Soviet Story

Film Maker Edvins Snore Chairman of TTL Alide Forstmanis



I attended the Toronto premiere of Soviet Story. It was partly sponsored by my friends at Tribute to Liberty. I got to meet the film maker Edvins Snore. There were well over 400 people in attendance. Many in the attendance knew first hand of the horrors of communism. The film was amazing. It should be seen by everyone. It goes throught the evils of soviet communism. It emphasizes how nazism is just another form of communism. Early on this was how hitler advertized his parrty, but it was not popular so he changed the advertising , but not the system. The very close relationship between hitler and stalin is also explored. There is a lot more eye opening stuff of hoe the left embraced genocidal communism including footage of Bernard Shaw spouting off about annihilating certain people. You must see this movie, not least because is moving back in this direction.
The audience gave the movie a standing ovation. The film maker took questions. I started off the questions by asking abour Western collabarators like Trudeau who made pals with these viscious killers.
I am going to try and get this movie shown in other cities. It should be shown in our schools and universities. It would also explain to people how the chicken litlles work.

Edvins Score was on Glenn Beck . Beck understands this evil.

What has danny accomplished...

by his war against his federal Tory cousins. Really not very much. His province is not really represented in cabinet. He has elected grits in Ottawa and made many of us very annoyed. Danny seems to be coming to his senses, but he is not to be trusted.


Danny Williams says war of words that spawned ABC campaign is over, for now
By Sue Bailey (CP) – 1 day ago
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — Warm and fuzzy: that's how Premier Danny Williams described a meeting Friday with his recent nemesis, Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
It was a dramatic thawing of relations since the spate of "Anything But Conservative" nastiness that saw Williams lead an anti-Harper campaign in Newfoundland and Labrador. So effective was the premier's wrath during the 2008 federal election that Team Harper was frozen out of all seven federal seats in the province.
Such unpleasantness is over - at least for now, Williams says.
"We had a good discussion on all the major issues," he told reporters after emerging from a half-hour chat with Harper at a downtown hotel.
The prime minister spent a few hours in St. John's on his way back from an economic summit in Davos, Switzerland.

stern report riddled with errors

Finally the msm with the help of the climate realists has started to look nat the chicken littles' big documents. They are found to be a nothing more than lies and exagerations.

LORD STERN’S report on climate change, which underpins government policy, has come under fire from a disaster analyst who says the research he contributed was misused.

Robert Muir-Wood, head of research at Risk Management Solutions, a US-based consultancy, said the Stern report misquoted his work to suggest a firm link between global warming and the frequency and severity of disasters such as floods and hurricanes.


Prof Roger Pielke pointed out some these errors some time ago. stern seems to be covering it all up.

The Telegraph reports today that several sections of the Stern Review report were altered subsequent to its publication, with no formal notice given. Apparently, the quiet change of the hurricane loss error that I recently noted was one of a number of such changes.

Jon Stewart mocks chris matthews

Nice to see Jon Stewart mock the lefty fool Chris Matthews. Post racial president? The left won't stop talking race.

Disgusting

3.5 years for this seems really lax. I suspect if a man had done this he would have and should have got a much longer sentence. Perhaps I am wrong , perhaps Canadian justice is so lax, that this is a standard sentence. This woman is a despicable pedophile and should have gotten a life sentence, so that she can be watched for life. She can't be sterilized so she will likely produce another child to abuse. She must be watched for life. If that is not avaible under current law, the Tories need to tpughen the law.


A mother who repeatedly sexually abused her two-year-old son and broadcast the images over a webcam was sentenced Friday to 31/2 years in prison followed by three years on probation.

But the 24-year-old woman, who can't be named to protect the identity of her child, will likely spend an additional six to eight months in jail after getting the usual two-for-one credit for the nine months she spent in pre-sentence custody, said her lawyer, Robert DiPietro.

ipcc is a joke

This is unbelievable. What next ? Did they use high school term papers as sources?


However, it can be revealed that one of the sources quoted was a feature article published in a popular magazine for climbers which was based on anecdotal evidence from mountaineers about the changes they were witnessing on the mountainsides around them.
The other was a dissertation written by a geography student, studying for the equivalent of a master's degree, at the University of Berne in Switzerland that quoted interviews with mountain guides in the Alps.
The revelations, uncovered by The Sunday Telegraph, have raised fresh questions about the quality of the information contained in the report, which was published in 2007.

King Tut

I went to see the King Tut Exhibit at the AGO. It was an amazing exhibit. it was packed. There were many more objects than in the 1979 exhibit. There were many objects from other Egyptian Pharaohs. The Gold objects were particularly spectacular. Apparently ancient Egyptians thought that gold was the skin of he goods. There was a lot of information on ancient Egyptian religion and funeral practices. The exhibit guide was narrated by Harrison Ford. A truly spectacular afternoon. It is at the AGO until April 18, 2010. It is the only Canadian stop.

Rex on the climate hoax

Rex chronicles the dying climate hoax.

Rex Murphy: So, whatever happened to Copenhagen?
Posted: January 30, 2010, 10:00 AM by NP Editor


A little (a very little) global warming humour:

Q. How is the recently concluded Copenhagen climate conference like the Medieval Warm Period?

A. They both may be seen to disappear when it serves a noble purpose.

Well, I warned it was very little. But, then again, global warming is a very earnest, if not positively sullen topic, and to mine even an atom of a joke from all of the frenzied evangelism of self-appointed environmentalist groups, the grim coven that ran the now celebrated labs in East Anglia, or from our modern day catastrophist Savonarola, Al Gore, is too much even for the most deep-mining humourist.



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More Mansur on free speech

Prof Mansur werites more about the abandonment of free speech on the continent, in the face of the jihadis.

As the trial of Dutch MP Geert Wilders for offending Muslims unfolds in Amsterdam, I am reminded of Oriana Fallaci’s post-9/11 writings on how she saw Europe wasted from within by the alien cultural force of Islam.

Fallaci was a fearless journalist and author. And though critics faulted her for intemperate language, especially when it came to writing about Islam, Wilders’ trial might well confirm her fears about Europe and the West were not misplaced.

In 2006, Fallaci published The Force of Reason in the U.S. This was a translation from Italian of her hugely successful book La Forza della Ragione, published in 2004, which followed her previous bestseller, The Rage and the Pride, written in the aftermath of 9/11.

In The Force of Reason, Fallaci wrote: “And there is a Europe which does not know where it goes. Which has lost its identity and sold itself to the sultans, the caliphs, the viziers, the mercenaries of the new Ottoman Empire.”

Italian authorities would indict Fallaci with similar charges as brought against Wilders. She was eager to testify at her trial, to turn her indictment against the authorities. But the case never got to court before her death in 2006 at age 77.

The Soviet Story

I will be at the Toronto screening of Soviet story. Ir will be at the Ukrainian Cultural Center ( 85 Christie St) on Sunday Jan 31, 2010. There will be a reception with the film maker at 2 pm. Come join me.

iffy is still iffy

Before my grit friends get too excited by a few polls. Let's remember iffy is still iffy. The grit media has tried its best to make a mountain out of this mole hill, but this too shall pass. Even iffy doesn't dare say he will bring down HM Government. So when he supports the budget and Throne Speech what will Canadians say? Fortunately a Tory senate will block his clearly unconstitutional musings , a probable a relief to iffy.


That single point likely makes all of the latest polls somewhat meaningless. During a 37 day election campaign, Canadians are likely to gain an impression of Michael Ignatieff that will only help the Conservatives.

Ignatieff's real problem is that he combines some of the worst traits of both Paul Martin and Stephane Dion.

From Martin, Ignatieff borrows the mantle of "Mr. Dithers". Think about it, can you name some solid policy that Ignatieff has offered Canadians? There is no granite in the Liberal leader's policy process. Every now and then, Ignatieff comes out with a policy proposal. Then it quietly vanishes.

pauchuri must resign

The ipcc is increasingly looking like a massive waste of taxpayer money and a joke.
Its head rajendra pauchuri is guilty of fraud. He must resign.

Section 415 in The Indian Penal Code
Cheating.-- Whoever, by deceiving any person, fraudulently or dishonestly induces the person so deceived to deliver any property to any person, or to consent that any person shall retain any property, or intentionally induces the person so deceived to do or omit to do anything which he would not do or omit if he were not so deceived, and which act or omission causes or is likely to cause damage or harm to that person in body, mind, reputation or property, is said to" cheat".


The chairman of the leading climate change watchdog was informed that claims about melting Himalayan glaciers were false before the Copenhagen summit, The Times has learnt.

Rajendra Pachauri was told that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change assessment that the glaciers would disappear by 2035 was wrong, but he waited two months to correct it. He failed to act despite learning that the claim had been refuted by several leading glaciologists.

The IPCC’s report underpinned the proposals at Copenhagen for drastic cuts in global emissions.

Dr Pachauri, who played a leading role at the summit, corrected the error last week after coming under media pressure. He told The Times on January 22 that he had only known about the error for a few days. He said: “I became aware of this when it was reported in the media about ten days ago. Before that, it was really not made known. Nobody brought it to my attention. There were statements, but we never looked at this 2035 number.”

Mostly a good ruling

I am glad that the courts have deferred to HM Government on the matter of the terrorist omar khadr. The so called breech of his charter rights supposedly happened in 2004 under a liberal government. I do not believ that enemy combatants in US custody have Canadian Charter Rights. The policy of allowing the US to deal with khadr, has been the policy under the last three of HM PMs. Of course iffy has flip flopped. khadr should be tried in the US as an enemy combatant. bo has decided to try him in civilian court, where I am fairly sure he will be convicted. Most Canadians have no use for this Canada hating family of terrorists. The pseudo chretien and the grits had Pakistan release his al qaeda father. The Tories should not repeat that mistake.


Ottawa--The Harper Conservatives showed no sign Friday of retreat from their long-standing refusal to seek Omar Khadr's repatriation after the Supreme Court of Canada handed the government a legal victory but a moral defeat in its treatment of the Guantanamo Bay detainee.

The Supreme Court of Canada unanimously refrained from ordering the government to seek Mr. Khadr's repatriation, but declared that federal actions have violated his constitutional rights and steps should be take to rectify the wrong.

obama girl abandons the one

The end of obamomania. On Hannity.

Dr Mark Ware on Marijuana

Medical grand rounds this week was about medicinal marijuana and were given by Dr Mark Ware. Dr Ware is an expert on pain relief. Your body has endogenous receptors and agonists for cannabinoids. Dr Ware has shown some small but significant effects of marijuana in oral and gaseous form for pain relief. Smoking seems to cause rapid effect, more so than the tablets available.THC the active ingredient in marijuana stimulate the cannabinoid receptors ( which are very wide spread, much more widespread than the opiod receptors. ) and cause inhibition of neurotransmitter release. So they inhit neurons from firing to signal pain, decrease seizures and a host of other things. Dr Ware noted that it is impossible to kill with THC. They have given huge amounts to monkeys and they don't die. he also noted that many patients take small amounts of marijuana and find some relief. I am no a big fan of marijuana, but if it does bring some relief to patients , that is good.
Amounts used were small, larger amounts gave little benefit and many more side effects. here is a debate on the issue.

Here is an older version of the lecture.

Canadian economy improves!

In ever more bad news for the grits, the Canadian GDP has increased by 0.4% in november, more than was expected. No wonder iffy won't try and bring down HM Government.


The 0.4-per-cent growth in the month, reported Friday by Statistics Canada, was more than economists expected. The federal statistics gathering agency also revised October's growth figure up to 0.3 per cent, from the initially reported 0.2 pert cent. September's reading was also revised up a tenth of a percentage point.

Davos

HM PM Stephen Harper's speech at davos. (h/t)HM PM makes an excellent speech and he encourages free trade and won't increase taxes. As I said earlier I think trade barriers should be unilaterally dropped by Canada on all countries.

Lord Black at McGill

My friend Adam Daifallah is giving a course on conservatism at McGill and he managed to get Lord Black to give a lecture by phone on President Richard Nixon. Excelent work Adam!
Listen here.

Newsbusted

Pretty funny. I like the one that one that people in Mass are angry President Bush isn't still president




Clerical erroro aying napolitano?

Dennis Miller...

on the SOTU and the Tebow ad.


Watch here.

Good

Improving maternal and child health is a laudable idea. I am glad HM PM Stephen Harper is pushing ahead on this issue. One of the ways we can help the world's mother and children is to unilaterally drop all tariffs on all countries with economies smaller than the G8. All G8 countries should do this. The G* and the EU also must drop all the massive farm subsidies. These tariffs and subsidies help keep the third world poor. Let them compete and let them help themselves. If we had spent a fraction of the money that we have spent on the climate hoax , we could have saved a lot of mothers and kids.



It’s an interesting proposal, Prime Minister Stephen Harper wants to use his presidency of the G8 to push for global action on improving maternal and child health. In an op-ed published in the Toronto Star and Montreal’s La Presse, Harper says this it is unacceptable the 500,000 women die giving birth each year and 9 million children die before they reach the age of 5.

The goal of reducing the number of maternal deaths by three-quarters was established as a United Nations Millennium Goal in September of 2000, the target date, 2015. In his op-ed, the Prime Minister says it appears that this U.N. goal will go unfulfilled, “What makes it worse is that the bulk of the deaths during pregnancy – experts claim as many as 80 per cent – are easily preventable.”

Prime Minister Harper is taking his message first to Davos, Switzerland and the World Economic Forum where he will give a keynote address Thursday and then to the G8 hosted by Canada in June; it is time says Harper to “…make a tangible difference in maternal and child health.”

Fox News Most trusted , highest ratings!

Most Americans don't trust the media. Fox news is the exception. Wonder how our media would fare in such a survey. I doubt the commies at the cbc would fare well.

Americans do not trust the major tv news operations in the country- except for Fox News.

Our newest survey looking at perceptions of ABC News, CBS News, CNN, Fox News, and NBC News finds Fox as the only one that more people say they trust than distrust. 49% say they trust it to 37% who do not.

CNN does next best at a 39/41 spread, followed by NBC at 35/44, CBS at 32/46, and ABC at 31/46.

Last week it was the top cable network ( not just the top news network).

Reporting from New York - That Fox News scored a ratings victory usually wouldn't be a surprise. The cable news channel has beaten CNN and MSNBC for the last eight years, and its margins over its rivals keep growing.

But last week, it managed to push past a competitor in another genre: USA, the powerhouse entertainment channel that has long held the spot as the top-ranked basic cable network in prime time.

Phil Jones is Toast

Lots of developments in the Uk against the chicken littles. The University of East Anglia is in breech of the UK Freedom of information act. Prof John Beddington wants more honesty from the chicken littles. It will be hard to dismiss the view of the HM UK Government's chief scientific advisor. The scam is falling apart.

The university at the centre of the climate change row over stolen e-mails broke the law by refusing to hand over its raw data for public scrutiny.

The University of East Anglia breached the Freedom of Information Act by refusing to comply with requests for data concerning claims by its scientists that man-made emissions were causing global warming.

The Information Commissioner’s Office decided that UEA failed in its duties under the Act but said that it could not prosecute those involved because the complaint was made too late, The Times has learnt. The ICO is now seeking to change the law to allow prosecutions if a complaint is made more than six months after a breach. Professor Phil Jones, the unit’s director, stood down while an inquiry took place. The ICO’s decision could make it difficult for him to resume his post.

Details of the breach emerged the day after John Beddington, the Chief Scientific Adviser, warned that there was an urgent need for more honesty about the uncertainty of some predictions. His intervention followed admissions from scientists that the rate of glacial melt in the Himalayas had been grossly exaggerated.

U.N. Me

Producer Ami Horowitz



Fred Litwin of the Free Thinking Film Society

I went to another great Movie at the Free Thinking Film Society in Ottawa. It was called U.N. Me. One of the filmakers, Ami Horowitz attended the screening. It was a damning expose of the United Nations. As you all probably know, I haven't got a lot of use for the corrupt UN. I knew many of the facts elucidated by the film, but it is even worse than one can imagine. Kofi Anand and Boutros-Ghali are crooks at best and war criminals at worst. It is a litany of rape, corruption and death. It is a movie that all of you should see. It should be released in theaters Sept 17, 2010. Go to the website to see how you can help. There was a good question and answer session after the event and it was clear that the crowd had some people who were a bit more supportive of the UN. It was a great evening. It was nice to see fellow bloggers like Deborah Gyopang and many friends. I congratulate Fred Litwin and the Free Thinking Film Society for this great opportunity to see films which aren't just leftist propaganda.
The next even is March 30, 2009 and it is a discussion on Afghanistan. It is also a fundraiser to help send Afghan girls to school. Please try and attend.

iPad?

I am a Mac fan. I'm not so sure about this new Ipad. First the name is kind of silly and I'm not sure why I would ever use it. It does sounds interesting. Watch the video.

Mad TV's version

My Friend Dr Jim Garrow

MY friend Jim Garrow is an amazing man. His Bethune Institute saves the lives of little Chines girls. He should have won the Nobel Prize instead of the community organizer.

This Nobel Nominee Actually Saves Babies
by Valerie Richardson
01/26/2010


When President Obama won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize, that meant there were 205 nominees for the award who didn't. One of them was Jim Garrow of the Bethune Institute.

Let history decide who was most deserving. Obama was elected president on a platform of hope and change. Jim Garrow has spent $23 million over the past 10 years rescuing an estimated 31,000 Chinese baby girls from near-certain death under China's one-child-per-couple policy.

Not only is the work difficult and costly, it can also be deadly. In 2004, two of Garrow's employees were killed outside Harbin, China, in a skirmish with baby-stealers, mercenaries who kidnap and sell babies to foreign couples and adoption services.

Regime change for Iran

Some advice for bo on his foreign policy failures. It is time to actively help the people of Iran overthrow the murderos mullahs. The Iranian people are involved in the fight of their lives, even as we speak. We need to remember them and do all we can to tople this despicable regime. (h/t)


President Obama has a once-in-a-generation opportunity over the next few months to help make the world a dramatically safer place. It's not by negotiating an arms deal with Russia, or strengthening the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, or by making that elusive climate-change deal with the Chinese, worthy though those initiatives may be. It is by helping the Iranian people achieve a new form of government. Given the role that the Islamic theocracy in Tehran has played in leading and sponsoring anti-democratic, anti-liberal and anti-Western fanaticism for the past three decades, the toppling or even substantial reform of that regime would be second only to the collapse of the Soviet Union in its ideological and geopolitical ramifications.

Imagine an Iran whose educated, inventive and highly cultured people were allowed to flourish, fully enmeshed in the global economy and society. Imagine the effect on the Muslim world and the greater Middle East of a modernizing, prosperous Iran that held regular, free and fair elections. Those who have long advocated a "grand bargain" were right to talk about the immense global benefits if Iran could be integrated into the international order. Their big mistake was thinking such a bargain could be had with benighted and virulently anti-Western leaders. But the bargain would be grand if the present government could go the way of the Brezhnevs and Ligachevs.

Tim Tebow

I like this guy! He is going to be in a superbowl ad with his Mom, which celebrates life and family. This of course makes the radical feminists mad. The radical feminists celebrate death. Only their viewpoint should be shown in public. I congratulate CBC for now backing down against these censoring lefties. the radical feminists haven't even seen the ad.

Here is Tim's response:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLpCdWYcdg4

pelosi and Reid not in a hurry on obamacare

dems thought that obamacare would be passed by the state of the union address. Fail. It ,like cap and tax. is supposed to be passed sometime in the future. The dems just don't know when. It certainly won't be before the November mid terms and after the November midterms it should be impossible to pass.


‘No Rush’ on Health Care Overhaul, Democrats Say
By DAVID M. HERSZENHORN AND ROBERT PEAR
With no clear path forward on major health care legislation, Democratic leaders in Congress effectively slammed the brakes on President Obama’s top domestic priority on Tuesday, saying that they no longer felt pressure to move quickly on a health bill after eight months of setting deadlines and missing them.

The Senate majority leader, Harry Reid, Democrat of Nevada, deflected questions about health care. “We’re not on health care now,” he said. “We’ve talked a lot about it in the past.” He added, “There is no rush,” and noted that Congress still had most of this year to work on the health bills passed in 2009 by the Senate and the House.

Mr. Reid said that he and the House speaker, Nancy Pelosi of California, were working to map out a way to complete a health care overhaul in coming months. “There are a number of options being discussed,” Mr. Reid said, emphasizing “procedural aspects” of the issue.

Terence Corcoran on the crumbling ipcc

Even some of the chicken little are beginning to understand that the jig is up. Terence Corcoran writes about uber believer Andrew Weaver, who has jumped ship.

Terence Corcoran: Heat wave closes in on the IPCC
Posted: January 26, 2010, 8:17 PM by NP Editor

Insider Andrew Weaver is getting out while the going is good

By Terence Corcoran

A catastrophic heat wave appears to be closing in on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. How hot is it getting in the scientific kitchen where they’ve been cooking the books and spicing up the stew pots? So hot, apparently, that Andrew Weaver, probably Canada’s leading climate scientist, is calling for replacement of IPCC leadership and institutional reform.
If Andrew Weaver is heading for the exits, it’s a pretty sure sign that the United Nations agency is under monumental stress. Mr. Weaver, after all, has been a major IPCC science insider for years. He is Canada Research Chair in Climate Modelling and Analysis at the University of Victoria, mastermind of one of the most sophisticated climate modelling systems on the planet, and lead author on two recent landmark IPCC reports. For him to say, as he told Canwest News yesterday, that there has been some “dangereous crossing” of the line between climate advocacy and science at the IPCC is stunning in itself.
Not only is Mr. Weaver an IPCC insider. He has also, over the years, generated his own volume of climate advocacy that often seemed to have crossed that dangereous line between hype and science. It is Mr. Weaver, for example, who said the IPCC’s 2007 science report — the one now subject to some scrutiny —“isn’t a smoking gun; climate is a battalion of intergalactic smoking missiles.”

Good for Premier Klein

I have long advocated a private medical system to work alongside our bloated, inefficient public one. Every other country in the OECD with public care has a private system. I wish we had more people like Ralph Klein and Mike harris to push ths idea foreard. I guess we will have to wait until health budgets completely consume provincial budgets before rational decisions are made. That time is coming soon.
Mr. Klein said the solution to improving patient access and alleviating the financial burden on government coffers is to adopt a "two-tiered" health system. Such a model could offer both publicly and privately funded options.

"I tried it twice -- the Third Way and the Mazankowski report -- and I failed," Mr. Klein said about offering a private and public system that parallel each other. "I wanted to take the best of the world [on health care] . . . and incorporate that, but I failed."

Adopting both public and private options "moves people out of the line" and saves the cash-strapped system money, he argued.

HM Governor General sings

I have been quite moved by Her Excellency's statements on Haiti. A Canadian born in Haiti represents HM the Queen of Canada. HM The Queen is Our Mother , Prince and Friend. Her Excellency is doing a good job as HM representative.
HM Governor General sings a song of hope.

Link fixed

Good Economic news

The IMF has increased Canada's projected growth for this year. That is good news for most canadians. This should make the grits unhappy.

IMF Raises Canada’s 2010 Growth Forecast to 2.6% From 2.1%


By Greg Quinn

Jan. 26 (Bloomberg) -- Canada’s economic growth forecast was increased to 2.6 percent for this year by the International Monetary Fund.

The previous forecast from the Washington-based lender was for a 2.1 percent expansion this year. The 2011 prediction was unchanged at 3.6 percent, according to an update of the IMF’s World Economic Outlook.

Haiti

While the leader of HM Loyal pposition again flip floped yet again ( now he wants to limit the Tories from proroguing butnecessarily anyone else. A move that is unconstitutional on its face.) HM Government led to talks on reconstruction in Haiti.
I am always very worried by foreign aid. More often than not it is stolen or wasted. The best foreign aid canad could give is to unilaterally drop sanctions on all economies smaller than say the G8. Humanitarian aid of course, but we must be very careful with developement aid. Canada has already writen off Haiti's debt. That is probably a good idea. Encouraging enterpreneurship and trying to lure Haiti's middle class back are also good ideas. There are many more Haitian doctors, lawyers and engineers in canad than in Haiti.
In the mean time we should still send money to help with humanitarian relief.

Invading Haiti????

God Bless and Protect HM Forces!
God Bless and Protect the United States and its Armed Services!

more grit entitlements

Apparently elections Canada rules which were bent to the breaking point are not to be obeyed by grits. Now they are looking for a grit friendly judge to help them break the rules. Apparently four years of fundraising isn't enough to erase grit leadership debts. I hope the judge rejects this latest attempt for the grits to assert their entitlements.

OTTAWA - Nearly four years after he aspired to lead their party, seven members of the Liberal Party of Canada still dragging a debt of leadership campaign. Six d'entre eux déposeront d'ici à la fin du mois une demande conjointe en Cour fédérale afin d'obtenir un second délai pour rembourser cette dette qui atteint 830 000 $. Six of them will file by the end of a joint application in Federal Court to obtain a second time to repay that debt reached $ 830 000.

Stéphane Dion, Martha Hall Findlay, Gerard Kennedy, Maurizio Bevilacqua, Hedy Fry, Joe Volpe et Ken Dryden doivent une somme totale de 830 000 $. Stéphane Dion, Martha Hall Findlay, Gerard Kennedy and Maurizio Bevilacqua, Hedy Fry, Joe Volpe and Ken Dryden are a total of $ 830 000. Le plus endetté est l'ancien joueur de hockey Ken Dryden (290 000 $) qui avait terminé la course en cinquième place au congrès de décembre 2006. The largest debtor is the former hockey player Ken Dryden ($ 290 000) who finished the race in fifth place in Congress in December 2006. Stéphane Dion a réussi à presque totalement effacer l'ardoise: il s'en tire avec une créance de 35 000 à 40 000 $. Stéphane Dion has managed to almost completely erase the slate: he escaped with a debt of 35 000 to 40 000 $. M. Dion avait créé la surprise en coiffant tout le monde au fil d'arrivée. Mr. Dion was a surprise, cramming everyone at the finish line. Au total, 11 candidats s'étaient lancés dans la course à la direction du PLC en 2006. In total, 11 candidates had joined the race for the Liberal leadership in 2006.

copenhagen and the hoax are truly dead

India and China understand and won't sign. In their haste to silence opponents, the ipcc and the chicken littles took short cuts on the science and its coming back to bite them. Much of what they site as evidence is non peer reviewed and single source.


After Climategate, Pachaurigate and Glaciergate: Amazongate

By James Delingpole Politics Last updated: January 25th, 2010
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AGW theory is toast. So’s Dr Rajendra Pachauri. So’s the Stern Review. So’s the credibility of the IPCC. But if you think I’m cheered by this you’re very much mistaken. I’m trying to write a Climategate book but the way things are going by the time I’m finished there won’t be anything left to say: the battle will already have been won and the only people left who still believe in Man Made Global Warming will be the eco-loon equivalents of those wartime Japanese soldiers left abandoned and forgotten on remote Pacific atolls.

MacGregor on proroguing.

A good piece on why the partisan demos of last weekend will have very little effect. Iffy and the grits are still very iffy. iffy and the grits will support the budget and the Speech from the Throne.

The camel-eyebrowed Ignatieff, in fact, appears oddly less leader today than he did when he first ran for the leadership, and lost. He was, however, then widely taken to be brilliant, if untested. He now appears more like one of those curious people who are school smart but street stupid. And street smarts – as Brian Mulroney and Jean Chrétien have recently demonstrated – count for a great deal in Canadian politics.

If he is brilliant – as his résumé trumpets – Canadians have yet to see it.

It may, however, not entirely be Ignatieff's fault that he seems to find such little traction when Harper is thought to have hit a patch of black ice.

Talk to Liberals – office holders, party organizers, fundraisers – around the country and you will tap into a malaise that a good pollster could rout out with a single question: “What's happening?” “Nothin',” the vast majority would respond, with a margin of error of plus or minus very little.

“There is no Liberal Party,” says one lifelong card carrier who has sat at cabinet tables.

“It died a long time ago. It's not completely extinct yet, but there's no there there.” In this lifelong Liberal's eyes, the party has been stalled for years. No new energy, no new ideas, no vision of what it might like to do. The singular advantage of proroguing, this Liberal would say, is that it has put an end to the squirming every time the opposition pounces.

Canadian Political Cartoons

I hope HM Minister of the Treasury really cuts the budget. A few on the new scanners. There is of course the underwhelminng opposition. canadians draw obama as well. A few on the Olympics. And of course Google and China. The tragedy of Haiti cannot be ignored. What about Global warming?

Then there's dalton mcliar.

Dennis Miller on Sarah Palin...

Senator Scott Brown ,Henry Reid and more.




On Senator Brown watch here.

American Political cartoons

The Massachussetts special election got a lot of special attention.There are plenty of cartoons on obamacare and obama. obama is really getting serious about the jihadi threat. And of course harry reid gets some attention.

Salim Mansur on free speecha

My friend Salim Mansur disagrees with Geert Wilders on Islam. Dr Mansur would debate Wilders. The Dutch ban Wilders. Shame on the Dutch for not understanding that.

The trial of Geert Wilders, leader of Holland’s Freedom Party and a Dutch MP, on charges of hate speech opened in Amsterdam last Wednesday.

Wilders is indicted for equating the Qur’an with Hitler’s Mein Kampf, for likening Islam with Nazism and for producing a documentary film, Fitna, that is provocative and insulting to Muslims.

In calling for the prosecution of Wilders, the Amsterdam Court of Appeal declared: “By attacking the symbols of the Muslim religion, he also insulted Muslim believers. In a democratic system, hate speech is considered to be so serious that it is in the general interest to draw a clear line.”

Michael Coren on the United Church...

moderator. He, like me, is not very impressed.

I have to confess that I owe Mardi Tindal an apology. Who, you ask, is Mardi Tindal? The moderator of the United Church of Canada and a legend in her own lunchtime.

I had thought that she was a walking cliche and a fitting leader of a deeply silly organization. But no. I now realize that our Mardi is in fact the most gifted and original comic performer in the country. Last Sunday, her bitingly satirical views were read out in a couple of hundred United churches and this was Jonathan Swift in a suburb.

In a long piece describing her experience at the recent Copenhagen climate change conference, she wrote of her pain and anguish and how she now identified with Martin Luther King’s fight against racial hatred and William Wilberforce’s struggle against slavery. Both men risked death of course, but Mardi risks far more — feeling slightly sad next time she goes shopping.

Sir John A. MacDonald Dinner

HM Minister of Justice, Rob Nicholson


Guelph CPC Candidate Marty Burke



I attended the annual Sir John A. Macdonald dinner in Guelph on Monday. It was a fundraiser for the EDA. The guest of honour was HM Minister of Justice and the attorney General of Canada Rob Nicholson. Kara Johnson CPC Vice president, Gloria Kovach Michael Sona, Christian Conservative and a whole host of others wer in attendance. I met my Facebook friend Dr. Jim Garrow. It was nice seeing some of the young people from the Guelph Campus Conservatives.
Marty Nurke , the CPC candidate gave a great speech saying Guelph was one of the ridings the Tories are targetting. Guelph is a spot of red in a sea of blue! To which I say Out damned spot! We were all encouraged to give to help get that spot out.
HM Minister gave a great speech on Sir John A. and reminded us about this old campaign poster. I didn't get a chance to say more than hello to HM Minister.
All in all it was a great evening.

A total sham

The IPCC is more and more liking like a total sham. They themselves admit substantial errors. The nobel committee should hang their heads in shame. Thankfully it wasn't a scientific prize, for the ipcc is not science. In this latest case the report was not a consensus of scientists but one newspaper report of one glaciologist. Peer review? Don't make me laugh. This whole thing has been a waste of billions of dollars. Dr Rajendra Pachauri should be fired and the ipcc disbanded Pachauri like goreacle has used this sham as an opportunity to get rich.


The Indian head of the UN climate change panel defended his position yesterday even as further errors were identified in the panel's assessment of Himalayan glaciers.

Dr Rajendra Pachauri dismissed calls for him to resign over the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change’s retraction of a prediction that Himalayan glaciers could disappear by 2035.

But he admitted that there may have been other errors in the same section of the report, and said that he was considering whether to take action against those responsible.

“I know a lot of climate sceptics are after my blood, but I’m in no mood to oblige them,” he told The Times in an interview. “It was a collective failure by a number of people,” he said. “I need to consider what action to take, but that will take several weeks. It’s best to think with a cool head, rather than shoot from the hip.”

The IPCC’s 2007 report, which won it the Nobel Peace Prize, said that the probability of Himalayan glaciers “disappearing by the year 2035 and perhaps sooner is very high”.

But it emerged last week that the forecast was based not on a consensus among climate change experts, but on a media interview with a single Indian glaciologist in 1999.

REX nails bo's first year

An amazing analysis by Rex. The presidency demands substance. This is brilliant.


Rex Murphy: Pickup truck 1, Obama 0
Posted: January 23, 2010, 10:00 AM by NP Editor
Rex Murphy


It was but a single day shy of a perfect year from Barack Obama’s inauguration, when a previously unheralded, not emphatically gifted, Republican candidate, Scott Brown, won the Senatorial election in the state of Massachusetts. The Senate seat in question was not just any seat: It wasn’t so much held, as owned and occupied, stamped with the family coat-of-arms, taken under the political equivalent of copyright protection, by Ted Kennedy. This seat was Democratic in the same way we say water is wet, birds twitter, and reality TV grinds the living nerves.

Four Tory Years

It has been 4 years since the Tories were first elected to power. I started blogging just before that election. I was very tired of grit arrogance and corruption. I was overjoyed to see HM PM Harper and the Tories defeat dithers and the grits. HM PM Harper has now been HMPM for four years. The grits just can't get over that they can't get back to the public trough so easily. There have been 3 leaders since dithers and no grit policy or vision.
The grits and iffy will have to get used to it. I don't see an election coming anytime soon and soon the Tories will control the Senate.
Congratulations, Best Wishes and Thank you to a team I admire, HM PM Harper, HM Minister of Defense Peter Mackay and the Tory team.

It was supposed to be a brief interlude, a twelve to eighteen month minority government and then the Canadian people would turf Stephen Harper and his Conservative government on its ear. Yet four years after Canadians first elected the Harper government, here we are.

Some anniversaries are worth noting because of events that have recently happened or due to longevity, this one is worth noting just because it is happening. While few predicted at the start of the 2005/2006 election campaign that Harper could actually beat Paul Martin’s Liberal juggernaut, fewer still thought the government would last this long (yes, I know there has been another election since.)

Krauthammer on Senator Brown

I agree with Dr Krauthammer, the dems are delusional. Especially the California dems. Some like lame duck chris dodd want a break but not bo.

And the Democrats are delusional: Scott Brown won by running against Obama not Bush. He won by brilliantly nationalizing the race, running hard against the Obama agenda, most notably Obamacare. Killing it was his No. 1 campaign promise.

Bull's-eye. An astonishing 56 percent of Massachusetts voters, according to Rasmussen, called health care their top issue. In a Fabrizio, McLaughlin & Associates poll, 78 percent of Brown voters said their vote was intended to stop Obamacare. Only a quarter of all voters in the Rasmussen poll cited the economy as their top issue, nicely refuting the Democratic view that Massachusetts was just the usual anti-incumbent resentment you expect in bad economic times.

Lord Black on bo

Lord Black on the epic failure of the first year of bo. The November midterms will be fun. bo doesn't get it, he wants to push ahaead with his socialist agenda.

The burning question after the Massachusetts Senate election is whether the administration responds by making a course correction to survive politically by jettisoning its policy core and cleaning up its methods, or 'doubles down,' as President Obama has implied, and escalates the ideological and guerrilla war for direction of public policy. This was a referendum on the Obama administration, including health care, not just on health care. Even less was it just the rejection of an astonishingly unappealing candidate, predestined to glory as a trivia question. John F. Kennedy took that seat with lashings of his father's money in an anti-Brahmin revolt against Henry Cabot Lodge in 1952, and was reelected by 864,000 votes in 1958. In the intervening years of Teddy Kennedy, the Democrats could have won with a candidate not confined to two legs and one head. This was less a wake-up call than a Te Deum for a dying and sweaty dream.

Steve Crowder, medium

channels ted kennedy.

Stewart rips olberman a new one

I am beginning to like Jon Stewart a little more these days. Even he finds keith olbermann a bit much.
Watch here.

Get well soon Jean Beliveau

I am not a big hockey fan. I watch it occasionally when the finals or Olympics are on. I have enormous respect and affection for Jean Beliveau, who I have met a few times. He attended an event when I was a child. It was a skate a thon. He literally just floated on ice. He is a wonderful person. He is gracious and very classy. His charity work is legendary. I was saddened to hear of his illness. My thoughts and prayers are with him and his family. Get well soon!


MONTREAL - Montreal Canadiens icon Jean Beliveau was in Montreal General Hospital last night after he suffered a stroke Wednesday night.

A source that Beliveau, 78, could not speak when he was transported to the hospital. The Hall of Famer was said to be unable to speak yesterday morning as well and was being treated at the neurological unit of the hospital, though his condition was not believed to be life-threatening.

Please Help Haiti

The scale of the disaster in Haiti is mind numbing. These are photos of orphans from Haiti.






Please help Haiti.

Ann Coulter on the dems

Ann thinks that seeing the dems in power is enough to defeat them.


Once again, the people have spoken, and this time they quoted what Dick Cheney said to Pat Leahy.

Less than two weeks ago, The New York Times said that so much as a "tighter-than-expected" victory for Massachusetts Democratic Senate candidate Martha Coakley would incite "soul-searching among Democrats nationally," which sent Times readers scurrying to their dictionaries to look up this strange new word, "soul."

A close win for Coakley, the Times said, would constitute "the first real barometer of whether problems facing the party" will affect the 2010 elections.

Even dems fight epa CO2 regulation

Cap and tax is dead in the US and this epa regulation of CO2 is even making a lot of dems very nervous. Maybe they are just trying to save their jobs.

Sen. Lincoln is backing Murkowski's bid to block EPA greenhouse gas rules
By Ben Geman - 01/21/10 11:29 AM ET
Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.) said Thursday that she is backing Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s (R-Alaska) attempt to block planned EPA greenhouse gas rules, and an aide to Murkowski said there are "several" other Democrats supporting the Alaska senator as well.

Good Riddance

Not a great weak for the left in America.

It is with the greatest regret, on behalf of our Board, that we must announce that Air America Media is ceasing its live programming operations as of this afternoon, and that the Company will file soon under Chapter 7 of the Bankruptcy Code to carry out an orderly winding-down of the business.

The very difficult economic environment has had a significant impact on Air America's business. This past year has seen a "perfect storm" in the media industry generally. National and local advertising revenues have fallen drastically, causing many media companies nationwide to fold or seek bankruptcy protection. From large to small, recent bankruptcies like Citadel Broadcasting and closures like that of the industry's long-time trade publication Radio and Records have signaled that these are very difficult and rapidly changing times.

Those companies that remain are facing audience fragmentation as a result of new media technologies, are often saddled with crushing debt, and have generally found it difficult to obtain operating or investment capital from traditional sources of funding. In this climate, our painstaking search for new investors has come close several times right up into this week, but ultimately fell short of success.


Good week for Fox:
Fox News Ratings Explode On Scott Brown Victory Night

Now if only msnbc would go away.

pelosi doesn't have the votes

The senate version of obamacare will not be passed in the house.




obamacare is pretty much dead.

Celebrating epiphany

My Russian brothers and sisters in Christ have interesting customs. Happy Epiphany to them!


Russians Take Icy Dip On Religious Holiday

10:26am UK, Wednesday January 20, 2010

Amanda Walker, Moscow correspondent
Record low temperatures have not deterred thousands of Russians from taking an icy dip to celebrate the Epiphany religious holiday.

It's minus 22 degrees on the Moscow River. Six layers of clothing make it just about bearable, although the feeling in my toes is fast disappearing.

The idea of stripping off and plunging into the icy depths is unthinkable. But that's exactly what the slowly gathering Russian ice swimmers are here to do.

Cars can drive on the ice that covers the river. It's almost a metre thick so actually getting through it to create a pool is a challenge.

They use saws and spades to hack into it. It's clear that nothing is going to prevent their icy dip.

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Stephanopolous interviews bo

I watched Nightline tonight for the first time in a very long time. Georhe Stepanoplous interviews bo. A few things are clear. bo is still blaming president Bush. He says that the senate must wait for Senator Brown to make further decisions. he also seems to say that he understands his big legislative agenda is dead and he will try and get core things passed. For a man who is on TV every ten seconds , he believes he wasn't able to communicate with the American people. bo is pretty arrogant, this loss has not humbled him. Unlike billary, I don't think he will learn from this loss and the losses to come.


OBAMA: Well, here's , here's one thing I know and I just want to make sure that this is off the table. The Senate certainly shouldn't try to jam anything through until Scott Brown is seated. People in Massachusetts spoke. He's got to be part of that process. So ...

OBAMA: That, that's point number one. I think point number two is that it is very important to look at the substance of this package and for the American people to understand that a lot of the fear mongering around this bill isn't true. I would advise that we try to move quickly to coalesce around those elements of the package that people agree on. We know that we need insurance reform, that the health insurance companies are taking advantage of people. We know that we have to have some form of cost containment because if we don't, then our budgets are going to blow up and we know that small businesses are going to need help so that they can provide health insurance to their families. Those are the core, some of the core elements of, to this bill. Now I think there's some things in there that people don't like and legitimately don't like. If they think for example that there's a carve out for just one or two particular groups or interests, I think some of that, clearing out some of that under brush, moving rapidly...

STEPHANOPOULOS: So start again with a smaller core package.

OBAMA: Well, look, I'm not going to get into the legislative strategy. First of all, my job is to as president, is to send a message in terms of where we need to go. It's not to navigate how Congress&

Canada most free nation in the Americas.

bo's America is now only mostly free. He is not a free trader. He has intervened heavily in the economy. He plans to keep doing these things. I expect economic migrants to Canada will join us very soon. Welcome to the Dominion!

U.S. Economy No Longer Free, Says 2010 Index Analysis
WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The U.S. economy is no longer "free" according to the "2010 Index of Economic Freedom," a 485-page analysis of the world's economies prepared by The Heritage Foundation and The Wall Street Journal.
"Unprecedented government intervention in the financial and industrial sectors has crowded out private investment," said Dr. Kim R. Holmes, a Heritage vice president and co-editor of the Index. "In addition to distorting prices, these actions -- characterized by disregard for the contractual rights of shareholders and bondholders -- have eroded property rights."
Combined with massive increases in government spending, these actions led to a 2.7 point drop in the Index's rating of the American economy. That plunged the U.S. out of the ranks of the "free" and into the category of "mostly free" economies, Holmes noted...

iffy's uni tour

Rick Mercer does the iffy tour

Jon Stewart on Mass Senate race

Jon Stewart is apoplectic. I don't think this is all just comedy. The dems really aren't that clever.
h/t

Very funny iffy

The leader of the Toronto party states the obvious. It's quite amusing. No one has thought of the grits as the natural governing party for a long time now. It is remarkable that the remnants of the grits still feel entitled to their entitlements. It is a party that has no ideas. A party that uses the Exchequor as its private bank account. A party that thinks it is entitled to power and your wallets. They have been out of power 4 years and only now they talk about new policies. It really is the delusion grits.

Liberals should stop seeing themselves as 'natural' governing party: Ignatieff
Andrew Mayeda, Canwest News Service
Published: Wednesday, January 20, 2010
20, 2010.
OTTAWA -- Michael Ignatieff said Wednesday the federal Liberals need to stop thinking of themselves as the "natural" governing party and earn back the trust of Canadians.

The Liberal leader said the party must listen to Canadians as it embarks on a "path of renewal" culminating in a major policy conference in Montreal at the end of March. The conference will discuss what the country should try to achieve by 2017, Canada's 150th anniversary.

"We have to have the courage to tell ourselves things we don't want to listen to. We have to listen to people that the party has not listened to.



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HRH Prince William in Oz

More video from HRH trip to New Zealand and Oz.



HRH at the NZ War Memorial


HRH's speech at the NZ Supreme Court



HRH in Oz. Coverage has been quite positive. HRH is a crack shot.


I hope HRH comes to Canada soon.

obamacare & cap and tax fading fast

The election of Senator Scott Brown means big problems for bo. Witness this statement from very liberal Barney Frank. several other dems have made similar statements.
Gavin Newsom, SFO outgoing mayor has advice for the dems and I think David Frum.
"This is real. At our own peril, we dismiss these tea parties as some sort of isolated extremism. It's not," The tea party people financed and supported a moderate member of the GOP. They should be respected and not demonized.

In the afternoon, while polls were still open, Sen. Joe Lieberman, the Connecticut independent who voted for the Senate bill after the public option was removed, said on Fox News that even the fact that the Massachusetts race was close suggested the public was “really skeptical” about the legislation.
Within a few hours, Sen. Evan Bayh of Indiana went even further than Lieberman, warning that Democrats would face “catastrophe” if they ignored the message in Massachusetts.
“[I]f you lose Massachusetts and that’s not a wake-up call, there’s no hope of waking up,” Bayh told ABC News.
In some sense, it was predictable that moderates would make such statements given what was happening in a solidly blue state. But it was surprising to hear more liberal Democrats pile on.
"If she loses, it's over," Rep. Carolyn Maloney declared.
And another New Yorker, liberal stalwart Rep. Anthony Weiner, appeared on MSNBC -- while votes were still being counted -- and said that with just 59 votes in the Senate, “I don't see how we get this done.” He explained that he had just come from a Democratic caucus meeting with Speaker Nancy Pelosi in which they discussed negotiations to merge the House and Senate bills, and quipped, “it seems to have a flavor of whistling past the graveyard.”

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Cap and tax is pretty much dead in the water. Moderate dems will run . There is talk that even Senator Boxer's seat is at risk.

National Post and the atypical grits?

A group that includes Ray Heard, Senator Grafstein and Beryl Wajsman (among others) want to buy the National Post, Montreal Gazette and Ottawa Citizen. Wajsman was on Tommy Schnurmacher's show yesterday. I asked him about 3 grits owning the conservative NP. He assured me that these were atypical, conservative? grits. Wajsman insists the character of the Post will notchamge. I certainly hope not. This may all be moot since the banks have said they want to sell the whole group together. Listen here(I'm on after the contest winner).

My letter in the NP

The United Church moderator has bought into the hoax. I am not surprised, The United Church of late has never seen a left wing or anti Israel cause it didn't embrace. It is sad to see Christians worship the goreacle and his minions.

Moderator should 'get a grip'
National Post
Published: Wednesday, January 20, 2010


I grew up going to a United Church. In those days, the Church was actually a Christian organization. I long ago left this dying institution, which has abandoned the Gospel for every left-wing platitude it can find. The letter from the United Church Moderator, describing how she was "heartbroken" because of the failure of climate talks in Copenhagen, is yet another example of this. Mardi Tindal doesn't understand the Gospel or science. If I were her, I would worry more about the crumbling state of the United Church and leave climate change to people who actually can look at the science critically.

Roy Eappen, Montreal.

Scott Brown wins!

I am very happy, but still a bit surprised Scott Brown wins . The dems are in retreat. Senator Webb says;
Calling the election an referendum on the "openness and integrity of our government process," Webb wrote in a statement: "It is vital that we restore the respect of the American people in our system of government and in our leaders. To that end, I believe it would only be fair and prudent that we suspend further votes on health care legislation until Senator-elect Brown is seated."

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olbermann and madow are trying very hard to downplaythe win. MSNBC is really a comdey network.




Mitt Romney on the Victory



Congratulations Senator Brown.