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Just another step in the march towards insanity...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/road-and-rail-transport/4996018/Motorists-could-be-banned-from-leaving-Britain-over-unpaid-parking-fines.html

It's one thing to detain someone for murder and prevent them from leaving the country, but for a parking ticket??

No, no slippery slope here !!!!

Good Plan...I sure wouldn't want a dangerous parking ticket offenders coming to my country. Better a suspected terrorist. Don't ya think???

Alan Caruba has read what certain Green organizations want, and has taken it seriously:

"The greens hate energy, America, and you!"

Ignatieff screws up, caught being ignorant, not doing his homework on global econo stats

http://thecanadiansentinel.blogspot.com/2009/03/harper-right-cdn-economy-faring-better.html

He effectively called PMSH a liar for saying that Canada's doing better in the recession than other nations. But then it's pointed out that, in fact, PMSH is correct and Iggy's the liar, or at least a clueless dummy who employs an attack clown to try to shut up those who point out his faults.

Oh, and some funny pix of both Iggy and his attack clown are part of the post... you'll love the Warrin' Kim Sheila one in particular...

Can you smell it?
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"Obama's essence"
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2207433/posts

The eco-warmists/scientists are taking their mission to the streets.

The lawyers are next?
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"Plan B: scientists get radical in bid to halt global warming ‘catastrophe’

THE director of a Nasa space laboratory will this week lead thousands of climate change campaigners through Coventry in an extraordinary intervention in British politics.

James Hansen plans to use Thursday’s Climate Change Day of Action to put pressure on Gordon Brown to wake up to the threat of climate change - by halting the construction of new power stations and the expansion of airports, with schemes such as the third runway at Heathrow.

The move by a leading American researcher is the highest-profile example to date of the way climate change is politicising scientists."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2207393/posts

In Britain, shariah law for the already brutally oppressed.

"My imam father came after me with an axe"

(timesonline)

Hannah Shah had been raped by her father and faced a forced marriage. She fled, became a Christian and now fears for her life,

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He is also an incestuous child abuser, repeatedly raping his daughter from the age of five until she was 15, ostensibly as part of her punishment for being “disobedient”. At the age of 16 she fled her family to avoid the forced marriage they had planned for her in Pakistan. A much, much greater affront to “honour” in her family’s eyes, however, was the fact that she then became a Christian – an apostate. The Koran is explicit that apostasy is punishable by death; thus it was that her father the imam led a 40-strong gang – in the middle of a British city – to find and kill her.

Hannah’s description in the book of the moment when her “community” discovered the “safe” home where she had fled after becoming an apostate is terrifying. A mob with her father at its head pounded and hammered at the door as she cowered upstairs hoping she could not be seen or heard. She heard her father shout through the letter box: “Filthy traitor! Betrayer of your faith! Cursed traitor! We’re going to rip your throat out! We’ll burn you alive!”

Does she still believe they would have killed her? “Yes, without a doubt. They had hammers and knives and axes.”

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Multiculturalism. Isn't it wonderful?

Essence from the CBC: Smell the fear/rot from the CBC.

>>> "feared encounter could give rise to appearance of political interference".

Fire. Them. All.
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"CBC pulls plug on meeting with Heritage Minister
Broadcaster feared encounter could give rise to appearance of political interference as board meets to adopt business plan"
http://tinyurl.com/cj9w8q

Seal the essence! Yuuuccckk.
Narwhals beached?
Ici Brigitte?

"Some wore red underwear".
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"100 members of an animal-rights group in Spain strip to protest seal hunt"
http://www.nationalpost.com/todays-paper/story.html?id=1393622

*Delenda est CBC.
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"Tear it all down

Lorne Gunter, National Post

The CBC will never be able to exorcize its left-wing missionary zeal -- for global warming, for Islam, for big government, Barack Obama, multiculturalism, public health care, human rights commissions and so on. And it could never survive on private donations or ad revenues. So the only thing to do with Mother Corp is to pull down its office buildings and stations and pour salt in their foundations.

And I mean radio as well as television."
urlm.in/bxmp
(*H/T Marcus Cato)

Spengler, The almost-chosen, almost pregnant land

Book review: American Babylon by Richard John Neuhaus.

Re Canadian Sentinel's post at 8:06 a.m.:

Let Mr. I-GNAT-ieff know how you feel about the LPC's lying about and slagging of our Prime Minister. E-mail him at:

IgnatM@parl.gc.ca

MSM headline: is this irony? Mao Stlong's mockely? Satire? Is this a real MSM headline from the Land of Oz?
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"Light poll shows people in darkness vote for change"

urlm.in/bxms

Google 'Clay Shirky newspapers thinking the unthinkable'

Because, for decades, they were into dumbing-down ? A little late to start thinking, I would say.

Mark Steyn, The Hunting of the Denby

“Scratch a writer of snark,” he writes, “and you find a media-age conformist and an aesthetic nonentity.” But because of his inability to differentiate “snark” from “irony” by anything other than political disposition, he comes over like a judge defining “obscenity”: He knows it when he sees it, but if he sees it and it turns him on, it’s “er07ica,” or “irony.”

For my own part, I find the divide between Colbertian “irony” and Dowd-esque “snark” less of a chasm than Denby imagines: Both are part of a self-referential present-tense culture bobbing around in circles on the surface, and it’s foolish to argue degrees of precedence between flotsam and jetsam...

After MP Daniel Petit noted that Quebec educational system left students illiterate in English our favourite Liberal idiot Coderre in a total absence of hypocracy made this statement.

"How do you spell pathetic?" said Liberal MP Denis Coderre. "Frankly, there have been so many times where that guy showed a lack of judgment and nonsense [that] I don't know what he's doing there [as an MP]. People from [his riding] must be ashamed to have an MP like that."

Apparently a comedian pretending to be an Australian senator is interviewed by an apparently actual journalist about an oil tanker braking up and an oil spill.
This is rather funny, you can see, the comedian studied up on the behavior and pronouncement of politicians.

http://www.break.com/index/the-front-fell-off.html

Posts re the Dinosaur MSM are prohibited; but, this is so delicious it will be herewith presented. It's the lastlastMSMDeathWatch post, ever.

The unholy spectacle gets worser:
>>> "Now the ethnic press is also troubled and in many ways is the most vulnerable because so many operations are small."
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"Perhaps least noticed yet most important, the audience migration to the Internet is now accelerating."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2207480/posts

Good morning ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA next day video. This morning some opera.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyZ8umpbLsI

Today, in Rasmussen Reports Daily Presidential Tracking, Obama's 'approval rating' is the lowest it's been so far. It's now 'plus 4'.

That number is the difference between the percentage of 'strongly approve' and 'strongly disapprove'. the strongly approve is 36^, the strongly disapprove is 32%. And the latter rate started out, in January, at about 12% while the approval was at 40% and went even higher.

As I've noted before, the slope of disapproval has been, since January, positive. That is, the percentage of disapprovals has been steadily rising, rising.

The 'approval rate' had been without a slope; it was horizontal; it was steady. But now, a slope is beginning to appear. Negative. The approval rating is going down.

As Rasmussen reports, this is the 10th straight day that the approval rating (the difference between the strongly approve and strongly disapprove, has been in the single digits. Obama began with a difference between the two perspectives (approval and disapproval) of plus 28. And in two months, it's down to plus 4.

So, he's essentially lost the Republicans and probably many of the independents. How will he deal with this - he's a man who cannot handle people opposing him.

He may ignore those who dissent, wipe them out of his mind and instead cater even more to the Democrats, which puts people like Pelosi and Reid effectively in charge of the White House. But more Democrats are turning against Obama, e,g with regard to his budget. And more MSM are starting to focus on the difference between his campaign promises and his behaviour. So, what will he do?

Roger Scruton, What has art got to do with beauty these days?

Many people conclude that art is not what it was once cracked up to be, that it is not about the beautiful, the sublime and the transcendent, but that it is a skill like any other and that the greatest part of the skill is self-advertisement. Find a way of drawing attention to yourself, whether with words or images or noises; get the right connections, the right agent and the right kind of subsidy, and you too can be an artist. Of course, talent is important. But it is a talent for attracting attention, rather than for seeking and finding the eye of God. Just look at what Christo achieved, simply by wrapping buildings, and even sections of the Australian coastline, in plastic sheets! It took talent of a quite special kind to get someone else to pay for such a prank, and then to be paid again for doing it...

Ruth Gledhill, Bernard d'Espagnat wins £1m Templeton Prize

...Dr d'Espagnat, a Roman Catholic, said his work as a physicist had convinced him of the existence of a deeper reality. "When we hear great classical music or look at very great paintings, they are not just illusions but could be a revelation of something fundamental. I would accept calling it God or divine or Godhead but with the restriction that it cannot be conceptualised for the very reason that this ultimate reality is beyond any concept that we can construct."

J.E. Dyer, The Horsey Truth

Mark Steyn wrote yesterday at NRO about how useful younger voters have made themselves to Obama’s program to saddle them with enormous public debt. And he is right: the younger voters who will be paying the national debt long after us older types are gone turned out in droves for Obama. The debt they will end up servicing, they voted for.

Steyn’s point highlights another one that, it turns out, is a favorite hobby-horse of mine. It is that it takes the ignorance often associated with youth to enable left-wing politicians to get away with a recurring claim: that government intervention is required to redress the suffering generated by the free market...

Just my opinion, Charles, but I think we all pay for the debtload almost immediately through taxation by inflation. Read The Creature From Jekyll Island.

If you like Cheney and Palin (and who doesn't) you will like this spoof ad.

Assasins

charles macdonald - the fact that this ' ultimate reality is beyond any concept that we can construct' is an aspect of Godel's theorem about the inability of the actual to fully express the 'formal'. In religious texts, this same awareness of the difference between the pure formal and particular unit was called 'idolatry'.

The article states that "His work centred on a concept described as "veiled reality", a reality that is hidden beneath what is perceived as time, space, matter, and energy, concepts challenged by quantum physics as possibly mere appearances."

I don't think that time, space, matter and energy are 'mere appearances' but I fully agree with this badly named 'veiled reality'. I call it information dynamics - an equally unhappy name, I admit.

As Peirce said, "Thought is not necessarily connected with a brain. It appears in the work of bees, of crystals, and throughout the purely physical world; and one can no more deny that it is there, than that the colors, the shapes, etc., of objects are really there...But as there cannot be a General without Instances embodying it, so there cannot be thought without Signs" 4.551.

Understand 'sign' as a particular unit of a more general type, whether that sign is a bee, a crystal, a molecule, a plant, a human being, a word.

The point is, there is an 'underlying process of organization' - and it is this information process that is 'the basic reality'. No need to deify it, but I can admit that we must acknowledge its presence without being able to directly interact with it - and we must acknowledge that expressions of this dynamic are transient, finite and incomplete.

And you thought it was tough playing for the Maple Leafs

Police say an Iraqi soccer player has been shot dead just as he was about to kick what could have been the tying goal in a weekend game south of Baghdad.

A link to an excellent political "primer".

A bit simplistic, but a great "nutshell" description of topics previously discussed here at SDA.

Note the first explanation of how the scale most people use is the problem...

http://www.nmatv.com/video/849/the-american-form-of-government

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"Islam and the West: Lines of Demarcation

This essay by Roger Scruton was first published in the Winter 2008-09 issue of Azure. It is reprinted here with permission of Azure and Roger Scruton.

What it is about our civilization that causes such resentment, and why we must defend it.

By Roger Scruton

THE WEST today is involved in a protracted and violent struggle with the forces of radical Islam. This conflict is intensely difficult, both because of our enemy’s dedication to his cause, and also, perhaps most of all, because of the enormous cultural shift that has occurred in Europe and America since the end of the Vietnam War. Put simply, the citizens of Western states have lost their appetite for foreign wars; they have lost the hope of scoring any but temporary victories; and they have lost confidence in their way of life. Indeed, they are no longer sure what that way of life requires of them.

At the same time, they have been confronted with a new opponent, one who believes that the Western way of life is profoundly flawed, and perhaps even an offense against God. In a “fit of absence of mind,” Western societies have allowed this opponent to gather in their midst; sometimes, as in France, Britain, and the Netherlands, in ghettos which bear only tenuous and largely antagonistic relations to the surrounding political order. And in both America and Europe there has been a growing desire for appeasement: a habit of public contrition; an acceptance, though with heavy heart, of the censorious edicts of the mullahs; and a further escalation in the official repudiation of our cultural and religious inheritance. Twenty years ago, it would have been inconceivable that the archbishop of Canterbury would give a public lecture advocating the incorporation of Islamic religious law (shari’ah) into the English legal system. Today, however, many people consider this to be an arguable point, and perhaps the next step on the way to peaceful compromise.

All this suggests that we in the West stand on the edge of a dangerous period of concession, in which the legitimate claims of our own culture and inheritance will be ignored or downplayed in an attempt to prove our peaceful intentions. It will be some time before the truth will be allowed to play its all-important role of rectifying our current mistakes and preparing the way for the next ones. This means that it is more necessary than ever for us to rehearse the truth and come to a clear and objective understanding of what is at stake. I will, therefore, spell out in what follows some of the critical features of the Western inheritance which must be understood and defended in our current confrontation. Each of these features marks a point of contrast, and possibly of conflict, with the traditional Islamic vision of society, and each has played a vital part in creating the modern world. Islamist belligerence stems from having found no secure place in that world, and from turning for refuge to precepts and values that are at odds with the Western way of life. This does not mean that we should renounce or repudiate the distinguishing features of our civilization, as many would have us do. On the contrary, it means that we must be all the more vigilant in their defense.

THE FIRST of the features that I have in mind is citizenship."
http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/3826

The dawning of the cooling.
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"The most recent climate shift probably occurred at about the year 2000.

Now the question is how has warming slowed and how much influence does human activity have?

"But if we don't understand what is natural, I don't think we can say much about what the humans are doing. So our interest is to understand -- first the natural variability of climate -- and then take it from there. So we were very excited when we realized a lot of changes in the past century from warmer to cooler and then back to warmer were all natural," Tsonis said.

Tsonis said he thinks the current trend of steady or even cooling earth temps may last a couple of decades or until the next climate shift occurs."
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"UW-Milwaukee Study Could Realign Climate Change Theory

Scientists Claim Earth Is Undergoing Natural Climate Shift"
http://www.wisn.com/weather/18935841/detail.html

ron in kelowna at March 16, 2009 9:54 AM, thanks for pointing to the Clay Shirky article. It’s the most reasoned dissertation I’ve seen yet on the “transition” from print media to whatever the future may hold for journalism.

Ontario's corporate tax revenues plummet

Gee, what a shocking headline....chimpy mcuseless was only warned about 1000 times to lower Ontario's corporate tax rate.....but, nooooooooooo, mcjerkoff was too busy planning windmill farms and trying to save polar bears.

Couple this with his idiotic pledge to cover private sector pensions, with his refusal to get the contraband tobacco issue under control, with the massive expansion of the welfare rolls(and the corresponding outrageous benefits), with the 12% raise promised to teachers, etc, etc, etc, and it is not a stretch to say that Ontario is on it's way to insolvency.

A JOB WELL DONE BY PREMIER MCIDIOT AND HIS MERRY BAND OF LIBRANO MORONS

BTW...I would not be using any pension promised by the Ont gov't in any financial planning...cuz the next PC gov't is not going to honor any of them!

Vit Noticed you were not your usual self on the opening. I hope you are sick or busy rather then feeling unappreciated. I for one enjoy them and the discussions that are way over my head. It's how I learn. It's also how I remember to accept.

TO is a hostage/prisoner of PET's multiculturalism.

Will Liberals STOPIGGY, KatMeat, Hezbollah Coderre, Judy Sgro and Jim Karigiannis, Bob Rae, et al, lead the "chain"?
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"Tamil community to form chain through downtown T.O.

Toronto's Tamil community is planning a huge protest Monday that is set to tie up traffic in the downtown.

The protesters plan to form a human chain that will start on Front Street, go up Yonge Street to Bloor Street, and head west down Bloor to University Avenue, where it will turn south back to Front.

The protest is meant to draw attention to the attacks by the Sri Lankan military on Tamils in that country's bloody civil war."
http://toronto.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20090316/tamils_090316/20090316?hub=TorontoHome

From MSM: bogs are bad; they are upsetting the politicals. Tsksktsk
"endangering the city" tsssktssk
But, it's just the "malicious bloggers" with spean mirits.
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"Salisbury mayor: Malicious blogs endangering city

SALISBURY — In her final State of the City address, Salisbury Mayor Barrie Parsons Tilghman warned residents of what she sees as a great danger to the city: malicious bloggers.

Tilghman said in her address Thursday that over the last five years, the presence of a small group of suspicious, mean-spirited people focused on the negative has grown, endangering the city's vitality.

Tilghman says some people are avoiding serving their city because it's not worth chancing the scorn of bloggers. But Tilghman says they need to stand up for the city."
http://mddailyrecord.com/article.cfm?id=153345&type=Daily

Mistakenly drank vodka after deadly Calgary crash, driver testifies
Court hears that accused was frustrated, distracted on day of collision

CBC News
A cement truck driver charged with killing five people in a Calgary rear-end collision testified that he's a longtime recovering alcoholic who's had a "couple of slips here and there."

Daniel Tschetter, 51, has pleaded not guilty to five counts of manslaughter, five counts of criminal negligence causing death and one count of obstruction in the deadly crash in December 2007.

Testifying in his own defence on Monday morning, Tschetter said he has been sober for 18 years in his battle against alcoholism aside from "a couple of slips here and there."

The driver said he was in a rush to return to the cement plant in Springbank to wash out his truck after delivering a load of cement to a job site near Nanton on Dec. 7, 2007.

The Crown presented witnesses last week who testified that they saw Tschetter's truck speeding and driving erratically before the crash that killed Chris Gautreau, 41, his daughters, Alexia, 9, and Kiarra, 6, Gautreau's fiancée, Melaina Hovdebo, 33, and her son, Zachary, 16 months.
Frustrated driver was distracted by gauges

Tschetter said he was weaving in and out of traffic that evening because he was checking the air pressure gauges on the dashboard of his truck, and was frustrated because his water lines were freezing up.

He told the court he was also thinking about his wallet, which was either lost or stolen a few days earlier.
'I was feeling frustrated. I can't recall seeing those lights.'—Daniel Tschetter "[I] had a little turmoil in me," he recalled on the stand.

Approaching 194th Avenue on Macleod Trial, Tschetter said he didn't notice the flashing yellow lights above the road, or the red light.

"I spent too much time with the gauges. I was feeling frustrated. I can't recall seeing those lights," he testified, admitting he was travelling at 105 km/h, even though the posted speed limit was 80 km/h.

Tschetter said he didn't see the vehicle stopped at the red light in front of him "until the last second." There was a loud bang, and then he smelled debris, plastic and anti-freeze, said the driver.

The court has heard that the car was lodged under the truck and was dragged about 275 metres.

"I was in shock. I was in disbelief. I was actually sick to my stomach, couldn't see what I hit," Tschetter testified, his voice shaking as he wiped tears from his face.
'Everything was a great big blur'

He recalled wanting a drink of water, so he reached under his seat and took a drink from a bottle, before realizing it was vodka, Tschetter said.

"I absolutely freaked, paranoid, I was getting into a frenzy," said the driver, who was raised on a Hutterite colony near Fort Macleod and now lives in Cochrane.
The deadly crash left the vehicle lodged under the cement truck in December 2007. The deadly crash left the vehicle lodged under the cement truck in December 2007. (CBC)

He then got out of the truck and saw the vehicle on the side of his bumper.

"There were people all over," Tschetter remembered. "I didn't know how many people were in the car…. Everything was a great big blur."

Tschetter said he returned to his truck, climbed to the top and threw the bottle of vodka into the drum, because he didn't know what to do if people saw him with the container.

"What do I say, what do I do?" he testified.

Under questioning by his lawyer, Balfour Der, Tschetter explained the vodka bottle was in the truck so he could offer drinks to staff at concrete suppliers to get to the front of long lineups.

The judge-only trial also heard Monday that Tschetter had 10 traffic tickets between 1989 and 2003 for speeding, failure to stop at a stop sign, failure to stop at a crosswalk, failure to drive in centre of lane, and failure to obey traffic control device.

"The most important thing about this was that people wanted to paint him as a monster. They wanted to paint him as an impaired driver, a drunk driver who had wiped out a family. And I think today all of that was put to rest," Der told reporters outside the courtroom.

Closing arguments are scheduled for Tuesday morning.

Fritz, you got 2 minutes in the Maple Laughs penalty box. heh.

Thanks, Speedy. All is cool. This week's shows are
now in the can (I just ran out of Uranium last night ;-)

Islamic mortgages in Minnesota. - Mar 10, 2009
Should Muslims get interest free mortgages?
Laura Ingram.com

http://www.lauraingraham.com/pg/jsp/charts/streamingAudioMaster.jsp?dispid=302&headerDest=L3BnL2pzcC9tZWRpYS9mbGFzaHdlbGNvbWUuanNwP3BpZD02ODE5JnBsYXlsaXN0PXRydWUmY2hhcnR0eXBlPWNoYXJ0JmNoYXJ0SUQ9MzAyJnBsYXlsaXN0U2l6ZT0xMA==

Well, dammit to you-know-where ... re:

"Tamil community to form chain through downtown T.O." (maz2).

'Went downtown around 5:00 p.m. and darned if my streetcar, moving east, didn't get slowed down real good at University Avenue. Too bad I hadn't read maz2's post. Lo and behold, a great swath of Sri Lankans, waving Tamil Tiger flags, were surging south, blocking traffic, and otherwise making a nuisance of themselves.

I jumped off the streetcar, realizing I'd make it to my destination much faster if I walked. When I asked some of the demonstrators who they were, they confirmed they were demonstrating on behalf of the Tamil Tigers. I kept my thoughts to myself, which were: "Keep your politics off OUR streets."

When I got to the Eaton Centre, I saw a Toronto police officer and asked why I hadn't seen any of TO's Finest over on University Avenue. He said they'd been there. I then asked why terrorist groups were marching on Toronto streets and he expressed frustration. He said that Mayor, aka Moron (that's my name for him), Miller and the Toronto Council allows them a permit to march.

I said I'd be writing the Moron to complain but said fat lot of good it will do; he never responds. The police officer says that he doesn't respond to the police, either.

This city is doomed. Where's Batman when we need him?

Well, dammit to you-know-where ... re:

"Tamil community to form chain through downtown T.O." (maz2).

'Went downtown around 5:00 p.m. and darned if my streetcar, moving east, didn't get slowed down at University Avenue. Too bad I hadn't read maz2's post. Lo and behold, a great swath of Sri Lankans, waving Tamil Tiger flags, were surging south, blocking traffic, and otherwise making a nuisance of themselves.

I jumped off the streetcar, realizing I'd make it to my destination much faster if I walked. When I asked some of the demonstrators who they were, they confirmed they were demonstrating on behalf of the Tamil Tigers. I kept my thoughts to myself, which were: "Keep your politics off OUR streets."

When I got to the Eaton Centre, I saw a Toronto police officer and asked why I hadn't seen any of TO's Finest over on University Avenue. He said they'd been there. I then asked why terrorist groups were marching on Toronto streets and he expressed frustration. He said that Mayor, aka Moron (that's my name for him), Miller and the Toronto Council allows them a permit to march.

I said I'd be writing the Moron to complain but said fat lot of good it will do; he never responds. The police officer says that he doesn't respond to the police, either.

This city is doomed. Where's Batman when we need him?

Re: "The protest is meant to draw attention to the attacks by the Sri Lankan military on Tamils in that country's bloody civil war."

That's fair enough, because there's some truth in it. But waving those terrorist flags is something quite different, and completely repulsive.

Re: Dr d'Espagnat, a Roman Catholic, said his work as a physicist had convinced him of the existence of a deeper reality. "When we hear great classical music or look at very great paintings, they are not just illusions but could be a revelation of something fundamental. I would accept calling it God or divine or Godhead but with the restriction that it cannot be conceptualised for the very reason that this ultimate reality is beyond any concept that we can construct."

This is mysticism. Just because one can have sublime experiences with music (or other works of art, or emotional experiences of other kinds) doesn't mean there is any "deeper reality". The error is trying to turn something epistemological into something metaphysical. There is only one reality -- the one we inhabit. If something is "beyond any concept that we can construct" then it probably doesn't exist and we shouldn't waste time on it.

nv53: "There is only one reality -- the one we inhabit. If something is 'beyond any concept that we can construct' then it probably doesn't exist and we shouldn't waste time on it."

That's your opinion, nv53. However, it flies in the face of thousands of years of the world's religions and, frankly, hundreds of millions of people's experience.