Omar Khadr's sister Zaynab interviewed by John Oakley on AM 640 Toronto.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dB1o5-s-XMY

Lovely family.

Mikhail Khordorkovsky applied for a presidential pardon today, a story that is under-reported in the west. He is basically calling Medvedev's bluff on cleaning up the Russian legal system. This poor man has suffered enough under the travesty of Putin's Russia. It will be telling to see what happens.

http://www.robertamsterdam.com/2008/07/yuri_schmidt_on_the_khodorkovs.htm

Vitruvius: Your opinion?

Saw a Amory Lovins from Rocky Mountain Institute on Charlie Rose last night. Not my forte, but he seemed to make a lot of sense about energy. Didn't think nuclear would be of much help (would merely substitute for coal in electricity production -- nothing to do with oil crisis), but also that this new drilling off shore, ANWR, etc., would not be economic. Also a pipeline from Alaska would be extremely risky from a security point of view. Seemed to be quite market-oriented in his thinking. Then he mentioned Co2 and climate change -- seemed to believe they were related, which kinda shocked me. He thought US could be zero oil by the 2040s, also thought that lots of technology was available which wasn't being used, out of unimaginative corporate culture, I guess.

Do you know about the cat? Have an opinion?

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080716.wfrance17/BNStory/International

PARIS — Politicians, feminists and some Muslim leaders here are applauding a court decision to deny citizenship to a Muslim woman from Morocco whose French husband requires her to completely cover her face and body.

The Council of State, the country's highest administrative court, said the woman's acquiescence to the veil showed her failure to assimilate and demonstrated behaviour “incompatible with the essential values of the French community and, notably, the principle of equality of the sexes.”

...
Abdelalai Mamoun, an imam in the suburb where the Moroccan woman lived, told a Paris newspaper that women who voluntarily veil themselves “are rejecting the system” and should emigrate to Muslim countries.

Well, speaking only personally and as the house DJ, Me No Dhimmi, my opinion is that the Bonzo Dog Doo-Da Band's Big Shot is arguably even better than The Intro and the Outro, but I'm not sure if it's really safe for work, so I didn't want to make it a main page SDA LNR show. Nevertheless, if you're interested, it is my opinion that I do think it is notable.

If Dion & Co want to settle the "Green Shift" lawsuit and adopt another name for their tax grab, they can borrow from the Aussie government (with permission, of course).

Meet the Carbon Reliance Abatement Program - CRAP.

You think I'm joking?

http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,24029809-5001031,00.html

(via Tim Blair)

comedy benefit for Earle

http://ezralevant.com/2008/07/comedy-benefit-for-guy-earle-j.html

Hmm. I just ran a few searches on "Carbon Reliance Abatement Program", Doug, and while there are some matches, they all refer back to that same article by Piers Akerman. Perhaps he was speaking tongue-in-cheek. I mean, it would be quite funny if they were really clueless enough to pick CRAP as an acronym, but we would, I think, need a second and preferrably official source before we could conclude that.

The Chimera Hypothesis: Homosexuality and Plural Pregnancy

www.welmer.org/2008/07/14/the-chimera-hypothesis-homosexuality-and-plural-pregnancy/

Get ready for some finger pointing and cries of HA-HA. This should be fun.

"the first black family in the White House."?

Ferguson/MSM repeat the Big Lie: Obama is a "black".

Obama has a "white" grandmother. Therefore, Obama is not a "black".
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"Misguided reaction to brilliant Obama cartoon shows brutal leftist intolerance
Alan Ferguson, The Province"
"The cartoon encapsulates the many myths and deliberate lies that have been spread about the couple likely to become the first black family in the White House."

Is BNP Paribas Securities Corp on the new SEC emergency no-shorting list???

http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idINN1517759420080716?rpc=44&pageNumber=1&virtualBrandChannel=0

Oh oh! Good thing we don't have our Green Investment Accounts on deposit at certain Canadian financial institutions, no?

The Goreacle is spewing again. All he wants is a complete replacement of all carbon producing electricity generation with 10 years. His "moon shot" goal....I'll tell you who needs a moon shot...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080717/ap_on_sc/gore_electricity_2

I recommend very strongly an article by Robert Fulford on B1 of Tuesday's National Post. He is talking about the liberal film critic, the late Pauline Kael of the New Yorker and other publications.

It struck me as I read this piece that the lament of Kael and others that they had let the door open to trash films full of violence and special effects, only judged on box-office receipts, could apply to many other areas undermined by progressives, i.e. marriage.

Kael remarked to a friend,"When we championed trash culture we had no idea it would become the only culutre."

Paul Schrader, a well-known screenwriter, also remarked: "It was fun watching the applecart being upset. But now where do we go for apples?"

Daniel Pipes, Will Washington Betray Anti-Regime Iranians?

As the United Nations mandate that legitimizes the presence of U.S forces in Iraq expires on December 31, 2008, a humanitarian and strategic disaster is coming into view. The fate of about 3,500 anti-regime Iranians will be decided in the course of status-of-forces negotiations between Washington and Baghdad.

They are members of the Mujahedeen-e Khalq (MEK; it is also called the People's Mojahedin of Iran, or PMOI), the leading Iranian opposition group...

Some good reading on the encroachment of Islam on Germany, and an honest discussion about impact. Unlike Canadia...

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,565146,00.html

Mainstream media, aka MSM, are all over this with a blanket of denial, aka Silence.
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"Myth of Consensus Explodes: APS Opens Global Warming Debate

The American Physical Society, an organization representing nearly 50,000 physicists, has reversed its stance on climate change and is now proclaiming that many of its members disbelieve in human-induced global warming. The APS is also sponsoring public debate on the validity of global warming science. The leadership of the society had previously called the evidence for global warming "incontrovertible."

In a posting to the APS forum, editor Jeffrey Marque explains,"There is a considerable presence within the scientific community of people who do not agree with the IPCC conclusion that anthropogenic CO2 emissions are very probably likely to be primarily responsible for global warming that has occurred since the Industrial Revolution."

The APS is opening its debate with the publication of a paper by Lord Monckton of Brenchley, which concludes that climate sensitivity -- the rate of temperature change a given amount of greenhouse gas will cause -- has been grossly overstated by IPCC modeling. A low sensitivity implies additional atmospheric CO2 will have little effect on global climate.

Larry Gould, Professor of Physics at the University of Hartford and Chairman of the New England Section of the APS, called Monckton's paper an "expose of the IPCC that details numerous exaggerations and "extensive errors""
http://tinyurl.com/6kzylg (dailytech)

Tom Zytaruk is an author? An author is a fabulist, a spinner of tall tales, a liar, a storyteller.
Novels are lies; webs spun by authors; the better to gull the gullible.
Mark Twain spun many a good yarn; but, Twain could separate fiction from facts:
"Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it." - Mark Twain “"
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"Author ordered to testify

The B.C. author who touched off the Chuck Cadman tape scandal will be compelled to testify in court hearings related to PM Stephen Harper's $3.5-million lawsuit against the Liberals.

An Ontario Superior Court judge in Ottawa yesterday granted an out-of-province witness subpoena that will compel Tom Zytaruk to testify on Sept. 22. The court will also ask the B.C. Superior Court to force the author to provide the original tape and recorder."
http://preview.tinyurl.com/5l5kn8

Libsocialist Citoyen Dion, a Frenchman, says, It's not fair.
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"Mother in 'burka' denied French citizenship

Muslim Government minister welcomed the court ruling declaring the head-to-toe Islamic dress is 'a prison, a strait-jacket" (times)

Comedy benefit for Guy Earle

http://ezralevant.com/2008/07/comedy-benefit-for-guy-earle-j.html

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Canadians demand an apology. We want our tax money back.
When will the "leaders", aka provincial Premiers, and Indian "Chiefs" apologize to Canada/Canadians for their blatant theft/liquidation of our tax dollar$?
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"Audits will give answers
Forget 'terrorism' it's about accountability, Chief Nelson"
http://tinyurl.com/6bofbf (winsun)
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"Revive Kelowna accord, leaders urge
Key parts of native pact could help fight poverty"
(TORedStar)

Vitruvius: It was OK not to know who Amory Lovins is. We don't expect you to know EVERYTHING or think your sagacity is limitless.

Sorry if I misunderstood the protocol. I thought mine was a reader's tip (of a sort) and didn't realize your contribution was restricted to DJ-ing, which evidently it isn't in view of a response to another poster about CRAP. Moreoever, in view of your engineering background, your earlier much-appreciated comments on climate change, and your oft-expressed fondness for Charlie Rose, I was curious to get your take.

(Via Dr. Andrew Bostom) Barry Rubin, Mr. Obama, Meet Mr. Jihadi

While Obama poses as the great cosmopolitan there is something very much in common between his statement on the September 11 terrorists and what he has to say on the rural and small town Americans, who he believes are attracted to their views only through low living standards, ignorance, and the follies of religion.

No one can think in a manner different from him. No one can hold another belief system and act on it. They are merely evincing, to use the Marxist term for it, false consciousness. He will educate them both directly by material goods and by proper information.

Ironically, this is the epitome of imperialist thinking...

There is no protocol, Me No Dhimmi, yet after looking up Amory Lovins I figured that another Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band tune would be a better use of resources than discussing Lovins's bloviating. An attempt at danming by ignoring, if you like, though of course that sort of subtle shtick is difficult to carry off in blog comments.

For the "Is there nothing Obama can't do?" file:

Check out this week's cover picture on Newsweek. BO is in prayer with his hands folded. Isn't this the second BO messianic cover on this leftist rag?

http://www.newsweek.com/

the end of the Hysteria is near!!!

THIS IS A HUGE STORY

http://www.dailytech.com/Myth+of+Consensus+Explodes+APS+Opens+Global+Warming+Debate/article12403.htm

THE AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY HAS REVERSED ITSELF ON GLOBAL WARMING!

some cool footage of the new US F-22 Raptor at an airshow in Farnborough England.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7510364.stm

"the world's most sophisticated fighter jet" ? nice to know which side we're on.

Citoyen Dion is a footnote* to history.
""Then there won't be any trading here, nothing will be produced here anymore -- the lights will simply go out here."

Raus mit Herr Doktor Citoyen Dion.
RIP, Citoyen Dion.
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"THE EU'S CARBON TRADING SCHEME
Killing Jobs to Save the Climate

The price of European emission permits is rising so rapidly that German companies are threatening to leave the country. Thousands of jobs could be lost. And the environment may, in the end, be no better off.

They sat silently through two lectures, but then they couldn't control their anger any longer. The civil servants from the Environment Ministry, the Environment Agency and the German Emissions Trading Authority made it sound easy for industry to take up carbon trading. It was just too much for the managers to tolerate.

"If that's the shape the trading will take, we will simply move our cement operation to Ukraine," a cement factory manager shouted into the lecture hall. "Then there won't be any trading here, nothing will be produced here anymore -- the lights will simply go out here."

The businessmen's anger surprised the emissions-allowance trading experts."
http://tinyurl.com/63ekx7 (spiegel)
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*"Dion pushes environmental virtues of carbon tax
By THE CANADIAN PRESS"

Socialism is the incubator/hatchery of: nazism, fascism, castroism, enviromentalism, feminism, maoism, etc., and communism. These scourges/deadly plagues are all variants of socialism.
Never forget.
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"Never forget

By Lee Edwards
Thursday, July 17, 2008

Nearly two decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of communism in Eastern and Central Europe, five nations remain "captive" to communism -- China, Cuba, North Korea, Vietnam and Laos.

Amid all the hoopla about the Beijing Olympics and the "ohs" and "ahs" over the dozens of skyscrapers soaring above the Chinese capital, we must keep in mind that China is also a land of forced labor camps. These camps constitute a Chinese Gulag -- the laogai -- filled with an estimated 4 million to 6 million prisoners, including tens of thousands whose only crime was to criticize publicly the communist regime.

These are inconvenient facts for those who want to do business with Communist China, but the truth about communism must be told.

Our Jewish brothers and sisters understand what is at stake. They understand that history must not be forgotten lest it be repeated. They keep reminding the world of the Holocaust, crying, "Never again." So too must we remember the crimes and the victims of communism.
"Nearly two decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of communism in Eastern and Central Europe, five nations remain "captive" to communism -- China, Cuba, North Korea, Vietnam and Laos. ...."

"The failure to separate fact from fiction, and myth from reality, when it comes to communism explains, in part, why it persists in Cuba, where the regime silences any opposition; in North Korea, where the people endure a totalitarian nightmare; in Laos and Vietnam, where the most elementary human rights are denied; and in China, whose leaders still pretend pro-democracy students weren't massacred in Tiananmen Square in June 1989. What is the truth about communism? That it failed to deliver on every one of its promises from the beginning.

It promised bread but produced chronic food shortages and rationing.

It pledged peace but sacrificed young men in wars in far-off lands.

It guaranteed the peasants land but delivered them into collectives.

Wherever they came to power, communists killed."
http://preview.tinyurl.com/6yvv49

I couldn't listen to more than a couple of minutes of the Khadr sister interview:

"We were coming back and forth to Canada all the time" Yes, everytime the litter bearer was pregnant, she moved to Canada to have the kid, then back to jihad land; all kids Canadian by convenience.

Make.Me.Puke.

JC @ 1002,

Hey I see no one has had the courage to tell him he isn't El Presidente.

Al-mer Gantry.

Maz2 @11.30 Yes, great news. This happens the same day Al-ibn Gantry lays claim to be the son of Gaia and demands America power their civilization on pixie-dust within 10 years.

As if HE were president. Poor, poor, little rich boy; the man who was raised to be president and never was. HA!

APS Physics has an excellent debunking of global warming complete with yummy graphs showing declining temperatures in the period 1998-2008.

"Some reasons why the IPCC’s estimates may be excessive and unsafe are explained. More importantly, the conclusion is that, perhaps, there is no “climate crisis”, and that currently-fashionable efforts by governments to reduce anthropogenic CO2 emissions are pointless, may be ill-conceived, and could even be harmful."

The article can be found at:
http://www.aps.org/units/fps/newsletters/200807/monckton.cfm