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  1. Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. As there are, history would appear to suggest, a number of aficionados of the big band swing era ’round these parts, we are particularly pleased here in the studio tonight to have found in the archives this delightful episode of the Camel Caravan Swing School radio broadcast featuring the Benny Goodman Instrumental Trio & Quartet, Gene Krupa, Lionel Hampton, various guests, and students, performed on August 10, 1937: tinyurl.com/6mkzuw
    Mr. Hampton’s performance in this show (which starts at about 13:12) would have been one of his earliest works with Mr. Goodman. Lionel started out in Chicago as teenager. In 1930 he moved to California and worked on some movie scores, based on his study of the vibraphone in the late ’20s. Mr. Goodman starting working with Mr. Hampton in 1937, the year of tonight’s show.
    How much would you pay for that? But wait, there’s more. At 18:00 we have Mr. Goodman and the orchestra, featuring Mr. Gene Krupa, performing Sing Sing Sing, which needs no further introduction in these parts.
    Once again, that’s: tinyurl.com/6mkzuw (mp3)

  2. Jackie Mason gives his take on Obama’s preacher/mentor, and on Obama’s essential fraudulence. Excerpt:
    “This man lies incrementally, and he builds one lie on top of another, and as soon as you catch him with this one, he has a new one, then a third one, and then a fourth one. Why do you think he calls himself the agent of change — because he changes his story every five minutes…
    “He said: ‘Let’s be honest about it, there’s a racial divide in this country and we have to heal the racial divide’. Racial divide? What has racial divide got to do with hating America?…. you want to tell us how you’re gonna save this country while you’re listening to people who tell you every single day…that we should destroy this country, (that) this country has no right to exist? Is this where you get your education on how to save America, from a guy who hates America, wants to destroy America, and you’re pretending that you didn’t even hear him?
    “If you’re so deaf, dumb and blind that you’re sitting there every day for twenty years and he’s your mentor and your teacher and you never heard him, then you’re a phony, or a liar, or you’re deaf, or you’re stupid. Which are you? Pick out one of these. And a person like that shouldn’t be President of the United States, he shouldn’t even be allowed to be a citizen of this country, because you’re a fake and a hater of America if you could claim that you could listen to all this and it means nothing to you — and as a reward for this you should be President of the United States? You ought to be ashamed of yourself, and the people who believe him are worse than him — yeuchhh, I’m nauseous from this whole story…”
    youtube.com/watch?v=mZ5c6hxqXq4

  3. This is rough, but with a possible up side.
    Iraq: Sadr Party Faces Rising Isolation
    By HAMZA HENDAWI and QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA – 10 hours ago
    BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq’s major Shiite, Sunni and Kurdish parties have closed ranks to force anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr to disband his Mahdi Army militia or leave politics, lawmakers and officials involved in the effort said Sunday.
    Such a bold move risks a violent backlash by al-Sadr’s Shiite militia. But if it succeeds it could cause a major realignment of Iraq’s political landscape.
    http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5h0_feLSmJcspNYz9g3tqDkkwXD2QD8VSIPN00
    ======================== AP
    And take a few notches out of Acmahdinejad*s gun belt as well. = TG

  5. Here’s another story that — considering the climate of the last twenty or forty years or so — you wouldn’t expect to come from a University Newspaper. In this case, it’s the McGill Tribune. Excerpt:
    “Canadians live under the veneer of free expression, as granted by their precious Charter of Rights and Freedoms. However, just beneath the placid surface of Canadian jurisprudence lies a whole host of thorny anti-liberal restrictions on freedom of speech and expression.”
    Later: “…disgracefully, Canadian human rights law gives plaintiffs with no standing or actual injury the right to sue publishers and authors who express or publish controversial views…”
    WLM Redux first brought this link to my attention; he mentioned that apparently the author got sued, or so. Take a guess as to who might be doing that.
    Good guess.
    http://media.www.mcgilltribune.com/media/storage/paper234/news/2008/03/26/Opinion/Off-The.Board.Fighting.NeoNazis.With.CryptoFascism-3284169-page1.shtml

  6. “My own tiny role in Canada’s biggest free speech case ever
    If you haven’t heard, my article here might have caused a bit of legal trouble for myself and the Tribune. I was inspired (and outraged) after I read Mark Steyn’s article that was reprinted in the Gazette. At the same time, I had been doing research for a sidebar about Bill C-10 funding restrictions and the history of media censorship in Canada. What I found was a disturbing pattern — an illiberal crusade on the part of minorities to shut out unpleasant ideas using Canadian law. I wrote this up in the aforementioned op-ed, and waited. I purposely didn’t feature lawyer and activist Richard Warman very prominently — knowing that others have had trouble with him.
    Luckily, Mr. Warman is competent with Google and found the article anyway, calling up the Tribune, and sending a threatening e-mail, saying my article potentially libeled and defamed him.”
    http://btau.blogspot.com/2008/04/my-own-tiny-role-in-canadas-biggest.html

  7. I spotted an interesting book commented on at the Belmont site called Culture and Conflict in the Middle East
    By Philip Carl Salzman
    Salman is a professor of anthropology at Montreal’s McGill University, Salzman specializes in the study of Middle Eastern nomads. Tribalism has been vastly overshadowed by Islam in our attempts to understand the jihadist challenge.
    A review of the book is done here by the Weekly Standard:
    http://tinyurl.com/532a48
    The Standard says:
    “The anthropological understanding of tribal social structures–especially in Africa and the Middle East–has been shunned for 40 years as exaggerating the violence and “primitivism” of non-Western cultures, discouraging efforts at modernization and democratization, and covertly justifying Western intervention abroad. Decades of postmodern and postcolonial studies have conspired against the appearance of books like Salzman’s. That an academic, “on the inside,” could have worked in relative concealment long enough to produce this book is testament to the possibility of cultural survival.”
    Comment over at Belmont :
    “When Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton talk about uniting the nation, they really mean they must divide it first — the unstated preliminary for admission into the Big Tent is a prior alienation — into blacks, whites, latinos, women, gays, lesbians and transgendered. No one enters America simply as an American.” Ditto the Liberals void of policy have multi-culti’d us into silos ; especially here in Toronto where “neigbourhoods” might not be the family next door, but the internet allows the neighbourhood to expand to some Jihadists in the Middle East.
    ET has been banging away at the “tribal” drum for a couple of years on SDA. I suspect ET will agree with much of this; but will say that that the McGill Anthropologist does not give enough weighting to the impact of population growth on tribalism.

  8. “Olympic torch extinguished during Paris leg
    (CNN) — The Olympic torch relay was disrupted Monday by protesters in Paris demonstrating against the Chinese government, causing authorities to twice extinguish the flame and put the torch on a bus, according to The Associated Press.”
    http://tinyurl.com/6jhmo8 (asspress)

  9. nomdeblog – yes, I’ve heard of him; haven’t read his book. But of course I agree.
    The thing is, most people think that the mode of government a society has is a matter of choice. It can’t be and it is indeed related to population size, which is related to economic system, which is related to the ecology, ie, how much ‘energy’ is there in the envt or, how many people can that environment sustain.
    I came to this way of thinking by considering societies as ‘energy-content’. After all, all mass or energy-in-the-form-of-matter is organized. Or it would lose that mass. It’s interesting to note that low energy content is organized in a less complex manner than high energy content. A single-celled paramecium is not as complex as a mouse!
    Think of societies as complex organisms. A low energy content, made up of its ecological resources and its population is organized in a simpler manner than a high energy content.
    Tribalism is a political mode of organization that functions in what I call a ‘medium’ size energy content or population size. It’s stable, long term. It’s absolutely disastrous in high energy or populations in the millions, for these societies require rapid reactions, constant innovations and adaptative capacities, large scale production of goods and services. That means a middle class – the class of the uninherited and free – with no ties to time or space.
    Multiculturalism actually prevents its ghettoized inhabitants from entering into that middle class; it keeps them in ‘hereditary tribes’. That’s extremely dangerous; that’s also what makes them, in Canada, dependent on the Liberal largesse.

  10. Dalton McGuinty please tell us how replacing Nurses with paper shufflers and ditch diggers protects our “quality of our health care”?
    Dalton McGuinty quote from Toronto Sun April 7, 2007.
    “I will not compromise the quality of things that people need to be able to count on, whether that’s the quality of the education of our children, whether it’s the quality of our health care or supports for the vulnerable. That is not what we are going to do as a government,” McGuinty said.
    Dalton McGuinty once again proves he thinks the public is stupid enough to believe anything he says even when it’s the exact opposite of what he is doing! He is firing hundreds of nurses and health care workers and using the money to buy union support away from the NDP he does not care about anyone or anything other than his self serving desire to have power!

  11. Mao Who?: “Most Olympic spirit of the slogan: its spiritual civilization and barbarism their physique!”
    …-
    “Indeed, TV screens in China Sunday showed only the daylong relay’s opening moments, which were conducted, for security reasons, in a completely empty stadium.”
    “but made a public show of declining to touch it.”
    “London torch flame-out a bad sign for Beijing
    Olympic symbol assaulted; British PM makes public show of declining to touch it”
    http://tinyurl.com/6bn9ye (g-m)

  13. Peacock is right on the money. My wife is a nurse, and things seem to be getting worse and worse.
    The so called “bed shortage” is nothing short of scandal. There are many “beds”, but no staff to service the patients lying in them.
    Half of my wife’s crew(around 30 nurses)are contemplating early retirement or quitting(moving to greener pastures, as in Victoria BC for us).
    Chimpy Mcliar tagged us with his bulls@#$ health care tax, and then proceeded to run our system into the ground.
    Typical liberal garbage!

  14. Iran helped halt raids on militia
    TEHRAN: Officials in Iran confirmed for the first time yesterday that the country played an important role in brokering a recent truce between the Iraqi government and anti-American Shi’ite cleric Muqtada Al Sadr.
    Iran helped end the clashes between Iraqi government troops and Al Sadr’s Mahdi Army militia for the sake of Shi’ite unity, said a senior Iranian official who deals with Iraq.
    The Iraqi prime minister sparked clashes with Al Sadr’s Mahdi Army over a week ago when he sent government troops to Basra to crack down on Shi’ite militias. The fighting eased last Sunday after Al Sadr ordered his men off the streets and called on the Iraqi government to end its attacks.
    http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/Story.asp?Article=213790&Sn=WORL&IssueID=31017
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    Iran just giving Muqtada time to lick wounds? =TG

  15. Iran helped halt raids on militia
    TEHRAN: Officials in Iran confirmed for the first time yesterday that the country played an important role in brokering a recent truce between the Iraqi government and anti-American Shi’ite cleric Muqtada Al Sadr.
    Iran helped end the clashes between Iraqi government troops and Al Sadr’s Mahdi Army militia for the sake of Shi’ite unity, said a senior Iranian official who deals with Iraq.
    The Iraqi prime minister sparked clashes with Al Sadr’s Mahdi Army over a week ago when he sent government troops to Basra to crack down on Shi’ite militias. The fighting eased last Sunday after Al Sadr ordered his men off the streets and called on the Iraqi government to end its attacks.
    gulf-daily-news.com/Story.asp?Article=213790&Sn=WORL&IssueID=31017
    ========================================
    Iran just giving Muqtada time to lick wounds? =TG

  16. Terry Glavin, The Cairo Clique: Anti-Zionism and the Canadian Left
    The phenomenon that Dr. Ely Karmon of the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism has called “a growing trend of solidarity between leftist, Marxist, anti-globalization and even rightist elements with Islamists”[1] has lately emerged as the dominant trend in “anti-war” activism in Canada.
    Central to the phenomenon is a strategic collaboration between ostensibly left-wing activists in and far-right Islamists that animates the leadership of Canada’s main “anti-war” organizations. It has accommodated Israel’s most committed and unambiguously antisemitic enemies, and has enjoyed particular success in framing public debates about Canada’s role in the NATO-led mission serving in Afghanistan.
    The Canadian left has exhibited a peculiar reluctance to face up to it, despite repeated warnings, perhaps most noticeably from progressive Canadian Muslims. The overall trend Ely Karmon describes has also implicated important public policy debates in Canada with respect to Israel, Iran, and even Darfur. It has advanced rapidly, almost completely eluding the notice of the Canada’s news media. It is marked by a tendency to isolate Canada’s mainstream Jewish activists…

  17. You know, just when you thought that the country that ruled an “empire that the sun never sets” has gone as low as they could go, they do it again. The latest for everone’s owb good idea: A ban on Japanese samurai swords. Yep, take away those swords because G*d knows the Sword Registry didn’t work.
    http://news.google.ca/news?hl=en&tab=wn&ned=ca&q=swords

  19. Daniel Pipes, SaveIsraelsChildren.com
    The effort is the first time since World War II – when the Germans bombed London, and London children were sent off to families in the countryside to be cared for until the German assault ended – that a “people-to-people” campaign has been organized to remove children from a war zone. Sadly, indeed embarrassingly, the children are those of S’derot, an Israeli town…

  21. Where do I go to post mocking comments about the Brits? I just want to laugh in their faces, mock them, make insults, joke about their demise? I am so full of it I am going to explode. Any tips welcome, but don’t send me to BBC – I am banned there.

  22. Philip Carl Salzman, No peace without victory
    …But reflecting on some of the precedents Oren cites, it appears that, in his advice, he has forgotten another element in historically successful interventions: defeating the enemy. This worked for Jefferson and in other major U.S. military engagements, too well known to recite here. These precedents offer an “operational” criterion to apply to Oren’s advice that we “know when to cease fighting and negotiate.” It is this: cease fighting when you have defeated the enemy…

  23. CTV makes it a campaign. Cheryl Gallant was the reason for the Liberal minority doncha know:
    Even in the 2004 federal election, for example, Ontario Conservative MP Cheryl Gallant compared abortion to the beheading of Western hostages in Iraq. She also suggested most Tories would like to see hate crimes protection rescinded for gays and lesbians. The Liberals ended up forming a minority government in that election.
    http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20080406/politics_poll_080406/20080406?hub=TopStories

  24. Dutch Mosque Leader: Muslims Are Responsible For Creating Enemies Of Islam
    The imam of Al-Sunnah mosque in The Hague Sheikh Fawwaz Junaid has said Muslims themselves are responsible for creating the enemies of Islam. The Urdu-language newspaper Roznama Jang quoted Sheikh Junaid as saying that the hatred and opposition faced by Muslims in today’s world are created by themselves.
    According to the report, the imam said the Muslims’ conduct itself should be the standard to be judged by non-Muslims. However, he said Muslims themselves are involved in disgraceful behavior and activities which give non-Muslims an opportunity ‘‘to raise a finger on Islam.’’
    Source: Roznama Jang, Pakistan, April 4, 2008

  26. The PET Cemetery.
    The Official PET Cemetery is now receiving guests.
    Welcome/Bienvenue. Your home away from home. Say hi to Tommy.
    …-
    “To ensure that Canadians of all faiths and backgrounds feel at home and
    welcome in the Centre, extensive consultations were held with major faith
    leaders. As a result, the Beechwood National Memorial Centre can accommodate
    different observances. The Sacred Space and reception rooms can be configured
    to suit the memorial needs of each individual family. This multi-faith
    facility is believed to be the first of its kind in the world and is already
    gathering national and international attention.”
    “The Governor General Opens the Beechwood National Memorial Centre: ‘A National Place of Tribute'”
    http://tinyurl.com/4jvkrr (newswire)

  27. ET, here’s an interesting article on ME tribalism that supports so much of what you said in the past:
    The state, such as it is in the Middle East, offers but a thin alternative to “the war of all against all.” Too weak to provide public utilities, policing, or impartial justice, most Middle Eastern states are just reincarnations of the predatory, winner-take-all tribal coalitions of old. Why exchange the protection of your family, tribe, or sect for submission to a weak or predatory state? Tribal society contains just enough order to make a bit of violent anarchy bearable, and just enough grasping anarchy to make a liberal social contract unreliable.
    http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/014/947kigpp.asp

  28. Olympic wrestling events have started early this week, with the British and French teams kicking things off in the torch relay/wrestling competition.
    Picture essay at The Phantom Soapbox.
    phantomsoapbox.blogspot.com/2008/04/olympic-wrestling-event-starts-early.html

  29. Olympic Torch Relay Cut Short
    The Olympic torch relay in Paris has been cut short after chaotic protests by anti-China demonstrators.
    The flame had already been extinguished four times by security forces after repeated clashes with pro-Tibet and human rights campaigners.
    The city’s mayor also cancelled a ceremony to mark the torch’s passing as officials draped a Tibetan flag over the city hall’s facade.
    Mayor Bertrand Delanoe announced the cancellation after Green party members of the city council flew the flag. …-
    http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30200-1311970,00.html
    Baghdad Bob speaks:
    “International Olympic Committee chief Jacques Rogge has expressed concern at the demonstrations but said there was no momentum for a boycott of the Beijing Games.”

  30. A message on behalf of Fife, Oliver, & Co.
    …-
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  31. Well, I wouldn’t describe tribal society as having a ‘bit of order’ or ‘grasping anarchy’.
    I took at look at the comments on Belmont site about tribalism and was saddened by the ignorance of the comments.
    Tribalism is a natural system of social organization, directly related to a particular size of population, which itself is directly related to the amount of ‘energy’ (food, water, land, work force) available to that population.
    It’s hereditary authority; that means that there’s no internal arguments or fights over who is leader. Membership in your tribe or sub-tribe (called a clan) is hereditary; that ensures long term stability of order and activity.
    The society as a whole, ie, the economic system IS stable. No change. It’s a basic horticulturalism or pastoral nomadism, that supports a no-growth population. No-growth.
    Its economic, social and political focus is the Set of people known as the tribe. Or clan. That Set looks after its members completely.
    The comments at Belmont, ignorant as they are, refer to ‘polygamy’. No, not always, and when there is, it is an ECONOMIC factor. Always. The tribe is an ECONOMIC unit, geared to provide for every single member of the tribe.
    And you can also have polyandry (a woman with several husbands). Again – it’s economic.
    Yes, there is ‘rule of law’ in a tribe, very old customs and beliefs about proper behaviour. The fact that they aren’t written down is irrelevant.
    No, tribes aren’t always at war. In fact, warfare had to be avoided. No tribe can afford to lose its young men in war. So, there’d be a lot of public and fake wars in pre-contact times. And no tribe could increase its population beyond the carrying capacity of its land base. And it couldn’t expand its land base. So, children would be spaced far apart.
    The societies that engaged in constant warfare actually were those whose economy and ecology (envt) could support LARGE populations – that’s Europe.
    Tribalism doesn’t have classes – well, you could call it ‘two class’; the leaders, who may be the elders in all clans. Or, one clan is the leader of all clans. The rest of the population are ‘peasants’ with no power.
    Industrialism on the other hand, has the middle class. That’s non-hereditary, you enter/leave by merit; it’s based on individual activity – something totally unknown in a tribal society that rejects individualism.
    Tribalism is no-growth and no-change. So, it rejects individuals, and dissent. And science, and change and progress, and…
    Again, the ignorance about tribalism among ‘we in the west’ is quite sad to see. At any rate, what is going on in the ME, is, as I’ve said umpteen times, a phase where a society(ies) that has become frozen into a tribal mode, is confronted with an economic mode unsuited to tribalism. That’s industrialism.
    And, its population base is too large for the confines of tribalism.
    Islam as an ideology, as I’ve also said tons of times, is actually a tribal ideology; it’s unsuited to modern industrialism. It requires reform.

  32. http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080407/wl_nm/iraq_dc
    NAJAF, Iraq (Reuters) – Iraqi cleric Moqtada al-Sadr offered on Monday to disband his militia if the highest Shi’ite religious authority demand it, a shock announcement at a time when the group is the focus of an upsurge in fighting.
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    It was the first time Sadr has offered to dissolve the Mehdi Army militia, whose black-masked fighters have been principle actors throughout Iraq’s five-year-old war and the main foes of U.S. and Iraqi forces in widespread battles over recent weeks.

  34. The cbc’s fight to keep Canadian ‘culture’ alive continues…Little Mosque on,World Curling..NOT ON.Smooth move cbc!

  35. Stephane Dion hears a WHO!
    ————–
    The World Health Organization (WHO) is sounding the alarm about the potential health effects of global warming in the coming years.
    The hardest hit countries will be poorer nations in Asia, where, according to the WHO, millions of people will face hunger, disease, and poverty due to rising temperatures and increased rainfall.

  36. There goes bin Laden, Saudi Arabia and all those madrassas and text books. Wahhab was a Jew!:
    “By the middle of Volume 5” of the tome prepared for the military’s Joint Forces Command, Steven Aftergood of the Federation of American Scientists tells us, “most people will have entered an altered state of consciousness.” But not the eagle-eyed folks over at the federation, who sifted through the review and came up with a stunner.
    It’s in a 50-page analysis by Iraq’s crack military intelligence crew that “disparages the austerely conservative Wahhabi school of Islam by claiming that its eighteenth century founder, Ibn ‘Abd al Wahhab, had ancestors who were Jews,” the FAS reported.
    Talk about burying the lead! Who cares about warmed-over stuff about Saddam and Osama? Now, this is news.
    The shocking Iraqi analysis says that Ibn ‘Abd al Wahhab’s grandfather’s true name was not “Sulayman” but “Shulman.” (Of course! The Saudi Shulmans! ) “Tawran,” a source often cited by Iraqi intelligence in the reports as an expert, “confirms that Sulayman, the grandfather of the sheikh, is (Shulman); he is Jew from the merchants of the city of Burstah in Turkey, he had left it and settled in Damascus, grew his beard, and wore the Muslim turban, but was thrown out for being voodoo,” the Iraqi document says, according to a Defense Intelligence Agency translation.

  37. Norm Spector disses a “blogger” in Saskatchewan with “disgusting racist views” and implies that those attitudes explain why Lukiwiski could say those things 16 years ago. I wonder who he was talking about? On CKNW the Bill Good Show at about 10:28 am

  38. Allan,
    That is a very interesting piece you have there.
    Maliki, who said . . .
    * * Solving the problem comes in no other way than dissolving the Mehdi Army,** Maliki told U.S. network CNN. ** They no longer have a right to participate in the political process or take part in the upcoming elections unless they end the Mehdi Army.* *
    =======================
    This is the clearest thought he has expressed thus far. Suspect though, when you see the warmth of his friendship with that nasty leprahchan Acmahdinejad.
    ======================
    Senior Sadr aide Hassan Zargani said Sadr would seek rulings from Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, Iraq’s most senior Shi’ite cleric, as well as senior Shi’ite clergy based in Iran, on whether to dissolve the Mehdi Army, and would obey their orders.
    That puts the spotlight on the reclusive Sistani, 77, a cleric revered by all of Iraq’s Shi’ite factions and whose edicts carry the force of Islamic law.
    ================================ Allen – 12:43pm
    al Sistani is a wise old Ayatollah. Often referred to as THE most moderate on the Memri blogsite. There could be some promise here.
    Who knows what goes on behind the scenes. This could be a *save face* way for Iran*s agent Muqtada al Sadr to ease off and avoid a near direct slam at Iran, where his weapons and backing comes from.= TG

  39. No one should have questions about the motives of Al Jazeera who hope to look un-biased in news reporting.
    The motive is the same as the tin-pot dictator of Qatar who spawned it.
    The aim is simply to see the head and body of all of free democracy separated. = TG

  40. ET “Tribalism is no-growth and no-change. So, it rejects individuals, and dissent.”
    Isn’t this where the Liberals multiculturalism enters the picture? Because the Liberals and other cultural relativists, think it is just fine and dandy for cultures to remain siloed. In Liberal-think, these cultures don’t have to change when they immigrate here; they don’t have to assimilate because that would require adaptation, which would initiate a process dissent. Dissent involves risk. (also dissent involves risk you won’t vote Liberal)
    But both risk and dissent is un-Canadian in Liberal opinion. Therefore Liberals promote multiculturalism or tribalism, which won’t work in a population that is growing. Tribal societies are geared to no change, stability, status quo.
    But a growing modern society requires change and must insert risk into its organization. That is how a middle class is created. A middle class where you can rise or fall based on your own work, your own merits and not some inherited position. Nor is it some Liberal patronage appointed position.
    Multiculturalism causes the development of tribes, where people can live with no risk. Because they don’t have to adapt, they don’t innovate, they don’t enter the middle class, they stay in their ghettos. We see it in the banlieus in France and if we are not careful we will see those ghettos starting here in Canada.
    However, that Salzman could produce this book at McGill is testament to the possibility of our cultural survival.

  41. Could there be a link between Islam and…nahhh!
    “Paedophile changes name and converts to Islam in jail” (dailyrecord.co.uk)
    A PAEDOPHILE has converted to Islam and changed his name behind bars.
    Paul Falconer, 40, now insists bosses at Peterhead prison call him Mohammed Farooq instead.
    Falconer’s case made legal history when his five-year-old victim gave evidence by video link to a court 40 miles away to ease her ordeal.
    He was jailed for almost eight years for sexually abusing her and another girl. His ex-wife was last night shocked at his identity swap.
    Falconer is not the first Scots prisoner to convert to Islam. Rapist George Clark, 46, is now known as Yusuf Ansari. After finding his faith he advertised for a wife on the internet from jail.
    Meanwhile…
    What was that about Mo marrying Aeisha at 6 years of age?
    And the respected imperial imam, Khomeini said: “A man can have sexual pleasure from a child as young as a baby” (Paz, 2006).
    Like prophet, like followers.

  42. Corporate Greed coming our way:
    ‘Traffic-shaping’ likely to slow Internet users
    Updated Mon. Apr. 7 2008 11:46 AM ET
    CTV.ca News Staff
    New ‘traffic-shaping’ policies implemented by some of Canada’s telecom giants are likely to slow download speeds for Internet users, say experts.
    Bell Canada recently decided to quietly restrict the amount of file-sharing traffic allowed to flow through its network during peak times.
    In mid-March, the company launched the initiative without notifying customers in advance.
    The Canadian Association of Internet Providers (CAIP) says the full extent of the measures should be in place Monday, which will mean significantly slower Internet service between 4:30 p.m. ET to 2:00 a.m. ET.
    Bell claims the new policies are meant to prevent a small group of users from hogging bandwidth from others online.
    Rogers Communications has had similar policies in place for some time.
    The restrictions have sparked a debate over the level of competition allowed in the industry and the availability of options for Internet users wanting fast service.
    Richard Morochove, a Toronto-based IT consultant, said average users have little input in the level of service they receive.
    “It really comes down to consumers and a lack of real choice of broadband internet service,” said Morochove told The Canadian Press.
    “We’re having . . . a near monopoly situation in Canada with respect to high-speed broadband access.”
    Morochove said he sees the move as being motivated by a desire to limit competition from independent providers — putting them under the same traffic restrictions that Sympatico has imposed on users since 2007.
    CAIP complaint
    Last week, the CAIP filed an official complaint with the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission over ‘traffic-shaping’ measures.
    The complaint alleges that the measures are in violation of several section of the country’s telecommunications act.
    Under its terms with the CRTC, Bell is allowed to restrict its traffic if congestion is being caused by equipment failure or malicious hacking.
    “There is no evidence whatsoever that Bell’s network is suffering from congestion, that this is the reason behind the implementation of DPI,” the application reads.
    CAIP alleges Bell is using a technique known as Deep Packet Inspection, or DPI, to examine the types of data moving across the Internet. CAIP claims Bell is then restricting the movements of certain types of data — primarily large files such as movies or music over peer-to-peer networks.
    “I think we have a lot of strong arguments, because this is just wrong on so many levels,” CAIP chairman Tom Copeland told The Canadian Press.
    Mirko Bibic, Bell’s chief of regulatory affairs, rebuffed the CAIP complaint saying that Bell has a right to maintain the integrity of its network.
    He said DPI technology was a useful way to monitor traffic online.
    “Bandwidth doesn’t just fall from the sky,” Bibic told The Canadian Press, adding that more bandwidth would not resolve congestion issues.
    He also said traffic shaping was part of a “multi-pronged” strategy used to prevent congestion.
    According to the CAIP complaint, Bell has done away with its unlimited Internet plan and will, starting June 30, bill customers based on how much bandwidth they use.
    Rogers recently announced similar measures and will soon charge between $1.25 and $5 for every extra gigabyte a customer uses.
    With files from The Canadian Press

  44. So what excuses did Arabs use BEFORE Israel, the US, and Imperialism existed?
    “Let’s look at George Sale’s 1734 translation of the Quran. The 145 page introduction is a treasure of insight into the Middle East before all the contemporary Arab excuses flourished. Sale states quite boldly that Muhammad is an Impostor and that he personally wrote the Quran with a little help from some close associates. Regarding the reason for Arab problems, here is what the British scholar and historian had to say: The frequent robberies committed by these people on merchants and travelers have rendered the name of an Arab almost infamous in Europe; this they are sensible of, and endeavour to excuse themselves by alleging the hard usage of their father Ismael, who, being turned out of doors by Abraham, had the open plains and deserts given him by God for his patrimony, with permission to take whatever he could find there; and on this account they think they may, with a safe conscience, indemnify themselves as well as they can, not only on the posterity of Isaac, but also on everybody else, always supposing a sort of kindred between themselves and those they plunder. And in relating their adventures of this kind, they think it sufficient to change the expression, and instead of “I robbed a man of such and such a thing,” to say, “I gained it.” (page 24) The excuses must stop!”
    This is the Quran that Muslim Congressman Keith Ellison was sworn in on. Heh.

  45. Bloggers beware! Or do you need a Surgeon General’s warning? If you can’t give credence to the NYT, who can you believe?
    John Podhoretz, Blogging Will KILL YOU! (Not)
    There’s a certain type of news story that ought to be called “link catnip” — because it appears to have been designed to garner the maximum number of links on blogs around the world. Such was the case with Sunday’s alarmist tale in the New York Times, “In Web World of 24/7 Stress, Writers Blog Till They Drop.” It appears one blogger had a heart attack, while another had chest pains. A third says he’ll be having a nervous breakdown pretty soon. This is, the piece’s author says breathlessly, “the age of the digital sweatshop.”
    To say this is ridiculous is to do an injustice to the word “ridiculous.” Journalists – and the bloggers highlighted by the piece are basically old-time deadline journalists in Internet form — have always functioned at high speeds, working to get a story first…

  47. Taliban Jack Layton-NDP is silent on Schreyer, Tommy Douglas, and Mills.
    Liberal Citoyen Dion is silent on Wappel, Steckle, and Rae’s ex-MPP, Gord Mills.
    Their silence speaks.
    …-
    Kevin Libin:
    “Certainly, he [Lukiwski] has distanced himself further from his remarks than former NDP premier of Manitoba and governor-general Ed Schreyer, who described homosexuality as an “affliction,” and never apologized, instead arguing, when the comment was raised as he ran for the NDP in 2006, that “It was 19 years ago.””
    “Yet no party can claim to be unstained by the same sort of comments coming from their own ranks. The Liberals have Paul Steckle, who in 1995 called homosexuality “unnatural,” and the prolific Tom Wappel, who among other things has called it “physically abnormal and morally immoral” (1994), “unnatural” and “unhealthy” (1993), and said “the majority of homosexual liaisons are of a promiscuous nature” (1996), while comparing gays to pedophiles (1996). In addition to Mr. Schreyer, the NDP’s sainted Tommy Douglas once called homosexuality “a mental illness,” while Gord Mills, an MPP under then-Ontario premier Bob Rae was known to use the term “queer people,” and paid no price in Mr. Rae’s caucus for it.”
    http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=423114

  48. Climate change causes cataracts..link to story at Nat.Newswatch.Maybe that’s the problem…all these Greenies ARE blind!

  49. Martin Bright, British jihad: Why our anti-terror strategy isn’t working
    Fitna is a vision of supreme reactionary pessimism, suggesting that Europe is already engaged in an internal civil war with Islam. But unfortunately, no European government, of the left or right, has yet been able to provide a coherent alternative vision. The contradictory approach of the British authorities to the work of Butt and Malik is evidence of a deep confusion at the heart of this government’s terror strategy. The pursuit of a journalist whose work has been praised by ministers and the head of MI5, Jonathan Evans, is an act of desperation.

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