Good evening, ladies & gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, we have the Brooklyn, Bronx, and Queens band performing their 1981 funk classic On The Beat:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBsSYZoVFS4

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Who says Islam is a severe, uncompromising, inflexible religion?

-- KABUL -- U.S.-led coalition and Afghan troops detained 22 suspected insurgents
and discovered nearly a half-tonne of heroin during separate operations in southern
Afghanistan, the coalition said.

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Breaking News:

From this This morning:

"We, at the National Post and the people of Canada (especially Ontario), are proud and very happy to announce that effective immediately - author and drum guru -Warren Kinsella has been reassigned to go undercover in Delisle, Sask to ferret out NAZIs, right wingers and other evil doers.

Until further notice he will be under the direct control of Kate at SDA.

Our other Nazi hunter - Mr. RW has been assinged to the "Norquay North Star" to investigate the alarming consumption of Lutefisk - an indicator of increasing anti-semitism - in the Norwegian and Swedish community."

By the end of February, many Canadian schools are going to be involved in "Stand Up to Bullying Day", one more of a myriad of initiatives over the last dozen or so years.

Now, if previous initiatives haven’t produced the desired changes in the kids’ behaviour—bullying is getting worse all the time—why the public boards’ “stuck on stupid” behaviour? Well, because they are stupid. The root causes of societal pandering to “equality and diversity” (political correctness run amok), parental inadequacy and the boards’ enthusaistic collusion don’t intrude on the bureaucrats’ thinking or actions in any way.

I’ve never seen so many trite “No Bullying” bromides, on all kinds of ugly, scribbled posters that fill public school hallways in my life. However, the sense of entitlement the kids of today wear like a badge and their parents’ covering for their kids’ infractions by often blaming the teacher or anyone else who dares to discipline their little darlings—administrators are terrified of such parents—undermine all these efforts. In fact, what’s missing from most schools’ “[How to get Away with Bad] Behaviour Codes” is both posted consequences and then a consistent administration of those consequences. Most Behaviour Codes are empty words: in fact, the kids—and their beleaguered teachers—soon find out that there are no consequences, for even the most egregious infractions. Le voila! The infractions continue and even escalate.

The latest “Stand up to Bullying Day” in many communities will include the students marching with banners: poor, deluded children. They’ll probably be somewhat enthusiastic—however, I believe a lot of them are finally getting the drift that this is all talk and no action—but if they think the adults are really going to carry through and deal with bullies, often seen by administrators as victims, and dangerous ones at that, as they and their often inadequate parent(s) often challenge any disciplinary action, the kids are, once again, going to be let down.

Some evidence? What’s the colour scheme for “Stand Up to Bullying Day”? PINK! (I am not making this up.)

the only thing Warren K is doing undercover is (fill in the blank) ( sick sexual comments are allowed)

The NP has put up a retraction regarding our intellectual better...

http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2008/02/20/retraction.aspx

conservatives at 39%
liberals 27%
ndp 12%
green 12%
bq 10%

Harper at 40%
Dion 15%
layton 12%

The NP has put up a retraction regarding our intellectual better...

bryceman

I wonder if they got a threatening letter.

Taliban Jack Layton-NDP says, Not ours.
"Jawad was a stringer for Canadian Television (CTV).

Another Enemy Propagandist (Journalist) Detained by U.S. Forces?

The U.S. military confirmed yesterday that it was holding an Afghan reporter, Jawad Ahmad [pictured right], because of his extensive ties to the Taliban. Jawad was a stringer for Canadian Television (CTV).

Apparently his cell phone had Taliban phone numbers on them and indicated that the journalist had done extensive interviews with them. He also was in possession of Taliban propaganda videos.
Have we just met the Afghani Bilal Hussein?
Reporters Without Borders, of course, is outraged that a journalist--a journalist!--is being detained. After all, aren't all journalist--journalists!--immune from any and all suspicion?
To be honest, this may be one time (finally) that Reporters Without Borders has something intelligent to say (maybe). I have Taliban phone numbers and plenty of Taliban propaganda on my computer. Granted, I've never actually given Zahidullah Mujahid or Qari Mohammad Yousuf a phone call, but still I have them. Our friends at the NEFA Foundation have. They certainly aren't rooting for the Taliban.
I'm not a fan of media types doing interviews with the Taliban, but it's common practice. AP, AFP, & Reuters routinely quote Qari Mohammed Yousef.
http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/191349.php

More: CTV pleads for release: Robert Hurst, president of CTV News. http://tinyurl.com/2edmw8

This morning, John McCain will address the NYTimes/WashPost allegations from Wednesday that he has been, er, "lobbying" a female lobbyist on the side...

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/21/the-early-word-mccains-ties-to-a-lobbyist/

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/21/us/politics/21mccain.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&hp&adxnnlx=1203602477-2VrYTDhFwAfx4JtHLVhaOg

Mao Stlong say, You no tlust egg loll? One egg loll? Two?
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US to take own food to Olympics

China has expressed regret that the US has decided not to trust its food during this summer's Olympic Games. http://tinyurl.com/2j387k (bbc)

A dhimmi Church and perhaps how things will be in our future.
'St. Mary's parish priest, Father Tomasito Veneracion, a Filipino, said the church would be "merely a place for collective prayer."
He said it would not have crosses outside the building or serve as a platform for proselytizing.'

http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?c=Article_C&cid=1201957957493&pagename=Zone-English-News/NWELayout

From the Better-late-than-never files:

Tory moves to end Native lawlessness

http://tinyurl.com/2rnutc

"“We live in Ontario, not the O.K. Corral,” said Tory. “Stopping the growing trend of unchecked lawlessness does not seem to make Dalton McGuinty’s priority list. (...) Tory and the PC Caucus decided to launch the campaign as we approach the second anniversary of the illegal occupation in Caledonia. Unfortunately, lawlessness in Ontario does not stop there. Since the beginning of 2008 alone we have seen: developers on the Grand River being hit with extortionist “development fees”, a booming illegal cigarette industry, a major trial thrown out due to incompetence in the Attorney General’s office and criminals continuing to laugh at the system while making outrageous deals on sentencing and plea bargains.""

Where was Tory in exploiting this issue during the election???? Hiding out in PC land??

(Via CSP) Carlos Alberta Montaner, History will never absolve Castro

The balance of these 50 years is horrendous. There is no human way that history will absolve him. The obstacles are two million exiles, thousands of political prisoners -- of whom almost 300 are still behind bars -- thousands of executions, an absolute absence of freedoms, broken families and the worst material failures in the history of Latin American dictatorships. Almost all those long tyrannies -- Stroessner in Paraguay, Somoza in Nicaragua, Trujillo in the Dominican Republic -- were corrupt and cruelly tormented societies, but they left behind countries that were richer and better equipped than those they began with.

In Cuba, things have been different...

Saudi Columnist Laments Expulsion of Christians from Arab Countries

"[Jewish emigration from Arab countries] had a significant negative impact on the material wellbeing of society, and on economic diversity, in the Arab world. It helped invalidate the claim that religious moderation, coexistence, and 'acceptance of the other' [prevailed in Arab countries].

"It is obvious that, today another wave of emigration is underway, and that the Arab world is being drained of its Christian residents. The rate of Christian emigration from Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq, Egypt, Palestine, Sudan, and Syria has reached astonishing proportions. Palestine in particular is facing a plan to eradicate the entire deeply-rooted Christian presence from all its territories...

The contraband cigarette crisis is now completely out of control.

Unofficial estimates are now as high as 50% of all smokes sold in Ontario are illegal(there is no way of truly knowing, as there are ZERO inspections of these facilities).

The greatest concern, in my opinion, is the fact that youth smoking is on the rise big time, as contraband smokes are affordable and available to them. As well, our children are being exposed to thug punk criminals, who sell these illegal smokes, along with dope and guns.

Tory completely dropped the ball in the previous election(afraid of what happened to Harris?), and dalton mcjerkface does not have the gonads to do a thing(under mcarsehole's first term, Deseronto went from 2 to over 60 contraband smoke shacks....good job chimpy mcliar!).

There is only one solution. ALL cigarette taxes in Ontario must be eliminated TODAY!!!!!!!!!

(Via Azure) David Bosco, Moral Principle vs. Military Necessity

The first code of conduct during warfare, created by a Civil War–era Prussian immigrant, reflected ambiguities we struggle with to this day

Portugal honors diplomat who saved thousands of Jews

"Sousa Mendes was the Portuguese consul general in Bordeaux when the Germans invaded France in 1940. Defying his government's instructions, he issued visas to an estimated 10,000 Jews and 20,000 other refugees fleeing the Nazi advance.

For many people the only way out by land was through Lisbon, Portugal's Atlantic coast capital, but a Portuguese transit visa was needed to leave France and cross Spain. Sousa Mendes and a handful of staff worked furiously to issue visas to thousands who queued around the consulate for days.
Sousa Mendes famously remarked, "I'd rather be with God against man than with man against God."
As a result, he was called back to Lisbon where Portugal's then-dictator Antonio Salazar stripped him of his position and dismissed him from the diplomatic service. Denied a pension and barred from practicing law, he lived the remainder of his life in poverty with his wife and 14 children and died in 1954." http://tinyurl.com/2cley9 (canoe)

The poll at ctv is still up. If you haven't yet, Go Vote!
Should the federal government follow B.C. and institute a carbon tax?

The most blatant partisan SMEAR by a Mainstream Paper hit the streets late yesterday...and is getting plenty of mileage in the rest of the MSM ever since.

The John McCain smear by the NYT has been getting non-stop coverage on MSNBC since at least 06:00 today.... No agenda in the MSM?

Chris Mathews thinks the NYT is the Best paper in the USA!
Big surprise there Chris.......

Just wake people up this am, a 6.4 earthquake hit Wells, Nevada, early today and there is some building damage as we speak.

Nobody hurt so far.

Who said full moons in the winter have no influence on the occurence of EQs?

http://www.mercurynews.com/greenenergy/ci_8322400?nclick_check=1

"Installing solar panels on homes is an economic "loser" with the costs far outweighing the financial benefit, a respected University of California-Berkeley business professor said Wednesday.

The technology, using photovoltaic panels to generate electricity, is not economically competitive with fossil fuels and costs more than other renewable fuels, said Severin Borenstein, who also directs the UC Energy Institute.

"We are throwing away money by installing the current solar PV technology," he said....."
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And related...sigh!!!!

http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_8063034

"Sunnyvale homeowners told to cut redwoods that block solar panels
LAW: TREES BLOCKING NEIGHBOR'S SOLAR PANELS MUST BE CUT"

"The law, signed by former Gov. Jerry Brown in 1978, is rarely used. But county prosecutors say Treanor and Bissett are breaking it.

"It's not that we think trees are more or less important than solar collectors. It's that our state's leaders have said under the following circumstances, solar takes precedence," said Ken Rosenblatt, supervising Santa Clara County deputy district attorney for environmental protection...

"It affects only trees planted after 1979, and bans trees or shrubs from shading more than 10 percent of a neighbor's solar panels between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m....."

"In December, Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Kurt Kumli found the couple guilty of one count of violating the Solar Shade Control Act. In a partial victory for each side, he ruled that six of the trees can remain and that the two generating the most shade must be removed."

Speaking of polls ...and their obvious limitations:

Yesterday CP sponsored Harris/Decima poll had CPC /LPC in TIE!!
The only thing polls are good for is letting us know who is gullible enough to believe in them or cynical enough to abuse them.

And over at www.canadanewswire.com, we have the .SAVEMYMANITOBA crowd, and the THROWYOURNEIGHBORINJAILALLIANCE banding together to screw the rights of Designated Area farmers.

'Winnipeg area MPs Pat Martin, Anita Neville, Raymond Simard and Judy Wasylycia-Leis, drew attention to the significance of the orderly marketing of grains to the economy of Manitoba and its capital. Winnipeg is home to the head offices of the Canadian Wheat Board and the Canadian Grain Commission, and orderly marketing of grains is a big part of the province's $3.7 billion agriculture industry."

Manitoba grows only 8% of the barley in Western Canada, but it is a BIG, INFLUENTIAL and IMPORTANT 8%.

And by god, Manitoba politicians deserve the right to trample all over the Charter of Rights liberty, and the property rights of Sask and Alberta barley growers that grow 92% of all the barley in Western Canada.

When questioned as to why 500 CWB jobs in Winnipeg were more important than the rights of 150,000 western farms and the right of small towns all over the West to grow with a prosperous grain exporting economy, they sputtered 'SAVEMYMANITOBA' and to hell with you guys.
We're in it for ourselves.

While in Winnipeg, the group will also tour the proposed site of the Museum of Human Rights and bow their heads in the sand as they remember all of the people who suffered at the hands of arbitrary, unfair and unjust totalitarian dictatorships around the world.

What a Coincidence or is it another statistic?

Wikipedia site:

Warman changed 13/02/08
Kinsella changed 15/02/09

Always remember Trailer Park Boys as there must be a "Shit Storm" a commeth.

Thank you Lord!

HORRIFYING and ignorant. Here's the sound of the Muslim call to prayer foisted on the Swiss in Bern:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCB-ibyV4aw&eurl=http://ibloga.blogspot.com/

These bewildered people haven't yet figured out that it is a tool in the Islamic war in dar al Harb.

The same brutal sound soon coming to Oxford, England.

From ibloga.blogspot.com:

Unlike churches, mosques are not places of spirituality, peace and sanctuary. They are quasi-military citadels and centres of subversion, intimidation and aggression:

"The desire to make mosques more visible has increased, however. In three Swiss cantons there are now building applications for minarets, slender towers topped by a crescent. The foes of minarets have brought in the heavy artillery. The approximately 100 supporters of a ban, including 35 SVP deputies, declared that Islam was making a 'political-religious bid for power.' Among the evidence they cited was a remark by Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey's prime minister and ex-mayor of Istanbul, that 'the mosques are our barracks, the minarets our bayonets, the domes our helmets, and the believers our soldiers.' This, say those seeking a referendum, must be stopped in Switzerland"

Commenting on the Oxford Mosque's demands to broadcast the amplified pre-recorded wailing, Dhimmiwatch says

"The noisy call to prayer is an act of dominance and aggression. The louder it is, the better. Mosques were always supposed to be built in high ground, or in the most imposing spot, towering over churches and synagogues, in the lands first conquered by Islam. Those aggressive skyward thrusting minarets were symbols of power, of dominance. And the same thing continued wherever Islam went.

Some fail to understand that the placement of mosques, the size of mosques, the significance of minarets, and those calls or cries, now electronically amplified, are all part of a single system. That system is one by which the mosque is not merely or mainly a place of worship, but a place of community gathering... of plots and schemes. It is even -- as we see even here and there in Europe -- a place to store weapons, explosives, false papers in false ceilings -- and a place from which to fire on Infidels ...

A mosque is NOT a Muslim "church." It is a Muslim "church" and a Muslim "community center" and a Muslim "armory" and a Muslim "army recruiting center" and a Muslim everything.

The easy, and comforting, belief in the West that it is merely a "house of worship" is something that Infidels must disabuse themselves of....The muezzins wail ...would be an intolerable display of triumphalism. If Oxford allows the call to prayer between 6 a.m. (but not earlier) and 10 p.m. (but not later), what will this do to the sleep patterns, and peace of mind, of all the non-Muslims who, presumably, still live in Oxford?

You know it's bad when even the Labour Party is floating these trial balloons...
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LONDON - Aspiring British citizens will be put on probation for at least one year to show they can speak English, pay their taxes, abide by the law and integrate into local life under new immigration rules announced yesterday by the British government.

The move is the latest by Britain to try to control immigration and ease public fears that schools, hospitals and transport networks are being swamped by foreign nationals, especially since the enlargement of the European Union.

The proposals also seek to encourage immigrants to integrate locally, rather than living in segregated areas and speaking their own languages, a trend that can lead to intolerance.

[...]

The opposition Conservative party labelled the plans a "gimmick" and called for a numerical cap on immigration, a move the government opposes.

http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/archives/008091.html#comments

Boo-hoo. "Muslim leader decries American 'bigotry' against Islam"

By Bruce Nolan, Religion News Service, USA Today

American culture's view of American Muslims and Islam is steadily deteriorating under an onslaught of "bigotry" on cable news shows, newspaper op-ed pages and in the blogosphere, an Arab-American activist told an audience at Tulane University here Tuesday.

(Bigotry? Or is it we’re all becoming more knowledgeable?)

That's a significant shift, said Hussein Ibish, founder of the Foundation for Arab-American Leadership in Washington, D.C.

Decades before 9/11, Hollywood handed Americans the perceived wisdom on Arabs as passionate, hyper-sexed, irrational and cruel. Movies such as Rudolph Valentino's 1921 silent classic The Sheik and turn-of-the-century thrillers such as The Rules of Engagement portrayed Arabs only as terrorists, Ibish said.

(“Arabs as…hyper-sexed, irrational and cruel”…according to history, and current news reports, sounds about right.)

Since the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, however, Hollywood has backed off. In the meantime, Ibish said, commentators and politicians on the right — and a few on the left — have replaced film stereotypes with hours of air time devoted to misrepresenting Islam and fueling suspicion about American Muslims.

(“misrepresenting Islam.” There they go again. Hey buddy, the Quran is in English and fortunately in the west, most people can read)

Since 9/11, he said, commentators such as Malkin, Ann Coulter, Charles Krauthammer, Daniel Pipes and David Horowitz have transferred old anti-Arab stereotypes to Islam, in a stream of "incredibly bigoted commentary" that would not have been tolerated before then.

(These people never cease to amaze. Imagine these uber-hyper bigots and racists calling others bigots and then talking about what should and should not be tolerated)

"This is what explains the collapse of the good name of Islam," he said.

(“good name of Islam” Right. Brought to you by a mass-murdering, pedophile, pirate)

Ibish said he did not want to sound alarmist. "This is still a great country to live in," he said. But a growing climate of suspicion toward Muslims — and the automatic dismissal of Muslim denials — make the situation steadily worse, he added.

(“dismissal of Muslim denials” Might the Islamic religious principle of pathological lying, called taqiyya, have anything to do with it?)

What up with these three left feet, shod in sz. 12 sneakers washing ashore on Gulf Islands? That's weird.

UK teacher gets sacked because he objected to Christians being called pigs:

"ISLAM 'PIG' CLAIM"
mirror.co.uk

A teacher yesterday claimed he was sacked from an Islamic school after complaining about books in which Christians were called "pigs".

Colin Cook, 58, alleged five-year-olds were taught from the texts that Jews were "monkeys".

The head of King Fahad Academy denied the claims but shredded the 2,000 books. Mr Cook told the jobs tribunal yesterday that pupils at the school in Acton, West London, praised 9/11.

(Just another tremendous "misunderstanding" of Islam)

Ontario Young Liberals: Vote-buying with booze

I just thought this was interesting.

An inconvenient truth for Al Gore: New century starts with global cooling trend (Sea Surface Temps)

Last month was the globe's coldest in 14 years. While it's partly due to a La Nina event, it was cooler than 1999, when a similar La Nina made global headlines. In fact, the 21st century is starting off with a cooling trend that is large enough that there would be a negative trend for the decade as a whole even if a record-shattering El Nino (warm trend) develops.
The 21st century temperature trend (1/2001-1/2008): (More)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1973961/posts

Scroll down comments for:
Newsweek's Climate Change Hysteria, Version 1975.
The only contant in weather is change.

Citoyen Dion's Dream Team dissolves into 23 Cut'N'Runners.
Citoyen say: That's not fair. Worse still, Dion expresses open doubts that [Conservative Senator] Brown is “the best person” for the job.
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Liberal MP Roy Cullen Leaving The Federal Scene

Which brings our never-ending list to 23.

Liberal MPs Who've Resigned, Been Expelled, Crossed The Floor Or Won't Be Seeking Re-Election:

Ray Bonin, Brenda Chamberlain, Joe Comuzzi, Roy Cullen, David Emerson, Joe Fontana, John Godfrey, Bill Graham, Wajid Khan, Jean Lapierre, Nancy Karetak-Lindell, Paul Martin, Bill Matthews, Joe McGuire, Gary Merasty, Stephen Owen, Jim Peterson, Lucienne Robillard, Andy Scott, Paul Steckle, Belinda Stronach, Tom Wappel, Blair Wilson.
http://tinyurl.com/2e92dj (G-M)

On his site, the "mastermind" states:

It's Thursday, and the hate blogs are being very, very quiet.

Well, since all the blogs I go to have many posts today already, and "his" has no new posts today, is he saying that his blog is a "hate blog"?

If not, then he is indeed delusional....

From the Toronto Star:

"Nine black jail guards who say they have been targets of racist threats for at least three years at the Don Jail have been granted paid leave until the end of June.

The guards' union steward, Hayton Morrison, said today that this is a temporary solution while the Community Safety and Correctional Services ministry investigates the complaints.

The guards turned over letters containing death threats to the police. So far, police have not laid any charges. "

"Morrison, who himself is on paid leave, acknowledged that this is an interim solution which does nothing to deal with the real problem."

So, because the nine guards are threatened (and which guards are NOT, ever threatened)..they get paid leave. And the Union Steward of the guards, heck, he's also on paid leave. That's ten in this Toronto Star report.

How many guards are left to report to work? How many are on 'paid leave' because they've been threatened? Again - how many guards in a jail are never, ever, threatened? It goes with the job.
But- the taxpayers are currently funding ten people who aren't working...

Taliban Jack Layton-NDP vs PET Liberals.
It's hilarious; the socialists sparring/jabbing/bobin & a-weavin at a joint "news conference".
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Wheat board latest topic as NDP, Liberals snipe over election

WINNIPEG - The federal New Democrats are taking more shots at the Liberals over the idea of forcing an election.
Members from both parties attended a news conference in Winnipeg Thursday to oppose the Harper government's plan to take away the Canadian Wheat Board's monopoly on barley sales.
But the spirit of unity quickly dissolved as NDP MP Pat Martin urged his Liberal counterparts not to "sit on their hands" when the wheat board issue comes up for a vote in the Commons.
Liberal MP Raymond Simard, who was sitting just a few feet away, called Martin's comments a political cheap shot. ...-
http://tinyurl.com/yp86yz (canoe)

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/general/view.bg?articleid=1074980&format=text

"The sexual predator who was busted this week after allegedly stalking a woman inside a Braintree bookstore bathroom was set free by the same judge who sprang another convicted pervert accused of raping a child in a New Bedford library last month."

Next time some a-hole judge wants to let out some rapist because the scumbag (and I refer to the judge) doesn't think a rapist is dangerous, have the rapist move into the judge's house.

The main problem with these arrogant pricks is that they are never the ones to suffer from their actions - that's left up to the little people. Clearly of no account to someone as wise and learned as a judge...

And you wonder where the contempt for lawyers/judges and the political class comes from.

Another route is if some lackey of the system lets some creep out of jail, the lackey and the creep should share the same sentence and jail cell in prison if the creep re-offends. It's called "aiding and abetting" a crime.

"The contraband cigarette crisis is now completely out of control." this is a clear case of ontario politicians and bureaucrats being unable to think their way out of a paper bag. Cigarette taxes were lowered a number of years ago because the smuggling was "out of control" -- when they lowered the taxes, the problem was greatly alleviated. SOOO -- why have they proceeded to raise them again when the result was entirely predictable?

Another important rejection of the Human Rights Act Section 13.1 - ie, 'thou shalt not speak anything that might be interpreted in the future by someone not around at the present time, to be hurtful to them'....

h/t Ezra Levant's blog

Not only many blogs have articulately argued against Section 13.1 of the HRAct, but, it's moved into the MSM with many journalists writing clear, reasoned arguments against it. And, it made its way to CNN, and TVO's Agenda, and CTV's Mike Duffy, and finally, the Globe and Mail wrote an editorial calling for its abolition.

The Toronto Star's role has been to print ignorant letters promoting it - which letters have been filled with flaws such as mixing up the Criminal Code 'Incitement to genocide:318) and the Human Rights Act.

Now, PEN Canada has written an articulate letter calling for the removal of that Section 13.1

http://www.pencanada.ca/media/feb42008-statement.pdf

Actually, the only ones in favour of that section, are the uninformed and as I said, massively ignorant comments in the Toronto Star (eg. Ali Mallah, VP of the Canadian Arab Foundation) in today's Star. See Ezra Levant for that as well:

http://ezralevant.com

And, the CJC (Canadian Jewish Congress); that means that this group and the Islamic group can use the HRAct to stop all analysis, critique and questions about their political agendas under the rubric of 'religion' or 'racism'.

Oh, and in this group, is Richard Warman, the everready filer-of-complaints which have nothing to do with him; and Warren Kinsella, his sidekick, who thinks that dogs are cats, because both are animals.

Other than this set of aberrants, Canadians want this section of the HRAct - removed.

Someone should tell the National Post that there is a difference between a solar eclipse and one of the lunar variety...

http://www.nationalpost.com/most_popular/story.html?id=322388

It's like half of the story was about last night's lunar eclipse and then, for the last half, they decided to talk about the solar kind. Big copy and paste error, I would say.

Protests against Kosovo's secession, to be held in Vancouver and Toronto this Sunday. Go here for details.

Here are the images in series of the refinery explosion in Big Springs Texas. . . up close and very real.

http://www.bigspringherald.com/

Did I miss these images on the CBC?, CTV?

Kosovo is top news today, yet these explosion images are what TV news was made for.

I did flip around our 85 plus channels for some time and saw no mention of the Big Springs *event*.

When the MSM is asked not to cover fearsome stories that are close to home, how does that help us to be mentally equipped to cope with events that could occur in our home towns? = TG

spread the news - could you explain to me why these Serbian students are marching to the US Embassy? The US isn't Kosovo.

Because the US recognized Kosovo? So did Britain, so did Turkey. Why is your group marching to the US embassy? Hmm?

Frankly, I'm tired of the marchers-of-the-world targeting the US.

By the way, apparently the rioters in Serbia, also smashed and looted retail stores; that certainly shows their nature.

Why should rioting incite Kosovo to change its mind and stay with Serbia?

The U of Toronto Serbian student group (and here we have, yet again, the isolationism of multiculturalism)..plans on showing pictures of Serbian churches burned by Kosovo 'rebels'. Of course, Kosovo could show the same on their side.
But again, why would Serbia want such people, ie, church-burning people, to stay?

If you look at the history of the ex-yugoslavia, you can see that the serbs are a bunch of frustrated people. All the wars in the balkans were started by the serbs who couldn't accept others people leaving.

After Tito was dead, the serbs took control of yugoslavia and decided to make it a greater Serbia. Kosovo had autonomy during Tito. After the serbs removed it.

With Nato troops are the border between Kosovo and Serbia... this is over.. get over it..

Quebec is next.

Long live Kosovo.
Vive le Quebec libre.

You simply don't get it, 'atheist quebecois separatiste'.

MOST Canadians would LOVE to see Quebec leave! We're tired of the financial cost of our having to support Quebec's costly programs - which all cost far more than its citizens can support - and which WE, in the Rest of Canada, have to pay for with our taxes.

We're tired of supporting your universities and their low tuition. And how you allow foreign students-who-speak-French pay the same low cost as Quebec students. But we, who pay for these low costs, ie, students from Ontario and Alberta etc, have to pay HIGHER tuition than someone from Belgium.
We're tired of bilingualism and its costs. Especially since Quebec refuses bilingualism, and has its teams of Language Police going around to haul anyone who writes English, Chinese, Serbian..into court.

We're tired of paying for your daycare whose costs are far above your taxpayer base; tired of paying to subsidize your industries..and so on.

We encourage you to leave! There won't be any riots in the streets of Toronto, Edmonton, Calgary, Vancouver! None! We'll wish you all the best and bon voyage!

Oh, just remember - you leave as an adult. Not a perpetual teenager. No Canadian money, no Canadian passport, no subsidized industries. You are on your own. I think, frankly, it would do Quebec a lot of good to be on their own. It would certainly, do the ROC a lot of good.

Now - AQS - since I'm pointing out how this situation is completely different from the Serbs, who don't want Kosovo to separate, I'm sure you'll be delighted by how many Canadians wish Quebec 'all the best' - for its separation.

TG - It was all over MSNBC as soon as it happenned on Wednesday and gas prices jumped here today which means someone noticed.I thought I saw it on Global National yesterday as well.

Good post ET on Quebec leaving.

Some time ago, their agricultural industry was all puff and fluff on leaving also.

They quickly changed their minds when their dairy farmers found out that they would not retain their outrageous quota to supply dairy products to English Canada.

Western dairy farmers were licking their lips at what would have been their good fortune of splitting up Quebec's quota, but as they always have, Quebecers talk a much better game than they play.

BTW, did you notice that a fleur-de-lis looks like a boat anchor when it's turned upside down?

Linda L. EXACTLY! The Ontario Liberals are either complete morons, or they are receiving a share of the contraband smoke booty.

No other answer makes sense.

They have to drop cigarettes back down to $2 a pack, and put the native contraband smoke criminals out of business.

It may not take all tobacco out of the hands of children, but it would be a good start. At least the majority of convenience stores subscribe to the principals of no cigarette sales to minors.

ET: A-friggin-MEN!
Thank you for articulating it so eloquently.

sorry ET. I dont want Quebec to separate on their own.

Like a spoiler teenager they are I want to give them the punt.

funny thing Ive always thought of Quebec as more like the funny old dowager aunt. sitting there living off the relatives while hoarding her own. sitting complaining and smelling of old poutine and cheap wine. remenicing of the old days when she ran the roost in her ugly tyrst with uncle ontario and the fish eating cousins to the east.

ET...excellent essay on Quebec leaving,but you left out one thing. They also only get the land that was theirs originally, i.e. the SE shore of the St. Lawerence from Quebec City to Isle Royal. The rest,well tough titty. The Indians and the ROC owns it.

Also, ET and Justthinkin, I think all agreements signed with the PROVINCE of Quebec should be made null and void when they become the COUNTRY of Quebec...so that cozy electricity deal they made with NFLD / LAB would be gone!

And no more Prime Ministers from Quebec!

Woo Hoo!

C'mon everybody, all together now...Kick them out! Kick them out! Kick them out! Kick them out!

Nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, hey, hey, hey, goodbye!

just thinking - yes, I agree; they only get the original land base at the time of 'Wolfe-Montcalm'.

I've found it hilarious to hear people in Quebec, and quebecois separatiste is one of them, state with absolute certainty, that the natives have 'no right' to separate from Quebec. Heh.

If Quebec assumes the right to separate from the rest of Canada, then, the natives, who lived and worked that land long before any Europeans came, have the same right to separate.

Land bases are, after all, political entities, which is to say, they are 'human constructs'. There's no such thing as a land which belongs, by some a priori, essentialist, almost biological property, to a particular ethnic group, religious group. Many Quebecers, however, view the land as an 'essentialist, biological property' of The Quebec people. That's actually a fascist idea, that sense of the land as essentially linked to a particular people...

But, if Quebec wants to leave, I myself have no problem with such an act. After all, we cannot conclude that Quebec offers much to the ROC. We, on the other hand, support it via industrial subsidies (and yes, the milk quota is one of them), via federal funding of many of their programs, federal assistance in so much of their infrastructure (roads, trains); and, bilingualism has meant an enormous francophone bureaucracy (eg, Hull-Montreal-Ottawa).

If it left, politically and economically, it would have to form its own market-driven economy, rather than loafing on the couch of a subsidized and protected economy. So, for example, rather than filing a lawsuit against Wal-Mart for refusing to put in a store in a Quebec town, where all the locals could work - Quebec would have to develop its own Wal-Mart style stores.

It would have to work hard to attract competitive international business, it wouldn't be able to rely on federal subsidies that enable it to lower its prices; it would have to stand on its own.

I see no fiscal or political loss to the ROC with such a move; after all - it would still be there, and I'm sure Montreal and Quebec would still welcome the ROC as tourists! Indeed, it would very much want to attract tourism!

So, I'm against keeping a population that don't want to remain in a federation. Unhappily for such as quebecois separatiste (+atheist), the majority of Quebecers still don't want to leave. And that means - we, in the ROC, still continue to subsidize them. And put up with the political and economic costs of bilingualism...remember, Quebec refuses bilingualism.

ET:

I'm not an organizer of the protests and does not know any of the organizers, so am unable to answer your questions about the specifics of the protests. I side with the Serbs because I do not want to see Mohammedans get away with their demographic Jihad to grab land. Read this post on the Mohammedans' morbid interest in Canadian demographics.

spread the news.
I think you could answer some of my questions, for example, why would the Serbs want to retain a population that doesn't want to remain in a federation?
And, how do riots show that the Serbs want the people of Kosovoa to remain in the federation?
I think you can answer those two questions.

Why do you call them 'Mohammedans'? Do you mean Muslims?

When you refer to their 'demographic jihad to grab land', does this mean that you consider that the Serbs have the 'inherent right' to the land of Kosovo?

With regard to your link, this is not a 'morbid interest'. Do you know what 'morbid' means? It means 'diseased' or 'gloomy'. That's a strange adjective to use. Could you explain why you are using it?

As for a religious or other ethnic group being interested in Canadian demographics, I assure you, that such an interest is shown by ALL ethnic groups - and other 'groups' as well. After all, Canada has an Official Policy of Multiculturalism; it actually provides financial benefits and funding for ethnic groups. So, an ethnic group would want to know the demographics of an area; then, it could set up a school and community centre, based on that population size, and apply for a gov't grant.

I think that you could answer the above questions, even though you are not a member of the march's organizing committee.

As a meteorologist, I belong to a lot of weather discussion email lists. On the list today came a link to surfacestations.org, which Kate has been mentioning for a LONG time, pointing out the obvious deficiencies in the input into the forecasts of the future climate. Someone on one of the lists (obviously a moonbat) said:

"What bugs me is that he insinuates that because there's a few weather stations placed in bad positions this invalidates all the entire global warming evidence. Do people not understand stats at all?

And it's from a conservative site... Ok, ok, I'm staying away from politics."

To which I responded (to the whole list):

"What bugs me is the insinuation that the input from a few bad stations (actually about 75% of those surveyed thus far, and not even close to all of them have been surveyed) has no effect on the GCMs used and which are taken as gospel, and that "the science is settled". Do people not understand finite differencing to partial differentials, error propagation, damping schemes and their degradation of the approximations derived therefrom, the limitations of computer models and the fundamentally skeptical nature of science at all?"

It has come to my attention that I'm one of very few conservatives on the list. There are quite a few meteorologists on the list, too. Let's see how this works out--whether the scientists actually argue sound science.

Kevink,

All over MSNBC eh? OK, guess they didn*t make it into our 85 plus Shaw cable channels here on the Pacific shores.

For a small refinery fire, that*s one heck of a group of blazing blackness the Big Springs Herald gives us.

http://www.bigspringherald.com/

Gas here on Vancouver Island is $1.14 L today Feb 21/08.
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3 Human feet belonging to three different persons found washed up on the beach off gulf Islands not very far from Saltspring Island just up from Victoria BC.

DNA testing underway. What a nasty business that is likely to be.

BOUR3 at 12:37 has a link above. = TG

Via LGF,

Carl in Jerusalem presents video evidence that Rachel Corrie died protecting an entrance to a weapons tunnel.

I would expect a retraction from CBCpravda now.

http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2004/06/16/UN_bulldozers040616.html

the dozens, and I mean dozens of other CBCpravda articles are about the play "my name is Rachel Corrie"

Re Kosovo: The issue with Kosovo, and the reason that the rest of the world should be concerned with the precedent, is the fact that 50 years ago the area was 90% Serbian and 10% Albanian. now those figures have been reversed. I don't know the reason for that. It probably has a lot to do with the fact that communist Albania was an even bigger dump than communist Yugoslavia. If a change in ethnic makeup there can change who a territory belongs to, what makes anywhere else in the western world any different. If everyone in Yorkshire is Pakistani, why shouldn't Yorkshire become part of Pakistan? Why shouldn't the Lower Mainland become part of China? Why shouldn't Paris become part of Algeria? This can, and probably will happen. If anyone can tell me why it can't I'd love to here what you think.

I just watched a little bit of incredibly twisted logic on CTV. A pedophile has been released into the Toronto area after serving his sentence. He is deemed to be at a high risk to re-offend. But,the neighbourhood where he will be living is not being named because that would give the rest of the city a false sense of security. WTF ????

minuteman - at one time, the USA didn't exist; at one time, Canada didn't exist. At one time, Russia existed; then became the Soviet Union; then became Russia.

Geographic areas are one thing. Defining them politically is a human construct, and this definition can change. It depends on the people who live there.

Why is Russia defending the Serbs?

KosovoIsSerbia.com = KievisRussia.com

Holy sites and cradles of nations to ethnic groups who don't live there anymore.

Why does Putin want to nuke Kiev as Ukraine gets closer to the West?

Mohammedans who have uncovered single women dancing with unrelated men while drinking champagne and locally brewed beer.

We're tired of supporting your universities and their low tuition. -ET

Says the one who collects a paycheck from them. ET, you're full of it.

http://www.ubishops.ca/research/Taborsky.html

South Russia = Ukraine

South Serbia, West Bulgaria, Northern Greece = Macedonia

Deny that the majority population of a territory is different and repeat it often, then the differences might disappear.

Nope, maple stump/AQS, your comment is irrelevant (as well as fallacious, ie, ad hominem isn't an argument).

The FACTS remain, and you, who want Quebec separatism, (and many of us in the ROC support your wishes)..have to deal with FACTS.

1) Your ridiculously low university tuition fees means that the taxpayers of the ROC support your universities. Support your students. Support all those non-Canadian students from France, Belgium, Algeria etc, who are charged the same low tuition as Quebec students. While Canadian students (that's in the same country as Quebec)are charged almost twice as much! When/If you separate, you'll have to deal with those costs, because we in the ROC, won't be paying them.

2)All the other subsidies paid for by the ROC, such as that special dairy allotment, the subsidies to businesses, the many federal offices in Quebec. The repairs to roads, airports, etc etc.

3)As noted, we wish you the best in your goal. It will certainly be economically much better for the ROC. Politically, as well, we won't have to always ensure that 'someone on the committee, research team, board, management..etc' is from Quebec.
Sure, we'd be more than willing to establish strong economic ties with the Sovereign Quebec Nation. But, it will be for VALUE produced by Quebec. Not subsidies, not special deals, not make-work projects.

Cheers and best wishes for a 'Free Quebec' (bound as it is in the repressive connections of federal subsidies and largesse). Heh.

wouldnt bother me one bit if the big pink bit at the top of the map had a splotch of green in the middle. east canada canada could be renamed as Bangthedish as Danny "whine for wine" williams has so many times illustrated. bang the dish and ask for more.

Actually ET, my comment is relevant. I wasn’t trying to debate you or criticize your text. On the whole, I agree with you, with some exceptions of course. But overall, your comments on the situation in Quebec are pretty well bang on. No, what irks me about your situation is that you do not consider it relevant to your argument. Well it is. In the same way that a politician who denounces homosexuality, but has a gay lover. In the way that a letter to the editor that is signed by an individual who is actually a paid insider. Omitting relevant facts is intellectual dishonesty. You are just like a member of the Bloc Quebecois that is only too pleased to cash the paycheck and the pension of the institution he wishes to leave. Fact: You are part and parcel of the group that you denounce and from which you profit. You denounce the union that got you that hefty paycheck and pension package. You denigrate the university system under which you flourished. Just come out and say it’s been profitable for you.

And BTW, you don’t know me from Adam. I’m not a separatist. For someone who insists on facts, you’re pretty quick to make them up to bolster your point.