I've had an avalanche of good stuff today.
More than 70 Muslim workers at France's main airport have been stripped of their security clearance for allegedly posing a risk to passengers. The staff at Charles de Gaulle airport, including baggage handlers, are said to have visited terrorist training camps in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
How Harper won the Press Gallery War - by the CBC's Ira Basin, (who stubbornly clings to the notion that we still have "higher esteem" for Canadian political journalists than "the people they cover".)
Canadian Muslims outraged over [fill in your blank]"
Conservatives believe they are the ones who understand how human nature works, and liberals are well-meaning but naïve and counterproductive.Whereas liberals believe they are the Good Guys and conservatives are the Forces of Darkness.
Heh.
Use the comments for your own.
“America Alone”
A few days ago, we received an email from a friend who teaches at Emory University. “As I am typing this,” she wrote, “I hear the Moslem call to prayer being played across the entire campus over a loudspeaker… .
Do you think I could arrange for the Angelus bells every day at noon?”
Anyone care to offer odds on that? Muslim students want everyone to know that it’s time to dust off the old prayer rug and tilt toward Mecca: no problem! Boom it out over the entire campus, Mohammed. It is amusing to speculate about what might happen should some Mary Grace Kelly work up the ginger to ask for kindred accommodation for Catholics: “Couldn’t possibly, my dear. Haven’t you heard about the separation of church and state, no school prayer, this is not a religious institution?” Et, we need hardly add, cetera. The likely disparity in the responses is sobering enough. But even if there were not the double standard, what does it tells us that Friday is a campus-wide Muslim call-to-prayers day at Emory?
We were asking ourselves that question when thumbing through Mark Steyn’s new book America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It (reviewed later in this issue by Victor Davis Hanson).
“Someday soon,” the jacket copy tells us, “you might wake up to the call to prayer from a muezzin. Europeans already are.”
And students at Emory, too.
Readers of The New Criterion will be familiar with the outline of Steyn’s argument. Much of it has appeared in our pages (see, for example, “It’s the Demography, Stupid,” from our January 2006 issue).
Powerful though Steyn’s individual articles on the subject have been, however, when they are gathered together in a continuous stream, they make for an absolutely spellbinding book.
It is also conspicuously depressing. ...-
3w.newcriterion.com/archives/25/11/notes-november/
I love the self-importance the Ottawa press gallery still clings to, despite the fact that they have been reduced to complete irrelevance:
"This fight is over, the press gallery's common front is in tatters, and the PM has emerged victorious....the only journalists who have not gotten to question the prime minister in recent months are the ones who are paid to live in Ottawa and cover him."
Despite making this astute observation, they conclude the article with:
"Despite its flaws, the Ottawa gallery still plays a useful watchdog role over our government. It is hard to see how diminishing it can be considered "helpful for democracy."
huh!
Mark Steyn is not the only author whose book is being ignored by Chapters. Paul Wells new book "Right Side Up" also appears to be having distribution problems.
http://205.150.151.172/paulwells/archives/week_2006_10_29-2006_11_04.asp#002761
My book is "now available in bookstores," if by "bookstores," you understand I mean "probably not the store you're looking in."
...
The Chapters cornerstone store on Rideau, on the other hand, seems genuinely not to have considered that a book about the Prime Minister of Canada might draw any interest, a block from where the Prime Minister of Canada works. Not a copy. Nary a one. But then, why should I expect better from a chain that has failed, completely, to update the cover art on their website, four weeks after my publisher asked them to?
This explains why my book launches — in Ottawa, Montreal, Calgary, Vancouver, Sarnia and London — will be staffed by independent booksellers, who will keep the profits, and my thanks, for showing slightly quicker wits than the Brezhnevian behemoth of Canadian bookselling.
That press release was hiliarious! Don't these clowns know that everybody gets the shaft from Rogers cable?
Maybe it's time for the rest of us to start whining relentlessly at every perceived slight. Yeah, that's the ticket, that's the way to win friends and influence people....be a major pain in the ass...
"Canadian Muslims outraged": If the "Canadian Christian community" were issuing similar press releases the Globe would have it all over the front page, with the clear implication that it was a Conservative plot.
One does (an atheist) despair at the biased "journalism" in this country.
Mark
Ottawa
What d'ya mean you can't find your book? It's right beside all those tomes by Chomsky that nobody buys.
Methinks that there is a wicked backlash looming for the Muslim nation..yes, some Euros are knuckling under, but there is (like here..) a silent majority who will one day strike out in violent fury .
Western civilization did not attain its power, and keep it, by being p*ssies...
"One Million Canadian Muslims make up the second biggest and fastest growing faith in Canada."
The liars are practicing taqqiya again. I know they breed like rats but there are currently less than 700,000 of them in Canada. Also, "fastest growing faith" is the usual propoganda they use everywhere. They have no evidence to back that statement up. And certainly if the government woke up and put an end to suicidal Muslim immigration, they wouldn't be claiming that at all.
Evangelical Christianity is actually the fastest growing faith in the world.
"It is injustice for you guys to take our money and promote hate towards Muslims." - 12 year old, Amina Farhat.
Geez, these 'moderate' muslim parents teach them young. Get them programmed while they're children, so they'll be ready and willing to self detonate later.
The New York Times blows apart the Iraq no WMD / ties to terrorism anti-war position.
Iraq one-year away from working nuclear weapon when invaded. Extensive weopans program.
More at Captain's Quarters
captainsquartersblog.com/mt/archives/008423.php
Michelle Malkin
michellemalkin.com/archives/006265.htm
Stop the ACLU
stoptheaclu.com/archives/2006/11/02/saddam-closer-to-bomb-than-anyone-thought/
Those with investments in Income Trusts had four years to make other arrangements, before the tax kicks in. The only reason they have lost money is they got into a panic and sold off. As Bush said, stay the course. Most of them probably lost the gains they made thru Scotts blackberry messages. As for feeling sorry for muslims and their supposed discrimination,if they really want us to stop discriminating, they should look to what they are supporting in the ME by their silence. As I expected the msm is feeling very sorry for those women terrorists who were killed today in defending the cowards in a mosque. At least they will not be able to produce more terrorists.
talibanjack must be in his glory today.
HOW LIBERALS TELL TIME - M. Ignatieff
"We can't have a market where major players announce their intentions one day, and government changes the rules of the game OVERNIGHT.''
On Tuesday, Ottawa announced it would impose a distribution tax on payouts by income trusts, taking effect NEXT YEAR for newly formed trusts while existing ones get a FOUR YEAR transition period.
Total professional move by the Conservatives on the Income Trust nonsense...the Liberals trying to gain traction on it is too funny.
The Canadian blogosphere has an unprecedented opportunity to bring public pressure to bear on authorities making daily arrests of on-line child pornography distributors.
We should be looking for daily arrests on possession of material.
Could SDA do poll on range of appropriate penalties for offenders as it is widely known current sentences are meaningless and these individuals reenter our communities to repeat offences. There's everything to change here toward adequately protecting innocent children. Let's focus. Only Babbling Brooks and Jack's Newswatch reported on recent horrendous live on-line sexual assault on four-year old girl who was actually daughter of perpetrator.
ok folks..let's do some basic math...one million muslims in canada....british polls show 40% support sharia law....if the number is anywhere close in canada, that means we could have 250,000 to 400,000 extremist muslims living in canada....and with over a billion a year(that they know of) being laundered and sent to the ME....scary stuff....can anyone say FRANCE?????
Say FRANCE. FRANCE.
Say STEPHANE DION. STEPHANE DION.
Dion, a Liberal wannabe leader/PM of Canada, is a dual citizen of FRANCE-Canada.
Is Dion aware of/on to the following?
FRANCE, a nation which carried out GENOCIDE, aka racial-murder of a race/people.
cnews:
Documents declassified for probe into French stance during Rwandan genocide
PARIS (AP) - France's defence minister will declassify more than 100 secret intelligence memos for
a probe into claims that French peacekeepers
were complicit in the 1994 genocide
of more than half a million Rwandans, a spokesman said Friday.
So the head of the anti muslim culture is the CEO of Rogers Communication.....Nadir Mohammed....
Love to sit in on that meeting.....Mr Mohammed will clealry be NOT MUSLIM ENOUGH to them and will likely be the WRONG KIND OF MUSLIM to these guys.
Nadir Mohammed is a smart, clever, peacful guy.
Watch how this one develops, CAIR is running down the wrong alley on this one.
I believe the actual number of the Muslims having their security clearance revoked was 72.
Yes, 72.
Wonder if they were virgins? LOL
Mcleans? Maclean's?
Old data? New data? Same difference: no problem. Manitobe dead last.
Phony baloney from Mac's mag.
...-
Using old data Mcleans[sic] gives U of M failing grade
By JOYANNE PURSAGA
The University of Manitoba got a failing grade in a contest it didn’t even sign up for.
In its latest issue, Maclean’s magazine ranked U of M dead last in its class for the fifth year in a row.
The U of M refused to give data for the magazine’s annual cross-Canada, post-secondary assessment. ...-
cnews
Fri 3 Nov 2006
Diversify, Diversify, Diversify
Posted by Canadian Capitalist under Investing
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It happens every single time some sector of the market crashes and burns: investors lose their shirt on the latest fad. It is especially sad when the losses occur late in life when it is very difficult to make up the depleted capital.
Take the current fiasco involving income trusts. One investor (aged 51 years) told The Globe and Mail that he lost 10% of his life savings. I am guessing that almost his entire portfolio was invested in trusts. Should he really have no exposure to bonds, the big banks, resource and energy stocks, US equities, international equities, emerging markets or even the money market?
The National Post profiled a retired, 69-year old, truck driver who estimates his losses at $100,000 should he sell his investments. From his visceral comments it seems to me that his entire portfolio was invested in income trusts.
The diversification mantra is probably too late to be of use to income trust investors but this episode is yet again a reminder for the rest of us to be properly diversified. It wouldn’t hurt to examine your portfolio for any excessive risks you might be taking. ...-
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We do hate people who like to inflate themselves with righteous outrage at every imagined slight don't we?
Didya hear 'bout Ma Bell, Pa? ...-
The Veil
The announcement about the income trust fiasco is supported in the backroom of BCE.
All you have to do is ask them about the $135 000 000 million dollar lawsuit against them by independant dealers earlier this year because BCE crushed the idea of converting dealer stores to income trusts.
With great surprise BCE then jumped on the bandwagon of income trusts even though they flatly turned down the idea several months before which opened this huge door to a massive lawsuit.
BCE is Canada's largest communications company. It has more than 27 million customer connections through the wireline, wireless, data, Internet access, and satellite television services it provides, largely under the Bell brand. BCE's media interests are held by Bell Globemedia, including the CTV national television network and The Globe and Mail national newspaper.
Now if you controlled the media, and you needed help taking care of a very large and damaging lawsuit. Who* would you turn too?
Conspiracy or not, something to think about. ...-
3w.voy.com/178771/42642.html
*Librano$. AdScam Liberal Jean Chretien is a good lawyer, with an excellent accountant/bookie (Alfonso Gagliano) on call, for a fee$. Liberal MP, Ex-PM PMartin, Jr., has deep pocket$: needed to fight the lawsuit$. ...-
Will G-G go to the Bloc? Quebecois, that is? ...-
Times Colonist | Editorial::Michaelle Jean, Harper on crash course
When Henry VIII caught his new wife, Jane Seymour, interfering in affairs of state, he reminded her what happened to her predecessor. Just a few months earlier, Anne Boleyn had gone to the block for some meddling of her own. ...- (national newswatch)
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Web inventor (Sir Tim Berners-Lee; not The Great BoarGore) fears for the future
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news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6108578.stm?ls
Ira Basen. Oh boy, where does one begin. He admits(he has no choice) that PM Harper won the PPG war. Easily, handily. But he just had to go on and on with petty Liberal style propaganda. Such as, PPG is irrelavent, .. but essential to Canadians. Which Canadians? CBC type hacks??
His article could be used as a supplement to an INDUCE VOMITING lable.
Why is the Media so Left ?? Simple. The Media has always sought control and power over citizens, of any country. They realized they would never pull the wool over the Right's eyes. No hope for them there. The Left however, is a different story. The Left is more easily coned into hoaxes and scams. Sells newspapers too. To name a few;
Socialism
Communism
Adsam
Kyoto
Crop circles
Oil for Food
Environmental activism
The sky is falling
Peak Oil
Global Cooling
Franken foods
Extreem political correctness
One World Government
The United Nations
Y2K
The Media has learned over the centuries which group of citizens can be duped.
the free flow of information can only benefit knowledge
...what else have we to go on?
Herein is the natural end result of socialism: Stalinism... Spiritual Death.... A Dead People Walking. ...-
Sampling of comments:
"OMG, there is almost nothing left of these people. I wonder if anyone realizes what a disaster this has become?"
"They will die out before they revolt. I think the population is psychologically damaged beyond repair. North Korea is 1984 for real."
It makes me want to cry.
"Pray for these people!"
N. Korea: Back-streets of Pyongyang...Young Generation is Dying
DailyNK ^ | 11/03/06 | Ynag Jung-a
Back-streets of Pyongyang...Young Generation is Dying
Note: A man in undercover assignment inside N. Korea filmed many scenes and events with his hidden video equipment while he was traveling from Sariwon, Hwang-hae Province to Pyongyang. The following is the photos taken from his video clip. It was filmed this summer right after N. Korea's missile launches. ...-
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Canada's centre of gravity: political, fiscal, monetary, has shifted west of the Saskatchewan border.
The proof: Toronto-Montreal-Ottawa-Halifax-Newfy are being hollowed out. Canadians are voting with their feet. ...-
Ontario left behind in jobs boom
Globe and Mail - 3 hours ago
The sucking sound of people leaving Central Canada for the plentiful and bountiful jobs in the West is about to get a lot louder, new jobs data for October suggest. ...-
Compare/contrast the opinions here from the MSM.
G-M stays with Old Europe, aka France, Germany, Italy, Belgium. Dinosaurs "surprised and annoyed", says G-M. LOL..
Citizen looks to Japan, the Pacific.
Go Stephen Harper! No truck/trade with the dinosaurs: They dying. ...-
Ottawa Citizen | Japan in tune with Tory push to revise Kyoto
The Harper government could find itself with a new ally on climate change next week when the world gathers in Nairobi, Kenya, to review the United Nations treaty on climate change and its Kyoto Protocol. ...-
Globe | PM calls off European summit
OTTAWA — Stephen Harper has surprised and annoyed European Union leaders by cancelling a planned Canada-EU summit, where he was going to be criticized for abandoning this country’s commitment to the Kyoto Protocol on global warming.
"The announcement about the income trust fiasco is supported in the backroom of BCE"
EnCana's trust plans triggered crackdown
...EnCana Corp. had secretly hired Canadian and U.S. investment bankers to help spin off a significant chunk of its business into the tax-friendly confines of an income trust, leaving only a portion as a conventional company, according to sources familiar with the deal. The massive trust conversion was to have been announced this week...
...EnCana's conversion plans hit a roadblock in Ottawa at the same time the company's respected and politically connected founding CEO Gwyn Morgan was praising the Tories for shutting down trusts...
globeandmail.com
You know about Quds Day? Iran*s day of celebration of Israel*s and America*s Nuke vaporization?
While the world was focusing on North Korea last week, Iran's mad scientists were hard at work preparing for the annual Quds Day celebrations.
Most of the Western press outlets that reported on the popular holiday simply downplayed it as just another "anti-Israel" day. However, this year's revelries focused both on calling for the annihilation of America and embracing Iran's nuclear program.
The celebrations included proclamations by the country's leaders and activities for university students and artists.
Isfahan University's Mechanical Energy College took first place in a Quds Day competition for its design of a pilotless plane that can be used for *suicide attacks.*
The director of the Iranian Broadcasting Organization of Music Production, Mohammad Mirzamani, composed a symphony dedicated to "the victory over the Zionist regime," and the country's religious Web logs were told to report on all the festivities.
http://www.nysun.com/article/42232
Those marvellous Mullahs, whipping up the folks to get happy over the Nuking of various nations.
Only in Iran you say? . . . Pity.
For a Conservative majority. = TG
"...pilotless plane that can be used for suicide attacks."
Ha. Not only are these people savages, they're brainless.