-- Judi McLeod, Founder, Owner and Editor of Canada Free Press, is an award-winning journalist with more than 30 years’ experience in the print and online media. A former Toronto Sun columnist, she also worked for the Kingston Whig Standard. Her work has appeared throughout the ‘Net, including on Rush Limbaugh and Fox News.
A&E kills the dreams of handicapped youngsters by pulling bounty hunter Dog off air
The current tempest in which Duane "Dog" Chapman is immersed captures him on tape using inappropriate--and yes, racist slurs. It is wrong to resort to that kind of language no matter the provocation, something Chapman admits. A&E moved with lightning speed to suspend, indefinitely, his reality TV show. But lost in this latest chapter is what Duane Chapman the man really is: generous to a fault and an inspiration to people who rarely find it elsewhere.- Sunday, November 4, 2007
In a world of too many politically correct inspired revisionists, the lines keep being rewritten. Everything that existed in the past is passe and long held traditions are being tossed into history's dustbin.
Cindy Sheehan and the Code Pink gang must be in raptures. G.I. Joe is on his way out in ever-creative Tinseltown.
The Botox-dependent Hollywood screen writers are now proposing a new live-action movie based on the G.I. toy line. A few martinis later and he's no longer G.I. Joe. The Hollywood version has taken out membership in an "international force based in Brussels", home of the all-glass and all-neutered European Union.
The Gipper must be rolling in his grave: The Jolly Roger-flagged Law of the Sea Treaty is sailing full speed ahead, courtesy of a media encouraged U.S. Senate panel.
Minus political rhetoric, the treaty gives the power-grabbing United Nations complete jurisdiction over God's Seven Seas--70 percent of Mother Earth's surface.
"The treaty also creates an International Seabed Authority with the power to levy a $250,000 tax (application fee) on anyone who wishes to explore the seabed. (Henry Lamb, WorldNetDaily, May 17, 2007). "It would also tax (royalties) everything that might be excavated from the seabed. It requires technology transfer from the nations that have technology to the nations that don't--under the supervision of the UN of course."
...It was four o'clock Saturday morning and Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury couldn't sleep.
It wasn't the patter of the incessant rain hitting the window panes of his hotel room in Washington, D.C., it was more his wanting the new day to start sooner.
Waiting until 6:30 a.m., he called Canada Free Press (CFP) from his ever present cellular.
It's the flicker of hope that comes from seeing a hungry child eating a bowl of soup that keeps Diana Sanchez going on her longest days. It's a never-give-up kind of hope that the soup kettle will be full enough to feed all of the children who find their way to Fundacion Mundial tomorrow, and as on many days as possible after that.
Fundacion Mundial is an all-volunteer, non-profit organization that got up and running with the help of hundreds of neighours in April of 2004. Too busy feeding hungry mouths on a daily basis, Sanchez is now counting on Canada Free Press' partners at the Bogota Free Planet to get the word out that it is only the kindness of people that can keep the organization going.
Rumours have been rife in the London Ontario area that a cougar was on the loose. People who fleetingly spotted the cougar were not always believed.
At one stage, rumors of cougars--not just a single one--were so rife that people started to give credence to the urban legend that the government had set the cougars loose to cut down on a burgeoning deer population.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper should send a map of Canada to Foreign Minister Fran-Walter Steinmeier of Germany--tout suite, as they say in La Belle Province.
Predicting a new Cold War, Steinmeier claims that climate change is a growing threat to world peace and has now led to "rival territorial claims in the Arctic."
The German foreign minister has weighed in with concern that a Russian flag was planted on the seabed at the North Pole in August, staking a claim to the area, which may be rich in energy resources.
No matter how icy the winds that will howl into your hometown come winter, there's a lasting warmth to be found in a new book called Shep: Loyalty Beyond All Bounds by Kevin Davis.
The Shep story was 65 years in coming and worth every second of waiting.
Sixty-five years ago in Ft. Benton, Montana a sheepdog named Shep died. But Shep who had wandered into the human heart was never to be forgotten, not even generations later.
In any kind of weather Shep went up to every passenger train that stopped in his hometown--for five and one-half years, where he waited patiently for his beloved master's return.
When Shep died in 1942, the story hit the A.P. It was picked up by the London Daily and the New York Times. At that time, it took on meaning for those who would grieve the departure of their loves ones (those who were bravely departing for WW2) and would wait while hoping and praying for the joyous day of their return.
The North American radical Islamist compounds exposed by The Day of Islam author Paul L. Williams and Northeast Intelligence Network director Doug Hagmann also exist in Britain.
In the United States, Muslims of the Americas Inc., a tax-exempt organization formed in 1980 by Pakistani cleric Sheikh Mubarak Ali Gilani, who refers to himself as "the sixth Sultan Ul Faqr", operates dozens of radical Islamic compounds, which flourish in out-of-the-way rural areas.
Fox News' Bill O'Reilly may have been taken for a ride by San Francisco's gay community.
San Francisco watchers have been abuzz since Sunday, Oct. 7 when Archbishop George Niederuer gave Communion to two members of the so-called "Sisters of Public Indulgence", homosexuals dressed in drag as Catholic nuns.
Former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan is back on a yet another mission to save the world. This chapter could be called "Citizen Annan Saves The World.
On Wednesday Annan will launch the Global Humanitarian Forum in Geneva.
"Its mission is to foster dialogue and partnerships that strengthen the international community's ability to address current and future humanitarian challenges," Annan wrote in a Special Toronto Globe and Mail Update today. "The forum will urge effective action to protect people who are most vulnerable and in need of help."
"In its first phase of existence, the forum will focus on the adverse humanitarian consequences of climate change. It will seek to provide an impartial and inclusive platform where decision-makers can break through the current barriers to adaptation and work together to search for solutions; where scientists and economists can meet with leaders of communities that are already trying to adapt to a changing climate; and where we can better harness the business community's ability to work for the common good."
When historians record 2007, it will likely go down as 'The Year of the Liar'.
Here at home, Ontarians returned to a second majority government, Premier Dalton McGuinty, who first came into power by promising no taxes, but who after election called a series of new taxes anything but the truth. Mind you, it didn't much help that Opposition Leader John Tory declared that taxpayers should fund Islamic, Hindu, Jewish and other faith-based schools just like public and Catholic ones.
There was no welcome mat waiting n Canada for CODEPINK, the shrill arm of the latter day antiwar contingent, when they arrived for a visit yesterday, and it was all the fault of President George W. Bush.
..."CODEPINK and Global Exchange cofounder Medea Benjamin and retired US Army Colonel and diplomat Ann Wright were denied entry into Canada today (Wednesday, October 3, dandelionsalad.wordpress).