tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59241795629198677632024-03-13T22:40:07.094-07:00Right as RainMichael J. Murphyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01576687584409641503noreply@blogger.comBlogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924179562919867763.post-27075878484481091642013-06-20T08:52:00.000-07:002013-06-20T08:56:35.525-07:00How to set a trap for an unsuspecting but overly curious personThanks for playing. I now know your ISP, your city, your OS, your computer, the number of times you have been here, where you were before, how long you stayed, and which computer on which network you are using.Michael J. Murphyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01576687584409641503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924179562919867763.post-74675058574692815142012-07-23T12:29:00.000-07:002012-07-23T12:29:00.599-07:00Guns and responsible useMuch is made about gun control, particularly in light of incidents recently in Scarborough, ON, and in Colorado.<br />
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left and those with Hoplophobia (a fear of guns) immediately want to
ban them as though these "tools" are responsible directly as opposed to
the user.<br />
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Motor vehicles create far more death and
damage than do guns but you never hear of them being banned. Could it be
we don't blame them? Perhaps the drivers (users) are more responsible?<br />
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following is a graphic on the situation in Switzerland who seem to be
able to handle firearms quite well, in addition to their country as a
whole. Perhap other countries should take a good look.<br />
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<br />Michael J. Murphyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01576687584409641503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924179562919867763.post-41784697395971297232012-07-06T11:34:00.000-07:002012-07-06T11:38:17.562-07:00Left wing Journo, Stephen Wicary, for Globe & Mail moves to CubaJohn Kay, of the National Post, made some observations on Ezra Levant's monologues on Stephen Wicary who left his post as the online editor of the Globe & Mail recently to take up residence in communist Cuba. These observations are a result of both Ezra's remarks and a Twitter war that broke out on the 5/7/12 and lasted into the morning of the 6/7/12.<br />
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Canada needs his unique brand of say-anything Glenn Beckesque
“journalism.” And every once in a while, he assaults decency in a way
that leaves us all with dropped jaws (</span><a href="http://www.cbsc.ca/english/decisions/2012/120613.php" style="background-color: white;" target="_blank">bananas, anyone</a><span style="background-color: white;">?). Sometimes, he even manages to do both within the same five-minute monologue segment.</span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So it was on Friday, with <a href="http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/video/1722693826001" target="_blank">this tirade</a> against the Canadian mainstream media, and a certain outgoing Globe & Mail
editor — in which he leads off with a worthy 2-minute skewering of the
general Twitter-mediated sameness and leftism that pervades most of this
country’s opinion-makers. More specifically, he points out that the
pundit class has seemed bored by the underplayed scandal of Liberal
leadership candidates who’ve violated campaign-finance rules by failing
to repay loans; even while frenzying itself over the robo-calls issue
(which was a fine scoop — not “fake,” as Ezra claims — but also one that
never came close to justifying the now-fizzled outrage of NDP and
Liberal question-period MPs, who cast it as a sort of Canadian
Watergate).</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Unfortunately, Ezra then spends the next three minutes going off on an ad hominem attack on Globe & Mail online editor Stephen Wicary, who is setting sail for a new non-Globe-affiliated life in communist Cuba. And here’s where Ezra shows his dark side."</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My observations left on the NP blog.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ezra's
main point is the PPG and other left wing Journos, who have raised the specter of losing democracy in Canada, are now defending one of their
own who has bitterly complained about the loss of Democracy in Canada.
Is the irony not lost on people he will now move to a commie regime,
albeit with pretty good weather. (research shows democracy is no
different than when Trudeau centralized power in the PMO). That is truly
a changed state of mind. Those with any sense of observation already
knew Wicary was a bleeding heart socialist from his own activities.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Let Wicary now try and complain about the Castro regime on his
Twitter feed and he will truly know the difference. Most of those
journos saying the sky is falling with respect to democracy have much in
common. They think and run like a pack. Here is a list of some of the
media party pack that showed up to last night in defence of the
penultimate lefty journo Wicary. Jon Kay, Dan Gardner, Emmett
MacFarlane, a lefty Political Science University teacher, always in
denial over his political leanings, who likes to run with the pack, Paul
Wells, Kady O'Malley - one of the pack leaders who tries so hard to
appear impartial but fails, that dipper who loves robo call faux
scandals, Glen McGregor, of "Frank" Magazine, Mulroney daughter
deflowering fame, and Andrew Coyne the leader of the Democracy Deficit
revolution in the pack. There were a few more minor pack followers
whose names are irrelevant as are their scribbles</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They clearly have not lived in an undemocratic country. They proved
Ezra's point about their "pack" mentality by all joining in to defend
Wicary.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One of the more humorous exchanges came from McGregor, who took
umbrage at a comment Kay made about the perceived lack of "balls" on
robo call obsessive's, and proffered he would no longer file his stories
with the NP. McGregor thinks he actually has the power to do that! It
appears delusion is something not confined to those locked up in the
hospital. Note these same journos completely ignore the former Liberal
leadership candidates with large outstanding loans from 2006, in
defiance of election laws, which Elections Canada is also ignoring.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you ever want to get an idea of what is wrong in journalism in
Canada we saw it last night in the Twitter battle, lasting into the wee
hours of the AM. They had quite the media party encounter proving the
assertion they are indeed a monocultural, drone, core of not overly
inspiring scribblers who think alike and are left of centre in many of
their views. Their defensiveness was pretty clear and also ironically
they proved Ezras point.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If anyone wonders who is one of the most influential TV personalities
in Canada, don't miss tonight's "The Source"? Guess who will all be
watching!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">PS - Mr. Kay: Are any of those former colleagues in the ME, female?</span></div>
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<br />Michael J. Murphyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01576687584409641503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924179562919867763.post-81496265000126781842011-11-19T09:55:00.001-08:002011-11-19T10:01:42.772-08:00Chris Selley and PEI's abortion hardships<div class="dsq-comment-message" id="dsq-comment-message-367714123">
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some time in the evolution of Canadian Law, health care systems will
conclude abortions, beyond those for health, rape, or incest, are an
electable procedure and be paid for by the proponent who wishes to
terminate the life she and her sex partner created. <br /><br />At that
point we will see health costs reduced, more lazy hedonists, who
undertake the sex act have protection and ensure they are using the
technology provided by science to prevent pregnancy. Having to travel a
short distance will be moot.<br /><br />Selley is essentially saying we
ought not inconvenience a woman who, through choice, had sex without
taking responsibility for her actions. As it turns out her lack of
responsibility is to be "born" by the taxpayer.<br /><br />Women have few
excuses for getting pregnant when it is their choice. Feminists argue
she should have a CHOICE to get an abortion. They don't discuss the
adult decision to take responsibility through CHOICE to not get
pregnant. I propose a new slogan and category for females to adopt. "I
am Pro-Choice for ensuring I don't get pregnant." I think we will
probably have a 95% approval rate on this. Ideological Feminists will
oppose it because it would imply women are not "special" enough anymore
and are acting like adults.<br /><br />This just continues to infantilze
women as a gender who, on its face, can't make responsible decisions
before a human life is terminated due to their poor judgment. It's the
old story of "rights" without responsibility.<br /><br />The Mississippi
vote was thankfully killed as it would not stand scrutiny in the SCOTUS
and held the pro-life movement back for some time. The issue must be
dealt with incrementally, one step at a time, due to the misinformation
supplied by the Feminist, tax supported lobby.</div>
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Charlottetown is about four hours from Halifax or Fredericton by
road. A return bus ticket costs $108. Some 140 Prince Edward Island
women took those trips last year to terminate their pregnancies — as the
<em>National Post</em> reported this week — in Halifax, on the
province’s dime, if they have a referral from two doctors; or in
Fredericton, out of pocket $800 to the Morgentaler Clinic, if they
don’t.<br />
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<a class="dsq-comment-truncate-collapse" href="http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2011/11/18/chris-selley-pro-lifers-give-themselves-a-warm-fuzzy/#" style="display: inline;"> </a> </div>Michael J. Murphyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01576687584409641503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924179562919867763.post-68435568078497042252011-09-14T06:17:00.000-07:002011-09-14T06:25:29.346-07:00Canadian Judge accepts premise no abortion law means moms can kill newborns and walk awayThis is not a Ripley's Believe It Or Not Scenario.<br />
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It recently happened in a Canadian court room where a totally hard core feminist and desensitized Judge, named Joanne Veit, allowed a woman, Katrina Effert of Wetaskiwin, Alberta, to walk even though she was convicted of 2nd degree murder by not one, but two juries.<br />
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Justice Joanne Veit of the Alberta Court of Queen’s Bench declared that Canada’s absence of a law on abortion signals that Canadians “sympathize” with the mother. Really, and who elected her to pass a new law that exonerates murder?
Effert got a 3 year suspended sentence. If a dad did this to a new born he would be vilified, rightly, as a monster and given 10 or more years.<br />
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In Canada, however, if you are female you are portrayed by the judiciary as the victim not the dead son she strangled with her orange thong underwear.<br />
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Mr. Harper our Prime Minister should get busy on preparing a law that restricts abortion based on term of the child, and call a meeting with your Provincial colleagues to defund abortion unless absolutely medically necessary.
You may want to read more on this case here:<br />
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<a href="http://www.lifesitenews.com/judge-rules-no-jail-time-for-infanticide-because-canada-accepts-abortion.html">http://www.lifesitenews.com/judge-rules-no-jail-time-for-infanticide-because-canada-accepts-abortion.html</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.brigittepellerin.com/2011/09/14/two-minutes-of-politics-september-14/">http://www.brigittepellerin.com/2011/09/14/two-minutes-of-politics-september-14/</a><br />
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This week they were raided by the FBI. <br />
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It may be early in the campaign season, but the Communist Party USA
already has seen fit to endorse Barack Obama for the 2012 election.<br />
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While noting he is disappointed with "some aspects" of the Obama
administration's domestic and foreign policy, Sam Webb, chairman of the
Communist Party USA, threw his support behind Obama's re-election bid<a href="http://./"><span style="color: black;">.</span></a><u><span style="color: black;"> </span></u><br />
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In an article last week at People's Weekly World, the official
newspaper of the Communist Party USA, Webb discussed the need for a
third party consisting of the so-called working class and labor as well
as "racially and nationally oppressed people, women, youth, immigrants,
seniors, gay and straight."<br />
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Michael J. Murphyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01576687584409641503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924179562919867763.post-61643656914078813552011-08-04T12:55:00.000-07:002011-08-04T18:47:58.454-07:00Musings about left wing Parliamentary Press Gallery lefty shillsOne of the Ottawa Parliamentary Press Gallery left wing scribes, Glen McGregor, of the Ottawa Citizen, has criticized Brian Lilley's references to Quebec Solidaire's strictures as being very commie like and Brian also wondered if the interim Leader of the federalist NDP shared the commie like views given her membership in this separatist political party in Quebec. He also mused many of the PPG probably had or still do retain, similar beliefs in Communism. This has many left wing scribes in a tizzy.<br />
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McGregor claims he is politically neutral in his writing as does another of his very left wing colleagues Dan Gardner. One can see that neutrality in the blog post, referred to below. ;) I think there may be an epidemic of delusional thought in this cadre if they think the public is so dumb as to not understand their leanings.<br />
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It is clear most of this incestuous crowd are left - to far left - in their political beliefs, just from their uttering and scribbles. Some may well be commies. They certainly won't be buying memberships, however, any time soon or they will be unemployed. In addition many suffer from Harper Hatred Disorder and rant on about him, often in imbecilic, petulant tones. Gardner does it daily on Twitter.<br />
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I made this observation on McGregor's blog, starting with this startling quote which is certainly not shared by Status of women Canada:<br />
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<i>“But if she planned to put our kids in a
national news TV report endorsing a plank in a party’s platform during
an election campaign — on behalf of our family — I might strongly
suggest she reconsider.”</i><br />
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Are you admitting to be the arch enemy of feminism – a controlling
Patriarch – daring to tell the world you are or would coerce your wife
to not offer up her own opinion.<br />
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Likewise you choose to infer Mr. Lilley is somehow involved in
similar coercion of his wife and that he is somehow controlling this
situation. You accuse him of inferring the dipper is a commie, which she
might be, but then tar him in the same manner. Pot meet kettle.<br />
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You don’t have to tell us your politics. It can easily be inferred
from these and past scribbles, not too mention J. Ibbetson that
thoughtful sycophant at the G&M.<br />
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Here are some of his musings:<br />
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<i>"Like most journalists working on the Hill, I try to conduct my
personal affairs in such a manner as to resist allegations of bias
towards the politicians I cover. </i><b>(Ed note: LOL)</b><i><br /></i><br />
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<i>I do not put up campaign signs during elections, I make no donations
to political parties and keep my voting intentions to myself. I don’t
even answer telephone polls on politics.</i><br />
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</i><i>It’s not that I don’t have political views — my friends, family and
some of my colleagues know them. It’s just that expressing them publicly
will inevitably, to some, undermine the perceived credibility of my
reporting. This is a standard practice among Hill reporters. Few of us
want the headaches of dealing with charges that we’re in the tank for a
party.</i><br />
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this morning about NDP interim leader Nycole Turmel, in which he claims
that “many” journalists working on the Hill have dabbled with communism
in the past and some likely remain fellow travellers:..."</i><br />
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Heres a sample of another left winger, Steven Wicary, at the G&M on Twiiter and my response.<br />
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Lord Monckton knocks one out of the park in the Climate Debate with a rather sad sack left wing warmist in OZ.<br />
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Bolivia's south west is normally a dry land but now has been hit by the worst snowstorms in years.<br />
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Michael J. Murphyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01576687584409641503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924179562919867763.post-35049214160190531952011-07-08T10:41:00.000-07:002011-07-08T10:44:15.570-07:00Susan Riley - Ottawa Citizen Liberal Elitist Gay promoterA column by Susan Riley a resident Liberal/Left elitist at the Ottawa Citdizen has outdone herself in the below column. She states - "(his move has been applauded by the dying ranks of hate-mongers.)" in response to Mayor Rob Fords decision to spend time with his family on the Canada Day Weekend and generally ignore attending Gay Pride events. Does one think even 1% of this lefty crowd voted for him?<br />
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Spoken like a true and bigoted Liberal. In the world of lefties like Riley if someone chooses not to attend a freak show like the Gay Pride Parade, and a person supports this stance they are "hate-mongers". <br />
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The logic of the left usually escapes my grasp but Riley out does herself today. What she is saying is if the Mayor and his supporters, for personal reasons, don't attend, and his supporters agree - they promote hatred. Gosh darn it, won't Jesus Christ be disappointed again if I don't attend an Easter Parade or the Irish will consider me a hateful person for not attending my ancestors big St. Paddy's Day parade.<br />
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Michael J. Murphyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01576687584409641503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924179562919867763.post-63719455807973702472011-06-29T10:21:00.000-07:002011-06-29T10:21:39.231-07:00Ignatieff is again wrong with his analysis. Politics is not his strong suit.I am a world traveller having been around this great world, and on one occasion circumnavigated the globe 360 degrees by air on one trip, dropping down in various countries on the trip of a lifetime. There are a great many Canadians working abroad, in particular Hong Kong where I had the pleasure of meeting some of them.<br />
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Mr. Ignatieff is a lousy politician and was out smarted by very politically astute opponents. Heck even the socialists did better. Even though the left wing media, and that is most of it, fawned over you as the next great intellectual saviour, not unlike the socialist PET, Canadians saw through the facade.<br />
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Most of these expatriates are in the United States, but you can find Canadians everywhere: on oil rigs offshore in Ghana, in NGOs in African villages, hunkered down at United Nations headquarters in Baghdad, and in brokerage houses in Frankfurt, London and Beijing. Increasing numbers of our expatriates were born outside Canada, came to this country and now have moved on, taking their citizenship with them.<br />
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The scandal here has nothing to do with Afghan detainees. It has to do with how the Harper government and Canadian journalists dealt with the allegations. The government gave the impression of trying to hide information when in fact there was nothing to cover up. And journalists repeatedly made damning accusations without any proof, even suggesting that some Canadians may have committed war crimes...<br />
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<div class="MsoNormal">I am given to understand my tax dollars are being used by the CBC to monopolize the noon hour party hosted by Mr. Moore on Canada Day.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Mr. Moore has stated the party during this time slot is only available for broadcast if there are no commercials which effectively leaves only the CBC, supported unwillingly by my tax dollars, who can show the performances by performing groups.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">In a nutshell, your government, the party of free enterprise and less government, is collaborating with your very own State Broadcaster, to shut out all the free enterprise television networks in Canada. The DOCH and its CBC apparatchiks are taking my tax money and monopolizing who can broadcast the event. Do you see the irony in this at all? If you do, why are you acting more like the socialists in allowing it to occur. Where are the real Conservative principles espoused in the CPC constitution.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Did Mr. Moore lie when he said there was a bidding process? Only the CBC and CTV were allowed to respond to his invitation and CTV was not allowed to show commercials. Where was Global or Sun News? There was no public bidding and no criteria placed before the public.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">The CPC has 4 years to respond to acting like a fiscally Conservative, private enterprise supporting government. As part of your base, and a paid up party member, I have put you on probation over this period. Government expenses and expenditures need to be reduced. The $1.1 billion given to the CBC is part of my taxes not required for the purpose of supporting a state owned broadcaster in the 21st century of satellite and cellular communication. The government needs to put CBC out to pasture as a private corporation, not unlike PBS, and have those who truly wish to watch its schlock pay for it directly. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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<h1 class="npStoryTitle">Bob Rae says he won’t run for Liberal party leadership</h1><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><a href="http://news.nationalpost.com/2011/05/19/bob-rae-says-he-won%E2%80%99t-run-for-liberal-party-leadership/">http://news.nationalpost.com/2011/05/19/bob-rae-says-he-won%E2%80%99t-run-for-liberal-party-leadership/</a></span>Michael J. Murphyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01576687584409641503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924179562919867763.post-17508303813039122622011-05-19T06:29:00.000-07:002011-05-19T06:49:58.008-07:00Steven Harper and the SenateMuch has been made by the punditocracy, and even Premiere <a href="http://news.nationalpost.com/2011/05/19/saskatchewan-premier-brad-wall-criticizes-senate-appointments/">Brad Wall of Sask</a> has opined the 3 recent appointments of Senators, who lost in the HOC election, is bad for democracy and problematic. It is most interesting to see the swelled heads of Andrew Coyne of MacLeans, Dan Gardner, of the Ottawa Citizen, and <a href="http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2011/05/18/scott-stinson-on-the-cabinet-i-was-a-sucker-for-believing-in-harper/">Scott Stinson</a> of the National Post express faux outrage over Mr. Harper's temerity. The political sky is falling and Democracy, as we know it in Canada, is in danger - almost as much as AGW is going to bake we Canadians into stiff pretzels instead of frozen noodles.<br />
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Here is a recent Tweet of Coyne on the size of government. He predicts with the certainty of a man who voted Liberal expecting a different outcome than what occurred with a majority CPC government.<br />
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<div class="MsoNormal">"<a href="http://twitter.com/#%21/acoyne" title="acoyne">@acoyne</a> <span class="tweet-user-block-full-name">acoyne</span> May 18/2011 People on CBC keep talking about the coming "austerity". Folks, there is not going to be any austerity. At most they will slow the growth..."</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Would you bet he is right?</div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">Someone tell Wall (and the Punditocracy) the PM requires a majority in the Senate to ensure change. Paul Martin, in his short time in power, made 13 appointments to the body.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">The current breakdown does not ensure Mr. Harper will get the reform he desires. Including his 3 recent appointees those listed as Conservative number 55, Liberals 45, Independent 2 and PC 2. Mulroney still has 15 appointees who could nominally be considered PC ( i.e. potentially Red Tory rather than Conservative) but may not wish to limit their terms or be elected.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Normally the Senate has 105 Seats but to ensure passage of reform legislation Harper can appoint up to 13 more Senators above the 105. He is playing a numbers game and will want to ensure he has enough votes before putting the changes through.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">If I were him I'd be doing the same thing. He is playing a long game and has 4 years to get his numbers up. Between now and 2014 there will be at least 23 retirements due to age so time is on his side. Those who are critical fail to understand his strategic focus even after 5 years as PM.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">In the long game no one will remember this in a year, let alone 4.</div>Michael J. Murphyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01576687584409641503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924179562919867763.post-90355271377452921062011-05-08T17:48:00.000-07:002011-05-08T17:48:35.316-07:00Jonathan Kay: No distinction between Islam and Islamism for Geert WildersGeert Wilders was interviewed by Jonathon Kay, Op-Ed Editor of the National Post <a href="http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2011/05/08/jonathan-kay-no-distinction-between-islam-and-islamism-for-geert-wilders/">here</a><br />
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Mr. Wilders is one of the few politicians in the world to tackle the cult of Mohammad and Islamism.<br />
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He has many supporters who do understand this is no ordinary religion but a total fascist ideology teaching only they are right all others are infidels.<br />
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One only has to look at the basket cases world wide where this ideology is practised such as Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Iran for starters. If the Saudi Peninsula didn't have oil they would still be living in tents.<br />
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Welcome to Canada Mr. Wilders many of us here are behind you.MJM<br />
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<div style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>"As an editor at the National Post, I often rely on three letters to protect my columnists from human-rights tribunals: I-S-M — these being the difference between spelling Islam and Islamism.</i></span></div><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><i> </i></span><div style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The former is a religion — like Christianity or Judaism. The latter is an ideology, which seeks to impose an intolerant fundamentalist version of Islam on all Muslims, and spread the faith throughout the world. Declaring Islamism a menace isn’t controversial. Declaring Islam a menace is considered hate speech.</i></span></div><div style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><i> </i></span><div style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span id="more-37707"></span>Geert Wilders’ refusal to deploy those three letters is the reason that the 47-year-old Dutch politician travels with bodyguards, and cannot sleep in the same house two nights in a row. For Mr. Wilders, the problem plaguing Western societies is Islam, full stop. Terrorism, tyranny, the subjugation of women — these are not perversions of Islam, as he sees it, but rather its very essence.</i></span></div><div style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><i> </i></span><div style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>“The word ‘Islamism’ suggests that there is a moderate Islam and a non-moderate Islam,” he told me during an interview in Toronto on Sunday. “And I believe that this is a distinction that doesn’t exist. It’s like the Prime Minister of Turkey [Recep Tayyip] Erdogan, said ‘There is no moderate or immoderate Islam. Islam is Islam, and that’s it.’ This is the Islam of the Koran.”</i></span></div><div style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Read more: </i></span><a href="http://tinyurl.com/3tdm2to"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>http://tinyurl.com/3tdm2to</i></span></a></div>Michael J. Murphyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01576687584409641503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924179562919867763.post-52566664481639700352011-05-08T15:25:00.000-07:002011-05-08T15:26:58.635-07:00What the GOP can learn from Canada’s Conservatives<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The <a href="http://washingtonexaminer.com/politics/2011/05/what-gop-can-learn-canada-s-conservatives#ixzz1LnnYiLwj">Washington Examiner</a> takes a look at election 41 in Canada and concludes there may be lessons for the GOP in the USA.</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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The second is that a center-right party can win immigrant votes. Conservatives won 35 of 54 seats in metro Toronto, many heavy with immigrants. One tactic that seems to have worked was to circulate videos of Indian- and Chinese-Canadian Conservative candidates appealing for votes in their native tongues.<br />
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The simple message is that this is a party that likes and respects you. Republicans could do something similar, with Sen. Marco Rubio, Govs. Susana Martinez and Brian Sandoval, and Reps. Allen West, Tim Scott and Quico Canseco, all elected in 2010.</span></i></div><div style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"></div><div style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: small;">So Canada has moved from a four-party politics rooted in its own special history to a two-party politics more similar to ours. Nothing boring about that."</span></i></div><div style="background-color: transparent; border: medium none; color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
Read more at the Washington Examiner: <a href="http://washingtonexaminer.com/politics/2011/05/what-gop-can-learn-canada-s-conservatives#ixzz1LnnYiLwj" style="color: #003399;">http://washingtonexaminer.com/politics/2011/05/what-gop-can-learn-canada-s-conservatives#ixzz1LnnYiLwj</a></span></div>Michael J. Murphyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01576687584409641503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924179562919867763.post-34418903982758639022011-05-08T14:26:00.000-07:002011-05-08T14:26:13.594-07:00In Norway's Bastoy they treat prisoners differently<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive/article-1384308/Norways-controversial-cushy-prison-experiment--catch-UK.html#ixzz1LnXrGw48">UK Mail Online Article</a> is worth a read. I don't know if the experiment withstand's scientific scrutiny but they claim a recidivism rate of only 16% as compared to the rest of Europe of 70%.</div><br />
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</div><div style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Daubin uses the ill termed overused "centre-left" to describe the NDP. Sorry Mr. Daubin, radical left is the appropriate term. If you doubt me check their constitution, not found on their website for good reason. It would scare mainstream Canadians. A portion follows below.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </span><br />
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