Dear Jacko... I'm thinkin' we should...

...start out with something easier... like maybe potable water and basic hygiene... 'cos, you do know we're talking about a place where, believe it or not... lotsa people still believe in witchcraft... right?

And hey... I'm just spitballin' here, but how about we save the "what you do with your penis" stuff until we know them a little better? The thing is, I'm not so sure it's as simple as... "If you bring them, they will, er...come."

"The head of the Catholic Church in Mozambique has told the BBC he believes some European-made condoms are infected with HIV deliberately."

Uh-huh.

So, what you're saying is...

...he's at least as capable as the 13 year-old girl down the street...

"The NDP leader also garners the largest proportion of mentions for serving as a babysitter."

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Jack Layton's NDP

Apparently the economy isn't THEIR biggest priority...

Holmes, a former union executive, was sentenced to eight years in a U.S. federal prison after pleading guilty to helping smuggle 61 kilograms of cocaine across the border from his property on the Canada-U.S. border near near Osoyoos, B.C. in January 2007.

Holmes drew a lengthy sentence in July 2007 because he would not identify his accomplice.

Not that Iggy & the Fiberal cabal are that much better.

Hey... ever wonder how the Socialists pay for all their "poor little criminal" initiatives?

-- VANCOUVER -- Vancouver patients needing neurosurgery, treatment for vascular diseases and other medically necessary procedures will wait longer for care as their health authority prepares to cut over 6,000 surgeries under the B.C. Liberals' post-election plan for health care.

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So I guess a "spring wedding"...

...is out of the question...

-- OTTAWA -- New Democrats have produced a series of scathing radio ads lambasting the Liberals for propping up Stephen Harper's minority Conservative government.

The ads claim Mr. Ignatieff has failed his first test as leader and has thrown in his lot with Mr. Harper; they argue that the NDP's Jack Layton is the only leader strong enough to stand up to the Prime Minister.

(h/t reader rich)

Jack and Gilles...

...should take a pill...

By contrast, Mr. Ignatieff's move provoked outrage from New Democratic Party Leader Jack Layton and Bloc Quebecois Leader Gilles Duceppe, who wanted the Liberals to defeat the government over the budget as early as next week.

Mr. Layton immediately slammed Mr. Ignatieff, saying the Liberals no longer had the right to claim to be the government-in-waiting. "We have a new coalition now on Parliament Hill. It's a coalition between Mr. Harper and Mr. Ignatieff."

Gee guys... Iggy's fresh off his own little coup d'etat... who could possibly have seen this sort of treachery comin' down the pike?

Politics 101, my socialist friends... "If they'll do it with you, they'll do it to you."

Mr. Duceppe said when the Liberals shared their budget-amendment proposal with him, he declared, "The coalition is dead, it's finished, it's over."

Ya think?

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There's a reason...

...nobody ever refers to Taliban Jack as a "political chessmaster"...

It was Layton who suffered most.

First, he had a chance to do the Liberals in and replace them as the default selection on the left had he gone along with the Tories' plan to end public funding to parties.

Next to the Tories, the NDP have the best chance of replacing public handouts with private donations. Layton could have crippled the Liberals, instead he tried to vault himself into cabinet by riding into power as the Liberals' shotgun.

With the revealing of the coalition, Layton was also exposed as a self-serving opportunist with no compunction about making a deal with separatists, even weeks before the Tories lit the match on the crisis.

(via blue like you)

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RELATED: The self-trumpeted genius of Jacko

“This whole thing would not have happened if the moves hadn’t been made with the Bloc a long time ago and locked them in early.”

Those six seats in a Stephane Dion cabinet were so close he could taste them.

So sad.

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LAST WORD: Poor Jacko has early-onset Alzheimers

"Not one word of the coalition. Not one mention of Stephane Dion and the Liberals, or of working with Michael Ignatieff."

"Jack Layton says that NDP supporters ought to "think about what we'd like to see in the year ahead", and yet it doesn't appear that Jack Layton is thinking about the coalition."

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He'll sit and talk with the Taliban...

But even wild horses won't drag Jack Layton anywhere near Ellie May.

-- OTTAWA -- If Elizabeth May gets her way, it could be a long night for Jack Layton.

The Green party leader won a charity auction for a dinner with her NDP counterpart and his wife, NDP MP Olivia Chow, and she plans to invite Liberal Leader Stephane Dion and his wife, Janine Kreiber, as her guests.

Ms. May has often complained that Mr. Layton has refused to meet with her.

Sure enough, the Pinko Platoon has already started trying to weasel out of the "proggie picnic."

Polls and election results suggest the Greens pose an electoral danger to the NDP, and Mr. Layton seems unwilling to do anything to lend legitimacy to Ms. May or her party.

At the end of the auction, Mr. Layton did not even acknowledge that Ms. May was the winner.

A spokesman for Mr. Layton, Karl Belanger, did not sound keen on the May-Dion-Layton dinner. "We didn’t talk about who this person might be," he said. "She won the auction, so we’ll see, but co-ordinating the schedule of three leaders . . . two leaders is already tricky."

Looks like Ellie May's got some moves after all.

Hey Jack, you could always take a trip to Kabul instead.

Technorati Tags: Elizabeth May, Taliban Jack, Jack-be-nimble

Who cares about the National Debt?

Not Taliban Jack and the loony left.

-- OTTAWA -- Pumping almost all of the $14-billion surplus into debt-reduction rather than investing in Canadians is the kind of rigid conservatism that makes it likely the NDP will vote to topple the government next month, Jack Layton said Thursday.

It's true, this kind of windfall could put safe-injection sites in every city in Canada.

It could set up government inspected brothels for every sex-trade worker in East Van.

We could send every violent convict in maximum security to a fresh round of anger-management classes.

We could double up the cash-for-life to all those welfare moms who clog up the airwaves every time some kid gets smoked at an after hours club.

Is that what the majority of Canadians want?

I think not.

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RELATED: Steffi, meanwhile decides to fall back...

On the tired old "Boogie Man" defense.

When Paul Martin realized he wasn’t going to be able to waltz to a majority government in the spring of 2004, he turned to one of the Liberals’ most reliable and effective weapons: a smear campaign accusing Stephen Harper of harbouring a “secret agenda.”

It might not be surprising, then, that Stéphane Dion reached for the same weapon this week as he sought a lifeline to drag himself out of the swamp he’s stumbled into.

“This hidden agenda will be stopped,” he vowed, fresh from three disastrous byelections in his home province.

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UPDATE: Liberal largesse bled us dry

"Even Jean Chretien himself famously admitted, and I quote, 'We left the cupboard bare,'" said Mulroney, who pointed out that Chretien served as a finance minister under Trudeau and knew of what he spoke.

"That was his only understatement," added Mulroney, to much laughter.

"The day I was sworn in as Prime Minister the government was spending $1.23 on programs for every dollar it took in in taxes," he told the attentive crowd. Under Trudeau, the debt grew by 1,100% and interest rates peaked at 22.75%.

By the time Mulroney left office, program spending was reduced to 97 cents for every dollar of revenues.

In other words, the only reason there was a large deficit, was because of the huge interest payments (33 cents on every tax dollar) Canada had to pay to service the enormous debt Trudeau built up.

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LAST WORD: Speaking of bad budget skills

An urgent plea from the political party that used to accept brown envelopes stuffed with cash: "The Liberal Party's Quebec wing has warned Leader Stéphane Dion that it needs a quarter million dollar cash injection by Friday or it will have to close its Montreal office and lay off staff."

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POSTSCRIPT: Welcome readers of Canadian Cynic

CC has once again directed you here... after calling me a silly name. I will return the favour by urging you to peruse some of CC's "collected wisdom".

Technorati Tags: Taliban Jack, Stephane Dion, smoke and mirrors

Fiberals and Blockheads on board...

As Prime Minister Harper spells it out for Elections Canada.

-- SYDNEY, Australia -- Elections Canada has undermined Parliament with a decision that Muslim women may vote, even if they refuse to confirm their identity by showing their faces at the polling station, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Sunday.

This just makes sense and more importantly, it's the law of the land.

Even Muslim groups have said the veil doesn't supercede this legislation.

Mohamed Elmasry of the Canadian Islamic Congress said the issue doesn't have to be such a controversial one. The solution, he said is as simple as having women who wear the niqab show their faces to female elections officials.

But wait a minute, there's one fundamentalist firebrand who's voting for the veil... Taliban Jack bin Layton...

The NDP, however, said it can live with the current rules on veils in the three ballots on Sept. 17, while agreeing that changes could come later.

Hey Jack... you might wanna check with Olivia on this one.

Goin' out on a limb here... but I'm guessin' she's a no-veil kinda girl.

Technorati Tags: Elections Canada, Taliban Jack, Canadian Islamic Congress

The only winners will be...

Taliban Jack and Sergeant Steffi...

So the truth of it is, if Parliament decides that, as Mr. MacKay put it, "our current configuration," meaning combat troops, will end in early 2009, no one should draw comfort from the promise that "the aid work" will continue merrily on.

It won't.

Neither is it likely another country will step up to fill the vacuum left by departing Canadian soldiers, and even if one does, they won't be as good at the hard work - of killing and being killed, as well as talking and building - as Canadians are.

And Afghanistan will slide deeper into the chaos that as always is on a low boil, burbling within.

That's why I left Kandahar yesterday feeling ashamed.

Where failure itself is often honourable, failing to stay the course is not, and that's what's in the air.

(via SDA)

Technorati Tags: Taliban Jack, Stephane Dion, cut and run

Layton in grief-stricken seclusion...

After Islamotards get their jihad-lovin' asses handed to them... yet again.

-- KABUL, Afghanistan -- U.S. led and Afghan troops battled suspected Taliban insurgents in southern Afghanistan on Tuesday in ground clashes and air strikes that left more than 100 militants dead, the coalition said.

The little back-stabbing bastards just don't seem to be able to get the hang of head-to-head combat. They'd best stick with sneak attacks and using women and children for cover.

The battle in Kandahar province's Shawali Kot district started after the joint force was ambushed by a large group of insurgents who tried to overrun their position several times, before being strafed by air strikes, the statement from the coalition said.

"Coalition aircraft destroyed the reinforced enemy emplacements and sniper positions as well as two trucks used to reinforce and re-supply the insurgent force,'' the statement said.

Not a single NATO casualty here.

Say Jack... does that mean we don't get another press conference?

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RELATED: Just take a couple of minutes...

Who was at the helm for a decade prior to the Afghan mission being launched?

Who signed onto the mission?

Who tasked our Canuck warriors to Kandahar?

Who refused to purchase heavy lift rotary wing transport?

Who starved the military for funds and equipment?

Who is now using our casualties for cheap political gain by demanding we pull out ASAP?

Technorati Tags: Taliban Jack, Afghanistan casualties, NATO

Can somebody tell me...

Where Taliban Jack will be holding his press conference... or is that only when Canadian soldiers get killed?

Seventeen people, including 12 schoolchildren, have been killed in a suicide bombing in south Afghanistan, the country's interior ministry says.

Another 30 people were injured, some seriously, in the attack on a market place in Dehrawood in Uruzgan province, where Taleban militants are active.

The bomber blew himself up near a Nato-led convoy, police said.

I guess if you're trying to portray these homicidal sociopaths as beleaguered freedom fighters... it may be a little tricky to spin this one into political gold, huh Jack?

Say TJ, while we're at it... I'd be interested in how you rationalise this sort of thing, too.

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RELATED: Taliban allies ramp up campaign

TORONTO — NDP Leader Jack Layton wants Ottawa to demand a halt to U.S. and NATO air strikes in Afghanistan.

Layton tells the Toronto Star that he plans to take up the matter with Prime Minister Stephen Harper Tuesday.

The NDP chief says he’ll ask Harper to instruct Canadian representatives on the NATO council that oversees day-to-day operations to call for an end to aerial bombing.

Technorati Tags: Religion of indiscrimate slaughter, Afghanistan, Jack Layton

Sacrificing your children...

For Allah.

Can somebody explain to me, how a religion that so often tries to associate itself with the word... "peace" -- can countenance the increasing toll, not on enemy combatants... but on it's own children.

If it's true, as per Islamic precepts, that nothing happens that isn't the will of Allah... it seems to me that Allah is a particularly bloodthirsty and uncaring deity.

The blast killed a 15-year-old boy at the scene and a three-year-old girl died of her injuries after being flown by helicopter to the Canadian-led military hospital at Kandahar Airfield.

Two other civilians — an adult and a child — are in the hospital in serious condition.

This suicide attack on a Canadian convoy, and indeed, most of the random and cowardly attacks on our soldiers, are sprung with total disregard for whomever might be loitering in the area.

I just can't fathom how Taliban Jack thinks he might be able to negotiate with the Afghan equivalent of the Manson family.

And I can't imagine sacrificing, for whatever lofty reason, anybody's children... never mind my own.

UPDATE: Islamofascists using chemical weapons

-- BAGHDAD -- Multiple suicide bombings struck the Sunni insurgent stronghold of Anbar province, and about 350 Iraqi civilians and six U.S. troops were treated for exposure to chlorine gas, the military said Saturday.

Technorati Tags: Religion of indiscrimate slaughter, Afghanistan, psychosis

How come there's never a...

Commie Pinko mouthpiece around, when you really need one...

What we have here, is a made to order rescue mission for NDP Leader and notorious Islamofascist appeaser, "Taliban Jack" Layton.

-- Iran's authorities have arrested more than 32 women activists protesting outside a courthouse in Tehran.

The BBC's Frances Harrison, reporting from the demonstration, says almost all the leaders of Iran's women's movement were arrested.

Their crime...

The women held up banners outside the revolutionary court, saying: "We have the right to hold peaceful protests".

With his proven track record of pandering to every Tom, Dick and Mahmoud who starts screeching out demands to turn back the clock of civilisation to the mid-fifteenth century... I say it's time for Jack Layton to really pony up.

I'm thinking, if 5000 people kick in a loonie apiece we'll have enough money for TJ's airfare and mad money.

I mean... it's not like we need a return ticket.

Technorati Tags: Jack Layton, Iran, where's your political correctness now?

Kill em all...

Let Allah sort em out...

-- KANDAHAR, AFGHANISTAN -- Taliban fighters say they have executed dozens of suspected informants, as they hunt for the spies who helped NATO target several of their leaders in recent weeks.

Muslim custom requires a quick burial after death, but the Taliban told the families of the executed men to leave them hanging for up to three days, as a warning to others who might work for the foreign troops.

A question for Taliban Jack Layton... "Can we book you that flight to Afghanistan now? You know... the one where you negotiate peace with these guys."

That's what I thought.

Technorati Tags: Afghanistan, religion of peace, Jack Layton

Taliban Jack craps on Canada

Yet again...

-- "The tragic fact is that we lure people to come here, we give them points for their experience, and their professional credentials," Layton, speaking in front of Toronto's Union Station, said Sunday. --

Yeah Jack... we lure them, you know... like pedophiles lure unsuspecting children.

Lure them... to a country where every citizen has the right to vote. To a country that doesn't shit on people because of their gender, race or sexual preference. To a country with due process, instead of kangaroo courts. To a country where you can spout any sort of socialist nonsense... and not be disappeared by the local dictator, or opposing religious faction.

"We ask them to go and drive cabs for 10 years and the come back and do your residency and practice your medicine. It's a very, very painful situation," said immigrant Abdul Khan.

To immigrant Abdul, I say, "Buddy, you're full of cous-cous."

The unfortunate reality is, there are places in the world, most notably the so called "third world" where accreditation just doesn't meet North American standards. And I for one, want the surgeon who is operating on my child to meet and indeed, exceed the standards. If you can't write the Ontario medical board exams that existing doctors have to pass... I don't want you operating on me, my family... or the guy down the street, for that matter.

If immigrant Abdul thinks he can snaffle up a surgical residency in Baluchistan, Baghdad or Bumfuck, Minnesota... then he should, by all means, hie off to paradise.

He'd be a fool not to.

But if he decides to stay, he should understand very clearly... that he has to meet the same standard as every other Dr. Tom, Dick or Mohammed.

RELATED: The Globe wants a piece of this

They start off with the headline, "Popular MD gives up hope to settle in Canada..."

The article bemoans the sixty months it has taken this doctor to try get citizenship, then casually drops in a few little wrinkles... like moving out of the country which, quite reasonably, restarts the paperwork clock....

The doctor and his family moved between Canada and South Africa a number of times -- including moving back to his home country twice.

Dr. Kruger thinks his two-year compulsory stint in the apartheid-era South African army might be to blame. In 1987-88, he served as a lieutenant in the medical corps.

Some army units, and their medical officers, have been implicated in torture and other war crimes.

Can you imagine the international furore, if Canada actually let in someone who was accused of conducting experiments on blacks?

Perhaps the Globe needs to find another example.

Technorati Tags: Jack Layton, one people, one law, political correctness

Steffi the Safety Elephant

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UPDATE: 14 Feb 2007 - What now, oh wise Steffi?

Al-Qaeda has called for terrorist strikes against Canada's oil and natural gas facilities to "choke the U.S. economy."

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Stephane Dion and Taliban Jack know that Canada is "number one with a bullet" on the Taliban's shitlist. They know there's a pretty good chance that there will be a major terrorist incident... that will cost Canadian lives.

The Liberals know all this, because the anti-terrorism measures designed to prevent such attacks were introduced after 9/11 by, well... the Liberals.

So they must realise the danger of renouncing their support for those laws at this particular point in time.

Turns out... they're willing to take that chance.

-- OTTAWA -- Liberal Leader Stéphane Dion will join forces with the Bloc Québécois and the NDP next week to strike down the two most controversial anti-terrorism measures introduced by the Liberals in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

Looking for any way to try to undermine the Stephen Harper government, Stephane Dion is teaming up with Taliban Jack to try make cheap political points.

That's how desperate Steffi is... he's playing with the safety and security of Canadian citizens.

Let's see what he says when the first bomb goes off.

RELATED: Let's just suppose...

“I ran to help and I saw destruction everywhere, along with charred bodies and body parts. Blood was spilled across a big area,” he said.

“I carried six people who I thought were still alive but then realized they had died after being torn apart by shrapnel.”

What would you say then?

LAST WORD: Hmmm, a total flip... since October?

As recently as October, the Liberals had said they would support extending the provisions that allow preventative arrests of terrorist suspects and investigative hearings.

Gee... what's changed since then, Mr. Dion?

Technorati Tags: Stephane Dion, politics of deception, Jack Layton

Hey Jack... negotiate this

Yessir... those brave and always noble Taliban freedom-fighters are back in action...

KABUL, Afghanistan, Jan. 7 — The Taliban appeared to be resuming their campaign of violence after a week of quiet over the Islamic festival of Id al-Adha.

Two newborn babies, their mother and a grandmother were killed in a roadside bombing in eastern Afghanistan as they were returning home from the hospital on Sunday...

Maybe Taliban Jack would like to explain exactly how he would begin negotiations with these savage, cold-blooded killers...

In a separate attack, gunmen on a motorcycle killed a high school headmaster in the southern province of Helmand as he was walking home from morning prayers at his local mosque, according to an Interior Ministry spokesman.

So Jack, why don't you talk it over with your life-partner and the other rabid leftbots... and then get back to us, ok?

Technorati Tags: Afghanistan, religion of peace, Jack Layton

Problem of Palestinian violence solved

Who knew... all they had to do was ask nicely.

-- Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and PM Ismail Haniya have agreed to urge armed men from their rival Fatah and Hamas factions to leave Gaza's streets.

Of course, I'm willing to bet dollars to dead bodies, this latest proposed "ceasefire" will be shorter than one of Sting's famous transcendental, tantric bouts of conjugal ecstasy.

Funnily enough, the call for a halt to violence comes, coincidentally I'm sure, as assassins from both factions start working their way up the food chain.

In any case, it will be very small beer for one Fatah bigwig...

The Abbas-Haniya meeting took place after a very senior figure in a security service linked to Fatah, Col Mohammed Ghayeb, was killed when gunmen attacked his home, Fatah officials said.

"They are targeting the house. For God's sake, send an ambulance." Four of his bodyguards also died, and his wife was wounded.

UPDATE: "I've got it... let's kill Jews instead"

Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh (Hamas), freshly returned from making the Hajj to Saudi Arabia, Thursday urged both his Hamas terrorists and PA chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah terrorists to stop shooting at each other and save their bullets for use against the Jews.

Unsurprisingly Abbas – feted by the world as a “moderate” – has not denounced Haniyeh’s proposal that their people join forces to kill Israelis instead of fighting each other.

His silence is expected to encourage a new outbreak of terrorism against Israel.

SURPRISE, SURPRISE: Ix-nay on the urder-may...

Looks like there may be a breakdown in communications here. Maybe there's a problem with testosterone fuelled belligerence, or thoughtless, insensitive words... in any case, it ain't pretty.

Apparently confusing the western expression, "seeing eye to eye", with the biblical injunction, "an eye for an eye"... Hamas and Fatah are back to slicing and dicing each other at every available opportunity.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Saturday declared Hamas' militia in the Gaza Strip illegal, and the Islamic movement responded by defiantly announcing plans to double the size of the paramilitary unit.

How about we let infamous big-talkin' peacenik Taliban Jack Layton step in and fix this thing forever more?

Maybe Jack can show these guys, "the third way."

Technorati Tags: Hamas, Fatah, murder

Lucy in the sky...

I'm thinkin' they could be testing ole' Jack for lots of stuff...

“Frankly, I was curious. I suspected that I was probably well populated with the chemicals that you find in an urban area,” he said.

Mr. Layton had the highest levels of flame retardants of the four politicians.

Sounds like a clear-cut argument for rapid and ultra-adaptive evolution to me.

Technorati Tags: Taliban Jack, NDP, environment