Candid Pictures Of Former Canadian PM Paul Martin
0 Comments Published by The R Rated Blogger on Thursday, November 30, 2006 at 6:16 PM.
The National Post takes a look back at Paul Martin through pictures. Very
candid shots of the former Canadian PM.
Wonder what they are talking about?
May 09, 2005 : Prime Minister Paul Martin speaks with Bloc Quebecois Leader Gilles Duceppe, NDP Leader Jack Layton and Conservative Leader Stephen Harper during a flight back to Canada after D-Day ceremony in the Netherlands.
January 24, 2006: Prime Minister Paul Martin speak with Liberal Party President Mike Eizenga in the hotel hallway in Montreal.
candid shots of the former Canadian PM.
Wonder what they are talking about?
May 09, 2005 : Prime Minister Paul Martin speaks with Bloc Quebecois Leader Gilles Duceppe, NDP Leader Jack Layton and Conservative Leader Stephen Harper during a flight back to Canada after D-Day ceremony in the Netherlands.
January 24, 2006: Prime Minister Paul Martin speak with Liberal Party President Mike Eizenga in the hotel hallway in Montreal.
André Boisclair In A Brokeback Mountain Skit
0 Comments Published by The R Rated Blogger on Wednesday, November 29, 2006 at 9:14 PM.
André Boisclair, leader of the Parti Quebecois recently took part in a sketch for the show Les justiciers masqués on the french music channel Musimax.
The sketch satirizes a tent scene in Ang Lee's gay cowboy epic Brokeback Mountain by pasting photos of the Canadian prime minister and U.S. president on two naked bodies, shown from the waist up. The computer-animated caricatures frolic with the help of strategically placed whipped cream and maraschino cherries, to the sound of a cheesy '70s porn soundtrack. Boisclair interrupts their romp when he sticks his head inside the tent and proclaims: "Quebec will never get into that."
The line is a double-entendre — not only is Boisclair gay, but Quebec won't get into bed with Canada and the U.S.
Boisclair is taking a bit of heat from the Liberals for this.
Read more about it here.
You can watch the video of the sketch here.
Pictures From The Liberal Leadership Convention
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Ladies and Gentlemen, presenting to you Canada's next Primr Minister. Yeesh.
No it's not god, just former PM Paul Martin.
Just going to leave this one alone.
No it's not god, just former PM Paul Martin.
Just going to leave this one alone.
Canadians strongly reject Quebec nationhood
0 Comments Published by The R Rated Blogger on Tuesday, November 28, 2006 at 5:07 PM.
Canadian Software Program That Eliminates Government Firewalls
0 Comments Published by The R Rated Blogger on at 4:21 PM.
Let's add it to the list of reasons why this country is the best.
Canadian university researchers have developed software that will let users hop over governments' Internet firewalls, raising the prospect of unfettered Internet access in countries that have long tried to control how residents use the Web.
The Psiphon program, developed by computer experts at the University of Toronto, allows an Internet user in a country with no online curbs to set up an account for someone in a country that censors Web content, and that person can then surf the net without restrictions.
The Psiphon program works by allowing an individual in a country where there is no censorship ban on what an individual can view such as Canada or the US to set up a user name and a password for a person in a country that censors like China, Iran or Syria.
The Canadian or the American user can then pass on this information to the user in the above mentioned countries, who can then log on and use the American or Canadian's computer as a server to browse the internet
The Web traffic between the two users is encrypted and secure making it difficult to trace the usage.
You can read more about the program here.
You can download the Psiphon program here.
Canadian university researchers have developed software that will let users hop over governments' Internet firewalls, raising the prospect of unfettered Internet access in countries that have long tried to control how residents use the Web.
The Psiphon program, developed by computer experts at the University of Toronto, allows an Internet user in a country with no online curbs to set up an account for someone in a country that censors Web content, and that person can then surf the net without restrictions.
The Psiphon program works by allowing an individual in a country where there is no censorship ban on what an individual can view such as Canada or the US to set up a user name and a password for a person in a country that censors like China, Iran or Syria.
The Canadian or the American user can then pass on this information to the user in the above mentioned countries, who can then log on and use the American or Canadian's computer as a server to browse the internet
The Web traffic between the two users is encrypted and secure making it difficult to trace the usage.
You can read more about the program here.
You can download the Psiphon program here.
We would have pointed this out if a male MP had changed his look as well. We equally offend both sexes.
MPs Who Voted Against Quebec As A "Nation" Motion
0 Comments Published by The R Rated Blogger on at 9:25 AM.
16 MPs voted against Quebec as a "nation" motion. 15 Liberal MPs and 1 independant MP, Garth Turner. The 15 Liberal MPs are:
Left To Right
Joseph Comuzzi, Thunder Bay-Superior North
D. Marleau, Sudbury
Maria Minna, Beaches-East York
Joe Volpe, Eglinton-Lawrence
Raymond Chan, Richmond, B.C.
Jim Karygiannis, Scarborough-Agincourt
Hedy Fry, Vancouver Centre
Dan McTeague, Pickering-Scarborough East
Bill Matthews, Random-Burin-St.George's, Nfld.
Ken Dryden, York Centre
Paul Daniel Steckle, Huron-Bruce
Andrew Telegdi, Kitchener-Waterloo
N. Singh Bains, Mississauga-Brampton South
D. Bell, North Vancouver
Scott Simms, Bonavista-Gander-Grand Falls-Windsor, Nfld.
Left To Right
Joseph Comuzzi, Thunder Bay-Superior North
D. Marleau, Sudbury
Maria Minna, Beaches-East York
Joe Volpe, Eglinton-Lawrence
Raymond Chan, Richmond, B.C.
Jim Karygiannis, Scarborough-Agincourt
Hedy Fry, Vancouver Centre
Dan McTeague, Pickering-Scarborough East
Bill Matthews, Random-Burin-St.George's, Nfld.
Ken Dryden, York Centre
Paul Daniel Steckle, Huron-Bruce
Andrew Telegdi, Kitchener-Waterloo
N. Singh Bains, Mississauga-Brampton South
D. Bell, North Vancouver
Scott Simms, Bonavista-Gander-Grand Falls-Windsor, Nfld.
Michael Chong, I Do Not Believe In An Ethnic Nationalism
0 Comments Published by The R Rated Blogger on Monday, November 27, 2006 at 1:36 PM.
"I believe in one nation, undivided, called Canada. While I'm loyal to my party and my leader, my first loyalty is to my country. It is for this fundamental principle that I cannot support the motion recognizing the Quebecois as a nation. To me, recognizing Quebeckers as a nation, even inside a united Canada, implies the recognition of ethnicity, and I cannot support that. “I do not believe in an ethnic nationalism. I believe in a civic nationalism." (Source)
Michael Chong Quits The Conservative Party
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Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Michael Chong may have quit the Conservative Party due to PM Stephen Harper's motion to recognize Quebec as a nation, the Globe and Mail is reporting. Not really surprising since Chong wrote an editorial for the November 23, 2004 edition of the Globe and Mail titled, "Canadians without hyphens".
"Too often we talk about that which makes us different from each other, and not about what we have in common. Canada is not simply the disjunction of different groups, different peoples, and different regions. To be a Canadian is also to share in common something with every other person in this vast land.... We need to speak about a common Canadian identity and move beyond emphasizing our differences."
The article at that time was written in response to:
John Barber's suggestion that there were not enough Chinese-Canadian MPs representing areas with large Chinese populations. Chong noted he had been elected in a riding with a 97% caucasian population, while a candidate named McCallum had been elected in Markham—Unionville, which is more than 60% Asian. Chong wrote that these results reflected his idea of Canada, and encouraged the creation of a "common Canadian identity that will allow for greater understanding among ethnic groups".
Pay attention Canada.
Gerald Kennedy, Bucking The Trend Part II
0 Comments Published by The R Rated Blogger on at 10:35 AM.
“I am supportive of this notion, if it's clear, if it's a matter of identifying Quebeckers as having a language, a culture, and so on. But that is not clear in this resolution, and it will only create expectations,” Mr. Kennedy told a press conference before debate on the topic was scheduled to begin in Ottawa on Monday.
“This is not a small thing. This is about the identity of the nation.”
Liberal leadership contender Gerard Kennedy spoke out against the motion of Quebec as a nation today. You can read his entire statement here
Interesting little tidbit via My Blahg
Yesterday on the 11 p.m. news on the A-Channel, there was a clip on Elizabeth May, leader of the Green Party of Canada and parachute candidate in the federal riding of London North-Centre, finally admitting that the Greens are on the right of the political spectrum and that she expects to bleed support more from the Tories than the NDP and Liberals.
Yesterday on the 11 p.m. news on the A-Channel, there was a clip on Elizabeth May, leader of the Green Party of Canada and parachute candidate in the federal riding of London North-Centre, finally admitting that the Greens are on the right of the political spectrum and that she expects to bleed support more from the Tories than the NDP and Liberals.
Gerald Kennedy is bucking the trend by opposing the motion "Quebecois as a nation".
Mr. Kennedy will release a statement Monday expressing his opposition to the resolution as the wrong choice for Canada, according to campaign insiders, because he believes it is ill-defined and has raised a variety of interpretations that could lead to greater misunderstanding between Quebec and the rest of Canada.
More here .
Game, Set And Match Harper
0 Comments Published by The R Rated Blogger on Friday, November 24, 2006 at 11:55 AM.
What else was Duceppe going to do?
The Bloc Québécois signalled Friday that it will support a Conservative motion recognizing Quebeckers' status as a nation within Canada — something one aboriginal leader says “smacks of Meech Lake.”
The Bloc will vote in favour of the motion, which calls the Quebecois a nation within a united Canada, Bloc Leader Gilles Duceppe declared during a debate on the motion.
“Objectively, Quebec forms part of Canada,” Mr. Duceppe said in the Commons.
“To serve Quebec's superior interest, I declare that the Bloc will vote in favour of the prime minister's motion, he said later outside the House in a scrum with reporters.
From the Globe and Mail, the Inside Story: how the Quebec motion was hatched.
But Conservatives said the Prime Minister believes the separatists made a historic error in asking Parliament to define the status of Quebeckers. Separatists have always said "We'll take our own destiny in our own hands and we don't need Ottawa to tell us what to do" - to Mr. Harper's mind, the Bloc motion marked the first time the separatists had indirectly admitted that Ottawa has a say in Quebec's future.
You can read about it here.
Nation Under A Nation
0 Comments Published by The R Rated Blogger on Wednesday, November 22, 2006 at 4:55 PM.
Let me get this straight. I am living in a Nation under another Nation. I am all confused. Does Harper's announcement relate remotely to the following piece of info.
The Conservatives' strong electoral support in Quebec has all but evaporated in the past 10 weeks and dropped to 12% of decided voters -- compared to 26% in late August.
The Conservatives won 10 seats in Quebec last January with 24.6% of the province's popular vote.
The Quebec support falling away from the Tories is landing back in the Bloc camp, with half of the province's committed backers now behind Gilles Duceppe's party.
Macleans magazine, L'Actualite and the Dominion Institute handed out the first annual Parliamentarian of the Year awards this past Tuesday.
"The work that parliamentarians do is worthy of recognition," explained Dominion Institute president Rudyard Griffith. "We have an opportunity to raise the bar, not only in terms of public awareness, but also amongst MPs themselves, who are going to realize that if you want this award there are some criteria and standards to meet, so let's try to strive to be our best - regardless of what happens in Question Period."
Last October, MPs were surveyed by Ipsos-Reid, which weighted the questionnaire to prevent the results from skewing toward members of the largest party.
Parliamentarian of the Year and Best Orator: Ralph Goodale (Liberal)
Best Constituent Representative and Most Collegial: Peter Stoffer (NDP)
Hardest-working: Paul Szabo (Liberal)
Most Knowledgeable (three-way tie): Stephen Harper (Conservative), Ralph Goodale (Liberal), Bill Blaikie (NDP)
You can check out the rest of the article here.
Atheism, Not Religion, That Makes People Kill
0 Comments Published by The R Rated Blogger on at 8:09 AM.
What year is this? FLQ letter threatens new attacks.
A letter claiming to be from a new cell of the Front de liberation du Quebec and threatening to take action for what it describes as ''Anglo-Saxon imperialism'' in the West Island and west-end Montreal is being investigated by police.
A letter claiming to be from a new cell of the Front de liberation du Quebec and threatening to take action for what it describes as ''Anglo-Saxon imperialism'' in the West Island and west-end Montreal is being investigated by police.
Stephen Harper, Putting The Christ Back In Canada
0 Comments Published by The R Rated Blogger on Monday, November 20, 2006 at 7:40 AM.
A good article in The Nation titled Letter From Canada: The New Christian Right by Chris Hedges. The article chronicles Stephen Harper's plans to turn Canada a lot more American and a whole lot more Christian.
Harper, who heads a minority government, is a member of the East Gate Alliance Church, part of the Christian and Missionary Alliance, a denomination with 400,000 members that believes in the literal word of the Bible, faith-healing and the imminent return of Jesus Christ. Women cannot be ordained in his church, homosexuality is a sin and abortion is murder. Canada, however, is unused to public displays of faith, and Harper has had to tread more lightly than George Bush. But many fear the prime minister is taking a cue from the Bush Administration and slowly mobilizing Canada's 3.5 million evangelicals--along with the 44 percent of Canadians who say they have committed themselves to Christ--as a power base. Harper has spent the past three years methodically knitting a coalition of social conservatives and evangelicals that looks ominously similar to the American model.
Chris Hedges article mentions Marci McDonald's article in The Walrus; Stephen Harper and the Theo-cons, which is another great read. You can access the article for free by registering. It' is also worth checking out.
Harper, who heads a minority government, is a member of the East Gate Alliance Church, part of the Christian and Missionary Alliance, a denomination with 400,000 members that believes in the literal word of the Bible, faith-healing and the imminent return of Jesus Christ. Women cannot be ordained in his church, homosexuality is a sin and abortion is murder. Canada, however, is unused to public displays of faith, and Harper has had to tread more lightly than George Bush. But many fear the prime minister is taking a cue from the Bush Administration and slowly mobilizing Canada's 3.5 million evangelicals--along with the 44 percent of Canadians who say they have committed themselves to Christ--as a power base. Harper has spent the past three years methodically knitting a coalition of social conservatives and evangelicals that looks ominously similar to the American model.
Chris Hedges article mentions Marci McDonald's article in The Walrus; Stephen Harper and the Theo-cons, which is another great read. You can access the article for free by registering. It' is also worth checking out.
Stephen Harper In Vietnam
0 Comments Published by The R Rated Blogger on Sunday, November 19, 2006 at 3:11 PM.
Umm, how long are we suppose to have this stuff on?
Can anybody tell me how long we are suppose to have it on. I am from Alberta, we don't wear girly stuff like this.
Can anybody tell me how long we are suppose to have it on. I am from Alberta, we don't wear girly stuff like this.
South Park Blames Canada Again
0 Comments Published by The R Rated Blogger on Friday, November 17, 2006 at 7:29 PM.
South Park takes on Canada again?
Actually, Greenpeace is taking on Canada.
Greenpeace posted a video spoof online starring , Stan, Kyle, Kenny and Cartman, who slam Canada's stance on deep-sea dragging just as a six-day round of talks on sustainable fisheries began at the United Nations.
The South Park characters, Stan, Kyle, Kenny and Cartman are animated as different species of fish who target Canada and Spain for their deep-sea dragging practices.
...the group breaks into song, to the tune of the Oscar-nominated "Blame Canada," bashing Canadian officials for their refusal to support the ban while mocking Spanish fishermen who trawl "because we can.".
You can check out the video here, here or here.
Actually, Greenpeace is taking on Canada.
Greenpeace posted a video spoof online starring , Stan, Kyle, Kenny and Cartman, who slam Canada's stance on deep-sea dragging just as a six-day round of talks on sustainable fisheries began at the United Nations.
The South Park characters, Stan, Kyle, Kenny and Cartman are animated as different species of fish who target Canada and Spain for their deep-sea dragging practices.
...the group breaks into song, to the tune of the Oscar-nominated "Blame Canada," bashing Canadian officials for their refusal to support the ban while mocking Spanish fishermen who trawl "because we can.".
You can check out the video here, here or here.
Keith Ellison, Prove To Me That You Are Not Working With The Terrorists
0 Comments Published by The R Rated Blogger on Thursday, November 16, 2006 at 12:05 PM.
Rep.-elect Keith Ellison (D-MN) is the first Muslim American elected to the Congress. Since he started running for Congress he has been answering questions regarding his faith.
This one took the cake.The following is a question Glen Beck of CNN asked Ellison.
Beck: ...may we have five minutes here where we're just politically incorrect and I play the cards face up on the table?...Sir, prove to me that you are not working with our enemies."
You can check out the video and transcript here.
Ségolène Royal, The Globe And Mail's Sunshine Girl Of The Day
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Today's Globe and Mail has an article on Ségolène Royal, a prominent member of the Socialist Party in France and the leading candidate for the party in France's 2007 presidential election.
French politics is typically dominated by grey father figures who deliver elegantly structured, stentorian speeches about rigid policy planks.
Ségolène Royal seems to be none of that. What's intriguing about her is whether it is a secular miracle or a calculated act of political marketing, the phenomenon of Ségolène Royal has turned France on its head. The 53-year-old Socialist politician, who many believe could become the republic's first female president in next summer's elections
But what's with the The Globe and Mail's acoompanying photo and it's front page? What is she the Sunshine girl? You would expect this from the National Post.
French politics is typically dominated by grey father figures who deliver elegantly structured, stentorian speeches about rigid policy planks.
Ségolène Royal seems to be none of that. What's intriguing about her is whether it is a secular miracle or a calculated act of political marketing, the phenomenon of Ségolène Royal has turned France on its head. The 53-year-old Socialist politician, who many believe could become the republic's first female president in next summer's elections
But what's with the The Globe and Mail's acoompanying photo and it's front page? What is she the Sunshine girl? You would expect this from the National Post.
Iggy opens his mouth, Iggy inserts his foot.
In response to Bob Rae's comments that he could draw NDP voters to the Liberals. Michael Ignatieff responded with the following words:
"Bob remains enduringly weak in Ontario" and that he would take the party left with a losing electoral strategy. "That's fishing in the wrong pond. That's the wrong strategy. He doesn't realize that Liberals fight the NDP in election after election. What Liberals need is someone who can run down the middle with a progressive message, and leave the NDP in their own particular ghetto."
NDP = Ghetto
In response to Bob Rae's comments that he could draw NDP voters to the Liberals. Michael Ignatieff responded with the following words:
"Bob remains enduringly weak in Ontario" and that he would take the party left with a losing electoral strategy. "That's fishing in the wrong pond. That's the wrong strategy. He doesn't realize that Liberals fight the NDP in election after election. What Liberals need is someone who can run down the middle with a progressive message, and leave the NDP in their own particular ghetto."
NDP = Ghetto
Rona Ambrose is just embarrassing, airing domestic laundry at the international stage.
At the United Nations conference on climate change Ambrose spoke briefly about the need for adaptation in Canada's Arctic communities that would be the most affected by climate change, but she offered no details about creating short-term targets to reduce the greenhouse gases that are believed to cause global warming.
Instead, she told the international community that her government inherited an "unacceptable situation" that left it far from Canada's Kyoto Protocol target to reduce greenhouse gases by six per cent below 1990 levels without an adequate plan to resolve the situation.
When will parties stop playing the blame game and actually solve a problem.
Rona Ambrose Is Fossil Of The Day
Rona Ambrose's Horrible Week
M.I.A. Rona
At the United Nations conference on climate change Ambrose spoke briefly about the need for adaptation in Canada's Arctic communities that would be the most affected by climate change, but she offered no details about creating short-term targets to reduce the greenhouse gases that are believed to cause global warming.
Instead, she told the international community that her government inherited an "unacceptable situation" that left it far from Canada's Kyoto Protocol target to reduce greenhouse gases by six per cent below 1990 levels without an adequate plan to resolve the situation.
When will parties stop playing the blame game and actually solve a problem.
Rona Ambrose Is Fossil Of The Day
Rona Ambrose's Horrible Week
M.I.A. Rona
The Rugged Steven Fletcher
0 Comments Published by The R Rated Blogger on Tuesday, November 14, 2006 at 5:37 PM.
The US Almost nuked Canada, Spain And Itself
0 Comments Published by The R Rated Blogger on Monday, November 13, 2006 at 8:28 PM.
Bob Rae Goes Skinny Dipping With Rick Mercer
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It should be another funny episode of Rick Mercer Report this Tuesday. Rick goes skinny dipping with Liberal Candidate Bob Rae. You can check out the preview of the show here.
Rona Ambrose is the "Fossil Of The Day". An award given to countries by international environmental groups that they believe are headed in the wrong direction.
“Tied for first place, Canada and Australia are both found guilty for making ridiculous claims to the press of their countries and for misleading the public,” Greenpeace Canada spokesperson Steven Guilbeault said on Monday. “Even more humourous is that Rona Ambrose, the Environment Minister was quoted in Canadian press saying that Canada is meeting all of its responsibilities under the Kyoto protocol, except for the bit about emissions targets.”
Ambrose earns “fossil of the day” award
Slow news day Globe and Mail?
Pamela Anderson at the CFL Western Conference Final.
It's fitting since she was discovered at a Lion's game.
Pamela Anderson at the CFL Western Conference Final.
It's fitting since she was discovered at a Lion's game.
Canadians On Time Magazine Cover
0 Comments Published by The R Rated Blogger on Saturday, November 11, 2006 at 8:02 PM.
All together, 23 Canadians have occupied the cover of Time Magazine. The last two being, Brian Mulroney, Sep. 17, 1984 and Pierre Tudeau (and René Lévesque), Feb. 13, 1978.
The rest are as follows, numbering is from left to right.
The rest are as follows, numbering is from left to right.
- William A.C. Bennett, Sep. 30, 1966
- Lester B. Pearson, Apr. 19, 1963
- John Diefenbaker, Aug. 5, 1957
- Clarence Decatur Howe, Feb. 4, 1952
- Louis St. Laurent, Sep. 12, 1949
- Barbara Ann Scott, Feb. 2, 1948
- Camillien Houde, Aug. 5, 1946
- William Mackenzie King, Jan. 7, 1946
- Sir Miles C. Dempsey, Mar. 19, 1945
- Lt. General Crerar, Sep. 18, 1944
- Sir Arthur T. Harris, Jun. 7, 1943
- General McNaughton, Aug. 10, 1942
- Earl of Athlone, Sep. 2, 1940
- Lord Beaverbrook, Nov. 28, 1938
- Mitchell F. Hepburn, Sep. 20, 1937
- Harry B. Housser, Apr. 5, 1937
- Governor General John Buchan, Oct. 21, 1935
- Earl of Bessborough, Jul. 25, 1932
- Richard B. Bennett, Jul. 28, 1930
- William Mackenzie King, Feb. 9, 1925
- Frederick G. Banting, Aug. 27, 1923
Originally posted on the The Huffington Post but George Stroumboulopoulos talked about it on The Hour. It's the song Meth And Man Ass written and performed by Tony nominated actor, musician and director Paul Hipp. The song is about Ted Haggard and his troubles.
Here's the original link to the post. It will automatically starts playing when you get to the page. There is also a video for the song shown on The Hour.
It's damn catchy and you will never be able to get it out of your head.
GIVE ME METH AND MAN ASS ON A SUNDAY MORNING
METH AND MAN ASS SURE AS I AM BORN AGAIN
METH AND MAN ASS I DON'T NEED NOTHING MORE
JUST METH AND MAN ASS AND WE'LL PRAISE THE LORD
Paul Hipp Myspace page
Meth And Man Ass video
Meth And Man Ass mp3
Here's the original link to the post. It will automatically starts playing when you get to the page. There is also a video for the song shown on The Hour.
It's damn catchy and you will never be able to get it out of your head.
GIVE ME METH AND MAN ASS ON A SUNDAY MORNING
METH AND MAN ASS SURE AS I AM BORN AGAIN
METH AND MAN ASS I DON'T NEED NOTHING MORE
JUST METH AND MAN ASS AND WE'LL PRAISE THE LORD
Paul Hipp Myspace page
Meth And Man Ass video
Meth And Man Ass mp3
I Have A Crush On Michael Ignatieff
0 Comments Published by The R Rated Blogger on Friday, November 10, 2006 at 10:01 PM.
Image from The Eyeopener
I have a crush on Michael Ignatieff and I don’t care that he’s 59, or that he’s married.
Which is funnier, the article or the fact it's on Iggynation front page.
via Dissension Delivered
Is she just over her head or just held back by Stephen Harper. Either way, Rona Ambrose just had one horrible week. Check out how bad it was here
Bill Clinton At The Montreal Millennium Promise Conference On Child Poverty
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Bill Clinton was in Montreal yesterday for the Montreal Millennium Promise Conference on child poverty.
If Bill Clinton knew then what he knows now, he would have sent books, not weapons. The result might have been more scientists and fewer terrorists, the former U.S. president told the Montreal Millennium Promise Conference on child poverty yesterday. In most developing countries, Clinton explained, parents must pay to send their children to public schools - "because of the strain on government budgets and the weak tax base." But some Muslim countries such as Pakistan have networks of free madrassa schools, which "indoctrinate kids with a very militant ideology," he said. And terrorist groups such as Al-Qa'ida use them as recruiting venues. "During the '80s and the '90s - I take responsibility for this, too - because Pakistan was a good Cold War ally of the United States, we were only too happy to give them generous military aid," said Clinton, who was president from 1993 to 2001. "If we had given them just one less plane and taken that money and put it into education, God only knows how many fewer terrorists and how many more engineers and scientists we might have educated." (more here)
Spotted at the conference were Belinda Stronach and Rick Mercer.
Send books, not weapons, Clinton says
Stronach joins Clinton at anti-poverty session
Video of Bill Clinton speech
If Bill Clinton knew then what he knows now, he would have sent books, not weapons. The result might have been more scientists and fewer terrorists, the former U.S. president told the Montreal Millennium Promise Conference on child poverty yesterday. In most developing countries, Clinton explained, parents must pay to send their children to public schools - "because of the strain on government budgets and the weak tax base." But some Muslim countries such as Pakistan have networks of free madrassa schools, which "indoctrinate kids with a very militant ideology," he said. And terrorist groups such as Al-Qa'ida use them as recruiting venues. "During the '80s and the '90s - I take responsibility for this, too - because Pakistan was a good Cold War ally of the United States, we were only too happy to give them generous military aid," said Clinton, who was president from 1993 to 2001. "If we had given them just one less plane and taken that money and put it into education, God only knows how many fewer terrorists and how many more engineers and scientists we might have educated." (more here)
Spotted at the conference were Belinda Stronach and Rick Mercer.
Send books, not weapons, Clinton says
Stronach joins Clinton at anti-poverty session
Video of Bill Clinton speech
Canadian Documentary Converting The Religious Right To Global Warming
0 Comments Published by The R Rated Blogger on Thursday, November 09, 2006 at 5:47 PM.
Keanu is the "One", he really is Neo. A Canadian made documentary, "The Great Warming" is converting the religious Right to the truths about global warming.
"The Great Warming" - a documentary made in Canada and narrated by actor Keanu Reeves and singer Alanis Morissette - tells the same disturbing story as Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth." But it has become a strategic vehicle for reaching out particularly to Evangelicals, many of whom were unlikely to rush to see the Gore production. Some hope it spurs a tipping point in the attitudes of grass-roots Christians...The movie has been previewed in more than 220 churches in recent weeks, and last Friday opened in Regal Cinema theaters in 34 cities. Ads are being run on Christian radio and in church bulletins, and Evangelical leaders have provided the film's website with Bible study and discussion guides.
This is a really interesting article from the Christian Science Monitor, read more about it here
The Great Warming website
The Great Warming trailer
Three minute trailer at YouTube
The Great Warming blog
Christian Science Monitor Article: New sermon from the evangelical pulpit: global warming
"The Great Warming" - a documentary made in Canada and narrated by actor Keanu Reeves and singer Alanis Morissette - tells the same disturbing story as Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth." But it has become a strategic vehicle for reaching out particularly to Evangelicals, many of whom were unlikely to rush to see the Gore production. Some hope it spurs a tipping point in the attitudes of grass-roots Christians...The movie has been previewed in more than 220 churches in recent weeks, and last Friday opened in Regal Cinema theaters in 34 cities. Ads are being run on Christian radio and in church bulletins, and Evangelical leaders have provided the film's website with Bible study and discussion guides.
This is a really interesting article from the Christian Science Monitor, read more about it here
The Great Warming website
The Great Warming trailer
Three minute trailer at YouTube
The Great Warming blog
Christian Science Monitor Article: New sermon from the evangelical pulpit: global warming
Belinda Stronach Responds To Ralph Klein's Comments
0 Comments Published by The R Rated Blogger on at 4:46 PM.
Belinda Stronach responds to Ralph Klein's comments.
"We all have to improve the civility that occurs in public life, and in the House of Commons in particular, because we want to attract good people to participate in public life. We want to attract many more women to participate in politics," she told reporters.
"We only have about 20 per cent now. I've talked to many women across the country and they've said, `You know what, I don't know if I really want to participate if it's going to be so rough and nasty," she told reporters.
Stronach was in Montreal on Thursday for an international conference on global poverty, and she used the publicity from Klein's joke to focus on helping malaria patients.
"Ralph should put his money where his mouth is and buy a whole bunch of bednets to save kids from malaria in Africa," she said.
Meanwhile, Klein is refusing to apologize.
"I'm making no apologies," Klein told reporters Thursday. "I read the copy and I approved. I thought it was a funny line."
Video of Stronach's response here.
"We all have to improve the civility that occurs in public life, and in the House of Commons in particular, because we want to attract good people to participate in public life. We want to attract many more women to participate in politics," she told reporters.
"We only have about 20 per cent now. I've talked to many women across the country and they've said, `You know what, I don't know if I really want to participate if it's going to be so rough and nasty," she told reporters.
Stronach was in Montreal on Thursday for an international conference on global poverty, and she used the publicity from Klein's joke to focus on helping malaria patients.
"Ralph should put his money where his mouth is and buy a whole bunch of bednets to save kids from malaria in Africa," she said.
Meanwhile, Klein is refusing to apologize.
"I'm making no apologies," Klein told reporters Thursday. "I read the copy and I approved. I thought it was a funny line."
Video of Stronach's response here.
