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  2. That poor man, Spitzer. He’s a victim of terrible disease. The poor man is a sex addict.
    Once that becomes clear they’ll start mentioning the fact he’s a Democrat.

  3. It was brought up on one of the talk shows today that it was his wife, a lawyer, that advised Spitzer to hold off on resigning until it was absolutely certain there were going to be charges. Sound lawyer advice… odd wife that suspected nothing advice. So I’m going to draw back the sympathy card I had for her just a little bit longer.

  5. Greg in Dallas, who has clearly seen a few too many action flicks, writes (from the Bobbing for Atta thread): The enemy has abducted your wife, your mother, your daughter, and your sister. They will begin to torture them to death in 24 hours. You have a prisoner who knows where they are located, but he will not tell you, and so a rescue mission is impossible. What are you going to do? What are you going to do? They begin raping them and cutting off body part in 24 hours, so what principles, what intellectualization are you going to use?
    Just to add one more tidbit of food-for-thought, Greg, what if the prisoner in question is your wife? Are you giving me your permission to waterboard her, if I think it might save mine?
    For extra fun, let’s assume that (unbeknownst to me) she in fact doesn’t know anything!

  6. Rambo – you’ve apparently typed in the wrong window. Take that crap back to rabble or whatever this week’s Clear Guidance is. If my wife was helping terrorists commit such an abomination, then I’d be the first to bring out the bucket.
    As for Therion – his numbers are a bit off, and you can see the judenhass in his writings. Kind of like Kinsella, bleating on about Nazis and then speaking conspiratorially about Zionists and lauding Hamas. Man up and own your treason and your judenhass, you’ll still be an evil little sh!t, but you’ll at least be honest with the world, for what little that’s worth. 6th circle beats 7th circle, no?

  7. Hey writes: If my wife was helping terrorists commit such an abomination, then I’d be the first to bring out the bucket.
    Read the last line from my first post again, Hey. The point is, what if we suspect that your wife is helping terrorists, but in truth she’s innocent and knows nothing?
    Since the consensus around here is that “harsh interrogation” is acceptable if we suspect that it’s the only way to elicit useful and much-needed information, surely we’re within our rights to waterboard your better half, no?
    I only hope that her desperate “I don’t know anything, I swear!” squeals are convincing, because according to others here, if waterboarding doesn’t elicit the information that we think she knows, it’s perfectly acceptable to escalate our techniques to ripping out her fingernails and cutting off whole body parts.
    I wonder, at what point will she start saying anything that she thinks we want to hear, if only to make the horrible horrible pain go away? Only one way to find out…

  8. …and so it has begun. Apparently, another amendment to the American Constitution must have been slipped in without anyone looking…no one must criticize a black politician at any time for any reason or you’re a racist. Ferraro is being torn by the journalistic pack of wolves for being racist for suggesting that the only reason that Obama is where he is is because he’s black.
    There are 52 states, of which approximately half are Democratic. Are “they” telling me that Obama’s oratory skills, attributes and accomplishments are better than the other 25 Democratic Senators? He’s a rookie Senator with no other major accomplishments…is this the best of the Democratic Senatorial bunch? If so…yikes!
    I think Ferraro is quite correct in her assessment (although his colour is not the ONLY thing that got him where he is today…he is black AND has a leaders comportment and oratory skills).
    Interesting how it is DOUBLE-PLUS GOOD to “speak truth to power” but it is DOUBLE-PLUS BAD to “speak truth to journalists”.

  11. Did steyn really say those things relating to sheep and mosquitos?
    Rambo your point is pretty weak. The odds of a completely innocent person getting involved in the circumstance you are hypothesizing is pretty remote.
    Nonetheless, as there were non-germans killed by aerial bombardment of the reich, so might there be innocent people tortured. Shit happens. But the morality of doing both is acceptable under the circumstances.

  13. Perhaps someone should tell Therion that Mark was quoting Muslim Imams. (Well maybe not the sheep shagging part I will have to look that one up)
    Hitler and his boys were making the other quotes up on their own.

  14. Rush L. made a stmt that democrats are always pushing for equal pay for equal work. Haven’t our liberals also said this. Therefore, Rush wonders when the democrats will push for equal pay for prostitutes. Doesn’t think it is right some can get 4000/hr and others get 200. or in some cases only 5.00. When will the ndp get on this major issue.

  16. “Although Quebec faces a shortage of skilled labour, the ADQ contends that immigration must be curbed and the criteria for choosing newcomers revised. The party says too many immigrants are allowed to enter because they speak French without having the proper skills to find jobs. A balanced approach must be achieved to meet labour market demands, the ADQ argues, while giving tax credits to companies that offer French language courses.
    “Quebec cannot absorb current levels of immigration. …We are importing unemployment. The level of unemployment among immigrants is 25 per cent higher than among non-immigrants,” Mr. Le Bouyonnec said yesterday.”
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080313.wquebec13/BNStory/National/home?cid=al_gam_mostview
    A quick take: DO YOU SEE THE WORD ‘MUSLIM’ IN THE ABOVE STORY????? NO????? OK DO YOU SEE THE STATISTIC ABOUT IMMIGRANTS HAVING A 25% HIGHER UNEMPLOYMENT RATE???? YES??? CAN YOU PUT TWO AND TWO TOGETHER HERE BEFORE THE LAST THIN DIME OF CAPITAL FLEES THIS UNFORTUNATE WELFARE STATE????

  17. Totally different topic –
    My understanding is that Kate is planning a seminar in Kitchener Ontario some time in September.
    I am not sure of the nature of her seminar, but I suspect it has to do with Miniature Schnauzers.
    I am throwing this idea out for Kate to consider –
    Why not dedicate a day after Schnauzer (?) seminar to a one day blogger seminar, sort of two-fer combination, while she is in Ontario.
    I suspect some of her reader / posters , current bloggers and wanna be bloggers would like to hear personally from Canada’s top blogger.
    Perhaps a Kathy Schidle, Connie Fournier, Mark Steyn or an Ezra Levant would show up, paying their own way of course.
    And what better opportunity to tweak the beaks of Canadian Press and other Central Canadian MSM to highlight where the blogosphere has evolved and the disdain which they hold for the current biased MSM.
    I suspect Lorrie Goldstein would show up as a journalist to cover the seminar for its news value to Sun readers.
    Is it impractical or far fetched to combine the two different seminars?
    Or even if the Miniature Schnauzer Seminar didn’t materialize, the Bloggers’ would be worthwhile, alone.
    Personally I could probably save enough money up by September for my wife and I to attend, and worth every penny just to hear Canadian top bloggers speak to blogosphere issues in Canadian media and communication, etc.
    Being another dull winter day, and bored silly, I am tossing this out to Kate and hope this catches other folks attention and help to get it to happen.
    Joe Molnar, Woodstock, Ontario.

  19. Arab Journalist: ‘I Consider Islamism to Be Fascism’
    A fascinating interview with an Arab journalist who infiltrated an Al Qaeda cell in France:
    (via LGF)
    Excerpt:
    “”MEQ: Are you proud today to have risked your life for your ideas?
    Sifaoui: Yes, because I am lucky enough to be alive. It is a shame that those who died did not leave for safety. I stayed because I felt that I was able to accomplish this act of resistance. Each person resists in his or her own way; each does what he or she feels able to. Among the members of the World War II resistance, some hid other resisters; some hid Jewish families or helped them escape to Switzerland, and some failed only to denounce them. For me, at this time, my resistance to fundamentalism is based on a determination not to concede any ground to the Islamists but to keep on writing and to defy danger everyday.” http://www.meforum.org/article/1870

  21. So, how hard and deep is your bunker, Pres. Ahmadinejad?
    (Via CSP) Raytheon Unveils New Bunker-Busting Technology
    Raytheon has developed and tested a new conventional warhead technology to defeat hardened and deeply buried bunkers. The new technology, called Tandem Warhead System, consists of a shaped-charge precursor warhead combined with a follow- through penetrator explosive charge.
    During a Jan. 31 test, the newly developed 1,000-pound-class warhead set a record when it punched through 19 feet, 3 inches of a 20-foot, 330-ton, steel rod-reinforced concrete block rated at 12,600 pounds per square inch compressive strength. In fewer than 10 milliseconds, the explosion delivered into the target more than 110 million foot-pounds of energy via a high- velocity jet of molten metal…

  22. Ruth Gledhill, Professor wins prize for maths link to God
    A Polish priest and mathematician who was a friend of the late Pope John Paul II has won the world’s richest academic prize for work that shows how maths can offer circumstantial evidence of God’s existence…
    “Science is but a collective effort of the human mind to read the mind of God from question marks out of which we and the world around us seem to be made.”

  24. Mohammed Yaghi, Fayad’s Reform Plan: Difficulties and Political Implications
    A month after visiting Washington, Palestinian prime minister Salam Fayad continues to face significant political, economic, and security challenges to his reform plan. Fatah, the ruling political party in the West Bank, has resisted many aspects of his agenda and is critical of his cabinet’s composition and performance. And although Fayad has spearheaded several important initiatives, his plan is in jeopardy, and the Palestinian Authority (PA) is still far from representing a compelling alternative to Hamas…

  26. “The point is, what if we suspect that your wife is helping terrorists, but in truth she’s innocent and knows nothing?”
    The point? The mind boggles at how mentally handicapped leftards are.
    We are importing more than “unemployment” we are creating Dion’s poverty platform with lots of new ways for Canadian taxpayers to unload their hard earned money on welfare payments. Or is it jizya?
    Last year the Star reported that the costs associated with immigration is costing Canadian taxpayers $4.6 billion a year. Yet the Liberal propoganda machine has led us to believe it’s supposed to work the other way around. What a mixup.

  28. In a story about a guy building a giant wall of snow we have this:
    Everywhere Canadians look – from the stock market to the gas pump – there is only misery and a desperate wish for better times to come.
    Part of the evidence for the sad, dickensian depths to which we have fallen: the Alberta election. This reveals more, perhaps, about the mentality of the writers at the Globe and Mail than the state of the nation.

  29. “What makes this more embarrassing for any self-respecting journalist is that Mr. Spitzer knew all this, and played the media like a Stradivarius. He knew what sort of storyline they’d be sympathetic to, and spun it. He knew, too, that as financial journalism has become more competitive, breaking news can make a career. He doled out scoops to favored reporters, who repaid him with allegiance. News organizations that dared to criticize him were cut off. After a time, few criticized anymore.”
    Do journalists worldwide take the short bus? Does the left offer free fellation to aspiring journalists? Has anyone ever seen a self-respecting journalist?
    If you saw a journalist, any journalist at the beach, would you kick sand on him?

  30. I was just listening to Gomery on CTV (couldn’t take it for long) It would seem that the pompas a$s has hd his idy bidy feelings hurt and now want the country to jump through HIS hoops . The lieberal side of him is becoming very obvious.

  31. Judge Gomery is complaining that he did not get adulation from the Harper government for his work. And that the Conservatives did not bow down and take every single one of his reccomendations which HE thought he did a good job on.
    Typical Liberal. Not happy with the hundreds of thousands of dollars he got from the taxpayer now he wants to be crowned King and worshipped too?
    And the media is sucking all of this up. Sheeesh!

  32. Fresh from AP – don’t call them “Islamic terrorists”, make it more fun… something sports team-like…lemme see now… how about “Gaza Strip rocket squads” ??
    —————-
    JERUSALEM — Gaza Strip rocket squads barraged southern Israel early Thursday, after Israeli undercover forces killed four Palestinian militants on the West Bank of the Jordan River.
    http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20080313/gaza_rockets_080313/20080313?hub=World&s_name=

  34. Any musings on how Joan Beatty is doing in her By-election Campaign to become a Liberal MP?

  35. Greeny candidate squeezes Bob; pierces Bob’s masks.
    Bob reacts in “almost angrily”.
    Video to come?
    …-
    Rae Seriously Uninformed Regarding Iraq
    “Bob Rae interrupted me to object adamantly, almost angrily. “No there aren’t!”
    Yes, I said, there are. “No there aren’t,” Mr. Rae said again.”
    http://tinyurl.com/35gkqh

  36. What is Liberal Citoyen Dion’s budget policy today?
    Cut’n’Run? Abstain?
    Answer to follow: “The vote on the motion is set for shortly after 3 p.m. EDT (1900 GMT) on Thursday.”
    …-
    “Canada House speaker clears way for budget vote
    OTTAWA, March 13 (Reuters) – The speaker of the House of Commons cleared the way for a budget vote on Thursday which seeks to nullify an opposition legislator’s attempt to expand tax savings for educational savings plans.”
    http://tinyurl.com/yvgpht (reuters)

  39. “men are not gods”
    …-
    “The Abusive Exploitation of the Human Religious Sentiment”: Michael Burleigh as Historian of “Political Religion”
    […]
    “Conclusion
    In Michael Burleigh the political religions have found a historian who resists the “demoralization” of the age, the tendency to write history as if moral evaluation and the imperatives of conscience do not matter. His work is a powerful challenge to the “antifascist” vulgate which confuses authority with authoritarianism, and which downplays the essential affinities between totalitarianism of the Left and the Right. Readers of Burleigh’s work cannot help but reflect on the fact that all too often “progressive democracy,” as the Hungarian political philosopher Aurel Kolnai called it, shares with discredited totalitarianism a blind confidence in the sovereignty and self-assertion of man. The antitotalitarian thinkers to whom Burleigh pays such well deserved tribute all appreciated that the ultimate roots of totalitarianism lay in the human tendency, quintessentially modern yet as old as Adam, to forget that men are not gods. A democratic civilization that has truly absorbed this lesson will have already begun the ascent from the most problematic assumptions of theoretical modernity. Hence the vital contemporary need of histories of this quality and insight.”
    http://tinyurl.com/2pt3az (catholic culture)

  40. Thanks for that quote, maz2.
    From William F. Buckley’s book, Miles Gone By, about his fictional character Blackford Oakes, b. 1975 (page 353):
    [Begin quote]
    Blackford Oakes lives in an age when what matters most is the survival of basic distinctions. America faces grievous problems; we are beset by unfulfilled hopes and awesome difficulties. Even so, that which distinguishes us from those awful political cultures in the Soviet Union and the People’s Republic of China, in which human beings are treated as mere aggregations of random clinical circumstances, to be dealt with according as said human phenomena further, or hinder, the surrealistic visions of totalitarian superpowers that acknowledge no role whatever for morality [“moral evaluation and the imperatives of conscience,” if you will] in the formulation of public policy–THAT difference between Us, and Them, is the difference that matters. And any failure by beneficiaries of the free world to recognize what it is that we have here, over against what it is they would impose upon us, amounts to a moral and intellectual nihilism. To founder there is more incriminating of our culture than eristic scruples of the kind that preoccupy so many of our moralists.
    [End quote]
    Certain distinctions matter and our failure to discern them seems to be more than simply a peccadillo of this age.

  41. Well, Harper’s Law case against Liberals is going ahead. It will be interesting to see their arses hauled to court.

  43. i forget the exact wording, But last night on Duffy in the Reporters section of the show the topic was about Rae’s Possible win monday & how this will effect Ignatieff.
    Duffy made a comment about the Liberals & a new joke going around Ottawa “they are so confused that they are Stabbing in the Front”

  44. The 9/11 truthers are now saying that Splitzer was set up by the CIA because he was about to reveal secret info on Bush’s role in 9/11. What a pathetic myopic group of fools.

  47. So, no surprise: The HoC has voted to extend our mission to Afghanistan until 2011, and Taliban Jack is crying the blues. He thinks that Canada should follow some UN peace initiative.
    ‘Just like the NDP. Ask the non-elected, corrupt, we-favour-duplicitous-and-brutal-dictators, members of the United Nations to bring peace to the ME.
    How, Jack, how?
    Then, how ironic, the Ottawa Peace Initiative disrupted the vote in Parliament by being distinctly unpeaceful. The CBC reporter, Rosemary Barton, called leur petit demonstration “a ruckus.”
    Way to go, guys. Of course, practise what you preach! LOL!

  48. Don’t know if this has been mentioned, but Bourque provides a link to Chris Tindal of the Green Party who also attended that Bob Rae meeting at the St. Lawrence Hall in Toronto. Apparently Rae, the Liberal Foreign Affairs critic, doesn’t know that Canadian Military officers have been serving in Iraq.
    “While answering a question last night at the St. Lawrence debate, I mentioned that it’s important for us to realize that there are currently Canadian military officers serving in Iraq as part of the American command. Bob Rae interrupted me to object adamantly, almost angrily. “No there aren’t!”
    Yes, I said, there are. “No there aren’t,” Mr. Rae said again. “They’re part of our military exchange program,” I explained.”
    “Strangely, Mr. Rae demanded I tell him where in Iraq our officers were stationed, as if my inability to do so would prove they weren’t there.”
    http://www.christindal.ca/2008/03/12/rae-seriously-uninformed-regarding-iraq/

  49. Moh married an ugly?
    …-
    Muslim Group Hopes to Marry Off Terrorists’ Widows
    (IsraelNN.com) The Islamic group “Samuh al-Islam” has begun a campaign to find husbands for the widows of deceased terrorists, according to Omedia. The group describes the campaign as an effort to revive an ancient Islamic custom. The group’s religious leaders point out that Mohammed, who Muslims hail as a prophet, married the widow of a follower who died in battle, despite the fact that she was less attractive than his other wives.
    Terrorists’ widows pose a challenge to the social structure in many areas, especially Palestinian Authority-controlled territories, where several thousand men have been killed while fighting the IDF or in armed clashes between various terror gangs. The widows are often left with no source of income. “Samuh al-Islam” will try to convince Muslim men to take them as second or third wives, in order to provide for them and their children and to increase the Muslim birthrate. ..-
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1985294/posts

  50. CBC uses the word “Liberals'” in a headline. It’s a first for your CBC. Get a screen shot for posterity/history.
    …-
    House passes motion sidetracking Liberals’ RESP bill
    “A handful of Liberals — including leader Stéphane Dion and McTeague — also opposed the budget motion.”
    http://tinyurl.com/yq825d
    …-
    RESP Bill Misses Mark
    Students and Faculty Call on MPs from all Parties to Defeat RESP Bill
    Canadian Federation of Students and Canadian Association of University Teachers
    Thursday, March 13, 2008
    OTTAWA–
    Students and faculty are united in condemning proposed changes to the Registered Education Savings Plan (RESP). Liberal MP Dan McTeague’s bill to increase permissible RESP contributions and make them tax deductible will do little to make postsecondary education more accessible for most students and their families.
    “This bill is a bad use of scarce resources and it will cost about $1-billion a year.” said Amanda Aziz, National Chairperson of the Canadian Federation of Students. “Reducing tuition fees and increasing need-based grants would be a far more equitable way of providing assistance to students.” …-
    http://tinyurl.com/ypu42p

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