1 Thank you for the link to a brilliant thought. Perhaps I will be lucky enough to remember and use that phrase when I find myself cringing inwardly, and when I am lucky enough to catch myself on the verge of making an angel cringe.

2 Was Brison one of the dunderheads who decided to switch places with the Americans in a loud abrupt manner, instead of phasing in slowly? A gradual exchange would have prevented the Taliban bombings of schools the axe incident and the general show of Taliban force. Why not use stealth as they do? Seems our unorganized incompeteant government of Canada has sent our guys out to fight on quicksand. Be sure to catch the CBC TV News special tonight by Carole Off. They talked about it on the Current: Listen to part 2: http://tinyurl.com/rmpjb TG

3 O.T. but worthy? NewsMax Magazine uses the following thumbnail to lure you towards subscription. Interesting, none the less. Good reasons to scrap the UN and start the U.D.N. Wikipedia United Democratc Nations. ungrateful friends: Turkey receives $1.007 Billion a year from the U.S., not including military assistance. Number of times Turkey voted along with the U.S. on the 12 key issues: 0 Percent. Ethiopia receives $594 million. Number of times it voted along with the U.S.: 0 percent. Colombia receives $524 million, Egypt gets $460 million, Jordan pockets $224 million and Peru receives $229 million. Number of times these nations voted along with the U.S.: 0 percent. Even some of America's closest allies voted against U.S. interests. France, Germany, Italy, Japan and South Korea, for example, all sided with the U.S. on just 8 percent of the votes. The issues voted on included a resolution calling for the U.S. - which shoulders 22 percent of the total U.N. budget - to lift its embargo against communist Cuba, another seeking the immediate withdrawal of Israel from Palestinian territory, and a treaty that would ultimately call for the U.S. to dismantle its nuclear arsenal. NewsMax Magazine will chronicle the General Assembly votes each year, exposing the "most ungrateful" nations - countries that take Americans' tax dollars, then oppose the U.S. when voting on key issues. The blockbuster NewsMax report also features a look at "The U.N.'s Great Follies," including: * The U.N. voted to remove its forces from Rwanda in the early days of tribal conflicts there. Result: More than 900,000 Tutsis were slaughtered in April 1994. * The Iraqi people were defrauded of at least $1.8 billion in revenue from the oil-for-food program designed to alleviate civilian suffering resulting from sanctions against the Saddam Hussein regime. Alleged wrongdoers included the U.N. secretariat. * Sudan won re-election to the U.S. Commission on Human Rights in 2004 despite potentially genocidal atrocities in the Darfur region. * U.N. peacekeepers in the Congo allegedly used food and money to pay for sex with girls as young as 12. The eye-opening "United Nations Report Card" appears in the March issue of NewsMax Magazine. [Editor's Note: Get our special UN Report Card report with our cover story on Maria Shriver FREEE -- Go Here Now.] Seems like an effective subscription pitch. Not bad, not bad at all. TG

4 Embarrassing the angels? If you have high blood pressure, please have a double and get mellow before looking into this. Lawyers collected millions for AdScam probe: docs http://tinyurl.com/focwl By JIM BROWN Brown details some of the costs and makes me marvel at how the tax payer trough is still under heavy assault. *The basic rate of $250 per hour is a bargain and a 60 percent discount compared to private lawyer rates.* Lawyers complain of having to work from 6am, often for 12 hours or more. [At rates beginning at $250 per hour plus phone calls, plus letters, plus reports, plus transcriptions, plus plus plus, I would try to get at least 12 hours in daily too!] Check the link to see how they get towards [$70 million] dollars. Try not to throw things, but I heard the costs are in the $82 million area and still rising. TG http://Comox100.typepad.com

5 Maybe I am blogging for Debbye until she gets back.... Every once in a while you see a first person comment that all Canadians should be aware of. Ex RCMP Bruce wants us to know this.. Maz2: I was the RCMP officer responsible for establishing the Integrated Proceeds of Crime Units (the model for the IMET units) across the country in the early 90s. The federal DOJ was equally uncooperative, initially taking the funds allocated for staff lawyers but refusing to provide personnel. Even after providing some staff, all of the positions were generally never filled...usually we had 1 or perhaps 2 lawyers on staff when the budget called for 3. Overall my experience with federal DOJ lawyers, including those actually prosecuting cases, has been negative except for a few good lawyers who were exceptions to the DOJ rule. Most DOJ lawyers tend to be terrified to actually take a case to trial; they would usually prefer to make a deal with the defense for a guilty plea in exchange for a very lenient sentence. Our so-called justice system is a complete and utter mess. Example: On the last major case I handled before I took early retirement in disgust, I had to assign 14 of my investigators and 7 support staff to work for 18 months to satisfy the requirement to make full disclosure to the defense. This was AFTER the investigation was finished. Results: Of the roughly 140 persons arrested, the 40-odd persons charged in the US received lengthy prison sentences. Almost none of the Canadians convicted received prison time. Lesson learned: If you want to commit the perfect crime, do it in Canada. Most people don't realize that the overall crime rates in Canada are among the highest in the western world (nearly 30% higher than in the US); our police staffing levels, on a per capita basis, are extremely low relative to other countries; our rate of incarceration, per capita, is very low compared to most other countries. Posted by Bruce at March 19, 2006 02:12 PM And re-posted here by TG

6 Delightful! Get the excellent logo supporting our soldiers.. Just cut and paste a bit of copy into your links or make a main post of as I have on http://TonyGuitar.blogspot.com. Very easy to do: http://WWW.Cnheroes.blogspot.com/ WWW.CnHeroes.blogspot.com TG