From Arthur Kent: Afghan Quagmire Silences Canada's House of Commons

From Arthur Kent: Afghan Quagmire Silences Canada's House of Commons

Most Canadians Reject Muzzling Of Their Parliament

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The silencing of the House of Commons enables Harper to dodge a parliamentary committee’s probe into his government’s stifling of bad news from the Afghan war, specifically red flags sent up by a senior Foreign Affairs official regarding the abuse of battlefield prisoners handed over by Canadian troops to Afghan authorities.

In truth, there has been an unwritten fatwa maintained by the Prime Minister’s Office against discussion of any and all controversial aspects of the Afghan debacle, as evidenced by the PMO’s consistent refusal to comment on the investigations reported here since Skyreporter went on line in March, 2007.

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Full Text of Arthur Kent's commentary

Happy 125,000th!

One hundred twenty-five thousand people have joined the Facebook group, Canadians Against Proroguing Parliament!

Musings of the Technical Bard: On the danger of Islamist terror

After reading a Blogging Tory blog post about profiling, here is my comment:

I would be willing to profile terrorists if that is what we must do. However, I would not be willing to profile Muslims for I, too, am a Muslim.

“[King] Christian [of Denmark] remarked that if the German administration tried to introduce the symbol of the Star of David in Denmark, ‘perhaps then we should all wear it.’”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_X_of_Denmark

Update from the Jerusalem Post:

An overstretched army, supported by a weary home front, against an ill-defined enemy, does not offer a viable strategy for success. Better to tell people that the enemy is radical Islam, which wants to spread its religion using the sword, and that defeat would mean an end to Western values of pluralism, minority rights and democracy.

Thank goodness Stephen Harper is supporting democracy by asking the governor-general to shut down Canada's so-called democratic parliament.

Why oh why would the Toronto Star want this loonie rightie writing for them?

Today was the first time I’ve time I read one of the Toronto Star’s newest contributors and I gave my head a sad shake. (see column here)

Ezra Levant, known as Ezzy to the on-line blogger community,  is now getting his anti-Ignatieff/Liberal ramblings published in the only decent newspaper in Canada and you have to wonder what editorial page editor Ian Urquhart is thinking. Is this his way of trying to make the paper diverse? Well, we already have future conservative fascist wacko extremist Antonia Zerbisias for that, so I’m thinking this is just an attempt at trying to inject some controversy and reactions from readers such as me.

If that’s the case, Urquhart is playing with fire…

Update: Say "No" to my plagarism.

New site: www.topblogs.ca

Hi fellow bloggers,

I just placed my blogsite on Top Blogs: Canada's Best Blogs.  So far, I am number five in the rankings.  Then again, there are only six blogs listed so far.  Top Blogs was created by one of the volunteers with the Canadian Blog Awards.

The rankings for Top Blogs are based upon  ranking is based on pageviews on your own blog. Everytime someone visits your blog, you get a point.

I do hope that bloggers will participate.  There are the following categories: general, art,journalism, professional, GLBT, French, humour, pop culture, culture and literature, politics, personal, religion & philosophy, sports, and science & technology.

I encourage you to join.

Dean Soreyko of BC Blue doesn't like reading Dr. Dawg's column in the Nat Post

From Dean Soreyko of BC Blue:

"Today was the first time I’ve time I read one of the National Post’s newest contributors and I gave my head a sad shake." (see column here)

"John Baglow, known as Dr Dawg to the on-line blogger community,  is now getting his anti-Harper/Conservative ramblings published in the only decent newspaper in Canada and you have to wonder what editor Kelly McParland is thinking." (continued)

I left a comment on BC Blue.  I don't know if it will get published as it is in moderation.  Here's is my comment anyway:

"Please, do all newspaper and magazine writers need to be conservative? I read different print and electronic news sources. I don’t care if they are liberal or conservative. I want to read good writing. I can enjoy a conservative Economist magazine as well as a liberal Toronto Star. I can read the Jerusalem Post as well as Al Jazeera (English). I can enjoy all of them. I read them because I want the authors to challenge my own way of thinking. If I just read things which which I only agree, I would limit my own range of thinking. If people wish to only read things with which they agree, they can read their own toilet paper."  [Links added on my blog post]

Update: BC Blue did publish my comment.  Thank you so kindly.

Lake Superior State University 2010 List of Banished Words

Happy 2010!  Will that be two thousand ten or twenty-ten?

Lake Superior State University has just published its list of banished words:

• shovel-ready
• transparent/transparency
• czar
• tweet
• app
• sexting
• friend as a verb
• teachable moment
• in these economic times...
• stimulus
• toxic assets
• too big to fail
• bromance
• chillaxin'
• Obama-prefix or roots?

Click the link for details about each word or sets of words.