Canadian's Curling at Coulter's Conveyance

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It appears as though we have a big brother north of the border looking out for us, and all that is civil in the world. And NO, I am not talking about Santa Claus either, although the Canadian government does seem to live in a perpetual fantasy land of their dreams. Suddenly, they have become ‘holier than thou' concerning their version of free speech. As evidenced by this letter to Ann Coulter concerning her invitation to speak on the campus at the University of Ottawa:

Dear Ms. Coulter,

I understand that you have been invited by University of Ottawa Campus Conservatives to speak at the University of Ottawa this coming Tuesday. . . .
I would, however, like to inform you, or perhaps remind you, that our domestic laws, both provincial and federal, delineate freedom of expression (or "free speech") in a manner that is somewhat different than the approach taken in the United States. I therefore encourage you to educate yourself, if need be, as to what is acceptable in Canada and to do so before your planned visit here.
You will realize that Canadian law puts reasonable limits on the freedom of expression. For example, promoting hatred against any identifiable group would not only be considered inappropriate, but could in fact lead to criminal charges. Outside of the criminal realm, Canadian defamation laws also limit freedom of expression and may differ somewhat from those to which you are accustomed. I therefore ask you, while you are a guest on our campus, to weigh your words with respect and civility in mind. . . .
Hopefully, you will understand and agree that what may, at first glance, seem like unnecessary restrictions to freedom of expression do, in fact, lead not only to a more civilized discussion, but to a more meaningful, reasoned and intelligent one as well.
I hope you will enjoy your stay in our beautiful country, city and campus.

Sincerely,
Francois Houle,
Vice-President Academic and Provost, University of Ottawa

My, our neighbors to the north are suddenly puffing their chests just because we, here in the United States, now will have substandard health care just like they have had for years. Perhaps we have empowered them to make themselves feel like they are actually contributing to things, such as the security of our continent. Take for example their massive Navy. It consists of 2 destroyers, 1 frigate and 1 submarine.....I have personally seen all of them except the submarine go by in the waters around the Puget Sound. It's a good thing they are here to protect us from the North Koreans. Or is it protection from the local whale watch boats? It is hard to tell.

Concerning their threat to Ms. Coulter of possible criminal charges because, "Canadian defamation laws also limit freedom of expression and may differ somewhat from those to which you are accustomed. I therefore ask you, while you are a guest on our campus, to weigh your words with respect and civility in mind...; it is interesting how they "choose" what is hate and what is not. Any opposing view, from their own liberal slant, has to be restricted in their book. Once again, I have listened to Canadian radio for years. Especially during the Bush Administration years, and trust me, they don't enforce hatred being spewed out against conservatives. A Victoria, BC radio station dj has an editorial once a day that literally was a rant against anything conservative, primarily on things happening in the United States.

It is my opinion that Francois Houle, is the one that should be prosecuted for a hate crime for threatening Ms. Coulter with a statement that her speech ‘could in fact lead to criminal charges'.

Truly,


Michael Bertrand
Publisher & Co-founder
The Daily Pledge

Constitution Doesn't Change....Administrations Do

I remember back in the day. It was 1976. I was an Eagle Scout attending the Bicentennial Celebration of our dear nation in Washington DC. The day's activities began at the Capitol Building for a tour. When we arrived the line was long. As we stood in line a staff person came up to our leader and asked who we were and how many were in our group. After a brief conversation the staff person of the Capitol motioned to those at the entrance to let us proceed ahead of everyone else. Not only did he allow us in ahead of others, he told us that we didn't have to be escorted by staff people on a regular tour. He said as Boy Scouts you can go wherever you want on your own. I thought WOW....Did I just hear him right? I didn't hesitate. I was in DC to explore, and explore is what I did. I checked every door. If it wasn't locked I went in. I found more spiral stone staircases than I had ever imagined. For 3 hours I went everywhere. As an architect wannabe I was in my element within the confines of this timeless building.


I tell you that story to show you how things have changed. Today during the rally against the health care bill, the protesters were refused entry into congressional buildings. How sad is it that voters can't visit their elected representatives in the Nation's Capital and tell them what they think of a bill that is about to be voted on. Some of our worst fears are being seen now .......the PEOPLE are not allowed to speak. Doesn't sound like a democracy anymore does it. Dictator Obama has everything under a tight grip now in Washington. At least he thinks so.


Just today the Administration's Chief Actuary expressed concern about the new health care spending bill that is to be voted on within hours. They state ‘I regret that my staff and I will not be able to prepare our analysis within this very tight time frame, due to the complexity of the legislation.’ What? The Obama administration's chief actuary at the Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services notified Republican leaders Saturday that the "very tight time frame" and "complexity" of the Democrats' health spending bill would prevent them from fully analyzing the costs and efficacy of the bill before the House vote. So let me get this straight. Obama's own people have not and will not, analyze this health care bill before the vote. Yet he is backing it 100% as a move ahead for the people.
Republican leaders responded this way:
House Republican Leader John Boehner said: “The House of Representatives should not vote blindly on an issue that is so important to every American. We deserve to have all the facts about how much this bill raise health care costs before we vote. The decision to press ahead and jam this bill down the throats of the American people is just one more example of arrogance and irresponsibility from Washington Democrats.”
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell said: “Americans deserve to have a full analysis of this bill, but won’t because of the mad dash forced by the Democrat leaders in the House. We now know that even the Obama administration’s chief actuary predicts more government spending, more price increases for consumers and less care for low-income patients. This debate was supposed about lowering costs for Americans not making things worse.”
The whole process that is laid out in our basic civics class is being ignored. They are not only ignoring common sense they are ignoring the Constitution. The problem lies in the fact that they are so set on passing government run health care that they are ignoring and criminally violating the rules of law as spelled out in the Constitution. The Senate has passed its own health care bill. The House could pass that one and then send it on to the President for him to sign and make it law. But......Here's the problem. The House doesn't like the Senate version so they are attempting to "amend" their bill and pass the amendment without actually passing the Senate version. That is why they are calling it "deem and pass". The House is allowed to amend bills that are law only AFTER they are law. Not BEFORE.
From my experience in local government, procedure and process is almost as important as the law itself. If it won't hold up in court the law is worthless. That has been mine and everyone else's concern for any local ordinances. If I didn't follow proper, legal procedures at my job on the local government level, I would have lawyers all over me like Al Gore on a lumberjack. Ordinances and laws are a worthless piece of paper if they are not legal. Hopefully this socialist health care bill will be so deemed a worthless piece of paper after this criminal Congress gets through with it.

Global Warming “”IS” Man-Made

Many of you are sceptical about the crisis of global warming and climate change, as you should be. Especially with the latest reports of manipulated data that are coming out. A lot of us, including myself, have done our own analysis and research into this topic. The question is always whether or not MAN is responsible for the so-called crisis of global warming or not. Well, I am here to tell you that my latest research has changed my mind. I am a conservative who now believes that MAN is responsible for global warming…. But before you judge me too harshly, let me explain the origins of the environmental movement.


There has been a lot of discussion recently on the new global world order that seems to be manifesting itself right in front of our eyes. At which this website has been at the forefront of exposing. The changes we have seen in this country over the last year alone that have diminished our global standing have been astonishing. What we used to think would take years to accomplish is changing daily. The environmental movement is no different and it is all related to the coming global government. Through my research, the more I read about the beginning of this movement one group kept coming up over and over again. That group was the Club of Rome (CoR). They were founded in 1968, and they describe themselves as “a group of world citizens, sharing a common concern for the future of humanity.” Its membership consists of current and past high level world leaders, scientists, economists and government officials from around the world. You can check out their website http://www.clubofrome.org/eng/home/ for more information and their agenda.

So what does the new global world order have to do with the environmental movement? To find the answer one needs only to look at the writings of those that are pursuing this global agenda. In the 1991 publication “The First Global Revolution: A Report to the Club of Rome” by Alexander King and Bertrand Schneider, the common denominator that the world would need to rally around was identified in all clarity: “The common enemy of humanity is man. In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill. All these dangers are caused by human intervention, and it is only through changed attitudes and behaviour that they can be overcome. The real enemy then, is humanity itself.” Let that sink for awhile. The whole premise of “saving the environment” has been established, not to be good stewards to our planet, but instead to unite the people with a hyped up cause so that a select few can set up their idea of a utopian state. I won’t go into it now, but read the Club of Rome’s vision of 10 regions for the entire planet. It sounds very similar to the biblical prophecy of Daniel 7 with its 10 horns and 10 kings comprising a united 10 kingdom empire. To get a sense of the depth of this deception throughout the governments of the world, read some quotes from the Club of Rome and its supporters where they openly state their agenda and how the environmental “crisis” is being used to further their plan:

“We are on the verge of a global transformation.

All we need is the right major crisis…”

- David Rockefeller,

Club of Rome executive member

“No matter if the science of global warming is all phoney…

climate change provides the greatest opportunity to

bring about justice and equality in the world.”

- Christine Stewart,

former Canadian Minister of the Environment

"A keen and anxious awareness is evolving to suggest that

fundamental changes will have to take place in the world order

and its power structures, in the distribution of wealth and income.

Perhaps only a new and enlightened humanism

can permit mankind to negotiate this transition."

- Club of Rome,

Mankind at the Turning Point

“Democracy is not a panacea. It cannot organize everything and

it is unaware of its own limits. These facts must be faced squarely.

Sacrilegious though this may sound, democracy is no longer well

suited for the tasks ahead. The complexity and the technical nature

of many of today’s problems do not always allow elected

representatives to make competent decisions at the right time. “

- Club of Rome,

the First Global Revolution

The arrogance of humans who think that they can control this world either through political power or by changing the weather is quite sad. Those without a relationship with God are destined to failure in their futile attempts at playing god. In Job 38, God is having an interesting conversation with Job about who controls who in this world…..

2 "Who is this that darkens my counsel

with words without knowledge?

3 Brace yourself like a man;

I will question you,

and you shall answer me.

4 "Where were you when I laid the earth's foundation?

Tell me, if you understand.

5 Who marked off its dimensions? Surely you know!

Who stretched a measuring line across it?

6 On what were its footings set,

or who laid its cornerstone-

7 while the morning stars sang together

and all the angels [a] shouted for joy?

8 "Who shut up the sea behind doors

when it burst forth from the womb, ….

Verse 11 goes on and says it all…..”This far you may come and no further; here is where your proud waves halt?" Knowing that God is in control of all of this craziness around us is vital to our peace and hope that we have in our hearts.

So as the title of this article says, I do believe global warming and climate change ARE caused by man. However, it is not what most might think it is about as you can see. It is all about those that seek a global community in which a select few control and manipulate the people. The Copenhagen Conference on climate change, that is scheduled next week, is just the tip of the ice berg for this agenda. Those that are pushing this agenda are within every fiber of government, business and education. Just look at our own government. How many czars do we have now in the Obama administration? You know, those unchecked positions that have a free reign in socializing our country. Like I stated earlier, this has happened quickly. No one would have dreamed two years ago that our country would look like this. The good news is that none of this is happening without the knowledge of God. If we look to Him for our strength we have nothing to fear. “The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?” Psalm 27:1

“Men Are From Mars and Al Gore Is From Uranus”

Everyone has heard all of the rhetoric about this global warming that is supposedly happening. You know, all of us evil westerners with our SUV’s, are causing this planet to be destroyed because of our over indulgence and waste. People like Al Gore, the inventor of the internet, have given the liberal mind yet another reason to hate America and the West. But, did you also hear that global warming is also occurring on Mars and other planets. It seems that Mars, Jupiter, Neptune’s largest moon, and Pluto all have warmed at the same time as Earth has warmed. If global warming is man-made, where are the polluting factories and vehicles on Mars and the other planets? Just maybe, this is just a natural cycle of our universe that the Creator has set in place. After all, God’s act of creation is easy to find in the Bible. Genesis 1:1 says “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth”. If this is denied, all that one is left with is human arguments that will give you no real answers or comfort. Denial of this leads to a futile attempt at anything to prolong this life and to escape the inevitable promise of God, except the real truth.

When we look at this earth and the other planets that are experiencing this warming what is it that is the common element of all of them? Is it human and Martian activity that is causing the crisis? Not likely at least in the Martian environment. The only common element of both is the SUN. The sun has cycles just like everything in nature. Just like in 1645 and continuing through 1715, there were no observed sunspots. This is the period known as the Little Ice Age. This, at a time when human impacts on climate would have been hardly anything. This is one of the longest solar minimums recorded.

Sunspot activity has been shown to a have direct affect on temperatures and the amount of sunlight hitting the earth. There has been a recent downturn in sunspot activity since one of the most active ones ever over the last 70 years. In 2008 there were 266 days scattered throughout the year without sunspots, and in 2007 there were 163 days without sunspots. These are the #2 and #9 fewest sunspots years seen since 1911. So far this year there has been 243 spotless days. The typical solar minimum cycle (few sunspots) is normally 485 days before the swing to maximum. The current minimum is at 754 days. All of this shows us that the natural ebb and flow set in place by God is the cause of our weather.

It is interesting to note that the term ‘global warming’ is being replaced by the term ‘climate change’. As global warming is being more and more debunked, the new term seems more palatable to the masses. You do know what climate change is don’t you? It is called the WEATHER. The arrogance and audacity of certain people, led by Al Gore, to suggest that ‘changes in the weather’ are a crisis. Without exception, every place I have lived, the locals always have a saying that goes, ‘if you don’t like the weather just wait an hour. It will change”. Weather is, if nothing else, in a constant state of change. That is why we watch the weather on tv and that is why it is so hard to predict. It constantly changes.

Another thing you won’t hear much of on the news these days is that “global warming” halted about ten years ago, and surface temperatures have been falling for seven years. Remember, the very first Earth Day in the early 70’s had signs that said, “Stop Global Cooling”. My, we humans are a fickle bunch. Being tossed to and fro depending on the political whim of the day. But don’t take my word for it. Check it out yourself. There is a lot of information out there. An excellent resource is www.spaceweather,com for tracking sunspots and other space events. Concerning science and sensible public policies another resource is http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org