How far can this reach?
The Sponsorship scandal and resultant Gomery inquiry are making me paranoid - How far can the corruption go?
The good news is the Mounties may be able to get some pretty good leads over soup and a sandwich.
Turns out their cafeteria at RCMP headquarters in Montreal is run by Buffet Trio, the family catering company of Joe Morselli.
Morselli is also the former Liberal bagman named in last week's bombshell Adscam allegations that the sponsorship program was rife with kickbacks, bid-rigging and money-laundering.
Turns out their cafeteria at RCMP headquarters in Montreal is run by Buffet Trio, the family catering company of Joe Morselli.
Morselli is also the former Liberal bagman named in last week's bombshell Adscam allegations that the sponsorship program was rife with kickbacks, bid-rigging and money-laundering.
Next thing you know, in cheeseball hollywood fashion, I'm going to discover that I've had my memory erased, and, in fact, I'm the evil genius behind the whole thing and have been since '93...
Exactly how Morselli's company came to have the catering contract at RCMP headquarters is not entirely clear. A federal Public Works official says that while that department handles the catering contracts in most federal buildings, Morselli's firm was picked by the RCMP division in Montreal -- the same one investigating Adscam.
How much more juicy can this get?
Pull a thread and the whole garment falls apart...If this was a screenplay the whole thing would get shelved because it was too "far-fetched."
The New David
Nude statue in B.C. traffic circle distracts drivers
PENTICTON, B.C. - Politicians in Penticton, B.C., are taking heat for paying $5,000 to install an artwork in the middle of a traffic circle that includes a 2.2-metre tall statue of a naked man.
I work a block away from this statue. I will have to remember my camera tomorrow...
Curtis Collins, a curator at the South Okanagan Art Gallery, also thought the man's nudity was not offensive, joking: "He looks like he just got out of Okanagan Lake."
Gotta remember my tape measure...
Wonder if our local MP, the biblically-minded Stockwell Day will leap into the fray soon. Now all we need is a good name for the scandal:
Wee-wee-gate?
And take the draft dodgers with you...
Stay home, you pathetic whining maggots
Nothing like a direct, forthright title to peak my interest...
Particularly celebrities. Canada has suffered enough without having to put up with any of the Baldwin brothers or -- heaven forfend! -- Barbra Streisand.
Oh my God! The icy cold grip of death has just wrapped its bony fingers around my dangly bits! Streisand? Here? In CANADA? We'll have to burn the whole country afterwards. Maybe they SHOULD'VE elected Kerry!
The sad part is that Canada as it stands now under the supposed "natural ruling party" now has more in common with the views of pampered leftist Hollywood celebrities than it does with the founders of this country:
Our nation's preposterous pacifism, belief in nonsense such as "soft power" and fidelity to a morally bankrupt United Nations overrun with tin-pot dictators and other left-wing idiocies, may well be traceable back to the influx of thousands of the testosterone-challenged whose allegiance to country was superceded by their allegiance to smoking dope while trying to figure out the inner meaning of Beatles songs.
It must be a sign of the times that the people trying to cross the border this time are more comparable to the spoiled brat in the playground who decided to take their ball and run away home when the other kids decide not to play the game exactly by their rules - "Screw you guys, I'm going home!"
But welcome a bunch of spoiled brats willing to abandon their very nation because they don't like the man elected to be their leader for the next four years?
And this is my real, visceral problem with the state of the
The persecuted leftys believe so much in their country that abandoning it to the slow-witted retros (their words, not mine) is somehow more noble than standing and fighting for their ideals?
Or maybe they believed that propaganda nonsense about how none of the doors in Canada are locked and that nobody shoots anyone up here...
via nealenews, my first stop for news in the morning...
Sometimes I despair
...over the direction this country has taken.
"Bush, bad. Kerry, good," Graves said. "You can almost say that Canada has become a nation of Michael Moores."
Shut up.
Canada is like a beat up dog the perks up and wags its tail the second master says something not cruel or not condescending. We had some pride before, sometime way back, I seem to remember...
The poll also found, in general, Conservatives, men and Albertans favoured Bush and supported America.
Geez, that's a blinding glimpse of the obvious, isn't it? I like the way "Albertans" has been tossed in there along with the other two pariahs of "Canadian Values"...
The thing about John Kerry, my fellow Canadians, is that he won't be OUR friend and savior: all his railing about the "outsourcing of America" - who do you think he's referring to? And do you REALLY think that we'll escape the protectionist wrath if Kerry is the next president?
Hate Bush all you like- we don't get to choose the American president up here. But take your blinders off when it comes to John Forbes Kennedy.
The Committee on un-Canadian Activities
Shrill Toronto Star Columnist Linda McQuaig whines about us evil Canada haters:
There's been so much hand-wringing lately about the anti-Americanism that's said to be afoot in the land that we've barely noticed a more worrisome virus in our midst — anti-Canadianism.
Hold on, it gets better.
But I'm struck by the increasingly fierce attempts to disparage Canada, or at least to disparage the pride many Canadians take in the way we do things — a way that's sometimes different than the way Americans do things.
Oh no! Invoke those nasty evil Americans! Because, of course, anyone who criticises the way Canadians do things must be wanting to throw Canada to the Yankee dogs and become the 51st state. It only stands to reason that there are only two choices on how to do things: The American way and the absolutely perfect way that Canada does absolutely everything beyond reproach. I'm being sarcastic in case anyone doesn't get it...
These attacks are coming from a small but influential group of right-wing Canadian academics and media commentators. Their theme song is that Canada is in decline.
The Red Ensign Brigade's power grows by leaps and bounds.
In answer to lefty-Linda's remark above I'll let you judge whether we're in decline by referring to the quote in my sidebar:
We had an aircraft carrier. Imagine that. Now we have metric and the CBC. It was a bad trade.
But, of course it's destructive to criticize, according to McQuaig:
The Times reported that David Bercuson, a historian at the University of Calgary, was watching the recent Olympics when Canadian track star Perdita Felicien fell, losing the gold medal she'd been expected to win.
"Mr. Bercuson dashed straight to his computer," the Times noted, "He knocked out a screed declaring that her sad performance, and that of the entire Canadian Olympic team, was just another symptom of `the national malaise' that is making Canada a second-rate, uncompetitive nation."
So, with Felicien lying devastated on the track, Bercuson's response was to seize the moment: Gotcha now, Canada, you medicare-loving bunch of losers!
"Mr. Bercuson dashed straight to his computer," the Times noted, "He knocked out a screed declaring that her sad performance, and that of the entire Canadian Olympic team, was just another symptom of `the national malaise' that is making Canada a second-rate, uncompetitive nation."
So, with Felicien lying devastated on the track, Bercuson's response was to seize the moment: Gotcha now, Canada, you medicare-loving bunch of losers!
Because if we pointed out that Canada's current government has screwed our athletes, screwed our military, screwed the provinces, screwed our citizens by excessively taxing them and running huge unnecessary surplusses under the guise of "fiscal prudence" with government MP's falling all over each other trying to spend our money - well, we must necessarily HATE Canada.
Because in McQuaig's mind, all the good that Canada has done in the world: fighting for freedom, carving out a modern nation out of the wilderness, being in the forefront of international affairs by putting ourselves on the line time and time again - in a word everything that we used to be able to do but can't anymore - is meaningless as long as we have our cherished universal healthcare.
Anyone who disagrees doesn't just have a different opinion - if we don't conform to the big government, Mommy/Federal Government knows best attitude that's being rammed down our throats courtesy of "enlightened" commentators like Ms McQuaig - well we're so...un-Canadian.
I'm wondering when the "special commitees" will be organized. Of course Ms. McQuaig sees herself as the arbiter of what is and isn't an acceptable Canadian value. From her pictures online current fashionable hairstyles don't appear to be one of them.
Hey, at least we've gotten some attention here...
Used Sub
Can it get any worse for Canada's Navy?
A fire broke out aboard a Canadian submarine off the coast of Ireland Tuesday, launching a rescue effort led by the British Royal Air Force and dealing yet another blow to Canada's navy.
Crew aboard HMCS Chicoutimi placed a distress call to the British Ministry of Defence in England and Maritime Force Atlantic in Halifax at 11 a.m. local time, saying a fire had broken out and the submarine had lost power. A spokesman from the British Defence Ministry told globeandmail.com by phone from England that he was also told there were "minor casualties."
Crew aboard HMCS Chicoutimi placed a distress call to the British Ministry of Defence in England and Maritime Force Atlantic in Halifax at 11 a.m. local time, saying a fire had broken out and the submarine had lost power. A spokesman from the British Defence Ministry told globeandmail.com by phone from England that he was also told there were "minor casualties."
Hopefully it was still under warranty...
In all seriousness, I hope for the best for the brave crew, who, like most of our armed forces, have to make due with old, dilapidated, and now not-so gently used equipment.
Maybe Bligh wasn't so bad...
Rape a 'way of life' on Pitcairn
Forget the romance of the films. This is the sad legacy of that act of mutiny more than two centuries ago. How many tahitian women do you think went along with the original mutineers willingly?
So much for the Peace Train
Cat Stevens was guest of Canadian Hamas front.
TORONTO - Yusuf Islam, the British singer formerly known as Cat Stevens, was the guest of honour at a Toronto fundraising dinner hosted by an organization that has since been identified by the Canadian government as a "front" for the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas.
In a videotape of the 1998 event obtained by the National Post, Mr. Islam describes Israel as a "so-called new society" created by a "so-called religion" and urges the audience to donate to the Jerusalem Fund for Human Services to "lessen the suffering of our brothers and sisters in Palestine and the Holy Land."
In a videotape of the 1998 event obtained by the National Post, Mr. Islam describes Israel as a "so-called new society" created by a "so-called religion" and urges the audience to donate to the Jerusalem Fund for Human Services to "lessen the suffering of our brothers and sisters in Palestine and the Holy Land."
You have to wonder if this was the reason the artist formerly known as Cat Stevens was denied entry to the U.S.
Or did authorities have more?
More Draft Dodging Crap
B.C. town reels after proposal to fete draft dodgers airs on Fox
''If you think a monument to yellow belly cowards is going to somehow give a sense of respectfulness to these shameful Americans, who turned their backs on their country, you are sadly mistaken,'' one angry American wrote in an e-mail to city hall. ''I for one will never visit your town and spend a thin dime ever again, if this thing is built.''
Nice to see the forces of capitalism at work. Most of these small B.C. towns need tourist (ie. American) dollars to survive.
This has not gone over well with local business owners. A must-stop on the global counter-culture circuit, Nelson is filled with artists, spiritual seekers and dreadlocked drifters. But it owes much of its current prosperity to tourism, and to the American dollars it attracts.
Is there an echo in here? I thought that I just SAID that.
Let's look in on the mayor of Nelson, then and now, shall we?
Then:
The city's Mayor appeared delighted. ''I think it's the right place for it,'' David Elliot told the Nelson Daily News, after the press conference. ''We have a lot of open-minded people in this area and certainly people who are conscious of the efforts that happened in the Vietnam War.''
Open-minded. Heh. He means people who agree with him and the "peace in our time" crowd.
And now:
''I made an innocent comment, off the cuff,'' he explained. ''Yes, I am a peace activist. But I wasn't speaking as mayor when I said I liked the idea."
I wasn't wearing my magical mayor hat, so you can't construe my comments as being Nelson's mayor's opinion. See hat on, I'm the mayor- Hat off, whiny little idiot. I wasn't wearing my hat when I spoke to the press. Every reader's an idiot for not noticing that...
I feel sorry for the businesses in Nelson, who will suffer for the actions of a few stupid cowards, who want to commemorate their cowardice. Their only hope is to attempt to distance themselves as quickly as possible and mitigate the damage their hapless mayor has caused when he gave this assinine idea a sheen of official approval.
They should start by throwing him out of office.
Low-Cost Marketing Tactics
Domestic violence T-shirt called 'disgusting'
Free speech is a tricky issue sometimes, and sometimes that means defending the right to say something that personally disgusts us. Funny though: Canada really doesn't have free speech. We have "anti-hate" legislation and the CRTC, whose raison d'etre appears to be to protect our sensitive ears from Howard Stern. But bringing the appartatus of the state to bear on a tasteless t-shirt?
Premier Dalton McGuinty says he's not amused by the message.
"It's certainly something I find reprehensible, personally. I'll leave it up to the attorney general to determine if it is illegal," he told reporters Thursday at Queen's Park. "But I don't think it's in keeping with the standards shared by the people of this province."
"It's certainly something I find reprehensible, personally. I'll leave it up to the attorney general to determine if it is illegal," he told reporters Thursday at Queen's Park. "But I don't think it's in keeping with the standards shared by the people of this province."
Yes people of Ontario: your embattled premier is spending his time looking into t-shirts. No wonder the finances are a mess.
Ontario Attorney General Michael Bryant is equally appalled and calls the selling of the shirt "disgusting.'' He says he needs to find out more about the shirt, but he'll look into whether it violates hate crimes.
Might as well call it a "thought crime." I mean honestly, you can't BUY this sort of advertising. This little gift shop is going to sell HUGE numbers of this t-shirt.
A resident of a local women's shelter organized the demonstration and called the T-shirt "offensive.''
Of course it's offensive. That was the whole plan. Nice national exposure for a little Niagara Falls gift shop. Just the thing for Christmas for the young nihilists who want to piss off their parents EVEN MORE than they already do now. And the local do-gooders have played right into the store owners' hands...
Falle told the St. Catharines Standard last week: "Obviously it's in poor taste... It's more to mock the ignorance of a man who hits his woman."
Yeah...Right.
That being said, our entire line is centered around poking fun at taboo subjects like violence, suicide, religion, and death. To take these images at face value, is reactionary at best.
Sure, it's not just about creating controversy so that others do your marketing for you, is it?
What do you want to bet that if no one had made a stink about this, most of those shirts would've wound up in the trash? How much do you want to bet that the people who buy these shirts are only doing so because of the shock value?
What do you want to bet that none of these shirts are actually worn?
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