The above poll results are from today’s Ottawa Sun as of 5:05 pm EST.
79% of those voting wanted stricter immigration policies. That’s pretty dramatic and quite telling.
I hope Monte Solberg is listening!!
Month: August 2006
Training For Liberal Leadership Candidates
In preparation for the upcoming leadership convention, Liberal strategists have developed a training tool designed to emulate the pounding that will come from the right leaning blogosphere.
Click here if the above video will not play for you.
H/T to Jay Leno
Hezbollah On Streets In Calgary
Guns … on yellow flags … in our streets …
We’re not making this up.
Click Here If You Can’t See The Player Above
What I hope is that CSIS and/or the RCMP use the fact that someone is draped in a terrorist flag for grounds to get search warrants, wiretap warrants, internet tap warrants, ingoing and outgoing mail interception warrants and use whatever they find to toss these terrorist supporters in jail permanently.
Carrying the flag of a foreign nation like Lebanon is wonderful. I am all for people rallying peacefully with Lebanese flags. But when the flag of a terrorist group comes out like this, it is time to draw a line.
This has me so upset, I am changing my poll question to reflect this subject.
H/T to Let Freedom Reign via Dust My Broom
Stephen Lewis – Fired By The UN
I thought I would point out that last night the CBC says that Lewis will be leaving his post with the United Nations at the end of this year.But in an interview I saw with him, he openly admitted that he would love to stay on but the choice was not his, but it was the U.N.’s.
i.e. He got his ass fired.
What does a Dipper have to do to get fired by the most useless left leaning political entity in the world? I mean you can sit around collect a paycheck, keep your mouth shut and be happy for decades working for the UN, yet he got fired.
Ceasefire In Middle East Blamed For Disney Store Plummeting Sales
Reuters photographer Sharif Karim’s checklist before heading off to take a few snaps in Beirut.
Camera – Check
Film – Check
Food and Water – Check
Extra Flash Batteries – Check
Bag full of stuffed toys to stage photos – Check
It’s a few days old, but for posterity I thought I would post these lovely heartwrenching images all taken by the same photographer, Sharif Karim, all with pristine and clean children’s toys. I have included a link and the original text that came with the image.
A toy lies among the wreckage of a demolished building in the Hizbollah stronghold that was targeted by Israeli air strikes in southern Beirut July 26, 2006. REUTERS/Sharif Karim(LEBANON)
A toy is seen in Beirut suburbs, after it was targeted by Israeli air strikes in southern Beirut July 21, 2006. REUTERS/Sharif Karim (LEBANON)
A building is destroyed in a Hizbollah stronghold targeted by Israeli air strikes in southern Beirut July 28, 2006. REUTERS/Sharif Karim (LEBANON)
How many toys does Sharif Karim have in his bag of tricks??
H/T Slublog (via my friend Alan)
Ottawa – We'll Crack (Pipe) You Up
Back in 2005, Ottawa City Council introduced free “crack pipe kits” to be distributed to crack smokers in an effort to reduce the spread of Hep C.
At that time, many people such as myself and Police Chief Vince Bevan said that it was a bad idea. I had numerous email conversations with my councillor Peggy Feltmate and the Associate Medical Officer of Health, Dr. Dave A. Salisbury. The emails were flying furiously and in EVERY email I asked Councillor Feltmate and the other city councillors to show me the study that says this crack pipe kit would benefit society.
Not once did I get an email pointing me to any facts. I did get email after email with lines like “it is our feeling that” and “it would be obvious to most that” and “we think that this is” but never once did someone say “Here is the study Steve.” or “Here is the link to the study Steve.”
I surfed for about 2 hours a day three weekends in a row looking globally for information to make me feel better about these crack pipe kits and there was nothing.
And now we have the first study out.
The University of Ottawa study, funded by federal, provincial and city governments, says the crack-user program is radically reducing the sharing of drug paraphernalia, which is the main cause of disease, but is also increasing the amount of crack smoking.
“We definitely saw an increase in crack smoking,” said University of Ottawa epidemiologist Lynne Leonard, “and it looked like a negative outcome of the program.
After all was said and done the program’s negative was more crack smoking. So now the percentage with Hep C and HIV will go down but the absolute number of drug abusers will go up.
I don’t know about you, but to me this is a pretty shitty trade off.
Unions Still Don't Get It
What kind of strangle hold do union bosses have on their members?
Gerry Nicholls has a nice piece at the Brookstreet Blog on how the unions spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on NDP candidates last election without a peep coming from the employees on their opinions of which party should get the union financial support.
Well this is now changing and that money will, inevitably, be pumped into the Liberal party.
Hargrove told the convention in Vancouver that as long as he has member support, the CAW would not be part of a body that doesn’t respect one of the largest unions in Canada.
The outspoken labour leader says this doesn’t mean the CAW won’t support some New Democrat candidates, but overall the NDP will not get financing from the union.
Getting back to the stranglehold, I must point out that the only candidate other than Buzz Hargrove on the ballot has withdrawn his nomination and is now supporting three faced Buzz.
Thanks Ontario Teachers For Making Our Kids More Stupid
Ontario Elementary Teachers Federation voted to reduce the number of annual report cards from three to two.
Am I the only one who sees a problem here?
I wonder what my boss would do if me and the other sales guys said we were going to cut our customer visits by 33%. I’ll tell you what they would do. They would fire all our asses.
Once again, the honest taxpayer is getting OfficiallyScrewed.
My wife pays very close attention to the homework the kids are assigned and we work hard to strengthen their basic reading, writing, and math schools.
But how many parents rely on the report cards to determine how their kids are doing? How many kids are going to find the halfway point too late in the year to pull their bootstraps up?
I’m pretty upset at this. How could teachers have possibly gotten by for decades doing three report cards and all of a sudden it is too much?
Perhaps if the schools stopped teaching left wing politics and stopped giving lessons to grade schoolers on how to put a condom on and focussed on the three R’s and the report cards, the world would work just fine and dandy.
Having Your Cake And Eating It Too
Ghosts of Mr. Dithers…
When the Lebanese Canadian evacuation wasn’t to the liking of left leaning Canadians, they criticized and said a slowdown was because the Prime Minister’s office was calling every shot.
When rumour got out that MPs were told to run all press releases/statements through the Prime Minister’s Office, the press and leftists fried PM Harper for being too controlling.
Yet….
When Harper doesn’t show up at the Outgames, instead letting his Montreal based Cabinet Minister have the honours he gets sacked for not taking part.
And once again, after letting his Health Minister, Tony Clement, ably handle the responsibility of attending the International AIDS Conference, the Prime Minister takes a beating from the press and the lefties for not attending.
For all you moonbats, what’s it going to be? Do you want his hands in the cake or do you want him to let his team of chef’s do the baking?
Make up your freaking minds already.
Name A Hungarian Bridge
Hungary has this amazing suspension bridge that the Hungarian government wants help naming via an online poll. The current leader has over 2 million votes, but with a concerted effort I think we can get the bridge named the Canada Bridge.
I have submitted the name and urge you all to head over to their site, scroll down to Canada Bridge in the list, give the radio button a check and then scroll down and submit your vote.
Note, the site is in Hungarian so you may not understand most of the text but there are some amazing photos of this bridge. It’s a doozy!!
If you want to help spread the word and get the bridge named the Canada Bridge, feel free to link to their site or this blog post and help get the ball rolling.
Currently, there are some pretty whacked out names up there. The Chuck Norris bridge has over 360,000 votes!!! As a nation we can beat Chuck Norris!!!