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Nice to see The Garth step in it big-time.See AGWN,and The Torch.The ‘uniforms’ are angry!
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“I work hard because millions on welfare depend on me” is the message on the men’s T-shirt sold at The Clothing Line Factory Outlet
wallyj: “Today Dallaire proved my worst fear,Liberalism is a CONTAGIOUS mental disorder.”
Yup. You’ve got it, wally, and Dallaire’s had it for a long time.
‘Caught Dallaire at a Rotary dinner in an undisclosed Southwestern Ontario city (tickets were handouts) a few years ago. Romeo is a full-blown, dyed-in-the-wool-UN-Librano-feathers-for-brains stooge–aka useful idiot.
I was deeply disappointed. It would have been awkward to walk out of his after-dinner-talk, but just a few minutes in, it was obvious he’d bought the whole equivalency, tolerant-to-tyrants, it’s-all-our-fault-in-the-West-and-all-we-have-to-do-is-be-nice-to-our-enemies liberal schtick.
I wondered how a guy that had been through what he had, could be backing away from the facts about what’s going on, and could only attribute it to shell shock and the Stockholm Syndrome.
He was a full-blown apologist and cheerleader for the UN’s role in the world, and I came away thinking whatever planet he’s on it isn’t the one I inhabit.
He continues to amaze and disappoint–but, with his ideas he’ll, no doubt, have a sinecure at these commissions and UN jaunts for as long as he wants one.
‘Give me Major-General Lew MacKenzie anyday.
Peabrain McGuinty gives the Big Three Automakers $400,000,000 and they cut 10,000 jobs. Give Ontario their equalization money back and Dozy Dalton will be able to extinguish the entire auto sector. After Martin and McGuinty, who is Buzz’s next best friend…Bernardo? Even the Maritimes do a better job of spending Ontario tax dollars. Of course they have lots of practice.
Romeo Dallaire should resign from the Senate, get his head in gear. Canada and US in the same category as al Qaeda, how outrageous!
Carol Lee Hamrin, China’s Protestants: A Mustard Seed for Moral Renewal?
The number of religious believers in China continues to grow almost exponentially, far outpacing population growth. Meanwhile, vague and unchanging official estimates, which since 1994 have reported “over 100 million faithful” in the country, reflect the government’s tendency to mask the rapid growth evident on the ground. In February 2007, for the first time, the official media reported on an academic challenge to these earlier figures. Scholars in Shanghai had made very rough projections based on a limited survey, suggesting that there were up to 40 million Protestants in China among a total of 300 million religious adherents (not including estimated adherents of informal popular religions or “folk faiths”)…
Rick Richman, Caroline Glick’s Important New Book
Caroline Glick held a remarkable bloggers conference call yesterday, sponsored by One Jerusalem, which has posted the audio.
Glick discussed her new book, “Shackled Warrior: Israel and the Global Jihad,” a compilation of her columns in the Jerusalem Post that cover why it is so difficult for the world to understand Israel’s role in the global jihad, and what it is about Israeli society that makes it so difficult for Israel to fight…
(Via Comment Central) Columbia Journalism Review, Who Will Tell Us?
The steady drip of buyouts and layoffs has consumed an estimated four thousand newsroom jobs in print alone since the turn of the century, according to the much-chewed-over annual State of the News Media report released in March by the Project for Excellence in Journalism. As to whether the Web is replenishing this reportorial firepower, the authors are blunt: “In print, broadcast and elsewhere, more effort is moving to packaging and repurposing material….But less is being devoted to original newsgathering, especially the bearing witness and monitoring of basic news.”
“Australia: Government may pursue Iran for inciting hatred”
Canberra, 14 May (AKI) – The Australian government is preparing to prosecute Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the International Court of Justice for inciting hatred against Israel.
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd says the government is getting legal advice on whether Australia could take action against the Iranian president.
The government first raised the idea that it would try to take the Iranian leader to the international court last year.
On Wednesday, Rudd told the Sky television news channel that Ahmadinejad’s repeated comments about eliminating Israel were appalling.
“They are an incitement to international violence,” he said.
“What we have said in the past is that we will take legal advice, which the attorney-general is currently doing, in terms of whether there is a profitable way forward here through the appropriate international legal mechanisms.”
Attorney-general Robert McClelland also told The Australian newspaper that the government was seeking legal advice on taking Ahmadinejad to the ICJ.
“The government considers the comments made by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, calling for the destruction of Israel and questioning the existence of the holocaust, to be repugnant and offensive,” McClelland told The Australian.
“The government is currently taking advice on this matter.”
“Iraqi insurgents use eight-year-old girl as suicide bomber”
(dailymail.co.uk)
An eight-year-old girl was strapped with remote-controlled explosives and used as a human bomb by Iraqi insurgents in a blast that killed an Iraqi commander earlier today.
An Iraqi captain was killed and seven other soldiers were injured in the explosion which took place in the town of Youssifiyah, south of Baghdad.
The explosives were detonated as the girl approached the Iraqi commander.