Symbolic Fighting ......

....... From Siegfried to Zelig

When it comes to going to war My Germanic Forebearers have a pretty well respected history of merciless and effective prosecution of hostile actions.

Now you can debate about the nobility of much German war making or martial activity but you can't say they didn't put their heart and soul in to it.

Well .... so much for history and tradition...

Modern LIberal Angst has successfully castrated the Germanic Eagle and taken us from Siegfried As Glorified By Wagner to ...... Zelig as illuminated by Allen.....

Via !No Pasaran!:

A top Taliban commander in Afghanistan with links to the killers of several British Army soldiers has escaped from German special forces because they were not authorised to kill him.

The fiasco highlights the absurd role played by the German military in the country which is known to other combat nations as "the bridge builders" because Berlin will not let them fire shots in any situation other than in self-defence.

German special forces had an important Taliban commander in their sights in Afghanistan but he escaped as the Germans were not authorised to use lethal force. (MailOnline)

OMMAG

What's that?

From The Freep Gossip mongering Dan Lett's wishful thinking ....

"Toews' personal life has also become an issue for the Harper government; his wife filed for divorce last fall and there are concerns that his relationship with a Conservative staffer could hurt him in Provencher, the core of Manitoba's Bible belt."



Versus the word from the horses mouth ....

Running in next election .. Vic Toews

In answer to a question about whether he is being forced out, Toews replied: "That would be news to me."

He also said he wouldn't comment about his divorce, which is before the courts in Manitoba, saying he doesn't talk about his personal life.

Make It a Policy ! Quash The HRCs

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police have begun an investigation into alleged criminal conduct by members of the Canadian Human Rights Commission.

The Government of Canada :

"Despite the need for an arms length relationship, the Department of Justice continues to monitor the Commission and Tribunal to ensure that our human rights system remains effective."

In fact the Minister Mr. Nicholson has chosen to defend the status quo at CHRC / CHRT and apparently attempted to sideline the public criticism.


Just because the mistake was made in allowing these bureaucracies to exist does not in any way mean that we have to live with them.

I suggest that before we had HRCs we had laws and that any proposed functions the HRCs could provide were already a part of our legal system. Therefore the HRCs have been from the beginning unnecessary and extra legal. The fact that they are intrinsically abusive of the legal rights of Canadian citizens is obvious and as a matter of fact they have been shown to act in a manner that defies the very principles of Justice. Now that they are being challenged by individuals who have chosen to fight back against their abusive actions we have every right to ask that our government to review the policy that allows them to exist.

This is a bureaucracy run amok and now that these individuals have forced the exposure of the commissions practices we find clear evidence that in spite of such statements by the government of Canada there is no oversight.

There is only one solution to the abuse we are enduring and that is the elimination of such commissions and tribunals.

This is a policy that the CPC should have declared as fundamental to the defense of liberty and individual rights.

As Ezra Levant Says : Fire Them ALL!

OMMAG

Everything You Need To Know ...

About the US Elections for '08 ....




















Cheers! to the People's Cube

Also see the re-invented GOP explained PLUS Ted Kennedy Pre-emptive Obits.

OMMAG

Free Canadian !

Cool Prize !

Thanks to
Dust My Broom dot com

Thanks Darcey!

What Do 7 Time F1 Champs do After Retirement?

Well since there is only one to date ....... the answer is RACE !

But it's not the fact that Michael Schumacher is racing it's WHAT he's racing that really catches my interest.

Photo from AP Photo by Eckehard Schulz

Schumie ... is racing Superbikes in the IDM International German Motorbike Championship.
Although there's realy no reason to expect the kind of success in SBK that Michael enjoyed in all his previous motorsports ... it's still pretty cool. Thanks to Paul Crowe who publishes the Kneeslider an online interest mag and blog for folks who love motorcycles and the technology and engineering of motorized vehicles.

Cheers!

OMMAG

Hey ... I Know It's Blues Night But ...................

Friday's Beer!

I wasn't sure I had anything to write about for this week.
That is until a package arrived from the headquarters of the NBP!!

God Bless You Darcey!

Now the question is which ONE?





Eeeny Meeny Miney .... Moe >>>>

It's Black Butte Porter ! ... 12 floz at 5.2% abv in a cool decorated glass bottle with a nice pictorial label....














This one comes open with a nice little pop and hiss. Pours into a dark body as expected and a healthy head of tawny foam that settles down to a mere skim in just a minute.

The aroma is just what you'd expect from a porter and maybe just a touch extra. Very caramel and bakery like with a nice overtone of hops. An almost spice like blend that is very pleasing to my nose.

With the taste buds warmed up a sip produces a round sort of flavour that has earmarks of chocolate and butter and citrus. It's all very smooth in texture and leaves a nice clean palate and a sort of grainy sensation in the finish.

Not bad at all and I'd recommend her to anyone with a taste for dark beers or just a curiosity for something from off the beaten track. I'd drink another one with something like a Hero Sandwich and a side of crisp fries.

I'm going to head on over to Dust My Broom to see what Darcey has for Blues and Brew tonight!
Friday Night Blues & Beer
Cheers!
OMMAG

Just Because It's Friday !

Say Hello to Gemma !!















Yes indeed ............... you got some on your lip ....

Cheers!

OMMAG

Global Food Crisis!

Just because the mass media have discovered something only recently does that mean it was not a fact before their notice?

Well of course not! But as long as people in the ag business are getting noticed it seems they are happy to jump on the bandwagon and try to get some of the possible action as governments react to the perceived public pressure. Anyone even remotely connected to the agriculture industry understands that global system of producers and distributors is geared more toward feeding the large and affluent markets that have the ability to pay for commodities.
People directly involved also understand that factors such as subsidies have long term negative effects on the producers and consumers.
So why would a pair of leaders who represent less than global interests want to promote the idea that research or the lack of it ( is there really a lack of research in agriculture?) is the ROOT cause of the supposed crisis we are observing today?

From The Globe's Report on Business :
Crisis 15 Years in Making .... here's an excerpt -

"That's the proposition put forward this week by two agricultural experts – Emile Frison, director general of Biodiversity International, and Robert Zeigler, director general of the International Rice Research Institute – who point instead to 15 years of declining investment by governments in agricultural research as a key reason why the world supply of food is not keeping up with demand."

What do we have here? Who are these people? Are they right?

Well as I see it .....

What we have here is an effort to create a false argument about root causes of a very real issue. While complaining of underfunding they offer no proof of it and while claiming the need for more funding / subsidy in their pet area offer no suggestion of what the benefits will be. A pretty clear example of over stating their case and their own importance in the world.

Who we have doing it are a pair of career institutional managers attempting to justify their existence.

If lack of research were the root cause of any global resource issue then researchers would be able to show it and prove it! As things are in fact the issues they wish to exploit are far more complex and well beyond the limited effect of their realms. While I would agree that honest analysis and sound policies by governments and industry could have a great effect on the food business I do not believe that throwing money at tax hogs in the research business is going to do anything but subsidize an activity that is proving less productive as demands for funding increase.

This too is not something new but remains a fact whether or not the MSM care to notice!

Nice try though.

OMMAG

Wednesday Is Hump Day !

With the sheer volume of crapolla going on around the world you might think that it could be hard to pick JUST ONE Hump of the Week!

You might consider Romeo Dallaire for the title with his moral equivalence pandering to the Lefty UN Type patter about everyone who wants to lock up and execute terrorists being Criminals and no better than Al Qaida or the Taliban.

You might consider the paranoiac Military dictators of Myanmar.

You might consider Barbara Hall of the OHRC !

There are just SO many candidates.....

But thanks to The Mayor at Mitchieville I did not have any trouble.
Without the Mayor who found THIS thing ...... I might have had a tough decision to make!

I give you Jim Karygiannis .... On the devastating earthquake in China !


"I'm really sort of saddened and ashamed that the only thing Harper was able to do is send out a press release saying he's sorry it happened," !

Now besides the really cheap and obvious pandering for some sort of political points that exist largely in his own cheesy mind ...... He has some demands about Canada sending money to China! I suggest you read further at .... Mitchieville to learn how much JIM thinks we should be giving!


Just for the record ... we give China over $90 million a year in "Aid" ... remember this is a country who's GDP = $7 TRILLION as of last year whereas Canada's GDP = $1.3 Trillion..!

So basically we are giving money to a country run by a military oligarchy that has an economy that is more than FIVE TIMES greater than our own.

Now explain why JIM wants to give more of OUR Tax Dollars to China !

Update ... PM Harper Caved to this ridiculous gassbag's demands to match funding og NGO's in China ....!! Never mind the fact the the bulk of the financing for NGOs already comes from government and taxes. ...... Harper is really starting to act the fool.

OMMAG

In McGuinty's Ontario ....

The special Firearms Police can Kick Your Door Down .... just because they want to!

If you're a senior citizen ...... you are on their list already :

ALERT !

Do we have a charter of rights and freedoms in this nation or do we not? How did we get to the point where a provincial government can establish and mandate an enforcement organization to invade the private property of law abiding citizens?

Question and answers at the Canadian Shooting Sports Association


OMMAG

Party's Over So Let's Make Everybody Pay !

Update .. Consider a Carbon Tax = Sin Tax ( like alcohol and tobacco) and you'll get the mentality of Liberal / Socialist Meddlers and Scolds


The seemingly willful distortion of even the most obvious and recent trends that we live through is what gets me whenever I am forced to deal with the opinions of the Liberal Left.

Their willingness to completely ignore the realities of our world and construct an alternative reality to carry forward and support the continuation of their world views is essentially pathological.

Here's an example : Mindy Jacobs writes in the Edmonton Sun about how in her view we are all a bunch of gluttons and spoiled by "cheap" energy. To counterpoint what she considers our overindulgence she offers the example of Europeans who are obviously so much smarter because their own energy costs have been higher than ours for so long that they have "adapted" and adjusted to the point where they are superior as environmentally conscious beings. Something Mindy believes we should emulate.

An Excerpt:

"There's nothing like a hit to the wallet to change behaviour. Canadians have two choices. We can support a carbon tax, which will save us money down the road and help the planet. Or we can just cry while our energy costs continue to soar and the environment withers."

The only problem here dear Mindy is that first of all WE in Canada have the resources. Not to burn and squander as you imply we have been doing but rather to use in the building of our economy and the sustenance of our lives. We pay what we need to pay to use what we have available for OUR OWN benefit. But like most socialists Mindy believes that the morality of growth and progress through enterprise and the use of resources must be questioned and in fact demonized.

Whereas we have and use our resources to our advantage for some reason it escapes the neo-socialist / enviromentalist that Europe has NOT possessed the same resources and the economic facts of their existence dictate the costs of energy in their lives.

It's not moral superiority Mindy its the Economy Stupid!

Now to add the icing to this pile of poo cake that our little Enviro-Socialist lecturer wants to hand us is the idea that somehow we Deserve to be TAXED so that we will stop using the resources that are at our disposal. So "Bring on the Carbon Tax" says Mindy because despite the increased cost and VALUE of the energy we produce and consume we need to pay an extra premium for our good fortune just to make amends!


Well ... I for one don't see any reason to apologize or be penalized for using the resources that are available. Unless anyone can prove to me that my continued use of resources needs to be governed by anything except my own ability to pay for what I use they can and should STFU.

Oh yes .. those "Two Choices" you claim we are limited to ... Here's just ONE of an infinite list of others :
We can tell Tax Sucking fools like Dion to go to hell and let the world evolve while snot nosed little fools like you continue to whine about it.


OMMAG

Federal Government Sued By Unions ?

Somehow I get the feeling that they intend to blame the Conservatives for this somehow!

I can't wait to hear the Twisted Logic that will make this LIberal policy .... the fault of Stephen Harper!

Am I reaching ?

Just wait and see....................
From the Ottawa Citizen

"The Canadian labour movement is heading to the Supreme Court of Canada tomorrow seeking a declaration that a $54-billion surplus that accumulated in the federal employment insurance fund was spent in an unconstitutional way and should be returned to employers and employees."

"There's no way to reasonably expect the money would ever be used for EI.... "

"....wants the court to force Parliament to consult with employer and labour organizations on how the surplus can be used to either improve benefits or offset future contributions."

OH! BTW - The last federal budget, delivered in February, announced the establishment of a new Crown corporation to administer the Employment Insurance system. It will restrict the use of the EI Fund to EI benefits only and limit premiums to the amount needed to cover the cost of EI, plus a $2-billion cushion.

So what the labour groups from Quebec really want is to have the Canadian Taxpayers fund their pet projects and the power to tell the Canadian Government how to run the system. You see to them it's not the fact that the feds were taking so much in EI charges .... it's just that the unions didn't get to say how it was used!


OMMAG

Black Day For Freedom In Canada

In another of what seems to be a endless string of spineless and unprincipled positions being taken by the Conservative Government of Canada today we hear that Rob Nicholson, the Conservative government's Justice Minister is unwilling to challenge the constitutionality of the Charter of Rights section 13.

This is the part where the government gets to assign unelected bodies to bureaucratic entities that are then entitled to abuse YOUR right to say what you think.


Although this may not be the end of the story on this matter it is reflective of the mindset that politicians exhibit once they get to Ottawa and I for one am fed up with it.

If you give a crap about the future of this country and the concept of free speech among other things it's time to send pointed communications to your MPs in Ottawa.

Link to Ezra Levant

Effectively Rob Nicholson is saying that because the LIberal appointed supreme court has defended this section in the past that there is no point or reason to challenge it.

I've got news for YOU Nicholson ... just because a BAD law and a stupid law is supported or defended by LIberal jackasses it does not mean that we have to be content to live with it.

It's YOUR job Mr. Nicholson to be finding a way to get rid of this abomination called Section 13 of the CHRA.

This is NOT acceptable!

Remember - We Told You So!