Note To Blogging Tories

I was going to comment on the joy in mudville over the Tories polling at 40% Rarely do I agree with rabid rightwinger Lorrie Goldstein, very rarely, in fact practically never, until he wrote this.

A word of advice for rabid Conservative partisans and charter members of the right-wing blogosphere.

Stop gloating over last week's Ipsos-Reid poll showing Prime Minister Stephen Harper and the Conservatives would win a majority government if an election was held today, with 43% of the popular vote compared to 25% for the Liberals.

Stop using it and other polls showing the Tories are up significantly from their election night support of 36%, while the Liberals are down from 30%, to thump your chest and smugly declare that whatever Harper is doing, it must be right.

You're being as foolish as rabid Liberal partisans and bloggers were last fall when the polls showed the Grits bouncing back from AdScam with a shot at a majority government.

Polls taken today mean nothing. If pollsters and pundits (present company included) could tell you what's going to happen in the next election based on polls taken now, none of us would be pollsters and pundits. We'd be bookies.

LORRIE GOLDSTEIN, TORONTO SUN

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Regulations Alberta Style

Alberta says it will shortly clamp down on emissions of greenhouse gases -- perhaps as early as next year -- introducing regulations that the oil-producing province's Environment Minister claims will be the toughest in Canada... Alberta vows to introduce stiff emissions regulations

Regulations mean nothing if they are not enforced. And in Alberta that is the case. We have lots of great regulations but no enforcement. Not worth the paper they are written on. Sort of like the old Soviet Constitution. Great constitution but was ignored by Stalin. Wait a minute Alberta is a One Party State, the old Soviet Union was a One Party State....hmmm coincidence I think not.

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Car Accidents Are Deadly In Afghanistan

Don't get into a car accident in Kabul, the city state under US/UN Afghan control. Or you could end up getting killed by coalition forces. This is the democracy we are fighting for, one where the population is friendly and wants us there. Yeah right.


US crash sparks Afghanistan riot BBC News

Hundreds of protesters took to the streets chanting slogans

Hundreds of Afghans gathered in the wake of the accident chanting "Death to America" and "Death to Karzai", referring to Afghan President Hamid Karzai.

They pelted the US military vehicles with rocks before the shooting began, forcing them to scatter.

Two police vehicles and a police checkpoint were set alight, witnesses said.

"People are very angry," resident Samad Shah said.

US, Afghan forces fire on rioters Globe and Mail

Sher Shah Usafi, a Kabul police chief, said at least three people were killed and 16 wounded in the crash, while U.S. forces killed one person and wounded two as they fired on dozens of rioters shouting “Down with America!” and throwing stones at them while they fled the area.A commander with the city's traffic police who was at the scene said he also saw U.S. forces firing on protesters. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media.

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Don't Wear Shorts

In Baghdad. No matter how hot it is. Or you could end up getting killed in the New Democracy that Georgie Porgie says is worth thosuands of lives dying for. And it doesn't matter that these folks were both Sunni and Shia. Guess the Williams sisters won't be playing exhibition games in Baghdad soon.

Iraqi players killed for wearing shorts

Baghdad: An Iraqi tennis coach and two of his players were killed this week in Baghdad because they were wearing shorts, authorities said on Saturday.

Gunmen stopped the car in which the Sunni coach and two of his Shiite players were riding and asked them to step out before shooting them on Wednesday in volatile Saidiyah neighborhood of southwestern Baghdad, said Secreatary General of Iraqi Tennis Union, Manham Kubba.

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Feminist Defense of Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a Somalian Secular Feminist highly critical of Islam. She is a Dutch parliamentarian who has been kicked out of Holland for lying about her refugee status. That would usually be food for the right to blast her. Except she belongs to Theo Van Gogh's right wing party. Opps. She is on her way to America, to join the right wing think tank the American Enterprise Institute. Despite her right wing politics a Leftwing Feminist welcomes her. See Feminism does make strange bedfellows, contrary to the misogynist rantings of some Blogging Tories.

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UK Soldiers Desert Iraq War

How many Americans have deserted? Let alone the number who have committed suicide over this ugly Imperialist war. Of course desertation is better than massacring innocent civilians.

More than 1,000 desert UK forces
More than 1,000 members of the British military have deserted since the start of the Iraq war, the BBC has learned. Figures for those still missing are 86 from 2001, 118 from 2002, 134 from 2003, 229 from 2004, 377 from 2005, and 189 for this year so far.

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Wormy Norton

Silence may be golden unless you have a fatal flaw in your anti-virus software. In this case Norton/Symantec waited till late Friday after this story to even confirm the problem. Friday last business day, and they still have no patch or fix. Today is Sunday, what happens at the opening of business tommorow?

Flaw Found in Symantec Antivirus

MAY 26, 2006 07:11:32 AM

Security researchers at eEye Digital Security have discovered a serious flaw in Symantec’s enterprise antivirus software that could be used by hackers to create a self-replicating "worm" attack against Symantec users. Because Symantec has not yet confirmed the existence of the problem, much less patched it, eEye is offering few details on the vulnerability, which was first disclosed late Wednesday.

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Moscow Mayor Like Edmonton's

The Mayor of Moscow sounds like the Mayor of Edmonton, Bill Smith, who refused to recognize Gay Pride Week. So this is not a uniquely Russian phenomena,it occurs too regularly across Canada. But at least the Gay, Lesbian, Bi and Transexual community gets to parade. And before folks start getting self righteous the USA is no better getting into hissy fits over Gay Veterans and Gays marching in St. Patrick Day parades. And these cops do look pretty ugly so I don't think the flowers are for them.

Cops, Protesters Prevent Moscow Gay Parade

Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov said in a radio interview Friday gay parades ''may be acceptable for some kind of progressive, in some sense, countries in the West, but it is absolutely unacceptable for Moscow, for Russia." ''As long as I am mayor, we will not permit these parades,'' he said.

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Nikolai Alekseyev, left, the leader of a gay rights group in Russia, was stopped by policemen Saturday in central Moscow as the authorities moved to block a parade by gay rights advocates. Religious leaders had condemned the planned march, and right-wing nationalists threatened violence.

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Herr Patels Proves My Point

My favorite blog nutbar, after this guy, Herr Wiener Patels proves my point about being a blog spammer.

He published an attack on me, not once but three times. Same post on all three of his blogs.

He also libels me by claiming I use 'school' property to produce my blog. Which I don't. I produce this on my home computer.Twit.

Ah blog wars are so much fun eh, wot. Since Herr Patels has proven my point, I will now cease documenting the trials and tribulations of this multipleblog personality.

Let the shunning begin.

1. Blogosphere Is Fast Becoming A Cesspool

   By Werner Patels in My Opinion 18 hours ago

   an ideal world, of course, any blog that has a 99% content of schlock would be deleted automatically within 24 hours, such as Eugene Plawiuk?s blog. One can dream, right? If you care to waste a few minutes of your time, visit Eugene Plawiuk?s blog

2. Blogosphere Is Fast Becoming A Cesspool

   In The Alberta Times :: Main Page 18 hours ago

   an ideal world, of course, any blog that has a 99% content of schlock would be deleted automatically within 24 hours, such as Eugene Plawiuk?s blog. One can dream, right? If you care to waste a few minutes of your time, visit Eugene Plawiuk?s blog

3. Blogosphere Is Fast Becoming A Cesspool

   In The Alberta Pundit 19 hours ago

   an ideal world, of course, any blog that has a 99% content of schlock would be deleted automatically within 24 hours, such as Eugene Plawiuk?s blog. One can dream, right? If you care to waste a few minutes of your time, visit Eugene Plawiuk?s blog

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Carnival of Socialism #3

Carnival of Socialism Number Three

The lucky third edition has been posted at Andrew Rihn's blog.

And your humble scribe will be hosting the next round so send your contributions to me at eugene@union.org.za

Deadline is before June 11.

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