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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Twelve Days of Christmas shows, here is Mr. Andy Williams performing Christmas is a Feeling in Your Heart (2:41). And for tonight’s flip-side, here is Mr. Dean Martin performing Silver Bells (2:27).

Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.

I’m not going to politicize the entries of our Twelve Days of Christmas Extravaganza on the main page of SDA, because for me the central social theme at hand here (that is to say, that which I share with others) is Peace on Earth and Goodwill Toward Men. Even as some may debate the veracity of the central theological tenets, it remains the case that the legacy is an annual time of offering goodwill and hoping for peace, among all the descendants of the tradition, both theological and cultural.

Therefore, I’m not in a position to argue about my position, because then I wouldn’t be celebrating Peace on Earth and Goodwill Toward Men, I’d be arguing. Instead, perhaps, may I offer this comparison:

Sacred
 		 Secular
 
God rest ye merry, gentlemen,
Let nothing you dismay.
Remember Christ our saviour
Was born on Christmas Day
To save us all from satan’s power
when we have gone astray.
Oh good tidings of comfort and joy,
Comfort and joy.
Oh good tidings of comfort and joy.		   Good rest ye merry, gentlemen,
Let nothing you dismay.
Remember Good our saviour
Was born on Goodness Day
To save us all from evil’s power
when we have gone astray.
Oh good tidings of comfort and joy,
Comfort and joy.
Oh good tidings of comfort and joy.

While it certainly is apparently entertaining or lucrative for some to perpetrate interminable dissertations of periphrastic circumlocution on the nature of God and Good, it seems to me that Christmas, that is to say, the annual celebration of the legendary birth of the baby Jesus, is in particular a celebration of a case were God and Good go hand in hand. As Mr. Williams sang first above: Christmas is a Feeling in Your Heart.

45 Replies to “Reader Tips”

  1. Re: Big 3 bailouts…
    Isn’t inventory reduction a typical step in business survival?
    Accounting 101
    Why are the car lots overstocked with millions/billions of dollars worth of inventory? I haven’t seen any great sales to get these cars and trucks moving off the lots?
    Why do they expect bailouts when they should be selling off inventory?
    We would consider a purchase if the price was right.
    This fearmongering is getting tired.

  2. Today is Beethoven’s 238’th birthday and it’s still not too late to put on a Beethoven Sonata or Symphony and enjoy the music.

  4. BlueTech, SunMedia isn’t a bad collection of journalists but what it fails to mention is that many people don’t trust any MSM journalists anymore because of a perceived bias. Journalists collectively have ignored any real principles of their profession, which has eroded consumer trust. They’re now paying the price.

  8. Blackhawks 6 – 1 Oilers in second period.
    Has any coach ever been fired between periods?
    Then how about a precedent?

  9. Has anyone read Kelly McParland’s latest: http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2008/12/16/kelly-mcparland-layton-adds-another-weight-to-ignatieff-s-ball-and-chain.aspx
    Interesting story but I think his analysis is a bit off. It seems to me that Layton just gave Ignatieff a huge gift. Now Iggy can withdraw from the Coalition and no one in the Liberal Party could rightfully fault him for doing so. As Mike Duffy said last week, the Liberals simply can’t afford an election anytime soon and I *think* that even the dumbest Liberals know that attempt to rule this country via that Coalition is going to be a huge disaster.
    Your thoughts?

  10. What peter…no AGW in your area?You all banking your carbon for credits when the Libs get back in Ottawa?
    How cold is it?

  11. Vitruvius, far be it from me to engage you in an argument, when all you are seeking is an annual dose of fuzzy good feelings based on wishes for peace and “goodwill”.
    However, if your secularized song has any actual meaning to its words, I’m afraid I don’t find it very comforting or joyous.
    It is hard to tell if by “Good” and “Goodness” you mean some higher principle of morality, or merely the notion of people treating each other “good” as in being kind and thoughtful. The latter is certainly a worthy sentiment, even if only for one day in the year, but really, don’t you find it is increasingly difficult to know what kind of “good” to do to each other? I mean, I think I’m being good, but other people don’t always appreciate it, and some positively object. (As in kindly opening a door for a lady, as I was taught in my youthful days, only to learn the lady is a feminist who finds the gesture offensive). When I am really honest with myself, I’m not even satisfied with my own level of consistency when it comes to being good. Maybe I’m trying to follow too high a standard, and should just define good by what seems “good” to me. And everyone else can define “good” based on what seems “good” to them. But then again, isn’t that what most people are doing all year long, and isn’t that where a lot of trouble comes from?
    And how “good” do I have to be in order to have “Goodness” for my saviour? Once a day? All the time? Do my periodic lapses of “badness” erase or outweigh my moments of “good”? That seems like a pretty shakey foundation for salvation. And speaking of salvation and saviours, just what do I need to be saved from? Other people’s badness, or my own? I guess I could say that if I am good, I am saving myself from being “ungood” but that sounds close to a tautology – is being good, my only motivation for being good?
    The song talks about being saved from “evil’s power”. That seems like a job for a saviour all right, and if being good can save me from that evil power, then I’m with you all the way. But really, who is to say what is “evil” in these days when one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter. And some who boast about their goodness are really the worst sort of selfish jerks. And don’t you find that some people who are very, very, very good fall into evil’s power? Some are victims of evil acts, and others, as you write, are “lead astray” even after a lifetime of exemplary goodness. (Though now that I think of it, I’m not sure what people are being “lead astray” from. You aren’t suggesting that someone has laid out a narrow path for us to walk on, are you?)
    So your song has just reminded me that like most people, most of the time, I’m not really that “good” despite my best intentions. I guess I’m with Saint Paul here, ” I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. For what I do is not the good I want to do; no, the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing!”
    Maybe, if I could just find an example of someone who succeeded in being good all the time. Someone like…oh wait…you’ve said that person is a legend who never existed. Funny thing that there’s an entire faith based on this phantom’s non-teaching, and that thousands of years later, we are still celebrating his non-birthday. If that’s the case, why celebrate “goodness day” on December 25? Why not someone else’s birthday, like my wife’s? She is pretty good; at least as good a choice for goodness as anyone else I know. Although there was that time when she got me that ugly sweater for Christmas…

  12. A couple of hours ago I checked the on-line Regina Leader Post just to see what was happening in my part of the world. I came across a headline that claimed Gay Teens at Greater Risk of Pregnancy (as best as I can recall the headline). I’m not kidding, this is really true. This rather poorly written article never did make it clear exactly what it was talking about other than some study claims that teens who reported themselves as being gay, lesbian or bisexual had a greater incidence of unwanted pregnancy. WHAT!? I went back to find the article just now to reread it only to find it has been removed. Did anyone else catch this story?
    I really wanted to have a discussion about the “sound of settled science” and who’s kiddin’ who! I’d love to know what went on in the newsroom when that story was removed.

  14. Loki and Vitruvius – the second movement of the Fifth Symphony is certainly one of the most exquisite works of Beethoven.
    The other “second movement of a Fifth” of his that is otherwordly – the Piano Concerto (No 5, second movement).

  15. Well Rudy I’m not sure about you but I don’t try to be ‘good’ nor do I try to do ‘good’ for I know that “There is no one good but God”.

  16. Robert W.: I agree with you. But the fact that Ignatieff has not yet withdrawn is likely very disconcerting for Liberal faithful. With Dion gone, Layton is now the Conservatives’ best weapon. But if the Liberals’ distance themselves from the NDP, this weapon is almost useless.
    I especially enjoyed one of the blog comments related to Layton’s demand for daycare: you don’t need daycare if nobody has a job.

  18. Vitruvius, thanks for the link. Beethoven’s 5th symphony is one of my favorites, but I have a special fondness for his piano sonatas (probably because 40 years ago I attempted to play a number of them). Unfortunately it’s been quite a few years since I’ve had the time to practice the many hours/day that is needed for this music. His Pathetique sonata is one of my favorites. Just recently I’ve found a complete collection of Beethoven sonata’s on LP’s which I’m looking forward to digitizing so I can listen to them on my Palm as mp3’s.

  20. Ah, not to put too fine a point on it, Rudy, but I did not say “a legend who never existed”. If you would be so kind as to consult your dictionary, you would find that the word I used, “legendary”, has a principal meaning that simply refers to its effect, not its veracity. In other words, in the case of “legendary”, veractity is not necessarily logically antecedent to effect, nor is it not. It can be independent.
    I appreciate your essay, Rudy, yet, indeed, the central point of my Continue Reading rant above is anti-dogmatic, that is to say: this is the particular time of year when I’m most not interested in debating the good and bad of the various phenomena, rather, this is the time of year when I’m most interested in celebrating the good phenomena, as I find them.
    Your time for historically formal ceremonial celebration of good may of course vary, or even not exist at all ~ I do not begrudge you that ~ yet it remains the case that this is a blog comment, egro, this is my opinion. So you may well say: it would seem, Vitruvius, that you’ve got your defences on this issue laid on pretty thick. Yup: practice makes perfect 😉
    Still, the only reason I mention it is that it is that time of year, and as the putative principal SDA Late Nite Radio DJ, I have a job to do to serve the normative readership here, to try to find the eclectic breadth of relevant musical performances that have become to be expected by the Small Dead Animals audience, as relevant to this time of year, as broadly celebrated by this particular audience. So I try.
    On which note, I should like to thank, as always, our gracious hostess Kate, and ask you not to forget to generously tip, considering the season, your waitress and the doorman as you depart from another lovely evening here at le club chez Small Dead Animals.

  21. Thanks wallyj. That’s a slightly different version than I first read, but here’s a quote:
    “David Wolfe, a clinical psychologist who has a chair in children’s mental health at Toronto’s Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, said the way to address the elevated pregnancy rates among bisexual, gay and lesbian teens is to find ways to stop making them feel so stigmatized.”
    PUHLEEZ, now teen pregnancy is a way for sexually mixed up teens to feel normal?
    I am skeptical in two areas: I wonder how the questions were phrased to elicit the self reporting of sexual preference, and, the numbers of teen pregnacies may be accurate, but I think the interpretation is just more academic horse-puckie.
    This is too silly for words. I’d love to hear what some teens think about this.

  22. Rudy ~ Vitruvius clearly did *not* say “that person is a legend who never existed” – he said, merely, that “some may debate the veracity of the central theological tenets”. You display a confirmation bias that subtly demonstrates the difficulties, which you also eloquently describe, that even the best-intentioned among us face in realizing our efforts to be “good”.
    It’s endless fun to argue about just about anything, but at certain times, surely, we would all benefit from striving to set aside the pleasures of debate and, instead, fall back into the gentle and welcoming embrace of some angst-free feelings of peace on earth and unqualified goodwill toward our fellow man – which was, I believe, what Vitruvius was saying.
    Of course, since I’m fully prepared to argue with you about the details of how that might happen, down to and including what constitutes “ugly” in a sweater, I’m clearly in the same leaky boat. Could be what the eggnog is for, eh? More of that, then.

  25. Do you sing a secular version of Oh Canada too?
    Let’s take a look at the first sentence of Atheist Scripture:
    “Whereas Canada is founded upon principles that recognize the supremacy of God and the rule of law”
    Let’s secularize it up:
    “Whereas Canada is founded upon principles that recognize the supremacy of good and the rule of law”
    Hmmm. Kinda milquetoast. Good, by definition, is not supreme. Let’s try again:
    “Whereas Canada is founded upon principles that recognize the supremacy of excellence and the rule of law”
    Better, except it reeks of Wayne Campbell and fascism. One more time:
    “Whereas Canada is founded upon principles that recognize the supremacy of whatever the corporate media and concern troll special interest groups tell us at the moment is important and the rule of law”
    We good?

  26. I don’t know where else to post this, but after all the discussion of some Iraqi’s foot missiles, I thought this, from the Gospel of John, might add some insight:
    So after he had washed their feet, and had taken his garments, and was set down again, he said unto them, Know ye what I have done to you? Ye call me Master and Lord: and ye say well; for so I am. If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; ye also ought to wash one another’s feet. For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you. Verily, verily, I say unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord; neither he that is sent greater than he that sent him. If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them.
    Merry Christmas!

  28. While it is novel to see one branch of the followers of Abraham discuss the relative adherence of pop-culture to the reflection of supremacy (and secularization) of their God, the discussion point focuses us to reflect upon the notion and construct of the Christian celebrations this time of year. Despite that beyond the birth of Jesus Christ Himself – the timing, symbolism, and very notions of Christmas that Christians have come to were arbitrarily, and quite violently, lifted from our common pagan predecessors.
    With progress comes progress, no?
    At any rate, Merry Christmas and Happy Yuletides to SDA readers and posters, and best wishes to yourself, your family, and those you care about.
    softboiled

  30. hardboiled: What’s so “softboiled” about your message?!!
    While it’s true that Christmas was a Christian overlay of pagan rituals (‘pretty clever if you ask me), it was neither “arbitrary” nor particularly violent, given comparisons with other religions’ attempts at dominance over the centuries.
    The Judeo-Christian Scriptures have a very apt measuring stick, if you will, of how well we love others: “By their fruits you shall know them.”
    Indisputably, the Christian God of love, mercy, and, yes, power, has been the inspiration of some of the most magnificent works of art, music, and architecture, not to mention charity, in the past 21 centuries.
    Amazing, also, is the longevity of the Christian faith: over 2000 years of unbroken worship and service of the Triune God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. It has gone through many waves of persecution but has never been stomped out. In fact, “the blood of the Martyrs is the seed of the Church” (Tertullian).
    “The people who have walked in darkness have seen a great light. Those who lived in a land of deep darkness–on them has light shined.” Isaiah 9
    “The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overcome it.” John 1
    A blessed, joyful, and light-filled Christmas to all!

  31. I know we need no further evidence of the “damned if he does, damned if he doesn’t” anti-Harper slant in the media (one could say, I suppose, that the “science is settled” on it, hahaha). But today’s just makes me ill. First, they lambaste Harper for saying that we have sound fundamentals in our economic system. “Why isn’t he panicking more,” they asked. Now they say his pessimistic talk about our economic outlook is too gloomy; they wonder why he’s not optimistic. Flip-flop much, media?
    And they wonder why they’re losing the confidence of the people. Sheesh.
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20081217.DEPRESSION17/TPStory/National

  32. rudy, vitruvius et al – I think the debate about the viability of ‘God’ versus ‘good’ is more a debate about the nature of the Formal and the Informal – a topic debated for centuries by just about every human philosopher and/or theologian. Oh, and mathematicians and logicians as well.
    The acceptance that both realms exist is held by almost all, except those of the nominalist, the postmodernist, the mechanical mindsets. And the view that these two realms can’t be merged or presumed identical, but can be related, is a basic conclusion. So, possibly, we can dispense with the Either-Or assumption and allow ourselves to acknowledge, with grace, both realms.
    robert w- yes, a nice analysis by Kelly McParland of the National Post. I think the ‘worm’ is Layton; he wants governmental power. Period. How he achieves this has become less of interest to him; all that matters is that he achieves it. So, I doubt if he’ll give up on this Coalition idea.
    I’m still puzzled why Ignatieff simply doesn’t stand up and declare – it’s a bad idea; the people don’t want it; it’s over…and focus on building up a valid political party rather than a rabble-rousing set of hyenas.

  33. ET…that would take backbone and decisiveness on the part of Iggy. My observation of his ‘presence’ so far is that he demonstrates his lack of both. He is a media puppet. He’ll try to please all and end up pleasing no-one at all.
    Aesop: The Man, The Boy and the Donkey

  34. ET: **robert w- yes, a nice analysis by Kelly McParland of the National Post. I think the ‘worm’ is Layton; he wants governmental power. Period. How he achieves this has become less of interest to him; all that matters is that he achieves it. So, I doubt if he’ll give up on this Coalition idea.**
    There goes that Layton again, trying to govern like he has a majority.
    I certainly hope that nobody gives up on this Coalition idea.

  35. From NNW, Banks tell Ontario to lower tax rates. I wonder if Ont would be in better shape if Dalton had paid attention when the finance minister said the same thing.
    Just because a conservative warned what would happen, didn’t mean it was not the truth.
    Will Dalton listen to the Banks.

  36. Robert D. Kaplan, A Gentler Hegemony
    Declinism is in the air. The latest conventional wisdom is that the combination of the disastrous Iraq war, the military and economic rise of Asia, and the steep recession in the West has chastened America, ending its period of dominance in world affairs. It is time for us to be humble.
    There is a lot of truth to this, but it goes too far. For decline itself — as a concept — is overrated. Britain’s Royal Navy went into relative decline beginning in the 1890s, even as Great Britain remained powerful enough to help save the West in two world wars over the next half-century.
    The proper analogy may be the Indian Mutiny in 1857 and 1858…

  37. johann – yes, I saw that G&M comment chastizing Harper for ‘being glum’ about our economic prospects, while last week our MSM chastized him for ‘being optimistic’ about our economic prospects. Their bias is – beyond belief.
    I well recall how they treated Chretien – no matter what he did, was OK. So, Chretien’s response to Toronto’s SARS epidemic was not money to the hospitals. Instead, at great taxpayer expense he flew his cabinet to meet in Toronto, to show the public that ‘it’s safe to be in Toronto’. The MSM was pleased.
    His reaction to Mad Cow Disease was to have a photo-op of himself eating beef. The MSM was pleased.
    His reaction to hearing that the AG was going to open up the Liberal theft of taxpayer money in Adscam, was to ‘retire’, dump the whole thing on Paul Martin, and claim that he knew nothing. The MSM was pleased.
    His reaction to his own narcissistic demands to show himself as important, was to have the taxpayer purchase two Challenger jets to whisk him around. The MSM was pleased; this showed that Canada was ‘important’.
    The anti-Harper and anti-Conservative bias of the MSM is incredible. Hmm. They aren’t doing that well, economically, are they?
    The NP has a nice editorial today about the unreasonable demands by the unionized civil service on the taxpayer. These people, who can’t be fired, with their lavish pensions and benefits, their lifelong job security, their demands for wage increases double that of the private sector – they expect the private sector, the taxpayer – to fund and support their lavishness.
    Canada Post, for example, gets 20 days per year paid sick leave/family time..and they can accumulate these days over the years. And they insist that they can take them ‘as time off’ when they retire..ie, get a nice huge settlement.
    Ottawa transit workers want a 10.5% increase over 3 years now. During this economic period. That’s why they are on strike.
    Our TTC union insists on similar types of benefits, all taxpayer funded – or they strike. When Toronto’s Mayor Miller, who relies on the union for his power and re-election, was required to deal with a Motion to declare the TTC essential and not able to strike – he told the Toronto Council that this would be ‘a violation of human rights.
    The UN Declaration of Human Rights, he told everyone, had in it a clause affirming that the right to strike was indeed a basic human rights. We, as signatories to this document, can’t go against it…he assured everyone. Problem is – there is no such clause. He was lying. But he got his way. They can strike for more and more and more…

  38. Yaacov ben Moshe, A Jewish Plea for Merry Christmas — An Annual BotB Tradition
    I am ashamed to admit it today but I was, at first, pleased when I saw, over the years, the ACLU and Multi-culti types pushing “Merry Christmas” out of the vocabulary of cultural discourse in favor of the more generic “Happy Holidays”.
    I’ve grownup, though, and I’ve grown into a new perspective on this whole matter question and, today, when someone wishes me a Merry Christmas, I have a new response. It’s really simple-
    I stop what I am doing
    I thank them very sincerely
    I wish them a Merry Christmas in return.
    I would like to encourage all my fellow Jews to join me in this. Here’s why…

  40. Agree totally with your last paragraph ET.
    Iggy is an enigma. He must have parked his much touted smarts in favour of advice from some of the same players the Liberals have had for the past decade. He has to rely on advice, he’s an embryo politician.
    The Liberals are in the same situation except they dumped Dion. Layton is saying he’s going to vote against the budget even before he sees it, same old game. Iggy will look at it and vote for it for obvious reasons not the least of which is the polling numbers. Duceppe will continue playing his game.
    Many of us have a problem with Ignatieff returning to the country he had no interest in working and living in most of his life to aspire to be fast tracked to the top job. Whether its naivete, blind ambition or just plain arrogance the fact that he should assume he can rebuild a fractured and broken party and steer the country through this critical time should give pause for thought, even for Liberals.
    Looking forward to full MSM coverage of Iggy when he does what he said he would do, “go out to smell the barns”.

  41. I’m speculating but I wonder if the reason Ignatieff doesn’t reject the coalition outright is both because he signed it but above all because it’s extremely popular in Quebec. And Ignatieff wants the Quebec votes. All of them.
    Ignatieff knows that the Liberal Party is non-existent west of Ontario. He’s not interested in building up the party in that area; he’s not interested in policy development that might attract a broader range of Canadians. He’s only, sigh, a Liberal and so his focus is simple.
    How do I/We get power and return to our role as the Sovereign Party? By ‘sovereign’ I mean not only the role as ‘natural governing party’ but the MODE of governance. Sovereign governance is rule by divine right; the elite Wise Men of the Ottawa-Montreal cabal make the decisions for the beer and popcorn peasantry.
    A sovereign governance treats democracy as a consumer strategy – you have to manipulate them (the electorate) so that they will purchase your goods. A sovereign governance ignores the electorate as having any reasonin capacity, any will, any right to a voice in the nature of their government. The only role of the electorate is, every few years, to vote. For the Liberals. You get them to vote for you by massive propaganda and special sales and deals at election time.
    The Liberal perspective is embedded in a view of Canada that is a generation out of date. It’s held not only by Liberals but also by the Ottawa-Montreal civil service. And by Quebecers. It’s the view that Canada consists of Quebec-Ontario. Period. The rest is irrelevant. Governance rests in the hands of this isolate bubble.
    The problem is, this perspective is pure fiction. It’s no longer valid. The reality of Canada today, demographically and economically isn’t confined to Quebec-Ontario. It stretches from sea to sea to sea.
    Newfoundland is ‘in’. The West is the demographic and economic hub of Canada. The North, long ignored by the Liberals, is opening up. Quebec is a dependent shell, dependent on constant federal subsidies and largesse. Ontario is extremely fragile since it set itself up as dependent on the US industries. The old style of business as ‘big’ is fading and we are moving into more small and medium businesses.
    The only party and I mean the only party that acknowledges this new Canada is the Conservative Party.
    The NDP is based around the old big industries and costly unions. The Liberals are based around the old Quebec-Ontario Canada.
    The reason that Ignatieff won’t reject the coalition, I now think, is because he’s operating in the old perspective of Canada. And he wants the Quebec vote.
    If he had any real insight into Canada and into the long term wellbeing of the Liberal party, he’d set up a ten year plan – yes, that’s right – to move the party into the whole of Canada, to acknowledge this New Canada, to work to develop both the party and Canada.
    Instead, he’s locked, embedded into the Old Canada, trying to keep it intact. That’s a Canada with its Quebec-Ontario focus, its patronizing view of the West (asking the West to forgive and forget)….its economy based around large industries heavily subsidized by the federal govt, its pampered unionized civil service, its unionized big industries, its indifference to small and medium business, its isolation of immigrants into dependent voter groups, its bilingualist set up that keeps control of the govt in the Montreal-Ottawa nepotist networks..and its smug propagandist definition of Canada as ‘tolerant’ and anti-American.
    That’s the old Canada. That’s what Ignatieff is preaching. If he had a vision and a smidgeon of integrity, he’s reject this fiction and choose reality instead. But he’s after Power not Justice.

  42. Globe and Mail: frothing, lying, manipulating, hypocritical scum.
    This, from the same people who brought you the “Harper doesn’t feel your pain” crap during the election they were trying to swing in their friends favour (complete – now and then – with quotes from all of their favourite liberals:)
    Harper’s pessimistic talk making a bad situation worse, critics say
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20081217.DEPRESSION17/TPStory/National
    I want them all to fall down and break their necks.

  43. Amir Taheri, Dubious ‘Dialogue’ — Bam’s Naive Muslim Outreach
    To be sure, not all Muslims are terrorists. But virtually all terrorists are Muslims. Nor do they live on another planet: They are recruited, trained and sheltered in Muslim countries. Individual Muslims and Islamic charities finance them; Islamic governments provide them with passports and safe havens. The media regimes in most Muslim countries (often state controlled) propagate the very themes that sustain the terrorist ideology in its different versions.
    What Obama ignores is that Islamic terrorism isn’t limited to suicide attacks against the “infidel”; it also comes in the form of terrorizing ordinary Muslim citizens into conformity with rites and rules that should have no place in a civilized society.
    The vast majority of the victims of Islamic terrorism are Muslims. They would resent an American leader who tries to ignore or relativize the broader reality of Islamic terrorism in the name of political correctness…

  44. Now that that Mr ‘$50 Billion Swindler’ Madoff has brought attention to the deliberate and careful workings (he said sarcastically) of the SEC in the USA, this is a good time to tell people to google ‘Johnathan Lebed’ and go to the story ‘Stock Manipulator – SEC Nemesis’.
    The story of this 14 yr boy and the SEC is quite hilarious in view of Mr Madoff’s kid glove treatment.
    Warning – the big serious stock studs might not find it that funny.

  45. Out! Out! Damned Idiots!
    The Globe & Mail/Slop & Rail and Toronto/Red Star and a few other Lefty rags are certainly out of touch with reality and real people.
    Our PM has advised we are in for a rough economic ride, telling it as it is as he sees it, being truthful. Now we have the MSM slaggers saying he’s wrong to give us a heads up. No mention of the fact this Economic crisis is evolving, we have no idea how it will affect anyone moving forward.
    These would be the same band of wackos who cried foul when he said we were in a better position economically than all industrialized Nations around the globe and better able to weather the economic downturn. They didn’t like his honesty then and they don’t like it now.
    Thankfully those of us in the real world know better. We don’t need to read from the poison pens of Leftists editorializing against common sense and reality.

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