Stuart Shephard, Director of Digital Media for James Dobson’s
I’m pretty sure this wasn’t what Shephard was expecting from his magical sky-being.
And they say God doesn't have a sense of humour.
Update: Oh Look! CC's still pissed that I accurately pegged him and his comrades as NAMBLA enablers.
“It just wouldn’t be appropriate to have a festive occasion while a near-tragedy or a terrible challenge is presented in the form of a natural disaster,” [John] McCain said in a taped interview for Fox News Sunday.
"Palin proved her pro-life credentials in a powerful way earlier this year year when she gave birth to her fifth child, born with Down Syndrome, despite receiving pressure from doctors to abort. At a time when a vast majority of Down Syndrome children are aborted, Palin vociferously defended her choice to bring her daughter [sic] Trig to term."
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If I were American, I would enthusiastically vote for this ticket.
Ontologically, an embryo is the same as an adult human. It's just at a different stage.
The intrinsic value of thing can never change. That's why it's intrinsic. If human adults are intrinsically valuable in adulthood, their value is the same at their beginning-- conception.
The Canadian Jewish Congress sent a letter to Harper last week asking him to avoid setting an election on Oct. 14, 15, 21, or 22. Those dates are all key parts of the Jewish religious festival, Sukkot. Observant Jews would not be able to work for candidates on election day if the vote were set for Oct. 14.
"We did make the case pretty strongly . . . that these dates should be avoided," said Bernie Farber, executive director of the Canadian Jewish Congress.
At a briefing for reporters Friday, senior officials in the Prime Minister's Office said Mr. Harper is likely to pull the plug on his minority Tory government some time between Sept. 2 and Sept. 7. And they said the most likely voting day is Oct. 14, one day after Thanksgiving.
There is nothing more than I would love than to punch you right in your big mouth.
You flaming gearbox, you deserve nothing less than a knuckle sandwich, you gutless fuck.
If you ever have th balls to give the world your adress where you spew this bullshit, I will come to your house and punch your teeth in.
Got it, you fucking faggot.
By Blogger Johnathon, at 10:14 AM
Tom Robinson (fdsad) writes at Fri Aug 29 22:48:44 EDT 2008...
I wish someone would blow up the Liberal office, those fucking criminals.
Liberal are biggest theives, degenerates and scumbags in the world.
Fuck the Liberals, those dirty, fucking commies.
...The McCain campaign is hoping and praying that someone will say that Palin is unready for the job. “Please,” John McCain is praying right now AS I TYPE, “Let a Democrat say that an executive with 2 years of experience and no foreign policy expertise isn’t ready for the presidency. Oh pretty please. Because you know what I’m going to do? I’m going to take that soundbite, put it in an ad, slap Obama’s mug up there, and run it over and over and over again.”
The Senate has passed a bill that will require federal elections to be held every four years...
After the bill is proclaimed into law, opposition parties will still have the power to force an election earlier than the fixed date if a minority government is defeated in a confidence vote.
Once the bill becomes law, Prime Minister Stephen Harper will not be able to call an election on his own...
"Fixed election dates will improve the fairness of Canada's electoral system by eliminating the ability of governing parties to manipulate the timing of elections for partisan advantage," [Rob Nicholson] said in a news release on May 30, 2006.
Under current rules, the prime minister has the power to select a date for a general election and to advise the governor general to dissolve Parliament.
According to the Harper government, this power allows the governing party to set the time of the election to its own advantage.
"Establishing fixed election dates fulfils one of this government's key campaign commitments. It is an important step in improving and modernizing Canada's democratic institutions and practices," Nicholson said in the release.
"My expectation is that we will have another minority," Harper said Wednesday in Tuktoyaktuk, N.W.T., where he's on a three-day, campaign-like swing through the Arctic.
"My expectation is that we will have another minority," Harper said Wednesday in Tuktoyaktuk, N.W.T., where he's on a three-day, campaign-like swing through the Arctic.
The prime minister himself has acknowledged that public opinion polls "aren't particularly wonderful."
"My expectation is that we will have another minority," Harper said Wednesday in Tuktoyaktuk, N.W.T., where he's on a three-day, campaign-like swing through the Arctic.
PM announces plan to identify and defend northern resources
“We will have diverted all that money to address the least likely threat while the real threats come into this country in the hold of a ship, or the belly of a plane, or are smuggled into a city in the middle of the night in a vial in a backpack.”
- Democratic Senator and Barack Obama running mate Joe Biden
Today at lunch with some office mates, someone piped up and asked, "Will there be an election?" I think the guy was baiting the one outspoken Liberal in the crowd, knowing it would revoke a reaction. It did.
Funny how Liberals think Clinton was a good president even though he left in disgrace.
The Canadian Cynic Really Hates Me!
It seems like The Canadian Cynic really hates me! First, The Canadian Cynic incorrectly wrote that I have compared Stephen Harper's Prime Ministerial career with that of Richard Nixon.
Harper, in passing this legislation, sets the precedent. If he disobeys the spirit of his own law, it becomes a law that isn’t worth respecting, and the “achievement” has to come off of any list of Harper Accomplishments for that list to remain credible.
-oh, and for the record, Bill O'Reilley [sic] is a registered Independent!
The Senate has passed a bill that will require federal elections to be held every four years...
Once the bill becomes law, Prime Minister Stephen Harper will not be able to call an election on his own...
"Fixed election dates will improve the fairness of Canada's electoral system by eliminating the ability of governing parties to manipulate the timing of elections for partisan advantage," [Rob Nicholson] said in a news release on May 30, 2006.
Under current rules, the prime minister has the power to select a date for a general election and to advise the governor general to dissolve Parliament.
According to the Harper government, this power allows the governing party to set the time of the election to its own advantage.
"Establishing fixed election dates fulfils one of this government's key campaign commitments. It is an important step in improving and modernizing Canada's democratic institutions and practices," Nicholson said in the release.
Tory deficit is a sign of economic woes
The Conservative government's $517 million deficit for the first two months of the fiscal year may not be indicative of the economic performance for the year to come, but it shows a slowing economy, and if that trend continues, a deficit may await the government, says economist and public policy expert Jack Mintz.
The report, which comes amid growing speculation of a fall election call, will undermine the minority Conservative government's fiscal credibility in any campaign, warned John Williamson of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.
"In the first three months spending is up two-and-a-half times what these so-called fiscally responsible Conservatives in Ottawa budgeted it to be," he noted.
"It will simply not be credible for the Conservatives to characterize themselves as being responsible with the public purse," said Williams. "It remains to be seen if the Opposition Liberals can take advantage of the government's reckless spending record in an election campaign."
Still, the surplus was an improvement on what had been a $517-million deficit during the first two months of the fiscal year.
Revenues in the first quarter of the fiscal year decreased by $1.1 billion, or 1.8 per cent, from a year earlier to $59.6 billion, reflecting declines in corporate income tax and GST revenues, the department said. Program spending was up $3.89 billion, or 8.4 per cent, to $45.3 billion, due to higher transfer payments and operating expenses of departments and agencies.
Marginally offsetting the surge in program spending was a $500-million dip in debt payments.
The federal spending surge, plus the impact of tax cuts and now slowing economic growth, have raised concerns that Ottawa could slip back into deficit this year or next for the first time in more than a decade.
Flaherty, however, has repeatedly vowed that the government will not fall back into the red.
And the government is sitting on a $4.25-billion windfall from its recent auction of wireless spectrum that was not included in budget revenue projections and has not yet been booked in the financial statements.
Canada's economy lost 55,200 jobs in July compared to the previous month with many people leaving the work force -- the worst single-month drop since the recession of the early 1990s.
Canadian Labour Congress President Ken Georgetti, however, calls the numbers a catastrophe for working families. He says in a statement that the federal government needs a forceful jobs strategy -- a made-in-Canada plan to create and keep jobs in this country.
The only significant job gains were in accommodation and food services, where 22,000 people were hired across the country.
Arts and culture contributed $46 billion to Canada's economy in 2007, but the overall impact of the sector was a much broader $84.6 billion, according to a report from the Conference Board of Canada.
That amounts to 7.4 per cent of Canada's gross domestic product, according to the report, released Tuesday.
The study, commissioned with money from the federal Heritage Department, is the most comprehensive ever made of Canada's cultural sector.
It attributes 1.1 million jobs to arts and culture or to spinoff industries, such as tourism.
The "flaming disaster" Stewart is referring to? A .6% reduction in projected economic growth. That's right -- a whole 60% of a single percentage point.
Cindy McCain Heading to Republic of Georgia
Updated 4:27 p.m.
By Michael D. Shear
SACRAMENTO -- Cindy McCain, wife of Sen. John McCain, is headed to the Republic of Georgia, where tensions between the government and Russia have sparked international concern and have become an issue on the presidential campaign trail...
McCain spokeswoman Jill Hazelbaker confirmed Cindy McCain is enroute to the nation and said she is visiting as part of the World Food Program. She said she will meet with Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili and visit with wounded Georgian soldiers.
"We've heard criticism from across the country, including representatives of the medical community, that Mr. Epp's bill as presently drafted could be interpreted as instilling fetal rights. Let me be clear. Our government will not reopen the debate on abortion," Mr. Nicholson said.
"For this reason ... I'm announcing that the government will introduce legislation that will punish criminals who commit violence against pregnant women but do so in a way that leaves no room for the introduction of fetal rights."
Personally, I find eugenics repugnant. But the elimination of “undesirables” is done everyday in this country– through abortion. 85-90% of Down Syndrome’s fetuses are aborted. People refuse to parent children who are genetically undesirable.
Consider, too, that the children currently available for adoption in Canada are disproportionately burdened with problems of one kind or another. Many suffer from physical problems such as fetal alcohol syndrome. Many are toddlers, or even older children, not infants, who have been seized from abusive homes by Children’s Aid Societies and made wards of the state by the courts. Would-be parents may be unwilling to take on the extra challenges that such children pose, but would happily take on the care of an uninjured, pre-born baby without undesirable psychological baggage.
(16) Fixed Election Dates — An Act to Amend the Canada Elections Act (Bill C-16), passed May 3, 2007 (Link) is an Act primarily for majority governments since minority governments can fall at almost any time when the opposition express a lack of confidence in the government. (Revised August 24, 2008)
Finance Minister Jim Flaherty fell in line with private economists Friday and cut his outlook for economic growth this year.
Mr. Flaherty used his department's monthly fiscal update to announce that the federal government has revised its working estimate for growth to 1.1 per cent from the 1.7 per cent forecast in the February budget.
56.1 (1) Nothing in this section affects the powers of the Governor General, including the power to dissolve Parliament at the Governor General’s discretion.
–noun
1. the power or right to decide or act according to one's own judgment; freedom of judgment or choice: It is entirely within my discretion whether I will go or stay.
In 2005, Stephen Harper stated his views on legislation and abortion at the CPC policy convention:
“And, while I’m at it, I will tell you that, as prime minister, I will not bring forth legislation on the issue of abortion.”
... trying to bring this discussion [of abortion] to the national table when we have relative quiet on this front is disgusting.
Election Dates - Fixed, or “Fixed”?
I’ll admit I raised an eyebrow when I read that the Tories may be thinking of initiating an election before the now infamous October 2009 date. It seemed to me that doing so would be going against the fixed election date law that had been passed very early on in their mandate.
However, I’ve since realized something.
Originally the coalition said the battle killed 30 militants, but U.S. coalition spokeswoman Rumi Nielson-Green said Saturday that five civilians — two women and three children connected to the militants — were among the dead.
"Obviously there's allegations and a disconnect here. The sooner we can get that cleared up and get it official, the better off we'll all be," said U.S. coalition spokesman 1st Lt. Nathan Perry. "We had people on the ground."
Ghulam Azrat, 50, the director of the middle school in Azizabad, said he collected 60 bodies Friday morning after the bombing.
"We put the bodies in the main mosque," he told The Associated Press by phone, sometimes pausing to collect himself in between tears. "Most of these dead bodies were children and women. It took all morning to collect them."
Azrat said villagers on Saturday threw stones at Afghan soldiers who tried to give food and clothes to them. He said the soldiers fired into the crowd and wounded eight people, including one child critically wounded.
The Conservative government has quietly scuttled the navy's $2.9 billion project to replace its aging supply ships, saying bids from the shipbuilding industry were "significantly" higher than the money set aside for the program.
It has also cancelled a tender call for the purchase of 12 mid-shore patrol ships for the coast guard.
The decisions were announced in a statement issued at 8:30 Friday night by Public Works Minister Christian Paradis.
"These vessels are a key priority of the Government of Canada," Paradis said in the release. "However, the government must ensure that Canadian taxpayers receive the best value for their money."
Almost right from the beginning the plan ran into trouble as designers tried to incorporate everything into the ships that naval planners had requested.
The ships were expected to function as resupply vessels, cargo carriers for the army, a floating headquarters and possibly a hospital ship, depending upon the mission assigned.
Defence sources say the two consortiums that were bidding basically determined the ships could not be built for the amount of money the Conservative government had set aside.
Within the navy proposals were kicked around to cut the number of ships to two, but it was ultimately determined not to be practical from an operational point of view, said the sources who spoke on background.
(33) Military spending increased to a post-war peak, including the delivery of four C-17 Globe Master strategic airlift aircraft (Link) (Link) (Link)
Harper set to announce $15B in military spending
Last Updated: Wednesday, June 21, 2006 | 8:42 PM ET
... On Monday, Prime Minister Stephen Harper is set to announce in Halifax that the Conservative government will fund the building of three new supply ships at an expected cost of about $2.1 billion.