Opinions Needed ASAP On A PDA/Cellphone

Mulder

I am probably going to be getting a new cellphone/PDA over the next week or so and need some input.

I currently use a Treo 600 and have used a Palm device for several generations going back to Palm III devices. I have also used both the original blackberry and one of the newer blue tinted models that are being offered for $150 by Rogers.

If anyone has an opinion on a specific Blackberry model or PDA/Cell that they can give, I would really appreciate it. My main concern is that I hear the sound quality on the blackberry’s is not up to snuff.

I would appreciate feedback in the comments below.

My First (But Not Last) Experience With Mark Steyn

Mulder

Over the past few weeks I have seen and heard the name Mark Steyn several times. I heard about a new book he has coming out at the end of September. I heard about him filling in for Rush Limbaugh. I have heard that he submits work to the Western Standard but I must admit, I have never read a single copy of the Western Standard. A friend of mine with a subscription submitted me for a free copy which may entice me to get a subscription, but I am still waiting for that copy as of the time I write this.

Today, while surfing my usual haunts, there was a link at Dust My Broom to an hour long interview with Mr. Steyn which was done on C-SPAN a few days ago.

With today being a cloudy, lazy Labour Day, I decided to take the hour of time and watch … and boy am I glad I did. Mr. Steyn was mesmerizing to listen to. I quickly found his website and have added him to my pundits section and he made an instant fan. Not because of all the hype around him recently, but because an hour of listening to his frank views was enlightening.

If you have not had a chance to experience Mark Steyn yourself, I highly urge you to check out the hour long interview.

Why Unions Should Respect Conservative Values

Mulder

For those of you who don’t know why you have Labour day off work, below is an excerpt.

For the unions out there, and especially for Buzz Hargrove, I must point out the bolded text below.

The Canadian labour movement can justly claim the title of originator of Labour Day. Peter J. McGuire, one of the founders of the American Federation of Labour has traditionally been known as the ‘Father of Labour Day’. Historical evidence indicates that McGuire obtained his idea for the establishment of an annual demonstration and public holiday from the Canadian trade unionist.

Earliest records show that the Toronto Trades Assembly, perhaps the original central labour body in Canada, organized the first North American ‘workingman’s demonstration’ of any significance for April 15,1872. The beribboned parade marched smartly in martial tread accompanied by four bands. About 10,000 Torontonians turned out to see the parade and listen to the speeches calling for abolition of the law, which decreed that trade unions were criminal conspiracies in restraint of trade.

The freedom of 24 imprisoned leaders of the Toronto Typographical Union, on strike to secure the nine-hour working day, was the immediate purpose of the parade, on what was then Thanksgiving Day. It was still a crime to be a member of a union in Canada although the law of criminal conspiracy in restraint of trade had been repealed by the United Kingdom parliament in 1871.

Toronto was not the only city to witness a labour parade in 1872. On September 3, members of seven unions in Ottawa organized a parade more than a mile long, headed by the Garrison Artillery band and flanked by city fireman carrying torches.

The Ottawa parade wound its way to the home of Prime Minister Sir John A. MacDonald where the marchers hoisted him into a carriage and drew him to Ottawa City Hall by torchlight. ‘The Old Chieftain’, aware of the discontent of workers with the laws which made unions illegal, in a ringing declaration from the steps of the City Hall, promised the marchers that his party would ‘sweep away all such barbarous laws from the statute books’.

The offending conspiracy laws were repealed by the Canadian government in 1872.

What’s that? A Conservative Prime Minister repealed the laws that outlawed unions?

Can I get a “Hell Yeah!!” from the autoworkers in Oshawa??

Can I get a “Hell Yeah!!” from the CUPE workers in Ottawa??

Can I get a “Hell Yeah!!” from the CUPW workers around the country??

Can I get a “Hell Yeah!!” from the teachers around the country??

Not a chance in hell.

Because the unions of today have gone beyond what they were created for. They are now the impervious shield of the “me generation”. The word grievance has gone from meaning “a wrong considered as grounds for a complaint” to “Back off or my mafia style organization is going to sue you, the company and the parent corporation and put you all out of business even if it costs me my job.”

Unions are not only joined to fellow union members, but they are joined to the hips of every other union’s members as well. This is most easily demonstrated by the inability for union members to cross the picket line of another union.

This post may not change the way unions operate, but perhaps it will give union members a bit more respect for the Conservative Party because, historically, it was the Conservatives who made it all possible. It was the Conservatives who cared about the working conditions. And it was the Conservatives who cared about Canadians of all stripes, and still do.

Coren Goes Beyond Ballistic

Mulder

I have heard a few discussions on what a nuclear bomb might accomplish if dropped in the middle east, but I have yet to see it in print … until today.

It is surely obvious now to anybody with even a basic understanding of history, politics and the nature of fascism that something revolutionary has to be done within months — if not weeks — if we are to preserve world peace.

Put boldly and simply, we have to drop a nuclear bomb on Iran.

Not, of course, the unleashing of full-scale thermo-nuclear war on the Persian people, but a limited and tactical use of nuclear weapons to destroy Iran’s military facilities and its potential nuclear arsenal. It is, sadly, the only response that this repugnant and acutely dangerous political entity will understand.

The tragedy is that innocent people will die. But not many. Iran’s missiles and rockets of mass destruction are guarded and maintained by men with the highest of security clearance and thus supportive of the Tehran regime. They are dedicated to war and, thus, will die in war.

Frankly, it would be churlish of the civilized world to deny martyrdom to those who seem so intent on its pursuance. Most important, a limited nuclear attack on Iran will save thousands if not millions of lives.

(emphasis mine)

I have often wondered if the terrorist cells would just all activate if a nuclear bomb hit Tehran or some military installation outside of the capital. Or if the bases in Iran and Afghanistan would just dry up and in a quiet way admit they can’t compete when it comes to warfare. i.e. utter surrender the way Japan did.

What do you think would happen globally?

How The Twin Towers Fell

Mulder

I tried swimming through the NIST report on how the towers fell but not until this morning did I get a decent, easy to understand explanation. This came courtesy of Discovery Channel’s Frontiers of Construction, one of my favourite shows.

It helps dispel the theory that bombs or internal explosions brought the tower down and runs through the key reasons why the towers fell.

Of particular note is the comment that once the towers hit, it was inevitable that they were going to fall due to the fireproofing being scoured off the supports. Had the fireproofing been intact and the fire continued to rage, there was a very high likelihood the towers would have remained standing.

This was an incredible revelation.

I recorded and uploaded to YouTube for the world to see two things.

1) how the towers fell and
2) what a great show Frontiers of Construction is.

If you can’t see the above video, then you can visit the YouTube link here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-UZoNqluFs

More Terror Busts In London

Mulder

Let the rout continue. I imagine it’s almost like shooting fish in a barrel once you start busting out the computers and past communications between terror cells and their masters.

LONDON — Police have arrested 14 people in anti-terrorism raids, saying Saturday they suspected the men had been involved in training and recruiting for terror.

The arrests in London late Friday and early Saturday were not linked to the alleged plot to bomb trans-Atlantic airliners or to the July 2005 bomb attacks on London’s transport network, the capital’s Metropolitan Police said. They declined to give details of what the suspects were believed to have done, other than saying they were arrested as part of an investigation into terror training and recruitment.

The raids followed months of surveillance and investigation, police said.

The 14 people, arrested on suspicion of the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism, were being held in central London, police said. Officers were searching an unspecified number of homes around the capital, they added.

It’s nice to know this is not related to the previous busts and that we are catching more and more of the bastards.

H/T goes to ProudToBeCanadian

Veterans Put Union To Shame – Another Proud Victory

Mulder

Several months ago I blogged about a union complaint over a city councillors aide cleaning up a steaming pile of shhhhhhaving cream on the floor in the city’s main library.

In Scugog, a councillor had lowered a flag to half mast on a Saturday and the local union filed a grievance stating that this was a union responsibility. After getting lashed from the veterans groups, the union has decided to withdraw the grievance.
I am pleased to see that there is still hope and sanity in the world.

H/T to Dust My Broom

(and just because I know it will piss a special someone off, this H/T goes out specifically to raskolnikov)

Safe Injection But No Safe Inhalation

Mulder

I just read a post and a dozen or so comments at Jesse Gritter’s blog regarding safe injection clinics. And although I usually share many views Jesse has, I have to say that in this case I have to disagree.

Something is definately wrong in this country when we ostracize smokers, boot them out of every government building, out of every restaurant and push the smokers off hospital property to have a smoke but we provide a nice cushy private room with a sink and free needles for heroin addicts to shoot up.

Think about that. We are punishing those who put taxes into the government coffers by using a legal substance and we give law breaking heroin addicts a nice cushy place to shoot an illegal substance into their veins.

And now the Harper government is giving the clinics enough money to stay open for at least another year.

Why Stephen…..why????

I Guess I Am Not The Only One Thinking We Are Getting Screwed

Mulder

I would love to think I inspired this artwork, but with the cost of the stamp at 49 cents I think it was created before my blog as the price of sending a letter in Canada is higher these days.

The below stamp can be found at CaledoniaWakeupCall.com

(H/T to Joanne)

screwed taxpayer

Now I have been toying with the idea of a new logo. So far my terrible paint shop pro skills have garnered this.

borderless logo 1

Can you comment on what you think the shaded circles represent?

Caledonia Natives Hurt In Fire, Medicine Man Invisible As They Get Taken To Tax Payers Hospital

Mulder

There was a fire in one of the partially built homes on the disputed land in Caledonia. You can read about this in the Hamilton Spectator

In an effort to further piss off those supporting this land claim I would like to ask “Where is the medicine man?”

Six Nations Fire Chief Michael Seth said the blaze in the unfinished home had been extinguished by the time his firefighters arrived at the Argyle Street South property. He said the injured were people on the site, “that were fighting the fire prior to our arrival.”

They suffered smoke inhalation and were taken to hospital.

In my opinion, our health care system is a co-op. We all pay taxes into it, and we all get a certain amount of free healthcare. Yet natives are tax exempt.

I am expecting some major backlash in my comments on this one but I really couldn’t care less. I think we are all here in Canada as equals, only some are treated more equal than others. My goal is to expose the inequalities and this is a big one.