Montgomery Burns

Let's not forget the fact that Bubber claimed that "irregardless" was an actual word...

I admitted that I screwed up on the title. I saw this just before I had a meeting and quickly, too quickly, posted this thread. However, substitute "Kyoto" with "global warming" in the title and I stand by what I said. al-Gore has admitted that it is okay to lie about global warming to get his point across. The delicious irony is that Grist Magazine is an enviromental mag.

MSM lies - yet again. Bush Derangement Syndrome is alive and well. From the "rightwing" National Post: I saw this press conference and the NP is lying. Indeed, I have proof from the NP itself - from yesterday: That's Bush's "crucial errors." What the hell is going on with the NP lately? Chris Wattie put his name on a story about Iran issuing different colored clothing to non-Muslims, then the next day Wattie wrote an article blaming the story on Amir Tehari. Bizarre! The only MSM paper in Canada that is relatively balanced and they too are playing games with the facts. Please bring back the Conrad Black days; the old days when the NP was a rightwing paper, since rightwingers are not so partisan a la leftwingers. And then, unsurprisingly, CNN (the channel that some on this board have called "rightwing" because of "conservatives" like Wolf Blitzer and Lou Dobbs) was again caught being deceptive: Iraqi minister defends Iranian nuclear program However the brothers in Iraq from Iraq the Model say this is untrue: And to top it off, CBS - today - wrote on their website that William Jefferson (the Donk that was caught on tape accepting a $100,000 bribe--and $90,000 found in his freezer) was a REPUBLICAN. After complaints, they quietly changed his party name to Democrat. Was a correction issued? Are pigs flying through the sky? The liberal MSM's credibility is at an all-time low. They are such rank partisans that they continue to bullshit the public despite millions of citizen factcheckers who continue to catch their lies time and time again. :angry:

Newbie, Dear Leader lied under oath, a felony. I know that means nothing to you, but to the rest of us, it is important. That's why Dear Leader lost his lawyer's license.

Grist Magazine interviews al-Gore: Also, I saw a 1 hour Global Warming Special on America's most trusted name in news, last Sunday. They showed EU Enviromental Minister Margot Wallstrom saying that Kyoto is about "the economy, about levelling the playing field for big businesses worldwide." The Euro-socialists want to knock down the US economy which is kicking the crap out of the EU. The Fox News GW Special also showed Jacques ChIraq saying - at The Hague in 2000 - "Kyoto represents the first component of an authentic global governance." Quick PM Harper. Get us out of Kyoto. Edited to add: I really blew the title on this thread. I wish I could change it. I posted this from work and was in a big hurry as I had some things to do. The title should be: al-Gore: It's okay to lie about Global Warming because Global Warming is, um important. Basically substitute Kyoto with global warming. Sorry about that ladies and gents.

I don't know if they will lose Congress, but the way they are pissing off their base regarding the illegal immigration issue, it seems they will lose ground. Idiots. They were close to getting a majority big enough to stop the filibustering and obstruction by the Dems and they are going to blow it.

Thanks PR. Nice to see you back too. Unfortunately I'm very upset. Conservative Harry Smith, co-host of the Early Show on the rightwing CBS network, the former home of neocon Dan Rather, was up to their old tricks again. Look at what snuck, er I mean, they deliberately aired on this live broadcast from Iraq: I'm sick and tired of the biased corporate-controlled rightwing MSM. :angry: The Iraqis hate Americans. All us progressives know this because we live in the reality-based community. Talk to you later. I've gotta go fire up the bong and tighten my tinfoil hat (it is loosening and I worry about getting zapped by KKKarl Rove's Mind Control Ray Gun)

To be fair to the Liberals, it wasn't them who were complaining about the SUV looking too Bush-like, it was Pat Martin from the NDP and the Ottawa Citizen writer. I just used the Official Liberal-Left PMmobile title because that was what on the photoshopped picture. As for majority territory, a poll was released yesterday (CanWest-Ipsos Reid, I think), that put the CP at 43%, Libs 25%, NDP 15%, BQ 9%, and Greens at 5%. And in BC, where the CP had lost substantial ground in the election (38%), they are now at 48%. I know it is only a poll, but it gives me cause for hope.

You can try to cloud the issue with Bush, 9-11, Trudeau, and Afghanistan all you like, but I know (unless things have changed) that it is the RCMP that makes the decisions as to which vehicles to purchase and it is the RCMP that makes the decision as to how to protect the PM. Edited to add: (unless things have changed) and I am quite sure that Pat Martin and the Ottawa Citizen reporter know this. They are playing politics and trying to tap into the rampant anti-Americanism in this country (much of it perpetuated by our state-run hard left CBC).

WARNING: Spew Alert Official Liberal-Left PMmobile

Bull. The RCMP makes the decisions as to which vehicles to purchase and the RCMP makes the decision as to how to protect the PM. Harper has better things to do than advise on security protocol; he likely just accepts whatever the RCMP recommends. Yeah, I'm sure Harper told the RCMP to go out and buy a great big SUV so he can look like George Bush. That's just silly beyond comparison. Plus I suspect the procurement of a specialized piece of equipment like this takes longer than 3.5 months. I'm trying to find an article by Tim Naumetz or a complaint by Pat Martin lamenting Clinton's usage of SUVs in his motorcade, but so far no luck.

BubberMiley: Tinfoil hat time Ahh...the old fake but accurate school of liberal journalism. I stand corrected. It's a minor error and does not change the fact that it was funny and dishonest. I saw the clip. Yes it is. You lying to make your point is what's really funny.

Link, please.

From Gerry's link: "A copy of the draft law obtained by the Associated Press..." The Associated Press. The ones who reported that Bush supporters booed Clinton's name at a Bush rally when Bush wished Bill Clinton well in his then upcoming heart surgery. As we all heard, that is if you have the Fox News Channel - who were at the rally, there was no booing on the audiotape when Bush said that. Is this why many are trying to discredit Taheri?

Ha ha. I've got another funny, although this is actually supposed to be serious news: RCMP buys a new SUV. Reporter Tim Naumetz and NDP's Pay Martin comment BUSHARPER!! Seriously though. I expect this from an NDPer because they detest the successful capitalist USA, but I'm disappointed in Canwest's Tim Naumetz. Usually Canwest/Global TV is pretty balanced even though it is owned by the liberal Aspers--who come across as "blue" liberals.

1) With its credibility lying in tatters, I don't see how anyone couldn't see that the UN is a failure. 2) I agree. The UN issued 17 Chapter VII resolutions, which are binding resolutions, to Iraq. They ignored or broke every single one. Then when it came time to enforce them (remember what the last resolutions said), because Russia, France, and China had armed Iraq, and were owed billions of dollars by Iraq, they vetoed the enforcement of int'l law. I understand that they were looking out for their own interests (all countries do), but then what was the point of all those resolutions? 3) I said democracies. None of the countries you mentioned (not sure about Morocco) are democracies. 4) Why do you think the buying and selling of credits is working? Russia has done nothing to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions (their plants are old and big polluters), but that Russian guy (I forget his name) on the FNC's Global Warming special on Sunday, said they stand to make $12 billion in the next 3 to 4 years just by selling credits because vast areas of the country are virtually uninhabited (eg, Siberia) and produce little emissions, Kyoto gave them lower goals because they aren't a 1st world country. Ergo, they don't go above the Kyoto greenhouse gas emissions Kyoto standard, and simply sell credits. No wonder that guy from Russia said it was a great deal for Russia - economically.

Betsy: The US, by a country mile. Who was the first to arrive at the scene with aid after the tsunami in Indonesia? Australia and the US. The UN arrived a week later and seemed more concerned about finding a 5 star hotel first. The UN also turned tail and ran from Iraq when they were attacked by a suicide bomber. What was Kofi Annan's reply when he was asked if he should step down after the Oil For Food scandal: "Hell no!"

As far as my article is concerned I stand by it.

4 people were fired over Rathergate. I am unaware of anyone retiring because of this. Dan Rather did step down sooner than he originally planned. I think he knew this incident was the final nail in the coffin regarding his credibility. He had a long history of liberal bias. Indeed, he even attended (not in a journalistic sense) a Democrat fundraiser. As far as I know, no one was fired from Newsweek for Korangate (the false story that US guards at Gitmo flushed a Koran down the toilet). I don't know if the National Post's Chris Wattie will be fired for this. He was the original author of the May 19 NP article. The next day Wattie bizarrely wrote that the May 19 NP article was written by Amir Taheri. As far as I know, this story did come from Taheri, but it's a confusing mess. I don't think that Taheri is a regular contributor, or even a contributor, to the NP, so I don't know how they could fire him. In Taheri's bio, the only reference to Canada is that a book he wrote (The Cauldron: The Middle East Behind The Headlines) has been used in various Canadian colleges.

Machinations: Until Iran gets nukes... With a man who has threatened to wipe Israel off the map... And then we can gaily skip through fields of organic daisies and watch the unicorns graze.

Machinations: Unquestionably conservatives. Definitely not liberals. For 34 years straight since they first started researching this in 1972. Yes, he is a pundit on the FNC. Ahhh...the partisan George Soros-funded Media Matters and its rhetorical dishonesty. Soros also funds MoveOn.org, the organization that sponsored 2 ads showing President Bush morphing into Adolf Hitler. They even streamed it on their site. Nice. I ask you this, Machinations: How many conservatives at the state-run, taxpayer-funded CBC Newsworld? Rex Murphy and...? How many conservatives at CNN? Zero. O'Reilly was never convicted of sexually harassing this lady. However, George Soros is a convicted criminal.

Tophat: No MSM news source, none, offers more diversity of opinion than the FNC. From far-right social conservatives like Jerry Falwell to far-leftists wearing Che Guevera t-shirts, and everything in between. Their actual news is far more fair and balanced than any other MSM source. If you go to their website, you will see many of their news stories come from newswires like the Associated Press - which is definitely leftwing. They report, you decide...unlike the rest of the MSM which is We Report Half, You Decide. The FNC shines a light on the antics and idiocy of many on the left, and liberals have a problem with that. The left doesn't like someone challenging their talking points, and if you got the guts to go on the FNC, you better be ready to back up your sh*t. Liberals can rarely do that and sometimes end up looking like fools when they appear on the FNC Hannity & Colmes was great tonight. On one segment they talked about some Boston College students protesting Condi Rice for getting an honorary degree. Anyways, they had a professor from BC, Steve Almond, who had resigned from the college because of this. Why was he so upset? Because Condi is a "liar" and Bush "lied" about Iraq's WMD. After Colmes got through talking to him, it was Hannity's turn. I'm going to paraphrase part of their conversation: SH: Did you vote for John Kerry? SA: *Silence and an uncomfortable look on his face* SH: Did you vote for John Kerry? SA: Uhhh...what does that have to do with anything? SH: It's a simple question. Did you vote for John Kerry? SA: *Silence and an uncomfortable look on his face*......This has nothing to do with the topic. SH: Why are you being evasive? Did you vote for John Kerry? SA: Look....I...uh.... SH: I think you did vote for John Kerry and here is what John Kerry said: *lifts up a piece of paper* "If you don't believe Saddam Hussein is a threat with nuclear weapons, then you shouldn't vote for me." So what does that make you? SA: 20,000 casualties, quagmire, stealing the oil, blah blah blah liberal talking points. SH: *waves his hand in disgust* And that's why the left hates the FNC! This is the same Professor Steve Almond that hung up on (FNC's) John Gibson last week during Gibson's radio show. At least Almond had the guts to appear on H&C; Howard Dean is still refusing to accept Bill O'Reilly's invitation for him to appear on the No Spin Zone. Think about that. O'Reilly has the #1 rated show on cable news and the head of the DNC refuses (scared?) to appear on his show. *Edited to change Condi speaking at Boston College graduation...to Condi getting an honorary degree from BC.

Michael Hardner: You've got to be kidding. These are the clowns who issued a report concluding that there is no genocide going on in Sudan. They refused to enforce 17 of their own binding resolutions and Kofi Annan is on the record saying Operation Iraqi Freedom is illegal. They threw the US off their Human Rights Commission and stacked it with Cuba, Libya, Syria, Sudan, Zimbabwe, Saudi Arabia, etal. Their Human Rights Commission is literally a rogues gallery of human rights abusers. It seems that they dole out non-binding resolutions every week condemning Israel for some PERCEIVED offense, but have little to say about the displaced Arab death cult. Read the OP of this thread An organization that only allows democracies comes to mind, i.e., if it is essential that it has to be replaced with something else. I'm unsure what you mean. AP6 was launched January 12/2006, and as far as I know, buying and selling credits is not a part of AP6. Are we talking about the same thing? Please clarify.

Gerryhatrick: The rest of the world is not informed about Canada because we had become a unimportant nation on the int'l stage. We had become a nation with questionable morals content to do little. It was surreal hearing Paul Martin claim that "we lead the world." If Canada led the world, like he claimed, then why did the room almost empty when he would give a speech at a world conference? Don't worry Gerry. Canada will soon rise again and the int'l community will become more informed about us. It's already happening. I visit a lot of different sites on the Internet and when we became the first country (after Israel, of course) to stop funding to Hamas, many many people noticed. I'm not just talking the US. Australia, Western and Eastern Europe, and the people of the Mid East. Probably Asia and Central and South America too. Our embarrassing refusal to ban the terrorist group Tamil Tigers swiftly changed. We have now showed the world that we are willing to help create democracies and support human rights with our new govt's determination to stay in Afghanistan and get the job done, instead of whining that it is hopeless and we should bring them home so we can spend the money saved to institutionalize our pre-school children. From what I have read from embedded reporters, our soldiers are kicking the crap out of the Taliban - taking the fight to them, not playing social workers or "peacekeeping." You think they haven't noticed this? Do you think the int'l community hasn't noticed this? It sends a message. Now with us trying to get out of the bogus Kyoto protocol, the many countries who are wavering will follow our lead. The True North is fast becoming a respected member on the world stage and - soon - when our PM has something to say, the world's ears will perk up and they will listen, and consequently become more informed about this country, its people, and our character.

The Associated Press is claiming they have looked at the bill. As Gerry's link shows, so has Reuters. Neither have a good reputation, but it is difficult to believe that both would be lying. It will be interesting to hear what Taheri has to say. He is a reputable analyst; he's no progressive liberal. Did he let emotion get the better of him when he was writing about the Mad Mullahs in Iran? If so, it was a foolish thing to do and will hurt his credibility in the future. Did his source(s) give him bad info? If so, that is still no excuse. He should not have act liked the liberal MSM, he should've held back until it could was confirmed. Did the Mullahs quickly delete that part from the bill? The Jewish guy in Parliament claiming it never happened means nothing. He might've been threatened with death to himself and his family. Remember, these people care not whit for int'l law. Remember 1979 and the attacking of the US embassy. Irregardless, Taheri has some 'splainin' to do. Should be interesting.