McGehee on the “Academy” Brokeback boycott;
Why can�t the gay community learn to be tolerant of people who are different from them?
David Warren feels a Blogue Spring. (He is also known for predicting a Liberal majority.)
On January 31, a bill was narrowly defeated in the UK;
[…] with just 283 votes against 282 � New Labour�s Racial and Religious Hatred Bill, intended to prohibit speech or artistic expressions deemed insulting by religious communities. This was a narrow yet historic victory for freedom of expression, as well as a victory for Parliament against a despotic-minded Government. Liberal-Democratic spokesman Evan Harris commented: �The Government just failed to understand that they can�t take liberties with freedom of expression.�
Sean McCormick on the difference between Islam and Christianity.
Ouch;
” It is difficult to turn a page of The Great War for Civilisation without encountering some basic error. Jesus was born in Bethlehem, not, as Fisk has it, in Jerusalem.”
83 year old handguns issued to our military. Par for the course.
Comments are open for others!
Sheila Copps! Uncommonly quiet.
Why?
Is revenge a dish best served cold?
TIZ
I’ll take 63 yr old Browning before a new Glock any day!
Diplomatic protest and boycotts against cartoons are fine. However taking hostages and threatening violence against innocent citizens of some European states is an unacceptable response. So is attempting to storm European diplomatic missions (as opposed to peaceful demonstration).
Indeed, this is the kind of response that simply confirms the impression in many Western minds that at least some Muslims have a very different standard of the appropriate response to offence.
That the actions of some Muslims should create an impression that may negatively affect views of Muslims in general is unfortunate and one expects those actions to be condemned by other Muslims.
The wider Muslim response to the cartoons suggests that Muslims are unwilling to accept the range of discourse that Western societies generally have decided to permit within themselves. These are societies that now permit what until recently would be considered sacreligious depictions of Christ, not to mention many other actions by the media and artistic community that cause pain to many Christians.
While Muslims have every right to be offended they do not have the right to impose their view of acceptable discourse on non-Islamic societies, except through debate and democratic political action.
Mark
Ottawa
Please, *PLEASE* Kate, can you PLEASE learn how to use a semicolon properly?
There is one solution to the cartoons problem…we don’t leave Denmark hanging in the wind.
In WW2 King Christian of Denmark left the palace (Denmark was occupied) on his daily ride wearing the Star of David, the symbol which jews had been ordered to display on their clothing.
Maybe it’s time for all newspapers and all nations to make themselves a common target of those who threaten the freedoms which support free societies.
We can be all Danes today, whatever our beliefs.
Well the Danes of old, are not the Danes of today.
They have returned to their Viking day ways.
Woe to them who would dare invade Hans Island!
Hans-Christian Georg Rupprecht BGS, PDP, CFP
Commander in Chief
Frankenstein Battalion
Knecht Rupprecht Division
Hans Corps
1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group �True North�
Donald Sensing has some good comments on the 9 mm handgun in general and why the 45 is superior.
http://www.donaldsensing.com/2003/12/nato-standard-pistol-is-worthless.html
http://www.donaldsensing.com/index.php/2006/02/02/another-reason-to-ditch-the-9mm-pistol/
Although I have no use for any religion, including my own, I think people should confine
their cartoons or derogatory remarks to their
religion only. If you don’t have any beliefs then keep your opinion to yourself.
Afstan update–Dutch guts: This has barely been reported in the Canadian media (though the Globe did have an approving editorial today):
“After Long Debate, Dutch Agree to Send Force to Afghanistan”, Washington Post, Jan. 3
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/02/AR2006020202543.html
Excerpts:
‘The Dutch parliament decided Thursday to send up to 1,700 troops to Afghanistan as part of a NATO-led reconstruction mission, after months of intense pressure from U.S. and NATO officials…
“It’s time for us to show some guts,” Hans van Baalen, a member of the free-market VVD, the country’s third-largest party, told the 150-member parliament. “Fighting terrorism is in the Netherlands’ interest and in the interest of Afghanistan…
The Dutch contingent to the reconstruction project in the south would include 1,100 to 1,400 troops dedicated to public works efforts, with the remaining personnel flying and maintaining Apache [attack] helicopters and F-16 fighter jets [kit Canada cannot supply to support our own troops] that would accompany the troops, according to Dutch military officials.’
The Dutch are supposed be part of a NATO ISAF Canadian-commanded brigade that will also include British troops and our battle group now arriving in Kandahar–when our force shifts this summer from command by US Operation Enduring Freedom to NATO ISAF.
http://www.army.dnd.ca/39CBG_HQ/content_e.htm
Mark
Ottawa
TIZ, Sheila Copps is never quiet! Did you see this yet??
http://Nextface.blogspot.com
Only a hardened Liberal would care to post a photo of Ignatiaffe glad-handing a constituent while a heavy set male relieves himself in the open nearby.
Interesting blogsite though and she brings us up to speed with these.
January 30, 2006
The race in cyberspace….
Just one week after Paul Martin announced he wouldn’t lead his party into the next election, the Liberal leadership race is very alive. How alive? Well, two high-profile contenders have already ruled themselves out while the Internet has exploded with speculation. Here is just a sampling of the Liberal-leadership blogs now up and running. Star notebook readers — please feel free to alert us if you come across more…
http://www.nextface.blogspot.com
http://www.martincauchon.blogspot.com
http://draftdion.blogspot.com
http://briantobinforpm.blogspot.com
http://www.liberalleadershipodds.com TG
Maybe the army is using the old handguns to avoid having to register them. After all, any weapon over 50 years old – doesn’t have to be registered with the firearms registry… and Flintlocks generally are hard to find.
; ; ; ; ; Satire, ridicule, cartoons, & etc. are the best weapons to bring down theocratic, universalist, triumphalist, monotheistic regimes/tyrannies, including Islamist Jihadees; Publish more cartoons, songs ; e.g.; Abdul Abulbul Amir. . ; ; ; ; ;;;;;;
Date Posted: 21:54:04 02/02/06 Thu
In reply to: Get it right ‘s message, “Not what he said” on 21:44:45 02/02/06 Thu
“The protests in the Middle East have proven that the cartoonist was right,” said Tarek Fatah, a director of the Muslim Canadian Congress.
there’s the quote..unfortunately there isn’t room to put it all in in the space provided for a title…now do be quiet and keep knitting those detonator covers for the taliban…maybe they’ll kill you last >>>
http://www.voy.com/178771/128949.html
Ballad of Ivan Petrofsky Skevar
Abdul Abulbul Amir is written “Abdullah Boul Boul Ameer” in this version. …
Of Abdulah Boul Boul Ameer. If you wanted a man to encourage the van, …
http://www.contemplator.com/ireland/ivan.html – 8k –
” David Warren feels a Blogue Spring. (He is also known for predicting a Liberal majority.)”
Gee David, I think Kate is teasing you.
Must have been a fun cruise!
83 year old handguns issued to our military are *not* par for the course. When my father and one of my uncles went off to war in 1939 the King gov’t had bought up all available handguns. My father and uncle were ordered to obtain sidearms, and money was given them for the purpose, and they were left to their own devices. Fortunately, one of my grandfathers was a physician, who numbered several dubious customers among his patients. He had a chat with one or two of them, explaining the difficulty, and emphasising that no questions would be asked, and the guns duly appeared.
*That* is par for the course!
Labour lost the bill 282 to 283 and Tony Blair failed to show up to vote.
What a shower. It is becoming clearer by the day that the political battle in Britain is between David Cameron (Conservative) and Gordon Brown (Labour), with Tony Blair pushed to the sidelines. The Liberal Democrats are meanwhile emploding with their leadership battle going awry with one candidate having been exposed as having an affair with a rent boy, despite being married with two children(where have we heard that one before ?) and having critised a judge found in the same position a year or two ago and anothor candidate who finally confessed he was gay (the worse kept secret in Westminster)despite having been elected in a by-election in 1982 on the back of a campaign with homophobic overtones against an openly gay Labour candidate.
And so it goes on………
A typo, Kate; the Brownings are actually around 60 years old, as they were produced during WWII, put into greased storage, and only withdrawn when required. There’s nothing really WRONG with the design (though mine likes to give me hammer bite) as long as they’re issued with proper training. In the military, if you’re reduced to using a pistol, you’re ALREADY in serious doo-doo. I wouldn’t feel poorly-equipped with any modern design (including the Hi-Power, Glock, or similar), and as long as you do your job accuracy-wise, the 9mm will do just fine. As a side-note, firearms have to have been produced prior to 1898 (as well as not being chambered in certain specified calibres/gauges) in order to be exempted from registration.
Barnum & Bailey: famous for suckering the customers; “See The Egress” the sign said; the egress was the exit door; to get back in, one had to pay again. The other sucker bait word is… Free ..
See the free ad here: Talk about footballs; the linesman’s incredulous posture is hilarious; the male streaker is … well, go…!
http://torontosun.canoe.ca/Promos/FreeClassifieds/
Now we know what the Liberals had in mind for all the handguns they were planning to confiscate.
The biggest problem the Brownings have,any service pistol really, is that although the pistols themselves are usually in pretty good shape, the magazines are getting worn. this can lead to reliability problems. Normally we would deploy with new magazines to avoid that problem.
Most other problems can usually be traced to user failure, whether from inadequate/improper cleaning or just not having enough experience with a handgun. Almost any pistol will jam if the user doesn’t hold onto it properly. It’s also not nearly as easy to hit a mansized target with a sidearm as the movies and TV make it appear.
Final point- If a suicide bomber is close enough for you to have to draw a pistol, it’s already too late. By the time you draw and chamber a round, the bomber will have hit the 72 virgins button.
thickslab: I got some spares that Kate can use…
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Pat M: “It’s also not nearly as easy to hit a mansized target with a sidearm as the movies and TV make it appear”
I recall an acqiaiuntance of mine practicing with CF issue WWII era Lee Enflieds, basically new in the grease. (Not very long ago.) Yes, it’s still in limited issue.
The ammo boxes being hauled to range were marked: “Not for use in synchronized machines guns after August 1945”
The ammo worked fine, btw, but I was amused to note that the CF’s were still using up WWII era ammo stockpiles.
There’s nothing wrong with the basic design of the Browning 9mm. John Moses Browning was one of the most talented firearms designers of all time ALL of his many designs had a great reputation. (Kalishnikov ( the designer of the AK-47 and several others) apparently considers Browning “the master”.)
If they are jamming an armourer should look them over.
That being said, there are newer and marginally better designs.
The film that is the last word on Gay Cowboy movies:
Brokeback to the Future
SCOC chief justice doesn’t want appointment process changed:
Beverly McLachlin says: The existing appointment process is working just fine and should not be politicized.
As though being appointed by a single office’s discretion (the PM’s) is not a political process. Of course Bev likes the way she got her job…being a liberal hack, she knows she wouldn’t have got the job had the Canadian people actually had any say in the matter.
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Law/2006/02/03/1424584-cp.html
The Inglis-Browning Hi-Powers were all produced during 1944 and 1945. 15 years ago there were approx 25,000 brand new ones still in CF stores.
Jamming is a symptom of defective magazines.
The only way that the gun has been “passed by” in modern pistol design is the ease of manipulating the safety in “modern” designs. By the way, the Browning Hi-Power is still in production (in several countries) with an improved safety.
9mm is as effective as any other military pistol round IF you hit the target & still better than many.
The CF has been starved of funding to properly train it’s members in the use of their tools…
Dave isn’t the internet the most wonderful thing for skewering the ruling intelligencia?
It’s so.. what can I say …Empowering!
Thanks for the laugh.
Jeancula? “Corrput”[sic]? A “crooked hairball”?
“Crouton”? “criminal legacy”. Tsk tsk.
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/archives/001749.html
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so we can hang him!
Date Posted: 10:21:40 02/03/06 Fri
In reply to: Liberals ‘s message, “Bring Back Chretchy?” on 09:43:07 02/03/06 Fri
Sure, let’s bring that criminal bastard back. Then we can hang that crooked hairball. He was the most corrput of all Canada’s leaders to date. Way to go crouton. Your criminal legacy lives on …
http://www.voy.com/178771/129102.html
Conservative WarRoom: (We are told you scan blogs.) Take note of this: STOP this crime against veterans. Do not offend your base supporters. STOP this crime.
There will be another election at any time. >> http://www.voy.com/178771/129104.html
Doug:
I happen to disagree, this is the definitive gay cowboy movie: “Bareback Mountain”
A summary: “An unflinching look at the love between a man and a horse, as poignant and shocking today as it was the day before yesterday”
http://www.ifilm.com/player/?ifilmId=2685131&pg=default&skin=default&refsite=default&mediaSize=default&context=product&launchVal=1&data=&realId=2685131&bw=300&mt=QT
NOTE – scroll down to the bottom, it’s one of the last films and there may be a commercial first. This one’s a winner for sure.
when i was overseas,i used my fathers Walther pp..this firearm was a back-up in the event that things went seriously wrong (and they could have,many many times..) the browning 9mm was old,but my section mg was a c2a1,made in 1950, my sections rifles were c1a1’s made in 1951,the squad heavy mg was a browning in 7.62,made in 1943,the bigger .50 cal was made in ’43..my sterling smg was made in 1957..you can see where i am going..even in basic small arms the CAF was woefully inadeaquate,even in the 80’s..
good lord all this new kit has only come doen the pipe in the last 10 years or so,maybe less..This is what we have reaped from years of gov’t neglect of the armed forces..
btw,when i was training in Germany,i fired a CAF issued pistol that had parts on it that were made in Nazi occupied belgium. They only had the swastikas ground off,but still had the wehrmact acceptance stamps on them. A case of waste not,want not?
Reader tip:
TDH has a take on why nobody seems to be throwing their hat in the ring for the “not-yet-official” liberal leadership.
You will need to scroll down to the Feb 1st entry
http://www.tdhstrategies.com/home.html
“….According to Elections Canada, the final annual filing by the Liberal Party of Canada in 2004 showed a debt of $34,818,257.32 by way of 13 bank loans. TDH Strategies also looked into recent fundraising efforts, and the published intake of the Liberal party shows that they reported only $4,194,591.49 for the first 3 quarters of 2005.
Now, assuming that the party racked up another $10 million in costs over the course of the campaign (and that’s being VERY cautious in our estimations), we have no idea how a figure of $4-5 million was calculated.
Could it be that these fudged numbers and the fundraising responsibilities that any new leader would be burdened with are the real reasons that Liberal leadership contenders are dropping like flies?…..”
I have a hunch that a certain MP from Newmarket is bidding her time till the party brass comes begging for a bailout.
Why campaign for a job when you can buy it.
Of course SB will be terribly upset if this happens.
A train wreck waiting to happen.