Ooh, it rained today. Must mean the Liberals are back in Power:

Honestly, the Edmonton sun tried to tell me today that the 90 cent dollar is the product of Conservative government. My reply?

Regarding your editorial about the strong dollar:

The major connection between dollar devaluations and increases is the interest rate spread between Canada and the United States. You may recall that during the 89-91 recession, that the loonie rose sharply, because Canadian interest rates were on average 4-6 points higher than the American rates. Combine this with a balooning government debt and interest finds the ability to bankrupt a nation.

Today, when the Canadian economy is humming along, thanks largely to a government that has been very good at running surpluses, a high interest rate keeps the economy from over heating, and placing pressure on wages and prices. The election of a Conservative government committed to neutering our ability to raise funds will produce a downward pressure on interest rates and the dollar. The dollar has been near the 90 cent mark for most of the last year as well, to equate this symptom of long term macroeconomic policy with 3 months of Stephen Harper at the head of government, as opposed to 13 years of Chretien -Martin is ludicrous in the extreme.

Sean Tisdall, PC Party Candidate, Edmonton-Centre, 2004 General Election.

Oh, and the editorial is 2 and a half weeks old, way to keep it current Sean! Guh.

But honestly, if the Sun is so damned intelligent why are they so stupid?

Holy S***! The Toronto Sun gets it Right!

From Lonnie Goldstein no less. I pretty much agree with him on every count, except that the Liberals were perceived to be corrupt, but were not, as a body, actually corrupt. Governing without vision, yes, corrupt, not so much.

The best description I heard from Lonnie:

"Finally, voters are still satisfied, for now, with having thrown out a Liberal government they saw as arrogant and politically corrupt, just as Ontarians were in 1990 when they tossed out Peterson and elected Rae. But will Harper's early numbers hold a year from now? Who knows? So far all we really know about him is that he has some excellent leadership qualities (drive, intelligence, focus, vision) and some bad ones (stubbornness, arrogance, hypocrisy , pettiness.)"

Wow. How many times do you hear me chide the PM, who has a demonstrable intellect, for playing cynical low brow politics. Stephen Harper's smarter than he acts. I wonder how he reconciles his purported love of free speech with the 'messaging' that his government engages in. However the Rt. Hon. Mr. Harper's problem may well prove to be that he thinks he doesn't have to win people like me over. He does if he ever wants a majority. Joe won in '79 because he won 'average folk' over, giving the earnest impression that he actually gave a damn. And he actually tried to win the chattering classes during his government, unlike Harper who thinks he will be able to win the next election against the Chretien government. The only propblem that Clark had was that Trudeau clobbered him with his newfound nationalism in '80. Otherwise, if Trudeau had exited, we might be talking about the Clark era today.

I'll blog about fixed election dates and the elected Senate later. (And why I remain opposed to both.)

In the Interests of Full Disclosure. Also, Go Oilers:

This one to JJ about the May 24th toon:

Subject: Croatia's totally hot.

That's pretty much it. No editorial musings. Serbia and Montenegro drifted apart. But they'll still meet for Christmas... no, wait. Also, ever seen the worst movie about the Balkan conflict ever made? Behind Enemy Lines. Absolutely hilarious. Like it's "Welcome to Mooseport" bad. But still saved by Gene Hackman's Hacmanery. Yes, that's a word I just made up.

Keep doing the thing with the stuff!

Sean

This one to JJ about the May 27th toon:

Subject: Important paralells, and important differences in the May 27th toon

On May first, hundreds of thousands of Mexican immigrants marched to demand that they be allowed to stay. You don't see similar protests in Iraq to have American troops stay. Whether the occupation is beneficial being beside the point, it is not seen as being similarly beneficial.

Keep up the fine artwork,

Sean Tisdall

Quake at the awesome power of the Anti-Conservative Media:

Shudder as they walk out on a Prime Minister who won't allow them to set up a first come first serve question mike.

Chill as the head of the press gallery states that he is not pro-Conservative.

Gasp in horror as they laugh out loud en masse at the Prime Minister's interpretation of events.*+

Seriously, Prime Minister, you begin to stretch credulity when nearly every newspaper lined up against Paul Martin this January and you accuse them of partisanship. Stephen, you're smarter than this. You have an MA. You can't get that by regurgittating Ted Morton's rhetoric. You actually have to be somewhat analytical... otherwise I should have just stuck with it and I'd have a PhD right now... dang.

*Prime Minister Paul Martin's interpretation, but according to Jack Layton, he's worse than Conservatives, so let's just call it a chuckle between two sides of the iron Liberal triangle or Media Government and, uh, Witchcraft.

+They're all the same link. Watch the video to the right of the text.

I can't remember if I mentioned this... but Dubya... are you F&*@ing Serious?

I mean really, your proudest moment as president? Sure there are photos of Diefenbaker smiling proudly having caught fish, there's always a happy sense of accomplishment there, but his proudest moment was the passage of the Bill of Rights. You seriously should be prouder of something you did as president, everything you did as president, otherwise, why be president? I... uh... GAH!

He must have been an Impartial Partisan Conservative:

Good ol' JJ. He never ceases to swallow the Post's spin whole hog. Recently Harper tried to appoint an independent appointments czar. Former Encana CEO Gwyn Morgan. JJ explains:

"But the parliamentary committee rejected him, in an embarrassing set-back. And why did they do this? "He said that refugees tended to be less qualified than economic immigrants. He questioned the role of multiculturalism," said New Democratic Party MP Peggy Nash, who introduced the motion to reject Morgan."

-JJ McCullough, May 18th, 2006

Of course this must be the only reason that the other 5 members of the 6-5 majority supported Nash's motion, after amendment. It must have nothing to do with the fact that Harper's man appointed to departisanise the appointments process has done Conservatvie fundraising, and is to a good degree a partisan Conservative. Why would JJ blame post-modernism, which is, to my mind, the scourge of Canadian poltical discourse, for blocking the appointment of a well-heeled party hack? Certainly, it's not because he's as blindly partisan a Conservative as the orator of our last words today:

"Of course I'll appoint Liberals and New Democrats. When I've been in office for fifteen years and there isn't a living, breathing, Tory anywhere left in the country!"

-The Right Honourable Martin Brian Mulroney.

You know, if Harper doesn't show, Tracy Might:

So, I hear scuttlebutt that Stephen Harper might skip out on the press gallery dinner. If he doesn't want to give a speech, maybe they could invite the leader of Canada's other conservative party, Tracy Parsons. She's witty and she'd be the only female leader there, unless they wanted to give Connie Fogal a ring. So, how about it press gallery, Harper wants to punish you, you embarass him.

Just a suggestion.

Thrill as the Conservatives cop out on the one good thing I thought they were going to do:

No, Stockwell. Keep the licencing fee, scrap the registry, not the other way around. Please. If you can't pay 12 dollars a year to confirm that you are qualified to own a gun, I don't want you owning a gun. Do I want a registry? Hell no. Here's my plan that would have cost the same amount of money as the registry over the next 10 years and still reduced crime:

Phase 1: The touchy feeley children phase:

We take the children of 12 thousand single parents earning under 30 thousand a year. 6000 children of single fathers, 6000 single mothers. We give them a 20,000 RESP. Boom! 12 thousand more university grads with a way out of poverty for their children and their children's children. "But Sean, why don't we give that money to students?" Because upper middle income voters hate students. They think students are whiny know it alls who don't work for a living.

This is odd seeing that today's upper middle income voters were yesterday's students and had to work about 2/5ths as long at the minimum wage to raise their tuitions as todays students, but whatever. Apparently money is more important if given to a toddler or a child. Fine, 250 million for the kids.

Phase 2: The rehabilitation phase:

We take the current prison population and a quarter billion and just go on a rehabilitation spending spree! Farms, fine arts, university level seminars, just go nuts spending money, not only to rehabilitate prisoners, but to place them in meaningful jobs in the workforce. That way there's an actual reason to look forward to getting out. If we tell a convict that they are paying their debt to society over a certain term (read: sentence) Then we, as a society, must ensure that they do not continue to pay after that debt has been paid in full. How about some truth in sentencing Vic?

Phase 3: The quicker turnaround phase:

We spend 100 million to build the best forensics and ballistics labs that the country has ever seen. Hell, we may even be able to recoup the costs with a new series: CSI: Soviet Canuckistan. Then we take the extra 150 million and hire 300 new judges and additional infrastructure for their court proceedings. That means that when somebody robs you at work on Easter Sunday 2005, you'll receive a subpoena sooner than May 30th, 2006! That slower turnaround time will make eye-witnesses more reliable. (Am I bitter about this?)

Phase 4: The stupid cash rebate phase:

Cut every canadian a cheque for $7.49 (The stamps are 51 cents) There. There's your sponsorship money back. Even the part of it (at least 60%) where we got value for money. Will you shut up about it now?

Tah Dah!

It's crunch time Canada. Are you guys are madder at $100 Million worth of theft than $1 Billion worth of negligence? Go ahead, prove my creeping cynicism wrong.

Under NAFTA, Do we even retain the right to write our own laws. And if so, can we use Canadian Pulp?

PRESS RELEASE

Standing down: Actions betraying slogans.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 15, 2006

Toronto, ON – Mr. Harper came to office under the slogan “Stand up for Canada” but he drops final determination that the United States has abrogated a signed treaty (NAFTA) in return for an agreement that returns only part of the money taken illegally [My emphasis] from our lumber industry. This alone is enough to say that this new Conservative government has lost the "moral authority to govern", to use Harper’s words.

"Open Federalism", another Harper feel good phrase, in the softwood lumber agreement is accepting that alterations in provincial forest policy changes be subject to U.S. government approval and requesting the provinces agree to this and all other terms within 24 hours.

This new Conservative minority has mastered “spin” – and the defenders will try to persuade Canadians there is no loss of sovereignty. Or they’ll go on the attack. But the reality is – so far, there is only one party that has come out strongly on this issue and it’s the Progressive Canadian party. We were critical of the Liberal approach and we abhor the neo-Conservative approach.

The P.C. Party is absolutely against giving up our sovereignty and has the expectation our trading partners keep their agreements. Doing anything else merely telegraphs that we can be bullied whenever it is convenient.

As one agreement being broken another “agreement” is negotiated. No wonder they want it done quickly. The government is practicing “sleight of hand”. It doesn’t want people thinking this through carefully, debating the implications or even reading this agreement and finding out how we have given away our sovereignty so that the Harper government can redeem Mr. Emerson. There is no cost to the U.S. It doesn’t have to live up to the North American Free Trade Agreement, why would one more agreement matter? The only possible rationale is that this new agreement is so lopsided in favour of the U.S. interests that they’d be fools not to follow it.

There are no doubt MPs on the government side who know this is wrong but refuse to speak up. They have seen what Mr. Harper does to anyone who disagrees with him. There are also those who know this is wrong but would make a deal with the devil because they are so close to power that they can taste it. Either way, Canada’s interests go undefended.

Speaking in defence of the Agreement, Mr. Emerson speaks of the U.S. making "concessions" where none exist. He says "At the end of the day the government has to represent the public interest and of Canada as a whole," which for him is avoiding the situation that " if Canada continues to rely on NAFTA, the Americans are likely to expand their attacks on the Canadian forest industry to include other products."

Canadians ought to be informed of what is happening. Mr. Harper is once again denying his words, “Canadians don’t turn and run” by his actions. We are to accept tucking our collective tails between our legs and begging the U.S. to give us back part of the money they took from us illegally. And we’ll go cap in hand with any forest management program we have to have the U.S. tell us what Canadian provinces can and can not do. If that’s not turning and running, what is?

"As every child learns in the school yard, you don’t deal with a bully by running, hiding or begging. You stand up to them. Quietly and with dignity you say --- no, I’m not going to take this. And you stand your ground. That’s what people with character do.", stated Tracy Parsons, Progressive Canadian Party Leader.

Stand up for Canada? It requires a back-bone to stand up. There is none evident in the Bush-Harper agreement. There is courage in following through with the challenge the U.S. has made to the March 17 NAFTA panel findings which went in favour of Canada. Anything else is like failing to show up for the last game of the Stanley Cup finals.

The Progressive Canadian (PC) Party is a registered Federal Political Party comprised of progressive-conservative minded Canadians rebuilding from the roots of the former Progressive Conservative Party. For more information on the PC Party, it’s policies, structure or general information, go to www.progressivecanadian.org or call 866-812-6972.

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For more information or to request an interview, please contact:

Tracy Parsons, Leader
Progressive Canadian Party
Tel 866-812-6972
tracy.parsons@pcparty.org

Jim Love, President
Progressive Canadian Party
Tel (647) 403-5519
jim.love@pcparty.org

QUOTES AND INFORMATION CITED DRAWN FROM:

Emerson defends softwood deal
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2006/05/12/1577382-cp.html

Ottawa's softwood deadline called 'railroad'
TREATIES I The Tories are fast-tracking the agreement process
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/business/story.html?id=0c6be61b-4616-45cf-b6e5-1a6742e6f51d

Forest policies must now be vetted by U.S., Emerson says
SOFTWOOD DEAL I B.C.'s timber pricing system awaits Washington approval
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/business/story.html?id=d2238df1-293b-44c4-aca4-e223df2f6cd4





That's the essential Canadian dilemma. Do we aquiese or disagree?

"As every child learns in the school yard, you don’t deal with a bully by running, hiding or begging. You stand up to them. Quietly and with dignity you say --- no, I’m not going to take this. And you stand your ground. That’s what people with character do."

-Tracy Parsons.

I'm proud to be supporting a party that has, to quote Joe Clark in 1966, "The will to live, a nation alone." I'm proud to be a Tory.

Methinks the blogger doth protest too much:

At any rate, realised that there was 4 years worth of ill thought ideas and drive by smears that I had yet to criticise JJ for, so I continue. Nice to have the morning to myself.

JJ:

Was thumbing through the archives and thought I might point out an odd fact and arguement or two... or six.

March 26th, 2004:

" I am really getting sick of the word "neo con," especially in Canada. What does it even mean? No one seems to have a clear answer, other than it is some sort of "eviler" conservative."

Neo-Conservative: The exact opposite of conservative.

-John Ralston Saul, The Doubter's Companion.

March 15th, 2004:

"Apparently the best way to deal with this new climate of terror is to throw out the party which has been most aggressive in participating in the war on terror."

Indeed it is a good idea to respond by throwing out the supporters of a war against a state, when the actors are non-state actors. Much like invading the US for the actions of the IRA, in the 20s, Invading Iraq due to the actions of Al Qaida is a nebulous strategem indeed.

" I mean, we have the President of an island, who came to power three decades ago, and is still in power. And he has a long gray beard, smokes cigars, and wears the same damn green outfit 365 days a year. Castro is really a cartoon character on his own."

Actually, despite the aporcryphal poison cigar plan, Fidel Castro stopped smoking in 1985-86 (There appears to be some disagreement about the exact date.) in an attempt to encourage better health amoung Cubans. Nit picking here, but still, just as traditionally one could wear hats in the house, despite Rick Mercer's "Tradition" sketch, this aside weakens an overall good entry. And he came to power in 1959, 5 decades ago, either by 10 year spans or rounding, as it stands. Moreover you made that point in your January 2nd cartoon, so I'm assuming that this is simply a typo. But the Cigar thing is 20 years out of date.

December 24th 2003:

Where's the direct line pointing from the Queen to the GG? I bet the chart would appear far less nebulous if drawn in that manner. Kudos, on the other hand, for separating the queen from the crown.

November 7th 2003:

" Everyone knows who Noam Chomsky is, right? He's some really whacko socialist professor guy who writes lots of books about how all of the world's suffering is the result of one gigantic capitalist conspiracy, planned and coordinated by the United States."

You really do spread the word Socialist around like cream cheese. Noam Chomsky has continually identified his support for Anarcho-Synicalism, (notably in Manufacturing Consent) which is a system of government even more inimical to a Classical conservative like my self.

November 5th, 2003:

It's truly amazing that such an easily bullied state has never failed to gain territory in a single war in its strife filled history. This, however is a repetition of the National Post fallacy, identify Jewish ethnicity with the Israeli state, thus pigeonholing and stereotyping both groups. A cute rhetorical trick, but it does little to truly evaluate the issue.

November 3rd, 2003:

The American Gross Domestic Product, which according to my "introduction to economics" university course is the total value of produced American goods and services, has gone up by a shocking 7% this year. "

The 7% increase is in nominal GDP: GDP including inflation. US inflation has been runaway since the 2002 (ahem) recovery and tends to be on the order of magnitude of 3-6% per annum. (This has begun to slow) In addition, it should be expected that strong growth should follow such a devastating recession. Economic output nearly doubled in the United states between 1931 and 1935. Using the doubling rate, that means that over those 4 years the GDP increased roughly 17% per annum.

What the heck, let's make it an even half dozen.

June 4th, 2003:

"Peter MacKay was elected leader of the Canadian Conservative party this week, after making a last minute deal with socialist activist David Orchard who was also running for some reason."

1. As a delegate o said convention, I can tell you the following: Joe Clark brokered the deal, and the terms were pretty much named going into convention.

2. I'd like to challenge you to produce one article in which David Orchard identifies himself as a socialist. Maybe you could start with, "What makes me a Conservative."

In conclusion. You seem to use Socialist in the same manner that you accuse others of using the word Neo-Conservative. Your failure to grasp the minutae of history and constitutional law bodes not well for a reader trying to ascertain your grasp of the broader strokes of same.

As always it is my pleasure to offer constructive criticism of your excellent work,

Sean Tisdall

7 Down, 9 to go, and some thoughts on the forward thinking Fossils versus the one note Arsonists:

the Edmonton Oilers are 1 win away from the conference championships, 5 wins from the Stanley Cup Final and 9 wins from cup #6. Why did Edmonton, which was faring so poorly in games 1 and 2 manage to so thoroughly dominate the Sharks upon their return to the Tank this Sunday? The ability to learn.

San Jose has such horrendous ice that the Oiler's typical fast, hitting style of play was punished instead of rewarded. Shots weren't as valuable as posession. Defense was at a premium as goals were marginal. It was defensive hockey at its best. Edmonton learned to throttle back, much as the Edmonton politician advocates putting 30% of Oil royalites into an education endowment, the Oilers left their gas in the tank instead of wasting their prodigious advantage in free wheeling skating by actually bothering to employ it in San Jose. We will have a squad that is rested and ready after 3 days off to really hammer the Sharks into submission, by playing our style of game, when it is warranted.

Also, if Dylan wants to criticise the violence of the Edmonton Oilers he really ought to start with Mr. Vehicular Homicide himself, MacT.

Oil is a result of work, time and pressure. Flame is fleeting and indicative of lack of control.

TTFN from ISMHWRSD. Have fun golfing Calgary.

JJ McCullough, Master Tactician:

I will take this opportunity to note that all my correspondence with Mr. McCullough via e-mail is available on this blog.

"J.J. McCullough" wrote:

Please stop emailing me.

-JJ

JJ:

In reply to your request, I must ask you to diligently apply those skills pertaining to critical analysis that only Margaret Trudeau's alma mater can provide. I use this email adress so as to express my disappointment when you argue in what strikes me as a disingenuous fashion. I shall most certainly not cease to point out your editorial oversights with rapid turn around, like any other political publication, paperless or otherwise. The Edmonton Sun, Journal, Star, Globe and Mail, Free Dominion, Joe Hueglin's Daily Digest, Right of Center Ice, DaveBerta, Vue Weekly, etc, etc, get precisely the same standard of treatment. Just because the stunning visual aids are yours, most certainly does not mean that I would deny you my honest opinion and simply respond with sycophancy.

However if you find my messages in this particular inbox to be an inconvenience and thus you would prefer to set up a letter to the editor e-mail for all those responding to your content or would rather have me comment you by some other equally immediate and cost free media, I shall be happy to oblige.

Keep up the work,

Sean Tisdall

PS: You may have accidentally received my last letter twice. This would have been due to some confusion with the mailer. My apologies.

Thought I'd be good enough to make this yet another open letter to JJ this is regarding his May 13th cartoon:

"The contents of the letter were predictable, and the US State Deparment is dismissing it as an irrelevant distraction."

-JJ

Have you actually read the contents of the letter? If you have, I find it most odd that you use the phrase Great Satan, given that the Iranian President attempts to appeal to the faith of the US President [and does not use the phrase at any point]. But hey, I keep forgetting, you're in this to make cartoons, not comment intelligently on world affairs.

Predictable. What a great nebulous insult you can use on anything you haven't read or your audience is unlikely to take the time to read, so as to reaffirm conventional truths to your audience. Now, I've actually read the works referred to below, but I'll just use these sentences to confirm to you the efficacy of such tactics:

"Adam Smith's [An Inquiry into the Causes and the Nature of]The Wealth of Nations is predictable in its opinions on the owning class"

-Adam Smith actually said that the owners of capital, not land however, had interests inimical to those of society and should be mistrusted.

"Joe Clark is predictable in his choice of party endorsement in the 2006 federal election"

- Joe's only public comment was to praise the PC party saying that they were doing good work.

"JJ McCullough maintains his predictable degree of independence from left and right wing political orthodoxy."

- ...

Love the artwork,

Sean Tisdall

Edmonton is too classy to respond with equal vulgarity and sneering condesension to cheap potshots:

Like the one Dylan lobbed from the capital of the 51st state. Calgary is a city with a grand inferiority complex. It has built them an impressive hiway system that mirrors Atlanta's. It has given them the economic foresight of the Hon. Bill Vanderzalm, and the civic mindedness of Ayn Rand. Sure Dylan, we like having a big mall, but that wasn't a city initiative. That was an individual initiative, like the one that Bill Hunter, who founded the WHA had. However, as a city we don't collectively approve of hooliganism:

"bluemile.ca will not post pictures of broken property,
but we will submit your face if we catch you doing it"

- www.bluemile.ca website

Edmontonians resent Calgary, true, but because their politicians pauperise what should be their partner, not thier helot and pool of northern labour. Whereas Calgary seems to resent Edmonton... apparently because we have the Legislature. Well from the actions of the provincial government led by a Calgarian, it is curious that what a people covet, they should be so loath to make use of.

Please God let them have another boom. It's fun to watch them piss it away.

My one rant about sentencing. It's not the length, it's the proportion:

Botched Kidnapping, wherein the victim is accidentally smothered: 15 to life

Gas and Go, wherein the victim, a gas station attendant, is dragged 7 kilometers, leaving a bloody trail on the roadways for police to follow: 4-9 years including time served.

The major difference: The cruelty and negligence of the criminal: One actually was actively trying not to kill. The other, really didn't seem to give a shit.

The difference that determined sentencing: The age of the victim.

Our courts are indeed hypocritical. They claim to use rehabilitation and social harm as sentencing guidlines, but noble goals, and ones easily pursued, that they are, they are obviously not being used as the criteria for sentencing in this event. And it's not the judges. The Crown only asked for 10 years in the gas station dragging death, because, after wasting the courts time for a little while, Darnel Pratt copped a plea. On the other hand, Min Chen maintained steadfastly that he had accidentally caused Celia Jiang's death during the comission of a crime.
He plead guilty quicky, expressed his remorse and is going away for a time that won't bring the victim back.

But justice isn't about punishment. It's about salvaging as much humanity as possible from the comission of a crime. That's what rehabilitation is about. Davie Fulton said as much as Diefenbaker's Progressive Minister of Justice when he announced that the government's prison policy was going to be rehabilitation. Mr. Toews of course, not a big fan of Mr. Fulton I guess. But then none of these so called Conservatives are...













(Ah the double entendre)

Who's the PC finance critic anyway?


Maybe it should be Chris Schnurr.

And then there were four:

Wow. The PC Blogosphere has undergone mitosis! Principled Conservative and Chris Schnurr/Jason Silvert (The brains behind our Windsor stronghold... as far as PC strongholds go.) both have blogs that are Big P Progressive Canadian and small c classical conservative. The rumors are true! We're not alone! And really, wouln't you rather read about this as opposed to the entirely unsubstantiated rumor that the Oilers are down 0-2 in the second round? Good. I knew you would. Anyhoo.

Having a network of shoot from the hip strategists and pundits a sufficient distance away from the leader (i.e. not written by her fingers... toes either, though that would be impressive.) is, to my mind, a sign of a healthy and growing party. In that vein, I should begin throwing up some policy discussion blub type things...

Soonish.

No politics today, just was really proud of my reply e-mail:

ben coroma wrote:

FROM THE DESK OF BEN COROMA (ESQ).
THE HEAD OF FILE DEPARTMENT, AFRICAN
DEVELOPMENT BANK (ADB)
OUAGADOUGOU BURKINA-FASO WEST AFRICA.
PHONE: 00226-7885 7597.
PLANE CRASH WEB SITE...http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm.

("REMITTANCE OF $15 MILLION U.S.A DOLLARS
CONFIDENTIAL IS THE CASE")

COMLIMENTS OF THE SEASON 2006,

FIRST, I MUST SOLICIT YOUR CONFIDENCE IN THIS TRANSACTION.THIS IS BY
VIRTUE OF ITS NATURE AS BEING UTTERLY CONFIDENTIAL AND TOP SECRET.
HOWEVER AFTER SERIES OF PETITION WAS RECIEVED BY THIS PRESENT REGIME FROM FOREIGN CONTRACTORS AND INABILITY OF THE BANK OF AFRICA (ADB)TO FULFILL THEIR OBLIGATION FOR THE PAYMENT TO ITS FOREIGN CREDITORS, IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE COUNCIL OF MINISTERS, THEY MANDATED US TO CARRY OUT A CAREFUL AND COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW OF ALL OVERDUE PAYMENTS TO FOREIGN CONTRACTORS AND TO EFFECT PAYMENTS IMMEDIATELY.

DURING THE ABOVE MENTIONED PROCESS, WE DISCOVERED AN ABANDONED SUM OF US$15 M (FIFTEEN MILLION US DOLLARS) IN AN ACCOUNT THAT BELONGS TO ONE OF OUR FOREIGN CUSTOMER WHO DIED ALONG WITH HIS ENTIRE FAMILY IN A PLANE CRASH THAT HAPPENED IN (MONDAY 31ST JULY 2000).SINCE WE GOT INFORMATION ABOUT
HIS DEATH, WE HAVE BEEN EXPECTING HIS NEXT OF KIN TO COME OVER AND CLAIM HIS MONEY BECAUSE WE CANNOT RELEASE IT UNLESS SOME BODY APPLIES FOR IT AS NEXT OF KIN OR RELATION TO THE DECEASED AS INDICATED IN OUR BANKING GUIDELINES AND LAWS BUT UNFORTUNATELY WE LEARNT THAT ALL HIS SUPPOSED NEXT OF KIN OR RELATION DIED ALONGSIDE WITH HIM AT THE PLANE CRASH LEAVING NOBODY BEHIND FOR THE CLAIM.

IT IS THEREFORE UPON THIS DISCOVERY THAT I AND OTHER OFFICIALS IN MY
DEPARTMENT NOW DECIDED TO MAKE THIS BUSINESS PROPOSAL TO YOU AND RELEASE THE MONEY TO YOU AS THE NEXT OF KIN OR RELATION TO THE DECEASED FOR SAFETY AND SUBSEQUENT DISBURSEMENT SINCE NOBODY IS COMING FOR IT AND WE DON'T WANT THIS MONEY TO GO INTO THE BANK TREASURY AS UNCLAIMED BILL.

I AGREE THAT 40% OF THIS MONEY WILL BE FOR YOU AS A FOREIGN PARTNER, IN RESPECT TO THE PROVISION OF A FOREIGN ACCOUNT,AND 50% WOULD BE FOR ME, WHILE 10% WILL BE FOR EXPENSES INCURE DURING THE TRANSACTION. THERE AFTER I WILL VISIT YOUR COUNTRY FOR DISBURSEMENT ACCORDING TO THE PERCENTAGE INDICATED.THEREFORE, TO ENABLE THE IMMEDIATE TRANSFER OF THIS FUND TO YOU AS ARRANGED, YOU MUST APPLY FIRST TO THE BANK AS RELATION OR NEXT OF KIN OF THE DECEASED INDICATING YOUR BANK NAME, YOUR BANK ACCOUNT NUMBER, YOUR PRIVATE TELEPHONE AND FAX NUMBER FOR EASY AND EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION AND LOCATION WHEREIN THE MONEY WILL BE REMITTED.

UPON THE RECEIPT OF YOUR REPLY, I WILL SEND TO YOU BY EMAIL THE TEXT OF THE APPLICATION TO FILL AND SEND TO THE BANK. I WILL NOT FAIL TO BRING TO YOUR NOTICE THAT THIS TRANSACTION IS HITCH-FREE RISK AND THIS TRANSACTION WILL ONLY TAKE US 14 BANKING DAYS BECAUSE AS A BANKER, I KNOW WHAT TO DO AND MOVE THE FUND INTO YOUR ACCOUNT WITHOUT ANY DELAY AND THATYOU SHOULD NOT ENTERTAIN ANY ATOM OF FEAR AS ALL REQUIRED ARRANGEMENT HAVE BEEN MADE FOR THE TRANSFER.

YOU SHOULD CONTACT ME OM MY NUMBER 00226-7885 7597 AS SOON AS YOU RECEIVE THIS LETTER SO THAT I WILL SEND YOU THE TEXT OF THE APPLICATION TO APPLY TO THE BANK AND THE DATA INFORMATION OF THE DECEASED .

YOUR'S FAITHFULLY,

BEN COROMA (ESQ).
FROM (ADB) OUAGADOUGOU BURKINA-FASO.




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My reply? See below.





Which way does the water turn in your toilet?

Daveberta mentioned it first, but the PC party beat Bill Graham to carping about it so far as I know:



FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 8, 2006

Toronto, ON – "The Kremlin", as the Prime Ministers Office is becoming called, must assume responsibility for the Government of Canada website, http://www.gc.ca/main_e.html , becoming a public relations tool for the Harper government.

From the “turning a new leaf” right down to the budget – it’s clear that this site is dedicated not to providing access to
services but to ensuring that anyone looking for services gets a Conservative Party commercial. The headline "Prime Minister Harper and Premier Charest sign historic agreement establishing a formal role for Québec in UNESCO" is found not only on the "gc.ca" site but also Conservative Party site, http://www.conservative.ca/EN/2444/ , and the personal site of Conservative Leader Harper, http://www.pm.gc.ca/eng/media.asp?id=1151 .

Not only the headline story but the Five Priorities are featured on all three, all of which are in process as opposed to being Government of Canada Services. This site is no longer providing information to Canadians as to what the Government of Canada has available for them - rather it is what the Harper Government wants them to have.

To visit the three sites is to see the purely political replicated on the governmental . To view the attached pdf file is to see that, not content with the one page messaging of the Conservative Party of Canada positions, they are insinuated into other Government of Canada webpages as well.

These websites being available at tax payers expense remove the need for an adscam for monetary resources. Their provision of a means of controlled messaging diminish the role of the media and the desire or need to forge a positive relationship.

“It’s disgraceful” stated Progressive Canadian Party Leader Tracy Parsons. “This is the use of taxpayer funds to promote a political party. Taxpayers are already paying $1.75. Now they are paying advertising costs.”

Jim Love, Progressive Canadian Party President, in releasing the pdf presentation of the new Government website and the PC Party reaction to it stated . “It’s clear that this site is dedicated not to providing access to services but to ensuring that anyone looking for services gets a Conservative Party commercial.” said Love. “We urge the public to complain loudly to the Government and demand a return of a non-partisan website

The Progressive Canadian (PC) Party is a registered Federal Political Party comprised of progressive-conservative minded Canadians rebuilding from the roots of the former Progressive Conservative Party. For more information on the PC Party, it’s policies, structure or general information, go to www.progressivecanadian.org or call 866-812-6972.

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For more information or to request an interview, please contact:

Jim Love, President
Progressive Canadian Party
(647) 403-5519
jim.love@pcparty.org

For the government of Canada website to actually be a government website it would not announce policy not yet approved, but rather policies already approved and services available. I for one have a problem with a government that campaigns on the public dime, all the while lambasting the previous government for the same sin.

But then a party that brazenly baits people to cross the floor, while attacking the previous government for keeping a floor crosser on the front benches; a party that talks about accountability in government and a director of public prosecutions, but won't hold Brian Mulroney to task on new allegations that he purjured himself by Karl Heinz Schreiber; a party that attacked the Liberals for fighting campaigns with money that wasn't theirs, yet has been monumentally slow in returning the 72 thousand dollars that they owe David Orchard in donations and deposits (plus interest, courts normally prescribe 3%/annum if memory serves,) is in absolutely no position to lecture anybody about ethical political conduct with the possible exception of Jack Layton.

Once again, we here at ISMHWRSD would like to say: Told you so.

Sometimes it's all about the wording:

"The $1200.00 renewal of the Baby Bonus will not increase the availability of day care spaces, nor transit tax credits have more than minimal effect on degrading of the atmosphere,"
-Tracy Parsons, PC leader.

Thanks to Principled Conservative for throwing this up... and Dylan at Right of Center Ice (You're spelling it the wrong way!) for linking to a conservative blogger as opposed to a Conservative blogger.

At any rate. That's why the Liberals lost. They needed to win the name game with the Conservatives, which you can't if you don't play. Call it the baby bonus. Do so loudly and frequently. Do so without cessation:

• The $1200 dollars is a baby bonus.
  
• The GST cut is a Debt Preservation Measure.
  
• The lobbying legislation before parliament is the Politcal Retribution, and Professionalisation Act.
  
• Harper's constitutional position is: Domino Devolution
• The record of this government: is Expectations Created, Consequences Delayed

Everybody up to speed? Good.

Ooh, this will stir up a hornet's nest... My kind of Fascist:

"a nation consists of a people or of peoples who have decided to have the same government."
-Oswald Mosley, leader of the British Union of Fascists 1948 advocating one european government.

At any rate at www.oswaldmosley.com you can listen to what could be identified as a lawful, democratic, pluralistic fascist. A leader whose quarrel was not ethnic, but economic, a man whose fight was for commonality, not totalitarianism. He called himself a fascist and he brings credit to the ideology, which was either perverted by himself into messianic classical conservatism or perverted by the fascist governments of Germany, Italy, and Spain into tyranny. You be the judge:

"In the lives of great nations comes a moment of decision, comes a moment of destiny. And this nation again and again in the great hours of it's fate, hath swept aside convention, hath swept aside the little man of caution and delay... we shall follow men and movements... That is the permanent and mighty mood of Britain!"

Wow. A fascism not based upon blood, but upon ideas and respect for institutions. Is it fascist? Tom Mosley seemed to think so. You decide.

"You lost the confidence, we did not,'' - Wayne Marston

We never had said confidence in you Mr. Marston. There's a reason that the voters gave your 308 candidates a smaller plurality than the Conservatives or the Liberals. It's that you have no intention of forming a government. The NDP intends to wait until the Liberals are but a twitching corpse lying in the desert before it ever begins to pretend that it is a government in waiting. But that is the goal isn't it? The raison d'etre of this new socialist movement, to pretend that it is acutally socialist long enough to gain the support of socialits without losing the support of those supporting capitalism.

On strike breaking and the curse of Ted Lindsay:

I could have trained my guns on the Conservative budget, but really. I don't think I can level any sterner criticism than 2 Billion over 5 years to combat climate change. That and the original tax slashing monstrosity are the two stupidest decisions to come down from the feds this time around. I don't really have the will to discuss in minutae why there seems to not be an economist in this government, I'll just comfort myself in the knowledge that Edmonton is going to the second round of the Stanley Cup playoffs.

How happy was I? I could hear the cheering from Whyte Avenue from my house, which is a mile away. And any self respecting union man and or marxist (I'm a lot more of the former) should be happy that the club that broke the players union the first time and was instrumental in breaking it the last time around (let me know when those seat prices start falling guys) were humbled on May Day. Oilers of the world unite! you have nothing to lose but space on your ring finger!

Yeah, that's about it for now.