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  1. (Deep voice): “My name is Fatima“:

    QMI Agency can reveal that neither airlines nor security services are asking Muslim women to lift their veils and prove that the face beneath matches their photo ID. The issue came to light through a video taken by Mick Flynn of Bradford, England. Flynn was boarding a flight at Montreal’s Trudeau International Airport when he witnessed two women with their faces covered board an Air Canada Heathrow bound flight without being asked to remove their veils.

    (I)n the video that Flynn has posted online, a man traveling with the group hands in all the passports and is the only one to interact with airline staff while two veiled women simply walk through…

    Don’t worry, I’m sure there are clear-cut security proced…

    Air Canada says it is capable of checking identification in a private room away from the check-in counter, but said the real responsibility for security measures lies with CATSA, the Canadian Air Transport Security Agency. Not so, says CATSA. Greg MacDougall, a spokesman for CATSA, tells QMI that their guards are primarily looking for metal, weapons or other banned material, not ensuring that veiled faces match passport photos.

  2. That’s OK, I breezed through security at EWR (Newark) mistakenly using my wife’s passport and MY boarding pass. My wife, however, was experiencing some difficulty going through with my passport while in another line. (Go figure!) For the record, I’m a bearded white guy; my wife is Asian. Just goes to show you there’s no gender bias. LOL.
    It’s theatre of the absurd.

  3. Next time, go to the airport in a headscarf. You’ll get waved right through. Who cares about security when the ever-angered group that caused half of the world’s current ills can get special treatment?

  6. Have you thought of forwarding this info to CSIS or CIA?? You may be surprised at the lack of communications between government agencies.

  7. Florida preacher arrested for attempting to exercise his first amendment rights:
    http://www.gainesville.com/article/20130911/WIRE/130919875?p=1&tc=pg
    What’s needed to deal with the stupidity demonstrated in the first post is for more individuals to fly claiming to be muslim transexuals wearing a hijab with full face covering. Another option is to stick another photograph of oneself with a veil covering ones face on the identification that Canadian airlines seem to demand before getting on a plane. If the robot at the gate complains, start asking them questions about why members of TROP, the primary reason that such security theater is in place, are exempt from the rules. Haven’t been arrested yet at one of the airport security theater locations but will have to see how far I can push things.

  10. “IPCC models getting mushy”
    “Ross McKitrick, Special to Financial Post”
    “The IPCC must take everybody for fools”
    “What’s more, the U.K.’s main climate modeling lab just this summer revised its long-term weather forecasts to show it now expects there to be no warming for at least another five years. Ironically, if its model is right, it will have proven itself and all others like it to be fundamentally wrong.
    To those of us who have been following the climate debate for decades, the next few years will be electrifying. There is a high probability we will witness the crackup of one of the most influential scientific paradigms of the 20th century, and the implications for policy and global politics could be staggering.
    It is the job of the giant UN IPCC panel to inform world leaders of up-to-the-minute developments in the field. With its report due out within days, you would think it would be jumping at the chance to report on these amazing developments, wouldn’t you? Well, guess again.
    Judging by the drafts circulated this year, it is in full denial mode.”
    http://opinion.financialpost.com/2013/09/16/ipcc-models-getting-mushy/?NewsWatchCanada.ca
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    “A tipping point: Skepticism goes mainstream…”
    “Worldwide momentum is shifting. With David Rose’s article in the Daily Mail, Matt Ridley in the Wall Street Journal (“We got it wrong on warming“), and the excellent article by Ross McKitrick in the Financial Post the skeptical message is going mainstream.
    The war is by no means over, but the race in media coverage has stepped up a notch. Now, for the first time there is an element of competition, serious newspapers don’t want to be left behind. Editors have realized the skeptics have a case.
    In Australia the grand failure of the carbon tax in the recent election is still ripping through the news, the institutions, and the mood. It was a categorical defeat.”
    http://joannenova.com.au/2013/09/skepticism-goes-mainstream-a-tipping-point/?NewsWatchCanada.ca

  11. http://mainstreamlastfirst.com/
    An update from the northwest passage rowing expedtion you introduced us to. http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/archives/y2kyoto-tow-tow.html#comments
    They had to quit a month early beacuse of….wait for it… to much ice. Of course they blamed it on wind and a hole in the ice at the north pole.
    “The ice that (you) guys encountered says more about where the ice was over the last 2 months than how much ice there has been over-all. There is, for example, a big hole in the ice near the North Pole right now. Meanwhile, the winds have been blowing a lot of ice down into the Archipelago and into the region where (you) guys have been rowing”
    If you have a drought one year why would you be surprised by a return to normal rainfall in the next year?

  13. I took a close look at Justin’s expenses a few months ago and wondered if the media would ever do so. Apparently they won’t.
    Mr. Transparency has some very questionable numbers when compared to other Montreal area MPs.
    My take on those, and other interesting Justin facts(and a few opinions)can be found by clicking on my name at the bottom.If that doesn’t work(I’m new at this),the link should be; http://justinforpm.ca/

  14. “World’s top climate scientists told to ‘cover up’ the fact that the Earth’s temperature hasn’t risen for the last 15 years”
    “Leaked United Nations report reveals the world’s temperature hasn’t risen for the last 15 years
    Politicians have raised concerns about the final draft
    Fears that the findings will encourage deniers of man-made climate change”
    “Germany called for the references to the slowdown in warming to be deleted, saying looking at a time span of just 10 or 15 years was ‘misleading’ and they should focus on decades or centuries.
    Hungary worried the report would provide ammunition for deniers of man-made climate change.
    Belgium objected to using 1998 as a starting year for statistics, as it was exceptionally warm and makes the graph look flat – and suggested using 1999 or 2000 instead to give a more upward-pointing curve.
    The United States delegation even weighed in, urging the authors of the report to explain away the lack of warming using the ‘leading hypothesis’ among scientists that the lower warming is down to more heat being absorbed by the ocean – which has got hotter.”
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2425775/Climate-scientists-told-cover-fact-Earths-temperature-risen-15-years.html

  16. “Warming lull since 1998 must be explained, scientists behind landmark UN climate change report say”
    http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/09/19/warming-lull-since-1998-must-be-explained-scientists-behind-landmark-un-climate-change-report-say/
    …-
    “Germany industry in revolt as green dream causes cost spiral”
    “Germany’s top economic adviser has called for a radical rethink of the country’s energy policies, warning that the green dream is going badly wrong as costs spiral out of control.”
    “Utilities have turned to coal and lignite, causing Germany’s CO2 gases to rise”
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/10321173/Germany-industry-in-revolt-as-green-dream-causes-cost-spiral.html

  17. The “progressive” Pope.
    This is why civilization dies. Even our clerics have abandoned morality, in favour of courting the World. Not picking on the Catholic church. Its just the latest detractor of the Messiah Jesus teaching. Many more Protestant Denominations have gone all out into apostasy. Anglicans, the the United Church , to Pentecostal’s. I should say the United Collectivists.
    I can see these same types in the OT & NT that forsake Christ for the Praises of men. Or abandoned the God of Israel for the idols of the World.Child sacrifice to religious sanctioned sodomy. It never ended well for them. It won’t for us either.
    Pope, Criticizing Narrow Focus, Calls for Church as ‘Home for All’
    http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/20/world/europe/pope-bluntly-faults-churchs-focus-on-gays-and-abortion.html?_r=0

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