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“You can pretend to be serious; you can’t pretend to be witty.” — Sacha Guitry
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/08/show_me_where_stalin_is_buried_3.html
Revealing article.
Sounder, this part of that article really rang a note with me:
“The term hero is applied to everything from crossing guards to anyone in the military.”
That’s something that’s been bugging me for a while now, but it really went over the top a couple days ago. I was listening to the morning news on the radio, and I heard some idiot announcer telling everyone that “according to an eyewitness” that poor kid who got his head cut off on the greyhound bus “died a hero”. They promised to provide more details after the commercial break, so I was of course quite curious to see exactly what act of heroism Tim Mclean may have performed in his last minutes.
Well, my curiosity was soon to be replaced by disgust. The announcer came back on the air and proclaimed that Tim Mclean was a hero because “by fighting back, he may have saved other lives”.
Is our society truly so cowardly that we now consider it an act of heroism to fight back against someone who’s butchering you with a giant knife? I mean, I understand the desire to try and comfort the guy’s family, but COME ON! Fighting someone who’s trying to kill you isn’t heroic, it’s instinctive! ANYONE would react the same way – it’s hardwired into us. Let’s save the word “hero” for people who truly deserve it!
Here’s another one: “Be very concerned when the term ‘toil’ begins to show up in mainstream media and in the way culturalists and academics speak,” he said. “Soviet workers always toiled. Toil is a very potent word-weapon in the left’s vocabulary arsenal.”
I heard an ad on the radio where a hero is now someone who gives away theatre tickets to a production they can’t attend.
What Tim Mclean needed was a hero in the bus with him, and unfortunately, he did not get one.
Oh please sf, lets not go there again.
UNLESS you could mentally, physically and with lethal force ready, match his madness with your own level of controlled actions, no one could have saved Tim. And anyone who would have tried would have died as well. Do you know how big that knife he had was?
I do wish that the police would have shot him when he was desecrating Tim’s body.
There’s isn’t any decent human that doesn’t wish they could have stopped it and saved Tim, the sad fact is; it was not possible for that situation.
Three planes hit their targets before the fourth one was stopped by the passengers of flight 93. BECAUSE they were made aware of the facts.
They knew the score.
They died as heroes, IMHO.
ldd: Regarding confronting an armed attacker.
I’m not saying it would be easy. In fact, most people could have done nothing. But that’s what a hero is, one who excels with courage and skill the way that most people cannot. Just attempting to engage in combat might have provided the opportunity for others to assist. That’s where the courage comes in.
The Euro recession watch . . . . they’ll blame Bush of course
“The economies of Germany, France and Italy all contracted in the first quarter and may now be in full recession, shattering assumptions that Europe would prove able to shrug off the effects of the credit crunch.
The economies of Germany, France and Italy all contracted in the first quarter and may now be in full recession, shattering assumptions that Europe would prove able to shrug off the effects of the credit crunch
Zapatero has called his cabinet back to Madrid
The picture is darkening so fast in Spain that Prime Minister Jose Luis Zapatero cancelled holidays and called his cabinet back to Madrid yesterday for the first emergency session of its kind since the Franco dictatorship. The crisis meeting agreed to a €20bn (£16bn) blitz on public works, tax cuts, and a mortgage rescue to halt the downward spiral.
Growth has turned negative in Ireland, Denmark, Latvia, and Estonia, while grinding to a halt in Sweden and The Netherlands. Iceland contracted by a staggering 3.7pc. The grim data from Eurostat follows a recession warning in Britain . . .
rtr @ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2008/08/15/cneuro115.xml
(PDF warning) Norman Ricklefs, Fourteen Rules for Advisors in Iraq
These thoughts were initially penned on my way to RnR, while stuck at Baghdad International Airport for three days waiting for the mother of all dust storms to end. At the time, by chance, I was handed a photocopy of T.E. Lawrence’s “27 Articles” – and while reading it was impressed by how useful the information still was for those working in an Arab cultural environment…
(PDF warning) Keith J. Gomes, An Intellectual Genealogy of the Just War: A Survey of Christian Political Thought on the Justification of Warfare
This paper will briefly outline the development of the just war doctrine, with special emphasis on the developments in Christian thought which ultimately influenced modern international legal documents…
Michael Sheridan, Anger turns to uprising along the Silk Road
It was just one month before the Olympic Games when Chinese guards led three men away to execution, somewhere amid the apple orchards, at the end of an open-air trial watched by 7,000 local Muslims.
The crowd looked on in silence as judges handed out death sentences and life prison terms to 17 other men accused of organising an armed Islamic party. Those condemned now await their turn before the firing squad.
The spectacle, outside the oasis town of Kashgar, was the climax of a campaign intended to crush resistance and ensure “stability” in a vast western region known to Victorian explorers as Chinese Turkestan. Instead, it seems to have set off the worst violence for a decade, igniting an armed struggle against Chinese rule that has smouldered along the ancient Silk Road for 60 years…
Russia considers nuclear missiles for Syria, Mediterranean, Baltic
DEBKAfile’s military sources report Moscow’s planned retaliation for America’s missile interceptors in Poland and US-Israeli military aid to Georgia may come in the form of installing Iskandar surface missiles in Syria and its Baltic enclave of Kaliningrad.
Russian Baltic and Middle East warships, submarines and long-range bombers may be armed with nuclear warheads, according to Sunday newspapers in Europe…
“Why are Liberal candidates dropping like flies?”
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Link goes to:
http://www.punditsguide.ca/2008/08/more-mostly-bc-comings-and-goings.php
” More (mostly B.C.) comings and goings
Sometimes, even in the digital age, it takes a little while for news to travel back to Central Canada from Beautiful B.C. Or maybe I just shouldn’t have fallen so far behind on my reading of Sean Holman’s excellent Public Eye Online political news blog in B.C. Thanks to an alert reader, as always, for bringing the relevant story to my attention.
* According to Public Eye Online, and apparently confirmed by BC Liberal campaign co-chair Bruce Young, first-time Skeena – Bulkley Valley, BC Liberal candidate Corinna Morhart actually resigned last year (although her name still appears on the BC federal Liberal website). Thus area Liberals will still need to recruit a candidate to run against two-term NDP M.P. Nathan Cullen.
* As well, Public Eye Online confirms that first-time Langley, BC candidate Jake Gray has stepped down within the last few weeks, even though his name too remains in the BC Liberal website candidate drop-down list. There is some speculation here about who will replace him in the race against two-term Conservative M.P. Mark Warawa.
* Meantime, Liberals in Okanagan-Shuswap are supposed to be gathering next weekend on August 23 in both Vernon and Salmon Arm, to nominate a replacement for former candidate and Vernon municipal councillor Buffy Bambrough, who stepped down in June (as previously reported here) because of the uncertainy of the election date, her interest in local government issues, and to help with the expansion of her family’s business. However, this story suggests that no meeting date is set as yet, and also has a little background on who’s running and who’s not in the race against first-time Conservative M.P. Colin Mayes.”
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BC Carbon Tax:
On July 28th I fueled up in Grande Prairie @ the Safeway, Diesel @ $1.42 a litre.
@ Shell gas station in Charlie Lake just north of Fort ST. John I paid $1.56 a litre, 235 kms from the GP.
@ Mile 175 on the Alsaka Highway @ Buckinghorse Camp I paid $1.81, 450 kms from GP.
39 cents/litre over a 450 km distance. That’s $39 a tank folks.
This is such a personal discussion. Tim was not a hero. He was an unfortunate victim. Despite the criticisms of the other passengers, I believe that they did the correct thing bt just getting the hell outa dodge. The last thing any potential hero want’s to do is get in a knife fight with a big man in a small space. To attack would have likely been suicide. Tim was already dead, Keep the living alive was the smart thing to do. Extreme kudos to the bus driver who had the forethought to disable the bus.
To the Kirtonites (dave NDP kirton), who chose to criticise the RCMP for waiting this asshole out, SCREW YOU!. The Mounties handled this situation absolutely perfectly.
Why on earth would you want to risk another life to attack this weirdo on the bus where there is no room to move. Anyone who would do this, or expect another to, is an idiot! If you are so brain dead that you would expect the cops to rush a person that’s over 6 feet with a knife, and on a bus, must be smoking BADD drugs. Either that or they are just plain stupid.(kirton fits).
“Our Enemy, The State”.
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“Class-action lawsuit: Loto-Quebec downplayed dangers of VLTs
MONTREAL – Quebec’s gaming commission faces a potentially crippling payout as gambling addicts try to hold it responsible for downplaying the dangers of video lottery terminals.
A class-action lawsuit brought by a group of pathological gamblers is seeking compensation from Loto-Quebec for their addiction treatments.
With the plaintiffs claiming around 119,000 gamblers can trace their addictions to VLTs, a judgment could cost Loto-Quebec upwards of $500 million, excluding exemplary damages.”
http://tinyurl.com/5nz45v (canpress)
One very important action by the Conservative government must be to stop being polite to the Liberal friendlies in the MSM. Call them on all their ignorant, smart-ass questions, fire right back. There’s nothing to lose.
No more playing nice, nice with the enemy, it doesn’t work. Th only reason CTV kept Question Period running through the summer was to slag the government and keep us posted on the bogus and misleading polls.
“Armed Militants” = Taliban, aka Muslim murderers.
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[NATO] “Forces Kill More Than 30 Armed Militants in Afghanistan
WASHINGTON, Aug. 17, 2008 – Coalition and Afghan forces killed at least 30 armed militants during fierce fighting in Afghanistan over the past week, military officials said.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2063399/posts
One very important action by the Conservative government must be to stop being polite to the Liberal friendlies in the MSM. Call them on all their ignorant, smart-ass questions, fire right back. There’s nothing to lose.
No more playing nice, nice with the enemy, it doesn’t work. The only reason CTV kept Question Period running through the summer was to slag the government and keep us posted on the bogus and misleading polls.
Kate, tried posting this @ the We don’t need any stinking windmills thread and got a 404 server error.
http://tinyurl.com/6x499q
Falling gas prices chip at Alberta Advantage…
Is Alberta in the early stages of a bust? Not likely, but some cracks are beginning to show, especially in parts of the province far from the Athabasca boom. The stress comes from several places, though Mr. Nichols – and many others – wouldn’t mind putting the blame in a bow-wrapped package and laying it at the feet of one man: Premier Ed Stelmach.
Perhaps the biggest misconception about Alberta, other than the Toronto conceit that it’s a homogenous province of pickup-driving yahoos, is that it’s an oil economy. It’s not (at least, not yet). It’s still about natural gas. The oil sands hog the headlines, and the amount of money being spent to develop them – $14.3-billion in 2006 – is enormous. But the Alberta energy industry spent almost twice as much on conventional wells, and the vast majority of that $27-billion went to finding and exploiting gas deposits. In a typical year, Alberta drills three to four times as many new gas wells as oil wells.
This reliance on gas extends to government finance. In fiscal 2007, the province’s take from gas royalties was $6-billion, versus $1.4-billion for conventional oil and $2.4-billion from the oil sands. The numbers will shift as the big oil sands projects increase their production, but it will be years before royalties from oil sands become the most important source of energy revenue. Gas is still the golden goose.
But we got labour peace from the teachers union for 5 years and Ed got his majority and his own personal prosperity increase with the new wage increases and all. So what if it cost me 35,000 in home owner equity, so far. Greater good Glenn, remember the greater good.