probably others away? It is utterly foolhardy for Canada to be allowing people to stay in Canada who are bound to be a drain on an already overburdened health care system. Put them on planes and ship them out. Take care of our own citizens' health care first. I believe it is foolhardy to beggar your own house in the service of some politically correct idea that we "owe" the world. Those are Canadian taxpayers' health dollars that they are claiming in becoming AIDS refugees. It is time to write to your MP.

Sept. 1, 2006: #1 US-CA Border -&- Martyrs

"Canadian border guards will be armed starting in September 2007 " , Greg Joyce, Sept. 1, 06
cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada
/2006/08/31/1789733-cp.html

[....] Harper announced at a border crossing south of Vancouver that the federal government will have at least 150 officers with sidearms deployed by the end of March 2008.

He also reiterated a $101 million promise from the federal budget to hire 400 additional officers. They will be used, among other things, to double up on Canada-U.S. border crossings that only have a single officer on duty.

Don't miss the last two paragraphs. This is a Prime Minister who is actually doing something about security.




What parent would encourage this? What human being would ask it?

Hezb'Allah's Hitler Youth, August 31, 2006 -- Egyptian Weekly on Hizbullah's Armed Children's Militias: Over 2,000 Children Aged 10-15 Serving
www.typepad.com/t/trackback/5853007
www.memri.org/bin/opener_latest.cgi?ID=SD127606

[....] "Hizbullah has customarily recruited youths and children and trained them to fight from a very early age. These are children barely 10 years old, who wear camouflage uniforms, cover their faces with black [camouflage] paint, swear to wage jihad, and join the Mahdi Scouts [youth organization]...

"The children are selected by Hizbullah recruitment [officers] based on one criterion only: They must be willing to become martyrs." [....]

Aug. 31, 2006: #3

Cover story in Maclean’s nets Ignatieff 3 policy ideas , Aug. 28, 06

www.josephlavoie.com/2006/08/28
/cover-story-in-macleans-nets-ignatieff-3-policy-ideas/

[...] I was looking forward to reading Iggy’s manifesto. .... I shocked at how little substance Ignatieff has. The problem is that he’s still stuck in his professorial mode, and much like my profs at York, fills the pages with useless jargon and history. ....

[....] when you strip away the lessons, you get this policy platform:
(In his words. Policy proposals in italics) [....]

6. A future Liberal government must return to the original Kelowna agreement and meet it in full.

7. A federal working income tax benefit for low-income families. The refundable tax benefit would provide a basic tax credit and an income supplement for families struggling to survive on low wages. [....]

We should substantially increase our foreign assistance budget, to meet the 0.7 percent of GDP target. [....]

Four pages later, and all we get are three policy ideas: .... He lacks vision for the top job; good news for Conservatives if he wins the leadership because this guy’s all fluff.

Brodbeck on welfare and poverty, Tom Brodbeck, Aug. 29, 06

www.winnipegsun.com/News/Columnists
/Brodbeck_Tom/2006/08/29/1782967.html

The good news is the number of Canadians on welfare continues to fall and has been for at least 10 years, according to the National Council of Welfare’s most recent report released last week.

The bad news is Manitoba is the only province in Canada where welfare rolls have remained virtually the same for the past five years.

From 2001 to 2005, the number of Canadians collecting social assistance has fallen to just under 1.7 million, down from 1.9 million in 2005, about a 12% reduction.

[....] Either we have more lazy people in this province than others (and I’m not talking about the disabled or people who cannot legitimately work) or the provincial government isn’t aggressive enough in forcing people who can work to get a job. [....]

Welfare income levels hit new lows: study, Scott Deveau with a report from reporter Dawn Walton, via JacksNewswatch.info

www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.2006
0824.wwelfare0824/BNStory/National/home

Welfare Incomes 2005 pdf

The amount of money Canadians on welfare received in 2005 is at its lowest point in 19 years, according to a new study.

The National Council of Welfare, a citizen's advisory group to the Minister of Human Resources and Social Development, released its Welfare Incomes 2005 report Thursday on the state of Canada's welfare system. It suggests that of the 1.7-million Canadians currently receiving welfare in the country, most are living far below the poverty line -- half a million of whom are children.

The two worst provinces are New Brunswick, and Canada's richest province Alberta, according to the report.

The average income for a single person on welfare in New Brunswick is $3,427 or 19 per cent of the poverty of what is considered the threshold for the poverty line. [....]

At least some of those on welfare chose their lives -- lack of education, drugs, early pregnancy without a partner who takes responsibility ... etc. Is it not time to allow people's choices to have consequences if we don't want more of the same?

Someone please explain why those who choose drugs and degredation deserve more of other people's money to continue in their sorry state. I know, a failure of empathy on my part. I would suggest that the state not give welfare to a kid who quits school ... or the state could make any support contingent upon returning to and remaining in school -- without slacking -- must attend, be punctual, study, do assignments ... i.e. perform. It does not have to be an academic school. It could be a trades school although that does not mean they don't need intelligence, I hasten to add. I am referring to some kind of schooling which interests the non-academic students.

The writer obviously thinks the following is a bad idea.

Most welfare incomes peaked in 1994, when the federal government still contributed roughly half of the welfare dollars handed out through the Canada Assistance Plan, Mr. Murphy said. But since that federal program was cancelled, almost one-third of Canadians on welfare have seen the amount they receive drop by at least $3,000.

In Ontario, a lone-parent with one child received $21,000 in 1992. Today that figure is $14,400, Mr. Murphy said.

Where bad luck (illness or the death of a spouse, for example) comes into play, be kind but don't encourage dumb choices by funding those who make them, that is, the rest. Life has consequences ... by which we learn.



Feted or Fetid?

Tigers feted on campus -- Student club held events to celebrate Tamil group, Adrian Humphreys, National Post, August 29, 2006

www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=
a68f78d4-322f-4f8c-a80e-37d162fd8c95&k=5856

WATERLOO - Martyrdom celebrations that praised Tamil Tiger soldiers and suicide bombers were held openly in the student centre of the University of Waterloo, where the FBI alleges a "procurement cell" for the terrorist organization was centred.

Last November's event -- where a large flag of the Tamil Tigers, showing AK-47 assault rifles and a roaring tiger, makeshift tombstones and posters celebrating "Our Fallen Heroes" were displayed -- was held in the Student Life Centre despite the club being under suspension by the school at the time.

[....] The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, commonly called the Tamil Tigers or the LTTE, are fighting for a Tamil homeland separate from Sri Lanka and are notorious for their use of suicide bombings and assassinations. The group was declared a terrorist organization in the United States in 1997 and in Canada this year.

The use of the university's facilities, particularly while the club was suspended, will be part of a wide-ranging internal investigation announced yesterday.

The school has hired a national accounting firm to conduct a forensic audit of WATSA. It is also reviewing how overseas placements for students in co-operative education programs are run. [....]

Search: photographs of WATSA's "Maaveerar Naal" events, often called "National Heroes Day"



How right wing the left sounds after its moment of racial truth , Rod Liddle, Aug. 27, 06

www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,24393-2330258.html

Quick, somebody buy a wreath. Last week marked the passing of multiculturalism as official government doctrine. No longer will opponents of this corrosive and divisive creed be silenced simply by the massed Pavlovian ovine accusation: “Racist!” Better still, the very people who foisted multiculturalism upon the country are the ones who have decided that it has now outlived its usefulness — that is, the political left.

It is amazing how a few by-election shocks and some madmen with explosive backpacks can concentrate the mind. At any rate, British citizens, black and white, can move onwards together — towards a sunlit upland of monoculturalism, or maybe zeroculturalism, whatever takes your fancy.

[....] the title of the commission: the Commission for Integration and Cohesion. You don’t get either of those things with multiculturalism: they are mutually exclusive.

... Some 22 years ago Ray Honeyford, the previously obscure headmaster of Drummond middle school in Bradford, suggested, in the low-circulation right-wing periodical The Salisbury Review, that his Asian pupils should really be better integrated into British society.

They should learn English, for a start, and a bit of British history and a sense of what the country is about; further, Asian (Muslim) girls should be allowed to learn to swim despite the objections of their parents (who did not like them stripping down even in front of each other). Muslim kids should be treated like every other pupil, in other words.

For these mild contentions, Honeyford was investigated by the government, vilified as a racist by the press, ridiculed every day by leftie demonstrators outside his office and was eventually hounded from his job. He has not worked since. [....]

Canada has the same thing happening, and, along with that, another problem -- sanctions against those who make mention of the divisiveness and unfairness of the languages policy, specifically, the overwhelming power of those whose language is French, the power to promote their language in areas not traditionally French-speaking, the power of exclusion -- e.g. the power to keep citizens from working if they mention the obvious--that the policy favours francophones over anglophones. They have the power to demand, in reality, that anyone who wants to get ahead mouth the mantras, the positives about bilingualism, but not mention the negatives which apply to approximately 70% of Canadians -- That is, they have not been and won't be employable in their own government civil service, and much more, it turns out. Bilingualism is the 'first' requirement, above other qualifications, for a job there, and in many other areas. We're just supposed to accept it. Well, I am mentioning that it is unfair and any government should see this, admit it, and do something to ensure that the ones discriminated against now, may work for their own government, the one which they pay for.




Olivia Chow's riding to push for funding for Hamas, posted by timwest, 8/30/2006 00:43:43

www.canoe.ca/mb2/messages/cnewsf/12164.htm



Fake funeral letter sparks fears of immigration scam
http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.ht
ml?id=3f0ab843-a7d3-45b4-b029-2cd09e3c87bf


Pirate DVD ring busted , Kevin Connor, Aug. 29, 06
cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/TechNews/Other
/2006/08/29/1783782-sun.html

[....] The Canadian Motion Picture Distributors Association says that the seized burners could have produced more than three million pirated discs in one year, yielding illegal revenues in excess of $17 million, assuming they were in operation 10 hours a day, seven days a week.

[....] Charged are three women, Yu Wang, 22, of Markham, and Si Ying Zhao, 22, and Jing Zhou, 28, both of Toronto, and one man, You Jie Wu, 36, of Markham.
An arrest warrant has been issued for another woman, Yannie Siu, 25, of Markham

[. . . . ]


Counterfeit DVD lab busted
http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/toronto/story.ht
ml?id=265c530e-368c-4584-bbe1-7e570533f137

Toronto police shut down 'highly sophisticated' counterfeit DVD lab, arrest its alleged owner

www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/toronto/story.ht
ml?id=6167a491-c990-4aa8-9422-ed2c90d24b5c



The left's boutique politics
www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/editorialsletters/story.ht
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Will the real left please stand up?, SeanMcElroy, 8/28/2006 16:23:47

www.canoe.ca/mb2/messages/cnewsf/12140.html

tinyurl.com/r9baz



2 more charged in debit card scam, Tom Godfrey, Aug. 29, 06
cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/
2006/08/29/1783717-sun.html

Two more Sri Lankan men -- bringing the total charged to seven -- have been arrested by Toronto Police in a widening debit card scam that had apparently been in operation for at least three months. [....]

Yesterday the University of Waterloo, from where three suspects graduated, ordered an audit of the Waterloo Tamil Students Association and better screening of overseas placements.

The accused in the debit card scam allegedly withdrew about $4,000 in an hour using phony cards assembled from data stolen by the ring, Craddock said.

It's suspected the doctored machine may have been switched with a real one while the server was distracted. [....]

Watch Your Debit Card, mich71, 8/28/2006 13:02:58

www.canoe.ca/mb2/messages/cnewsf/12135.html

I know we had a rash of this S@#i going on here in the Outaouais region, one good indication that a machine as been tapered with is - before you swipe your card check the back of the hand held device, there should be a silver ring that covers a the piece of wire going in to the hand held. If it looks like it has been tampered with you will notice it right away, the police were saying that you can tell the difference from one that has just regular wear and tear and one that has been tampered with.

Comments on Small Dead Animals, via maz2 / SDA
www.smalldeadanimals.com/archives/004513.html#comments

As Sentinel would say, "Feck the UN". ...-

Continuing the legacy
Toronto Sun ^ 2006-08-27 Peter Worthington

[....] After Korea, beginning in 1956 in Gaza, "peacekeeping" became the hallmark of the Canadian army -- until we joined the present war against terrorism in Afghanistan. True, Somalia in 1993 was a UN Chapter 7 "fighting" mission, but the expected fighting never occurred.

Although the country hasn't really noticed it, our military has abandoned traditional peacekeeping and returned to more active soldiering, now fighting an unorthodox war against an able and elusive enemy in Afghanistan.

CREDIT RICK HILLIER [....]

It would seem that the legacy established in WWI continues in the Canadian army today. ...-

Saddam invested one million dollars in Paul Martin-owned Cordex, by Judi McLeod, Canadafreepress.com, Friday, April 22, 2005
www.un.org/Depts/dpko/missions/unifil/unifilpress.htm

[....] Cordex had a U.S. subsidiary.

Two years after taking the Park-through-Saddam one million dollars, Cordex went out of business.

On April 20, 1999, Bankrupt.com, an internet bankruptcy library states Kelly J. Sweeney Esquire of the Office of the Trustee in Denver, Col. as appointing four individuals to serve on an official creditor’s committee in the Chapter 11 case "commenced by Cordex Petroleum Inc."

Strong’s New Age Baca Ranch is located in Crestone, Colorado.

Indeed, according to Marci McDonald in Walrus Magazine, "Cordex Petroleums was formerly known as Baca Resources." (April 21, 2004).

…"Still, Strong has never been far from his protégé’s side. [....]

Search: Paul Volcker’s membership on the board , Power Corporation

There is more. Also, there is a lengthy list of related articles: Other CFP Stories about Paul Martin and Maurice Strong

Worth checking.



Memory Lane: Farfetched? -- Maurice Strong gets around

Who turned the lights out?, by Judi McLeod, August 25, 2003
www.canadafreepress.com/2003/main082503.htm

[....] According to Perspectives, a Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) publication, Solar Temple members believe in an imminent ecological apocalypse.

In 1996,"Natural Resources Minister Guy Chevrette acknowledged he’s worried the Solar Temple cult may have influence in Hydro-Quebec.

[....] "The Order of the Solar Temple was started in Canada by a homeopathic physician named Luc Jouret. Dr. Jouret received his funding from Ontario Hydro, a company (formerly) controlled by (United Nations guru) Maurice Strong," says Perspective. [....]

According to Brian Tokar in Z Magazine, "Hydro-Quebec suffered an additional political embarrassment when some 15 executives and former executives of the utility were tied to the Solar Temple cult after the mysterious mass killing of its members in Switzerland. [....]

How NAFTA superhighway is built under radar screen -- Officials say they see no budget 'earmarks,' because they don't know where to look , wnd.com, August 29, 2006
wnd.com/news/printer-friendly.asp?ARTICLE_ID=51730

The entire I-69 project is expected to cost $8.8 billion in current dollars, with states picking up 10 percent of the tab. So where is the money hidden? It's not really. But nowhere in any highway bill is the project referred to as the "NAFTA superhighway." Since the money is doled out to states to spend on their portion of the project, the allocations look like any other highway spending.

A fast route from Mexico -- just what Canada needs.



The text of a speech given by a Lebanese woman recalling her experiences as a child in the Middle East and the contrast between the humanity of the two cultures at war.

Venezuela strikes oil investment deal with China worth US$5-billion
posted by rosemarie59
www.canada.com/nationalpost/financialpost/story.ht
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Get off parents' backs
www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/editorialsletters/story.ht
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The Caledonia occupation goes on
www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/editorialsletters/story.ht
ml?id=418be989-bebb-4ac4-adc8-8fea95c83d3f

Aug. 31, 2006: #2

The Left ... World Trade University, Chilliwack

A major international university supported by the World Trade Organization and the United Nations is opening its doors in Chilliwack, B.C., CanWest News Service, August 29, 2006
www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=
fe82406b-f4c4-4268-836d-bb78d0e6fe06

VANCOUVER - A major international university supported by the World Trade Organization and the United Nations is opening its doors in Chilliwack, B.C. The global headquarters of the World Trade University is up and running on a former Canadian Forces base, with its first students set to arrive in late October. .... the university's president, Sujit Chowdhury .... said the rural city will provide a quiet and non-threatening environment for the university's students, who will come from the developing world to take classes in international trade and finance. Although WTU's Chilliwack campus won't officially begin accepting graduate students until September, 2007, the international headquarters is already providing support to other campuses in Brazil, South Africa and China. In late October, a group of Chinese business professionals will be in Chilliwack for a three-week training course. The Chilliwack campus will likely accept about 600 students each year to graduate programs.

When did the planning for all this take place? Did you read about it in the MSM -- in the Centre? In the East?

There is too blinkin' much United Nations and leftism in Canada. We don't need more. How many taxpayer dollars were sluiced to this?



CRTC releases consumer bill of rights -- "restates key consumer rights with respect to local home phone service" , Scott Deveau, Globe and Mail, Aug. 28, 06
www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story
/RTGAM.20060829.wcrtc0828/BNStory/National

[....] John Lawford, counsel for Public Interest Advocacy Centre, said the document should be helpful for people because it will tell them how to argue their complaints, but that there is very little by way of enforcement. He said currently the CRTC will take a number of complaints on the same issue before any action is taken.

"The main problem is enforcement," Mr. Lawford said. "I'm not sure if you don't get satisfaction at the phone company level if it's going to matter a lot."

Mr. Lawford said he would like to see industry ombudsman office established that would be paid for by the companies, would be able to enforce complaints, and seek compensation.

The CRTC is an independent public authority that regulates and supervises broadcasting and telecommunications in Canada. The consumer bill of rights applies equally to all Canadian telecommunication service providers

Independent? Who appointed the members? To whom do they owe allegiance?




Hezboliberal.com is now www.westernstandard.ca/liberal
westernstandard.blogs.com/shotgun
/2006/08/hezboliberalcom.html

First, check this: Posted by Ezra Levant on August 29, 2006
August 29, 2006
Hezboliberal.com is now www.westernstandard.ca/liberal


I saw the satirical website www.HezboLiberal.com and laughed pretty hard (my favourite line: "MP searches Middle-East for terrorism, finds Israel). But they weren't laughing over at Liberal headquarters. The party's in a bit of a snit right now over the issue of Israel and terrorism and they've lost their sense of humour.

Hezboliberal.com is now www.westernstandard.ca/liberal

[....] I'm a defamation lawyer, and there's nothing defamatory about that website that isn't protected by the defence of fair comment (let alone truth, which is an absolute defence). [....]

Then don't miss this.

New website:

Liberals take a stand against the "Most vile nation in human history"
www.westernstandard.ca/liberal/liberal.html

Olivia Chow's riding to push for funding for Hamas, Posted by Steve Janke on August 29, 2006 at 12:29 PM

Stephen Taylor has a leaked document listing all the foreign policy resolutions to be presented at the upcoming NDP policy convention in the fall. It is a document that is filled with all the requisite anti-Bush, anti-US, anti-business, anti-military stuff we expect from the NDP. Of course, these are resolutions coming from the grassroots, so you'd expect the worst of it to be filtered out just before or during the convention.

But I'm surprised at the harsh resolutions coming from the Trinity-Spadina riding association. That's Olivia Chow's riding. Olivia Chow is the wife of Jack Layton, the NDP leader. I would think that those resolutions would cleave closely to mainstream NDP thinking. If so, Canada's third party is entering a radical and thrill stage.

First things first -- go read the material at Taylor's blog.
www.stephentaylor.ca/archives/000661.html [....]

War, Hitler, Muslims, and the Left -- or here
westernstandard.blogs.com/shotgun/2006/08
/war_hitler_musl.html#comments

-- or Photo: "I can't say if the comparisons between the 1930s and today are appropriate, but the picture in the link below show that one group - Hezbollah - can provide some proof of it."
tinyurl.com/h6tup

Blogger Tim Denton offers insights into the Israel-Hezbollah/Iran conflict from his recent reading of Ian Kershaw's Hitler 1936 To 1945: Nemesis:

The point to watch here was the direct resort to war by Hezbollah, at the behest of its Iranian masters, the day the European powers found that Iran was not in compliance with some part of the process of diplomatic discussion about nuclear weapons development. Boom. Immediate outbreak of hostilities. Their recourse to war was immediate and unconditional.

[...]

Remarks of Brigitte Gabriel, delivered at the Duke University Counter Terrorism Speak-Out

[...] On Sunday morning, February 22, 1948 , in anticipation of Israel 's independence, a triple truck bomb was detonated by Arab terrorists on Ben Yehuda Street , in what was then the Jewish section of Jerusalem .. Fifty-four people were killed, and hundreds were wounded. Thus, it is obvious that Arab terrorism is caused not by the "desperation" of "occupation", but by the VERY THOUGHT of a Jewish state.

So many times in history in the last 100 years, citizens have stood by and done nothing, allowing evil to prevail. As America stood up against and defeated communism, now it is time to stand up against the terror of religious bigotry and intolerance. It's time to all stand up, and support and defend the state of Israel , which is the front line of the war against terrorism.

Posted by: Duke Aug 28, 2006 9:10:15 AM

[....]

Check out this video blog entry from Michelle Malkin .

Hopefully it works, because it has some of the programming from Al-Manar TV, the Hezbollah TV station. Please, dear friends, see this because there's no way I can describe it to you. Not even the CBC is this biased! The CBC!

Posted by: Zebulon Pike Aug 28, 2006 7:43:29 PM

hotair.com/archives/2006/08/28/terror-tv/#trackback-start



Kofi seems obssessed with constantly knocking Israel but.... copied from newsbeat1

Wonder if he took a look at the new bunkers Hezbollah were building last week? or the re-arming of Hezbollah? or Iran's pursuit of nukes ? So why does Kofi constantly knock Israel - a nation that tries to improve the lives of people worldwide through technological and medical breakthorughs while its neighbours are more interested in improving the technology of bomb belts?
israel21c.com/bin/en.jsp?enPage=HomePage

Which ineffectual (It's a job requirement.) character will follow Kofi? The spokesman for AIDS and the poor, Bill Clinton? Or Paul Martin? Was he not very busy with something at the UN since the last election? Or was he just shoring up support for the left's onslaught for the next election ... and maybe more UN universities?

Lately, in Canada, there has been a surfeit of articles, TV programs, tear jerkers about the poor. I would expect Canada's next election to be heavy on "concern" for the poor, the homeless, the drug addicted, the poor criminal victims of poverty, lack of daycare, cyclical poverty ... assorted root causes. The object is to transfer your money to somebody else ... somebody who as often as not has chosen his lot ... making stupid choices (reproduction without legal partner and provider, quitting school without getting the most necessary basic qualifications for anything else, choosing to try dangerous, addictive drugs, having unprotected sex with a member of either sex ... and so on).

All of the above will be fixed by another dose of the left's remedies (Librano$ or NDP) ... which invariably include reinforcing the behaviours listed above ... with your tax dollars. They will promise anything to get back at the trough. Was it Huey Long of Louisiana who said something like "For every million I steal, I spend $20-million on you?" (hazy memory)




Investing in the future of the RCMP

August 30, 2006, Regina, Saskatchewan, Notes for an Address by The Right Honourable Stephen Harper, Prime Minister of Canada, at the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Academy, Depot Division

In Budget 2006, we allocated $161 million in new funding for the hiring of 1,000 more RCMP staff and federal prosecutors.

Today I am pleased to announce our first step toward that goal:

During the next two years, the total strength of the RCMP will be expanded by more than 600 new full-time officers plus nearly 400 support personnel.

I am also pleased to announce that in order to accommodate the training of these officers, we are delivering on our Budget commitment to invest in the expansion and refurbishing of Depot. [in Regina ....]

Canada’s Crime Problems & Solutions [....]

Beyond the investment in Depot and more RCMP officers, Canada’s New Government is toughening up the justice system.

Because nothing is more frustrating for police and prosecutors than seeing their hard-won convictions result in trivial, ineffective sentences.

That’s why we have already introduced legislation to impose new mandatory prison sentences for serious gun crimes.

We have also introduced legislation to restrict the use of conditional sentencing, so serious offenders serve their sentences in prison – where they belong.

Yet another new crime bill cracks down on street racing, a growing problem which has claimed too many innocent lives.

And, finally, we have introduced legislation to raise the age of protection.

This will help protect children from sexual predators, including Internet cyber-criminals, who represent a whole new challenge for the RCMP. [....]

Community-based Solutions

The sad reality is that not every child is born into a stable, loving home or raised in a healthy, prosperous community.

Government cannot regulate the behaviour of every child or every family, but it can do things to encourage healthy communities.

That’s why our Government is also investing in community-based educational, cultural, sporting and vocational programs for young people.

To teach them skills, give them opportunities and provide them with alternatives to gangs, guns and drugs.

To show them there’s a better way – a Canadian way – that is reflected in the values of our country’s most cherished institutions, including the RCMP. [....]

As an add-on I would recommend the following:

Invest in marriages could be added to that -- you know, the kind where the kid knows who his/her father is, he sticks around, and he actually works to bring home the bacon while a partner parent--usually, though not necessarily, the mother--actually does the other half the job, bringing up the children to be decent human beings, decent citizens.

As part of another news release:

Prime Minister Stephen Harper today announced that the Government of Canada will upgrade the RCMP Training Academy (Depot Division) in Regina and hire 1,000 new RCMP personnel, an investment of nearly $200 million over the next two years. [....]

The investment includes $37 million to expand and refurbish the Training Academy so it can accommodate the new recruits. A further $161 million will allow the RCMP to expand its total strength by more than 600 full-time officers and nearly 400 civilian support staff. [....]

The Rebranding of the Conservative Party
www.forumsvibe.com/elwoodpdowd
/viewtopic.php?t=139&mforum=elwoodpdowd

Hidden in the midst of the federal Conservatives' slow decline in the polls is a slow, deliberate transition in the way the party is branding itself.

Stephen Harper has of late given speeches on the importance of the Queen and the role of the so-called Anglosphere. Most notably, he chose to skip an international conference on AIDS held in Toronto to tour the Canadian North and promote its importance to Canadian sovereignty and history.

References to Canada's historical roots suggest a reorientation of Conservative political thinking to the big picture and the long term, and stand in stark contrast to the short-term results-oriented priorities upon which the government was originally elected.

Whether or not it is successful, this transition marks [....]

Lately, somewhere, I have read an article describing the UK as falling away from its own historic roots -- all in the interests of being politically correct ... in relation to one particular group. Sad. Besides, there has to be a point where both sides meet and that group does not bend. (All the decent ones who just want to live and bother no-one, excepted.)





Massive fraud may leave law society on hook -- Society unlikely to get a dime from lawyer who misappropriated funds, Ian Mulgrew, Vancouver Sun, August 19, 2006
www.canada.com/vancouversun/columnists/story.ht
ml?id=c18ffdea-a44f-45ca-ae4c-4aaea6d8bff5

Martin Keith Wirick, the disbarred lawyer behind one of the biggest frauds in B.C. history, is being discharged from bankruptcy.

B.C. Supreme Court Justice Jon Sigurdson decided recently in chambers that if Wirick accepted a token $500,000 judgement in favour of the Law Society of British Columbia, he can begin his financial rehabilitation after a final three-month suspension.

But Sigurdson noted the law society -- which may be on the hook for nearly $50 million in payments thanks to Wirick -- has less than a slim chance of seeing a dime.

[....] Starting in the summer of 1999, developer Tarsem Singh Gill and Wirick began flipping mortgages and playing fast and loose with financial instruments on various properties. [....]

Search: $52 million had passed , The Law Society Special Compensation Fund




Maternity Leave
www.canoe.ca/mb2/messages/cnewsf/12150-1.html

Scroll to: The Fraser Institute-Total Tax Bill for the Average Canadian Family has Increased 1,600 Percent Since 1961 -- posted by casper35

original article here
www.fraserinstitute.ca/shared/readmore.asp?sNav=nr&id=723

There is more here Hansard Debates - Issue 74 - June 21, 2005

According to the Fraser Institute, the total tax bill of the average Canadian family has increased by 1550 per cent since 1961. In addition to the GST, ...

www.parl.gc.ca/38/1/parlbus/chambus/senate/deb-e
/074db_2005-06-21-E.htm?Language=E&Parl=38&Ses=1



Touchy Librano$

Heil to the Liberal Party of Canada. -- We are the Master Race/Party. -- via Western Standard Shotgun
westernstandard.blogs.com/shotgun/
2006/08/war_hitler_musl.html#comments

Censorships'R-Us.
www.voy.com/178771/30265.html

Lib censorship at work - doesn't the Lib party support Hezboallah? [sic]

August 28, 2006

First, the Liberal Party killed Youth for Volpe.

Last week, 'Liberals for Hezbollah' mysteriously went offline.

Now, this site's ISP has received a letter from the Liberal Party of Canada, full of imaginary legal violations (Slander? Has a HezboLiberal Broadway-style musical opened somewhere?) and veiled threats.

My ISP has been great and has given every indication that they would stick by me through this. But, I have decided to take down the website to save them further hassles.

If the Liberal Party ever wants to repair its reputation, it has to learn that it can't censor, threaten or demand that Canadians 'shut up.' There are too many of us, and it is too easy for us to communicate these days for that sort of tactic to work anymore, in a free society.

If the Liberal Party doesn't like what it sees on blogs and on the Internet, it has to stop doing stuff so outrageous and offensive that someone would spend an entire day building a website just to mock it.

Until that happens, you are going to have to learn to live with it.

Sincerely,
HezboLiberal.com
------- Liberal Party Lawyer's Letter Follows -------

Posted by: maz2 Aug 29, 2006 6:59:49 AM [....]

Maz2 posts interesting items.





Memory Lane: China already owns part of Northern Lights Mining and Extraction Project ... and more

SinoCanada Petroleum Corporation, an indirect subsidiary of China-based Sinopec Group, owns the remaining 40% of the Northern Lights Partnership, CNW Group, March 9, 06
www.newswire.ca/en/releases/
archive/March2006/09/c0742.html

CALGARY, March 9 /CNW/ - Synenco Energy Inc., Managing Partner of the Northern Lights Partnership, today reported on the completion of its first round of open house and town hall meetings held in conjunction with the Partnership's proposed Mining and Extraction Project, located 100 kilometres northeast of Fort McMurray, Alberta.

[....] The proposed TOR and updated Public Disclosure Document for the Northern Lights Mining and Extraction Project are available at www.synenco.com.

Synenco (TSX: SYN), a Calgary-based oil sands company, holds a 60%
interest in and is the Managing Partner of the Northern Lights Partnership (NLP). SinoCanada Petroleum Corporation, an indirect subsidiary of China-based Sinopec Group, owns the remaining 40% of the Partnership. Northern Lights is
an oil sands mining and extraction project northeast of Fort McMurray, Alberta, and an upgrader complex near Edmonton, Alberta. The independent best estimate of the resource is 1.49 billion barrels of in-place bitumen. The Partnership also holds extensive coal lease applications in the Athabasca region of northern Alberta. In addition to its interest in the Partnership, Synenco holds a 100% interest in an oil sands lease adjacent to the NLP lands. [....]

Can one be found Guilty of Flying while being Asian?, copy of the article by Rod Liddle, The Spectator, August 30, 2006

Following the article, there is this comment:

I thought he was saying that because no more attention is paid to Middle Eastern travelers than say, a soccer mom with 4 kids in tow, the general public is being extra vigilent. Because the authorities aren't doing their job.

Bingo!



Gay Pride in Jerusalem, posted by rosemarie59, Wed Aug 30, 2006 5:50 am

Aug. 31, 2006: #1

This came from W a while ago and I forgot to post it. Sorry, W; I get hung up in eyelashes, sometimes (which for those who have not been subjected to drawing classes lately, refers to the tendency to concentrate overly on tiny details to the detriment of the whole -- guilty as described.)



UK imports over 100,000 AK-47 rifles , Antony Barnett and Mark Townsend, Sunday June 25, 2006, Observer

The staggering number of AK-47 Kalashnikov assault rifles being imported into Britain has been revealed for the first time by new figures obtained by The Observer. Details of import licences granted by the Department of Trade and Industry between March and June 2005 reveal that arms firms were given approval to import 250,000 automatic weapons, including at least 100,000 AK-47s.

Many are believed to have come from the Balkans. AK-47s are not used by the British army and it is feared the guns could be exported to war zones or end up in the hands of criminals. [....]

Amnesty, which will release a report on the international trade in AK-47s this week, claims the US Defence Department used chains of arms brokers to channel weapons to allies and military groups across the globe. It has already suggested that three UK firms had imported a consignment of 20,000 AK-47s in June 2005 from Bosnia.

However, this allegation is denied by the directors of those firms, who claim that the rifles were imported to the UK to be decommissioned, with the approval of the Home Office, the DTI and the Security Service. [....]

More here

Along with this came some photos of the intended users.

Aug. 30. 2006: #1 Orimulsion -&- More

This came from W who would like to set the record straight on New Brunswick and the Orimulsion contract with Venezuela, and more. There is an election coming up in NB Sept. 18 so it is important to point out any information that will update a post of mine on Venezuela, Orimulsion and what happened.


The Facts about Coleson Cove and Orimulsion®

Background

Coleson Cove Generating Station opened in 1976
Generating Stations have a lifetime of 25 - 30 years
If Coleson Cove was not refurbished, it would have closed
Coleson Cove represents 25% of NB Power’s generating capacity
The plant burned heavy fuel oil before the refurbishment
Coleson Cove was one of the worst air-polluters in Canada and the worst in New Brunswick
The Environmental permits for the plant were set to expire in 2005 and would not have been renewed
Coleson Cove has 104 employees and contributes millions of dollars to the New Brunswick economy

The Refurbishment

NB Power spent $750 million to refurbish Coleson Cove
The refurbishment extended the life of the plant for another 25 to 30 years
The Refurbishment included scrubbers and other environmental modifications that dramatically reduced emissions and improved air quality
Without refurbishment, the plant would have closed
NB Power would have had to pay billions to replace the power generated by Coleson Cove if the plant had been shutdown
If we had not refurbished the plant, the security of our electricity supply would have been jeopardised
Coleson Cove burned heavy fuel oil before the refurbishment and burns heavy fuel oil today
Refurbishment maintained 104 good jobs at the plant and creates at least another 16 trucking jobs associated with the scrubbers
At peak construction, the refurbishment employed 700 workers
In addition to the jobs, $220 million was spent on equipment, materials and services
The project was a major boost to the Saint John and New Brunswick economies

Environmental Considerations

Environmental standards at the time of the original construction of the plant were significantly lower than standards today
The plant would not have had its operating permits renewed if it did not meet current environmental standards
As a result of the refurbishment, the plant now operates below the emission limits mandated in its environmental “Approval to Operate”.
As a result of the refurbishment, sulphur dioxide emissions have been cut by 77%, nitrogen dioxide emissions have been reduced by 70% and particulate emissions cut by 75%
These reductions have had a significant and visible impact on the air quality in Southern New Brunswick and elsewhere – no more grey plume across the Saint John skyline

Orimulsion®

Orimulsion® is a fuel derived from the bitumen (tar-like substance) that occurs naturally in large reserves in Venezuela
Venezuela’s government-owned oil company PDVSA was the world’s sole producer of Orimulsion®
NB Power first began using Orimulsion® under the former McKenna Liberal Government’s watch at the Dalhousie generating station in the mid-1990’s
Orimulsion® was traditionally cheaper than heavy fuel oil, but it is no longer being produced
NB Power had entered in to an agreement with the Venezuelans to burn Orimulsion® at Coleson Cove
The leftist president of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez took control of PDVSA, making radical changes to the company. Subsequently, PDVSA refused to honour a number of international agreements, including their agreement for Coleson Cove
NB Power is suing the Venezuelan oil company to enforce the contract or to be compensated for damages.
Coleson Cove burned heavy fuel oil before the refurbishment and burns heavy fuel oil today
The refurbishment equipped Coleson Cove to burn Orimulsion® as well as heavy fuel oil.

The $2.2 Billion

It is not true that Orimulsion® “cost us $2.2 billion”
Orimulsion® was being sold cheaper than heavy fuel oil, but the Venezuelans are no longer producing it
NB Power wanted to burn Orimulsion® rather than heavy fuel oil at the refurbished plant, but PDVSA has not honoured their agreement
NB Power is taking legal action against the Venezuelans to enforce the agreement
The Liberals are referring to unrealizable savings (the difference in price between what we are and have been burning and Orimulsion® over 25 to 30 years)
The Liberals are arguing that NB Power is responsible for the Venezuelans not honouring their agreement, and have not committed to continuing the lawsuit
Coleson Cove burned heavy fuel oil before the refurbishment and burns heavy fuel oil today
In the past two years, the Lord Government has taken a new governance approach at NB Power by replacing the President, several management executives, and most of the Board of Directors

Recap

It is not true that Orimulsion® “cost us $2.2 billion”
Coleson Cove needed to be refurbished because it had reached the end of its useful life and did not meet current environmental standards
Coleson Cove would have closed if it had not been refurbished
Without Coleson Cove we would not have a secure electricity supply and replacing the power would have cost billions
Coleson Cove burned heavy fuel oil before the refurbishment and burns heavy fuel oil today
We have dramatically reduced pollution emanating from Coleson Cove





Harper to address UN next month -- Sept. 21, Scott Deveau, Globe and Mail Update, Aug. 30, 06
www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/
RTGAM.20060830.wpmun0830/BNStory/National/home

Mr. Harper will address members of the top executive levels of business, industry and finance at the Economic Club in New York the day before his UN address. [....]

Ottawa voids Khadr decision -- MacKay again denies Canadian passport despite directive from Federal Court Aug. 39, 06
www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story
/RTGAM.20060830.wkhadr30/BNStory/National/home

Foreign Affairs Minister Peter MacKay has refused a passport to Abdurahman Khadr for reasons of national security, even though a federal court judge ordered Ottawa to cease denying the former terrorism suspect his travel document.

“It's not only our national security, it's the national security of other countries,” a senior government official told The Globe and Mail Tuesday. “And it goes to the integrity and the responsibility that goes with carrying a Canadian passport.” [....]

There is more on that infamous family if you link. Good show, Minister McKay! Now, let's turf the lot of them. Let Osama take care of them.



And this is just the beginning ... the devil is in the details ... many details of this leaked NDP document

The world according to the NDP , Steve Janke / Angry in the Great White North / Angry GWN, August 29, 2006

www.stephentaylor.ca/archives/000661.html

Don't miss reading this one.

Aug. 28, 2006: #1 Bud Talkinghorn

Coming to a small, small screen next to you

Scott Feschuck, the humour writer for "Macleans", has turned serious in a "Macleans" column entitled "Banff to the Future". In it, he tries to capture the desperation of the television executives who are trying to "catch the next wave" of viewership. The event was portentously called The Banff World Television Festival. However the main mindset expressed was the North American one; caring about anyone over 35 stopped some time ago. That younger cohort has been their economic grazing ground for a long time because these youn'uns buy tons of crap. You're over 35? Well, we have a few middle-aged dumb men--smart women sitcoms for you. And for the truly ancient--anyone over 60--between the arrested development plot breaks, we give you the best in adult diapers, corn plasters, and "uppers" that only North American genius can produce. Besides, these insipid, infantile programs that irritate you now will be greatly enjoyed during your advancing dementia.

The executives were all a'twitter about the young folks' limited attention span. Feschuck states: "They concluded that young people have an on-demand mindset and are demanding a more portable entertainment experience." Enter your palm gadget as a Lilliputian TV. Leave lots of program room there for ritalin ads. So, we are all going to be bound to the plot line tastes of a 21 year old (It used to be that of a 16 year old). We senile ones can always subscribe to Vision TV or The Geriatrics channel if we can't get hip to the new format. And for a while we will be allowed to watch them on our gigantic flat panel models.

As Feschuck concluded that everybody from the lowly writer with a dream to the dream-crushing executive was trying to glimpse the revolution to come. That bit about wanting it all and wanting it now, implies some instrument smaller than that idiot box that takes up 60% of the livingroom. Maybe some transmission that can be added to the Blackberry will be the future. It will certainly add a dimension to the teenies' mall experience. CBC's president, Rabinavitch, evoked the lost era of the vinyl record and the videocassette, and suggested that standard TV fare was on the way to defunctsville. Television was going to have to, somehow, reach these spendthrift young souls with pinball synapses. Polls have shown the younger set actually enjoy product placements. Hence, the idea was floated about a sitcom series that would be, basically, one big commercial, but slickly disguised as a relationship story. You wouldn't even have to have commercial breaks as they would be embedded in the program. But as Feschuck noted, maybe CBC should try to produce a few programs that anyone might want to watch first. For me, I'm not letting my library card expire.

© Bud Talkinghorn



A politically incorrect assessment of our immigration/refugee policy

Years ago, I was in Jamaica for a few days. When I flew into Kingston the customs hall calypso band was there to greet visitors. They were so stoned that they sounded like a kid's rhythm band afflicted with cerebral palsy. An old Jamaican behind me said, "Isn't that a disgrace!" Later in the walled-in compound of the Sheraton and two Brit hotels I saw the open criminality that suffused the compound and the adjoining streets. In a four block walk to a book store, I was accosted by four different men who, variously, wanted to sell me fake/stolen watches, a nubile hooker, a pound of "wisdom weed" and packets of cocaine. Even the boutiques in the compound had to pay protection money or have their windows broken. One owner (whose window was smashed) said, "The gangsters control this place." In the Sheraton's lobby there were signs exhorting the staff to "Treat our guests well." An extraordinary statement when it should have been presumed behaviour. However it was necessary, as my experience showed.

The hotel phone operator called me at 1 a.m. to tell me to come collect the leftover money from my long-distance $50 deposit. I told her I was going back to sleep and would get it in the morning. As the call was short, I had $38 left over. The desk man tried to give me $15 back. I informed him that first I would talk to the manager and then the police about this blatant embezzement. Two minutes later, he returned with the rest of my deposit. "Just a mistake mon", he assured me. Yeh, of course. I have to include the incredible meal I had in the hotel's cafe. When I entered I was only one of two customers there. While I sat at my table, unserved for ten minutes, I had the opportunity to overhear the conversation of three waiters two tables away. So help me God, one of them actually said, "You know, you can't get good help anymore." The other two shook their heads in agreement. I got up, walked over and confirmed the guy's observation. This pried one into service. I ordered turtle soup, chicken something, a Red Stripe beer and coconut flan. Ten minutes (two spliffs later?) he wanders out and gives me my beer. "The rest soon come, he told me." Twenty minutes later he emerges with the chicken dish. Ten minutes after finishing that meal, he slowly wanders over with the cheque. Luckily, before blowing my stack over the padded bill--no soup, no flan--I notice that he hasn't even included the soup or the flan. Those requests went into the ether somehow. I didn't leave a tip. This level of service from the top hotel in the country was flabbergasting.

What these memory snapshots all lead up to is my departure. As the taxi is taking me to the airport, the driver points out the Gun Court. "They even catch you with one bullet, mon, you end up there. It's that bad here." In the airport departure lounge, I observe a gaggle of young Jamaicans waiting for the Toronto flight. Rather like the calypso boys, many appeared deeply stoned. The men sported the dreadlocks, floppy woolen toques, and "bling" of "rude boys", as the Jamaicans call them. I thought, "This is what is entering Canada?" And that was many years ago.

I was aware that my experience could have simply been a bad batch. Therefore, over the years I have followed the impact of this group of immigrants. It has generally been a sad story. Large numbers are on welfare, the unwed "baby mamas" continue to push out future problems, and the criminal element control the slum ghettoes they inhabit. Murders committed in front of numerous witnesses go unsolved because of total intimidation by the thugs. I remember reading in the early 80's The Globe and Mail's crime reporter lamenting the "sad parade of shackled black men in the Monday court sessions of Toronto".

However, the current spate of gun murders committed by them is only the tip of the pathology that engulfs that broken community. The Jamaican youth drop-out rate in schools is enormous, for instance. The drugs of choice are more addicting. The prevalence of identity politics has created an us-versus-them mentality. What can these attitudes and behaviours be except a harbinger of more crimimality and welfare dependence?

With all this decades-long evidence of a group who are not productively intergrating into Canadian society, why are we still bringing them in through discredited reunification programs? The only answer I can fathom is that they will vote for Liberals or NDP'ers. It is these parties that have allowed this group to swell out of control. Anyone who proposes a check on dysfunctional immigrants loses in the urban areas. One can only hope that the Harper government puts a lid on this. Even the Caribbean immigrants from other islands would welcome that policy. The Jamaican thug culture give them all a black eye.

© Bud Talkinghorn--Jamaica, with about 60% of the GTA's population, had over 1600 murders last year.



Our universities as bomb factories

Surely it is a little disturbing to keep reading about the student backgrounds to most of our (alleged) home grown terrorists. The latest bunch were Tamil-Canadians who not only were using the university to acquire military weapons, but also controlled the Tamil Student Councils. The radicalization and secrecy that pervades the halls of acadene has to be more closely scrutinized by the university authorities. However, as so many of the staff members are thmselves self-styled leftist facilitators, there is little chance of that happening. Maybe, when these militant students turn their wrath on the universities themselves, some notice will be taken. That the bastion of leftish thought, the CBC, would be on the target list of the 17 alleged Muslim terrorists must surely give them pause for thought.

© Bud Talkinghorn

Aug. 27, 2006: #2

South African Police Service Child Protection Unit via W -- and thanks.
www.saps.org.za

This is sickening but very important.

Last week a 3 year old girl (in South Africa) was beaten and raped. She is still alive. The man responsible was released on bail yesterday. He is walking the streets. .... The Government is planning to close the child protection unit and this is a petition against it. This is a very important petition. It is an essential part of the justice system for children. You may have already heard that there's a myth in South Africa that having sex with a virgin will cure AIDS. The younger the virgin, the more potent the cure. This has led to an epidemic of rapes by infected males, with the correspondent infection of innocent kids. Many have died in these cruel rapes. Recently in Cape Town , a 9-month-old baby was raped by 6 men. Please think about that for a moment. The child abuse situation is now reaching catastrophic proportions and if we don't do something, then who will?

There is a petition to sign on the website.




We should not legitimize Hezbollah's aim of erasing Israel by talking to Nasrallah, says Rondi Adamson , Aug. 27, 06
www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=
thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1156592170793
&call_pageid=968256290204&col=968350116795



Interview with David Harris re Hezbollah legal status, Posted by Mark Sutcliffe on CFRA on 11:12:34 2006/08/25
canadiancoalition.com/forum/messages/18625.shtml

Mark Sutcliffe of CFRA Ottawa interviews David Harris on the proposal by some Opposition MPs to remove Hezbollah from the list of designated terrorist organizations in Canada.

It is important to note that these MPs also joined with Alexa McDonough of the NDP to block testimony from CIDA, Red Cross, and Lebanese representatives on a recent Foreign Affairs Committee panel that dealt with Hezbollah and Lebanon. What is absolutely consistent is their support for Hezbollah and their demand that no opposing voices, especially those with experience on the ground, be allowed to speak.

Why do some get to make representation before Parliamentary committees while others don't? Is it the decision of the whole committee? The head? How can they decide before they have heard the testimony?



CRTC rejects request to block hate websites
www.rbcinvest.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/
ArticleNews/PEstory/LAC/20060826/WEBSITES26/
national/national/national/4/4/13/

Canada's telecommunications regulator has rejected a bid by an Ottawa lawyer to block access to two U.S.-based hate websites that call for the ''violent overthrow'' of the Canadian government and the ''extermination'' of Jews in Canada.

In an application to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission on Monday, Richard Warman said websites by a Nazi sympathizer contain material intended to incite violence against him that has caused him to fear for his life. [....]

Harper has focused his energy on winning enough support for a majority, but an SES-SUN poll shows he's still right where he started in January , Greg Weston, Aug. 27, 06 -- entitled "Stephen stalls" but read the fine print on this one. It's more positive than the title would lead one to believe.
cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/
2006/08/27/1779439-sun.html




Using native culture to keep kids in class
cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/
2006/08/27/1779620-cp.html

[....] While aboriginal students from across Canada often must travel to go to an off-reserve public school that offers classes beyond Grade 8 or 9, Southeast Collegiate offers a uniquely aboriginal experience because it is owned and operated by the Southeast Tribal Council.

Revel says the school's attention to native culture, history, language, and counselling - as well as academics - is keeping students from dropping out while preparing many for college or university. [....]

Instead, the federal Department of Indian and Northern Affairs pays $11,000 per student annually for tuition, as well as $13,000 in room, board and trips to and from the students' home reserves.

$24,000 for one student ... more than many live on as a yearly income. The school is owned by the band but taxpayers pay. Doesn't sound quite right.




Praying aloud gets man jailed -- Something's wrong with police priorities, By Licia Corbella, Aug. 21, 06
calsun.canoe.ca/News/Columnists/
Corbella_Licia/2006/08/21/1767214.html

Maybe if Artur Pawlowski had been holding a flag of the outlawed terrorist organization Hezbollah, Calgary Police would have left him alone.

[....] Because Pawlowski has been threatened so often by drug dealers angry their clients often turn away from drugs as a result of his message of hope and help, he started videotaping every outing. Wednesday's was no different.

Worth reading. You get more respect in Canada if you're a druggie with AIDS.



New Green leader to try for a seat in Cape Breton -- Cape Breton-Canso re: Elizabeth May
cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/
2006/08/27/1779710-cp.html




General John Abizaid updates on on the global war on terror., The Hugh Hewitt Show, a blog of Townhall.com, Aug. 06

[....] HH: General, are you concerned with that particular brand of Shiia extremism that is called the 12th Imam branch, or the hidden imam branch, and that their fatalism, or their theology might make them less susceptible to deterrence than other enemies the United States has faced in the past?

JA: You know, Hugh, Shiia mainstream Islam, and Sunni mainstream Islam, in my view, certainly don't represent a threat to the United States. But when it is couple with the revolutionary ideology, as purveyed by the current government of Iran, it does represent a long-term threat to our interests in this region. And Sunni extremism, as represented by people such as Osama bin Laden, certainly represents a threat to the United States of America, not only in the region, but globally. So I think it's very important for us to give the moderates in the region the chance to shape their own future. We've got to help the moderates in the region face down the extremists, wherever they show up. And it's a big challenge, it's a long challenge, and it requires not only military power, but a lot of diplomatic and economic power as well.

HH: Is it all one war, General? Afghanistan, Iran, the Hezbollah-Israeli battle?

JA: Well, from where I sit, it's all connected. And whether it's one war or not can be debated from a political perspective. But from a military perspective, as I look at it, the...all of the lines lead back to one or two sources. They either lead back to Sunni-sponsored extremism, or to Shiia-sponsored Iranian extremism. And sometimes, on occasional points in the battlefield, they even cooperate with one another. So it's certainly connected. No doubt in my mind. [....]

JPMorgan guides two major deals -- Montreal office key advisor for Domtar, Coutu , Barry Critchley, Financial Post, August 25, 2006
www.canada.com/nationalpost/financialpost/
story.html?id=e5d3e77d-cdf3-4f9a-934e-e3e75e13d8fd

"What have you done for me lately?" is a line many bosses are supposed to ask their subordinates at regular intervals.

Well, if you are the Montreal office of JPMorgan Securities, the answer is a fair bit.

For the second day in a row, the office -- together with its U.S. parent -- was the financial advisor for a large transaction involving a Quebec-based company. On Wednesday, JPM was one of the two advisors -- RBC Capital Markets was the other -- for the sale of Domtar Inc. to Weyerhaeuser Co.

Yesterday the firm was back at it: It was the sole advisor on the sale of Jean Coutu's U.S. pharmacy business to Rite Aid Corp.

Beyond farce-" the United Nations' relentless campaign to undermine the security of Israel." at TCS Daily

"Currently, Israel is the canary in the coal mine. , via newsbeat1

www.tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=082406E



Bloggers -- 9/11
michellemalkin.com/archives/005798.htm



Email from a Battalion Commander in Afghanistan..........

hughhewitt.townhall.com/g/
525cf135-3288-4e46-991f-d4724fd594bc



Dearbornistan Student Jihad, August 24, 2006, via newsbeat1
atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs
/2006/08/dearbornistan_s.html

Jihad for Juniors in notorious Dearbornistan
hat tip The World's Reality.

Apparently 100 or more high school students have MySpace accounts detailing their fantasies of killing Americans and Jews. The blogger exposing the jihad received death threats from one of the Dearborn wannabe terrorists last night. Screenshot below

Check this one.



Alarm at 'cross' player's caution -- The Catholic Church has criticised Scottish prosecutors for cautioning a Celtic goalkeeper who crossed himself during a match against Rangers.
www.canoe.ca/mb2/messages/
cnewsf/12108.html




Islamist Al-Hesbah Website Plan of Action for the Jihad Fighter: How to Kill a Westerner in the Arabian Peninsula , August 25, 2006
memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD126306

On August 4, 2006, the Al-Hesbah website published instructions on "How to Kill a Crusader in the Arabian Peninsula." The document was signed by Amer Al-Najdi, and dated June 15, 2006.

Al-Najdi instructs his readers in some possible ways to kill a Westerner, from choosing the victim through following him through the stage of the actual killing.
The following are excerpts from the document: [1] memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD126306#_edn1

"Before Carrying Out the Operation, Pray for Guidance" [....]

"Some Ways to Find a Crusader [i.e. a Westerner] or a Dog From the Security Apparatus [....]

"A third way to find [a Westerner]: Sometimes when you, the jihad fighter, are sitting with your colleague or with family, someone comes and says: 'We have an American working for the company, who receives [a salary of] 150,000...' When you hear this, you must find out the following things:

"1) If you know where your colleague works - fine. But if you don't know where he works and where his company is, immediately address your colleague, saying: 'That's not true, this [salary] is exaggerated.' He will immediately say, 'You're wrong, and I can prove it.' Tell him, 'I know someone who works for such-and-such a company (give a name) and they have an American who gets [paid] 40,000, and their company is in (give a place). Then tell him, 'Your company is probably in the such-and-such area (north, for example).' And he will reply: 'No, our company is in such-and-such a place.' If the description so far is [still] unclear to you, say to him: 'Oh... next to (give the name of a place)?' He will reply, 'No, our company is in such-and-such a place' exactly. Then say to him, 'This American you have must be a director if he gets [paid] such a sum,' and then he will tell you what this infidel does [in the company]. Then say, 'Surely he has a fancy car if he gets such a salary,' and then he will tell you the kind of car. Thus you have gotten the information that will help you in the future, without your colleague or anyone around him noticing. Then pretend that the matter doesn't interest you, and try to change the subject immediately. [....]

"How to Kill the Infidel and What Security Measures to Take [....]

Lengthy and indicative of the mindset, the dissembling, duplicitousness, the reason I am beginning to viscerally hate mention of that "religion". I am generally in support of any religion that is a help to people in trying to lead better lives ... but this one? Religion of peace? These guys are blinking nuts!

And don't try to tell me that I must not think what my reading leads me to conclude. As I said ... nuts ... venal.



Terrorism's Enablers -- Attention nervous flyers: Don't think you can escape the terrorists by taking the train., David Frum Posted: Monday, August 21, 2006
www.aei.org/publications/filter.all,pubID.24798/pub_detail.asp
Read the full text at:
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4786159.stm

On July 31, an alert German train conductor spotted an abandoned suitcase on a regional train as it passed through the city of Dortmund, in western Germany. That same day a similar suitcase was found near Koblenz, in the German south. The two suitcases contained bottles of gasoline, propane gas and detonators--a deadly effective firebomb that could have killed or horribly burned hundreds of travellers. They were wired to explode at the same time, with at least as much force as the 7/7 bombings in London. [....]

For even as Western police forces become more capable, our terrorist enemies become in their way more dangerous.

Increasingly they are born on native soil. They speak the language with a local accent--and are protected by all the legal rights of citizenship.

Three of the 24 British suspects arrested have turned out to be converts to Islam. Daniel Pipes has long warned that extremist Islam might replace radical leftism as the default ideology for angry and alienated young people looking for an alternative to democratic capitalism. Those warnings seem now to be coming true.

Converting ... an outlet for evil. ....... Treason



Check it out , via robmik43
www.hezboliberal.com/

I love this title: "Coderre To Attend Spontaneous Angry Riot"

You might want to attend a bake sale too: "Bake sale and craft show to raise funds for new Katyusha rockets"



Listen up, heirs, successors and assigns , Ian Hunter, August 26, 2006 – Page A15

As one ages, and worldly possessions accumulate, the prospect of death requires that we, in the words that Shakespeare puts into the mouth of King Richard II, "choose executors and talk of wills." [....]

I wish each generation would write a little about each member of the family that could be handed down and added to by successive generations. It could be copied and given to those that follow. I so much wish I knew more of my ancestors.

In cases of divorce, it would be a good idea before contracting a new marriage to sign a pre-nup so that not all would go to the offspring of the second wife, as has happened in a couple of cases of which I know. It leaves the members of the first family feeling somewhat unloved.




New fridges distributed in effort to save power -- Cuba's energy revolution -- "The Invasion of the Chinese Refrigerators.",

www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/
story.html?id=a5ace0db-37c8-4f9c-a55d-5cbe02ece008

[....] "Actually, they're quite expensive. I'm paying the equivalent of US$286. My wife and I make about US$25 a month. So, like most people, we're financing it over a 10-year period at 10% interest."

In a country known for rolling blackouts and an ageing patchwork of power systems that includes oil, wind, solar energy and a botched attempt at building a nuclear plant, this year was dubbed Year of the Energy Revolution. [....]

When do those of us who want to buy Canadian get a website with a list of companies that produce goods here or in the US and individual vendors (e.g. farmers / farm stands) where we may go to support our neighbours and fellow taxpayers? Is there any computer equipment made in North America?



Letter to Jimmy Carter on his interview with Der Spiegel from Ari Fleischer (Israel & Lebanon) , August 21, 2006, Posted on 08/22/2006 1:12:53 PM PDT by Ooh-Ah
www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1688204/posts

[....] Mr. President, your words are music to Hezbollah’s ears and your message is a blow to long-term peace.

Just as you underestimated the threat of the Soviet Union in the 1970s, you underestimate the threat of radical Islam today. Your condemnation of Israel, the victim, only encourages Hezbollah, the attacker, to bide its time and attack again.
Ahmed Barakat, a member of Hezbollah’s central council, last week told the Qatari newspaper as-Watan that “Today Arab and Muslim society is reasonably certain that the defeat of Israel is possible and that the countdown to the disappearance of the Zionist entity in the region has begun. The triumph of the resistance is the beginning of the death of the Israeli enemy.” [....]

Aug. 27, 2006: #1

Soldier's blog cites breakdowns -- Online criticism of GPS units and vehicles may have violated security , Aug. 26, 06, Siri Agrell, NatPost
www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=
d870e74d-3c25-495b-b6c5-996d1036b2f6

A personal Web log kept by a Canadian soldier serving in Afghanistan raises several concerns about equipment used by the military personnel deployed in the country.

The blog kept by Matt Austin, a 21-year-old engineer private from Kitchener who arrived in Kandahar last week, was ordered taken off-line on Monday by his superiors.

But a "cached" version of the site, called Matt in Afghanistan, is accessible through Google and suggests that map software was accidentally erased from Global Positioning System receivers used by soldiers and that jury-rigged vehicles have been breaking down while troops are on patrol.

Search: GeoTech , maps and route information , removed from a hand-held GPS unit




Being Michael Ignatieff, Michael Valpy, Aug. 26, 06, Globe and Mail
www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/
RTGAM.20060825.wxboat26/BNStory/National/home

[....] Despite what he may say to the contrary, he has made his life into an effective vehicle that travels from Point A to Point B. When he has recognized endings, he has ended things — wham-bam — and gone on to something else, at times reinventing himself dramatically in the process. Not a lot of people do that.

And, yes, it has meant being ruthless — and in the past, others have paid the price.
... he tells me: “The point about ruthlessness that's important is that I am prepared to pay the price of my own life. You can pay your own bill, but inflicting the cost on other people is very hard — and you do get up in the night and think of that.”

I still don't understand his obsession with writing about his family — the books and the articles that have laid out the intimate details of his life and the lives of those close to him. [....]

Lengthy, worth reading. It is the seeming bloodlessness, the ruthlessness, that struck me ... while focused on his own future and smiling congenially. There is something not quite human, at least cold, about his treatment of his brother while at UCC, but read it and decide for yourself.


Mr. Valpy will be our guest tomorrow (Monday) at 1 p.m. EDT to take your questions about Mr. Ignatieff and the race to success Paul Martin.
Join the Conversation at that time or submit a question or comment in advance.
www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/
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/specialComment/home




How to succeed in business in Canada ...

Building the world: SNC-Lavalin Group Inc. , Aug. 26, 06, G & M
www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/
RTGAM.20060826.wrcover26/BNStory/Business/home

[....] Luckily for SNC-Lavalin shareholders, Mr. Lamarre has turned Canada's premier engineering firm into such a planetary powerhouse -- with projects in more than 100 countries -- it hardly seems to matter. In Mr. Lamarre's 10 years as CEO, sales have grown fourfold to the more than $4-billion expected in 2006. From oil fields in Saudi Arabia and Siberia to a gas-fired power station in the Algerian desert, from feasibility work on the world's biggest aluminum smelter in Dubai (and undoubtedly more contracts, if the $7-billion project is green-lighted) to Inco Ltd.'s Goro nickel mine in New Caledonia, SNC-Lavalin has racked up an $8.3-billion backlog of contracts that will keep its 12,000 employees at the forefront of a global building boom for years.

In Canada, SNC-Lavalin has hundreds of engineers working in Alberta's oil sands. It is building Vancouver's $2-billion Canada Line rapid transit system and owns a third of the consortium that will own and operate the line for 35 years when it opens for the 2010 Winter Olympics. Mr. Lamarre is also anticipating a big windfall for SNC-Lavalin, a partner in the Candu nuclear reactor team, from Ontario's decision to plow $40-billion into new and existing nuclear power stations. And it's a no-brainer SNC-Lavalin will be first in line if Quebec proceeds to undertake $25-billion of new hydroelectric developments by 2015. [....]

.... Indeed, SNC-Lavalin's relationship with Canada's government is close, since many of its contracts -- both domestic and international -- are funded by public agencies. The firm often counts on Export Development Canada and the Canadian International Development Agency, as well as the World Bank, to underwrite work in developing countries. [....]

Search: really juicy government contracts , Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index , Candu reactors , France's Areva , James Bay power, diamond mine construction , Vancouver Sky Train

It's a no-brainer. Being from Quebec didn't hurt in getting government backing and contracts.



Taxpayers always pay for politicians' great ideas ...

Petrocan debt has taxpayer over a barrel , Neil Reynolds, Aug. 25, 06, B2
www.rbcinvest.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/
PEstory/LAC/20060825/RREYNOLDS25/Columnists/
columnists/columnistsBusiness/2/2/4/

OTTAWA -- How much did Canadians pay for Petro-Canada? David L. Yager, a Calgary oil field service industry executive, asks it in a different way. How much are we now paying? The federal government sold its last Petrocan shares a couple of years ago, and you may have thought that we had finished with this sorry 1970s experiment in state-owned oil companies. Not so.

We sold off the assets for less than we paid, then kept all the debt. By Mr. Yager's calculations, a detailed spreadsheet that covers 25 years, we now owe $80-billion for Petrocan -- more than 20 per cent of the national debt. At 5-per-cent interest, we're paying $4-billion a year for an enterprise we don't own. This is slightly less than we pay for national defence; slightly more than we spend for foreign aid. [....]

The Adam Smith Institute: The Free-Market Think Tank



Tom Godfrey: Dying to get into Canada , Aug. 27, 06
www.torontosun.com/News/Canada/
2006/08/27/1779161-sun.html

Some unscrupulous funeral homes in Vancouver -- and possibly Toronto -- have issued phony letters of burial that are used by immigrants abroad to sneak into Canada, an MP says.

The scam surfaced last month after an Indian citizen was arrested by Customs officers at Vancouver airport when he couldn't remember the name of the "sister" whose funeral he was attending, said B.C. Liberal MP Sukh Dhaliwal.

[....B.C. Liberal MP Sukh Dhaliwal] refused to name the B.C. funeral parlour that issued the letter.

Counterfeit news -- Scenes were enacted and re-enacted; dead bodies were carried from point to point and then back again; Hezbollah spokesmen chatted on cellphones until it was time to turn on the tears for cameras , NatPost, Aug. 27, 06
www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/issuesideas
/story.html?id=eb48ad39-2760-4de5-bd19-afd3222aa8d7



Oliver North - Stunningly naive.......... -- or here for the original
newsbeat1.com/2006/08/
oliver-north-stunningly-naive.html



"Egypt State Media: Syria Committed 'Massacres' in Lebanon"
www.newsbeat1.com/www.metimes.com/articles/
normal.php?StoryID=20060823-080349-7931r


What did you do in the war, UNIFIL? -- You broadcast Israeli troop movements., by Lori Lowenthal Marcus, 09/04/2006, Volume 011, Issue 47, the Weekly Standard, via newsbeat1
weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles
/000/000/012/622bqwjn.asp

[....] UNIFIL--the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon, a nearly 2,000-man blue-helmet contingent that has been present on the Lebanon-Israel border since 1978--is officially neutral. Yet, throughout the recent war, it posted on its website for all to see precise information about the movements of Israeli Defense Forces soldiers and the nature of their weaponry and materiel, even specifying the placement of IDF safety structures within hours of their construction. New information was sometimes only 30 minutes old when it was posted, and never more than 24 hours old.

Meanwhile, UNIFIL posted not a single item of specific intelligence regarding Hezbollah forces. [....]

Canadian military seeks Muslim recruits, August 25, 2006
canadiancoalition.com/forum/messages/18632.shtml

The Canadian Forces want more Muslims among their ranks.

There are few Muslims in the Canadian military and that is something that Rear Admiral Tyrone Pile, who is in charge of recruiting, wants to change.

[....] "The Canadian Armed Forces do not reflect the cultural diversity in this country and that's a pity," Pile told observers at the mosque. [....]

Bader Siddiqi, president of the Ottawa Muslim Association, supports the military's drive to better understand his culture.

"It is a positive when you send a Canadian Muslim" on a peacekeeping mission, Siddiqi said. "It is good to have people serving in the forces who understand the language and culture. There are fewer mistakes, fewer accidents and fewer deaths."

A must read -- note accommodations made.




Cdn military reduces security checks on recruits
cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2006/08/27/1779690-cp.html

[....] For example, a candidate who would be granted "secret" level clearance once had a background check done that went back 10 years. Checks now only cover the last seven years.

The majority of people in the forces receive "confidential" level clearance, which previously required a check of the last 10 years. The exemption has cut that check by half, down to the last five years. [....]

Search: General Hillier recommends , Canadian Security Intelligence Service and the RCMP



Why Britain Stopped the Terror Plot -- "ability to be nimble, to be fast, to be flexible, to operate based on fast-moving information", Insight Magazine, August 25, 2006

The Homeland Security Department has neither the legal nor technical tools to match the British capture of terrorist operatives before they were about to blow up passenger airliners.

Officials said U.S. law would not have allowed the FBI to conduct the type of surveillance that led Britain to uncover the al Qaeda cell and capture what could be the network’s chief. They said the department also does not have the funding to detect new types of bombs used by al Qaeda. [....] .

A comprehensive overview of the four types of photo fraud committed by Reuters, August, 2006 -- via CNEWS Forum
zombietime.com/reuters_photo_fraud/


WHO ARE THE PALESTINIANS?, By Yashiko Sagamori, November 25, 2002
www.think-israel.org/sagamori.html

Yashiko Sagamori is a New York-based Information Technology consultant. This essay is a response to a letter by a newspaper reader who referred to the so-called "Palestinian people". This version was reprinted from Christian Action for Israel. (http://www.christianactionforisrael.org). The article appeared first in Arutz Sheva and is reprinted with their permission.

A rebuttal:

If you are so sure that "Palestine, the country, goes back through most of recorded history", I expect you to be able to answer a few basic questions about that country of "Palestine":

1. When was it founded and by whom?

2. What were its borders? [....]

A must read.



Bribe money in Tamil terror case originated from Montreal, FBI allege , Adrian Humphreys, CanWest News Service, National Post with file from Kelly Patrick, August 25, 2006
www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/
story.html?id=f14acf77-3dbf-4aca-bf58-
8f1e7c77a8f2&k=52933

TORONTO - Money to bribe a U.S. official - traced during an international anti-terrorism probe aimed at the Tamil Tigers - came from Montreal, the FBI said Thursday.

And two of the men arrested in the bribery case are former Montreal residents, adding more Canadian connections to a widening probe that has seen six other men from Canada arrested on charges of aiding a foreign terrorist organization, including money laundering, smuggling equipment and people, and trying to purchase anti-aircraft missiles, machine-guns and other military equipment.

Tens of thousands of dollars from Montreal were earmarked as a bribe for a U.S. federal agent who was posing as a corrupt immigration officer, pretending to allow Tamils to illegally enter the United States, the Federal Bureau of Investigation alleged in a sworn criminal complaint filed in a New York court. [....]

CBC News: Liberal website gaffe reveals donations, home numbers
www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/
2006/08/23/liberal-donations.html

The Liberal Propaganda Organ has taken it down, it seems. Check.



Writing partisanship into the news , Guy Giorno, National Post, Published: Wednesday, August 23, 2006
www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/issuesideas
/story.html?id=b180ee17-be82-4e14-b5c1-a672b2d0a1be&p=2

Guy Giorno is a partner at the law firm of Fasken Martineau, and served as chief of staff to former Ontario premier Mike Harris

In another place on the Web, Mr. Hubert wrote that "History will remember Hezbollah as an organization that stood up to the most vile 'nation' in human history."

On his own site, Mr. Hubert declared that the "Israeli Terror State continues to hate peace." He proudly posted a third-party claim that "Hezbollah is not a terrorist organization, Israel is" -- calling it "a great article."

Mr. Hubert subsequently apologized for his comments, explaining that he was "impulsively angry" when he wrote them. [....]

More interesting is the media reaction. On Tuesday, I could not find any newspaper coverage of Mr. Hubert's comment, the reaction of the Canada-Israel Committee or the failure of the Liberal leadership to rebuke a party official for his disgraceful diatribe. [....]

Bedsores cost billions, defy easy treatment , Aug. 22, 06, CBC




Abu Reuters-OBL's media adviser
newsbusters.org/node/7152



Jughead university -- "Now Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ont., has joined in the attacks" , NatPost
www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/editorialsletters/
story.html?id=85f2115b-a368-4518-893c-ad396b45060d

It is a tired conceit of the political left that conservatives, simply because they hold different views from their own, are inherently stupid. Consequently, whenever a Republican occupies the world's most powerful political office -- the U.S. presidency -- the incumbent is generally portrayed as sort of an idiot-in-chief. It was the case both for great Republican presidents like Ronald Reagan and Dwight D. Eisenhower, and lesser ones [....]

Despicable. Education seems to have become Bush-bashing and indoctrination by the left in Canada. How low does it go below university? Remember the left's activities pre-election in some high schools?



Canadian politicians join Jimmy Carter in siding with terrorists , By Judi McLeod, August 22, 2006
www.canadafreepress.com/2006/cover082206.htm

Jimmy Carter, the peanut farmer who became president, has a new peanut gallery in the land of the Maple Leaf.

While Carter was criticizing the United States and Israel in an interview with the German news publication, Der Spiegel, three Canadian politicians were lobbying to have the Lebanon-based Hezbollah taken off Canada’s terrorist list. [....]

From a friend: Diversion

This equation should be taught in all math classes!
From a strictly mathematical viewpoint it goes like this:
What Makes 100%? What does it mean to give MORE than 100%? Ever wonder about those people who say they are giving more than 100%? We have all been to those meetings where someone wants you to give over 100%. How about achieving 103%? What makes up 100% in life?
Here's a little mathematical formula that might help you answer these questions:
If:
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
is represented as:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26.
Then:
H-A-R-D-W-O-R-K
8+1+18+4+23+15+18+11 = 98%
and
K-N-O-W-L-E-D-G-E
11+14+15+23+12+5+4+7+5 = 96%
But,
A-T-T-I-T-U-D-E
1+20+20+9+20+21+4+5 = 100%
And,
B-U-L-L-*-*-*-T
2+21+12+12+19+8+9+20 = 103%
AND, look how far a** kissing will take you.
A-*-*-K-I-S-S-I-N-G
1+19+19+11+9+19+19+9+14+7 = 118%
So, one can conclude with mathematical certainty that while Hard Work and Knowledge will get you close, and Attitude will get you there, it's the Bull***t and A** Kissing that will put you over the top.