Tuesday, December 27, 2005

Last Kick at the Cat for '05

Well.......................since I am intent on winding down the old year I'd like to wish everyone a happy New Year!
I'll be toasting to a year well spent and a better year to come. Here's to seeing the backside of P Martin and the LPC! Here's to better people running a better government!

Here's to peace and prosperty for all!

Wednesday, December 21, 2005

Merry Christmas

In the spirit of the season I'd like to thank everyone who has taken an interest in my Blogging efforts!

Thanks to all the folks out there who are making an honest effort to learn and to share real information!

Thanks to the individualists who have an axe to grind or a Point of View that makes others think or re-examine their own ideas!

May the season bring you peace and joy!

PGPfeiffer

Monday, December 19, 2005

Senses Still not Wanting to Accept..............

Some Quotes from A Christmas Carol – by Charles Dickens

`It's humbug still!'' said Scrooge. ``I won't believe it.''

``Why do you doubt your senses?''

``Because,'' said Scrooge, ``a little thing affects them. A slight disorder of the stomach makes them cheats. You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of an underdone potato. There's more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!''

Things that happened recently that I Wish were Food Induced Hallucinations!


1) Globe & Mail Report on So Called "Debates": See the Globe Decision 2006 website
Claiming:


Twenty-one per cent of those who saw the debates or heard about them afterward said Mr. Martin won, compared to 15 per cent who said Bloc Québécois Leader Gilles Duceppe came out on top, 11 per cent who thought Conservative Leader Stephen Harper was victorious and 6 per cent who favoured NDP Leader Jack Layton. ( from Decision2006, Globe&Mail)

What kind of person would take these so called "debates" seriously? And who the heck is answering these polls?


2) Western Campaign Efforts: Big Freakin Deal! Gee whiz we get a whole weekend worth of campaign effort! And lousy media coverage to boot! Thanks alot....we'll be remembering that!


3) Still No MSM Coverage of the Big Election Killing Issue - ITSCAM - The Leaking of Government Policy on Income Trusts prior to Public Announcement! Who is pulling the strings of MSM on this one?

Friday, December 16, 2005

Still Can't Believe Your Senses?

Some Quotes from A Christmas Carol – by Charles Dickens

`It's humbug still!'' said Scrooge. ``I won't believe it.''

``Why do you doubt your senses?''

``Because,'' said Scrooge, ``a little thing affects them. A slight disorder of the stomach makes them cheats. You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of an underdone potato. There's more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!''

Things that happened today that I Wish were Food Induced Hallucinations!
1 - Lame "Debate" hosted by CBC : Not a debate at all but mindless posturing by politicians.
2 - Still No Mainstream coverage of "ITSCAM" : How much fuel do you need to fire a real story?
3 - CBC website hosting "Harper Bashing" animation!: With your Tax Dollars!
4 - MSM cheerleading Liberal Spindoctors : Nothing new about that is there?

Link to CBC Watch Bloggers Spotting and Outing CBC reporting Bias and Incompetence
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Monday, December 12, 2005

Can't Believe Your Senses?

Some Quotes from A Christmas Carol – by Charles Dickens

`It's humbug still!'' said Scrooge. ``I won't believe it.''

``Why do you doubt your senses?''

``Because,'' said Scrooge, ``a little thing affects them. A slight disorder of the stomach makes them cheats. You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of an underdone potato. There's more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!''

Today My Senses are ASSAULTED BY THIS NEWS!

VANCOUVER (CP) - A B.C. Supreme Court judge has ruled that a section of the Criminal Code that creates the most serious of three criminal organization offences is invalid.

Justice Heather Holmes, saying the section is too vague, made the ruling last week but the judgment had been under a publication ban until Monday. A publication ban remains in effect regarding the name of the accused connected to the ruling. The judge ruled that section 467.13 "is of no force and effect."

There were three amendments made in 2001 to previous legislation regarding criminal organizations, the court noted.

Outside court, the lawyer who challenged the section said the B.C. judge was the only one so far to consider the section's constitutionality.

"The only judge in Canada to have considered the constitutionality of this section is Justice Holmes, who struck it down as unconstitutional," said Matthew Nathanson.

"So in British Columbia, this charge is unconstitutional and off the books. There has not been any consideration of its constitutionality in other provinces. So there is an issue as to: are other provinces bound by this decision?"

The section struck down reads in part: "Every person who is one of the persons who constitute a criminal organization and who knowingly instructs, directly or indirectly, any person to commit an offence under this or any other act of Parliament for the benefit of, at the direction of, or in association with, the criminal organization is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for life."
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Saturday, December 10, 2005

ITSCAM is Growing!

Hot of the BLOGS! New dynomite to blow the Income Trust SCAM open!

http://politicalstaples.blogspot.com
http://www.mkbraaten.com/

M.K. Braaten pops the lid on a big component of the Income Trust rules fiasco!
Apparently the Personal Physician of Paul Martin jr. is the director of :

MEDISYS HEALTH GROUP INCOME FUND is a provider of healthcare services to corporations, medical imaging services, and health- related underwriting support services to insurance companies.

Trading in the shares of the Trust went over 3500% above previous days volumes!
** One Day Before Goodale made his public policy announcement on Income Trusts!**

Other background investigation shows Prominent Liberal party members Investing!

Will someone in the Maistream Media Get On This Story??
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Friday, December 09, 2005

Media On The Trail of Election News

I have been following the Globe&Mail election series on-line Titled : Globe Decision 2006.


Today's issue contained this piece:

What's The Story On Good News Judgement?

By CHRISTOPHER DORNAN

Christopher Dornan is director of the Carleton University school of journalism and communication.

From Friday's Globe and Mail
(I would have provided the link but it is behind the subsription barrier - Free subscription is available for the election series)
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NOW, I have been particularly critical of Bell GlobeMedia reporting and editorialising on politics and election issues. As it is my observation and opinion that they exhibit the most blatant bias in the treatment of political news!
HOWEVER....I would like to congratulate Mr.Dornan on his foray into the issue and also give credit to BGM for including this into their election coverage!
In addition I encourage Mr. Dornan to continue with this theme as a series so we can benefit from his ongoing analysis and insight into the journalistic process.
I firmly believe that this is a serious public issue and that we can all benefit from intelligent and forthright dialogue in the area of Media coverage of politics!

Thursday, December 08, 2005

Liberals Propose Handgun Ban!

Outgoing Prime Minister of Canada Paul Martin and his Liberals are proposing to once again attack the property rights of law abiding Canadians!

Instead of having a solution to deal with crime and gangs that involves fixing a broken legal system.
Instead of dealing with border security failures that allow a steady stream of contraband and criminals into our country.
Instead of defending Canadians!

Yes indeed! The LIberal answer is to take away the private property of Law Abiding Citizens!

The LIberals will demonize Canadians who choose to Legally own and use handguns instead of keeping criminals behind bars!
The LIberals will play on the fears of the timid sheeplike residents of urban Canada to generate support for their idiotic solutions.
The LIberals will not do anything prevent criminals from obtaining Illegal Handguns!
The LIberals will not admit that the reason for all this is their own incompetence!

Wednesday, December 07, 2005

A Reading List for The Critical Thinker

Must Read Books for Development of Critical Thinking

Put these three books together and you will have the tools to understand and deal with the forces in our world which are constantly working to capture our attention or alter our perceptions and point of view on every aspect of life. If you would learn to rise above the babble of day to day events then these books are for you. If you would have your children learn to deal with manipulation then read them and use them to educate your children. I would recommend these books to secondary school sophomores and up. All three books demonstrate how to take apart complex issues, analyse the root causes and overall effects. Beyond being practical demonstrations of intelligent analysis they are filled with thought provoking insight and information.
Not recommended for those who would live like sheep.

1- The Hidden Persuaders,

Author: Packard, Vance

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd, 1991

This book looks at the application of psychology in mass media marketing.

Taking a look at the hooks and prods that are applied to the psyche of the individual in our society. Should be a primer for every school child on how to recognize manipulation and how to deal with attempts to manipulate them.

2- Manufacturing Consent, Noam Chomsky and the Media

Author: Noam Chomsky/ Mark Achbar

Publisher: Black Rose Books

This book looks at the work of Noam Chomsky and an analysis of bias in mass media, mainstream media and the effects of bias. Why is there so little effort to present balanced and complete information? What are the ramifications?

3- Culture of Complaint, The Fraying of America

Author : Hughes, Robert
Publisher: Havill Press 1999, Oxford University Press 1993

Food for thought and enlightening POV on culture in North America.

This book looks at how media has polarized America and how the general move toward specialization and away from solid foundations of core values has left a weakened and shallow society. Although the author wanders around some diverse areas the book is very enlightening.

Tuesday, December 06, 2005

Who Will Stand Up for Canada? Belinda (BS) Stronach?

Well it seems we will all be able to sleep safely in our beds now!

Since Belinda Stronach has come to the conclusion that She is our Guardian And Protector of Canadian Unity. ( Uhuh!)

Her political defection in support of the Liberals had nothing to do whatsoever with the rewards promised her by Paul Martin! ( Sure )

Oh yes the beloved Belinda is now our staunchest defender of Canada and of human rights. She has become a giant of politics comparing herself to such political luminaries as former Canadian prime minister Wilfred Laurier, former British leader Winston Churchill and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon as examples of successful politicians who switched sides. ( WOW!)

She goes on to accuse the conservatives and leader Steven Harper of dividing Canadians.

When? I ask you, will these Liberal Hypocrites admit that the divisiveness and discord that exist in this country are the result their own Policies and Incompetence?

Ms. Stronach’s delusions of grandeur aside isn’t it just a little bit arrogant to have held political power for the better part of 40 years and especially for the last 12 years then turn around and try to blame the opposition for the failings and problems of our society?

Once again my friends what we are hearing is the Blatant Arrogance and Hypocrisy of Liberals in their belief that they and only they have the right to speak for Canada and for Canadians!

It is time to Stand Up for Canada! And the best way to do that is to Elect Conservatives and give the Liberals the Boot!

Monday, December 05, 2005

Sniffing out "The Strategic Counsel"

Well after spending quite a while looking for info on "The Strategic Counsel" I finally got to the source of my dilemma! It did not help that the Globe&Mail misspelled Counsel as Council several times.......but the play on words does make sense.

After an e-mail exchange with Columnist Charles "Chuck" Adler it was him who tipped me off to Allan Gregg!

Now Allan is the "Chair" of the group : The Strategic Counsel is the exclusive supplier of public opinion research for the Globe and Mail and CTV. Copies of results of our monthly polling, along with our analysis and insights are posted at the Website: www.thestrategiccounsel.com

© 2005 Gregg, Kelly, Sullivan & Woolstencroft: The Strategic Counsel

(Not to be confused with "Strategic Counsel" a California based legal and advisory services company!)

And, for ongoing insights from chair, Allan Gregg, you can visit his website at www.allangregg.com.

So..... to satisfy my curiosity about this company and its members I started doing some more research!
Well not surprising the links between BGM and Mr.Gregg who founded "The Strategic Counsel" go a little bit beyond just the polling business! Check out his bio at allangregg.com. Apparently Mr. Gregg has become a Guru of sorts in the area of Creating Consensus of Public Opinion.

I guess one way of doing that is to use a Mainstream Media provider like BellGlobeMedia(BGM) to constantly hammer away at the publics perceptions of people or events. You know kind of like the continuous Anti-Conservative messages that come from The Globe & Mail or CTVNews!

Now I am not saying that Mr. Gregg is the source of the message but I do believe that whatever the intent of his public opinion research...the practice of BGM is to keep hammering away at that drum!

So I would be interested in hearing Allan Gregg's own interpretation of the information being provided to his clients.

OneMoreMiddleAgedGuy!

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Friday, December 02, 2005

More Media Bias and a GLC Award from OMMAG

Well here we go with more blatant Liberal Media Bias!
Go See for Yourself.......

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The Globe & Mail: Harper's negative image hurts positive message

Taken From Friday's Globe and Mail Go see It !



Today the Globe & Mail and CTV published results of an opinion poll that they or something called “Strategic Council” paid for.

Like past media sponsored polls the results provide a convenient appearance of support for the Liberal POV!

The new poll result provides the anti – conservative headline and buzz that “Harper has a negative image” with the subtext that “ Canadians Don’t Trust Harper”.

No mention is made of how the poll was conducted or what questions asked or how they were framed!

Wasn’t it “The Strategic Council” that produced the chestnut of “Harper is Scary” last time around?

And wasn’t it the “Strategic Council” that produced a poll about a month ago that came up with figures that claimed The Liberals enjoyed better than 45% of the popular vote in Western Canada! And that the BQ got as much as 18% Outside Quebec!

I’m handing out a GLC award to Bell GlobeMedia and whatever/whoever the hell is the “Strategic Council”!

Note: GLC = Giant Load of Crap

Thursday, December 01, 2005

Those So Called Election Chestnuts

The link provided points to recent observations by Charles Adler.
Chuck is an iconoclastic reporter and commentator who Writes for Sun Publishing and has a syndicated Radio Show as well as local TV talk show in Winnipeg.
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Chuck Likes To Call Em' As He Sees Em'........ so he has told me!
And I tend to agree that is how it stands for the most part. I believe that Chuck knows BS when he hears it and I know he is not afraid to call it what it is!

This article by Charles Adler refers to what he calls "Chestnuts" a reference I admit to not completely understanding. However he seems to be saying that there are certain ideas tossed out by politicians and others that need to be examined more closely. These chestnuts in fact are "not quite truths' that are used to feed an idea that really won't stand up to honest scrutiny. Instead the little lumps of BS that can be spun in the public mind as what we laughingly refer to as "Common" knowledge!

Example #1 - "Canadians don't want a Christmas Election" spun into "Canadians will blame Torries for Christmas Election"..... A perfect example of BS from politicians that the media has taken to the next level. Chuck has much to say about this but I will leave it there. It's BS and nothing more! A Chestnut if you will.
Example#2 - "Hidden Agendas" the idea that any particular politician has a so called hidden agenda seems to be easy to accept by most people. The facts are that if a politician says one thing and does another no one is ever really surprised. However, baseless assertions made by certain politicians Like Paul Martin that assume another will act or behave in a manner that is contrary to the public good are just Plain BS! I could go on about this but lets just agree with Chuck and call this hidden agenda thing another chestnut. It is a fabrication of a politician
(who has proven himself untrustworthy) that in turn has been taken to the next level by the media.

Other Chestnuts In Play:
- Last years Beauty - Harper Scary - Respun this year
- Conservatives Can't be trusted - Look whos talking! - By the way I'm Conservative and I can be Trusted more than Paul Martin! I am really tired of being insulted by politicians!
- Conservatives are Risky! - Just what the hell is that supposed to mean?
- Harper is Less Patriotic! - Otherwise spun as Martin is more patriotic! - what a load! Martin Is so patriotic that he insults Veterans as well as most Canadians while operating a business as an offshore holding Called Canadian Steamships while flying Not the Canadian Maple Leaf but the flag of an East African country. All Allow the Avoidance Canadian Laws and Taxes! Some Patriot!
This could go on for ever..........
I'll stop here for now and let you be the judge. Are you above the BS? or Not?
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