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Quite frankly when I heard US sycophant Rex Murphy comments last evening I wanted to vomit. How in the world the CBC hired such a wimp of a Canadian for such a prominent position is beyond the pale. Canadians have a right to stand up and say whatever they want about the bullies to the South. I thought all you people believed in free speech. Can't have it both ways you know.

She is out because she is disloyal to Martin. Plain and simple. It has nothing to do with her comments on Bush/US which she has been making OUTSIDE of the House of Commons for some time now. I believe that the NDP would not want her - she is too right wing, doesn't support same-sex marriage, etc., for them! Parrish however one may disagree with her, or her tactics, does represent a sizeable portion of Canadian society. We will probably hear from some of them in the next few days.

Bin Laden Said Unble to Run Operations Fact or just more US hype? Or are we going to hear shortly that bin Laden has been captured or is dead?

That is quite a stretch and absurd. Tell you what, you speak for yourself, and I'll speak for myself.

I really don't think Parrish had any influence or impact on any trade issues. And she has a much bigger following and support in Canada than you will ever hear about in the mainstream media: Liberal Caucus Has Heart Removed This issue can only help the NDP.

Apparently Parrish wrote PM Martin a letter this morning prior to receiving her independent status. It must have been quite a letter. I hope she releases it to the public. PM Martin doesn't come out of this lookin' very good. He was trying to have it both ways, sitting on the usual Liberal fence, and now he has got splinters up his ass. The message is loud and clear. Beat up on Bush/US all you want, but don't you dare criticize PM Martin. But the reality is we now have a media circus, instead of discussing substative issues like missle defence, cow & lumber trade disputes, Iraq, etc. Will Martin now force CBC to not air the show tomorrow, I believe when it is scheduled for, that shows Parrish stomping on the Bush doll?

What will be the telltale sign? When Martin gives her a Senate seat!

Careful, this could come back to haunt Canada even more. US has total control of the testing, etc. don't they?

PM Martin's hypocrisy during the Liberal nomination mettings, leading up to the last federal election, is coming back to haunt him. How quickly we forget. Good on Parrish for calling him on that.

Parrish's Bush doll-stomping is beginning to get media coverage in the US. I think Layton is handling himself well in this situation, saying that he does not want it to trivialize the importance of star wars missle defence issue.

-from yesterday's Hansard: It looks like PM Martin and the Liberals are going to start chocking on this issue. They may well get the support for it in the House of Commons with the support of the Cons but they will be in defiance of the majority of Canadians.

Sgro's woes multiply I think it is time for her to go, as this is not the first time in such a short period of time that she has gotten herself into trouble, and she is now becoming a major problem for the PM Martin Liberals.

Stoolie: Canada pol in mob I wonder if this is a case of mistaken identity. If it is true the Liberal party had better get going to do some serious damage control.

Possible New Case of Mad Cow Disease Found Gee, I wonder what the tests will show this time!

I guess we can expect the usual systematic attempt to discredit Parrish's credibility, including using the mainstream media, now that she has disgraced the Canadian establishment. What a croc!

There was a rented vehicle found after the plane crashes on September 11 with some identification, plans, whatever, etc. A little bizarre for such a sophisticated group of killers, don't you think? I think it is reasonable to believe these documents were planted there, so there is no reason to not suspect something may be also unusual with Hassan's killing.

She is the one person in the Liberal party that is stranding up to the unacceptable behaviour of the US, concerning their illegal war in Iraq. The rest of the Liberal party MPs appears to be a bunch of US sychophants. But we alrready know that, don't we?

Yet, here is a proposal from some of the Martin Liberals which sounds almost diametrically oppsed to Salutin's analysis. Salutin's analysis seems to be new thinking, and the Martin Liberals' proposal seems to be old thinking. I wonder why. Article

This was originally published in the Globe and Mail although I scored it from another discussion forum to be able to present it in its entirety. I do not think it is available otherwise. Success, failure, funeral >by Rick Salutin November 12, 2004 It was Yasser Arafat's task to represent the Palestinian cause at a time when it seemed almost hopeless, especially in the West. What chance would you give a cause that could be readily portrayed as denying the right of Jewish people to a national existence in the aftermath of the Holocaust? That could therefore be depicted (falsely, I'd say) as an extension of Nazism. His achievement was that, under his leadership, that cause finally made its mark. It became seen as legitimate and urgent. He achieved this although his own presence, in the West, was a PR nightmare. He was unkempt, nearly drooling, both ingratiating and menacing, inept in English, a manoeuvrer rather than a straight talker. (A great example? His declaration that the official Palestinian position on destroying Israel was caduc, an obscure French term implying: inoperative, so don't worry about it. But he rallied support to his cause, as much despite his own traits as due to them. Yet he failed, in his lifetime, and his cause may fail, too, as Edward Said, the elegant Palestinian advocate who also died this year, apparently felt at the end. His moment of triumph, the peace agreement signed at the White House in 1993, was probably his great failure. He agreed to police his own people, but got no guarantees to offer them back on issues such as Jewish settlements, borders, Jerusalem or right of return. Without those levers, his power declined. In 2000, he felt he had to turn down what Israel managed to position in the media as “the most generous offer” ever made to Palestinians. In truth, it was far less and added little to the earlier deal. When I asked Mustafa Barghouti, of the non-violent grassroots Palestinian movement Mubadara, why the Arafat side failed to counter Israeli exaggerations, he gave me an answer I didn't expect: “Sheer incompetence.” Yasser Arafat's death reverberates because it also seems to represent the failure, so far, of his cause. That failure, in turn, symbolizes the collective human capacity for failure in a just cause. I know there are other just causes. But Palestinians have, in this era, become emblematic of them, as South Africans were under apartheid. South Africa came to eventually embody the capacity of the human community, acting through international institutions, to win victory in a just cause. Palestine so far is its grim opposite. Funerals are important, even if they evoke ambivalence, as this one does among Palestinians. But this funeral is important for how Israelis respond, too. Israel's justice minister said the burial would not happen in Jerusalem because it is “the city of Jewish kings, not Arab terrorists.” That is the voice of Jewish arrogance, not Jewish righteousness. Jerusalem is also a city of Jewish prophets, who denounced their own kings, even King David, when those kings abused people under their rule, including non-Jews. Israeli officials are reported to have called Yasser Arafat “the founder of modern terrorism,” a ridiculous claim. Terrorism has a far longer history, and includes two of Israel's prime ministers. Nelson Mandela was once a terrorist. Then, suddenly, he became South Africa's national saviour for blacks and whites. The term, terror, wasn't withdrawn or redefined. It just went away; it became caduc. Other national and moral priorities took over. The whole thing never was about terror, not really. For decades, the Israel-Palestine imbroglio has been a litmus test for whether people of goodwill can sort through a horribly tangled issue of right and wrong. It has been confused and obscured by the Holocaust, the price of oil, Hollywood's notion of terrorists — don't get me started. Were it elsewhere in the world, with other players involved, most people would have sorted it out by now with ease. But put it this way. The Holocaust has for so long been the reference point for questions about crimes against humanity that it is in danger of losing its ability to instruct. The world needs other reference points. The cause of the Palestinians stands in that role, as one real test of whether humanity, to the extent one can meaningfully use the term, measures up.

What makes you think the money belongs to you. We live in a society where it is our government's role to take from the greedy bsastards and look after our weak, our sick, our students, our seniors, our poor. Just because your heroes have structured the tax laws to deprive these these people mentioned above, what rightfully should belong to them in redistribution, in our social democratic Canada, doesn't make it ethical nor right. You don't need 4 cars and 2 houses while others don'r even have shelter or food. And it doesn't matter how HARD you have worked. Everyone works hard.

Actually if you had watched Question Period today you would have seen NDP leader Jack Layton very effectively pummeling PM Martin over missle defence. Layton is really starting to shine now that he is in the House of Commons, but of course our anti-social democratic media squeches him any chance they get. Parrish & the NDP might be a good mix.

caesar....I agree with your comment about paying off the deficit before we have more tax deductions. How in the world will we pay off the debt if we don't collect taxes to do it with? And it is not fair to our children.

House G.O.P. Acts to Protect Chief Bill to grab Canadian lumber tariffs introduced in U.S. Senate After reading these two articles I am beginning to think they are. Maybe they always have been.

Martin ‘weak’, MP Parrish charges Liberal MP Derek Lee says he wants Parrish removed from Caucus. Parrish actually represents a lot of Canadians whose point of view is being squelshed within our current Martin Liberal minority government. Do you think Parrish and the NDP are a good match as it is obvious she, nor her point of view, is wanted amongst the US sycophant Martin Liberals?

Get tough on car emissions, California politician tells Ottawa What is Canada waiting for? A monumental crash! Let's put a government in there that knows what they are doing, and that gives a shit about the lives of ordinary Canadians, as well as people in the rest of the world.