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Day By Day by Chris Muir
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Canadian Adscam Scandel: Conservatives Begin Push To Overthrow Paul Martin
Bloomberg is reporting that Canadian Conservative Party Stephen Harper will seek a no-confidence vote to topple Prime Minister Paul Martin’s Liberal government. This will mean a second national election within a year:
Canadian Conservative Party Leader Stephen Harper said he will seek a no-confidence vote to topple Prime Minister Paul Martin’s Liberal government, trying to force the country’s second election in a year.
Following a one-week parliamentary recess, Harper convened a meeting of his opposition caucus in Ottawa this evening to discuss how to bring down the minority government amid a corruption scandal over the misuse of government funds in Quebec.
Harper told reporters after the meeting that he hasn’t set a date for a no-confidence vote, and vowed not to support the federal budget when the Liberals bring it to the House of Commons for a vote.
The Canadian dollar fell 3.8 percent in April, the world’s worst performing currency, after the Liberals said they would boost spending in a bid to cling to power, and amid concern the Conservatives will force a national vote within weeks that may lead to another minority government.
The Conservatives, the largest opposition party, have the support of the separatist Bloc Quebecois. The two parties don’t have enough votes to defeat the 10-month-old government, and need the support of at least one of two independents, who haven’t indicated how they will vote.
Finally….. bring it on!
In other Adscam Scandel developments, Brault, Guité seek delay in criminal trials. The Globe and Mail reports:
Lawyers for Jean Brault and Chuck Guité have requested that their clients’ joint trial on fraud and conspiracy charges be delayed until September.
Jury selection is currently scheduled for June 6 but lawyers for the two men say the sponsorship inquiry will still be sitting at that time.
A judge will decide Wednesday whether to grant the request.
Ad man Mr. Brault has already testified at the inquiry, while Mr. Guité, who ran the sponsorship program in the late 1990s, continued his testimony Monday under a publication ban.
They were charged in connection with alleged improprieties at the program.
The men’s criminal proceedings have already been delayed. Jury selection originally was set for Monday but was put off last month until June 6 after lawyers argued May was too close to their clients’ appearances at the sponsorship inquiry, led by Mr. Justice John Gomery.
Meanwhile, Judge Gomery will likely announce Tuesday or Wednesday whether a publication ban on testimony before the inquiry provided by Mr. Guité late last week and early this week will be lifted.
Judge Gomery had already lifted a publication ban on Mr. Brault’s testimony in February when he appeared before the inquiry. Mr. Brault told the inquiry that he had been asked by Jacques Corriveau, a Liberal activist who earned nearly $8-million in disputed sponsorship subcontracts, to kick back sponsorship money to him as secret donations to the Liberal Party.
The testimony of advertising executive Paul Coffin last week was also under a publication ban so it wouldn’t prejudice his impending fraud trial.
The first person to be indicted after the RCMP began investigating the program, Mr. Coffin is to face trial starting on June 6 on 18 counts of fraud.
A onetime Conservative supporter, Mr. Coffin told the inquiry last week that his firm, Communication Coffin, made a quarter of a million dollars for doing little more than being a front for other companies that handled federal advertising campaigns.
If the publication ban is lifted (as it should be) the Canadian people will have access to the full story of the Adscam Scandel. The government will change.
Captain Ed over at Captain’s Quarters has this to say regarding the lifting of the publication ban. Read it here.
Update # 1
CTV Canada has this story on the bold moves of the Conservative Party.
Captain Ed over at Captain’s Quarters weighs in here:
Harper had a number of difficulties in getting to the point where a no-confidence vote could be introduced, and he’s not there yet. Earlier, of course, the NDP aligned itself with Paul Martin in order to block Harper’s momentum towards elections. Before that, the Liberals postponed all but one Opposition Day. Monday, Liberal MPs led by Tony Valeri apparently blocked an attempt for Harper to get one through to the floor, wanting to force Harper to use his only guaranteed Opposition Day to call the vote. That will create summer elections, which apparently all parties dislike and the electorate will likely resent, to the Tories’ disadvantage.
Harper has few options. Waiting for Gomery to finish his report will mean almost a year between now and the next election, and his own hesitation will amount to a tacit endorsement of the notion that the Adscam corruption did not rise to a level requiring the removal of the government. With the Liberals pulling out all stops to keep a no-confidence vote from being tabled despite the inevitability of the effort, he needs to take advantage of the limited openings he will get. A midsummer election may be the price he has to pay. It appears that his caucus understands this as well.
Harper should not wait for the Gomery Inquiry to finish. A mid-summer’s election is better than allowing the Liberal Party to continue in power.
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Imus v. Brewer
Has Don Imus lost it?
Last Friday this is what he had to say about former newsreader and current MSNBC reporter Contessa Brewer:
“With that fat ass she’s got, she wouldn’t be one of ’em,” Imus said on the air Friday. “That skank has to spend three hours with makeup in the morning … Who’s she kidding? . . . Plus, she’s dumber than dirt … Oh, my God, what a pig. But I was willing to cut her some slack and not say anything, you know, until – in fact, I didn’t say anything . . . That’s why they have those big double-doors there at MSNBC, you know, so they can get her fat ass in makeup.”
I guess he was sore because this is what she said about him:
Don Imus didn’t like being called “a cantankerous old fool” by MSNBC’s Contessa Brewer on PAGE SIX. Brewer, a former news reader on Imus’ show, also said the I-man doesn’t know how to relate to “beautiful women.”
Brewer’s assessment about Imus may be correct.
Imus’s assessment about Brewer’s appearance is …… well way off……..
Michelle Malkin has the correct diagnosis here.
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Censorship FLAP at Dental Town
It seems a bit unseemly to think that a group of dentists are sitting around their offices and homes glued to their PCs and posting porn and off-color jokes and stories to their fellow colleagues and suppliers.
However, this is exactly the case at Dental Town (free registration required, Password = occlusal).
This occurrence has created a FLAP of sorts with the DT dentists since an unknown Administrator of the site deleted the most offensive thread last night.
Check out the discussion here:
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Here’s the story.
I spend much of Thursday going back and forth with e-mails with Howard Farran and Ken Scott about the offensive thread, getting their thoughts about it.
We agreed that it should continue and I had their PERMISSON and APPROVAL to delete a post that went over the line. By all means they did not want the thread deleted. Some moderators and administrators disagreed but the bottom line is that this place belongs to Howard Farran. That is why I wanted his input. If he told me that it should be deleted, I would have done it, no questions asked. He hasn’t said anything about changing his mind, and I suspect that he would have said something to me if he did..
Thus I can only conclude that some nameless, balless, sack of shit of a moderator or administrator, took it upon themselves to delete the thread, thinking that they are more important to Dentaltown than Howard Farran, and the feelings of the many that contributed to the thread.Whoever you are, you are a disgrace to Dentaltown.
Have a nice night.
(yes I am pissed )
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Take Care …HowardHoward M. Goldstein D.M.D
Bethlehem, PA.
www.exceldentalcare.comThe discussion goes on for post after post.
Censorship?
This retired Vietnam vet , an author , and father of a dentist, Caribou, even has a humorous poem:
AN ODE TO CENSORSHIP
By Caribou (With apologies to R. Kipling)
You may talk o’ skin and porn
On the D-T ever’ morn
An’ you’re trying to think o’ somthin’ good to post
But when it comes to laughter
It ain’t porn and skin yore after
It’s sanc-ti-mony ‘ats funnier than most.Now on DT stormy pages
It’s cens-or-ship what rages
And often tends to turn yore innards green
One guy sez it’s dirty
‘nuther sez it’s purty
Don’t seem to be no nothin’ twixt and tween.It wuz, cut! – cut! -cut!
We can’t be havin’ all this cy-ber smut!
We know whut’s good fer you, us bleed’n censors do!
Fer Gawd’s sake hit the dele key all you nuts!Now Howard he asks Howard,
He sez, “Howard, this is Howard.
What cons-tit-utes a post what’s called obscene?”
Howard, he sez, “You’s,
Are all old enough to choose
What pops up on yore own com-pu-ter screen”This war, it won’t be through,
‘Til the Devil gets his due
And we will have or don’t have what’s called smut.
But until the arguin’s dun,
I’ll just be havin’ fun,
And post anuther, naked , obseen butt.It wuz, cut! – cut! -cut!
We can’t be havin’ all this cy-ber smut!
We know whut’s good fer you, us bleed’n censors do!
Fer Gawd’s sake hit the dele key all you nuts!An’ I’ll meet y’all later on
In that place where we have gone
Where it’s hotter than a post by Howard G.
I’ll be postin’ cyber jokes
Drinkin’ scotch and tokin’ coke
An’ DT will be just a mem-o-ry.It wuz, cut! – cut! -cut!
We can’t be havin’ all this cy-ber smut!
We know whut’s good fer you, us bleed’n censors do!
Fer Gawd’s sake hit the dele key all you nuts!It must be a slow day in the dental office.
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KFI 640 AM To Place Billboards
Flap reported last week about Spanish language newcast station KESQ and their billboard shown above.
Now, as Flap was driving into the dental office he hears from Bill Handel that KFI 640 AM: More Stimulating Talk Radio this morning is erecting their own billboards to counter-act the pro Mexico theme of the KESQ billboard.
Handel described their billboard as being a black background with Los Angeles, California USA inscribed with a directional arrow spouting You are here! Gracias!
Cannot wait to see the photos.
Update # 1
Here is a photo of KFI’s Billboard:
Update #2
John and Ken are doing special reports from the KFI billboards this afternoon.
Read about it here:
Today John Ziegler will do live reports during John & Ken from the following billboard location:
Ventura Blvd east of Sherman Oaks (east facing). The number on the board is 5141.
The KFI Promotions Dance Squad will be there in full force giving away KFI tees, American flags, and a spoonful of American Citizen Pride.
Ziegler will be checking in throughout today’s show to provide updates of your support, as well as the groundswell of overreacting opposition that will likely ensue. Remember…be nice, be polite, be correct. The pro-illegal alien crowd will do enough damage to themselves with their own words.
Just look for the big, black, white, orange, and strikingly-simple-yet-factually-accurate KFI billboard.
Hope you can be there.