Dr Roy's Thoughts

iffy doomed?

noreply@blogger.com (Roy Eappen) — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 07:06:00 PST

That's what this writer thinks. Iffy is taking shrapnel from within and outside the grits. Janine Kreiber ( dion's wife)
launched a blistering attack against iffy. This should make things easier for republican donolo. I wonder if frankie mckenna (soon to be an ex bank vice chairman I hope) will call her a thugs as well?

By dithering and declining, Ignatieff is now doomed to slide off into oblivion. He won’t go quietly though and perhaps still thinks he can somehow recover. But he can’t and won’t, and will probably have to be forced out by another leadership hopeful in yet another Liberal party coup d’état.

The red star's grit cheerleaders are sounding ever more desperate and pathetic.
Things are looking pretty good for the Tories these days.

Shamefull actions at McGill University

noreply@blogger.com (Roy Eappen) — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 04:24:00 PST

More on the sad state of free speech at McGill University. This young woman must be a big fan of barbara hall and jennifer lynch.
These student councillors need to be taught about free speech, it is obvious;y a foreign concept to them

The suspension of Choose Life is a witchhunt and a very serious breach of McGill's supposed dedication to free speech for all comers. Ms Woolf claims that "we take complaints seriously" but also noted that the suspension was the result of exactly four student complaints to Equity. Four disgruntled individuals took down an advocacy club! Is this SSMU's idea of democracy?

Ms Woolf ended our conversation with the telling remark, "We deal with what comes to our attention." If that is the litmus test for club suspension, let's see what happens when four McGill students lodge a complaint about some more politically correct club. Will SSMU stand by its own expressed principles? Wrong principles to be sure, but will they abide by them when, say, Zionists get "shamed" and subjected to "hate speech" by the SPHR and four offended students complain to the Equity office? Stand by for further developments.

Love Bites

noreply@blogger.com (Roy Eappen) — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:06:00 PST

Sydney is a beautiful city, more about that later. Australia has a really British feel to it. That's why their petulance towards the Crown I guess. It is like a rebellious adolescent.
I saw a play in Sydney called Love Bites. I must say I was disappointed with the Theater scene in Sydney. Not that much going on for a city of 4.5 million people. It is probably because I am here at the wrong time of year or I didn't look hard enough.
The play was a comedy about what else , love. It had all the now usual permutations. It was generally pretty funny. It was a series of vignettes told in song. The first half had the beginnings and the second half the endings. It did make a point to denounce the Christian church and denounce Oz for not having gay marriage. The songs were pretty cute. There were some very poignant moments about love and loss. Overall the play was alright, if a little too preachy and vulgar at times. The Piano player was amazing! Overall a good but not a great piece.

Lord Monckton in Minnesota

noreply@blogger.com (Roy Eappen) — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:33:00 PST

Always entertaining and informative, Lord Monckton has dire warnings for the people of the world. Our Freedom is at stake.

Climate Sceptics party of Oz

noreply@blogger.com (Roy Eappen) — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:09:27 PST

TV Ads from the Climate Sceptics party on Oz TV. ( h/t)

CBC chicken littles

noreply@blogger.com (Roy Eappen) — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:13:35 PST

Lawrence Solomon was interviewed by a believer of the church of kyoto and it shows. She also interviewed a chicken little. Listen here. You can hear the bias and the kid gloves she saved for preferred side of the debate. I guess it is good that she even allowed a climate realist on her show.

Solomon wrote an account of his ordeal in the FP.

You probably missed my heated on-air debate Thursday morning with Anna Maria Tremonti, host of CBC’s The Current. You certainly missed my superheated off-air debate in her studio immediately afterwards, when Tremonti lit into me for my skepticism of global warming orthodoxy. I don’t recall being berated after an interview by a broadcaster before, certainly not by a consummate professional like Tremonti. But Tremonti was visibly upset, so much so that she ended the second debate by turning away from me without the courtesy of a goodbye (she did properly thank me on air at the conclusion of our broadcast debate).

Anne Maria Tremonti is only slightly less biased than high priest suzuki ( a believer in nautropathy?, but HM Minister of The Environment Jim Prentice did talk to her.

No election until 2011?

noreply@blogger.com (Roy Eappen) — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:48:39 PST

That's the view of L.Ian Macdonald. Even catsmeat doesn't see an election any time soon.

This Parliament will last for a while

The NDP already negotiating terms for propping up the Conservatives

BY L. IAN MACDONALD, THE GAZETTENOVEMBER 21, 2009

There are several reasons why this minority Parliament is going to be in business for another year, until at least the fall of 2010, if not until the winter or spring of 2011.

The first is the Vancouver Games in February, which will delay the budget from its normal late February release, putting it back into March, when the country will be enjoying an Olympic afterglow, and in no more mood for a spring election than it was for one this fall. By then, Stephen Harper will be on the threshold of a world tour to brief leaders of the G8 and G20, whom he'll be hosting at Muskoka and Toronto next June. The summits will themselves set the stage for Harper's next summer announcement tour.

The second is that the Liberals need at least a year to regroup under the new management in the leader's office, and do a complete makeover on Michael Ignatieff. The unvarnished truth is that he has done nothing to improve his game, and needs to take it to a much higher level if he is to be competitive with Harper in an election.

Maybe nopno election until 2013.

The end of the sham

noreply@blogger.com (Roy Eappen) — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:26:45 PST

The hacked files from a chicken little home base reveals the treachery of the so called agw scientists. They are the opposite of scientists. They have a political agenda and manipulated their data. Funding agencies must look into these facts. Forging data is a crime. A lot of this was done using US government money. It is theft.
These people need to be held accountable for their actions. An immediate investigation of these chicken littles is needed.

But perhaps the most damaging revelations – the scientific equivalent of the Telegraph’s MPs’ expenses scandal – are those concerning the way Warmist scientists may variously have manipulated or suppressed evidence in order to support their cause.
Here are a few tasters. (So far, we can only refer to them as alleged emails because – though Hadley CRU’s director Phil Jones has confirmed the break-in to Ian Wishart at the Briefing Room – he has yet to fess up to any specific contents.) But if genuine, they suggest dubious practices such as:
Manipulation of evidence:
I’ve just completed Mike’s Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (ie from 1981 onwards) amd from 1961 for Keith’s to hide the decline.
Private doubts about whether the world really is heating up:
The fact is that we can’t account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can’t. The CERES data published in the August BAMS 09 supplement on 2008 shows there should be even more warming: but the data are surely wrong. Our observing system is inadequate.
Suppression of evidence:
Can you delete any emails you may have had with Keith re AR4?
Keith will do likewise. He’s not in at the moment – minor family crisis.
Can you also email Gene and get him to do the same? I don’t have his new email address.
We will be getting Caspar to do likewise.
Fantasies of violence against prominent Climate Sceptic scientists:
Next
time I see Pat Michaels at a scientific meeting, I’ll be tempted to beat
the crap out of him. Very tempted.

Steve Crowder on Gitmo

noreply@blogger.com (Roy Eappen) — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:45:00 PST

Tories 38%, grits 23%

noreply@blogger.com (Roy Eappen) — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:03:47 PST

Those are the latest Angus Reid numbers. It continues the trend of the grits dropping and the Tories stabilizing at near majority levels. Wonder if ex pollster republican donolo wishes he kept his old job. It's now been more than 2 months that we see this pattern. I suspect that there will be no federal election for at least another 9-12 months. No wonder McKenna and his friends are calling us names. They are desperate. I used to think 30% was the grit floor. It is now a case of the a limbo to the bottom for the grits.

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Fox News Poll

noreply@blogger.com (Roy Eappen) — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:57:00 PST

bo shouldn't be too happy.

Guess that's why the war with Fox news is over

Charles Krauthammer on obama's folly

noreply@blogger.com (Roy Eappen) — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:28:00 PST

I think these trials are a totally insane idea. revealing secret sources of information and allowing jihadis a public platform , not to mention endangering the people of NYC are all good reasons not to do this. Our intelligence agencies have allowed some jihadis to go free rather than compromise sources. Military trials from these enemy combatants are the way most Americans prefer.
Dr Krauthammer understands this.

Travesty in New York
By Charles Krauthammer
WASHINGTON -- For late-19th-century anarchists, terrorism was the "propaganda of the deed." And the most successful propaganda-by-deed in history was 9/11 -- not just the most destructive, but the most spectacular and telegenic.

And now its self-proclaimed architect, Khalid Sheik Mohammed, has been given by the Obama administration a civilian trial in New York. Just as the memory fades, 9/11 has been granted a second life -- and KSM, a second act: "9/11, The Director's Cut," narration by KSM.

September 11, 2001 had to speak for itself. A decade later, the deed will be given voice. KSM has gratuitously been presented with the greatest propaganda platform imaginable -- a civilian trial in the media capital of the world -- from which to proclaim the glory of jihad and the criminality of infidel America.

Dr Krauthammer on Fort Hood jihadi

Dennis Miller on obama's folly

noreply@blogger.com (Roy Eappen) — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:34:00 PST

Dennis doesn't like this one little bit.

Even Lindsay Graham opposes it.

militant atheism

noreply@blogger.com (Roy Eappen) — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:38:00 PST

I am religious, I have many friends who are not. We get along just fine. Militant atheists are another breed. They are offended by my belief. I think this article does a good analysis of the unhappy militant atheists such as dawkins.

The Richard Dawkins-led anti-religious movement in many way resembles the totalitarian regimes of the 20th century, on both Left and Right, which hated religion as rival sources of loyalties, and sought to drive it out. It’s a basic premise of liberalism, and of anti-authoritarian regimes generally, that people do not attempt to interfere with other people’s children, and the way their parents try to raise them. Whether people wanted to bring up their kids as Christians or Muslims, vegetarians, Marxists or Latin speakers, conservatives or liberals was up to them, so long as they did not abuse them, and society had a pretty agreed notion of what abuse was. So when Dawkins suggested that raising children as religious was a form of child abuse in itself he showed his true Stalinist colours.
Of course the real reason militant atheists interfere with other people’s kids is because they’re not having any themselves – in Austria, the only country where fertility and religious belief is recorded, atheists have a fertility rate of 0.85 per woman, which is probably similar to the UK figure. As non-belief becomes the norm across Europe, so the birth rate plunges, and the continent is forced to import third world workers to make up the shortfall, workers who have no such qualms about labelling their children. As the Chief Rabbi recently said, without religious belief Europeans have become too selfish to have children:

The grits are the true thugs

noreply@blogger.com (Roy Eappen) — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:59:52 PST

It is always amusing to watch a grit lose his cool. McKenna was trying to be some kind of grit elder statesman. He has said he thinks the Torys are thugs. This by a party who employs catsmeat as an operative. Who uses mocks the beliefs of Evangelical Christians. Who films funerals of senior grits to see if everyone had Communion propertly. A party where its leader pseudo chretin grabbed a protester by the throat. The Iggy ads do nothing but tell the truth about the accidental tourist. Mr mckenna your side did try and have ads to refute ours. They were a miserable failure. Your side had a $2million dollar ad buy. Our side used several times that number. Your party doesn't have the money to fight our truth ads. Iffy and frankie if you think it was hard before watch what happens when we have an economy on the rise, The Winter Olympics, two international leaders summits in Canada and more good work by the HM Government. We will continue to outfund raise you. We will continue to refute every nonsensical non scandal you try and bring out. We will expose every one of your weaknesses and we are the unpaid volunteers. Watch what our war room will do. We are not thugs, but we have a singkle minded purpose to restore Canada to the great land it was before the leftie grits destroyed it's culture of ambition and independence. We have not yet begun to fight. Wonder how long you will be working at the TD Frankie?

Frank McKenna is the sort of retired politician whose elder-statesman status usually keeps him well clear of the partisan fray. But the former New Brunswick premier and Canadian ambassador to the U.S., now deputy chair of TD Bank Financial Group, had some surprisingly hard-nosed advice for Michael Ignatieff in an interview with Maclean’s: hit back at Conservative “thugs” with some Harper-style attack ads of your own.

McKenna didn’t pull any punches when asked what the federal Liberal leader should do about Tory ads that label him “just visiting” and “only in it for himself.” “I think you have to fire back,” he said. “My inclination is to use attack ads when you’re attacked.” As for the sort of adversaries the Liberals are up against in Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s tacticians, McKenna added, “They are dealing with thugs; they’ve got to fight back and fight hard.”

Every Canadian needs to...

noreply@blogger.com (Roy Eappen) — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:22:00 PST

read our new citizenship guide.
God Save the Queen of Canada

Written with input from many notable Canadian historians, this new citizenship booklet is much more entertaining and comprehensive than the old one, and succeeds in making Canada’s history seem both relevant and necessary. As such, it should be recommended reading for any current Canadian who has forgotten the facts on Vimy Ridge, the suffragette movement or the Riel Rebellion.

Beyond remedying the historical oversights of previous versions, the new citizenship study guide also provides a clear-eyed and forceful statement of the expectations of current Canadian values. Not to put too fine a point on it, but page nine of the 62-page booklet states: “Canada’s openness and generosity do not extend to barbaric cultural practices that tolerate spousal abuse, ‘honour killings,’ female genital mutilation, or other gender-based violence.” It also reinforces the responsibilities of all Canadian adult citizens: including jury duty, getting a job and obeying the law. This was inexplicably missing from the old booklet.

At a time when many foreign cultures are viewed with some suspicion, it makes good sense to lay out the meaning and significance of the Canadian values we all must share. Ottawa’s new citizenship guide properly ensures every new immigrant will know what it really means to be a Canadian. But understanding our history and way of life is not something only new arrivals need to learn. Ottawa ought to give every Canadian a copy of its new citizenship booklet.

And they should also read Brian Crowley's new book.

Chicken littles refuse to....

noreply@blogger.com (Roy Eappen) — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:09:00 PST

see the obvious.

Global warming appears to have stalled. Climatologists are puzzled as to why average global temperatures have stopped rising over the last 10 years. Some attribute the trend to a lack of sunspots, while others explain it through ocean currents.

There is none so blind....

Very sad and frightening

noreply@blogger.com (Roy Eappen) — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:08:40 PST

If you are a Holocaust denier or noam chomsky you can speak at a US campus. Not if you support Israel or tell the truth about jihad.(h/t)

This time, Nonie, who is the founder of Arabs for Israel, was invited to speak at both Columbia and Princeton. The official invitation at Columbia came from the very distinguished CAMERA, Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME), and from a new student organization there: Campus Media Watch, a group which is not yet quite up and running. Darwish flew from the West Coast, and was already all dressed up and ready to travel to Columbia when she got word that she’d been canceled.

“How humiliating is that? To come all this way, to be almost out the door, only to be told that they had to cancel my speech because campus security felt they could not protect me. Everyone is trying to blame someone else. Even the campus Republicans were afraid to sponsor me. SPME kept trying to fix it, but in the end, they could not.”

True, in 2006, President Ahmadinejad of Iran was not able to speak at Columbia because the notice given was too short. However, in 2007, Columbia University was able to provide security for him. And yet they could not provide it for Darwish. In 2006, Holocaust-denier Norman Finkelstein spoke at Columbia and in 2009, anti-Zionist, Israeli journalist Amira Hass spoke at Columbia–both without incident. Neither speaker was canceled. Next week, Noam Chomsky is speaking there. In Darwish’s view, “I doubt Chomsky will even need any security.”

dem senators won't discuss cap and tax...

noreply@blogger.com (Roy Eappen) — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:23:00 PST

until maybe next May.

Senator Inhofe declares victory.

Inhofe declares victory in speech on global warming

Sen. Jim Inhofe
By JIM MYERS World Washington Bureau
Published: 11/18/2009 9:23 PM
Last Modified: 11/18/2009 9:23 PM

WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe, perhaps Congress’ most vocal skeptic of man-made global warming, essentially declared victory Wednesday in a lengthy speech on the Senate floor.
“I proudly declare 2009 as the ‘Year of the Skeptic,’ the year in which scientists who question the so-called global warming consensus are being heard,’’ the Oklahoma Republican said.

“Until this year, any scientist, reporter or politician who dared raise even the slightest suspicion about the science behind global warming was dismissed and repeatedly mocked.’’

Inhofe recalled his own 2003 remarks in which he said much of the debate over global warming was predicated on fear rather than science.

Chantal Hebert on old tired ideas

noreply@blogger.com (Roy Eappen) — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 02:47:00 PST

Chantal Hebert makes a an interesting parallel between the rusting grit ship and the rusting separatist ship. Both of these groups seem to be fighting some battle from long ago. The separatists and the grits are both talking to themselves and many Quebecers and Canadians have stopped listening.
It is interesting that pq is debating a motion to make Quebec Junoor colleges inaccessible to allophones and francophones. Even Parizeau thinks thats a bad idea. I hope the motion passes. It will show Francophones how petty and ethnocentric the pq really is.

As a result, sovereignists are increasingly preaching at one another. Within the confines of the ranks of the already converted, they are often coming up with self-defeating approaches to their cause.

Last spring, Marois's announcement that a future PQ government would use all its dealings with the federal government to up the constitutional ante went down like a lead balloon. A proposal to extend the restrictions of Bill 101 to Quebec's junior colleges that is to be debated by the PQ rank and file over the weekend may be promised the same fate.

Parizeau himself thinks it is a bad idea to block francophones and allophones from attending English-language CEGEPs. At a time when many Quebec parents are clamouring for better second-language training in English for their children, locking them out of the English-language collegial system could set the stage for a rare francophone backlash against the province's language regime.

Watching the PQ scramble to find a second wind, one can't help but draw a parallel with the struggling Liberal Party of Canada. Their fates have been interlocked in the past.

In the early 1990s, the unity crisis triggered by the demise of the Meech Lake accord provided Parizeau with the best shot ever at securing a referendum mandate for sovereignty and the Chrétien Liberals with a road back to federal power. But with their past epic battles behind them, the PQ and their old federal Liberal foes seem equally lost in the intellectual wilderness these days.

More Photos from

noreply@blogger.com (Roy Eappen) — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:44:18 PST

HM PM Harper's trip to India. I think the trip went very well in general. I am always a little concerned about Sikh Kalistan supporters, but they are almost 100% outside of India now. I must say I think that Mrs; Gandhi was wrong to storm the Golden Temple. She should have starved the khalistanis out. My uncle the Lieutenant General in the indian army at that time disagrees with me. In any case it is now history. I want canadian Sokhs to fully embrace Canada and in general they have. I am hearing whispers that the khalistan supporters are making a comeback. I hope that is not true. I do think my friend Tarek has a point.
Though I know Jason Kenney has visited all the groups mentioned, including my own Syrian Malankara Church of South India.
I don't like the ethic politics so much, but the Tories are not bribing ethnic groups with their own money. They are engaging these communities and explaining why their values are Tory values. Jason spends a lot of time bringing ethnic groups together not making ethnic muticutural ghettos.

Interview on Indian TV

The civil service?

noreply@blogger.com (Roy Eappen) — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:42:16 PST

Norman Spector has a piece on the politicized civil service. I have written before about obstructionist deputy ministers and even obstructionist clerks of the privy council. I am told , by people who have to deal with the civil service, that the problems have come at even much more junior levels. There are open invitations to block your political bosses. One of my friends suggested that this is also happening in our embassies and High Commissions, to the detriment of Canada. The civil service mostly hired under the grits has to understand that times are different. The Tories should not accept a culture of mediocrity. If civil servants don't get their jobs done or are openly insubordinate they should be fired. They are supposed to be working for the Crown the symbol of the Canadian people, not the grits. One of my friends suggested that a code of conduct should be introduced that clearly puts out the principles of excellence and non partisanship that should be expected from the civil service. I know that Yes Minister is a documentary series, but adding partisanship to the mix makes it much worse. The civil service unions are of course a big problem as well. Rewarding incompetence and mediocrity is a longtime union policy. Look how this partisanship helped the grits funnel millions away from the public trough. The Tories have played the game as well in the past, but as the article says the grits have had much longer to institute their operatives within the civil service. Both sides should remember that a non partisan civil services serve the interests of the Crown and therefore the people of Canada.
I hope, in order to reduce the deficit, the Tories start massive cuts to the civil service and everything else that government does.

“An affidavit prepared by the Public Service Commission for the Gomery inquiry sheds new light on the controversial hiring of a former Liberal aide to head the sponsorship program in 1999, including the role of a federal official who would become an aide to Prime Minister Paul Martin.
The inquiry heard conflicting testimony about how Pierre Tremblay, then the chief of staff to then public works minister Alfonso Gagliano, was hired to replace retiring bureaucrat Chuck Guité. Mr. Guité said he rigged the process at Mr. Gagliano's behest; the former minister denied any political interference.
The affidavit, which went unnoticed when it was tabled in May, shows that Mr. Tremblay's hiring was approved by a three-member selection board made up of Mr. Guité, Public Service Commission executive resourcing consultant Michael Carey, and Mario Laguë, a long-time Liberal supporter who became Mr. Martin's first director of communications when he became Prime Minister. The affidavit said Mr. Tremblay was hired “based on the recommendation of the selection board.”

Parizeau is at it again

noreply@blogger.com (Roy Eappen) — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 03:40:50 PST

I was 15 years old when the PQ won its first mandate in1976. It scared many of my friends and family who within two years had left Quebec. Hundreds of thousands left Quebec. My family didn't leave, My dad thought that's what these ethnic nationalists want, ethnic cleansing, so he wasn't going to help them. Separatism is not talked about much in Quebec, these days. Even separatists avoid the topic. Jacques Parizeau has left his vineyard in France and has written yet another tome which is being translated by crackpot Robin Philpot.
I hate to break it to you Jacques, Quebecers are not interested in your project. Lies and cheating didn't win you the referendum, even pseudo chretien's gross incompetence didn't win you separation. Find a new project, Perhaps find a way to wean Quebeckers off their massive unaffordable statist programs. Or maybe just return to France and make a new brandy. Stop wasting your old age. Go spend time with your family. You are becoming the court jester of Quebec.

Some still have apprehensions ... but fewer than before," Parizeau said. "So it's worth saying to each other, 'Let's try again.' "

Wistful lawrence martin

noreply@blogger.com (Roy Eappen) — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 23:19:03 PST

lawrence martin is a big grit cheerleader. Reading this article just made me smile. martin thought the Tories wer on thir way out. He thought there would be a liber resurgence like in bo's America. I have news for you larry. bo's in pretty bad shape after less than a year in office. he has accomplished very little and it looks like he will get neither of his two major policies before the end of this year. Get used to a Tory government. Get used to a GOP resurgence at the 2010 elections. HM PM is not crafty, viscious and dishonest like your hero pseudo chretien. HM PM Harper is intelligent and is giving Canadians good government. I know you lefties in the media now cry yourself to sleep, but you'll have to get used to it. Maybe you should all just retire and allow a new generation of less biased journalists to replace you, because your time like iffy's, is running out.

His conservative agenda — Stephen Harper’s Canada — was stamped out in the revamped citizenship guide his government issued last week. It was heavy on pride in the Armed Forces, law and order, the monarchy, limits to cultural tolerance. It was light on gay marriage, the environment, health care and socially progressive content. It was met with much applause.
It is remarkable Harper has been able to brand Canada to suit his purposes. The skill of the political leader lies in making the people feel good about what’s going on.

Susan Boyle in Toronto

noreply@blogger.com (Roy Eappen) — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:32:07 PST

I thought I was going to miss this , as it was initially scheduled Nov 26, 2009 and I don't get back from Oz until December 5. Now i will be able to attend.

Susan Boyle has postponed her appearance in Toronto by almost a month.