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I arrived home yesterday to discover my isp connection is down. (Posting from a friend’s computer).
They’re supposed to be working on it this morning, but until my connectivity is restored, reader tips are going to have to do ya.

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  2. Re: Pakistan election. A poem by Benazir Bhutto:

    When the world was still to be born

    When Adam was still to receive his form
    Then my relationship began
    When I heard the Lord’s voice
    A voice sweet and clear
    I said “yes” with all my heart
    And formed a bond with the land I love…

  3. Reuel Marc Gerecht, Iraq’s Jihad Myths
    Among Democrats and even many Republicans, it is by now accepted wisdom that the war in Iraq brought huge numbers of holy warriors to the anti-American cause. But is it true? I don’t think so.
    Muslim holy warriors are a diverse lot, reacting with differing intensity to the hot-button issues that define contemporary Islamic militancy. For many fundamentalists, what is seen as an unrelenting Western assault on Muslim male honor and female virtue is the core infuriating offense. For others it may be the alienation that second-generation young Muslim men encounter in an immigrant-unfriendly Europe. And for still others, Iraq, Afghanistan, the tyranny of U.S.-backed Muslim rulers and the Palestinian resistance can all come together to convert individual indignities into a holy-warrior faith…

  4. The US creates an Islamofascist terrorist state in Europe:
    (jihadwatch.org/memri)
    “With regard to the declaration of independence by Kosovo yesterday, Secretary General of the Organization of the Islamic Conference Prof. Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu made the following remark today (18 February 2008) in Dakar at the opening of the OIC Senior Officials Meeting preparatory to the forthcoming OIC Summit to be held there on 13-14 March 2008:”
    “…a very important event took place yesterday. Kosovo has finally declared its independence after a long and determined struggle by its people. As we rejoice this happy result, we declare our solidarity with and support to our brothers and sisters there. The Islamic Umma wishes them success in their new battle awaiting them which is the building of a strong and prosperous a state capable of satisfying of its people. There is no doubt that the independence of Kosovo will be an asset to the Muslim world and further enhance the joint Islamic action.”
    ——————
    “Kosovo will be an asset to the Muslim world and further enhance the JOINT ISLAMIC ACTION.”
    Needed repeating. I wonder what in the world the great Islamic leader means by this?

  5. “CAIR Loses Status?”
    According to this February 18, 2008 update from the United American Committee, CAIR, whose shady connections have been well exposed by Andrew Whitehead of the web site Anti-CAIR (among others), CAIR may have come down a peg or two (emphases mine):
    A major victory in the fight against Jihad has apparently occurred. Somewhere in the dead of night, without any known announcement from the organization, the highly controversial Washington DC based group CAIR, the Council on American Islamic Relations has apparently lost the tax status which enabled it to conduct lobbying activities. The organization was registered for many years under the IRS tax code 501c(4) which allowed the organization to conduct lobbying activities, campaign funding, legislation and candidate backing, and many other government and litigation related activities.
    ibloga.blogspot.com

  9. http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/story.html?id=0bf63f3b-7b4c-4a74-aa0d-553d1c7c302c
    “…The all-party House of Commons Heritage committee is drafting a report on the future of the taxpayer-funded broadcaster, but the chances of the report being unanimous appear unlikely.
    Opposition MPs on the committee outnumber government MPs, raising the prospect of a separate Conservative report that would constitute the first detailed government policy on the CBC….”
    More at the link…

  10. Someone from desmogblog has asked Elections Canada to investigate Friends of Science for an Election Act violation (based on the fact that they ran some radio ads in Ontario during the last federal election. I find this pretty galling. Isn’t desmog funded by the Suzuki Foundation? Isn’t Suzuki violating the principle of neutrality for a charitable organization? Let’s hope someone takes the initiative to get Revenue Canada to investigate them. I also don’t know if such a complaint is legitimate since Friends mandate has been primarily to inform people re the anti-global warming perspective in a context where there is essentially a media blackout on this position. So — are they being attacked because they promoted themselves during an election or because desmog does not agree with what they have to say? This item was in the Ottawa Citizen yesterday.

  11. http://blogs.rnw.nl/medianetwork/long-time-rci-employee-suspended-for-three-days
    “Radio Canada International (RCI) has suspended one of its long time employees for three days without pay for raising questions about RCI’s international mandate with members of the House of Commons Canadian Heritage Committee.
    RCI Presenter-Producer Wojtek Gwiazda has been the spokesperson for the RCI Action Committee (and its predecessor the Coalition to Restore Full RCI funding) since 1991. He was suspended without pay from 11-13 February, 2008, after sending an e-mail to the members of parliament on behalf of the RCI Action Committee.
    Gwiazda has been an RCI employee since 1980. In a disciplinary letter dated February 6, he was warned he would face more severe penalties if he continued to ask questions about the mandate of “Canada’s Voice to the World”….”

  13. “Enlightened opinion blames the outbreak of wars on reckless jingoism with little thought for consequences. On the contrary, the governments and peoples of many countries had to be dragged kicking and screaming into a war they needed to fight, but would much rather back away from. Blessed are the pre-emptors, for they will make you fight the good fight even when your heart is in your boots. …-
    Blessed are the pre-emptors
    By Spengler
    Europe’s Man of Destiny is Geert Wilders, the 35-year-old leader of Holland’s tiny Freedom Party. He has provoked the world Muslim community in order to draw the violent jihadists out of the tall grass, and he seems to be succeeding. Call what Wilders has done nasty but necessary, and blame Europe’s so-called mainstream leaders for abandoning their posts, and leaving the standard in the hands of a young man with the courage to grasp it. At the moment the Dutch government is quaking over the consequences of a 10-minute film that Wilders plans to release in April denouncing the Koran.
    Strictly speaking, I do not quite agree with Wilders that the Koran should be banned along with Hitler’s Mein Kampf as an incitement to violence. Nonetheless, he is doing precisely the right thing. A house divided against itself cannot stand, as Abraham Lincoln
    quoted the Gospels as he made ready to tear down the half that was misbehaving. No civilized state can abide a rival from within who contests the monopoly of violence of legitimate government. If governments refuse to act, the optimal course of action is pre-emptive: bring matters to a decision as fast as possible before the rot destroys the entire house.
    Wilders has succeeded in getting the world’s attention. “Should it come to riots, bloodshed and violence after broadcasting the Koran movie by PVV leader Geert Wilders, then Wilders will be responsible,” the visiting Grand Mufti of Syria threatened the European Parliament in January….-
    http://tinyurl.com/37l9xj (atimes)

  14. Weston skins Citoyen Dion today; tomorrow, Weston flays PM Harper.
    Meanwhile, Jubilation D. Dion leads from the rear.
    …-
    Weston: Dion signals retreat
    Now for the good news: Fresh off his triumphant about-face over Canada’s role in the Afghanistan war, Stephane Dion is now apparently retreating from an election.
    The current minority Parliament is facing a series of critical votes starting next week, any one of which the three opposition parties could use to trigger an April trip to the ballot box.
    Since the New Democrats and separatist Bloc Quebecois have all but declared their unanimous support for an election, the fate of Stephen Harper’s government is likely to rest in Dion’s hands.
    It is no secret the Liberal leader has been champing at the bit since last fall, convinced that a race to the polls would give him the public exposure he needs to win over Canadian voters.
    (Dion’s belief that the more Canadians see of him, the more they will like him, is thought to be widely shared by his immediate family and delusional friends.)http://tinyurl.com/yvqz87

  15. Daniel L. Byman, Six Years Later: Innovative Approaches to Defeating Al Qaeda
    Currently, the United States enjoys an overwhelming advantage in the war on terrorism: a supportive American Muslim community. The European experience demonstrates the problems that can arise if resident Muslims are discontent. Unlike in Europe, the Muslim community in the United States is not a fertile ground for radicalism. The 9/11 attacks were carried out by infiltrators from abroad, not home-grown terrorists. Many American Muslims are educated professionals who are well integrated into American society. Often, they have higher average incomes than do non-Muslims. Polls taken shortly after 9/11 indicated that the vast majority see U.S. efforts after 9/11 as directed against terrorism, not Islam.[8] The various plots uncovered since 9/11 have all involved small, disconnected groups and individuals rather than a larger, country-wide network. Several appear to have been discovered with information volunteered from the local Muslim community…

  16. Frederick W. Kagan, Danielle Pletka, and Kimberly Kagan, Iranian Influence in the Levant, Iraq, and Afghanistan
    …Sadly, there is very little prospect of success in this or any other endeavor unless the policy debate moves beyond the compartmentalization and hysteria that have characterized the discussion thus far. We must be able to recognize openly, fully, and objectively Iran’s activities in the region that affect our interests without fearing that such recognition will lead to a foolish war. And we must also recognize that our conflict with Iran is regionwide, complex, and broad-based–it is not a simple misunderstanding over the nature of Iran’s nuclear program or the threat Tehran feels from having U.S. troops deployed to its east and west. This report aims to present empirical evidence of Iran’s actions in three critical areas: Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Levant (Syria, Lebanon, and the West Bank and Gaza)…
    (Full document available for downloading in PDF format)

  18. Liberals doing what they do best.
    Smearing Conservatives in the Alberta race.
    http://www.edspedia.ca/EddieTube.html
    Big fuss about 50% of returning officers having conservative connections. No mention that voters have a free vote regardless of if the returning officers are Flat Earth Society or Monarchists. [ Usual emotional BS ]
    RottenTories.ca
    Liberals are smear experts. = TG

  19. just got this one over the email , I hate to cut and paste , but this is good.
    MILITARY DEATHS FOR TWENTY YEARS
    Bet you didn’t know the following! I surely did not.
    These are some rather eye-opening facts: Since the start of the war
    on terror in Iraq and Afghanistan, the sacrifice has been enormous.
    In the time period from the invasion of Iraq in March 2003 through
    now, we have lost over 3000 military personnel to enemy action and
    accidents. As tragic as the loss of any member of the Armed Forces is,
    consider the following statistics:
    The annual fatalities of military members while actively
    serving in the armed forces from 1980 through 2006:
    1980 ………. 2,392
    1981 ……… 2,380
    1984 ………. 1,999
    1988 ………. 1,819
    1989 ………. 1,636
    1990 ……… 1,508
    1991 ………. 1,787
    1992 ………. 1,293
    1993 ……… 1,213
    1994 ………. 1,075
    1995 ……….2,465
    1996 ……… 2,318 8 Clinton years @13,417 deaths
    1997 ………. 817
    1998 ……… 2,252
    1999 ………. 1,984
    ————————————————-
    2000 ………. 1,983
    2 001 ……… 890
    2002 ………. 1,007 7 BUSH years @ 9,016 deaths
    2003 ………. 1,410
    2004 ………. 1,887
    2005 ……… 919
    2006………. 920
    ————————————————————
    If you are confused when you look at these figures,so was I.
    Do these figures mean that the loss from the two latest conflicts
    in the Middle East are LESS than the loss of military personnel
    during Mr. Clinton’s presidency; when America wasn’t even involved
    in a war?
    And, I was even more confused; when I read that in 1980, during
    the reign of President (Nobel Peace Prize) Jimmy Carter, there
    were 2,392 US military fatalities!
    These figures indicate that many of our Media & Politicians will pick
    and choose. They present only those ‘facts’ which support their
    agenda-driven reporting. Why do so many of them march in lock-step
    to twist the truth. Where do so many of them get their marching-orders
    for their agenda?
    Our Mainstream Print and TV Media, and many Politicians like to slant;
    that these brave men and women, who are losing their lives in Iraq , are
    mostly minorities! Wrong AGAIN— just one more media lie!
    The latest census, of Americans, shows the following distribution
    of American citizens, by Race:
    European descent (White). 69.12%
    Hispanic. 12.5%
    Black. 12.3%
    Asian . 3.7%
    Native American. 1.0%
    Other. 2.6%
    Now… here are the fatalities by Race; over the past
    three years in Iraqi Freedom:
    European descent (white). 74.31%
    Hispanic. 10.74%
    Black. 9.67%
    Asian, 1.81%
    Native American, 1.09%
    Other, 33%
    These statistics are published by Congressional
    Research Service, and they may be confirmed by anyone
    at: http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/RL32492.pdf
    (Please look at this report site if you have the chance.)

  20. Another tradition under attack from radical leftoids. From today’s National Post page A3
    ——————–
    The government of Canada will be in the Ontario Court of Appeal today, attempting to get a class-action lawsuit tossed out. At issue is whether the Charter rights of new Canadians are violated by the requirement to swear an oath to the Queen.
    The case’s very existence is remarkable, given that it was already fought at the Federal Court of Appeal in 1994, when Charles Roach, the Trinidadian-Canadian lawyer who believes forcing blacks to swear to the British monarch is like forcing Jews to swear to Hitler, lost a split decision.
    […]
    After decades of legal wrangling, Canada’s oath to the Queen is lurching toward a crisis. As Mr. Roach declared yesterday in a letter to supporters, “If we win this class action, a centuries-old tradition would begin to unravel.”

  21. To Induce Vomiting, Read;
    [BOSTON, Massachusetts, February 19, 2008 (ENS) – James Hansen, a federal government scientist who has spoken out about human influence on the global climate despite political pressure to alter his message, is the recipient of the 2007 Award for Scientific Freedom and Responsibility given by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, AAAS.]
    http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/feb2008/2008-02-19-092.asp

  22. Matthew Levitt and David Schenker, Who was Imad Mughniyeh?
    [February 13’s] assassination of arch-terrorist Imad Mughniyeh was welcome news in Washington, Buenos Aires, Tel Aviv, and, albeit quietly, Beirut and Baghdad. For Hizballah and Damascus, however, the loss of Mughniyeh — who was a brilliant military tactician, a key contact to Tehran, and a successful political leader — is a severe blow to their ongoing activities and operations…

  23. Soner Cagaptay, After Headscarves, What’s Next?
    On February 9, Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) passed constitutional amendments to legalize a specific woman’s headscarf, known as the turban, on college campuses. The Turkish turban — not to be confused with the south Asian male turban — emerged in the country in the 1980s…
    An Islamic view: western feminism and Islamic values
    Kudos to Jill at Feministe for raising the issue of how oppressive head-scarf bans are – just as oppressive in their own way as mandatory burqas…

  24. Global warming is causing cars to burn in Copenhagen!
    Really! It’s from Reuters so it must be true!
    “Five youths were arrested in the capital on Friday after 28 cars and 35 garbage trucks were burned, Copenhagen police duty officer Jakob Kristensen told Reuters.
    Danish media said arrests in other towns brought to 29 the number of people police were holding.
    Scores of cars and several schools have been vandalized or burned in the past week. Police could give no reason, but said that unusually mild weather and the closure of schools for a winter break might have contributed.”
    http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080216/wl_nm/denmark_riots_dc_2

  25. On why Africa is a dung-heap of stupidity and suffering:
    “A fully-equipped hospital that lay unused for two years has burned to the ground in northern Nigeria.
    The General Hospital in Maiduguri was built in 2006 but the state government refused to open it until the president came to cut the ribbon.”
    …
    “There is not one hospital in the country owned by a state government that has the type of world class equipment we had in there…”
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7247372.stm

  26. To induce Cheerleading, read;
    Unilateral attack on al-Qaeda commander called a model for operations. . Washington Post.
    In the predawn hours of Jan. 29, a CIA Predator aircraft flew in a slow arc above the Pakistani town of Mir Ali. The drone’s operator, relying on information secretly passed to the CIA by local informants, clicked a computer mouse and sent the first of two Hellfire missiles hurtling toward a cluster of mud-brick buildings a few miles from the town center.
    The missiles killed Abu Laith al-Libi, a senior al-Qaeda commander and a man who had repeatedly eluded the CIA’s dragnet. It was the first successful strike against al-Qaeda’s core leadership in two years, and it involved, U.S. officials say, an unusual degree of autonomy by the CIA inside Pakistan.
    Having requested the Pakistani government’s official permission for such strikes on previous occasions, only to be put off or turned down, this time the U.S. spy agency did not seek approval.
    The government of Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf was notified only as the operation was underway, according to the officials, who insisted on anonymity because of diplomatic sensitivities.
    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23228197/
    ===================================== WP
    You knew this. . . but the details eh? = TG

  27. WATCH THOSE WARHEADS
    Pakistan has twice come close to a war with India (1999 and 2002) in which nuclear weapons might have been used. That prospect terrifies the international community, as does the fear of nuclear material being stolen by Islamic militants. The latter anxiety is reinforced by the fact that Pakistan’s intelligence agencies were deeply involved with establishing the Taliban in Afghanistan in the 1990s.
    Many people in Pakistan believe that the relationship between parts of the military intelligence establishment and Islamic militants remains intact.
    http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/article_details.php?id=10037
    ===================== Prospect Magazine – UK
    Let*s hope for the best. = tg

  30. Today’s NationalNewswatch:
    “An RCMP official says the force would change its policies on Taser
    use if a public inquiry into the death of a Polish immigrant
    provided any evidence to do that.”
    How about: He died for no good reason!

  31. As I was waiting at the checkout this lunchtime, an attractive twenty-something slapped down her purchases: a full selection of the current month’s fashion magazines. I would have thought nothing of it, except that she was dressed in full Islamic regimentals, including hijab. I guess the jackal-eyed spectre of embarrassment was too much. Who would want to be caught dead in last season’s hijab? And can you imagine the mortification of showing up at a party in the same chador as another woman? It just doesn’t bear thinking about.

  32. Michelle Obama’s remarks that this is the first time in her adult life that she has been really proud of America are going down like a lead balloon. I guess she is entitled to one stupid remark, given the number of dumb things Bill has said (not to mention Hillary).
    But what a mentality to be unable to come up with one thing for which she can be really proud – obviously there is no military personnel in her family.
    Sad, really.

  33. phantom – heh. You’re right. Natural selection isn’t the cause of advances in technology. You don’t need any proof that The Higher Number of People Reproduced Means that the technological invention is better.
    All you need is some ‘reasoning capacity’ to figure out that IF you want to fly, THEN, you figure out how to invent a plane..etc.
    Or, IF you want to prevent rats from living in your house, THEN, you keep it very clean (and keep a few cats).
    charles macdonald – actually, it’s a good sign that she’s buying all these fashion magazines; she wants to be part of the culture in which she is living. Maybe, she’s trying to be part of two cultures, that of her family and that of her friends and the wider env’t. Not easy. But, she’s not refusing to buy those magazines as ‘Western evils’!

  35. From Glenn Beck Newsletter.
    The facts your liberal friends need to hear
    By Jonah Goldberg
    Liberals, perhaps more than anyone, believe that we should be vigilant against the threat of fascism. Now, they also believe that fascism can only come from the Right–I think they’re wrong. But, what liberals – and everyone else – very much need to understand is that whatever direction fascism comes from, it’s popular. Fascism succeeds in democratic countries because it convinces people that it’s the wave of the future, it’s progressive, it’s young, it’s vital, it’s exciting. Fascist promise to fix what’s broken in our democracy, to heal our wounds, to deliver us to promised lands. So if you think fascism comes from the Right, fine. But at least keep in mind that it won’t sell itself as dull, or uptight, or old-fashioned.
    Let me take a moment to give you a concrete sense of what I mean.
    Fascism appealed to youth activists. Indeed, the Nazis and Fascists were in major respects youth movements. In 1931, 60 percent of all German undergraduates supported the Nazi Student Organization. “Their goal,” the historian John Toland wrote of the young idealists who fed the Nazi rise to power, “was to establish a youth culture for fighting the bourgeois trinity of school, home and church.”
    Meanwhile, middle and lower class Germans were attracted to the economic and cultural populism of Nazism. The Nazi party began as the German Worker’s Party. The Nazis economic rhetoric was eerily similar to John Edwards “Two Americas” talk. The Nazis promised to clamp down on Big Business – particularly department stores, the Wal-Marts of their day – and end the class struggle. Theodore Abel, an impressively clever American sociologist, gives us insight into why working class Germans were attracted to Nazism. In 1934 Abel took out an ad in the Nazi Party journal asking “old fighters” to submit essays explaining why they had joined. He restricted his request to “old fighters” because so many opportunists had joined the party after Hitler’s rise. The essays were combined in the fascinating book Why Hitler Came Into Power. One essayist, a coal miner, explained “Though I was interested in the betterment of the workingman’s plight, I rejected [Marxism] unconditionally. I often asked myself why socialism had to be tied up with internationalism-why it could not work as well or better in conjunction with nationalism.” A railroad worker concurred, “I shuddered at the thought of Germany in the grip of Bolshevism. The slogan ‘Workers of the World Unite!’ made no sense to me. At the same time, however, National Socialism, with its promise of a community . . . barring all class struggle, attracted me profoundly.” A third worker wrote that he embraced the Nazis because of their “uncompromising will to stamp out the class struggle, snobberies of caste and party hatreds. The movement bore the true message of socialism to the German workingman.”
    Nazism’s appeal to the professional classes was just as strong. Raymond Dominick, a historian specializing in the history of German environmentalism, found that by 1939, 59 percent of conservationist leaders had joined the Nazi party, while only 10 percent of adult males had. Forty five percent of medical doctors had joined and roughly one quarter of teachers and lawyers had. The two groups of professionals with the highest rates of participation in the Nazi Party? Veterinarians were first and foresters were a close second. Dominick found a “unique nexus between National Socialism and nature conservation.”
    The Nazis and Italian Fascists won-over big business, cultural elites, the youth and the lower-classes because they portrayed themselves as heroically on the side of progress, protecting the environment and the poor. Fascists preached unity, togetherness and an end to division.
    Liberals need to ask themselves where do they hear this rhetoric the most?
    I’m not saying that merely being for the environment, the poor or national unity makes you a fascist. But what I am saying is that if you’re concerned about spotting fascism on the horizon you can’t just look at people you don’t like. That’s like only looking for your lost car keys where the light is good. Huey Long reportedly said that if Fascism comes to America it will be called “anti-Fascism.” Liberals can still make their arguments that fascism comes from the right. But until they understand that wherever fascism may come from, it never arrives save in a form that the best and the brightest are willing to accept with open arms.
    And if liberals don’t know their history, they won’t be equipped to spot it when it comes knocking.
    Jonah Goldberg is the author of the New York Times bestseller Liberal Fascism.
    Available from Amazon.

  37. Right on ET. Last go-round I recall was Sociobiology, that was crap too. Why is it that a lowly BA anthropologist/house painter can spot holes big enough to drive a bus through, but these Ivory Tower twits can’t? Or worse, won’t? Doofi.

  39. Speaking of technology, I must mark the passing of Mr. Art Arfons in Dec. 2007, at the age of 81.
    blogs.hotrod.com/6222698/hot-rod-news/world-land-speed-record-holder-art-arfons-dies/index.html
    Loyal gearheads will recognize Arfons as the builder and driver of the legendary Green Monster, making him one of the fastest men in history.

  40. Nicola Timmerman,
    well, ya gotta understand that down here in barbaric America black people are oppressed and underprivileged.
    Take Michelle Obama, for example. Good family background, scholarship to Princeton, Harvard Law, and then with her husband on the fast track vis a vis state politics in Illinois.
    Her brother was a famous basketball player who I believe is now the coach at Brown University (maybe wrong about where, but I think it’s Brown).
    So, you know, with a searing personal history of degradation like that, brought on by us white crackers, obviously she could have doubled for one of the characters in the movie Shaft.
    Incidentally, I’ve got a new campaign slogan for Obama,
    “In my family, Michelle and I have resolved to never go to bed with unresolved problems.”
    “America is a big family just like my family, so I say if Michelle and I can put our problems aside and come together, why can’t we as the American family come together as well?”

  42. “a particularly harsh winter in the usually temperate Holy Land.”
    Snowstorm hits Jerusalem (AssPress)
    …-
    In another “temperate Holy Land”:
    “Lebanon: Chief prosecutor seeking death penalty of Fatah Islam leader (albawaba)

  43. Henry’s Via Media has vanished into history.
    …-
    Anglicans take authority to name bishops away from British Prime Minister
    London, Feb 19, 2008 / 01:05 pm (CNA).- In a step towards greater religious autonomy, the general synod of the Anglican Church of England decided to do away with the traditional approval by the British Prime Minister for the naming of bishops.
    When Henry VIII decided to separate the Church in England from the Catholic Church, he established the tradition of the Anglican synod of bishops presenting two candidates to the Queen, from which the crown will elect one to occupy a vacant Episcopal see. When Britain became a constitutional monarchy, the responsibility for making the selection between the two candidates fell to the Prime Minister.
    During the Synod which ended last week, the Anglican bishops discussed whether they should favor a church model that is more disconnected from the political regime, or whether this link should be maintained in order to preserve the identity of the “Church of England” as completely distinct from the Roman Catholic Church.
    The debate ended with the decision to establish greater autonomy from the state in order to assure a clearer spiritual dimension. …-
    http://tinyurl.com/2uqyfh (cna)

  44. Gunney99……scary stuff. Pretty well answers the question of why I have a serious problem with Islamic extremists.
    There is some debate over the terrorists’ conduct towards their older teenaged female hostages. Some survivors of the incident testified that several girls were gang-raped –an act that is fully consistent with Jihadist tradition and practice — but all of the children confined in an overcrowded gymnasium had stripped down to their underwear in an effort to cope with stifling heat, which lent confusion to the charges of sexual assault. However, in the Wahhabi/Deobandi interpretations of Islam that Jihadis follow, the onset of puberty is seen as the beginning of adult life… a 14 year old boy who elects to join the Jihad and fight is making an adult decision; a captive girl of the same age is a ‘prize’ of her captors and may be raped ‘legitimately’ according to some of the Fatwas that the Jihadists prefer to accept. One doubts that in a three day stand-off which the terrorists were largely sure would end in a bloody combat that they were likely to restrain themselves from sexual assault on minors, given that they didn’t recognize this as a crime and were contemplating murdering them all anyway.
    If Jihadists ever mount a similar operation against young teenaged schoolchildren in North America or Western Europe, we can be sure about what will happen to 13 year old girls who catch their eyes. The concern is not an idle one, as there have been numerous indicators in the US of a hostile interest in school buses and junior high schools (where the students tend to be between 11 and 15 years of age). The idea of an attack on such children has been bruited about by al Qaeda for some years. Osama bin Laden himself has opined that Jihadists are entitled to take the lives of 2 million American children. Moreover, an attack as evil as that in Beslan is sure to be eventually emulated.
    Being the father of 3 daughters, this s@#$ sends shivers down my spine.
    OVER MY DEAD BODY!

  47. Danny gets his name in the obliging MSM again. Stufke yerself, Dan/MSM. Yer stating the obvious.
    …-
    Liberal MP: Drivers will see spike in gas prices overnight (CanP)

  48. Readers tip.
    George W. Bush receives praise for his acomplishments in Rawanda Africa
    Bob Geldof (Live Aid) praised Mr. Bush for his work in delivering billions to fight disease and poverty in Africa, and blasted the U.S. press for ignoring the achievement.
    Mr. Bush, said Mr. Geldof, “has done more than any other president so far.”
    This story has been ignored by the US media and for sure Canada will not run it in MSM but on the other hand we have KateLand news services now ….
    Here is the full story at the Washington Times:
    http://video1.washingtontimes.com/fishwrap/2008/02/bob_geldof_in_rwanda.html
    Greetings from Manitoba

  49. How about we send Dion and his backroom “handlers” some fur lined socks, appears they’re suffering from cold feet. They’re now opining unless the budget is harmful to Canadians they may vote to pass it!!!!
    Looks like desperation is setting in on another front, Steffi’s changing his look with a new pair of specs. How much more image makeover can we expect?
    As the saying goes, can’t make a silk purse from a Sow’s ear.
    It’s also got to be troubling the Liberals that Francoise Boivin, former Liberal MP from Gatineau has been scooped up by the NDP. Between her and Mulcair, who are both afflicted with extreme verbosity, Layton will be silenced.

  50. B.C. budget hikes fuel costs with new carbon tax
    http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2008/02/19/bc-provincial-budget.html
    2.5 cents a liter this year raising each year for 4 years to 7.5 cents a liter,
    “She also said that in the first year there will be $100 rebate to every adult and child in the province to offset the cost of the carbon tax.”
    followed by assorted tax breaks and reductions in the years to come…..
    Green policy? or just more wealth redistribution to the “have not, so you owe me crowd”

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