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“So what is the big problem with the photo? No, it’s not Photoshopped. No, that really is Khatami. But it’s not what you think“.
Calmly

… the Sheik watched as the Marines detained the two young men in the house, volunteering that if they were “bad guys” he was happy to see them go. “You and I are going to find a way to work together to make this area better,” he told Lt Friel, “like Ramadi.” The Sheik added that it was “Iranians and foreigners” who were destabilizing his tribal area. “Iranians are forcing out the doctors and teachers. Soon this town will look like Afghanistan.”

Bill Roggio – progress in the hunt for al-Masri.
“Stephane Dion’s Green Scarf politics may turn out to be the most boneheaded strategy since Paul Martin decided to go on his Adscam apology tour.”
Read this. Then ask yourself how it would have been written, had this RCMP officer been a man.
Add yours in the comments.

57 Replies to “Reader Tips”

  1. The TorStar yesterday had an article discussing the possibility of income-splitting still being on the table for the upcoming budget.
    It seems to editorialize against the move, noting that “a single-income family with a $100,000 earner would save $4,320 this year”, while “a family with one $75,000 earner and a $25,000 earner would save $1,000”. What I drew attention to in my post here is that they don’t mention that this effectively means that the $100,000, single-earner family is currently paying more than $3300 more per year in taxes than the family with two workers. Go figure.

  3. *
    Looking for any way to try to undermine the Stephen Harper government…
    Stephane Dion is teaming up with Taliban Jack to try make cheap political points.
    That’s how desperate Steffi is… he’s playing with the safety and security of
    Canadian citizens    .
    Let’s see what he says when the first bomb goes off.
    *

  4. Just to show you that I do read both sides of the issue, though I’m sure many of you can guess which side of the debate I fall on, here is a link to a new study that is sure to be causing a firestorm.
    Summary:
    “Man-made climate change may be happening at a far slower rate than has been claimed, according to controversial new research.
    Scientists say that cosmic rays from outer space play a far greater role in changing the Earth’s climate than global warming experts previously thought.
    In a book, to be published this week, they claim that fluctuations in the number of cosmic rays hitting the atmosphere directly alter the amount of cloud covering the planet.
    How cosmic rays could seed clouds diagram
    High levels of cloud cover blankets the Earth and reflects radiated heat from the Sun back out into space, causing the planet to cool.”
    Learn more at the following link, though perhaps Kate will find it interesting enough to link to directly.
    blahblahblah.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/02/11/warm11.xml

  7. Re the RCMP. It would be exactly the same,except women’s groups would be praising the fair and equitable judgement of our unbiased “justice” system.
    cal2…ROTFLMAO

  8. I confess !!! increases in GHG are all my fault !!!
    in my latter middle age the flatulence has topped at least a dozen a day !!!
    BRUMMPPPP!!!!
    but I likes beans and brown rice on saturdays too much to give it up !!!
    does this mean I gets to trade CO2 points as well ???
    LOL !!!
    jeezuz that dion is an unbelievable 7th degree black belt twit.

  9. Re: The Mountie
    Did I read that report correctly? The looney cop is still working and may even be allowed to carry a firearm at work after the dust settles?
    Can you even imagine what would have happened to a civilian who pulled a stunt like that? Just for openers, no legal access to firearms – possibly forever, but Madame Goofball may be allowed to carry a 9mm to intimadate hapless citizens. The world has gone mad.

  10. The male would be in jail and into some kind of councelling and he would not be allowed to have access to his child.
    Do the libs really think by voting against their own legislation they will gain points. Is there some mole or counter spy in the lib war room trying to make sure dion leads them to a greater defeat than Kim got. When the possibility of perjury charges come up against those that tesified at both gomery and the parlimentary inquiry giving different stories at both places it could also give him some trouble. And, we know who those witness were.

  11. Summary:
    “Man-made climate change may be happening at a far slower rate than has been claimed, according to controversial new research.
    Scientists say that cosmic rays from outer space play a far greater role in changing the Earth’s climate than global warming experts previously thought.”
    got dem ol cosmic blues mama !!!! LOL !!!
    (a salute to Ms Janis Joplin)
    looks like I switched sides just in time on the global warming/cosmic cooling etc issue.
    ya gotta remember, the outer reaches, the whispy remnants of air at the 25 mile altitude, things get real cold. and the vacuum of space osscilates around the -100 in the shade level.
    cripes dion is a MAJOR goofball.

  14. “Multiculturalism” as an “egalitarian” guise to rid Canada of orthodox religion, mainly Roman Catholic Christianity, has just had the mask ripped off in an article entitled “Living Better Multiculturally: Whose values should prevail?”
    http://www.reviewcanada.ca/backissues/sept2006.html#ESSAY
    http://www.magazine.utoronto.ca/07winter/stein.asp
    Author Janice Gross Stein, Professor of political science at the University of Toronto and director of the U. of T.’s Munk Centre for International Affairs, published this anti-faith screed in the September 2006 edition of the Literary Review of Canada, in which she equates “Canadian values” with “Charter values.”
    She writes about a “resurgence of orthodoxy in Christianity, Islam and Judaism,” and alleges that they are a threat to the peaceful coexistence of various cultures in Canada’s urban centres, and are “sharpening lines of division between ‘them’ and ‘us’.” She’s obviously blind to articles like hers having a similar effect.
    “Where we are reluctant to go is the conflict between the universal human rights that we treasure [who says?] and different religious and cultural traditions. One obvious fault line – one that we tiptoe around – is the rights of women in different religious and cultural traditions in our midst.”
    She argues with passion that women are being discriminated against, mostly by the RC Church (though Islam and Judaism are not exempt from her ire), because only men can be ordained. “Does it matter that the Catholic Church, which has special entitlements given to it by the state and benefits from its charitable tax status, refuses to ordain women as priests? How can we in Canada, in the name of religious freedom, continue furtively and silently to sanction discriminatory practices?”
    Ted Byfield answers her multiculti-messianic rant here:
    http://calgarysun.canoe.ca/NewsStand/News/Columnists/Byfield_Ted/2007/02/11/3587075-sun.html

  16. Recycling is one more scam/fraud perpetrated by the enviro-wackos. LGF has the video. …-
    Recycling: Nothing More Than Feelings
    Penn and Teller take a look at America’s favorite pastime: the separation of garbage into its component elements for no discernible benefit. (It’s Penn and Teller, so do I need to mention there’s a language warning?)
    http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/

  18. this from blackrod:
    “The CBC’s Larry Zolf wrote that “Harper’s treatment of the media is that of an ingrate.” The media made Harper said Zolf. They also made Pierre Trudeau and Brian Mulroney and eventually made their parties suffer at the polls. “A similar fate awaits Harper” (CBC News Viewpoint March 28, 2006)”
    uhuh.
    what mr zolf forgets is WE’VE GOT THE BLOGOSPHERE NOW, and dont need to be spoon fed by the MSM.

  20. When J. Stein writes that the teachings of the prophet of islam must be changed to meet the multicultural climate maybe I will sort of listen to her. I personally prefer no women priests to leaders that think beheading is the way to go.
    I await with anticipation for her one on one over this issue with the Pope.

  21. Adler: “In the end, Stephane Dion’s Green Scarf politics may turn out to be the most boneheaded strategy since Paul Martin decided to go on his Adscam apology tour”
    😉
    Yup..guar-an-damn-tee it. I was laughing to tears watching CPAC politics and the talking Librano heads announcing they would bring the government down in a non-confidence over Kyoto targets…the very targets defaulted by Dion…too funny!
    If this is the crippled pony the adscam party wants to ride in an election, I can see Harper in a majority.
    But the myopic Lib spinners feel THEY have defined the election issue…and if they feel comfortable with that I’m happy as well 😉

  22. I got myself a new puppy. He shits on the floor and then runs around in it chasing his tail. I named him stephane.

  24. Thanks for that, batb (8:33 a.m. post).
    The sheer hypocrisy of smug academics like Janice Stein, who fail to acknowledge the huge moral and material contributions of orthodox Christianity and Christians to the common good in their communities infuriates me. From the goodwill offerings (in addition to excessive taxation) of the faithful, most churches do significant social outreach. (The data also show that those who regularly attend religious services give far more of both money and volunteer time to their communities than those who don’t, or rarely, attend religious services. This is a FACT, which should give people like Janice Stein pause.)
    But, arguably, the most important function of orthodox Christian churches is to show a better way to live than the “Me-Me-Me with More-More-More” lifestyle dangled in front of us on all sides in this most materialistic—superstitious too—of ages. Unlike most other present day institutions, orthodox Christian churches emphasize altruism: acknowledging the smallness of mankind, our debt to our Creator—THAT tends to put things in perspective—and then putting the good of others first. Christians don’t always live up to this high calling. But it’s there and it’s often compelling.
    I just watched A Man for All Seasons again this week. To see the courageous triumph of truth, in the person of one honest man, over the raw and arbitrary power of the state is a joy to behold. What Janice Stein proposes is akin to Henry VIII’s vicious use of his power to get his own way. (And, as portrayed by Robert Shaw in this fine movie, what an adult toddler he was!) Of course, the destruction of the Roman Catholic Church was high priority for him, as it stood between him and his temporal, self-referential, selfish aims. It seems that disabling the Roman Catholic Church—that bastion, thank God, in my opinion! of Christian orthodoxy—is a priority of Ms Stein, as well and those who would support her suggestion that the power of the state should be used to bribe the Church to change its 2000 year old beliefs.
    The mainline Protestant churches in this country—the ones Janice Stein approves of—have already taken the bribe: they’re quite firmly pro-abortion (whatever happened to “these, the least of my brothers”?), pro same-sex marriage (whatever happened to “He created them male and female”?) and pro-female priests/ministers. (Astonishingly, these churches dispense with the old and arrive at new theology by vote. In the denomination to which I used to belong, only people on the left of the political spectrum ever made it to Synod to vote.) And, where has that got these “progressive” churches? They’re all dying.
    (Re the feminization of the clergy: there are a few exceptions, but, on the whole, I found that they weakened the church I used to belong to. Most of the women clergy I was acquainted with dabbled: they were often middle aged empty-nesters, married, with successful husbands, or divorcees. What most also shared was a fuzzy, soft-headed feminism: they seemed to be blown about by every whim of secular fancy. The church became a therapeutic community, almost completely given over to left-wing political causes. Inclusivity? Not on your life—unless one marched lock-step to the left-wing beat. I left.)
    The Roman Catholic Church—there’s true, grassroots, not socially engineered multiculturalism!—and other orthodox faith communities are value for money. If government agencies had to do the outreach the Church does, it would cost the taxpayer far more than the tax benefits the Church receives at present. These value-for-money benefits are a bargain for the Canadian taxpayer. As well, the sense of community and purpose that the church provides to millions is a huge benefit to both spiritual and mental health: if the Roman Catholic and other orthodox communities are either seriously disabled or put out of business, there will be a profound negative impact on the whole of society. (If Janice Stein’s so smart, why can’t she figure out such a simple equation?)
    Anyone who’s seen Fountains Abbey (it’s the ruin the History Boys visit) or any of the other religious institutions destroyed by Henry VIII, in his fury to get his own way, might, with some imagination, be able to fathom the horrendous fallout if orthodox churches are disabled—for disabled they will surely be if Janice Stein and her ilk are successful with their plans for a secular utopia: without benefit of tax breaks, the churches’ expenses will skyrocket, while their revenues—no longer included in the charitable givings category—will nosedive. Janice Stein’s plans for the orthodox churches shows both a profound misunderstanding of and antipathy towards these valuable institutions.
    It seems that the last bigotry allowed in this country is aimed at the orthodox Christian churches. If disabling them wouldn’t also include the same treatment of the regressive and repressive Muslim institutions in this country, which have a nasty habit of fighting back much more vigorously than Christian churches, the lock-step march of official Canada would have already overtaken and subdued orthodox churches. (In the public square, official Canada has already largely muzzled orthodox Christians and their institutions by the use of the non elected, taxpayer-funded jackboots of Human Rights [sic] Commissions and the Charter-driven courts: there has been no consensus among the electorate.)
    Orthodox Christianity and those who subscribe to it would be the first to admit to being less than perfect. However, on the balance sheet of history, the credit side far outweighs the debit side. (Stop the howling, all you nay-sayers: we haven’t had a Crusade or Inquisition for centuries! And think of all those hospitals, schools, universities, disaster relief efforts, food banks, orphanages, hostels for the homeless, homes for the dying, etc., etc., etc. provided by Christians—pretty orthodox, all of them, until fairly recently—to all kinds of people, no matter what religion. Is there another religious faith that provides such generous outreach around the world?)
    At the end of A Man for All Seasons, when Thomas More is finally brought to trial, a trial rigged by the state through the false testimony of a sycophantic functionary, More says:
    “I will now discharge my mind concerning the indictment and the King’s title. The indictment is grounded in an act of parliament which is directly repugnant to the law of God and His Holy Church. The supreme government of which no temperable [?] person may by any law presume to take upon him.
    “This was granted by the mouth of our Saviour, Christ Himself to St. Peter and the bishops of Rome whilst He lived and was personally present here on earth.
    “It is therefore insufficient in law to charge any Christian to obey it.
    “And more than this, the immunity of the Church is promised both in Magna Carta and in the King’s own coronation oath. [And in Canada’s Charter!]
    [Janice Stein and her Ilk, 2007]: “Now, we plainly see you are malicious!
    “Not so. I am the King’s [Queen’s] true subject and I pray for him [her] and all the realm.
    “I do none harm. I say none harm. I think none harm.
    “And if this be not enough to keep a man alive, then in good faith, I long not to live.”
    In the once-upon-time orthodox denomination to which I used to belong, after Communion, the faithful pray, “And although we are unworthy, yet we beseech thee to accept this our bounden duty and service, not weighing our merits, but pardoning our offences.” That’s orthodox Christian grace and mercy I’ll stake my life on.
    Believe me, concerning Janice Stein’s false testimony against orthodox Christianity, the tender mercies of the secular state that she advocates contain no such grace or compassion. If we go there, where the raw and arbitrary power of the state has supremacy, we—all of us—are, as Thomas More expressed it “dead men”.
    Kyrie eleison.

  26. “Najat Boughaba says she’s in Herouxville to dispel myths about Muslims.”
    HEROUXVILLE, Que. (CP) – A delegation of Muslim women is visiting a Quebec town that passed a controversial code aimed at immigrants.
    The women were clad in traditional Muslim headscarves as they met with about 50 residents of Herouxville, where the town council passed the list of societal norms that would-be immigrants would have to adhere to.
    Among the norms, a man cannot stone a woman to death and faces are not to be covered except at Halloween. Herouxville also says childen shouldn’t carry weapons, including Sikh kirpans, to school.
    Najat Boughaba says she’s in Herouxville to dispel myths about Muslims. …-
    cnews …-
    Boughaba will not mention this:
    Jihad Watch & Dr. Daniel Pipes : New Jersey family murdered by Muslims who pretended to be Christian converts
    January 22, 2005
    MIM: Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch published inside information on his website which shows that the murder of the Armanious family was perpetrated by people they knew, namely Muslims who had pretended to have been converted to Christianity by them, and had come back to exact revenge according to Shari’a law . For more go to the Jihad Watch website:http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/004740.php

  27. Well said, lookout.
    Canadians would be well to look out for the kind of attacks being made by Janice Stein and her ilk (they’re legion) and to look to what constitutes genuine freedom in a democratic society. What definitely does NOT constitute genuine freedom is attacks on religious freedoms and freedom of worship and expression of religious institutions.
    I haven’t noticed any socialist groups doing the volume of charity and emergency relief work carried out by Christian groups, as lookout points out, on a global scale. And where socialist groups are at work, follow the money and you’ll usually find a government grant or three propping them up. Christians give of their OWN time, treasure, and talent. That’s a fact which I’d like to see Janice Stein deny.
    Let her go after orthodox Jews and Muslims if she’s going to go after orthodox Christians: See what kind of reaction she’ll get from them. She’ll be accused of bigotry. She’s counting on Christians turning the other cheek and on the anti-Christian MSM to prop her up.
    What Janice Stein is proposing is anti-Christian bigotry, pure and simple. So much for her “treasured” multicultural beliefs and values: only for some.
    Isn’t that called “exclusion,” Jancice?

  28. John McCallum just told a blatant lie on giggles. Just like the phony so called tax reduction of the libs last year, from 16% to 15%, they failed to mention that this deductions also included a tax increase of the same amount, by reducing the amount for non refundable tax credits from 16% to 15%. This year the lowest rate is 15.25% and the same rate for the NRTC. McCallum just told giggles that Harper had raised the rate to 15.50%. Not a huge difference, but enought to give cdns the wrong idea. Giggles let that go, so that says she has not looked at the T1 General for 2006, or Sch. 1. Watch for this to be repeated. Who remembers Peter with some do it yourself tax person, complaining that his forms said 16% instead of 15%, and he didn’t know what to do. Idiot, all he had to do was cross out 16% and replace it with 15% and increase the personal exemption to the new amount. Simple, cheap and a non issue. What happened, this forced Rev Can to mail out corrections to all those receiving forms in the mail, and to insert them in all forms for distribution at Post Offices etc. Cost for this repring and mailing was over 1 million dollars.
    And Peter thought this was a national story. Wonder where that taxpreparer is now. Hiding in shame I hope.

  30. “I’m — pathetically — a person that loves to help people,” she said with a smile.
    Photo courtesy of the Fresno Sheriffs Dept.
    The mysterious saga of Sister Khadijah ( and her connections to funding int’l terrorism)
    Khadijah Ghafur sat silently in hijab and correctional jumpsuit, facing a judge, a lengthy prison term and the complete collapse of her elaborate plans.
    With a boundless determination that opened eyes and pockets, Sister Khadijah had built a chain of state-funded charter schools that stretched from Sunnyvale to Southern California. Now they were closed, and the self-styled civil rights activist from Selma, Ala., was convicted of stealing tens of thousands of dollars of public money meant for kids.
    Superior Court Judge R.L. Putnam got right to the point. He sentenced her to 14 years. But even after Ghafur’s monthlong trial, one mystery was never fully explained:
    Where did the money go?
    The answer could lie in evidence never introduced in court. The Mercury News has learned of several overseas fund transfers, a mysterious letter and a web of connections between Ghafur and an obscure Pakistani cleric known as Sheikh Syed Mubarik Ali Gilani.
    Supporters say Gilani is a charitable teacher and spiritual leader who promotes self-improvement. But over the years, state and federal authorities have described him as the head of an international terrorist group who draws financial support from followers in the United States.
    “I’m — pathetically — a person that loves to help people,” she said with a smile.
    Moments later, Ghafur seemed to find bitter irony in the prospect of a long prison term.
    “I was a Girl Scout. I was a good, all-American girl,” she said, half laughing. Then, she grew serious and paced back and forth across the jailhouse floor. “Now, this is my fate.”…-
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1783041/posts

  31. Reagarding Herouxville, I just saw a report where both the CBC and the Islamists at the Canadian Islamic Congress are trying to bully the town’s residents.
    The English version of their standards can be found at the town’s web site (http://municipalite.herouxville.qc.ca/ then click on Avis Public).
    I sent the council of Herouxville an email of support.

  32. Commenter said:
    “Nobody should seriously believe these universities are traditional Catholic institutions; on the contrary, they regularly flout and ignore the Vatican’s rules and guidelines.”
    Scandal at 23 Catholic Colleges
    TFP Student Action
    “Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to sin, it would be better for him to have a great millstone hung around his neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea” (Matt 18:6.)
    Scandalizing students nationwide, 23 Catholic colleges and universities intend to allow performances of the lewd “V***** Monologues” play, a piece replete with sexual encounters, lust, and graphic descriptions of lesbian behavior. (Asterisks added for decency’s sake)
    After being forced to see the play as part of a class, Christopher, a student from Massachusetts wrote: “…it was a horrible exhibit of vice, lust, and infidelity. Everything about the play – the content, the performers, the atmosphere – was decidedly opposed to just about everything the Church teaches. The painful memories of lust and blasphemy still echo in the outer fringes of my mind.”
    Nevertheless, prominent Catholic universities are listed to host the play during the next few weeks, including the University of Notre Dame, Georgetown University, Fordham University, DePaul University and others.
    It is difficult to fathom how any Catholic institution of higher learning would stoop so low and give open forum to a feminist play, which explicitly condones mortal sin, and promotes the corrosive agenda of the sexual revolution on campus. …-
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1783036/posts

  33. *
    I, for one, am pleased to hear that these Muslim women have stepped up in Herouxville
    and are willing to answer questions about their faith.
    I’m even willing to ask the first question…
    If you found out your daughter was in love with a non-Muslim man, would you…
    *

  34. Steyn is a climate holocaust denier. Tsk, tsk.
    …-
    Steyn: Don’t ruin economy over tiny temp rise
    Our Thought For The Week comes from the Boston Globe’s Ellen Goodman: “I would like to say we’re at a point where global warming is impossible to deny. Let’s just say that global warming deniers are now on a par with Holocaust deniers, though one denies the past and the other denies the present and future.”
    That would be yours truly: the climate holocaust denier. I wrote last week about “global warming,” or “cooling,” or “climate change,” or (the latest term) “climate disruption” — for those parts of the world where the climate isn’t really changing but you get an occasional blip: a warm day in winter or a flurry of snow in late April, or (for British readers) a summer’s day where it rockets up to 58 and cloudy instead of being 54 and drizzling. As a result of my climate holocaust denial, I received a ton of letters along the lines of this one: …-
    link from: http://www.jacksnewswatch.info/

  35. Bought, torqued headlines amount to political advertising
    OTTAWA (CP) – Political parties or candidates are breaking the law if they buy provocative headlines on Internet news sites during election campaigns without declaring the expense and notifying the viewing public, says Elections Canada.
    But practically speaking, Canada’s elections watchdog is powerless to detect or sanction the practice.
    The observation comes as a debate rages in Canada’s political blogosphere over the effectiveness of high-profile Conservative TV ads targeting Liberal Leader Stephane Dion. …-
    http://www.jacksnewswatch.info/
    Prime Minister nominates next Chief Electoral Officer
    9 February 2007
    Ottawa, Ontario
    Prime Minister Stephen Harper is pleased to announce the nomination of Mr. Marc Mayrand as the new Chief Electoral Officer. …-
    pm.gc.ca

  36. ‘See what I mean about anti-Christian?
    I can’t think of a more anti-Christian act than the presentation of “The Vagina Monologues” (just the title makes me want to throw up) on a Catholic University campus.
    What idiots the university administrators are to allow this play to be presented. They, of course, don’t want to be charged with censorship and they, of course, want to be seen as enlightened, open, and tolerant.
    When will these boobs understand that they only appear as dupes to one of the latest isms of the day: radical feminism, which is no friend of the Church.
    I think this idiocy comes under the heading, “If you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything.” But “The Vagina Monologues”???
    How the mighty have fallen…

  37. *
    File this under “raise AND call…”
    The Phantom Observer asks…“Sharing research,” eh?
    All right, Dr. Attaran. Time for you to put your money where your mouth is.
    By all means, share your research. By that, I mean: put the documents you
    have up on a website, publicize the URL link, and let the rest of us look at them.
    *

  38. Herouxville
    The Standards
    Our Women
    “We consider that men and women are of the same value. Having said this, we consider that a woman can; drive a car, vote, sign checks, dance, decide for herself, speak her pe
    ace, dress as she sees fit respecting of course the democratic decency, walk alone in public places, study, have a job, have her own belongings and anything else that a man can do. These are our standards and our way of life.
    However, we consider that killing women in public beatings, or burning them alive are not part of our standards of life.”
    In this day and age, it’s incredible that any of this would even have to be said. I admire their courage and candor, in this age of multicultural pcism, but having said that, why are we even allowing savages that would do these things into our country in the first place?
    Perhaps we’re all going to have to adopt Herouxville’s standards and enforce them with zero tolerance laws. Hopefully then the backward, barbaric proponents of Islam won’t migrate in the first place.
    ————————-
    Q: How many Muslims does it take to change a lightbulb?
    A: None. They prefer to sit in the dark and blame the Jooooos.

  39. MSM: some things never change.
    Im halfway thru one of my all time lifelong fav films, the George C Scott version of Patton except this time Ive got the accompanying narrative on in place of the sound track, delivered by an author of a book about the general.
    did you know Patton issued standing orders that no soldier suffering combat fatigue was allowed in the same quarters as those suffering wounds and dying from them? but the medic in charge chose to wilfully ignore the orders to spite Patton risking court martial (considering the importance Patton put on the question). 2 soldiers were struck with his gloves that day (not slapped as the history books say). one of them was completely awol and as luck had it was parked in the tent when Patton went thru. timing is everything eh?
    the nazis couldnt believe their luck when the general was repremanded and put on probation for something that other commanders prevented by pulling out a colt 45 and putting a round in the fleeing back of the coward.
    Patton was made to issue a number of apologies at times in front of soldiers who would hear nothing of it.
    it was a reporter, a drew pearson who made sure the incident wasnt allowed to fade within minutes of occurring. an incident that the brits would have handled on their own and the russians likewise, but not the US mil and press. they had to get the goods on the guy who killed and captured more enemy than any other single commander in the history of warfare.
    the report sat in omar bradley’s safe out of sight AND knowledge of Patton who when he was made aware of the seriousness of the situation was order to clam up by eisenhower.
    George S Patton ol’ ‘Blood and Brains’.
    blood and brains? dont you mean blood and guts?
    nope. Patton said that wars are won with blood and brains, but yet another reporter decided it didnt make interesting copy and ‘slapped’ the blood and guts nickname.
    some things never change.
    fuk u msm.

  40. neo: You expect Attaran to expose himself? Good luck on that one. His agenda may not bear up to scrutiny and he would not want to be embarrassed by the truth.
    How dare we question this learned Professor! And a Muslim at that!

  41. National Post: Front page; above the fold; with pic of Saint Albert of Gore (allusion to St. Francis).
    The green fervour
    Is environmentalism the new religion?
    Joseph Brean, National Post
    “What was once called salvation — a nebulous state of grace — is now known as sustainability, a word that is equally resistant to precise definition. There is even a hymn, When the North Pole Melts, by James G. Titus, a scientist with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, which is not exactly How Great Thou Art, but serves a similar purpose.” ….-
    http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=07407be3-1f9f-4f41-a16a-5a286a5b374c

  42. How its practical outcomes killed off multiculturalism (Australia)
    …Studies by Monash University’s Bob Birrell showed that by the end of the 1990s only a minority of second-generation marriages of persons of Asian descent in Australia were to someone from their parents’ country. Only 6 per cent of Australia’s Indian community married within their ethnic group, as did only 16 per cent of Australia’s Chinese community. Without the help of intellectuals and multiculturalist policymakers, ordinary Australians have been rapidly creating a successful multiracial country.
    This general trend toward assimilation is a point too often missed by defenders of multiculturalism on the Left, who are still eager to find examples of old Australian xenophobia and racism in every corner …
    The only non-European immigrants who have posed serious problems as a group have been those who embraced multiculturalism most enthusiastically. Lebanese Muslims have stuck stubbornly to their own communities. A full 74 per cent marry other Lebanese Muslims…
    …What finally put paid to multiculturalism wasn’t an academic debate about its philosophical underpinnings or some grand Left-Right struggle, but its practical outcomes. Coupled with the revival of Islamic jihad and fanned by some highly provocative misogynist statements by their religious leaders, the comparatively closed Muslim communities came to be seen by most Australians as a problem in their midst. The London Tube bombings in July 2005 and the riots by Muslim youth across France in October and November of that year demonstrated outcomes that many critics of multiculturalism had predicted. …-
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1783150/posts

  43. *
    Experts on Call – Herouxville
    “I think it’s reflective of the fact that Canada is actually
    fracturing into two nations, he said.
    “The urban nation where 80 per cent of Canadians live,
    and the rural parts of Canada which do not have a lot
    of interaction with immigrants and different cultures.”
    Which one are you… sophisticated, urban metro-sexual,
    or dumb-as-dirt rural racist?
    It has to be true… CTV called an expert.
    *

  44. The English-speaking century
    By Keith Windschuttle
    In the past one hundred years, four successive political movements—Prussian militarism, German Nazism, Japanese imperialism, and international Communism— mounted military campaigns to conquer Europe, Asia, and the world. Had any of them prevailed, it would have been a profound loss for civilization as we know it. Yet over the course of these bids for power, a coalition headed first by Britain and then by the United States emerged not just to oppose but to destroy them utterly.
    From the long perspective of human affairs, these victories must stand as among the most remarkable of the past three millennia. They were as decisive for world history as the victories of the ancient Greeks over Persia, of Rome over Carthage, and of the Franks over the Umayyad Caliphate.
    Moreover, military triumph has been complemented by economic success. The policies of free-trade liberalism, which in the nineteenth century made Britain the economic powerhouse of the world, were revived in our own time to achieve the same for the United States and its trading partners. In the past fifty years, much of the world has been economically transformed to a greater degree than in the previous thousand. Most of Asia has enjoyed unprecedented economic growth, with both China and India propelled from socialist penury to future world-power status by the demands of America’s booming technology and consumer markets.
    The great achievement of British historian Andrew Roberts’s new book, A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Since 1900, is to put the significance of these feats into their proper perspective. …-
    http://www.newcriterion.com/archives/25/02/the-english-speaking-century/

  45. What your government can/will do for you. Slogan: We aim to please.
    No mention of the message, however. What is the message?
    …-
    Talking Urinal Cakes Offer Drinking And Driving Advice
    SANTA FE — New Mexico has taken its fight against drunken driving to men’s restrooms around the state. The state has ordered 500 talking urinal cakes that will deliver a recorded anti-DWI message to bar and restaurant patrons who make one last pit stop before getting behind the wheel. The top of the devices feature the state DWI slogan — “You drink, you drive, you lose.” Some Albuquerque bars installed the devices this week. …-
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1783139/posts

  46. The fashion industry is trying to make men soft, Charlie LeDuff observes. “They are creating a whole subgenus. The alpha-pansy”… more»
    http://www.aldaily.com/
    neo asked: “Which one are you… sophisticated, urban metro-sexual,
    or dumb-as-dirt rural racist?”
    Reviewer says: “I’m not sure we learn much from this encounter; LeDuff is a hit-or-miss sociologist.
    Steffie Dion says: Moi is a sociologist, too. Moi sits down and never misses when I misses. Does that make Moi an alpha-pansy?

  47. Toronto Red Star’s fear and loathing is on display here. Red Star says Randy Hillier is not a farmer; he’s an electrician. Translation: A man with hard hands, a tradesman with a strong grip on reality. Red Star fears and loathes strong individuals with strong views and dissenting opinions.
    Rewrite headline:
    Rural voters a headache for McGuinty Ontario Liberals. …-
    Rural activist a potential headache for Tories
    Randy Hillier is hardly a household name in Toronto, but he certainly is in rural Ontario. And he could soon become one in urban Ontario.
    Hillier is co-founder of the 15,000-member Ontario Landowners Association, a radical rural group that opposes just about every initiative undertaken by government.
    In the past, Hillier has organized tractor blockades on Highway 401, counselled civil disobedience, trumpeted individual rights against marketing boards, and distributed emails portraying Agriculture Minister Leona Dombrowsky (then minister of the environment) as a dead deer.
    Mainstream farm organizations are leery of Hillier, who is not actually a farmer himself. He is an electrician who, ironically, was once employed by the federal government.
    But he has a loyal following in rural Ontario, where he is viewed as a spokesperson for the disenfranchised.
    Hillier’s rhetoric is both colourful and over the top. In a recent tongue-in-cheek press release, for example, he sounded a warning about the spread of a new disease: “Complacent (sic), Ignorance, and Apathy (CIA).” He said the disease “generally attacks individuals living in dense urban settings” and added:
    “Once infected, there is no known cure. The patient becomes addicted to watching the CBC, desires social housing, seeks out either welfare or bureaucratic employment, and has a strong preference for public transportation. Complete dependence upon government leading to eventual death is inevitable.”…-
    http://www.thestar.com/News/article/180174

  48. Kate, I just returned from Mexico and I could not believe how our Quebecer’s act. I have always believed that our county was important to fight for, to keep it united. I have never seen such a rude, ignrate bunch. They butted in to the front of lines, only talked French to the staff ordered them around like they were servants. These two large groups had been staying in a town in Florida until they tried to take over the town and the people in the states put the run on them. My guess is the Mexican people will be doing the same. I was so embarrassed to have these people from Canada. Its time that we say enough, have a referendum if the rest of Canada wants them to stay.

  49. Steve Janke | First hints at replacing Stephane Dion
    Chantale Hebert is of Canada’s best known columnists, commenting on national affairs for the Toronto Star. In her most recent column, she discusses the importance of fluency in both official languages for Canada’s top political leaders. But along the way, she obliquely discusses the consequences of bilingualism for Stephane Dion’s successor.
    Stephane Dion is barely two months into his new role as leader of the Liberal Party, and already Hebert is discussing his successor?
    That’s not a good sign. …-
    http://stevejanke.com/index.php?menu=home
    (via jack’s newswatch)

  50. Digging your own grave. Power and privilege has its rewards. …-
    Tories, Grits fight over Senate reform
    The “unelected, unaccountable” Liberal Senators are delaying the Senate Tenure bill limiting Senators’ terms to eight years by adjourning debate every day in the Upper Chamber, say Conservatives, but the Grits say it’s a “repetitive argument” from the Conservatives who don’t understand the Senate’s proper role.
    “We are 253 days into a Liberal filibuster with no end in site,” Government House Leader Peter Van Loan (York-Simcoe, Ont.) told reporters last week. “Senators have now had 253 days to debate a bill that consists of only 66 words. [It’s] three clauses, one simple concept. Yet every time that bill is brought forward for debate, the unelected, appointed Liberal Senate votes to adjourn debate.”
    http://www.thehilltimes.ca/html/index.php?display=story&full_path=/2007/february/12/legislation/&c=1

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