May 24, 2004

© Bud: Let these quotations lead you into the path of righteousness

"Universal sufferage almost inevitably leads to government of mass bribery, an auction of the worldly goods of the unrepresented minority." -- W.R. Inge--Dean of Saint Paul's cathedral

"The broad masses of people can only be moved by the power of speech. All great movements are popular movements, volcanic eruptions of human passions and emotional sentiments. Stirred by the firebrand hurled among the masses." -- Adolf Hitler

"The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the smaller ones like prostitutes." -- Stanley Kubrick

"The politician oozing charm from every pore, oiled his way across the convention floor." -- Jay Lerner.

© Bud: Geezers rock

I was looking at The Rolling Stone magazine's "Rich list"--the tabulation of who among musicians got the most loot last year. My heart swelled with pride to see the elderly cohort collect the most. The Stones struck up the band with $84.1 U.S. in net earnings. Not bad for four guys with an aggregate total of 240 years on earth. Springsteen ( no youngster himself) came next with $81.9 million. The Eagles were third, the Dixie Chicks fourth, and Metallica fifth. Simon and Garfunkel are still picking up serious coin at the number nine spot ($38.5 million). Cher, that cosmetically-altered old warhorse, rounds out the list in tenth. With her $33.8 million take she can mount another "comeback tour". If all the groups combined, minus The Dixie Chicks, they could open an old age home.

If the kids are supposed to be the ones with the disposable bucks, why aren't Beck, Blink-182, and Linkin Park the money champs? Just another indicator that the talentless, gimmacky bands are not going to leave any lasting mark. Damn good thing that Kurt Cobain committed suicide, or Pearl Jam would not have come in at 42nd on the top 50. In fact, the Top 40 albums in the March 18th, 2004 issue show the heavy in-roads made by country and jazzy pop. Norah Jones is number one and country-fried Kenny Chesney is third in sales. What ever did happen to those erstwhile phenoms like The Dead Kennedys, Oasis, and The Voidoids?

May 23, 2004

Run for Your Lives! -- Hang onto your wallets -- Paul Martin's on the prowl!

Much work has gone into this one. Do link.

Hang onto your wallets -- Paul Martin's on the prowl!

"RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!"

I didn't think he'd do it. Against the best advice of concerned Liberals everywhere Paul Martin dropped the writ today and gave voters a chance to express their approval of him and his government. It should get very interesting.

I listened to his speech outside Rideau Hall and found a dozen spots where he is going to be in huge difficulty very shortly. This guy is really asking for it. I also noted all the airtime given to Liberal pundits by the CBC and CTV as opposed to their opponents. I suppose that's because it's Paul Martin. ("Here's a minute for you and I'll take ten. Now here's another minute for you and another ten for me. Isn't this fair?")

Quebec and Ontario (not to mention B.C.and Alberta) are hopping mad at Liberals right now. I can't see that subsiding any time soon with Harper and crew continually stirring the pot. It's only going to go downhill from here for Paul.


RECIPE: OH CANADA!!! THE TRUE, NORTH, SILENT AND FRUSTRATED...

Update: A friend mentioned this about the following:

A conservervative government will likely repeal the law. It smelled from the very start. The Liberals changed committee members who were voting on it to ensure it passed committee. Martin did that.



This came from another acquaintance -- one who must know my sense of humour. I love it. Thanks MD.

I came across this terrific recipe book entitled, "Any Politician Can Cook Up These Crafty Canadian Recipes."

I thought you might be particularly interested in trying out the recipe on page 27, it has proved a big hit with a particular crowd in Ottawa. [. . . . ]

RECIPE: OH CANADA!!! THE TRUE, NORTH, SILENT AND FRUSTRATED...

Note: Although this simple recipe does not contain a lot of ingredients, it promises to feed, not only, your extended family and community, but up to 30 million Canadians!

Simply follow the four steps outlined below for years of lasting silence.

STEP 1 - Ingredients: Same-S*x Marriage Reference Questions + The Supreme Court of Canada.

Method: Be careful not to flambe! To prevent scorching, add an additional question to the Supreme Court Same-S*x. Marriage Reference in January. This will ensure that the spring hearings are postponed until the fall, and that this highly inflammable dish does not burst into flames and spoil the flavour of a June election campaign.

Step 2 - Ingredients: Svend Robinson + Prime Minister's Office + Senators + Bill C250 + Political Ramrods

Method: Do whatever it takes to get Bill C250 passed in the Senate prior to the election. This will ensure that anyone who wishes to express a medical, moral, or faith based opinion regarding certain "orientations" will find themselves bankrupted with lawsuits, or at least thrown away into prison.
Step 3 - Ingredients: Supreme Court + Appointed Activist Judges + Liberal Gag Law

Method: Have the Supreme Court endorse your election gag law. Timing is critical. When this one comes out of the oven, quickly frost it over with a spring election.

Step 4 - Spring Election + Beautiful Weather + Apathetic Canadians

Call a Spring Election and hope that Canadians are so enraptured by the lovely spring weather that they will not remember things like the misappropriation of millions of taxpayer dollars, the Canadian Government's anti-family agenda at the UN, the flip flop on Same-S*x Marriage, the enshrinement of Bill C-250, etc.....

WARNING: The above recipe is quite devoid of nutritious substances, and prone to induce indigestion. Nevertheless, if your diners do not like what you are serving, simply continue to ladle up more of the same.


End of Recipe

Well, folks???

Are you gagging yet?

You are not alone. I haven't heard anybody in my neighbourhood saying, "Please Sir, may I have some more?"

Meanwhile, those chefs in Ottawa are very busy.

As you will read in the news release below [I have omitted it; go to Lifesite for it.], the Supreme Court . . . upheld the Federal Government's "Gag Law" which basically eliminates any effective advertising of issues that the official parties might not want to cover - due to their "sensitive" nature.

It is now up to us as individuals to take on that role and become that critical voice!


The government cannot gag each of us - just as long as we are acting independently (even if we are under an organized grassroots effort).

Nevertheless, we need to spread the word. We are aggressively trying to get this message out to 1 MILLION CANADIANS who will commit to taking 5 minutes during the upcoming election to letting their voices be heard on some of the key issues that our politicians are afraid to tackle. The Silent Majority's Voice will be heard loud and clear!


Please help us out and go to www.1millioncanadians.com.


To help in the effort to bring democracy to Canada, check out these sites Life Site and United Mothers.

Bring this to the attention of others. You won't be sorry if you help in the spread of true democracy, not the pseudo-democracy we now have -- the severely "guided" one we have been subject to for years -- the one that promises you what you have indicated through polling that you want -- that buys your votes with your money -- and forgets the promises after the election -- the pseudo-democracy we have, now with additional help from the Supremes appointed mostly by Liberals.

Remember: Friends Don't Let Friends Vote Liberal -- Paul Martin's Meeting with the GG Today

Prime Minister Paul Martin will meet Her Excellency the Right Honourable Adrienne Clarkson, Governor General of Canada, on Sunday, May 23, 2004 at 1:00 p.m. at Rideau Hall, Ottawa, Ontario.

The Prime Minister will be available to the media immediately after the meeting. [for free publicity?]

Media wishing to cover the event will have to present valid media accreditation or identification.


Does the above mean non-Liberal media will not have access -- that you probably had to curb your views or risk having no media work? How many non-Liberal media sources of information can you name? There are a few exceptions to the Liberal/leftist controlled media. Some information sources now have their own websites or personal blogs: Diane Francis, Norman Spector, Andrew Coyne, Mark Steyn, and others.

The election is coming and the usual media will tell you what to think. The Globe and Mail has lost its editor or one of its prominent employees, anyway, to Paul Martin's campaign; so much for media balance.

The National Post is better although the owners are Liberals. Check The Western Standard, Canada Free Press, the Byfields' (Citizens Centre), Lifesite, United Mothers, and some others I shall think of, eventually. Also, check out bloggers for news -- some doing a better job than our bought-and-paid-for, mostly Liberal media in Canada -- sites like Newswatch and Canadian. Even Warren Kinsella, a Chretienite, has his own blog and his latest post has predicted happy days ahead for Stephen Harper -- that Stephen is a leader likely to win. Check out some of the sources listed in the menu at the left on News Junkie Canada , along with Little Green Footballs and den Beste; see the article below.

Remember: Friends Don't Let Friends Vote Liberal

Thanks, JP, for this.

Bill Whittle: Eject Eject Eject -- STRENGTH, Parts 1 & 2

Skip the rest of this post and go now to STRENGTH (part 1) and to STRENGTH (part 2) or, if you still need convincing that you really should read the whole of this lengthy, informative, persuasive article at Eject Eject Eject, read on for the three excerpts; then go. Note that this is from a forthcoming book by Bill Whittle

[. . . . ] This is the final essay in a collection called SILENT AMERICA. The others are on the right-hand sidebar, with the earliest on the bottom and the most recent at the top.

They will be printed and available for sale as a book within a few weeks. But every word in the book will remain here, for free.
[from the introduction]


First of all, let’s start this little journey by mentioning The Gloom. Fallujah. Abu Ghraib. Bodies hanging on bridges. Prisoners standing on boxes.
Listen troops, let’s get this straight right off the bat: it’s only a catastrophe. It’s nothing more than a major disaster. I’m not being cynical, or arch, or “ironic.” I am deadly serious.

We have seen two months of what looks like non-stop catastrophe, and we will see more, and maybe worse, before we are through. Here is my well-reasoned, historically researched, deeply nuanced opinion: Tough shit. This war will be over when we say it is over, and not a second before.

[. . . . ] To those who claim that Islamist terrorists do not pose a direct, immediate and potent threat to the United States, I would like to condense the next four thousand words of this argument thusly:

One of the most vilified people on the internet right now is Charles Johnson at Little Green Footballs. It is the only website that I will check at least twice a day. [. . . . ]

What does matter is what Little Green Footballs does on a daily basis. Charles Johnson does not sit down and write five essays a day on why he thinks Radical Islam is a deranged and poisonous and growing Death Cult. Charles simply links to newspaper articles, usually from Arab and Islamist sources like Arab News and Reuters, that show without question that Radical Islam is calling, daily and nightly, for the destruction of the West, the murder, enslavement or conversion of its citizens, and the establishment of a world-wide Caliphate where Shariah – Islamic Law – is the only law.

This is not his opinion. This is not the opinion of Western editorial writers. This is a filter (and of course it’s a filter – that’s why it is useful) that looks at Islamist thinking and behavior daily and shows what Islamists are saying and doing in their own words.

[. . . . ] Radical Islam is a religious cult based on constant, never-ending warfare. I personally am aware of no other religious tracts that are as filled with page after page of conquest, strategy and military jargon. Islam rose to prominence under the sword, and the Prophet was, above all else, a military commander determined to spread his faith by conquest and enslavement. Islam has rules for when prisoners should be released, ransomed, sold into slavery or have their throats cut. As a matter of fact, Islam has rules for everything. What to eat, how to wash, where and when and in which direction to pray. Islam has rules for the treatment of animals and the treatment of women. There is no part of daily life that is not specifically addressed, sanctioned or outlawed by Islam.

And contrary to post 9/11 spin, the most accurate translation of Islam is not “peace.” Prior to 9/11, the universally accepted translation of the concept of Islam was “submission.”
[. . . . ]


The article is simply excellent. You might find it worthwhile to check out Little Green Footballs often, as well.

© Bud on Frost Hits the Rhubarb

List of Articles that Follow:

* Gun Registry to RCMP?
* Gone with the Wind, the Marijuana and Whistleblower Bills
* "We have to respect the Privacy Act in this matter...We cannot discuss this matter of alleged government malfeasance because it is before the courts"
* Robbery at the Pumps
* Bringing democracy to Iraq -- Kuwait, after the Original Night Vision Show, Revisited
* Tough Love from an Occupier Redefined
* The Mistakes Made in the Iraq War are Costly
* Joe Clark, a traitor to his party will campaign for Scott Brison, another traitor.
* A UN Story



© Bud: Gun Registry to RCMP?

Stupidly, through panic over the backlash from their gun registry stance, the Liberals are trying to fob off their monetary responsibility for this albatross to the RCMP. Make them the bad guys. Pass the trash. That is not going to go down well with the public, nor the RCMP, as the transfer will waste hundreds of millions more and gobble up police time in mindless, if not totally useless, paperwork. But then we are already gobbling up police time, and money, with petty marijuana convictions, so why not?


© Bud: Gone with the Wind, the Marijuana and Whistleblower Bills -- Not Gone, Bill C-250 Designed to Curb Your Free Speech

Let's start with the marijuana bill. There are hundreds of thousands of Canadians who have picked up marijuana convictions, probably. The legal cost to those individuals for favouring cannabis over alcohol has far, far outweighed any benefit to society. Billions have been spent over the decades to try to suppress marijuana use. The result, endless quantities of qualtity weed at reasonable prices. To throw in an economic factor; the money stays in Canada, not in Mexico or in Colombia. If the government legalized it, taxed it, and sold it in acceptable primo blends (please, no Flin Flon Flim-flam), they might be able to afford a decent military, security service, and hospital care. Trudeau's LeDain Commission recommended legalizing marijuana in the early 70's. Trudeau didn't have the guts to tackle this issue . . . might scare the rural voter, so the recommendations were left to rot. A small joke there, as it is these same Canadian rural folk that produce some of the best weed today, it seems.

Now we have the Liberals reneging on their promise to introduce decriminalization for small amounts. They know that the supply out there is enormous, and that any serious enforcement might create a horrible culling of the professional class. Can you think of a professional category not included? And that includes policemen. The government could even lose a few of their secretly-toking backbenchers if the enforcement got too draconian. They know it is a losing proposition to keep the law the way it is. Possibly later it will be seen as the original multi-billion dollar boondoggle. But, for this crowd, it is purely a question of political expediency. Not human rights, not ethical standards, not even economic wastage; it always comes down to the unabashed expediency of "that vote-loser can rot again as an issue. The Yanks will like that a whole lot." I find our government's Sammy Glick attitudes a sad sign of the decay of our society. Their unctuous desire to pander to any lobby group that is leftish, along with the backbenchers' servile posture, makes a mockery of democratic principles.

The whistleblower legislation was to be the showcase of Martin's legislation, "We are going root out corruption. These scandals are outrageous. I want everybody who knows about these scams in government to come forward." Valiant words that meant nothing. Are you kidding? Far too many honest government and civil service people know where the bodies are buried. Encouraging whistleblowers would mean having to practise the hari-kari ritual -- at every headline. No, the old-fashioned methods of the threat of stalling someone's career, or dismissal "for cause", have kept most of the skeletons in the closet.

There were other important bills left to die on the order paper. It is rather hard to think what single bill of consequence the Liberals did pass under Martin -- other than Svend's private member's bill, the unnecessary Bill C-250 which is really designed to curb free speech, an NDP bill which suits the Liberals' designs perfectly. This new PM was on either the defense, or on the hustings, from day one. The stench of Chretien's legacy was wafting across the land. The new PM had to move quickly; after all, he was the second in command in Chretien's regime. Maybe if he ran against the wind long enough that residual taint might disappear. He kept his Martinite faction in the Cabinet, and banished the rest. After years of service and electability, candidates are tossed aside. Martin's hand-picked boys and girls are trotted out to be candidates. An ex-NDPer like Dosanjh is crowbarred into a riding that seemed potentially weak. Martin is a man who has absorbed the old ways too well to jettison them. As the master, Josef Goebbels, once said, "Tell a big lie, and tell it often." Martin's big lie is that he is going to correct the democratic deficit. His propaganda machine tells it often.


© Bud: "We have to respect the Privacy Act in this matter...We cannot discuss this matter of alleged government malfeasance, because it is before the courts"

Two of the greatest government escape routes ever invented. The Siamese twins of political unaccountability. When the Public Accounts Committee was looking into Adscam, they were told that Gagliano's expense account and phone records were protected by the Privacy Act. Even the pictures, adresses, and other information for the police to track down deportee absconders turns out to be private. Of course, it is private. The government allowed these bogus and mainly criminal people to escape deportation. There is a potential blackeye if they were caught. Might turn out they existed for three years on the lam by criminal acts. The National Post would blow this petty affair out of the water. No, it is better if they are not caught. The ethnic groups know who they are, but don't want to give them up. Think of the optics in the ethnic ridings if he turns out to be some local hero. Don't want to alienate the ethnic vote just before an election now, do we?

I have never read the Privacy Act, but from my reading and television gleanings I gather that the government sector is more protected than you or I. Businesses are held to account, at what will be great expense to them, You, the public, already have a government file on you that, on average, encompassed some 1,600 items of information the last I heard ot it. I can't remember 1,600 items about myself. What minutiae must it contain? Where did they get all this information? The government said that this information was necessary--for some ridiculous reason I have forgotten. They even had these huge files on three million dead Canadians. Under pressure from the opposition they promised to "break the information down into different files, completely confidental". I hope you were reassured. Privacy coming from the mouths of people who want you to have a national identity card and a biometric passport? Give me a break.

PS: If you don't know what the Liberals' propaganda machine is, just read News Junkie Canada for a bit -- like CBC, a dog with a bone, that one.


© Bud: Robbery at the Pumps

The Canadian way of selling gas smacks of collusion. While the Petroleum Association of Canada tries to bamboozle you with arcane graphs and stats, they cannot explain away why there were huge increases at the pumps in April, when crude oil prices went up 21%, but skyrocketed 32% for the consumer. This increase was not seen south of the border--maybe because the Americans have anti-trust laws with teeth. Years ago there was a CTV investigative report on gas prices here and in the States. While the U.S. had a 14 cent difference between the highest and lowest prices per liter, Canada had only a 4 cent gap. I guess when Canadian oil prices start to cut into the profitability of some well-connected company heads, we will see some action -- on another continent or island.


© Bud: Bringing democracy to Iraq -- Kuwait after the Original Night Vision Show, Revisited

The new war against Iraq may not be about oil; however, there was no question about Bush senior and his Gulf War's objectives. Part of the agreement for the U.S. to spend billions driving Saddam out of occupied Kuwait was that the Kuwaitis would make some changes in their autocratic rule. Giving the women the vote was one condition. After a few feeble attempts to carry that simple condition out, the Kuwaitis still have never done it. My point is not to condemn the Americans for looking out after their economic / fuel concerns; it for their naive belief that even a costly liberation from a monster would move these men to give up their own total power over their subjects -- especially, their women.

Democracy is even more elusive in Iraq, a country riven with ethnic and religious hatreds. They talk about the Crusader Christians coming to cut their throats, but deep down they really fear their Muslim neighbours doing just that to them. Kurds, Sunnis, Shi'ites don't generally see themselves sharing a peaceful kingdom with their fellow Iraqis; each group envisions having control. In the case of the Kurds, autonomy would suffice. The Kurds are not of Arab stock and besides, they are almost infidels in the eyes of the other branches of Islam. The Turks surely are not going to adopt them. They will be odd man out in the coming civil war. The saddest analysis I can come up with is for the Americans to crush all rebellions in a swift and brutal manner. To quote Teddy Roosevelt, "Speak softly and carry a big stick."


© Bud: Tough Love from an Occupier, Redefined

I once read about a British District Officer in Colonial Kenya, circa 1907, who had to quell persistent cattle theft by a northern tribe. He sent his white second-in-command to negotiate with this tribe. Instead of palaver, they tied him down on the ground, propped open his mouth and invited the village maidens to defecate into it. When the officer's death became known, this head District Officer took his troops to the village. He instructed his men to sodomize the maidens, (a Biblical eye-for-an-eye punishment, apparently), then burn down the village, and then, oh, the true horror, they had half their cattle carted away. There were no more incidents after that. Rather puts the Abu Ghraib "actrocities" into historical perspective.


© Bud: The Mistakes Made in the Iraq War are Costly

I am no armchair general who thinks he could have solved the Iraq problem. However, to this layman, there were serious mistakes made from the start. As liberating troops to a city, the first thing the liberators must do is establish order. Use any draconian method needed. Looters must be shot. Set up a strict curfew and lock Baghdad down at night. The hue and cry from the liberal left about "abuses"would start immediately; but that is nothing to allowing anarchy to reign for months. The slum looters from Sadr City whom you gun down for looting would only be a foe later on.

The other major mistake was in not using massive force to rout both the Sunni and the Shia from their bases in Falluja and Najaf. The retreat from Falluja and the importing of a Baathist general and Iraqi troops to crush the insurgents, get their weapons, and hand over the foreign jihadis was a disaster. Nothing of note has been done in any of these areas. The general even claimed that there were no foreign fighters in the city. Meanwhile, al-Sadr and his Shi'ite posse hide in mosques--sacred, yes, but also handy for storing their grenade launchers. Demand unconditional surrender or you will wipe them out. That method has a proven track record. Compromise with thugs, embittered Baathists, and the fundamentalists will explode in your face every time. Read your Middle Eastern history. See what, historically, they respect, and despise.


© Bud: Symmetry

Joe Clark, a traitor to his party will campaign for Scott Brison, another traitor.

Brison, who is now running as a Liberal, may wish that Joe not help -- although the symmetry of the ex-Tory leader and one who ran for the Tory leadership--now both Liberals--is perfect. I didn't think Clark could sink much lower, but the man has amazing powers to besmirch his tattered reputation further.


© Bud: A UN Story

Years ago a buddy applied for a job with UNESCO in Bangkok. He got the job as head of the computer section because of his extensive IBM experience. I remember Art telling of going to the UN building and listening to the UN people talk -- only about who was invited to what parties. Two years after working with the UN--BIG MONEY--he quit and took his Thai lover up north. One of the last letters I received was a description of how he tried to survive in the UN. He tried to set up a no-salary program that would, after hours, teach the Thais the basics of computers. He was refused outright. This was my first hint of what the UN was all about. After three years of living like a king in Bangkok--when overlanders were staying in $2 a night places--he suddenly quit and did move up country with his girlfriend. He wrote me and said, "I have had enough of this b******t." My letters to the Bangkok UN office never found him again.