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lgf: Outrage of the Day is yet another great entry on why Canadians should give up on the UN and stop going to Cuba.

Cuba, which in recent days has summarily executed three dissidents and sentenced dozens of others to long prison terms, has been elected?without opposition?to the United Nations Human Rights Commission. The US walked out of the meeting.

And we should never return.

My friend James Alcock has a page up – Debunking Toronto Expressway Myths

Be good to see a candidate for the mayoral office for building a few new roads.

Occam’s Toothbrush has a link to a great idea from S. Stanton – put the UN on the top floor of any new WTC tower.

So why not move the UN to the top floors of the new World Trade Center? If terrorists manage to topple the structure, the UN would go down with it. France would lose its veto. Libya would lose its seat on the Human Rights Commission. Iraq would lose its position on the Disarmament Commission. Dictators of the world would lose their one claim to legitimacy.

The sooner Canada boots Quebec, the better the whole country will be.  Stories like this one make my blood boil.

Thanks to the Parti Qu?b?cois government’s dogged renaming efforts, the province of Quebec now has enough ‘national’ institutions and offices to do any country proud.

Thanks Smug Canadian

I know Canadians don’t give a fig about Castro’s dictatorship, as they go down anyway supporting him.

I know the Canadian elite is against the DP in Canada.

Do you think Canada’s ruling class will get excited about Cuba now that they’ve executed 3 people for hijacking a ferry to get to the US?

Then two weeks ago a firing squad executed three men who hijacked a ferry in a failed bid to reach the United States, ending a three-year moratorium on capital punishment in Cuba.

Castro has defended the executions as a deterrent to a mass exodus that he said the United States was trying to provoke in the communist-run island.

Keep up the good work, Canada!

Corcoran says Toronto is a victim of the WHO’s power quest and junk science, not SARS.

Well, all I can say is welcome to the wonderful world of the WHO, global headquarters for the world’s worst intellectual virus: junk science.

More good news for stay-at-home kids with parents worried they are “isolated” or not mixing with other small kids.

Parents anxiously arranging play dates for their children and schools intent on building social skills might be better off leaving kids more time to play alone, according to new research.

It’s not easy battling the day care industry’s propaganda – but thankfully, facts to get out eventually.

Media Fear Tactics – Gavin de Becker & Associates is an interesting page that deals with words and phrases the media uses to scare us.

It would be interesting if the standards of Truth in Advertising were applied to television news as they sometimes are to television commercials. In that unlikely situation, TV news writers would be required to use phrases and words that convey accurate information—as opposed to the phrases and words they use today.

Given the hysteria around SARS in Toronto, this site is very interesting.

He has some good books I plan on buying:

The Gift of Fear—> US$ <- Click to buy -> Cdn$

Protecting The Gift —> US$ <- Click to buy -> Cdn$

Fear Less —> US$ <- Click to buy -> Cdn$

I’m no Robin Hood, but I am still glad that the RIAA was not able to shut down the file sharing services.

That said, I still wish that the music industry would make available legal methods to download their music for a fair price. 

If they don’t do so soon, then a whole generation will never know what it’s like to pay for music.  Which is wrong too.

The entertainment industry suffered a surprising blow Friday when a judge ruled two successors to song-swapping pioneer Napster cannot be held liable for individual users’ theft of music or movies.

Ted Turner, former owner of CNN, is being a sore loser and dumping on Murdoch of Fox for his better ratings.

Asked by an audience member for his thoughts on Fox’s larger ratings share than CNN’s, Turner said, “Just because your ratings are bigger doesn’t mean you’re better.”

“It’s not how big you are, it’s how good you are that really counts,” Turner said, drawing hoots from the audience.

Which leads me to ask: when the hell are we going to be able to get Fox news in Canada?  Why can’t it be added to a digital cable channel?  When is the CRTC going to realise DirectTV use in Canada is not about the money but about the lack of choice?

I want my Fox News!

Steyn explains how the lousy job done by our health care system made SARS an international problem.

Let’s leave it there. If this is what the President of Mount Sinai calls an “amazing job,” then we might as well head for the hills screaming “We’re all gonna die!” Toronto health authorities have done an amazing job that’s amazing only in its comprehensive lousiness. At every link in the chain, anything that could go wrong did go wrong.

A Texas congressman is pushing to get the get the U.S. out of the U.N.

A concerted effort is underway to push Congress to consider the complete withdrawal of the United States from the United Nations.

Someone in Canada should do the same.

Toronto is reeling from the UN dictate that tells the world not to come here. 

My feeling: you live by the sword, you die by the sword.  You want to worship at the foot of the UN god, hiding behind it when your US friend comes calling, then too bad when the UN comes and sh*ts all over you.

You can’t have it both ways.  You either abide by the bureaucratic authority of the UN or you look out for your own interests: something that real countries like the US do.

The day we are governed by the World government will be a very scary time.  Canada appears to cede power to the UN over and over again, to the detriment of its citizens.

Good morning, Canada!  How do you feel now?

The unelected, bureacratic, third world run UN has bitch slapped you! You know, that body that you conveniently hid behind when the US came calling for moral, if not military support a few weeks ago?

Well, it seems they don’t like how you’ve been handling your little SARS epidemic, so they’ve decided it’s time to quarantine Toronto!  Nevermind that your own doctors think the ban is insane – Mama UN knows best.

Oh, but you’ve decided to fight it! 

Canada’s health minister is demanding the World Health Organization lift its travel advisory for Toronto.

Good luck!  The UN won’t listen to a waffling country like you – maybe if you were the US they’d listen – because they actually put their money where their mouth is!

They have LEADERS – leaders that protect their citizens from the world – including useless bodies like the UN.

Oh, and don’t forget, Canada – the US is coming to help you with your little epidemic.  Remember what Ambassador Celucci said:

“There is no security threat to Canada that the United States would not be ready, willing and able to help with,” Cellucci said. “There would be no debate. There would be no hesitation. We would be there for Canada, part of our family.

Despite what you wouldn’t do to help the US.  Good luck Canada with your fight with Mama UN!

lgf: Oil for Food = Money for UN goes a long way explaining why the UN and France took the stance they did on the war.  Just follow the money for the answer!

Claudia Rosett has an op-ed in the New York Times about the appallingly corrupt United Nations “Oil for palace program: Oil, Food and a Whole Lot of Questions.