Burma--- dead range from 22,000-400,000 and many more to die ....and the "leaders " were worried about "elections"???

If a country can't keep out terrorists, is the system just a make work paper shuffling bureaucracy?........via Jacksnewswatch

"The auditor general's report this past week noted 63,000 illegal immigrants were under orders to leave Canada, but that the Canada Border Services Agency has no idea about the whereabouts of 41,000. That should set off alarm bells if we can't even deport a convicted terrorist here for 21 years".

What kind of criteria are being used?

Auditor- General........

Under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, as amended in 2003, officers of the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) are authorized to arrest and detain permanent residents and foreign nationals at ports of entry and within Canada who have, or who may have, breached the Act. People can be detained if they pose a danger to the public, their identity is in question, or there is reason to believe that they will not appear for immigration proceedings. The Agency is also authorized to remove people found to be inadmissible to Canada. In 2006–07, it removed about 12,600 individuals, including about 1,900 criminals who posed a high risk to Canada.

Responsibility for detentions and removals was transferred from Citizenship and Immigration Canada to the CBSA when the Agency was created in December 2003.

Mark Steyn............"Eric Hoffer, , after the ’67 war. “As it goes with Israel so will it go with all of us.”

Why don't they just cut out the middle men?

Some politicos think money grows on trees.Others would probably like everyone to only ride bikes in the city.If you don't pay attention to how your money is spent, others will gladly spend it for you.

Counterfeit passport ring broken up.................CTB

Crime beat

Lorrie Goldstein- Global warming

"Never mind that many climate scientists say there hasn't been any global warming since 1998 and a recent study suggests it may have stopped -- offset by ocean currents -- and won't resume until after 2015.

The hilarious thing about media reporting of that study suggesting global warming is on hiatus, was all the frantic assurances by "green" journalists emphasizing that this didn't disprove man-made global warming, odd, since the scientists who did the research never claimed it did. "

Good thing nobody's got a financial vested interest in hawking global warming

....and what about the graffiti on all the Canada Post and traffic control signal boxes..put there by gang activity?

Or in the parlance of local politicos with their head in the sand... what gangs? Pretend it isn't there? Very soon the great unwashed are going to realize the emperor has no clothes .It's much easier to pass the buck,harass the law abiding citizens, make them pay for others criminal activity and allow the criminals to control the streets.Until finally some people begin to notice

David Warren- The Boris Effect

"Needless to say, Boris Johnson, in office, will be trying to keep a sock in it. But I find it interesting that e.g. the collapse of Britain’s Labour government scheme for a vast new bureaucracy to enforce “carbon credit trading” among the general population has already been attributed to “the Boris effect.” Merely having such a man on the horizon changes the way things are done."

HAPPY MOTHER"S DAY!

City Journal............Max Schulz

"In truth, however, the Golden State’s energy leadership is a mirage. California’s environmental policies have made it heavily dependent on other states for power; generated some of the highest, business-crippling energy costs in the country; and left it vulnerable to periodic electricity shortages. Its economic growth has occurred not because of, but despite, those policies, which would be disastrous if extended to the rest of the country".

Global Warming- Bjorn Lomborg

"Here's good news that may have escaped attention. The environment worldwide is getting better and better, largely because of economic growth, efficiency and innovation.......

Whether one believes greenhouse gases pose an environmental threat, the greater point is that the United States is capable of such a reduction because of its economic, technological and innovative advances. But blindly imposing government mandates without regard to their effect on the economy, technology and innovation will do little except inhibit prosperity and move the nation closer to the model of Haiti and Somalia.

As Lomborg has written: "We all want a better world. But we must not let ourselves be swept up in making a bad investment, simply because we have been scared by sensationalist headlines."

The Chicago Way.............Instapundit

Crime beat- yes , it was disgusting

Crime beat

No Traffic lights in Gaza?

AT $125/barrel............ FOXNEWS...........if you don't have it on cable yet , you should

Weekly Standard......."The content of the magazine produced by Barack Obama's pastor reveals the content of his character."...Stanley Kurtz

What the Tory resurgence can teach Republicans........Reason

Lebanon.................DailyStar

"Hizbullah's claim that its arms were only targeted at Israel have proved false and invalid in the past two days, which witnessed the uses of such arms against the Lebanese people," the statement said."

Rush Limbaugh...........Global warming

"They have tax increase after tax increase after tax increase in the UK to stop global warming. And guess what? They've been at this a lot longer than we have, and their tax increases and their incursions on freedom have been going on for a lot longer here, and there haven't been any results. After paying all these taxes, after giving up all this freedom, after driving around in a bunch of junk automobiles, the tax increases kept coming, and still the claims of global warming not being stopped kept coming".

Oliver North- ....Gary Bauer .....energy..independence...................................Human Events

"Unfortunately,few politicians seem to have given a second thought to the fact that this country hasn’t had an energy plan for the last thirty years, and it doesn’t look like we will have one anytime soon....


Time, and money, are wasting. Texas Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison has proposed a realistic solution: the Domestic Energy Production Act of 2008. Her bill would permit exploitation of more than a trillion barrels of U.S. territorial oil and nearly 600 trillion cubic feet of natural gas -- more than the combined hydrocarbon reserves of Saudi Arabia, Mexico, Nigeria, Venezuela, Libya and Iran. The measure would also streamline the process for building new refineries and clean, safe nuclear power plants, as well as funding to develop alternative fuels."



Gary Bauer......."We must increase production of oil and natural gas in order to meet the increasing demand worldwide

In order to do that, Senate conservatives have introduced a common-sense, free market-oriented plan – the American Energy Production Act of 2008. The bill would allow for more domestic oil and natural gas exploration, more use of coal and liquefied coal and it would tap into America’s vast oil shale fields. The result of such a plan, if enacted, would be more oil and natural gas on the market, easing supply constraints and lowering prices. It would also create tens of thousands of new jobs in America and go a long way toward reducing our dependence on energy from unstable and hostile foreign regimes, many of which are actively seeking our destruction.

The plan makes sense, which is probably why congressional liberals have already come out against it. "

Appeasement doesn't usually work out to well.............Hot Air

Hospital sanitation

Border bust

Michael Coren- Gaza says it all

Salim Mansur- Happy Anniversary ,Israel