Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Supreme Court Serves Up Non-Sense - Long Live Cannedada

How did we ever manage to built a great country before the Charter of Rights? Once upon a time, Canada was a nation, a nation that didn't need to harbor drug dealers, potheads, terrorists or stupidity. But, that Canada is long gone - Cannedada is the future! We have a weak Supreme Court to thank for that.

I've waited several days before commenting on the Supreme Court of Canada's insanely stupid decision to restrict the activities of "sniffer" dogs while, again, hampering the 'legitimate' work of police officers and school officials. Unreal, lame, dumb and dumber are the words that first came to mind when I read of their 6-3 court ruling. But, their decision is not surprising considering that most of the appointees to the Supreme Court by previous 'liberal' administrations were not worthy appointees in the first place. Many of the justices were controversial appointees in the first place because they lacked the skills to be solid jurists. Their appointments were made to appease those that believe, amongst other things, that a bitch ain't a dog if it holds a law degree. Be that as it may, the bitch still bites.

To make matters worse, the Supreme Court is staffed by many law clerks who are using their inside status to spread weasel thinking, stupidity and groupthink. Remember same-sex marriage? From a column by Douglas Fisher:
"On the first issue, my theory is that to a remarkable degree, same-sex marriage was an "inside job" carried out within the federal Department of Justice, among the law clerks of Canada’s courts, and lawyers (largely women) in tune with the aims of gay organizations such as EGALE Canada. When the time came for crucial decisions supporting same-sex marriage, the senior courts were ready. "
Ed: emphasis added


Here are a few thoughts that echo legitimate concerns of the lack of "wisdom" from our Supreme Court.

Calgary Herald:
Forget math and English texts -- lockers are for drugs

Hey kids, guess what? Now you can keep drugs in your locker at school and nobody can stop you. Not the police, the teachers, or mom and dad. It's all thanks to the Supreme Court, that august body that hands down weighty -- and hopefully wise -- decisions.

The court's recent ruling ordering drug-sniffing dogs to keep their noses out of school lockers was certainly weighty, but it wasn't wise. [...]

read the rest
National Post:
Strange Justice The sniffer dog, in other words, is more like an X-ray machine peering into your private space

On Friday the Supreme Court of Canada delivered its first-ever jurisprudence on the relationship between police sniffer dogs and section 8 of the Charter of Rights, which guarantees the citizen against unreasonable police searches. Unfortunately, it did not deliver anything resembling a clear doctrine that police will be able to use in their day-to-day work, beyond establishing a couple of broad principles: that a sniff of a backpack or container is generally to be considered a "search" for section-8 purposes, and that completely random canine fishing expeditions probably will not pass Charter muster unless they are performed in places like airports, where visitors are made aware in advance that they enjoy a low expectation of privacy.

[...]

read the rest
Toronto Sun:
Sniffing out stupidity

Some elements of society will rejoice that the Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that sniffer dogs detecting drugs in some cases constitutes a violation of the privacy.

In a couple of landmark cases, the court has ruled (or seems to have ruled) that a sniffer dog detecting drugs in someone's luggage is an invasion of privacy and violates a citizen's right not to be subjected to an unreasonable police search.

In other words, a sniffer dog detecting drugs can be similar to a search without a warrant.

That strikes most of us as odd. No argument that the cops shouldn't conduct searches on the basis of no evidence, or for no reason other than prejudice or hunches. But a dog ...?

How about airline passengers having bags routinely X-rayed? Isn't that a bit like sniffer dogs looking for contraband?

[...]

read the rest
It doesn't take much thinking to conclude that there is something seriously wrong within the Supreme Court. Perhaps they have hired one too many activists and forgotten that wisdom cannot be obtained by hiring and promoting the unwise. But, then again, hiring and promoting the unwise has been the mantra of liberalism for years.

rufff.......

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Sunday, April 27, 2008

More Ice-Age Reality

Yesterday on CBC radio Quirks & Quarks I listened to the 'latest' fear popstars of global warming/climate change. The book hucksters, Sir David King and Dr. Gabrielle Walker, sounded entirely convinced that the earth as we know it is going to end because of global warming/climate change/capitalism/USA/anyone conservative. It was interesting that Dr. Gabrielle Walker stated with certainty that the recent election of a left-wing government in Australia was a result of Australian concerns over global warming. God help us all.

I hope the same people freeze to death reading this [The Australian - Phil Chapman - April 23, 2008]:

[...]

Disconcerting as it may be to true believers in global warming, the average temperature on Earth has remained steady or slowly declined during the past decade, despite the continued increase in the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide, and now the global temperature is falling precipitously.

All four agencies that track Earth's temperature (the Hadley Climate Research Unit in Britain, the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York, the Christy group at the University of Alabama, and Remote Sensing Systems Inc in California) report that it cooled by about 0.7C in 2007. This is the fastest temperature change in the instrumental record and it puts us back where we were in 1930. If the temperature does not soon recover, we will have to conclude that global warming is over.

There is also plenty of anecdotal evidence that 2007 was exceptionally cold. It snowed in Baghdad for the first time in centuries, the winter in China was simply terrible and the extent of Antarctic sea ice in the austral winter was the greatest on record since James Cook discovered the place in 1770.

It is generally not possible to draw conclusions about climatic trends from events in a single year, so I would normally dismiss this cold snap as transient, pending what happens in the next few years.

This is where SOHO comes in. The sunspot number follows a cycle of somewhat variable length, averaging 11 years. The most recent minimum was in March last year. The new cycle, No.24, was supposed to start soon after that, with a gradual build-up in sunspot numbers.

It didn't happen. The first sunspot appeared in January this year and lasted only two days. A tiny spot appeared last Monday but vanished within 24 hours. Another little spot appeared this Monday. Pray that there will be many more, and soon.

The reason this matters is that there is a close correlation between variations in the sunspot cycle and Earth's climate. The previous time a cycle was delayed like this was in the Dalton Minimum, an especially cold period that lasted several decades from 1790.

Northern winters became ferocious: in particular, the rout of Napoleon's Grand Army during the retreat from Moscow in 1812 was at least partly due to the lack of sunspots.

That the rapid temperature decline in 2007 coincided with the failure of cycle No.24 to begin on schedule is not proof of a causal connection but it is cause for concern.

It is time to put aside the global warming dogma, at least to begin contingency planning about what to do if we are moving into another little ice age, similar to the one that lasted from 1100 to 1850.

There is no doubt that the next little ice age would be much worse than the previous one and much more harmful than anything warming may do. There are many more people now and we have become dependent on a few temperate agricultural areas, especially in the US and Canada. Global warming would increase agricultural output, but global cooling will decrease it.

Millions will starve if we do nothing to prepare for it (such as planning changes in agriculture to compensate), and millions more will die from cold-related diseases.
[...]

All those urging action to curb global warming need to take off the blinkers and give some thought to what we should do if we are facing global cooling instead.

It will be difficult for people to face the truth when their reputations, careers, government grants or hopes for social change depend on global warming, but the fate of civilisation may be at stake.

[...]

Wouldn't it be 'nice' to have Phil Chapman (is a geophysicist and astronautical engineer. He was the first Australian to become a NASA astronaut) on Quirks and Quraks at the same time as the gloomy global warming mystics?

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Saturday, April 26, 2008

"Mounties to intensify scrutiny of possible [Liberal Party] corruption, influence peddling"

The legacy of Liberal Party corruption is real. Lest we forget.

GlobeandMail:
[...]
The RCMP and the Sûreté du Québec have recommended to Crown prosecutors that a final set of charges be laid in the advertising phase of the probe, against people who worked for at least two companies involved in the sponsorship program, sources said.
[...]
Having focused on issues of fraud since 2002, the Mounties sent a clear message last week they are now looking at allegations of influence peddling, laying charges against former federal Liberal official Benoît Corbeil.

Sources said the RCMP is hoping to go higher up the Liberal hierarchy than Mr. Corbeil, the former director-general of the Liberal Party's Quebec wing, who is accused of taking a bribe from a businessman and defrauding the party.
[....]
The police started their probe into the sponsorship scandal six years ago by looking at the advertising firms that received millions of dollars in fraudulent sponsorship contracts. The second phase of the police probe involves political officials alleged to have received kickbacks from those firms.
[...]

The RCMP is currently probing the activities of former Liberal organizer Jacques Corriveau, whose residence was searched last year by the police force's proceeds of crime unit. Mr. Corriveau, who received $10-million in subcontracts from recipients of sponsorship funds, was described in the final report of the inquiry as "a central figure in an elaborate kickback scheme."

Last week, the RCMP alleged that Mr. Corbeil received $50,000 in bribes from a businessman who wanted to buy federal land to expand his quarry, and approved $100,000 in fake invoices at Liberal offices in Montreal.

The charges were not related to the sponsorship program, but they pointed to the existence of corruption in the Liberal Party in the second half of the 1990s and early 2000s. According to the RCMP, Mr. Corbeil conspired with two other Liberal organizers.

[...]

ED: Emphasis added

h/t: Jacks Newswatch

Liberals...........tried, true and corrupted.

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Friday, April 25, 2008

Elections Canada Sold Out Years Ago

Anyone paying close attention knows that the federal Liberals went way beyond the norm when they financed their 1997 and 2000 election campaigns. In fact, the Gomery investigation into the former "sponsorship program" revealed a litany of spending irregularities, to say the least. Suitcases of cash were spread and shared among Liberal candidates in the aforementioned elections. Corruption became the norm for Liberals. And, where was Elections Canada? Silent!

CTV: Key quote
"Gomery characterizes Chretien as the architect of the program and his chief of staff, Jean Pelletier, as the man who implemented it."

So, it is a tad bit rich for Liberal MP Marlene Jennings and New Brunswick's leftover brain drain Liberal MP Dominique Leblanc to squawk about their past deeds.

Elections Canada has created a HUGE problem for itself. By creating a media circus [CAUTION: link may contain liberal bias] when they "raided" Conservative party headquarters with Liberal staffers and national media filming the entire event, Elections Canada has opened itself up to perceptions of bias and corruption. How else can anyone at Elections Canada explain the synchronicity between their supposed Toronto obtained warrant and the giddy cheerleading of Liberal and national media? They can't, lest they expose themselves further to charges of bias, interference and corruption. Elections Canada may have shot themselves in the foot. By appearing to 'select' the Conservatives for special treatment, Elections Canada may discover that they themselves will pay the ultimate price.

There are several bigger issues at stake for Elections Canada. Licia Corbella of the Calgary Herald may have hit the proverbial nail on the head - 'Chief interpreter' can't even interpret election ad laws.

Read it all and remember her examples when you call a government department seeking answers to questions.

Calgary Herald:

The controversy over election advertising that erupted after Elections Canada raided Conservative Party headquarters last week made me recall the incoherent run-ins I had with that independent government body.

In the weeks prior to the June 28, 2004 election that returned Paul Martin to 24 Sussex Drive with a minority government, I called Elections Canada pretending that I wanted to place a so-called "third-party" election ad in a Calgary newspaper.

I had read the Canada Elections Act, but had troubles figuring out what was legal or illegal, since the law is about as clear as the edge of town.

[...]

So, I called up Elections Canada and said I had been quoted a price of $11,000 for a newspaper ad. While there was a spending limit of about $3,000 per riding per ad, since the paper is distributed over numerous ridings I asked if spending that much of my own money on an advertisement was OK?

The first three agents at Elections Canada's head office in Ottawa had never even heard about the advertising law and told me to call a 1-800 number.

When asked if it would be legal for me to pay for such an ad, one agent said: "Sounds fine with me. It's your money. You should be able to do whatever you want with it."

I agreed with her wholeheartedly. "So is that your answer?" I asked. "This is kind of important. After all, if I interpret this wrong, I could go to jail and get a criminal record."

That stumped her. Eventually, after being put on hold and speaking to close to one dozen Elections Canada staff members, most of whom didn't even know about the law, I was put through to a polite Elections Canada lawyer, who after a long conversation told me that he couldn't give me legal advice, just "legal information." His advice, or "information"? To hire a lawyer to figure it out. I'm not making this up!

[...]

In October 2000, Canada's then Chief Electoral Officer, Jean-Pierre Kingsley, told Calgary Court of Queen's Bench Justice Robert Cairns that he "volunteered" to be a "friend of the court" as he fought to limit Canadians' Charter Rights to freedom of expression during elections that was being challenged as unconstitutional by Stephen Harper, who was then the president of the National Citizens' Coalition.

[...]

But when he was asked to interpret various scenarios -- like the one I presented to Elections Canada officials during the 2004 federal election -- he was unable or unwilling to interpret the law he says he helped frame and of which he was the self-described chief interpreter and enforcer.

As I wrote at the time, watching Kingsley being cross-examined was like watching the curtain being pulled back on the Wizard of Oz. He became a shrivelled shadow of the confident "expert" he presented himself as that morning, just by being asked to interpret his own law. It was excruciatingly embarrassing to watch. And yet, Kingsley expected regular citizens to interpret that law properly or potentially go to jail.

[...]

[...] If the Tories sought clarity on election advertising from Elections Canada, like I did and the court did, they very likely got conflicting information, ambiguous information, no information or some "legal information" to call a lawyer.

The New Democrats did virtually the same thing as the Tories during that election campaign -- that is, they used national party funds to run national ads with just a local tagline at the end of the ad promoting the local candidate.

But Elections Canada hasn't raided the NDP's headquarters or the Liberals, who have engaged in the same practice in the past.

Just the Tories.

Pull back the curtain on this "scandal" and what it looks like is Elections Canada's seizure of Conservative party documents and property is little more than a vendetta against an old foe.

That, and a very unclear law that even its "chief interpreter" can't interpret.

Let's have the election the Liberals dread and have it now so that a majority Conservative government can further the clean up of Liberal and corrupt Ottawa. I've had it with corrupt liberals, socialists and Blocheads.

Oh, and I bet no one in Atlantic Canada will ever read Licia's comments in our local media. No wonder Maritimers lead the country in their fear of global warming.....bias works down here.

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Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Protecting Seniors or Incompetence?

Give a liberal some power and every response to a question or crisis causes them to recite their favorite mantras: we're protecting our seniors, our children, our health care system, our environment, and our asses.

TelegraphJournal:
FREDERICTON - The provincial government had no choice but to bail out a pension plan for nursing home workers, or risk total collapse of the nursing home system, said Finance Minister Victor Boudreau Tuesday.
[...]

Even the auditor general's office called the circumstances "strange" and hinted at a probe of the arrangement.

The situation involves government spending $21.4 million to top up a pension fund for nursing home workers.

The Liberals have refused to fully explain the decision, citing restrictions under the Pension Benefits Act.

But Boudreau told reporters Tuesday that government had little choice.

"Nursing homes would either have had to declare bankruptcy and close their doors, or the nursing home administrations were going to have to collapse pension benefits to all their employees," he said.

"We felt we had to step in to protect our seniors."

[...]

Provincial nursing homes have three pension plans that cover 6,000 employees. One of those plans is now under-funded by $17.8 million, according to the nursing home association.

The province has set aside $10.6 million in initial bail out funding, with 14 annual payments of $770,000 to follow.

The Association blames the fiscal shortfall on poor financial markets and lagging contributions from the individual nursing homes.

ED: Emphasis added
Poor financial markets? Please, unless the TSE has collapsed over the past few years (which it hasn't), that ain't true. Lagging contributions? Hmmm, does that mean that the 'people' hired to do a specific job or the 'people' consulted to manage the pension plans were all incompetent?

I smell incompetence. I detect a cover up worthy of a RCMP raid. *cough*

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Tuesday, April 22, 2008

We're Sorry, Privacy Laws Dictate Silence

Give me a P, p, give me a R, r, give me an I, i, give me V,v, give me an A, a, give me a C, c, give me a y, WHY?

Telegraph Journal:

The Liberal government refuses to explain how $21.4 million in taxpayers' money will be used to bail out a pension fund for nursing home workers.

The province set aside $10.6 million in supplemental spending for 2007-08 that was released in March to subsidize the pension plan, and committed to 14 subsequent annual payments of $770,000.

It could be the first time the government has given money to a private pension plan, but it will not provide any details, citing the Pension Benefits Act.

"All information collected by, submitted to or filed with the Superintendent (of Pensions) regarding a pension plan is confidential and is not subject to disclosure under the Right to Information Act," the act states.

According to the act, the public has no right to information about a private pension plan, regardless of public money being used to fund it.

"There is not much the government can say about this topic since the information you are looking for is tied to a private pension plan," Vicky Deschenes, a spokeswoman for the Department of Finance, wrote in an e-mail. "Under the Pension Benefits Act, we cannot provide any details regarding any private pension plans in the province of New Brunswick."

[...]
Privacy laws, my ass. If government can spend public monies to subsidize, stabilize or support a private pension plan, then there is something very scary going on - VERY scary.

Ok, maybe not scary, how about odd?

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Monday, April 21, 2008

10,000 Zombie Wannabes

Pot smokers are a joke. They are so dopey that they use Hitler's birthday (4/20) to celebrate their inability to deal with life without their spiritual toke. Yep, those dope smokers are the way; spaced out, high and in complete denial. Some tend towards insanity, psychosis and schizophrenia, while others tend towards suicide.

DailyCamera.com:

"Nine, eight, seven ..."

A crowd of about 10,000 people collectively began counting down on the University of Colorado's Norlin Quadrangle just before 4:20 p.m. Sunday.

Yet the massive puff of pot smoke that hovers over CU's Boulder campus every April 20 -- the date of an annual, internationally recognized celebration of marijuana -- began rising over the sea of heads earlier than normal this year.

"Oh forget it," one student said, aborting the countdown to 4:20 p.m. and lighting his pipe early. He closed his eyes, taking a deep, long drag.

"Sweet."

Not all of the attendees were so shallow. While the pampered toked up, one young man used the event to point out real issues:

Although CU junior Max Lichtenstein, 21, isn’t into marijuana or smoking, he also felt Sunday’s event was a chance to do something “bigger” than himself. He passed out 126 Rice Krispies treats with messages attached asking that they act out against the injustices in Darfur.

“Tomorrow, when you’re sober ... call the White House at 202-456-1414,” the note read.

“I just like being generous and doing nice things,” he said. “I’m like a good Samaritan.”

Yeah, like that is going to happen. Potheads are only activists when the issue is weed, like, you know, medical marijuana and like, freedom to toke, like, peace, like, weed, like, dope, like, zombie, like, stupid, like, brain dead, like zero.

I went for a walk twice and to church once on Sunday. I visited a friend. My mind was free, my thoughts were my own. I didn't get high, I was level. I was happy.

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Friday, April 18, 2008

Wanted: More Job Losses @ Torstar

Losing your job is a good thing; it helps lead you to more awareness, insight and knowledge. The folks that run Canada's leading liberal newspaper desperately need the time off.

OttawaCitizen:
Torstar Corp said on Thursday it will cut about 160 jobs in its newspaper division as the book and newspaper publisher copes with a declining newspaper market.
[...]

Torstar's decision comes during a difficult environment for newspapers as many readers turn to the Internet and away from print publications.

The company said the reductions will include a combination of voluntary and involuntary staff reductions, which come amid an uncertain economic environment and a possible recession in the United States that threatens to spill over into Canada. [...]

ED: emphasis added
There is a reason why many readers are turned off by newspapers; most have become mouthpieces for special interests, liberal decadence and conspiratorial garbage spread by potheads.

After reading this stunningly lame editorial, I'm hoping Torstar is sold to Rupert Murdock. Maybe then, the sissies might have to think or write intelligently.

Closing sentence of lame editorial (warning- please stick your fingers down your throat):
Common sense dictates that Canada's national police force should represent the population it serves. Tahmourpour's case is a timely reminder that the RCMP needs to do better.

ED: emphasis added
My gosh groupthink is embarrassing. I only hope the RCMP doesn't fall further under the gaze of the sociology freaks who advocate a form of percentage hiring (one percent black, two percent drunk, three percent fags, four percent freaks, five percent potheads, six percent stupid, seven percent pagan, eight percent atheists, nine percent cruel and ten percent dumb).

Oh, and, if only Torstar did better at their jobs, there would be NO need for layoffs. I look forward to more job losses at Torstar. Maybe then, reality will bite them in the ass.

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Thursday, April 17, 2008

OH, OH Losers Can Become Mounties?

The more I hear about the Canadian Human Rights Commission the more I want to spit.

Toronto Star: (WARNING: link may contain stupidity)
[...]

But while he [Ali Tahmourpour] was attempting to learn the ropes at a training academy in Regina known as Depot, he suffered verbal abuse and discrimination, was unfairly evaluated and singled out because of his Muslim beliefs. After several weeks, the RCMP terminated his training.

Yesterday, The Canadian Human Rights Tribunal ruled in Tahmourpour's favour, accepting the 35-year-old's claims and awarding him what his lawyer estimates will total between $500,000 and $650,000 in back pay.

"The RCMP's discriminatory conduct denied Mr. Tahmourpour the opportunity to complete training and to make his living as an RCMP officer," the ruling stated.

The decision also included an order for the RCMP to allow Tahmourpour to return to the cadet training he began in 1999 and pursue his dream.

[...]
I don't know where to begin, but I will state the obvious - how did anyone know Ali's beliefs? If he shared his beliefs with others, did those beliefs include support for Sharia Law, terrorism and Osama Bin Laden? I don't believe for one minute that anyone within the RCMP singled him out because of his beliefs, I do believe he may have been singled out because he was incompetent. The more I follow and hear the complaints of some Muslims, the more I think the majority of Canadians may be catching on - too many people are in Canada with an agenda that is inconsistent with the founding values of the country.

The Human Rights Commission may make newsworthy decisions that please a small minority of freaks, faggots and foreigners, but many of those decisions are making the majority of Canadians think twice about whether we need a HRC in the first place. Mark my word, one day some people may find themselves running for their lives. After all, you can spit in the eye of the beholder for so long before the eye spits back.

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Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Adding Insult To Injury - Supreme Court Groupthink

Pity the boys and girls who dream of growing up and becoming a Mountie. Pity those same who dream of living in or working near their home town - 'being' in New Brunswick, it ain't ever going to happen.

Pity too all of those capable, creative and innovative New Brunswickers who have fled the province in droves, seeking work, respect and the innate human desire to rise in the ranks - 'being' in New Brunswick, it ain't ever going to happen.

The Supreme Court of Canada has filed the final pink slip for them all. Their latest decision should have been titled - Go West. But, no one gives a rat's ass about English speaking New Brunswickers. Any of the dreams or aspiration of the unilingual English speaking New Brunswicker is not worthy of discussion; their birth is their own weakness. If only those same "blokes" bothered to learn French, their fate would be different. But, many English speaking New Brunswick parents believed the bilingual rhetoric, enrolling their kids in French immersion only to learn that their kids would leave the public school system incompetent in French and in English. Changes are in the works - again. This time the changes to the education system are supposed to address the systematic failure of French instruction. English speaking parents have to have confidence in their overloads - place the next generation of English-speaking children in the hands of those known incompetent French language instructors. 'Being' in this place is like being on hold.

I speak French and enjoy every chance to practice the language. I had been tested by an overtly bored public servant and given my 'certificate of language competence.' I'm good, but like all English-speaking New Brunswickers, not quite advanced enough. I speak better French than the Premier, but I am a nobody.

While the New Brunswick government grapples with the rage over the failure of French immersion, the same government is searching the world over for French speaking immigrants who will produce enough babies to keep the 'French' reality in New Brunswick. I see the future - Tunisian Acadians united to enshrine Sharia law in New Brunswick.

In the meantime, I welcome one Supreme Court decision - the resignation of the Justice Michel Bastarache. His appointment by former Prime Minister Jean Chretien was an insult to all Maritimers and proof that a good French-speaking New Brunswicker is someone from Quebec. His last decision was symbolic - he placed a nail firmly in the back of all competent English-speaking New Brunswickers, twisted it while chanting Go West.

While the New Brunswick government searches for intelligence in the province's French language instruction, it is out west where they are being directed for ideas. Ironic indeed.

Oh, will the radicals in 'Acadia' be satsified? Nope, read this.....Telegraph Journal:

A Supreme Court ruling that everyone in New Brunswick has the right to
RCMP service in French or English opens the province's Official Languages Act to challenges, experts say.

Canada's top court ruled Friday in the case of French-speaking Marie-Claire Paulin, who received a speeding ticket from an English-speaking officer a decade ago.

Because the ruling was based on the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, it could supersede the New Brunswick act's allowance for "reasonable" delay in providing service, said Moncton lawyer Christian Michaud.

"If you have two official languages equal in rights and status (under the Charter), is it reasonable for people to have to wait and not get the same level of service as if they would be speaking the other language?" asked Michaud, a partner with Cox Palmer.

He said that could raise legal challenges to the act, which was revised in 2002.

"The Charter takes precedence," said Michaud.

"This elevates the expectation to the highest level possible and there may be need for legislators to review the act."

Michaud also said unilingual Mounties may have trouble if they don't acquire second-language skills to make an "active offer" of service in either tongue.

"I don't know if you'd be able to operate.

[...]

One day, common sense may become the shrill of the majority. In the meantime, racism will stand as the official policy of the New Brunswick government: French good - English bad.

BTW, Marie-Claire Paulin - you were speeding bitch! I guess some laws are not enforceable if the cop ain't right.

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Friday, April 11, 2008

A Pagan Prayer for Liberals

Of all the idiocy that defines modern politics, this 'important' issue is making its way through the Ontario legislature. Yep, we are no longer beholden to our heritage, nor are we beholden to anything that resembles Canada. Yes, the past is all bad and the present is a stop along the way to the future. Hold dear to nothing and nothing will stand in the way......of nothingness......

Pagan Prayer for Liberals

We lift our eyes
and gaze upon the stars,
the sun and the moon.

We ask our creator to
cleanse our blood, heal our wounds
and repair our earth.

We offer our creator a
sacrifice as a tokin' of our
resolve.

We pray our words have meaning,
our deeds are worthy, and
our thoughts are good.

We apologize for the past
and the present. We offer
our words as a testament
to our current love for each other,
our earth, all wild beasts,
plants and trees.

Help us seek new truth, help us
know and use new words that
inspire, lead and bring peace,
proportion and pleasure.

Abort the fetus.


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Saturday, April 05, 2008

The Sorry Fascists

I had to read it several times before I laughed out load at the full and complete idiocy of the majority of writers, faux journalists and media raccoons who eke out a living producing slush puppy news. It is unbelievable that anyone, anywhere could think that any comment - especially one made almost 2 decades ago - is worthy of the exposure that MP Tom Lukiwski received.

Calling anyone a faggot if they are a faggot is ok with me. In fact, it's high high we started more name calling, not less. If someone wishes (chooses) to be offended, so be it. Let them cry a river of crocodile tears. I don't give a damn.

It seems to me that far too many people must live insecure lives; they are so insecure that monitors on conversation have to be placed upon society so as to not offend the poor, suckling freaks. They should go see a damn shrink - preferably the non faggot variety - if they can't handle the conversation traffic. I've had enough of the long list of aggrieved sissies who live intemperate and immoral lives who are always deeply offended by someone, something or some event. Enough!

As for mister offender: get a damn backbone and tell the faggots to go smoke a rope. After all, the majority of Canadians would probably rise up and cheer at the fresh rebuttal.

BTW, I am deeply offended - and I will get over it - by the non-stop hatred, bias and idiocy that define modern media. Robert Fife is an idiot and a typical example of why I don't give a rat's ass about faggotgate.

h/t smalldeadanimals.com







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