Crime beat- Operation Jellybean

Crime beat- stiffer minimum sentences

Stephen Taylor is moving to Ottawa- closer to the action as they say

Michelle Malkin a Citizen's Report on Iraq

"In the Citizens Report on Iraq, readers will learn that progress is being made in Iraq; there are large areas of Iraq that are safe and prospering; that the enemy is being killed and wounded in astounding proportion to American casualties; that the reporting on Iraq by the dominant media is universally despised as inaccurate and misleading by those fighting for Free Iraq -- Americans and Iraqis alike; that the so-called antiwar movement, including the organizers of this past weekend's protest in Washington, is led by terrorist supporting Marxists as part of a global alliance seeking America's defeat in the Global War on Terror and that a prominent White House correspondent has allied herself with one of these groups".

FutureGen - Energy from coal

Global warming poll.............Newsbusters

"Hmmm. I guess that means that 50 percent don’t reckon it’s caused by human activities. Alas, here was another wonderful result that Reuters held back (emphasis mine):

People in China and Brazil were most convinced of the link to human activities and Americans least convinced.

Hmmm. Now, for those familiar with simple arithmetic principles, if 50 percent believe there is a link between global warming and human activities, but Americans are least convinced, this means that more than 50 percent of Americans aren't buying into Al Gore and the media's nonsense.

So, instead of titling this article “Survey shows 13 pct of Americans never heard of global warming,” why not have a headline, “Americans Aren’t Convinced of Link Between Global Warming and Human Activities?”

Nah. That would be too much like actually reporting the findings of this poll. We certainly couldn't have that."

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Sen.Inhofe- Global warming

"The fact is that the Kyoto Protocol and proposals on the drawing board will be extremely expensive. The Kyoto Protocol would cost the average household $2,700 per year. And it would accomplish virtually nothing. Even if the alarmists were right, the Kyoto Protocol would only reduce temperatures by 0.07 Celsius by the year 2050. Bills introduced in the Senate are no different. The Bingaman proposal would only reduce temperatures by 0.008 Celsius.

Of course, while the U.S. was on an energy diet, the rest of the world would be free to continually increase their emissions. Here are some simple facts:........"

[Sen. Inhofe global warming climate change]

Jack Kemp- Wind Power

"Why not have the government both guarantee the price of electricity produced - and buy all the surplus energy?


That is what Denmark has actually done. The result is a 21.6 billion Danish Kroner loss between 2001 and 2005. That is is equivalent to a $3.7573 billion US Dollar loss over that period. That works out to $692 for every Dane, including the children.


A comparably "effective" program in the United States would cost us around 200 billion dollars, adjusted for our population"

"FTC To Host Public Conference on “Energy Markets in the 21st Century: Competition Policy in Perspective”

International Holocaust Remembrance Day- Yad Vashem

The first duty of a government is to protect its citizens..........via Primetimecrime

Blackfive........."If they're gonna support us, support us all the way."

Milblogging........"Democrats sat whenever the ‘V’ word was uttered"

B.C. ..............Smalldeadanimals

Caroline Glick

"In the State of Palestine 88 percent of the public feels insecure. Perhaps the other 12 percent are members of the multitude of regular and irregular militias. For in the State of Palestine the ratio of police/militiamen/men-under-arms to civilians is higher than in any other country on earth.

In the State of Palestine, two-year-olds are killed and no one cares. Children are woken up in the middle of the night and murdered in front of their parents. Worshipers in mosques are gunned down by terrorists who attend competing mosques. And no one cares. No international human rights groups publish reports calling for an end to the slaughter. No UN body condemns anyone or sends a fact-finding mission to investigate the murders.

In the State of Palestine, women are stripped naked and forced to march in the streets to humiliate their husbands. Ambulances are stopped on the way to hospitals and wounded are shot in cold blood. Terrorists enter operating rooms in hospitals and unplug patients from life-support machines. "

[CAroline Glick Palestine]

Ed Koch - celebrity protesters

"The old "celebrity protester" crowd is back. There they were in Washington, on the mall: Jane Fonda, formerly known as "Hanoi Jane," has now become "Baghdad Jane;" Danny Glover, and Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins, husband and wife, exhorting the crowd against President Bush and the war in Iraq. The crowd's signs read, "No War Is A Just War." Not even the war against Hitler in World War II? Another sign read, "Bush = Evildoer." Really?

The president believes, as I do, that the Islamic terrorists want to kill us, and already have at the World Trade Center and elsewhere, and if they are not stopped, they will seek to conquer and threaten the entire world into submission. President Bush, who fights Islamic terrorism, an "evildoer?"

[Ed Koch war protesters]

Reid's Whitewater- NY SUN

"Voters looking for clues as to how — or, more to the point, whether — the Democrats are going to redeem their issue of honesty and integrity on Capitol Hill will be keeping an eye on the growing scandal around the majority leader in the Senate, Harry Reid. He is caught up in a corker of a controversy over a questionable land deal."

[reid whitewater ethics land captainsquartersblog]

Victor Hanson- The Politics of surging............Pajamasmedia

[hanson surge]

Claudia Rosett- UN ..................Pajamasmedia

[Rosett UN]

Hansard Excerpts-Oral Questions- Jan 29/2007

Hon. Stéphane Dion (Leader of the Opposition, Lib.):
Mr. Speaker, Canada currently has a Prime Minister who does not believe in the science of climate change and sides with the skeptics. He has described this science as a controversial hypothesis, and on December 9, he referred to so-called greenhouse gases.

Canadians want to know whether the Prime Minister will admit that he was wrong and whether he recognizes now that climate change caused by human activity represents a serious threat to humanity.


Right Hon. Stephen Harper (Prime Minister, CPC):
Mr. Speaker, on the contrary, I told the leader of the Liberal Party that it is not sufficient to recognize climate change; it is necessary to act. That is what this government has done with the ecoENERGY initiative, with its renewable fuels initiatives and with its investments in public transit. It is necessary to act. He refused to act. This government is taking action.


Hon. Stéphane Dion (Leader of the Opposition, Lib.):
Mr. Speaker, he actually is just nullifying the cuts he made, no more.


I gave the opportunity to the Prime Minister, in French, to say to Canadians that he is no longer a climate change denier. Let us try again in English.


Will the Prime Minister admit that when he cut $5.6 billion in climate change programs, broke Canada's word on Kyoto, and went to Vancouver to announce a so-called clean air act that was so weak he had to fire his minister a few weeks afterward, it was because he does not believe in the science of climate change?


Right Hon. Stephen Harper (Prime Minister, CPC):
Mr. Speaker, as I said, on the contrary, it is not sufficient to simply believe in something. One has to actually do something about it to prove that one is serious.


That is why this government has introduced the ecoenergy initiative. It is why this government introduced a major plan on renewable fuels. It is why this government made major investments in public transport.


It is that member who, when in power, signed the Kyoto protocol and then for a decade did nothing to get it done and left Canada with the worst record under Kyoto in the entire world. He did not get it done............


Hon. Jack Layton (Toronto—Danforth, NDP):
Mr. Speaker, the announcement of initiatives of such a pathetic nature, because they were drawn, frankly, from the terrible record of the previous administration, does not amount to rapid action.


In fact, what we are seeing from the Conservatives right now is exactly the same strategy we saw from the previous government. They brought forward 40 witnesses to tie up the committee for months and the Liberals have brought forward 41 witnesses. They both should get a delay of game penalty, for Heaven's sake. Let us get moving.


Will the Prime Minister instruct his team to get moving on real action on climate change?

Right Hon. Stephen Harper (Prime Minister, CPC):
Mr. Speaker, I can just mention that this government has recently put $230 million into clean technology with the ecoenergy technology initiative, $1.5 billion for the ecoenergy renewable initiative for renewable energy technologies, $300 million for the ecoenergy efficiency initiative, and $30 million to help protect the Great Bear Rainforest. These announcements were all well received by Canadians, by stakeholders, and this government will continue to act.........
Hon. Lucienne Robillard (Westmount—Ville-Marie, Lib.):
Mr. Speaker, many Canadians are asking themselves what our soldiers are doing in Afghanistan. Many believe, and rightly so, that they are there to protect the fundamental liberties of the people of Afghanistan. And now the Minister of National Defence tells us that we are in Afghanistan, but instead, in the spirit of vengeance, for retribution.


Was the minister speaking on behalf of the Prime Minister when he made that statement? Is this a sign of a change in Conservative policy for Afghanistan?


Hon. Gordon O'Connor (Minister of National Defence, CPC):
Mr. Speaker, we are in Afghanistan for three reasons. First, the president and the people of Afghanistan want us to be there. Second, we have a responsibility to help failed or failing states. Third, there is a UN mandate for Afghanistan to ensure that the Taliban do not come back.


When I referred to retribution, I was talking to the Chrétien government's initial actions in Afghanistan.....

Hon. Lucienne Robillard (Westmount—Ville-Marie, Lib.):
Mr. Speaker, this subject is too serious and this mission is too important to leave any lingering doubts about its objectives. The Minister of National Defence himself used the word “retribution” to define the objectives of this mission. Canadians do not need any further confusion. They need clarity with respect to this mission.


My question, therefore, is for the Prime Minister. Can he clearly tell us himself if the mission in Afghanistan is a mission for retribution, yes or no?


Hon. Gordon O'Connor (Minister of National Defence, CPC):
Mr. Speaker, first, I did not use that word, at least as translated. As I said before, a famous statesman here in the House said, “a proof is the proof, is the proof”, and I am going to give the proof.


The Taliban government was in charge of Afghanistan. It sponsored the al-Qaeda terrorist who launched an attack from Afghanistan, attacked the Twin Towers and killed nearly 3,000 people, among whom were 24 Canadians.


A number of countries, among those Canada, returned to Afghanistan, overthrew the Taliban government and replaced it with a democratic government. And that is the proof.........

Hon. Anita Neville (Winnipeg South Centre, Lib.):
Mr. Speaker, Conservative incompetence has left thousands of Canadians unable to get a Canadian passport in a timely manner. Everyone knew about the American passport deadline, yet nothing was done to prepare.


Of course the Prime Minister does not care. Way back in March, he got his red passport in four days.


Why did the Minister of Foreign Affairs spend January travelling overseas without doing something, anything, to ensure Canadians got the travel documents they needed urgently?



Hon. Peter MacKay (Minister of Foreign Affairs and Minister of the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency, CPC):
Mr. Speaker, as it stands, over 20,000 applications are being received daily. As a result, to deal with this increase in applications, some time ago Passport Canada hired 200 new administrative and clerical staff in the year 2000. Another 300 are being hired and Passport Canada has recalled retired examiners and moved former passport examiners into other areas of the agency.


These people are working 24/7 to deal with the increase in applications. They are doing everything they can. The government is supporting them in that effort and will continue to do so.


[Hansard oral questions Canada]

Clash of Civilizations.............

A year later, on Saturday, Jan. 20, 2007, I attended a conference hosted by the Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, entitled "World Civilization-Clash of Civilizations," to which the eminent American scholar Dr. Daniel Pipes had been invited. During the past year as I have read mind-boggling websites and blogs that refer to Dr Pipes as a ‘Zionist pervert’ and other delightful monikers, I wondered what would happen to this brave man, based in my hometown, Philadelphia, were he to cross the ocean. When I learned of the Mayor’s event, I have to confess I was deeply worried that harm would come to Daniel Pipes in England. To my amazement, Dr. Pipes was greeted with respect and decorum. It didn’t last, however."....

[Pipes Livingstone civilization]

Border insecurity...................Captainsquartersblog

[border]

Laundering

Crime beat - "A drug money launderer and grow op financier dubbed the "Queen Bee" has pleaded guilty to two gangsterism charges and tax evasion. "

[crime money laundering grow ops]

Crime beat- pump and dump

Keep a real close eye on your nest egg- don't be afraid to ask a lot of questions

Trying to neuter the Ombudsman?- How's that property tax situation coming along?

John Kerry

Media coverage leaves a lot to be desired- it's not like they have an agenda or anything..........

"U.S. and Iraqi troops eliminated several hundred terrorists on Sunday, but in the twisted view of the establishment media, this significant victory was outweighed by the deaths of two Americans.

'Iraqis Raid Insurgents Near Shiite Holy City," says the Washington Post headline. "U.S. Copter Crash Kills 2 During Fight."

Across the country on the West Coast, the Los Angeles Times was going by the same book. "U.S. and Iraqi forces thwart 500 fighters apparently targeting a Najaf shrine," the Times announced in a sub-headline, but "a helicopter goes down, killing two American troops."

The deaths of the two brave American soldiers who were killed are tragic. But why lump them in with the successful gains that Americans and Iraqis are making against the insurgency?"

Rules of War