Month: September 2006

Lunatic Fringe – The NDP And Their Hatred Of George Bush

Mulder

After blogging the single motion session of the NDP national convention Saturday morning from my cushy seat in front of CPAC, I started recording until my harddrive was jammed up (and violently ill from) NDP national convention footage. My only regret was not getting a copy of the “First nine times I saw George Bush’s name come up“.

But thanks to the suggestion from my friend Alan, I started putting a collage together. He also suggested the background music which I thought was incredibly fitting. (You can go read the lyrics of the tune here).

If you enjoyed “The NDP Surfin’ on Heroin” and “Hit The Road Jack“, then you should really enjoy this one. I think it is the piece de resistance, or more aptly put, the piece de resistance de guerre. Here is Lunatic Fringe-A tribute to the NDP.

Enjoy, because after this, I need a break and some relaxation…which I will get by bashing a few Liberals around.

p.s. don’t forget to rate it at youtube if you have the time.

If you can’t view the video above, try clicking here.

NDP Support Surfin' On Heroin

Mulder

I love playing with Windows Movie Maker. Below is a video I made from a clip taken from the CPAC coverage of the NDP policy convention in Quebec City this weekend. Jim Green pointed out that his wife worked for the organization that created the safe injection clinic (in fact she was the president) and his daughter works for them. Talk about a biased opinion of safe injection.

I took the liberty of adding some commentary, some smokin’ music … errr … some shootin’ up music by a Canadian band called the Forgotten Rebels and uploaded to youtube.

Enjoy.

If you cannot see it embedded above try clicking here

NDP Convention – Bush Count Hits 9 On CPAC

Mulder

Last night I watched ten minutes of the NDP convention and heard George Bush’s name once.

This morning Alexa McDoughhead was interviewed and said George Bush’s name four times.

Laurel Gibbons was interviewed shortly later and the other NDP gentleman who was interviewed with her mentioned Bush once and that it was a war for oil. (I do commend Laurel for at least being supportive of the troops as she is married to a military man.)

ADDENDUM: 9:07 am – Paul Dewar just mentioned Iraq twice, Vietnam and Americans in his interview regarding his resolution. No mention of Bush, but he did just say people signed up to the military years before Iraq, implying they had no clue that they would end up in a war (morons) and it also shows that Paul Dewar and the NDP are trying to tie the current Afghani mission to the one in Iraq when Canadians are not even in Iraq.

ADDENDUM: 9:17 am Jack Layton gets the mic first and mentions Bush three times.

ADDENDUM: 9:38 am – After complaining that the vote to extend the mission last session in parliament only had 6 hours of debate, the NDP have a standing vote after 21 minutes to go to a vote on the resolution to remove our forces from Afghanistan immediately. They don’t have the 2/3rds needed to go to vote and debate continues. (Peter Stoffer is a real man and I would like to shake his hand.)

ADDENDUM: 9:46 am – A motion to defer the debate is made and debate on the referral begins.

ADDENDUM: 9:54 am – Vote to refer the motion fails and they move back to the main motion.

ADDENDUM: – 9:58 am – after a full 51 minutes debate, a full 5 hours and 9 minutes LESS than the debate in the house on this issue, the NDP pass a motion to resolve that they remove troops from Afghanistan immediately. (i.e. the NDPussy Motion passes)

How Canada Earned Her Stripes

Mulder

If you have not read anything about the Battle of Vimy Ridge, you must. These few paragraphs from Pierre Berton’s book Vimy are dedicated to all the Dippers at convention this weekend. (ADDENDUM: You can add the left leaning MSM who only seem to focus on the Canadian who die and not the successes.)

The Germans had held and strengthened this fortress for more than two years and believed it to be impregnable. The French had hurled as many as twenty divisions against it and failed to take it. In three massive attacks between 1914 and 1916 they had squandered one hundred and fifty thousand poilus, dead or mangled. The British, who followed the French, had no better success. Now it was the Canadians’ turn.

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The Canadian Corps (which included one British brigade) faced an incredible challenge. In one day – in fact in one morning – these civilian volunteers from a small country with no military tradition were expected to do what the British and French had failed to do in two years. The timetable called for most of them to be on the crest of the ridge by noon. and they were expected to achieve that victory with fifty thousand fewer men than the French had lost in their own frustrated assaults.

And thanks to the leadership of Currie, training and retraining on a mock version of the ridge back home, and the success of the creeping barrage, they did it. All in a mornings work. Battles and skirmishes continued on afterwards for a few days, but it was over. The Germans were routed.

In the dressing stations behind the old Canadian lines there was no sleep. Before the Battle of Vimy Ridge was over, the doctors, stretcher-bearers, and medical orderlies would treat 7,004 wounded men. Another 3,598 were past help. In sort, one Canadian in ten was killed or wounded in the four-day battle for the ridge. That is not a high ratio by Great War standards, but to that number must be add another 9,553 casualties suffered at Vimy in the months before the battle. Sniper fire, artillery fire, and trench raids took their toll. Put bluntly, to take vimy Ridge it cost Canada twenty thousand casualties, about a quarter of whom would never go home.

It was on this day that Canada grew up from being “that little British lad across the pond” to “that strapping Canadian chap who helps right the world’s wrongs”.

Red Friday Explodes Across Blogosphere And The Ottawa Valley

Mulder

Well today was a fun day. While driving to the office I noticed a few others wearing red in cars while waiting at … ahem … red lights. I nodded to a couple and tugged at my red sweatshirt. I got a smile and a nod back.

I actually wore a nicer red Roots pullover to work and the sweatshirt below while out to dinner with the family tonight.Red Friday 1 I also managed to finagle a red ribbon magnet for the back of my truck today. When they told me they only had French ones left, I told them I didn’t care and that we are a bilingual country.

Call after call to Lowell Green’s show were supportive of the Red Fridays today. Lowell and his folks were working frantically to get prepped for setting up a Red Friday on Parliament Hill to get an aeriel photo of a sea of red to send to the troops.

I noticed today that Matt at A Step To The Right has jumped on board, but when I saw a comment from Shere at Dust My Broom, it really made my day.

There is a call going (or already gone) from CFRA in Ottawa to a radio talk show host in Calgary and I suspect next week this whole Red Friday thing will be across the country.

For those who ask “Why not Yellow?”, the response I heard today was that the yellow ribbon is a welcome home ribbon for soldiers. The Red Ribbon/Red Friday campaign is just a way we are showing support to the soldiers and their families. It is likened to friends shaving their heads to show support for a friend with cancer.

if your heart goes out to the families of the soldiers overseas, then wearing red on Fridays is the way for you to show it. Wear your heart on your sleeve.

What The Canadian Legion Thinks Of Red Fridays

Mulder

Just because I got a few questions (and a few unsupportive remarks) regarding the request to wear red clothing on Fridays as a show of support for our troops overseas, i want to point out that this is not just for one Friday but ALL Fridays.

If you don’t believe me, you can believe the Royal Canadian Legion.

08/09/06 03:10 pm

Subject: ALL BRANCH – A TOUTES LES FILIALES (06-018) – Red Fridays – Vendredis Rouges

All branches are advised of the current “Red Friday” movement promoting the wearing of red items on Fridays to show support to our troops. Please note that The Royal Canadian Legion endorses all such support programs and encourages all of our branches to express their support publicly.

I hope this helps garner support for what our own Legions are supporting.

Red Fridays To Support Our Canadian Troops

Mulder

A few months ago, the families of Canadian soldiers based in Petawawa started wearing red on Fridays as a show of support for our troops overseas.

Tomorrow, Friday September 8th, I will be wearing red for the first time in support of our troops. I hope you, too, decide to wear red to show you care about them.

Many may say that the troops would never know, but their are family members of our troops all over Canada and many of them could use the show of support too. They speak to their loved ones often, and if we all wear red, maybe, just maybe, we can put some lift in the heart of our soldiers that may carry them through some of the tough battles they are facing.

Red Fridays. Spread the word.

Gwynne Dyer's Pants On Fire After Substandard Research

Mulder

Ok, so I just continued the line started by Let It Bleed.

But this kind of shlocky journalism has to be stopped in it’s tracks.

Indeed, no other non-Muslim nation except Israel was a target for Islamist terrorist attacks until after the invasion of Iraq in March 2003. And the attacks since then have been aimed at the citizens of countries that were complicit in that invasion: Londoners, not Parisians; Spaniards, not Germans; Australians holidaying in Bali, not Japanese holidaying in Malaysia

Considering the bombing in Bali took place on October 12th, 2002, Gwynne should be apologizing to all his readers in all 45 countries he is published in for this bald faced attempt to lie.  Ironically, he even uses Bali in his list which makes it truly sad.

The public, if not already, should be very leery of what they read and see in the MSM.  The press today is not like it was 20 years ago.  The advent of quick exchanges via email and electronic data transfer has made it too easy for information to make it to print without the due diligence being done to make sure the information is accurate.

In their attempts to make their deadlines so they get the scoop before someone else, today’s reporters are starting to slack big time to be first and make the big bucks.

H/T to Let It Bleed.