Mark Steyn is to the United Nations what a can of Raid is to – well, the United Nations.
Ezra Levant picks up on something I wrote about last week.
Stephen Taylor discovers wildcat *.html files are joining the CBC lockout. Plus – is this sign of a takeover by Fox News?
James has a point. This probably calls for a charter flight.
Another installment of good news from Iraq, via Chrenkoff. From the cloistered universe of the MSM – a glimmer of recognition that “there’s a perception that we’re not telling the whole story”. You don’t say.
Add your own in the comments.
According to ads aired last night, CBC TV is planning to show Fahrenheit 911 on… September 11.
I will picket the Toronto CBC office — if other people will join me. Double dare ya.
Showing that stupid Mooreon movie on such a somber day is an offence to humanity.
I would like to see the CBC get flushed down the toilet along with the Liberal Party. I see the CBC is locked out. Big deal. And it’s funny to see the employees picketing as if working for the CBC is a great service to Canadians. No different from the hockey lockout.
Looks like a slow week on SDA.
It’s a Kate-has-a-lot-of-work-to-do week on SDA.
Harper’s Chief of Staff Quits
Conservative Leader Stephen Harper has lost yet another senior aide, this time his chief of staff, Phil Murphy, who, insiders say, had already been sidelined in a long-running office power struggle.
The departure of the top staffer in Mr. Harper’s office comes in a summer in which there was a full-scale exodus from his communications department, including director Geoff Norquay and four other key staffers.
So, since this is a slow week, and before curiosity kills me, how did you come up with the name “Small Dead Animals”, Kate?
Because creating Big Dead Animals when riding a motorbike can be prejudicial to one’s health. And the pickup is reserved for those occasions when the bike must be retrieved after creating a Small Dead Animal.
Another choice for the initials SDA was Setiferous Demonic Affliction, but that did not quite fit the chosen photo of a supine rodent at rest.
Cheers
JMH
Paul D., I see you wish to try to make us feel bad somehow by making a big deal out of political staff turnover. You see, this sort of turnover is common in politics. I wouldn’t read too much into it if I were you. Never underestimate us.
You know, it’s becoming, each day, more and more apparent that Paul Martin’s choice for GG is a bad one. Mme Jean is apparently a separatist. I believe unless she can prove otherwise, she should stand back and allow a federalist to represent Canada. We cannot have someone so CONTROVERSIAL in the vice-regal position. It would make us look bad to the international community. Not to mention the associations with FLQ terrorists.
From the Wall Street Journal: “Unfree Under Islam
Shariah endangers women’s rights, from Iraq to Canada”, BY AYAAN HIRSI ALI
Tuesday, August 16, 2005 12:01 a.m. EDT
http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110007112
Mark
Ottawa
A message sent today to Mr Martin and copied to the Governor General’s office and Mr Harper:
“Dear Mr Martin,
I insist you withdraw your nomination of Micha�lle Jean to be Governor General. As a Canadian I cannot have respect for the office if its occupant and her consort have consorted with separatists and former terrorists, and clearly bear no true allegiance themselves to the country of Canada or its monarch.
I have sent a copy of this message to Queen Elizabeth II through the e-mail form facility on the Royal website:
http://www.royal.gov.uk/output/Page3776.asp“
Mark
Ottawa
Some thoughts:
Much as one may think badly of former PM Chr�tien, his utter disdain for separatists was clear. Perhaps, from retirement, he could do his country a great service by denouncing PM Martin’s nomination of Micha�lle Jean to be Governor General of Canada.
Another thing: many people are saying the RCMP and/or CSIS should have dug up all this separatist stuff on Jean and Lafond. But all that, plus their artistic/academic activity, was quite legal–indeed common in their circle. How would the public, especially in Quebec, have reacted were there a hint that either federal agency had been “spying” on separatists?
It is the duty of the RCMP to check into any criminal background, and of CSIS to see if there is any compromising material related to “Threats to the security of Canada” as defined in the CSIS Act. None of Jean’s or Lafond’s activities would fall under either rubric, and it is not these agencies’ duty to do the open source search.
That duty falls to the PMO/PCO, and in particular to the Quebec Liberal Party given the obvious profile for the candidate search.
Three possibilities:
1) These people failed to know, or find out about, the easily-accessible backgrounds of Jean and Lafond–the most miserable incompetence; or
2) They knew but decided to go ahead with the appointment anyway–shameless behaviour for motives of base political opportunism; or
3) Some people, most likely in the Quebec Liberal Party, knew all about Jean and Lafond yet chose not tell those close to Martin (who are very largely anglophone and would not be familiar with those separatist/cultural circles, as Martin himself is not)–knowing the “dirt” would come out and wanting to humiliate Martin: the conspiracy theory.
Mark
Ottawa
Martin appointed her on the advice of PMO insiders. He was either set up and has become a laughing stock, or it is the Librano$ attempt to expedite the demise of the monarchy in Canada. It really is too much to expect that he can be this stupid, though. He thought’s he’d curry favour with Quebecers by appointing one of their own, and instead, has a quasi-separatist on his hands. It’s becoming increasingly apparent that the appointment will cost him elsewhere, not only among monarchists, but nationalists inside and outside PQ. Cretin must be loving evey minute of this. Scott Reid’s comments in David Frum’s article in today’s NP sounded so lame. Wonder if he’s a friend of Marc Emery?
Kathie, Stephen, et al.
I posted on that a day or so ago. It’s actually “Bowling for Columbine” but the intent is all the same–poke a stick in the eye of the U.S. Fortunately, things like this don’t even register over there, but it sure makes a lot of kool-aid swillers here feel good.
What I suggested to CBC in my letter of complaint was that they organize a reading of Will Ferguson’s “Why I Hate Canadians” (which is a very good book and does not compare to Moore’s sleazy trash) on either the anniversary of the Air India bombing (June) or the Dieppe Raid (August 19). Why, won’t that make Canadians feel good? But after all, isn’t that the only thing CBC is about–making Libranos and their fellow kool-aid drinkers feel good?
Doug
Your comment relating to the libranos & the CBC reminds me, todays National Post contains a quote by Lise Lareau (head of the Canadian media guild) where she states, “This (current lockout) will only be resolved with political pressure.” Won’t it be interesting to see how long the Libranos can live without their publicly funded mouthpiece.
“Won’t it be interesting to see how long the Libranos can live without their publicly funded mouthpiece.”
I cringe when I think of how much of our money they’re going to throw at the “problem” in order to “fix it”.
Yes, Doug, I remember. I thought actually that Kathy was advising us that in addition to Mooreon’s BFC, the CBC would also air Fatasshat 9/11 on 9/11. It’s not beneath them anyway.
That’s all folks (suckers). CP says it over, suckers.
Back to the trough for Coffin for some of your $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ courtesy of the AdScam Martin/Chretien pirates, suckers. Vote for Gigi Jean>>> Martin has a job for you, suckers, in return for your vote. Everyone on the Ottawa payroll is the motto of the Librano$$$$$$$$$
Coffin makes restitution
MONTREAL (CP) – Advertising executive Paul Coffin, the first person charged in the sponsorship scandal, has repaid the federal government $1 million, he told court on Tuesday.
Thanks for the correction, Doug. didn’t see your original post!
Stephen, I know you were kidding when you said, must be a slow week on this site.
I just came back from reading about all the positive stuff happening in Iraq and it was lengthy and fascinating.
Guess those few commentors who called me ignorant were correct. I was ignorant, but now I know it all!
Did you see Kate’s link where you can buy Iraqi dinars for $45 or $90? What the heck. Looks like a fun gamble to me. $90 is the price of one too rich resaurant meal. You’ll never miss it in the scheme of life. The odds are away better than the 649 and even if the Dinar never appreciates , you have some beautiful printed paper money as a keepsake. What have you got to show for the 649?
One post and I gained an Iraq current affairs education and a better than average investment wager opportunity. Not bad at all. 73s TG
“it is the Librano$ attempt to expedite the demise of the monarchy in Canada. It really is too much to expect that he can be this stupid”
Yes, way too much to believe that he really is this stupid, more likely the former – but no real loss on the political landscape – though what will we do with Rideau Hall.
Today, a well known (in Quebec) author of Haitian origin, Dany Laferri�re, has warned that the Haitian community’s anger is growing because recent agitators attempts to discredit Jean, specifically in separatist circles. The link is from a French source, sorry.
http://lcn.canoe.com/lcn/infos/national/archives/2005/08/20050816-083631.html
So if all goes well and Jean has to decline her appointment, it will create severe problems for the Quebec separatists by having their burgeoning support from the ethnic communities, the Haitians in particular, curtailed and possibly brought back to near zero levels. A generation of work flushed down the toilet! It might increase racial tensions for awhile but nothing that can’t be reasoned out between both parties.
But even better will be the Liberals embarrassment and ineptitude exposed for all to see, especially to the same immigrant and intellectual base that was being stroked by her nomination.
Is it me or is the sun shinning a bit brighter today?
Does anyone know whether our GG-designate has joined the picket lines, or is she in hiding? Surely she owes some loyalty to her colleagues at the Mother Corpse.
Mo, Mrs. Thatcher, I’m sure she recognizes that being Canada’s Governor General means that she must hide, out of the public eye, and avoid answering any questions about her politics, her ideals, and her views on Canada. If she needs to say something,
she can mail an anonymous communique to the media.
Reading Steyn’s column on the UN Oil-For-Food “fiasco” (such a friendly term) I was struck by the similarities between the Liberal Party of Canada and the UN. Both fund themselves with money earmarked for some noble cause (national unity, feeding hungry Iraqis) and both cover themselves in the patina of official titles.
The big difference, though, is that the LPC doesn’t have American investigators running around with flashlights examining their MO. Too bad. At the UN, our own Maurice “Executive Co-Ordinator for UN Reform” Strong was forced to resign over ties to a Korean businessman charged with taking millions from Hussein to act as an unregistered foreign agent for Iraq. At least a million of those millions were invested in a now bankrupted business-interest of Maurice Strong’s son.
Jeepers, why is Strong’s name so familiar in the purely Canadian context anyway?
Another of Annan’s Canadians, Louise “Deputy-Secretary-General” Frechette has been accused by Volcker’s committee of helping Benon “Oil-For-Food” Savan hide and obfuscate details of the Oil-For-Food scandal. If she too is forced to resign, I’m sure there are lots of federal Liberals, well-practiced in the Trudeaupian shrug, who could do sterling work on Annan’s behalf, and on behalf of any massively organized and internationally-integrated questionable quasi-criminal enterprises. Think of Canada as the farm team — there’s a lot of up-and-coming talent here.
Here’s a shocking thought:
I’ve been in the UK for several years now. I haven’t seen CBC TV nor listened to CBC Radio in that time. I rarely visit the CBC website.
Dare I still call myself Canadian?
Oh, the anguish and despair!
Okay, Tony, I was mostly kidding. Guess I was itching for an issue or two. BTW, I never gamble, myself. It’s too frustratingly annoying! Much better to earn money the usual way. I look forward, however, to one day playing the stock market…
Check out http://www.husseinandterror.com
Suddam’s Philanthrop of Terror by Deroy Murdock – about Hussein’s connection to 9/11. It a massive .pdf file just passed passed to me. Happy reading and gagging. Blair and Bush knew what they were doing, even if nobody else did/does.
This from WSJ “Best of the Web Today – August 16, 2005” is noteworthy.
http://www.opinionjournal.com/best/?id=110007114
“The Good News Is, the Good News May Get Reported”
Excerpts:
‘…It seems the Associated Press has come under pressure from American editors about the negativity of its coverage from Iraq…Some editors expressed concern that a kind of bunker mentality was preventing reporters in Iraq from getting out and explaining the bigger picture beyond the daily death tolls…
And indeed, here’s an AP Baghdad dispatch that moved yesterday on the AP wire:
The capital’s Sadr City section was once a hotbed of Shiite Muslim unrest, but it has become one of the brightest successes for the U.S. security effort.
So far this year, there has been only one car bombing in the neighborhood, and only one American soldier has been killed.
A year ago, militiamen garbed in black and armed with automatic weapons and rocket-propelled grenades roamed the streets in open revolt against the American presence. But U.S. troops quelled the uprising, and today calmly patrol the district, aided by loyalists of the radical cleric who spurred the violence.”
Though thing are hardly bright. See from the Washington Times (most conservative US daily) this column: “The disintegration of Iraq”, Allan Topol,
August 16, 2005.
http://washingtontimes.com/op-ed/20050815-101642-6813r.htm
Excerpts:
‘If and when a constitution is agreed upon in Baghdad, that will not mean that a single democratic nation will rise from the ashes of Saddam Hussein’s police state. The signs are already crystal clear. Fissure into separate Shiite, Sunni and Kurdish entities is inevitable…
But it is time to be realistic. Iraq was never a single democratic country. It consisted of three groups of people who have hated each other for centuries, held together by a colonial ruler or a tyrannical despot.
In addition to historical animosity, there are fundamental differences dividing the three communities. The Kurds are far more secular and resist a central role for Islam. The Shi’ites are demanding a theocracy. The Sunnis have been the upper class, but they don’t have the oil.
If the inevitable occurs and the country fragments, there will be endless hand wringing in Washington…
There is a valuable lesson which has been repeated over and over again in the last 60 years, but we never seem to get it. Whether it’s the Indian subcontinent, Cyprus, Israel, Lebanon or Yugoslavia, the conclusion is the same. People divided by ethnicity or religion, with deep-seated hatreds, will not agree to live together peacefully in the same political entity.’
Mark
Ottawa
Mark Collins,
I have profound respect for you but as a true democrat I am a rebublican. I have no use for any monarchy, no matter how ostensibly harmless. They stand for incoherent notions that are incompatible with the ideals of democracies. I am therefore delighted with the appointment of a separatist as GG and pray that the controversy continues. May Martin and Jean do what bumbling Charles and out of touch Adrienne tried to do: demonstrate that this archaic insitution has no legitimate role to play in Canada.
Kate
Regarding 9/11 I hope you and your readers disseminaate links to websites which expose Moore as the liar he is; here are but a few:
http://www.davekopel.com/Terror/Fiftysix-Deceits-in-Fahrenheit-911.htm
http://www.moveamericaforward.org/MichaelMoore/
http://www.chronwatch.com/content/contentDisplay.asp?aid=8189
http://www.citizensunited.org/
http://moorewatch.com/index.php/weblog/f911
http://www.illusionfree.com/weblog/index.php/no_illusions/niperm/20040622_5/
Terry Gain: I won’t argue about the merits of a monarchy. But in Canada there is no way in which the Constitution Act, 1982, regarding the Governor General (or anything else of general application) can be substantively changed short of a change in the nature of the country itself.
Is that game worth the candle?
I have my own opinions. But can, as it were, the centre hold?
Mark
Ottawa
>>>>>>> LGF:
tuesday, august 16, 2005
Able Danger Isn’t Over
Apparently the �Able Danger� story still has legs: Officer Says Military Blocked Sharing of Files on Terrorists.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 16 – A military intelligence team repeatedly contacted the F.B.I. in 2000 to warn about the existence of an American-based terrorist cell that included the ringleader of the Sept. 11 attacks, according to a veteran Army intelligence officer who said he had now decided to risk his career by discussing the information publicly.
The officer, Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer, said military lawyers later blocked the team from sharing any of its information with the bureau.
Colonel Shaffer said in an interview on Monday night that the small, highly classified intelligence program, known as Able Danger, had identified the terrorist ringleader, Mohamed Atta, and three other future hijackers by name by mid-2000, and tried to arrange a meeting that summer with agents of the Washington field office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation to share its information.
But he said military lawyers forced members of the intelligence program to cancel three scheduled meetings with the F.B.I. at the last minute, which left the bureau without information that Colonel Shaffer said might have led to Mr. Atta and the other terrorists while the Sept. 11 attacks were still being planned.
�I was at the point of near insubordination over the fact that this was something important, that this was something that should have been pursued,� Colonel Shaffer said of his efforts to get the evidence from the intelligence program to the F.B.I. in 2000 and early 2001
Poll results from bourque.org (Push or Pull Poll?)
THE GROWING GG FIASCO
GG: What Should PM Do ?
Clam Up, Pray For Miracle, Stall Until Sept 27 Installation (28) 10%
Dump GG & Extend Clarkson (40) 14%
Dump GG & Appoint Rick Hanson (92) 32%
Plead Innocence, Tell Canadians what he did/nt know (38) 13%
beats me, he’s in a pickle (93) 32%
Total Votes: 291
Enter your comments:
Back To Bourque
http://www.bourque.org
Liberal MP (unnamed): “They [AdScam Martin and his office] are like the gang that can’t shoot straight…”
Reid did not mention Jean. This shows the Liberal machine is very nervous of this affair.
Librano$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ Excerpts:
Globe and Mail:
http://www.rapp.org/url/?7EC7V0YH
Clear the air on G-G, Harper tells PM
By JANE TABER AND BILL CURRY
Wednesday, August 17, 2005 Updated at 4:32 AM EDT
From Wednesday’s Globe and Mail
Ottawa � The Prime Minister must try harder to reassure Canadians that the incoming governor-general and her husband are committed federalists in light of new allegations about the couple’s loyalty to Canada, Conservative Leader Stephen Harper says.
“I told the media last week that the Prime Minister did call me personally to assure me that these rumours were not true, that the governor-general [-designate Micha�lle Jean] and [Jean-Daniel] Lafond have always been federalists . . . and I expect that to be true. . . . I am waiting to hear somebody in the Prime Minister’s Office put out information that is contrary to what we are reading in the papers now,” he said yesterday in an interview with Ottawa radio station CFRA.
…
Again yesterday, PMO communications director Scott Reid said that Mr. Lafond “is not a separatist, nor has ever been a participant or a militant in the sovereigntist movement.”
He did not address the issue of Ms. Jean, nor did he explicitly say that Mr. Lafond had never sympathized or identified with the sovereigntist cause.
Several Liberal MPs and senior Liberals questioned the handling of the appointment by the Prime Minister and the PMO, saying there was a “lack of due diligence” in checking the couple’s background.
Mr. Reid has repeatedly said that the Privy Council Office, RCMP and CSIS subjected the couple to “rigorous” checks.
“They are like the gang that can’t shoot straight,” said another Liberal MP about the way in which the appointment was handled. “How many calls do you have to make in Quebec City to figure these guys out? I really think she represents the new Canada. . . . I hope for her sake it works out.”
AdScam Martin goes head-hunting; for Islamist murderers? No. For: Gigi!
PM AdScam Martin to Helene: Get over to CBC and get me a black, female, citizen of Quebec, immigrant somebody to be made over as Gigi; right boss [to herself, this can wait til Monday]…
Due Diligence by the PM/CSL/ex-Finance Minister; some due diligence…
This story has legs. Andrew Coyne’s in fine form this morning in the National Post. Seems to me the Librano$ are being exposed for the ‘separatists’ they are: the hell with the ROC, let’s rewrite history and focus on Upper and Lower Canada. With CPAC rerunning Gomery fallout on chretien and martin’s performance at the inquiry, it’s turning out to be a great summer for conservatives. now, if we can only goose the tories’ communication staff….
I agree, Iron Lady, there is something wrong with the Conservative team. Too polite, or something. When the RCMP announced no further investigation into the Murphy/Dosanjh tape, Harper’s Communications Director William Stairs announced “We are pleased that the RCMP has cleared Mr. Grewal”.
Sort of a “Can we go now?”
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