From the monthly archives:

February 2009

Email Scam Alert – from a Doctor?

by Natasha on Saturday, February 28, 2009, 3:45 am

Nothing really new here, but I thought I’d share this one anyway. It claims to be from: DR FRANK WILLIAMS THE CHIEF AUDITOR (HSBC BANK LONDON,) 54 Jermyn Street London United Kingdom Tel:+44 70 31 82 06 73 Gmail automatically labelled it Spam and included that top banner that reads: “Warning: This message may not [...]

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This Is What It Means to Be Canadian

by Natasha on Friday, February 27, 2009, 10:42 am

RRRoll Up the Rim® Is Back Enter the online Daily Roll Up Contest.

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Bumper Sticker: “Honk If You’re Paying My Mortgage”

by Natasha on Thursday, February 26, 2009, 12:29 pm · 1 comment

For my American friends: The Tennessee Republican Party takes on the federal mortgage entitlement mentality. You can get your bumper sticker here for a small donation.

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Adscam Party Welcomes Back Banned-for-Life Members

by Natasha on Thursday, February 26, 2009, 12:01 pm

A lifetime ban won’t stop Iggy from bringing back some banned-for-life Adscam crooks Liberal members. How much longer before ol’ Chuck Guite himself pops up as a star candidate? Scenario: What if you hired a financial planner, and then discovered that person had stolen a lot of money from you. Would you continue to keep [...]

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Canada Revenue Agency meets the Rick Mercer Report

by Natasha on Thursday, February 26, 2009, 3:03 am

This video is from a couple of years ago, but it’s a favourite of mine. From the Rick Mercer Report on CBC: Canada Revenue Agency: “Taking your money old school“

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Sid Ryan VS Geert Wilders

by Natasha on Wednesday, February 25, 2009, 10:45 am

On the one hand… We have the head of the public sector’s union, CUPE, calling for a ban on Israeli academics and a boycott of Israeli universities… CUPE members vote to boycott Israeli universities CUPE calls for ban on Israeli professors Now, because I believe in free speech – unlike CUPE’s dictator – I think [...]

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Censorship Czar offers comic relief

by Tasha on Sunday, February 22, 2009, 2:22 pm · 2 comments

Self-appointed Censorship Czar and Liberal Party operative, Warren Kinsella (aka The Lying Jackal, Catmeat), gets mocked by…well, any blogger worth reading, actually. From Paikin’s blog at The Agenda: Warren told me that he planned to blog about our “outrageous decision” to “give Kathy Shaidle a platform, and for provincial tax dollars to indirectly fund same.” [...]

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Produce Government Propaganda and Win an All-Expense-Paid Trip to Ottawa

by Natasha on Friday, February 20, 2009, 10:22 pm · 2 comments

They would rather you make them a FREE marketing video than go out and hire a company that employs Canadians to do this job. Canada Revenue Agency Goes After The Underground Economy With New Video Contest Do you hire a babysitter? Have you ever paid a buddy with a case of beer for fixing the [...]

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A Good News Story – Dolphins Set Free

by Squirrel on Friday, February 20, 2009, 6:54 pm

Canadians free dolphins trapped by ice “In the end, it wasn’t experts or the government, it was us, the people, who made the decision to rescue them,” said May. “In Newfoundland, you don’t think about yourselves, you think about others and this time, we were just thinking that we couldn’t let these dolphins die.” The [...]

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Put That in Your Pipe and Smoke It

by Natasha on Friday, February 20, 2009, 8:13 am

Cow manure hid 1,700 pounds of Canadian pot About 1,700 pounds of potent “B.C. Bud” marijuana was stuffed in hidden compartments beneath cow manure and urine, said Thomas Schreiber, chief officer for U.S. Customs and Border Protection in Blaine. [...] A British Columbia man, 39, was arrested and turned over to agents with the U.S. [...]

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Email Scam Alert – Sympatico

by Natasha on Thursday, February 19, 2009, 4:16 pm

A very official-looking email (with company logo) was sent to a Sympatico user I know. Following are the contents of that email, exactly as written: TOP OF THE DAY TO YOU DEAR OWNER OF sympatico ACCOUNT WE ARE ABOUT TO Upgrade OUR SITE DUE TO SOME SETTINGS REASON YOU ARE TOLD TO FILL THE DETAILS [...]

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What’s Wrong With Hero Worship?

by Tasha on Wednesday, February 18, 2009, 7:26 pm

British philosopher Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) said this about the topic of hero worship: “Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.“ From China View: OTTAWA, Feb. 18 (Xinhua) — When U.S. President Barack Obama steps on the Canadian soil Thursday for his first foreign trip, he will be in for an excessively [...]

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From the “Don’t Bite the Hand that Feeds You” File

by Natasha on Wednesday, February 18, 2009, 4:15 am · 2 comments

Canadian Arab Federation to lose federal funding for calling Immigration Minister Kenney and others “professional whores.” One commenter here says: Not such a good idea to call federal ministers supporting the government’s position ‘professional whores’. “So much for free speech, eh.” Response: “…free speech is just fine – however funded speech is a whole other [...]

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Comrade to Comrade

by Natasha on Tuesday, February 17, 2009, 12:15 pm

The ObaMarxist to speak to the Communist Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) ahead of Canada trip. Seems appropriate.

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Chump Change for the O-bots

by Natasha on Tuesday, February 17, 2009, 12:05 pm

From Celestial Junk: Scam artists got it right … if you can sell them Hope and Change … you can sell them just about anything: “Some people might try to say in some ways that this is not more than “capitalizing” on an historic event but I think this is really “capturing” an historic event.” [...]

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Larry, Moe, and Curly want Omar Khadr, terrorist and Canadian citizen when it’s convenient, brought “home.” The media lap all this up and also want this “poor boy” brought “home.” That’s why they keep showing pictures of Khadr as a child and not as he appears today – the 22-year-old terrorist who fought against REAL [...]

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Border Patrol Goes Star Wars?

by Squirrel on Sunday, February 15, 2009, 10:30 pm

Unmanned drones set to start patrolling Canadian border in North Dakota The Predator drone can detect a moving person from 10 kilometres away. Information gathered by the drones will be transmitted back to operators, who will contact border agents. Will the drones look something like this?

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Email Scam Alert – LaSalle, Ontario

by Natasha on Saturday, February 14, 2009, 10:06 am · 2 comments

From LaSalle, Ontario: LaSalle Police Caution Users of Latest E-mail Scam Questionable email from Revenue Canada? The e-mail contains a particular form that requires name, date of birth and social insurance number. All these details can be used by hackers involved in ID theft or other kinds of fake misrepresentation for committing malicious activities. As [...]

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Arrest Warrant Issued for the Vicious Crime of Feeding a Squirrel

by Squirrel on Saturday, February 14, 2009, 3:30 am

Man faces $455 fine for feeding squirrel A man is facing a $455 fine and an arrest warrant for feeding a squirrel in Westmount Park. Bruce Kert found some peanuts on the ground in the park in September 2006. He tossed a few to a nearby squirrel, and was given a ticket by Westmount Public [...]

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