Propaganda In Your Pocket

The propaganda police are sneaky buggers. Wanting to create change, they have found the perfect pocket pleasure; place ads on coins. To begin the practice - make no doubt, it will become a practice - the Mint placed a poppy on a 25 cent coin. Now, who could argue against showing more support or respect for our fallen soldiers? Exactly! And now that the population has been snagged, the Mint has followed up with an "emotional unveiling" of an issue that affects w*o*m*e*n. Soon, our pockets will be will filled with coins that represent the agony of Aids and being gay, after that, look for coins emblazoned with SSM, then pollution awareness, seal puppies, multiculturalism symbols and medicare.

The Royal Canadian Mint (RCM) is helping to raise awareness in the fight against breast cancer with the release of a new 25-cent piece, the 2006 Official First Day Pink Ribbon coin.

The coin features the pink ribbon recognized as a symbol of hope for breast cancer victims.

The emotional unveiling took place at LIFEfest, an expo for women being held in downtown Toronto.

"It is a dramatic symbol of hope for the over 21,200 Canadians who will be diagnosed with breast cancer this year," Mary Jane Thompson, of the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation, told the crowd.

We don't need any more awareness of any more bleeding heart social issues. Give us a coin with Samuel De Champlain or Jacques Cartier instead of the Queen of England and keep the change. In the meantime, pass me a smoke.

The intelligent, like the unintelligent, are responsive to propaganda.

- Henry Louis Mencken

Blabbering Social Activists Are Nothing More Than Liberal Wolves in Sheep Clothes

Who do these people think they are kidding?

A coalition of social activist groups is urging Stephen Harper to backtrack on a number of his priority issues, including child care and closer ties with the United States.

The Council of Canadians, Egale, the Friends of Canadian Broadcasting, the Child Care Advocacy Association and the Quebec-based Coalition Solidarite Sante all say Prime Minister Harper is out of step with the majority of Canadians.

The activists offered these priorities:
-Honour the child-care agreements negotiated by the last government.
-Stop the trend toward privatized health care.
-Strengthen the CBC with stable, long-term funding.
-Reject a re-opening of the same-sex marriage debate.
-Stop talks on further economic and security integration with the United States.

"We believe these five domestic priorities require the urgent action and support of all members of Parliament," said Maude Barlow, head of the Council of Canadians.

Maude Barlow does not speak for anyone other than the rowdy trailer trash that vote Liberal/NDP/Bloc. What is galling about her ilk is they think they speak for the average Canadian, except they don't. They don't speak for anyone other than a small clique of freaks, fraudsters and foreigners that want to drag Canada down into a socialist gutter.

Here is a more realistic set of proposals that the majority of Canadians want from their national government:

- Don't waste any more money on daycare. Canada can't afford it.
- Public health care is a mess, privatize anything and everything as long as each Canadian has a medicare card provided by the government.
- Dump the rabble at CBC that have been openly biased towards anything decadent and liberal. If they won't go, shut them down or sell CBC to the highest bidder.
- Re-open the same-sex marriage farce. Canadians were cheated of a national institution by groups of radical feminists and secular humanists.
- Help integrate the Canadian and US economies by allowing workforce mobility in North America.
- Cut all funding to social groups that like to dip their tongues into the political world. Make them seek funding from their members. Taxpayers want their money back.

Oh, and Maude.......shut the f**k up...you liberal bitch!

Bless me Father for I have sinned........

The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty.
The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

- Ross Perot

Spreading Islamic Lies, One Newspaper At A Time

Yesterday in the Fredericton Daily Gleaner, a letter from a local Muslim activist was printed in the editorial section. Naveed Majid, Fredericton Regional Director of the Canadian Islamic Congress, wrote that Muslims supported Christian convert Abdul Rahman, quoting the Qur'an, "there is no compulsion in religion" and "you shall have your faith and I shall have mine" as proof that Islam is tolerant of other religions.

Mr Majid went on to say that, "Muslims are appalled to have this type of "justice"[the death sentence for converting to Christianity] associated with Islam." Obviously, Mr Majid chose not to include the following: "If anyone changes his religion, kill him" (cf. Bukhari vol. 9, bk. 84, no. 57). He closed his letter blaming a lack of social development in Afghanistan rather than the very real intolerance that demands the execution of Abdul Rahman. Mr Majid is lying or deliberatly trying to deceive Fredericton readers because leaving Islam is a capital offense in Islamic law.

Mr Majid could help the Islamic cause by answering the following questions

1. Is Islam the only religion with a doctrine, theology and legal system that mandates warfare against unbelievers?
2. Is it true that 26 chapters of the Quran deal with jihad, a fight able-bodied believers are obligated to join (Surah 2:216), and that the text orders Muslims to "instill terror into the hearts of the unbeliever" and to "smite above their necks" (8:12)?
3. Is the "test" of loyalty to Allah not good acts or faith in general, but martyrdom that results from fighting unbelievers (47:4) — the only assurance of salvation in Islam (4:74; 9:111)?
4. Are the sins of any Muslim who becomes a martyr forgiven by the very act of being slain while slaying the unbelievers (4:96)?
5. And is it really true that martyrs are rewarded with virgins, among other carnal delights, in Paradise (38:51, 55:56; 55:76; 56:22)?
6. Are those unable to do jihad — such as women or the elderly — required to give "asylum and aid" to those who do fight unbelievers in the cause of Allah (8:74)?
7. Does Islam advocate expansion by force? And is the final command of jihad, as revealed to Muhammad in the Quran, to conquer the world in the name of Islam (9:29)?
8. Is Islam the only religion that does not teach the Golden Rule (48:29)? Does the Quran instead teach violence and hatred against non-Muslims, specifically Jews and Christians (5:50)?

There are other questions, but these should do for a start. If the answers are "yes," then at least Americans [ and Canadians] will know there's no such thing as moderate Islam, even as they trust that there are moderate Muslims who do not act out on its violent commands.

Yes, please answer those few questions.

Genius knows where the questions are hidden.

- Mason Cooley

Understatement Of The Year!

Let the man's words speak for themselves..............

A key figure in the sponsorship scandal [Brault] blamed financial demands he was getting from organizers for the Liberal Party of Canada as a reason why he eventually defrauded the federal government in contracts worth $1.6-million.

Ad executive Jean Brault had pleaded guilty last month to five counts of fraud relating to government contracts awarded to his now defunct agency, Groupaction Marketing Inc.

Testifying at his pre-sentencing hearing Monday, he [Brault] linked his admitted fraud to the demands for secret political donations he was getting from a handful of top organizers in the Quebec wing of the Liberal Party of Canada.

"Very important amounts, astronomical amounts, not to say immoral amounts, went from my business and my pockets to the Liberal Party . . . I'm not trying to excuse what I did but essentially it's the political demands, the demands on me that led me to take that first step," Mr. Brault told the court.

Jean Brault is the classic "red herring." The real criminals are not on trial, have not been arrested and have not been charged. The real criminals are numerous members of the Liberal Party of Canada, elected and non-elected politicians and their staff.

"I committed it (the fraud) to accede to the requests of the Liberal party and to compensate for legal work I had done that I had not been paid for."

Brault said he was told by members of the Liberals' Quebec wing that if he put certain people on his payroll, he would get government contracts in return.

"I was intelligent enough to build a business from zero to a value of $140 million. I must have been intelligent enough to know what I was doing."

The "red herring" is a smart man. He knew that his friends in political power had the power to make contracts 'appear' on his doorstep. All Brault had to do was harvest his good fortune. Being connected to the Liberal Party helped seed his ambitions while being connected to Brault help seed the Liberal Party with millions of dollars of defrauded taxpayers money.

Let us not forget that the political genius - as the exempt media like to lovingly refer to Jean Chretien - won three elections using defrauded money. Hell will freeze over before any political leaders end up behind bars. In the meantime, their good friend Jean Brault is demonstrating his loyalty by preparing for jail. He knows that good friends never betray one and other.

Good friends, go in, and taste some wine with me,

And we, like friends, will straightway go together.

- William Shakespeare

Quebec Is Swimming In Daycare Debt

Wanted:

• Warehouse requires female staff to help entertrain, guard and organize the lives of abandoned preschoolers.

Pay:

• Unionized working environment.
• Wages - $18.36 - $21.78 per hour
  
• Top level earners to make $42,000

Benefits:

• Generous sick leave due to contaminated working conditions.
• Joy from mucking up the lives of parental wards.
  

The 8,000 unionized employees in public daycares across the province will start work two hours late this morning, after union leaders decided last night to reject the government's latest offer on pay-equity upgrades.

The unanimous decision came after several hours of deliberation between 60 regional leaders of the union affiliated with the Confederation des syndicats nationaux.

The workers, who came in one hour late for the past two weeks, are asking Quebec to raise the salary cap for female employees to $21.78 an hour, from $18.36.

CSN spokesperson Roger Deslauriers said the government offered $19.55 in May, but he refused to discuss the latest offer, which was made last week.

Details will be made public at a news conference today, he said. He would not say whether the daycare workers' latest pressure tactic of starting two hours late would extend beyond today.

Someone tell me again that we can afford a universal daycare system that benefits the rich, does nothing to help poor parents and guarantees workers universal access to taxpayers wallets.

We are willing to spend the least amount of money to keep a kid at home, more to put him in a foster home and the most to institutionalize him.

- Marian Wright Edelman

Oh, Oh! Bloated Liberal Policies Lead Europe To Depression Level Problems

It has been popular amongst liberal oriented Canadians to huff and puff about our European style economic policies while sneering at American and Irish success. But like all liberal policies, they contain the seeds of it's own destruction. Warning: If numbers bore you tears, pick something from my archives.

On 23 and 24 March the European Council is meeting to discuss the future of Europe’s social model. The very essence of the welfare state is at stake. Europe’s present social model is unable to tackle the modern challenges of globalization, and has left Europe with gigantic problems: an unsurmountable public debt, a rapidly ageing population, 19 million unemployed, and an overall youth unemployment rate of 18%. The unemployment figures may easily be doubled to account for hidden unemployment. The untold reality is that Europe’s real unemployment stands at the level of the 1932 Depression.

A man-made Disaster

Europe’s social disaster is unfolding while the rest of the world is booming at its fastest rate in three decades. 2004 and 2005 were record years for China and India, which have double-digit growth rates, and for the USA, which fully enjoys the benefits of globalization. The world’s economy is booming at an average rate of over 4%, but Europe’s growth has stagnated at an inflated 1.5%.

Why is Europe performing so poorly? Europe’s deficient performance is incompatible with its huge potential as the world’s largest single consumer market. Its slow growth contradicts its unequalled industrial productivity and infrastructure, its outstanding education level and labour ethics, its favourable climate, “fair business” morality, and not in the least its tremendous potential provided by the opening of the iron curtain. Obviously Europe’s fairy-tale is not materializing. Nor are the inflated expectations prognosticated by Europe’s political elite at the launch of the Common Currency and the Lisbon Agenda.

Deficit Spending & Threatening Debt Crisis

The reality of Europe’s ailing economy contrasts sharply with its economic potential and with the massive resources employed to cure its ailing growth. The whole arsenal of Keynesian remedies has now been tried and has failed one by one. Massive deficit spending throughout the eighties and nineties has left Europe with a public debt unequalled in history. The size of Europe's monumental public debt is only surpassed by the hidden liabilities accumulated in Europe’s shortsighted pay-as-you-go public pension schemes.

Read it all:

And in case you are one of those persons that prefers the Scandinavian model - as many indebted Quebecers do - then you might want to read this previous report too:

“America’s social model is flawed, but so is France’s,” the Parisian newspaper Le Monde recently wrote. According to Le Monde Europe should adopt the “Scandinavian model,” which is said to combine the economic efficiency of the Anglo-Saxon social model with the welfare state benefits of the continental European ones. On the eve of the EU’s Hampton Court Summit (October 27), one could even read that “Britain might be forced to discuss the advantages of Scandinavian models, which rely on more social security.”

The praise for the Nordic model comes from Bruegel, a new Brussels-based think tank, “whose aim is to contribute to the quality of economic policymaking in Europe.” The think tank is a Franco-German government initiative and is heavily funded by EU governments and corporations. In October Bruegel published a study “Globalisation and the Reform of European Social Models” [pdf] propagating the Nordic model.

A paper [pdf] from the economics department of Ghent University does the same. This paper, Fiscal Policy Employment and Growth: Why is the Euro Area Lagging Behind, was also subsidized by the government. In the selection of data comparing the performance of EU economies, the authors arbitrarily eliminated Ireland, Spain and Portugal (three of the four best performing EU economies) from their research and added oil-producing non-EU member Norway (which has a GDP more than 20% of which is based on income from oil). It is hardly imaginable that professors of one of Belgium’s major universities would not be aware of how this arbitrary selection must distort the results. Hence one must read their text as an ideological pamphlet rather than a scientific study.

However, despite Bruegel, distorted academic studies and the European media’s praise, the efficiency of the major Scandinavian economies is a myth. The Swedish and Finnish welfare states have been going through a long period of decline. In the early 1990s they were virtually bankrupt. Between 1990 and 1995 unemployment increased five-fold. The Scandinavian countries have not been able to recover.

While the US and Ireland continue to lead, the liberal fed countries are facing doom. What is it about liberals and their dragging down societies? Personally, I think it is liberalism itself.

My objection to Liberalism is this—that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind—namely, politics—of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.

- Benjamin Disraeli

Charter of Rights Officers Making Mockery

There is growing angst in Quebec. Réne Levesque onced warned that an entrenched Charter of Rights and Freedom would be used to undermine the cultural traditions of the majority, and he was right.

Muslim leaders were cautiously optimistic yesterday after the Quebec Human Rights Commission told a Montreal engineering school it must allow Muslim students to pray in dignity, though it is not obliged to provide them their own special prayer space.

In 2003, 113 Muslim students filed a human rights complaint against the Ecole de technologie superieure after it blocked Muslim students, who must pray five times daily, from doing so in school hallways and stairwells.

"These students have a right to pray and the school has the responsibility, the duty, to accommodate them," commission president Marc-Andre Dowd told reporters. Students should not have to decide between school and their religion, he added.

After controversy erupted, ETS relented, letting students pray in stairwells and hallways, but more needs to be done to accommodate them, Dowd said.

Citing the Quebec charter of rights, the commission ruled ETS must ensure students can "pray, on a regular basis, in conditions that respect their right to the safeguard of their dignity." ETS could, for example, let them use an empty classroom or a gymnasium, Dowd said.

The school argued that as a secular institution it is not obliged to give students prayer space. But the commission said ETS's secular status does not relieve it of its duty to accommodate the Muslim students.

Dowd said ETS is not obliged to set aside a special room for them, a request of some but not all ETS Muslim students. Compelling ETS to have such a room would cause "undue hardship, as it could lead to similar demands from students of other denominations," he said.

The commission gave the school, part of the Universite du Quebec network, 60 days to solve the problem. If the commission is not satisfied with ETS's response, it may take the case to the Quebec Human Rights Tribunal, a judicial body with the power to order the school to act.

First of all, there are NO requirements in the Koran to pray five times a day. There are only requirements to force lapsed Christians to bend over backwards for a backward religion.

Second, if Christian religious practices have been removed from the "secular" school system why are some permitting Islamic and Sikh teachings? The word DMHIMMI first comes to mind while the word FEAR surfaces in the foreground.

Third, what ever happened to our system of laws that have given appointed Human Rights commissions the power to dictate absolute law? Soon, we won't need any high paid judges, only lower paid bureaucrats appointed by liberals.

I am beginning to see a pattern developing........if you advocate for the majority, you are told to get lost, if you have fashioned yourself into a minority, then you are special. I also see another pattern developing; that is, the weakening of Canadian society by narrow-minded bigots popularly supported by dangerous liberals.

In response, I resurrect this stunning blog posting: read it all if you dare: Tribes!

It is the supreme test of a system of government whether its machinery is adequate for repressing the selfish undertakings of cliques formed on special interests and saving the public from raids of plunderers.

- William Graham Sumner

Ontario Fish Turning Gay

It's been reported all over Europe and in the USA, now it's happening in Canada. Will there be a public outcry? Will Canadians start to question the safety of city water? Will the exempt media (and the environmentalists) jump all over this story, conduct exhaustive background investigations, search for the feminization of other species and cause widespread panic?

Birth control pills, cancer drugs and a host of other pharmaceuticals that people flush down the drain every day are showing up in our drinking water, says Gord Miller, Ontario's environmental commissioner.

"We need to do a better job of keeping drugs out of lakes, rivers and drinking water," Miller told the Kitchener-Waterloo Record on Wednesday.

Although the drugs are not considered a threat to human health, there is evidence that they can harm wildlife.
"There is no health hazard in drinking water now that has been detected in Canada, but we have detected substances in drinking water," he said, adding that the problem is likely to get worse rather than better as the population grows.

"Our society loves to pop pills," Miller said. "If you were designing the perfect pollutant it would probably look like a pill."

[..]

In his last annual report, Miller said contraceptives, painkillers, antibiotics, anti-cancer drugs and blood-pressure drugs are showing up in lakes and rivers, while anti-inflammatory and anti-cholesterol drugs and antidepressants are ending up in drinking water.

Experiments in northern Ontario have shown that exposure to these waste drugs has led to the feminization of male fish, delayed reproduction in female fish and damage to kidneys and livers of both sexes, the report said.

Independent studies by the Environmental Protection Agency in the United States and by environmental bodies in England have turned up similar evidence.

Miller said pharmaceuticals are getting into drinking water in several ways. Unused drugs are thrown into domestic garbage, which end up in landfill sites and eventually into the groundwater.

Drugs are taken orally and flushed down toilets as human excrement. And unused drugs are washed down the sink or flushed down the toilet directly into domestic sewers.

Many drugs pass right through the sewage and water treatment plants, back into the drinking water.

"Sewage treatment plants aren't designed to remove them," Miller said.

Lesson #1? Don't you dare feed them boys tuna for lunch!

Lesson #2? Move out to the country!

Lesson #3? The Liberals are popular in major cities....you do the math! hehehe

Childbirth is a miracle. No, it's not. . . . It's a chemical reaction, that's all.

- Bill Hicks

Which Group of Hostages Deserves Help?

My, my, but many human rights groups seem awfully narrowminded in their choice of persons to give help.

An international human rights watchdog is demanding that U.S. officials intervene to protect Canadian teenager Omar Khadr from torture at Guantanamo Bay.

The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, affiliated with the Organization of American States, said Wednesday that Khadr faces an "urgent risk of irreparable harm.''

The commission's finding, after a one-day hearing last week, said American authorities must ensure Khadr, 19, isn't subjected to abuse, prolonged isolation or interrogation tactics that fail to comply with international standards of humane treatment.

The group demanded an impartial investigation into Khadr's torture allegations and prosecution of anyone found guilty. Officials must also ensure that no statements obtained through cruel or degrading treatment be accepted in legal proceedings against the teen, the commission said.

Aside from the obvious claim that prisoners are tortured at Guantanamo Bay, count the number of times you have heard any human rights groups speak out for people that are captured by Islamic insurgents/terrorists?

One British and two Canadian peace activists held hostage in Iraq for almost four months have been freed in an operation by multinational forces.

Norman Kember, 74, of north-west London, James Loney, 41, and Harmeet Singh Sooden, 32, were three of four men seized in Baghdad in November.

Mr Kember is said to be in a "reasonable condition" while the two Canadians were taken to hospital.

The body of murdered US citizen Tom Fox was found in Baghdad two weeks ago.

Read that last sentence again, The body of murdered US citizen Tom Fox [...], and ask yourself why some hostages are always murdered and why some get to make false statements that are believed by the moronic crowd of anti-Bush activists?

In my opinion, the leftist crowd of Hollywood weirdos, left-wing moonbats and groups of liberal liars remain silent on the treatment of Islamic hostages who are actually harmed while loudly screaming their opposition that American military have the gall to hold Islamic terrorists. Yes, I wrote terrorists!

Hypocrites kick with their hind feet while licking with their tongues.

- Russian Proverb

"No, I am not an apostate, I believe in God."

If only other Christians had the courage and understanding of scripture that Abdul Rahman possesses.

Watch a video of Abdul Rahman at the Afghan Times (thanks to Andrew Bostom).

He was questioned, "Do you confess that you have apostacized from Islam?"

He responded, "No, I am not an apostate, I believe in God."

Question: "Do you believe in the Koran?"

Response: "I believe in the Injil (New Testament) [Gospel, actually, although this word is also used by Arabic-speaking Christians for the whole New Testament -- RS] and love Jesus Christ."

Of course, this makes him an apostate by the lights of the Afghan judges. But I applaud his courageous stand and unwillingness to kowtow even in the face of death. If only we had some Western leaders with that much starch.

If only indeed..........

It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.

- Voltaire

Three Pillars of Islam: Submission, Torture And Death

Where's the peace in Islam? Where's the love? Where's the democracy? Freedom?

Christian convert facing death in Kabul provides a rude awakening: [..]the Afghan Constitution refers to the authority of Sharia, but it also mentions the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Now it is beginning to dawn on some of the learned analysts which one trumps which.

Thousands of Pakistani women face charges under Islamic laws: Nearly 80 per cent of the more than 6,000 women and juvenile girls on trial in Pakistan are facing charges under the controversial strict ’Hudood’ Islamic laws that mainly deal with crimes of adultery and rape, said a human rights report published on Monday.

Child Bride: At the age of five, she was forced to take care of not only her "husband" but also his parents and all 12 of their other children as well.

Though nearly the entire family participated in the abuse, her father-in-law, she says, was the cruelest.

Conditions for Muslim Men Who Want to Marry Christian and Jewish Women in the West: A Muslim in Europe or America can marry a Christian woman or a woman from among the People of the Book, under four conditions

IRAN Pastor converted from Islam may be freed: Hamid Pourmand, already imprisoned for 18 months because of his faith, may benefit from an annual amnesty given to detainees between 11 February and 21

Click on the linked stories, read, learn and awaken. Islam is a 'religion' of submission, torture and death, and incompatible with western values.

Muhammad brought down from heaven and put into the Koran not religious doctrines only, but political maxims, criminal and civil laws, and scientific theories. The Gospels, on the other hand, deal only with the general relations between man and God and between man and man. Beyond that, they teach nothing and do not oblige people to believe anything. That alone, among a thousand reasons, is enough to show that Islam will not be able to hold its power long in ages of enlightenment and democracy, while Christianity is destined to reign in such ages, as in all others.

-Alexis de Tocqueville

The Insanity Of SSM

I am an educated man, but I must not be educated enough to become as stupid as many educated types have become. Make sense? Read on....

In Spain where they say, "Si, Si!" they no longer say Mother and Father. It'’s now "Progenitor A" and "Progenitor B".

Progenitors A & B don'’t come from space ship Progen, they are the new way for Spanish government to identify Ma and Pop in the era of same-sex marriage.

The Spanish government last year joined countries like Canada in making same-sex marriages legal.

With the dispensation of the terms Mother and Father, government officials say that the concept of the traditional family has changed with the times. Homosexuals who adopt children, need to be identified in more fitting terms.

So new births registered at the State Civil Registries in the Family Book now fall under the headings of Parent (progenitor) A, and Parent (progenitor) B.

The new changes replacing Mother and Father come courtesy of a ministerial order.

"Juan Fernando López Aguilar, Spanish Minister of Justice, excused the ministerial order by claiming since the government modified "the status of civil marriages, to allow the union of same-sex couples, it was necessary for a new format for the Family Book (Libro de Familia) and one that uses terms such as "Parent A" and "Parent B" instead of "Father" and "Mother".

"That'’s right. To match up its same-sex marriage legislation to the Civil Registry, the government deemed that Spaniards could no longer qualify themselves as either "Fathers" or "Mothers" of their children." (LifeSiteNews.com, March 10, 200

Like I said earlier, it was educated men and women that were behind this 'thing.' My only response, aside from the obvious, is to say: what a bunch of freaking idiots!

The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.

- Henry Louis Mencken

Whistling Past The Gates Of Hell

The neutered males and angry feminists that make up most of the cast of the exempt media are freaky and they are hostage to other freaky people too. Their weekend script of superficial news, made up news and other non-important events led with stories about the Liberal Party of Canada's plan to reclaim power and the weird demands of small crowds of peace demonstrators that want the return of dictators and war criminals to power. Ever confused by reality, the exempt media crowd play MC to the conspiratorial illusions of the leftist stupidos. Long gone from the media are stories about truth, criminality and social destruction. They are all whistling past the graveyard while ignoring the gates to hell.

Things they missed telling us in detail:

I just reviewed this additional release of documents. This release continues to confirm that Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda were in contact with Iraq intelligence for sanctuary, training, and plans for acts of terrorism against the US and in the US.

This just supports the 12 hours of tapes we heard of Saddam Hussein'’s that discussed using proxies (Al Qaeda) to attack the US with WMD i.e. nuclear or biological. The latest release has pictures of Zarqawi while he was in Iraq prior to our liberation. It is obvious that he was living there as a sanctuary after he left Afghanistan.

Stephen Hayes of the Weekly Standard has done a superb job in describing this relationship in great detail in several articles and TV appearances on Fox News. In addition the CIA director George Tenet confirmed this prior to the liberation of Iraq as did Under Secretary Doug Feith in a memo on Al Qaeda'’s involvement with Iraq prior to hostilities. However some people are still in denial even with the latest release as it gets in the way of their agenda.

Don't you think news that contradict exempt media myths are important? I do, but I doubt if the freaks want to deviate from the path of conspiracy.

And this startling reminder of the conduct of brutal dictators:

One of the documents found among the cache captured when Baghdad fell reports an order from Qusai to put Kuwaiti POWs -- apparently from the 1990 invasion that prompted the first Gulf War -- around critical military facilities in order to use them as human shields:

The silence of the exempt media causes great echoes of truth to boomerang.

When a military man -– especially a patriot like Lt. Gen. Thomas McInerney - states Saddam Hussein shipped his WMD stockpiles to Syria before Operation Iraqi Freedom, the media castigate him for overweening fealty to his commander-in-chief. One wonders how they will react when the man making that statement is a former high-ranking official in the Iraqi military, personally called out of retirement by Saddam Hussein.

That man is Gen. Georges Sada, and his reception has consisted of silence.

Sada, the author of Saddam'’s Secrets, was the number two man in Saddam Hussein'’s air force. Sada'’s story confirms the testimony of Lt. Gen. McInerney -– from the inside.

But what do you expect from neutered males and angry bitches? Truth?

To have news value is to have a tin can tied to one’s tail.

- T.E. Lawrence

Anti-War Idiots Demonstrate Their Heartlessness

Some people are born with a brain and a heart, rarely using either.

Over a million people have died from hunger in North Korea - no protests.

North Korean death chambers claim thousands of lives - no protests.

Sudan 'conflict' claiming millions of lives - no protests.

Zimbawe's totalitarian government causes hunger and suffering to hundreds of thousands - no protests.

Hunger, suffering and misery are a fact of life for hundreds of millions of people living in unfree states - never any protests to help them.

Thousands of anti-war protesters marched in Australia, Turkey and Asian countries at the start of global demonstrations Saturday, as campaigners marked the third anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq with a demand that coalition troops pull out.

Demonstrations were planned for cities across Europe later in the day. Police in London shut down streets in the heart of the capital's shopping and theater district ahead of a demonstration which organizers said they hoped would be attended by up to 100,000 people.

Around 500 protesters marched through central Sydney, chanting "End the war now and "Troops out of Iraq." Many campaigners waved placards branding President Bush the "World's No. 1 Terrorist" or expressing concerns that Iran could be the next country to face invasion.

"Iraq is a quagmire and has been a humanitarian disaster for the Iraqis," said Jean Parker, a member of the Australian branch of the Stop the War Coalition, which organized the march. "There is no way forward without ending the occupation."

Liberate people from a corrupt and inhumane ruler, and it causes protests all over the world. The people that are doing the protests would rather speak out against an American act than their own lack of love and caring. The protestors are evil!

And maybe misguided and dumb too.

In the circle in which I travel, a dumb man is more dangerous than a hundred rats.

- Joe Valachi

St. Patrick

Legends about Patrick abound; but truth is best served by our seeing two solid qualities in him: He was humble and he was courageous. The determination to accept suffering and success with equal indifference guided the life of God’s instrument for winning most of Ireland for Christ.

Details of his life are uncertain. Current research places his dates of birth and death a little later than earlier accounts. Patrick may have been born in Dunbarton, Scotland, Cumberland, England, or in northern Wales. He called himself both a Roman and a Briton. At 16, he and a large number of his father’s slaves and vassals were captured by Irish raiders and sold as slaves in Ireland. Forced to work as a shepherd, he suffered greatly from hunger and cold.

After six years, Patrick escaped, probably to France, and later returned to Britain at the age of 22. His captivity had meant spiritual conversion. He may have studied at Lerins, off the French coast; he spent years at Auxerre, France, and was consecrated bishop at the age of 43. His great desire was to proclaim the Good News to the Irish.

In a dream vision it seemed “all the children of Ireland from their mothers’ wombs were stretching out their hands” to him. He understood the vision to be a call to do mission work in pagan Ireland. Despite opposition from those who felt his education had been defective, he was sent to carry out the task. He went to the west and north, where the faith had never been preached, obtained the protection of local kings and made numerous converts.

Because of the island’s pagan background, Patrick was emphatic in encouraging widows to remain chaste and young women to consecrate their virginity to Christ. He ordained many priests, divided the country into dioceses, held Church councils, founded several monasteries and continually urged his people to greater holiness in Christ.

He suffered much opposition from pagan druids, and was criticized in both England and Ireland for the way he conducted his mission.

In a relatively short time the island had experienced deeply the Christian spirit, and was prepared to send out missionaries whose efforts were greatly responsible for Christianizing Europe.

Patrick was a man of action, with little inclination toward learning. He had a rocklike belief in his vocation, in the cause he had espoused.

One of the few certainly authentic writings is his Confessio, above all an act of homage to God for having called Patrick, unworthy sinner, to the apostolate.

There is hope rather than irony in the fact that his burial place is said to be in strife-torn Ulster, in County Down. [emphasis added]

Artificial News Alert

The weekly polling on the 'popularity' of the new Conservative government is useless news. But, as the weekly polls arrive at the desks of our nations media outlets, my suspicious mind is wondering if the ongoing polling is just another attempt by the exempt media to control the nations agenda?

A new poll suggests Tory support is as strong as it was in the Jan. 23 election, despite the political furor over Stephen Harper's cabinet choices.

The Decima poll, conducted March 9-13, suggests the Conservatives had the support of 37 per cent of decided voters, up slightly from the 36 per cent of the vote they won on election day.

The Liberals had the support of 28 per cent, down from 30 per cent on election night.

The New Democrats were up to 19 per cent after taking 18 per cent of the January vote, and the Bloc Quebecois had 10 per cent, down from 11 per cent.

"In this week's poll, the Conservatives have more support than the Liberals in every part of the country except for Ontario, where they trail by only three percentage points," said Bruce Anderson, Decima's chief executive officer.

Harper has come under some sharp political criticism for a couple of controversial cabinet appointments.

In a conservative world, everything is always controversial. There are no controversial policies made by Liberals, they are always described as new policies. Place a conservative leader in front of the file and those same new policies become controversial. But I digress......

In an age when information can be transmitted instantly, why are we always hearing the same damn thing, day in and day out? I am tired of hearing about pop stars, polls and pee brains. Let's get some information on events that are happening every day and give us some background (unbiased please) information and some perspective. But I expect too much.....

Our media darlings are so, so busy being something other that what they are......But I am biased........but I may be right......

Journalists should denounce government by public opinion polls. - Dan Rather

1100 Dead, Exempt Media Ho Hum...........

The western world, lulled into a zombie state by bland reporting, are unaware that a bigger battle is looming.

At least five people have been killed in southern Thailand after suspected Islamic militants attacked a government building, police said.

The attackers riddled the office with bullets in the village of Pado in the Pattani province, they said.

Thailand's south, where most of its minority Muslim population lives, has been hit by a two-year insurgency that has left more than 1,100 people dead.

Recent attacks have been overshadowed by anti-government rallies in Bangkok.

The gunmen attacked the office during a council meeting in the village in the largely Buddhist district of the province, police said.

Imagine that! Even peace loving Buddhists are not immune to Islamic evil. When will the rest of the world wake up and realise that the war on terror should really be called the Islamic Wars against everyone?

Often it takes some calamity to make us live in the present. Then suddenly we wake up and see all the mistakes we have made.

- Bill Watterson

"Weak-Kneed" Layton Appeals To The Weak-Knee Set

"A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others. He does not set out to be a leader, but becomes one by the quality of his actions and the integrity of his intent."

Prime Minister Harper's actions over the past several years have demonstrated that he is the one lone voice of leadership in Ottawa. His decision to visit our troops in Afghanistan demonstrated his understanding and knowledge of the real war on terrorism. Sadly, the same cannot be said for NDP chief, Jack Layton. In Layton's world, everything is viewed through an anti-American lexicon of narrow-mindedness.

NDP Leader Jack Layton called for a debate on Canada's mission in Afghanistan as Prime Minister Stephen Harper made a surprise visit to troops in the region. "A debate in Parliament really should take place regarding the role that Canada is playing in Kandahar, and what the future holds for Canadian involvement in that part of the world," Layton told CTV Newsnet on Sunday.

He added that "all of the issues" should be discussed regarding the mission, including the role of Canadian troops, their relationship to American operations in Afghanistan, the length of the mission and its cost.

Layton also argued that a vote on the mission should naturally follow such a debate, possibly giving critics a chance to decide whether troops should remain in Afghanistan.

"At some point of course there really should be some sort of a vote," Layton said.

"In fact, Mr. Harper and Mr. (Gilles) Duceppe favoured the concept that when Canadian troops are deployed abroad there should be a vote at some point regarding that deployment and its future. It's very common... in this part of the world."

Layton did not say if his party would support a lengthy mission in such a vote, saying there was not enough information about the mission to make a proper decision.

However, he said Canadians want to know that troops in Afghanistan are not following the policies set by U.S. President George W. Bush to combat terrorism, but are operating under the values of their own country.

"It's not a question about being weak-kneed, it's a question of what is Canada's role internationally," Layton said.

"We know that Canadians are not comfortable with some of the approaches taken by George Bush and his administration. We want to ensure that this is an independent foreign policy being exercised here in conjunction with the international community in proper fashion. We've always looked to the (United Nations) for direction." [emphasis added]

To the mentally challenged supporters of the NDP, the War on Terror is a George W. Bush tactic to control world oil. The fact that bombs have killed thousands of innocent people all over the world in the name of Islamic virtues is not important to the NDP. From East Timor to Northern Nigeria, from India to Pakistan, from the Sudan to Thailand and all places in between, there are continuous acts of terror by Islamic supporters. But that is not important to the NDP. What is important to them is that children and adults are sexualized, exploited and used as props to advance a feminist social agenda.

While Jack Layton and his 'ilk' play the anti-American angle on every major issue of the day, I am looking forward to hearing the NDP support an open dialogue on the 5 principles of the Canada Health Act. After all, many Canadians want that debate. But I know I will have to wait forever.

In the meantime, I congratulate our Prime Minister for having enough wisdom to know that the War on Terror is as Canadian a fight as anything we have fought for in the past.

God Bless Stephen Harper..............and Canada.

"When you get right down to it, one of the most important tasks of a leader is to eliminate his people's excuse for failure."
-Robert Townsend

More "White Man Do Not Apply" Crap From Feds

The federal government used to be quite bold and up front about their hiring interests. In the past, they used to state in a bold red paragraph that the job opening was limited to non-white persons (commonly known as visible minorities). But, after receiving widespread criticism for their racist hiring practices, and instead of eliminating the practice, the bureaucrats have decided to hide their true race-based criteria.

Please read the following statement of qualifications and then take note that this merit based position has one final and major qualification criteria that is listed at the end of the description:

STATEMENT OF MERIT CRITERIA

Job Opportunity: Provincial Coordinator - New Brunswick Reference Number: SHC06J-007305-000015

Essential Qualifications:

Education:

Graduation from a recognized university with a degree specializing in
health or social sciences, or another specialty relevant to the position,
or an acceptable combination of education, training and experience.

Language Proficiency:

Bilingual Imperative: CCC/CCC

Experience:

Experience in research, analysis and providing strategic advice/briefings to senior managers pertaining to health issues.

Experience in establishing and maintaining networks, partnerships or programs with government and non-governmental organizations in New Brunswick.

Knowledge:

Knowledge of roles and mandates of New Brunswick provincial and regional health systems, legislation, and Non-Governmental health partners.

Abilities:

Ability to identify potential health-related issues and provide analysis and strategic advice.

Ability to effectively represent Health Canada and to lead in the establishment and maintenance effective networks and partnerships with provincial and regional officials, organizations, and stakeholder groups.

Ability to manage various projects, work independently, and to work well under pressure.

Ability to communicate effectively orally and in writing

Personal Suitability:

Effective interpersonal relations
Respectful of diversity

Operational Requirements:

Overtime may be involved periodically

Availability to travel occasionally to other provinces is desirable.

Conditions of Employment:

Secret security clearance - This factor is not used at the preselection stage. The department is responsible for the security clearance process.

Asset Qualifications:

Master's Degree in a discipline related to the position

Knowledge of Health Canada legislation, programs, policies, priorities and directions

Experience in coordinating intergovernmental events, conferences, meetings

Organizational Needs:

Membership in one of the designated employment equity groups. [emphasis added]

Gee, it's now called "membership" when one is a member of a visible minority? How cute.

The people that are running Human Resource departments are "members" of the cunning class of technocratic bullshitters that use trickery to advance a social agenda that may or not be in the best interests of society. If a job is to be hired based on merit, then there is NO NEED to limit the job to non-white persons. If it is really merit, then merit means the person would win the job based on that merit.

The federal government is hopelessly corrupt or hopelessly 'manned' by idiots. Hopelessly!

Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.

- Oprah Winfrey

Remembering Islamic Evil - March 11, 2004

Some voices left a void in many lives.

Eva Belén Abad Quijada, Spain, 30 years old Óscar Abril Alegre, Spain, 19 years old Liliana Guillermina Acero Ushiña, Ecuador, 26 years old Florencio Aguado Rojano, Spain, 60 years old Juan Alberto Alonso Rodríguez, Spain, 38 years old María Joséfa Alvarez González, Spain, 48 years old Juan Carlos Del Amo Aguado, Spain, 28 years old Andriyan Asenov Andrianov, Bulgaria, 22 years old María Nuria Aparicio Somolinos, Spain, 40 years old Alberto Arenas Barroso, Spain, 24 years old Neil Hebe Astocondor Masgo, Peru, 34 years old Ana Isabel Avila Jiménez, Spain, 43 years old Miguel Ángel Badajoz Cano, Spain, 34 years old Susana Ballesteros Ibarra, Spain, 42 years old Francisco Javier Barahona Imedio, Spain, 34 years old Gonzalo Barajas Díaz, Spain, 32 years old Gloria Inés Bedoya, Colombia, 40 years old Sanaa Ben Salah Imadaquan, Spain, 13 years old Esteban Martín De Benito Caboblanco, Spain, 39 years old Rodolfo Benito Samaniego, Spain, 27 years old Anka Valeria Bodea, Romania, 26 years old Livia Bogdan, Romania, 27 years old Florencio Brasero Murga, Spain, 50 years old Trinidad Bravo Segovia, Spain, 40 years old Alina Maria Bryk, Poland, 39 years old Stefan Budai, Romania, 37 years old Tibor Budi, Romania, 37 years old María Pilar Cabrejas Burillo, Spain, 37 years old Rodrigo Cabrero Pérez, Spain, 20 years old Milagros Calvo García, Spain, 39 years old Sonia Cano Campos, Spain, 24 years old Alicia Cano Martínez, Spain, 63 years old José María Carrilero Baeza, Spain, 39 years old Álvaro Carrion Franco, Spain, 17 years old Francisco Javier Casas Torresano, Spain, 28 years old Cipriano Castillo Muñoz, Spain, 55 years old María Inmaculada Castillo Sevillano, Spain, 39 years old Sara Centenera Montalvo, Spain, 19 years old Oswaldo Manuel Cisneros Villacís, Ecuador, 34 years old Eugenia María Ciudad-Real Díaz, Spain, 26 years old Jacqueline Contreras Ortiz, Peru, 22 years old María Soledad Contreras Sánchez, Spain, 51 years old María Paz Criado Pleiter, Spain, 52 years old Nicoleta Diac, Romania, 27 years old Beatriz Díaz Hernandez, Spain, 30 years old Georgeta Gabriela Dima, Romania, 35 years old Tinka Dimitrova Paunova, Bulgaria, 31 years old Kalina Dimitrova Vasileva, Bulgaria, 31 years old Sam Djoco, Senegal, 42 years old María Dolores Durán Santiago, Spain, 34 years old Osama El Amrati, Morocco, 23 years old Sara Encinas Soriano, Spain, 26 years old Carlos Marino Fernández Dávila, Peru, 39 years old María Fernández del Amo, Spain, 25 years old Rex Ferrer Reynado, Phillipines, 20 years old Héctor Manuel Figueroa Bravo, Chile, 33 years old Julia Frutos Rosique, Spain, 44 years old María Dolores Fuentes Fernández, Spain, 29 years old José Gallardo Olmo, Spain, 33 years old José Raúl Gallego Triguero, Spain, 39 years old María Pilar Gamiz Torres, Spain, 40 years old Abel García Alfageme, Spain, 27 years old Juan Luis García Arnaiz, Spain, 17 years old Beatriz García Fernández, Spain, 27 years old María de las Nieves García García-Moñino, Spain, 46 years old Enrique García González, Dominican Republic, 28 years old Cristina Aurelia García Martínez, Spain, 34 years old Carlos Alberto García Presa, Spain, 24 years old José García Sánchez, Spain, 45 years old José María García Sánchez, Spain, 47 years old Javier Garrote Plaza, Spain, 26 years old Petrica Geneva, Romania, 34 years old Ana Isabel Gil Pérez, Spain, 29 years old Óscar Gómez Gudiña, Spain, 24 years old Felix González Gago, Spain, 52 years old Ángelica González García, Spain, 19 years old Teresa González Grande, Spain, 38 years old Elías González Roque, Spain, 30 years old Juan Miguel Gracia García, Spain, 53 years old Javier Guerrero Cabrera, Spain, 25 years old Berta María Gutiérrez García, Spain, 39 years old Sergio de las Heras Correa, Spain, 29 years old Pedro Hermida Martín, Spain, 51 years old Alejandra Iglesias López, Spain, 28 years old Mohamed Itaiben, Morocco, 27 years old Pablo Izquierdo Asanza, Spain, 42 years old María Teresa Jaro Narrillos, Spain, 32 years old Oleksandr Kladkovoy, Ukraine, 56 years old Laura Isabel Laforga Bajón, Spain, 28 years old María Victoria León Moyano, Spain, 30 years old María Carmen Lominchar Alonso, Spain, 34 years old Myriam López Díaz, Spain, 31 years old María Carmen López Pardo, Spain, 50 years old María Cristina López Ramos, Spain, 38 years old José María López-Menchero Moraga, Spain, 44 years old Miguel de Luna Ocaña, Spain, 36 years old María Jesús Macías Rodríguez, Spain, 30 years old Francisco Javier Mancebo Záforas, Spain, 38 years old Ángel Manzano Pérez, Ecuador, 42 years old Vicente Marín Chiva, Spain, 37 years old Antonio Marín Mora, Spain, 43 years old Begoña Martín Baeza, Spain, 25 years old Ana Martín Fernández, Spain, 43 years old Luis Andrés Martín Pacheco, Spain, 54 years old María Pilar Martín Rejas, Spain, 50 years old Alois Martinas, Romania, 27 years old Carmen Mónica Martínez Rodríguez, Spain, 31 years old Míriam Melguizo Martínez, Spain, 28 years old Javier Mengíbar Jiménez, Spain, 43 years old Álvaro de Miguel Jiménez, Spain, 26 years old Michael Mitchell Rodríguez, Cuba, 28 years old Stefan Modol, Romania, 45 years old Segundo Víctor Mopocita Mopocita, Ecuador, 37 years old Encarnación Mora Donoso, Spain, 64 years old María Teresa Mora Valero, Spain, 37 years old Julita Moral García, Spain, 53 years old Francisco Moreno Aragonés, Spain, 56 years old José Ramón Moreno Isarch, Spain, 37 years old Eugenio Moreno Santiago, Spain, 56 years old Juan Pablo Moris Crespo, Spain, 32 years old Juan Muñoz Lara, Spain, 33 years old Francisco José Narváez de la Rosa, Spain, 28 years old Mariana Negru, Romania, 40 years old Ismael Nogales Guerrero, Spain, 31 years old Inés Novellón Martínez, Spain, 30 years old Miguel Ángel Orgaz Orgaz, Spain, 34 years old Ángel Pardillos Checa, Spain, 62 years old Sonia Parrondo Antón, Spain, 28 years old Juan Francisco Pastor Férez, Spain, 51 years old Daniel Paz Manjón, Spain, 20 years old Josefa Pedraza Pino, Spain, 41 years old Miryam Pedraza Rivero, Spain, 25 years old Roberto Pellicari Lopezosa, Spain, 31 years old María del Pilar Pérez Mateo, Spain, 28 years old Felipe Pinel Alonso, Spain, 51 years old Martha Scarlett Plasencia Hernandez, Dominican Republic, 27 years old Elena Ples, Romania, 33 years old María Luisa Polo Remartinez, Spain, 50 years old Ionut Popa, Romania, 23 years old Emilian Popescu, Romania, 44 years old Miguel Ángel Prieto Humanes, Spain, 37 years old Francisco Antonio Quesada Bueno, Spain, 44 years old John Jairo Ramírez Bedoya, Colombia, 37 years old Laura Ramos Lozano, Honduras, 37 years old Miguel Reyes Mateos, Spain, 37 years old Marta del Río Menéndez, Spain, 40 years old Nuria del Río Menéndez, Spain, 38 years old Jorge Rodríguez Casanova, Spain, 22 years old Luis Rodríguez Castell, Spain, 40 years old María de la Soledad Rodríguez de la Torre, Spain, 42 years old Ángel Luis Rodríguez Rodríguez, Spain, 34 years old Francisco Javier Rodríguez Sánchez, Spain, 52 years old Ambrosio Rogado Escribano, Spain, 56 years old Cristina Romero Sánchez, Spain, 34 years old Patricia Rzaca, Poland, 7 meses Wieslaw Rzaca, Poland, 34 years old Antonio Sabalete Sánchez, Spain, 36 years old Sergio Sánchez López, Spain, 17 years old María Isabel Sánchez Mamajón, Spain, 37 years old Juan Antonio Sánchez Quispe, Peru, 45 years old Balbina Sánchez-Dehesa France, Spain, 47 years old David Santamaría García, Spain, 23 years old Sergio dos Santos Silva, Brazil, 28 years old Juan Carlos Sanz Morales, Spain, 33 years old Eduardo Sanz Pérez, Spain, 31 years old Guillermo Senent Pallarola, Spain, 23 years old Miguel Antonio Serrano Lastra, Spain, 28 years old Rafael Serrano López, Spain, 66 years old Paula Mihaela Sfeatcu, Romania, 27 years old Federico Miguel Sierra Serón, Spain, 37 years old Domnino Simón González, Spain, 45 years old María Susana Soler Iniesta, Spain, 46 years old Carlos Soto Arranz, Spain, 34 years old Mariya Ivanova Staykova, Bulgaria, 38 years old Marion Cintia Subervielle, France, 30 years old Alexandru Horatiu Suciu, Romania, 18 years old Danuta Teresa Szpila, Poland, 28 years old José Luis Tenesaca Betancourt, Ecuador, 17 years old Iris Toribio Pascual, Spain, 20 years old Neil Torres Mendoza, Ecuador, 38 years old Carlos Tortosa García, Spain, 31 years old María Teresa Tudanca Hernández, Spain, 49 years old Jesús Utrilla Escribano, Spain, 44 years old José Miguel Valderrama López, Spain, 25 years old Saúl Valdez Ruiz, Honduras, 44 years old Mercedes Vega Mingo, Spain, 45 years old David Vilela Fernández, Spain, 23 years old Juan Ramón Zamora Gutiérrez, Spain, 29 years old Yaroslav Zojniuk, Ukraine, 48 years old Csaba Olimpiu Zsigovski, Romania, 26 years old

Knowledge is being aware that fire can burn; wisdom is remembering the blister

South House Is A Scandal

Gee, I used to think rich people were mostly smart. Now, I am thinking that many are plain old stupid. How else to explain the "dispute" at Rothesay Netherwood School? If wealthy 'persons' can't afford to maintain historic properties, we're doomed as a society. If wealthy persons can't appreciate the value of a unique and original building on a school campus, then society may be entering a new era; the era of stupid rich people. And that won't be good for the future.

Former students of a distinguished private school in New Brunswick hope cooler heads will prevail now that the courts have temporarily prevented the demolition of an historic mansion on the school's property.

A New Brunswick judge will hear arguments Monday concerning two injunctions filed by a group of former students of the Rothesay Netherwood School near Saint John, N.B., who are fighting to save the pre-Confederation mansion, South House, from the wrecker's ball.

The school's graduate rolls read like a list of the who's who in New Brunswick and the dispute has pitted two of the province's biggest tycoons against each other.

J.K. Irving of the billionaire Irving empire is a member of the school's executive that supports the planned demolition, while Derek Oland of Moosehead Breweries is fighting to save the stately mansion.

Kelly Patterson of the South House Restoration Committee, that filed the injunctions earlier this week, said Thursday she hopes the court action will give both sides time to cool off and reach a settlement.

"Hopefully we can buy some time so we can give this some sober second thought," Patterson said in an interview.

Although there are varying construction dates for South House, it is believed to have been built in the 1850s. It is the only original building left on the private school campus and last year it was named one of the 10 most endangered sites in Canada by the Ottawa-based Heritage Canada Foundation.

Drive anywhere in the Maritimes and you will see signs of a prosperous yesteryear. Walk through small towns and villages and you will see buildings that were a testament to the talents and values of Maritimers long gone. Stand in front of any building built before 1900 and you will marvel at the skill, the technical brilliance and the sheer artistic merit of craftsmen that helped shape the culture of the Maritimes. To think that we have progressed so far as a society that some wish to wipe out the memories of the past. It's alarming.

The potential destruction of South House is a crime. It is a crime of ignorance in the age of the technocrat; an intolerance for Canadian values long gone. If South House is left in ruin, it will be the technocrats that preside over the ashes while stupid rich people scatter them.

It is not the honor that you take with you, but the heritage you leave behind.

- Branch Rickey

Hysterical Media Hopelessly Out-To-Lunch

In his classic novel, 1984, George Orwell described a totalitarian society in which the mainstream media, referred to as the Exempted, had almost total control over the people. The supreme ruler of the Exempted was Big Brother. Posters announced that "Big Brother is Watching You". Telescreens droned endlessly with brainwashing propaganda about wondrous media programs. Coins, stamps, books, films, and banners proclaimed the three slogans of the Exempted: War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength.

Got it? Read this:

The Parliamentary Press Gallery is accusing the Prime Minister's Office of impeding the freedom of the press to access decision makers after a decision to move the location for scrums with cabinet ministers.

On Tuesday, reporters were told by Prime Minister Stephen Harper's staff that they would no longer be allowed to hold scrums with cabinet ministers at two microphones in a hallway outside of the cabinet meeting room on the third floor of the Centre Block.

Under the new procedures, ministers could choose to speak to reporters at a microphone a level below in the foyer outside of the Chamber.

However, reporters are suspicious that this could allow cabinet ministers to sneak out of the Centre Block and avoid questions from reporters.

In a letter to Sandra Buckler, the PM's director of communications, Emmanuelle Latraverse, a Radio Canada correspondent and president of the Press Gallery, called the decision "abrupt and arbitrary."

"Switching the location of the availability of ministers would roll back decades of tradition and impede the freedom of the press to have access to our country's top decision makers," Latraverse wrote.

I pity them. All of them. I do.

Big Brother is watching you.

- George Orwell

Easter Eggs And Other Brison Hatchlings

Methinks the Liberals are missing something, and the media is missing details in their newspaper reports.

Wayne Easter, a Solicitor-General in the Chretien government, is now saying the RCMP should look into how that information got out to the media, whether it was politically motivated or if it came from the office of Public Security Minister Stockwell Day.

The RCMP is one of six agencies that reports to Day's department.

"The real issue [coughing hysterically] here now is how could the minister of public security allow either out of his office or the RCMP's offices a leak that could undermine the credibility of a potential leadership contender," Easter said in an interview with PoliticsWatch.com.

The Globe first broke the story on Tuesday, saying it learned of the e-mails and Brison's interview with the RCMP from "sources." However, it is not clear whether or not the sources were from government, the police or outside. [emphasis added]

The real issue is that someone leaked information to their buddies on Bay Street. Detailed information on the e-mail exchange might be helpful. I'm just asking..............

From: Scott Brison
Sent: Nov. 22, 3:38 p.m., 2005
Subject: Test
Hi Dan
How is life? Do you have 's phone number?
Thanks

From:
Sent: Nov. 22, 3:45 p.m., 2005
Hey scott
Things are good, except for the government bringing the equity markets to a standstill. number is

From: Scott Brison
Sent: Nov. 22, 5:53 p.m., 2005
Thanks,
I think you will be happier very soon ... this week probably
Best, S

NOV. 23
Following Mr. Goodale's announcement

From:
Sent: Nov. 23, 8:26 p.m., 2005
Nice work

From: Scott Brison
Sent: Nov. 23, 2005
U happy?

From:
Sent: Nov. 23, 2005, 8:51 p.m.
I can't express my joy properly

Why is that some people have the inside scoop while others that are supposed to be in the know rarely ever have it?

[The Front Page] is still full of peppy banter as it sends its seedy knights after cheap scoops.

- Jay Carr

Fire Unethical Ethics Commissioner

The 'plot' to return the "natural governing" party continues..........

A defiant federal ethics commissioner vowed to stay on the job Tuesday even as Stephen Harper admitted he tried to replace him immediately after he became prime minister.

Bernard Shapiro's decision to investigate Harper's recruitment of former Liberal cabinet minister David Emerson has now escalated into a full-blown face-off between the ethics commissioner and the prime minister.

Harper attempted to recast the confrontation as a constitutional issue rather than an ethical question during a news conference Tuesday. The prime minister said Shapiro has no authority to dictate his cabinet choices.

"The power to make cabinet appointments is a power that resides in the office of the prime minister as the highest democratically elected official in the country,'' Harper said after a cabinet meeting.

"This prime minister has no intention of ceding that jurisdiction in any way, shape or form to any government official.

"I've conveyed that view to the ethics commissioner.''

The Tories, who have promised to appoint the next ethics commissioner after a vote in Parliament, are casting Shapiro as a Liberal partisan appointment.

Harper all but invited Shapiro to resign immediately.

"He's aware of our position. The ball is in his court now,'' Harper said of the former head of Montreal's McGill University.

The Tories are fuming at the decision to investigate Emerson's nomination -- but not examine the floor-crossing of Belinda Stronach to the Liberals. [emphasis added]

Ethics is the 'buzz' word of the secular liberal world. With their rules changing when polls indicate public support for this or that, the liberal oriented class have a problem. Things are only ethical when it suits their political aims and things are unethical when the exempt media engage in hysterical fits of outrage. In the end, there is nothing but confusion. The current "Ethics Commissioner" may be the perfect candidate for a corrupt Liberal establishment propped up by a biased media, but his game does not work when the PM is honest.

It's time to fire Bernard Shapiro. His best days never transpired. In fact, his best day may end up being when he says goodbye.

Let him say goodbye now. Let him go before he embarrasses himself further. Let him walk away knowing that he has muddled the ethics of his day while leaving the corrupt intact. Let him go................

Reading about ethics is about as likely to improve one's behavior as reading about sports is to make one into an athlete.

- Mason Cooley

NDP: Freaks, Fairies and Foreign

Let me travel out on a short limb: Canadians that vote or support the NDP are not terribly bright. They can't be terribly bright because they think a man like Jack Layton is leadership material. In my humble opinion, Jack Layton is a sleazy, cowardly and stupid man. If Canada had a truly free press - that aren't apologists to liberal decadence - then Canadians would know that the war on terror is real, that Islam is corrupt and that Jack Layton is not worthy of Parliament. Instead, our exempt media propagate dishonest social policies that are proven harmful to society and the greater good. And, those very policies are most often endorsed by socialist elements within the NDP.

Let me climb back and tell you that the NDP opt for "cut and run" policies that will harm Canadian security and place this nation firmly in the sights of radical Muslims. In fact, this recent statement by the NDP will kill Canadian soldiers:

In the wake of two fatalities and fresh waves of attacks on Canadian soldiers in Afghanis-tan, NDP leader Jack Layton demanded yesterday a parliamentary vote on Canada's role in the country.

"This is very disturbing to Canadians and it's vitally important that we have, in the House of Commons, a full debate on our mission, its terms, our goals, because that really has yet to happen," Mr. Layton told CTV's Question Period.

Troops are now involved in what is becoming a long, drawn-out conflict and Canadians should be told exactly how long the country's commitment will last, he said.

"We certainly don't want to become involved in a protracted war. The goal of Canadians being in Afghanistan was a more traditional role of peacekeeping, peacemaking that's extended into an ongoing war-like position. It's certainly something I think a lot of Canadians have concerns about and we share those concerns," he said.

He made the comments as troops in Afghanistan struggled to come to terms with a vicious ambush that severely wounded Capt. Trevor Greene, and the flags at the base on Kandahar Air Field were lowered to half-staff after Master Cpl. Timothy Wilson died early yesterday, three days after his LAV-III armoured vehicle smashed into an Afghan taxi and rolled off a busy highway.

I know people that vote or voted NDP. Mostly, their rationale is one of intellectual laziness, selfishness or a serious syndrome known as cognitive dissonance.

I'm no longer a tolerant man. I used to be, but liberals, socialists and Islamic fundamentalists have altered my psyche. These days, you either have my respect or you don't. No, I don't hold black or white views of the world, I hold evil vs good analysis of events. In my opinion, the NDP is evil because they are dishonest. Jack Layton is evil because he is stupid and NDP voters are evil because they are selfish and shortsighted.

The worst thing about a democracy is that it may become hostage to freaks, fairies and foreign interests. In the case of the NDP and Jack Layton, all of the aforementioned descriptions are true. The NDP does not speak for Canadians, they speak soley to the pleasure of freaks, fairies and the foreign.

Jack Layton should resign and his caucus should spend a month in Afghanistan doing 'social' work.

Cowards can never be moral.

- Mahatma Gandhi

Wow! Evidence Of Exempt Media Corruption?

The most 'notable' newspaper that was openly supportive of the Liberal Party during the recent federal election was the Toronto Star, lovingly known as the "Red Star" by millions of Canadians that hold values contrary to the Liberals. And, their CEO now aspires to be leader of the Liberal clan.

[...]An annual meeting of Nova Scotia Liberals in Halifax attracted a half dozen tire-kicking hopefuls while a continent away in Vancouver a meeting of B.C.'s federal Liberal council drew at least three other putative candidates.

With no clear front-runner for a race whose parameters and date won't even be set for another two weeks, more than a dozen individuals are now being floated as potential runners.

The latest names being thrown into the highly speculative mix are Robert Prichard, president and CEO of Torstar Corp., and Liberal MP David McGuinty, brother of Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty.

Isn't that lovely? The Liberals had the support of a senior executive of Bell Globe Media during their negative election campaign and now they may lay claim to another exempt media tycoon; Robert Prichard. Whom will be next? One of the Asper's of CanWest Global?

If Prichard does decide to dictate his leadership aspirations, he only has to call the 46 Toronto area Liberal MPs that owe their election to him. Besides, it's pay back time.

The more I see and hear (and hear and hear and hear) about whom may be running for the Liberals, the more I want to wash.

Whoever controls the media, controls the mind.

- Jim Morrison

"Archaic, Brutal and Cruel"

Movie stars, rock stars, models and the MTV crowd bore me to tears. In fact, they annoy me to tears too. I'm crying right now.

Some supporters of Canada's annual harp seal hunt grudgingly acknowledge that Paul McCartney's global reach as a megastar could spell trouble for the hunt's future.

Pictures of McCartney and his wife, Heather, frolicking with doe-eyed seal pups on ice floes in the Gulf of St. Lawrence flashed around the world this week. The couple's strong anti-hunt message received an even bigger boost late Friday when they appeared on CNN's Larry King Live for a sometimes heated debate with Newfoundland Premier Danny Williams.

McCartney told King he'd like to see an international ban on the use of seal skins.

"These pups haven't even had a swim yet," the former Beatle told the CNN host during a satellite feed from a Charlottetown hotel.

"They're totally reliant on their mothers. They're helpless."

Video of seals being clubbed to death during past hunts was shown several times during the hour-long show.

Heather Mills McCartney called the 500-year-old practice "archaic, brutal and cruel," a characterization disputed by Williams.

What is making me cry is the senseless archaic, brutal and cruel irony that allows well heeled celebrities to strut around the world sharing simplistic emotional opinions while real humans suffer unspeakable horrors. Those human beings are subjected to an archaic, brutal and cruel end to their short lives through a celebrity endorsed system called abortion.

When I hear celebrities like Sir *cough* Paul espousing his opinions, I wonder why I never hear his 'type' fight against the senseless slaughter of humans by Muslims throughout the world and by abortion doctors in every community in the western world?

Sniff...................

I think celebrities suck.

- Eddie Vedder

Red Herrings Go To Trial While Liberals Play Coy

It's an amazing fact of life that criminal activity is hard to stop. It is also a fact that most criminal activity goes undetected. So, while members of the Liberal party feed the exempt media establishment with news of another shallow candidate seeking the party leadership, not one member of the Liberal Party has been charged with stealing money from the federal treasury. And, if the truth be told, most 'liberal' voters don't care.

Advertising executive Jean Brault made a surprise guilty plea on five of six fraud-related charges in the federal sponsorship scandal during a routine court appearance on Thursday.

Brault is the former president of the Montreal firm Groupaction. His sensational testimony at the federal inquiry into the scandal included revelations that he funnelled at least $1.1 million into the Quebec wing of the Liberal party in exchange for sponsorship contracts. Brault testified about cash being left in envelopes on restaurant tables and reluctant contributions bullied out of intimidated employees.

"I acknowledge that I did something that was contrary to the law and against society's interest," he told Quebec Superior Court Justice Fraser Martin.

Also at Thursday's hearing, Chuck Guite, the federal bureaucrat who ran the sponsorship program, announced he would act as his own lawyer when his trial begins on May 1 due to financial constraints.

Sentencing arguments for Brault will begin on March 27 while the one remaining charge of conspiracy will be dealt with at a later date.

Each fraud count carries a maximum sentence of 10 years.

The guilt or innocence of Chuck Guite and Jean Brault are not important. In my opinion, both men are not the issue. The issue is who in the Liberal Party of Canada - at the senior party level- was involved in ensuring that kickbacks were paid to the Liberal Party by business friends of the party. Let us not forget that the Liberal Party paid back $1.4 million after Gomery issued his first report. $40 million is still missing. Over $300 million was misspent on adscam. Liberal Party corruption may have cost Canadian taxpayers billions.

So, while the exempt media enjoy the spin of Guite and Brault, this blogger ain't interested because the real crooks and thieves are sipping expensive wine while leaking beneficial information to their friends on a range of topics that only benefit the Liberal Party of Canada.

When a senior Liberal or former Cabinet Minister is charged with conspiracy to commit fraud, or when one or two of those annoying Liberal insiders are found dead from suicide, I'll pay attention. In the meantime, I'll watch Stephen Harper as he plots to kill the Liberal Party for good.

I have seen stronger plots than this in a cemetery.

- Stewart Klein

Free Robert Latimer

First things first. The timing of Robert Latimer's plea for a new trial and freedom from jail is interesting. The new Harper government has promised tougher sentencing laws that many in the 'liberal' establishment are against - or ridicule. And like clockwork, the exempt media is always ready to introduce a series of heart wrenching stories that support the liberal side of any issue. To hear the name Robert Latimer and sentencing so soon after the election of the Harper government is interesting timing, to say the least.

CP: Robert Latimer hopes a new federal government and a new judge on the Supreme Court will give him the clarity he is seeking regarding his conviction for killing his severely disabled daughter.

In a phone interview with The Canadian Press from a minimum-security prison in Victoria, the farmer from Wilkie, Sask., said he's baffled by how the high court could unanimously conclude he had other medical options for easing 12-year-old Tracy's pain. He said he's written to the court several times asking what those are, but has received nothing back.

"New judge, new justice minister," Latimer said Wednesday. "The new government says there is going to be accountability so here we go, let's have some."

Latimer has never wavered in his belief that his actions were justified and is convinced that, if he were given a third trial, another jury would find him innocent.
"What I did was the right thing and I think a decent jury can understand that," he said.

But, if the exempt media think allowing criminals that commit ongoing acts of crime against society are comparable to Robert Latimer, they are wrong. If anything, the Latimer story is a classic example of the hypocrisy of sentencing guidelines in Canada. Latimer's jury didn't want to send him to prison for anything longer than a year. That same jury were shocked afterwards when their recommendations were completely ignored and a mandatory sentence was given to Latimer. The jury members were outraged and shocked - and so was Mr Latimer.

Media hypocrisy ain't something new. Several weeks ago, a Montreal 'female' was given probation for assisting in her son's suicide.

CTV: A Montreal woman who pleaded guilty to helping her playwright son kill himself was today sentenced to three years probation.

Marielle Houle, 60, pleaded guilty on Monday to assisting Charles Fariala to commit suicide in 2004.

Fariala, 36, was suffering from the degenerative disease multiple sclerosis.

Houle's lawyer, Salvatore Mascia, described her crime as an act of unconditional love for her son and asked that she serve a suspended sentence, given her fragile physical, mental and emotional health.

The Crown left sentencing up to the judge, saying that although Houle seemingly committed her crime out of compassion, Canada is not a society that tolerates euthanasia.

Assisting a suicide is a crime punishable by up to 14 years behind bars.

The difference between the two sentences may be attributed to the following facts: She is an old woman and the 'victim' was a man while Latimer was a man and the victim was a child. There was no mass media outrage at the Montreal woman's sentence while Latimer was served up with a hysterical media roasting.

Robert Latimer should be freed. The jury that decided his fate wanted him to be punished but they also wanted his punishment to be fair. In the end it was not fair; to Latimer or to the jury that heard the evidence.

Prime Minister Harper was asked about the Latimer case in a press briefing on Wednesday. Not surprising, Harper said, "This is a criminal justice matter and obviously, in the normal course of events, governments don't interfere in the prosecution or in sentencing in criminal justice cases." True enough. But when the Conservative government makes changes to sentencing guidelines, I also hope that they make changes that give juries more power. After all, if there are sensitive or unique issues surrounding a crime, it is far better that a group of citizens called to jury duty make that decision rather than a judge - who may or may not be a liberal.

Robert Latimer has served more time than what his trial jury recommended. Free Robert Latimer.

Only Lawyers and mental defectives are automatically exempt for jury duty.

- George Bernard Shaw

Addiction By Design?

It's becoming a bigger problem by the day. Instead of cocaine and marijuana, the drugs of choice for many Maritimers are provided by prescription. Prescription painkillers, oxycontin and dilaudid, are the two popular tricks to becoming high. And, medical doctors are the dealers.

Fredericton police say 85 per cent of crimes committed in the city are connected to drug abuse and they want the public's help to change that.

The force is working with the medical community to shut down the prescription drug trade, and has opened a telephone hotline to receive tips from the public.

Cpl. Matt Myers says any information is welcome. "Do they see suspicious activity? Do they know who's selling drugs? A lot of times people think 'Well, I'm not gonna call police because they know everything that's going on.' Well, let me tell you folks, we do not have a crystal ball. We need your support."

Myers says most break and enters, robberies and violent crimes in Fredericton can be traced to cocaine and prescription painkillers such as oxycontin and dilaudid.

Organized crime networks are importing the cocaine from Central America, but the sources of prescription drugs are tough to track.

Myers says most of the pills are coming from legitimate pharmacies, with prescriptions written by city doctors. He says users are often people who started out with real injuries – but are now simply addicts looking for a fix.

"People are going to nine or 10 doctors to get vast quantites of these prescriptions," he said. "Also what we see, if you can believe this one, is people will tell their peers what kind of symptoms to tell their doctor they're suffering from in order to convince the doctor that they're suffering from some sort of legitimate injury." [emphasis added]

There is a story within a story. Obviously the doctors are either stupid, or they are actively involved in criminal activity. Who are these doctors? That's the first step.

You can't tell how deep a puddle is until you step into it.