jbg

Some people start threads all day.

The carbon black spreading was never done. It was suggested. It was part of the same alarmist" sky is falling" mentality that the Kyoto set embraces.

I notice a common theme in your posts. It's the same theme that Harper is employing, which is to deflect responsibility away to another time and place. You're comparing apples to oranges. Martin did not "take responsibility" for Adscam. The investigation was his way of letting loose on the Chrétien faction in the LPOC, and trying to comoplete his takeover of the party. He was Finance Minister while Adscam was happening and unless I'm deaf I never heard him say that he was asleep at the switch. The LPOC had become a coalition of competing wheeler-dealers sucking at the trough.

Au Contraire, it is theft. Campaign finance laws are there to ensure fairness in democracy. It appears they broke those laws to the tune of 2 million, and that constitutes a theft. And what's worse is we now here Harper claiming no law was broken. At least with the Liberals we right away saw an admission that something was wrong and an investigation initiated BY the Liberals. In any event, this isn't about the Liberals. Claiming that the Liberals were worse is hardly a defense. It's pretty pathetic, actually. An honest man - a trustworthy man - would stand up and take responsibility without attempting to deflect the issue away to a past UNRELATED issue. My vague understanding of Canadian election law is that a policy convention is not covered by it. And one other question; do you think the CPC netted a profit on the convention after costs?

It strikes me that the CPC are pikers in the area of graft compared to the Lieberals.

In terms of magnitude it's nothing like what the Liberals did, and it wasn't theft from the Canadian taxpayer.

Quite the opposite, in fact. Link P.S. your link doesn't work Your link merely disses a Bush Administration official. In this New York Times article some truly crack-brained ideas. Remember the old idea of throwing carbon black onto the ice? (excerpts below) contrast with: We are currently emerging from this Little Ice Age. Temperatures started to rise about 1850 and rose fairly steadily until about 1945, when they began to drop again until about 1975 when they started to rise again. I personally remember articles in Time Magazine around the time of my High School graduation discussing this idea, back in 1975. This is not just some internet crank reminding us of the throught of stopping global cooling by blacking the ice caps.

Thanks for compliment. I also contributed a fair amount. I was banned as a result of a "conspiracy" that I don't believe exists and if it did, I would have neither the time nor patience for. I feel great sadness when I lose a friend. You were banned just before I left. But you were reinstated. I presume you were banned again. Yes, I was banned for being part of a "cabal" that existed only in Connie and Mark's fevered imagination. For the public part of the development of the craziness check "Muddy's departure" and "I Had an Abortion" thread.

Thanks for compliment. I also contributed a fair amount. I was banned as a result of a "conspiracy" that I don't believe exists and if it did, I would have neither the time nor patience for. I feel great sadness when I lose a friend.

As well as sulphorous gases (my view of the global warming alarmists). More on this when I'm not exhausted.

I would be surprised if anybody from FD posts on rabble: one is a right-wing site, the other a left-wing. They both make that pretty clear and I think both will ban people who don't ideologically fit. Sounds like too much agreement to me. I was a regular FD poster from March 2004 to June 26, 2006. I had about a dozen Rabble screen names during that time, which had durations ranging from minutes ("Love Billy Goat" and "Reality Bleats") to months for "JBG" and "Left Wing Zealot". Algonquin Park Visitor and APV bit the dust on the same day, within 30 minutes. Their offense was to refer to Israel as a modern democracy. I am not a teen, and I know, via telephone, about four other regular contributors who range in age from 49 (my age) to 63 or so. I donated out of a serious concern for returning Canada to effective multi-party democracy. I am not a homophobe and I am mildly pro-choice. Since the events leading to my banning, my views on their money handling have been evovling. That was once true. Unfortunately, in their zeal to wipe out an imaginary "conspiracy" they are close to destroying what was once a great force. Hopefuly they'll repair themselves or be replaced in short order.

This is the Canada I'm used to as a neighbor, one that sometimes was more pro-Western and more pro-democracy than even the US (such as in joining WW II, or considering moving the embassy in Israel to Jerusalem). I hope the period from 1963- January 23, 2006 is a bad dream.

Canada and California have roughly the same population. California's Budget is rougly $131 billion per annum; Canada's budget is roughly $212 billion. Even adjusting for currency, that's $190 billion. Granted, Canada has military and embassy expenses that California lacks. However, when one adds provincial budgets, the disproportion is staggering.

I know this will go over well in English Canada. But what will French Quebequers think?http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/sto...y/National/home If they want the benefits of being in Canada, such as transfer payments, they better d@mned well show national pride as Canadians. This is the Reagan playbook. It won the world over. No reason it shouldn't win Canada over.

I am not a Canadian, and my knowledge of your politics is limited. However, from the perspective of the US rebuild of conservatism under Reagan most of the people involved were former Democrats: Reagan himself Jeanne Kirkpatrick Bill Bennett Paul Wolfowitz Rudolph Giuliani Michael Bloomberg It seems to me that in our country, when the old Republican Party of the Nixon Era was wrecked by Watergate (similar to your PCPC implosion in the 1993 elections) the conservative alternative needs to be rebuilt. The logical source of a rebuild is disaffected former members of the Liberal Party in your case, the Democratic Party in ours. Your Liberal Party went off the rails with its wholesale repudiation of your tradition as a proud, strong, free, English-speaking country, with Trudeau's attempt to Europeanize Canada. The US Democractic Party tried to pander to the "hippie" element of the late 1960's and has never really gotten over it. The adults left behind, such as Emerson, are a logical building block of a new majority for the CPC, one that truly represents the broad spectrum of Canadian interests.

Canada, under its new government, should continue to be proud. Look at the Harper government's latest fete of return to the Western, English-speaking civilized world: ================================================================ Publication:The New York Sun; Date:Jun 26, 2006; Section:Foreign; Page:5 Iranian Judge Eludes Arrest In Europe BLAMED FOR WOMAN’S TORTURE AND MURDER By ELI LAKE Staff Reporter of the Sun WASHINGTON — An Iranian prosecutor who is accused of condoning the torture, rape, and murder of a Canadian photojournalist will have to plan his trips to Europe and the Americas carefully after it was disclosed that the Canadian government is now demanding his arrest if he leaves Iran. The Canadian foreign minister,Peter MacKay, telephoned his German counterpart last week and asked that Saeed Mortazavi be arrested if he set foot in Frankfurt, Germany. Mr. Mortazavi was expected to stop over in the German city on his flight back to Tehran from Geneva, Switzerland, after attending the opening session of the new U.N.Human Rights Council. The Canadian government has declared that Mr. Mortazavi’s 2003 decision to send photographer Zahra Kazemi, a Canadian citizen, to the prison where she was murdered makes him culpable in the crime. Speaking to reporters in Ottawa, Prime Minister Harper said on Friday that he was making an appeal to the world to use “all manner of law” available to apprehend Mr. Mortazavi. Mr. MacKay was even stronger in his wording, telling reporters Thursday night: “Mark my words, this individual is on notice. If there is any way Canada can bring this person to justice, we’ll do it.” The move from Canada to appeal for the arrest of Mr. Mortazavi could provide a window into what Western diplomacy toward Iran might look like should the ruling mullahs spurn an offer to negotiate an end to their enrichment of uranium. In January, American diplomats began meeting with their European counterparts to devise sanctions against the regime that would not be contingent on the approval of a divided U.N. Security Council. While that track appears to have been put aside for now in favor of inducing Iran to negotiate on its nuclear program, last week the national security adviser, Stephen Hadley, set a soft deadline of this week for an Iranian response to the negotiation offer. President Ahmadinejad said he would need until August. According to a dispatch filed over the weekend on Radio Farda, the American-funded Persian radio station, Mr. Mortazavi was displeased by the international reaction to his participation in the Iranian delegation to Geneva, particularly that the human rights group, headed by a Nobel Peace Prize winner, Shirin Ebadi, appealed against the prosecutor’s presence in a letter to U.N. Secretary-General Annan. On Saturday, Iran’s foreign minister responded to the Canadian campaign with invective. “The Canadian claims are illogical and they should understand who they are talking to and they should speak up to their level,” Manouchehr Mottaki told Iran’s official news agency from Geneva on Saturday.

I want a nation. New York area bankruptcy lawyers with redheaded sons.

I'm new here, and am not sure if this is where to introduce myself. I've been a loyal and dedicated poster and contributor at freedominion for a long time. Recently, I wound up on the wrong end of false accusations that I was part of an anti-so-con "cabal". So here I am. I'm a Yank from the NYC area, a bankruptcy lawyer. I know almost nothing about Canada, and want to learn.