News Flash >>> Canadian crime rate lowest in 30 years: Social conservatives' undeterred, insist on God-given right to continue living in irrational fear.

http://www.nationalpost.com/news/canada/story.html?id=661811

News Flash >>> Canadian crime rate hits 30 year low: Social conservatives undeterred, insist on God-given right to continue living in irrational fear.

¡Que canciones más bonitas!

I love the Mexican song. I went through a lot of Mexican music after a trip there in April.

I love the whole Jose Feliciano clip - Spanish classical, a short burst of blue notes, some one-handed hammer-ons and pull-offs - terrific.

If I may offer an off-theme video response, have a look at this Mexican beauty beautifully playing a beautiful song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ets23UUQwCo

The best versions are by Travis Edmonson

They're all indeed, Matt, "beautiful songs", and perhaps George's Travis Edmonson is good too, although since George has apparently found no Interwebothèque references suitable for our consumption, perhaps we shall never know. Oh well, you know how it goes, as John Cleese said in a famous Monty Python sketch the title of which now escapes me: If you've enjoyed listening to tonight's show half as much as we've enjoyed producing it, then we've enjoyed it twice as much as you have ;-)

Babies used as mops could save money

With global financial markets in turmoil parents looking in to firing their cleaners and using their babies as human mops.

Parents fed up of the take, take, take attitude of babies are turning them into human mops so they can learn a 'healthy work ethic' early by cleaning the floor as they crawl around.

The device is essentially a baby-grow with fluffy mop ends attached to clean up grime as a baby crawls around wooden or tiled floors.

http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?in_article_id=223083&in_page_id=2

Thanks, Vitruvius, for your eclectic delights. Here's an example of a song from another tribe colloquially known as the Crackers.

As a minor point, note how, in an ominous piece of cultural foreshadowing, the singer and his fellows have to first deflect a pointless moment of cultural-victimhood-prodding in the form of suffering-fetishist Pete Seeger. Deflect it they do, though.

Stand up and sing one for us, white boy:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=KGmlm2goI3A

Climate Sensitivity Reconsidered
By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley
Abstract
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC, 2007) concluded that anthropogenic CO2 emissions probably caused more than half of the “global warming” of the past 50 years and would cause further rapid warming. However, global mean surface temperature has not risen since 1998 and may have fallen since late 2001. The present analysis suggests that the failure of the IPCC’s models to predict this and many other climatic phenomena arises from defects in its evaluation of the three factors whose product is climate sensitivity:
http://www.aps.org/units/fps/newsletters/200807/monckton.cfm

Isaac Albéniz! Oh my, be still my beating heart!
Back in my Conservatory days, we never refered to that piece as Malagueña, always the "Rumores de la Caleta".

Anyhoo, I always thought his music was best reflected by the guitar to which he later acknowleged, as the Wiki reference correctly states.

Unfortunately couldn't find Christopher Parkening's interpretation on U tube - it was his playing and recordings that inspired me to study.
Heres a masterful performance by Ben Pila for those interested:

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=5qoQGJFGthg&feature=related

Thanks for sharing this music Vitruvius.
cheers.

Vitruvius, your selection has evoked memories of seeing Jose Feliciano live at the National Arts Center in Ottawa many, many years ago.

I am most thankful of the reminder of this incomparable artist. Whatever has become of him? Anybody know?

Thanks Vitruvius for a little Mexicana. Now for something with a little faster pace and similar emotional Spanish flair.
Pedro Infanti

News Flash >>> Canadian crime rate hits 30 year low.

News Flash >>> Henry Morgentaler gets Order of Canada
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I wonder how many people here could see the link between these 2 stories?

Charles Adler debating a self proclaimed "lefty" over bias at the CBC.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZCJ8UCI0SI

Rex Murphy going out to take a pee while callers jabber on :D

Vitruvius here it is:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=QtLjRZQp3Dk

Here it is Travis Edmonson's version
http://youtube.com/watch?v=QtLjRZQp3Dk

Thanks a lot for that one, Rigby. It's timely -- Adler, this afternoon, made me bang the dashboard and say "Yes!" because he openly addressed, with a stick up his ass that he didn't place there, THE underreported -- what a shock -- story in this country, namely that we have a serious political problem in the form of a televised propagandizing "news" media in this country who not only do not reflect the views of all those Canadians who are not good little Lib-narrative-addled sheep, but whose job description itself is to elide that little detail.

He disclaimed that he hadn't really watched televised network news -- he had better ways to spend his time, essentially -- but that he had the night before, and to his eternal credit he saw clearly what was going on. The spur in this instance was the coverage of the Omar Khadr case; he saw that the condescending, didactic tone of the lesson...er, "news" was at a considerable and insulting remove from the views of so, so many Canadians. Hey, why not? He's got a microphone.

Other creditable journalists -- Lucia Corbella and Lorne Gunther come to mind -- aren't generally parsed intensively while driving, not for any safe duration; in the broadcast media we've had omerta really, to the practical effect that media fraudulence and subducted partisanship is a no-go zone for other journalists.

Adler remarked that he had never really watched televised network Canadian news -- that he had better ways to spend his time, essentially -- but that he had the night before. To his ever loving credit he saw clearly exactly what was going on, in clear terms of understanding, and used his communication pulpit to note what he saw, straight up.

The spur, in this case, was the coverage of the Omar Khadr case; he saw that the condescending, didactic tone on display was at a considerable and insulting remove from the views of so many Canadians.

It was one of those rare occasions where you remember where you were when you heard the broadcast, in large part because no one else had previously called a spade a spade, even when that spade is a giant honking spade, wielded with entitlement, that had been repeatedly smacking everyone on the forehead. For years.

Adler's ahead of the curve on this one, and let's face it, it's entertaining and compelling when someone first stands up in a particular medium and starts slaying venal, self-appointed sacred cows. THAT'S radio.

Krauthammer pretty much nails it, as usual...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/17/AR2008071701839.html?hpid=opinionsbox1

"What is going to happen over the next decade as global temperatures continue not to rise?"

"There has not been a public debate about the causes of global warming and most of the public and our decision makers are not aware of the most basic salient facts:*"

"No smoking hot spot

David Evans | July 18, 2008

I DEVOTED six years to carbon accounting, building models for the Australian Greenhouse Office. I am the rocket scientist who wrote the carbon accounting model (FullCAM) that measures Australia's compliance with the Kyoto Protocol, in the land use change and forestry sector.

FullCAM models carbon flows in plants, mulch, debris, soils and agricultural products, using inputs such as climate data, plant physiology and satellite data. I've been following the global warming debate closely for years.

When I started that job in 1999 the evidence that carbon emissions caused global warming seemed pretty good: CO2 is a greenhouse gas, the old ice core data, no other suspects.

The evidence was not conclusive, but why wait until we were certain when it appeared we needed to act quickly? Soon government and the scientific community were working together and lots of science research jobs were created. We scientists had political support, the ear of government, big budgets, and we felt fairly important and useful (well, I did anyway). It was great. We were working to save the planet.

But since 1999 new evidence has seriously weakened the case that carbon emissions are the main cause of global warming, and by 2007 the evidence was pretty conclusive that carbon played only a minor role and was not the main cause of the recent global warming. As Lord Keynes famously said, "When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?""

*"1. The greenhouse signature is missing. We have been looking and measuring for years, and cannot find it."
*"2. There is no evidence to support the idea that carbon emissions cause significant global warming. None. There is plenty of evidence that global warming has occurred, and theory suggests that carbon emissions should raise temperatures (though by how much is hotly disputed) but there are no observations by anyone that implicate carbon emissions as a significant cause of the recent global warming."
*"3. The satellites that measure the world's temperature all say that the warming trend ended in 2001, and that the temperature has dropped about 0.6C in the past year (to the temperature of 1980)."
http://tinyurl.com/5pnjwa (australian)

"Stephane Dion: Thief

Some strong language from Jennifer Wright, the head of Green Shift Inc, the company suing the Liberal Party over the use of the name "Green Shift"."

[Jennifer Wright] ""It's as if someone broke into your house, and then turned to you and said, oh it's okay you can live here (with me).""

http://stevejanke.com/archives/268734.php

AQS, that is a thesis espoused by Steven Levitt in Freakonomics: Roe v. Wade was responsible for the drop in crime in the US in the 90's.

So, we can fight crime by being selective about who gets sucked into the bucket. As usual, the poor get the short end of the stick, but heh, that's compensated by having the freedom to practice more sex without consequences, no?

This is news: "the press want a scandal,".

Read with this in mind:
EBD said: "THE underreported -- what a shock -- story in this country, namely that we have a serious political problem in the form of a televised propagandizing "news" media in this country who not only do not reflect the views of all those Canadians who are not good little Lib-narrative-addled sheep,"

This is a must read. It's worthy of its own thread.
The Liberals, aka The Dominatrix Party, are aping the HRCs/Tribunals; Guilty, without evidence.
The most incredible story is why the MSM allowed the following to be printed/posted.
This is news: "the press want a scandal,".
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"The case of the disappearing scandal
John Robson, The Ottawa Citizen
Published: Friday, July 18, 2008"

"The opposition want a scandal, the press want a scandal, and since everybody who's anybody knows Conservatives stink, let's not bore ourselves with details on a beautiful summer day.
Imagine a Perry Mason show where, after the dramatic denouement, the jury convicted his client anyway. I expect it would be cancelled in a hurry."

No results, Shaken, when I Google your link of Krauthammer's article.

Could you mention the topic? That might help. I like Charles Krauthammer and I'd like to see what he's pretty much nailed, as usual!

So Canada's national 'crime' average is lower...?
Any statiticians here want to do the numbers on Toronto and Vancouver alone?I'm guessing the ROC is the huge factor in a 'lower rate.' I find that little media tidbit hard to believe...especially when they use it to discredit the CPC crime policies.

Speaking of stats...Kate's, why has your counter dissappeared...?You must be at the 10 million mark.

batb...copy and paste worked for me...try again.

Thanks, bluetech. That's what I did. However, I Googled Charles Krauthammer, July 17, 2008 and got the article.

For those, if any, having the same problem as me, the article's entitled Life in an Orwellian Universe. A must read about the double standard vis a vis the conflict between Hezbollah and Israel.

Here's one that the "Canadians are the world's peacekeepers" crowd would most certainly approve of:

UN Peacekeepers salute the remains of Hizb'Allah terrorists

http://www.sondrak.com/index.php/weblog/un_f_the_marines/

Anyone watching the "Ethics" committee meeting all about trying to make some political headlines against the Conservatives re election financing would be DISGUSTED. The chair, Paul Szabo and the rest of the Opposition, like Jennings and Pat Martin were up to their usual games. The Conservatives handled them well, they won the day, they exposed the lot of them.

Worth reading is John Robson's column "The Case of the Disappearing Scandal in the Ottawa Citizen today, page A12, Editorial.

Elad Popovich, Psycho-Strategic Analysis of the Qaedat Al-Jihad Leadership: Past, Present and Near Future

...This study examines the possible transfer of leadership within the 'Qaedat Al Jihad' organization and the question whether a change in tendency can be expected in the organization's future activities...

Dr. Goldstein Farber has identified three main characteristics in Bin Laden's personality: a) feelings of humiliation; b) a need for freedom; and c) an overwhelming need for the love and support of those closest to him. These factors together with the effects of the Afghanistan Jihad, lead Bin Laden to feel that he and the Islamic 'nation' are victims of the Americans. Bin Laden grew to be a man who received love from people whom he empowered and to whom he gave freedom of action under his patronage, he does not see his role as that of a soldier but rather as one who empowers others. Bin Laden's manner of empowerment in 'Al Qaeda' is, inter alia, an expression of personality aspiring to achieve freedom he never had and of the traumatic separation from his parents which hindered the normal processes of growing up during his childhood, which brought out his need to grant freedom to others, even if they leave him and are at a distance...

bluetech: "Any statiticians here want to do the numbers on Toronto and Vancouver alone?I'm guessing the ROC is the huge factor in a 'lower rate.'"

I'm no "statitician," but here's some basic stats about Toronto and Vancouver, and the national rate of change:

*** Criminal Code offence rate:
- Vancouver: 9,136/100,000 (rank: 3rd highest among big cities)
- Calgary: 6,202/100,000 (rank: 4th highest among big cities)
- Toronto: 4,461/100,000 population (rank: lowest among big cities; 2nd lowest among all cities of 100,000+)

*** ROC (2006 to 2007):
- Vancouver: -11.3%
- Calgary: -8.4%
- Toronto: -11.0%

*** National ROC:
- Total crime: -7.4% (2006 to 2007), -14.4% (1998 to 2007)
- Violent crime: -2.5% (2006 to 2007), -5.3% (1998 to 2007)

QE, as Mark Twain said (perhaps paraphrased*): "There are lies, damned lies and statistics".

Statistics can be massaged by changing the definitions of the categories; non-reporting of crimes can increase (particularly in gang neighbourhoods where the squealers get hit); etc.

I wouldn't get too excited about what the statistics say.

* (maybe it was "There are liars, damned liars and statisticians")

Jonny Paul, Muslim leader threatens blog with legal action

The blog Harry's Place said that in an address made in Arabic to Al-Jazeera at last month's Salute to Israel parade in London's Trafalgar Square, Mohammed Sawalha, president of the British Muslim Initiative (BMI) and founder of the annual Islam Expo, a four-day event enhancing understanding of Islam in Britain, had said: "We, the Arab and Islamic community, gather here today to express our resentment at the celebrations by the Jewish community and the [evil Jew/Jewish evil] in Britain." The speech was reported on Harry's Place, which claimed Al-Jazeera had changed the controversial word appearing in its original report, translated as "evil or "baneful" by the blog, to "lobby" some time later...

It's tres important to know what the enemy is up to/doing,
say Mao Stlong:
Dion say, "I", "I", "I" ... am a NarcIssIstI.
""I will succeed and I will stay and I will be".
...-

"Dion confident he can sell carbon tax to Canadians"
"Liberal leader brings Green Shift plan to New Brunswick"

""I will succeed and I will stay and I will be a great partner for the province of New Brunswick," said Dion, simultaneously answering and sidestepping the question."
http://timestranscript.canadaeast.com/news/article/358273

Michael J. Totten, The Truth about March 14

The “March 14” movement is a political vehicle for Lebanon’s liberals, democrats, free-market capitalists, human rights activists, and those who want an exit from the seemingly endless war with the “Zionist entity.” Unfortunately, that is not all it is. It’s also a political vehicle for hard-line Sunni Arab Nationalists and other political retrogrades who only oppose Hezbollah and the Syrian Baath regime because they hate Shias and Alawites as much as they hate Jews...

And here's an article:

"Gottlieb cites an article by Canada's National Post columnist David Frum where he revealed that "Canada's overall crime rate is now 50 percent higher than the crime rate in the United States.” Moreover, "Since the early 1990s, crime rates have dropped in 48 of the 50 states and 80 percent of American cities. Over that same period, crime rates have risen in six of the 10 Canadian provinces and in seven of Canada’s 10 biggest cities.”

He also cites the most recent complete data available from both countries that shows that in 2003, the violent crime rate in the United States was 475 per 100,000 people; while up north, there were 963 violent crimes per 100,000 people. The figure for sexual assault in Canada per 100,000 people was more than double that of the United States: 74 as opposed to 32.1; and the assault rate in Canada was also more than twice that of the states: 746 to America's 295 for the people.

Moreover, he cites research that showed the figure for sexual assault in Canada per 100,000 people was more than double that of the United States: 74 as opposed to 32.1; and the assault rate in Canada was more than twice that of the United States: 746 to America’s 295. Also, in 2005, Toronto had 78 murders; that’s a 28 percent increase in homicides since 1995."

http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/1/24/150547.shtml

And:

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2008/07/17/6183901-cp.html

"Police reported 594 murders, down slightly from 606 in 2006, following a long-term downward trend that began in the mid-1970s."

Kindly note that this statistic is not significant; the rate remains stable and not a drop.

"Serious assaults, including those with a weapon, basically stayed unchanged in 2007 after rising in each of the previous seven years. "

Ahh - now we see that the rate INCREASED over the past seven years -

"The overall crime rate among youth aged 12 to 17 tapered off slightly in 2007 after rising the year before, as non-violent offences fell and violent crime remained stable."

Again, a rise in previous years means..an overall rise not an overall reduction.

"Violent youth crime is one trouble spot in the Canadian record. It has been increasing steadily over the last two decades, said Statistics Canada, and the rate in 2007 was "more than double that reported in the mid-1980s."

Hmm. So, I guess we can't 'sit back' and drink our iced tea. That's because:

"Statistics Canada did not speculate on the causes of Canada's overall decline in crime rates but criminologists and demographers believe an aging population is a significant factor."

Back to the iced tea for we geriatrics, while the youth rate increases and increases and..

QE...I'm not a statitician or lawyer, or cop ...but I read enough to make up my own little theory:
You mentioned Criminal Code convictions..not incidents, therefore I'll assume the cops are burnt and not arresting as many as before. Heck why bother, they get out of jail free anyway.

Just a redneck knuckledraggers opinion

Star Chambers, aka HRCs, Kangaroo Courts, and "secret court hearing"s spell Justice in Canada.
Beware of the secret justice "system" in Canada. It's a travesty of itself. It's a corrupt, self-serving "system"; a Secret Pyramid Scheme with you and your fellow Canadians at the bottom.
If ever an open inquiry is needed here is the reason: "secret court hearing".
You may be next to endure a "secret court hearing".
The natural end result of such hearings: Summary Execution.
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"Day after secret court hearing, national gallery says all's well"
(Preview here: http://preview.tinyurl.com/6nyxd7)

Good to see that the shari'a lesson is well learned. /sarc

Hamas TV Bunny Assud, Tempted by Satan to Steal, Is Sentenced by Child Viewers to Have His Hand Chopped Off

Video and transcript here.

The Toronto bashers here are as bad as global warming acolytes. No amount of information will dissuade them from their beloved belief that Toronto is the most violence-ridden place on Earth, and any statistics that prove the opposite are lies or a conspiracy.

Victor Davis Hanson, In Defense of Liberty: The Relationship Between Security and Freedom

There cannot be freedom without security nor true security without freedom. The Greeks from the very beginning understood this symbiosis between the two, and framed the nature of the relationship—and occa­sional antithesis—between these necessary poles. The historian Thucydides, for example, makes Per­icles, in his famous funeral oration, talk in depth about the nature of democratic military service and sacrifice that are the linchpins of the freedom of Athens, and how any short-term disadvantages that may harm an open society at war are more than compensated by the creativity, exuberance, and democratic zeal that free peoples bring to war...

Andrew Klavan, Braggistan in the America of the Imagination

Before my friend, Army major Rory Aylward, left for Afghanistan at the end of February, he invited me down to Fort Bragg, North Carolina, to watch the final stage of his training. The “Capstone exercises” were to be a week of staged maneuvers set in “FOB Patriot,” an imaginary Forward Operating Base in Central Asia. “Theater immersion,” the Army calls it. The soldiers, sailors, and airmen involved refer to it mordantly as Braggistan...

The conservatives aren't 'conservative' by any means or measure....especially when that means buying votes in Ontario & Quebec...

"According to the Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF), the Tories have announced nearly $3 billion in new spending just since Parliament rose last month. "That is roughly $100 million a day or more than $4 million every hour," says John Williamson, the CTF's outgoing federal director. They are spending faster than a bunch of Libranos on government expense accounts...

"...When he stood before Parliament in February, Flaherty estimated "total new budget 2008 initiatives" at $1.497 billion. The spending announced in the past three weeks alone is more than twice that sum....

"We won't know for another month or more just how much the Tories have spent since the current fiscal year began on April 1 (that's when the Finance Department's Fiscal Monitor for June and July is due), but given the recent orgy of announcements of tax dollars flying here, there and everywhere to pet projects across the country, it's not too much of a stretch to predict that program spending to date is already approaching $212 or $214 billion on an annual basis. In February, Flaherty insisted he and his colleagues would hold the line at $208 billion, up from $201 billion in 2007. But that seems a fantasy now...."

http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/columnists/story.html?id=fc9ef152-f40b-472a-b011-ca550096b5f7

Mao Stlong say, Muslim mosques not goody fol Chinee. Chinee not dhimmis.
US and Canada dhimmis say, Muslim mosques goody, goody fol Amelicans and Canadians.
...-

"YOUR GOVERNMENT AT WORK: State Dept. promotes 'Mosques in America'

This now available from the U.S. State Department: "2009 Mosques of America Wall Calendar: Limited Edition for Ramadan."

"Yep, you read that correctly. It's 'perfect for Muslim outreach efforts," according to a commentary at the Gates of Vienna blog. "Where's the ACLU on this one?"

Screen capture of State Department's offering of "Mosques of America" calendar

The product was being advertised by "Global Publishing Solutions," a division of the U.S. State Department, until bloggers started talking about it.

Officials then apparently hid the page behind the security of a password-protected wall. However, the page is still viewable in a Google cache of the website."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2047552/posts
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"China Shuts Down 41 Illegal Mosques In Xinjiang Province
The Times of India

BEIJING: Chinese authorities have replaced top police and security officials in the Muslim dominated Xinjiang province, which is the hotbed of separatism and political violence. They have also closed down 41 "illegal" places of worship.

These places of worship were used as training ground for conducting a "holy war", Chen Zhuangwei Chen, the police chief of Urumqi, capital of the Xinjiang province, said."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2047514/posts
...-

"CTV.ca | Harper: Mosque shows 'benevolent face of Islam'
5 Jul 2008 ... Canada's newest and largest mosque opened Saturday, praised by Prime Minister Stephen Harper as an "architectural treasure".

Steven Den Beste had one of the best blogs ever, then, closed his USS Clueless blog years ago. Instapundit has this link to him today, a must read, his lucid thoughts on alternative energy:

In order for "alternate energy" to become feasible, it has to satisfy all of the following criteria:

1. It has to be huge (in terms of both energy and power)
2. It has to be reliable (not intermittent or unschedulable)
3. It has to be concentrated (not diffuse)
4. It has to be possible to utilize it efficiently
5. The capital investment and operating cost to utilize it has to be comparable to existing energy sources (per gigawatt, and per terajoule).

If it fails to satisfy any of those, then it can't scale enough to make any difference. Solar power fails #3, and currently it also fails #5. (It also partially fails #2, but there are ways to work around that.)

The only sources of energy available to us now that satisfy all five are petroleum, coal, hydro, and nuclear

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The way you can tell that a fan of "alternate energy" is a religious cultist is to ask them this question: If your preferred alternate source of energy is practical, why isn't it already in use?

Why not? Because of The Conspiracy™. The big oil companies don't want it to happen, and have been suppressing all this live-saving green people's energy all this time for their own nefarious purposes.

As soon as you hear any reference to The Conspiracy™, you know you're talking to someone who is living in a morality play. That isn't engineering any more, that's religion. And while religion is an important part of many people's lives, it has no place in engineering discussions.

LizJ mentions John Robson's article in the Citizen today -- it is indeed an eyeopener re an apparant bias coming from Elections Canada. Here is the link: http://tinyurl.com/5mkmfu

My sense is that the opposition may soon regret taking this on -- silly when a court case is going on anyway. Also, they are really looking bad, especially Paul Szabo.

bluetech: "You mentioned Criminal Code convictions..not incidents..."

No, I mentioned CC offence rate, which reflects incidents as reported by police through the Uniform Crime Reporting Survey.

"...therefore I'll assume the cops are burnt and not arresting as many as before."

Thanks for confirming the point of my first comment, posted yesterday at 10:50pm.

By the way, Toronto's put 450 more cops on the streets since 2005, so it's a bit of a stretch to claim burn-out. Additionally, Police Chief Blair credits new anti-theft technology in cars and the work of community groups.

Anyway, enjoy living in fear.

Watch SDA for more "tasteless jokes". Coming soon.
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"Canada Charges Comedian with Not Being Funny

The Canadian Human Rights Commission hits a new low by investigating a stand-up comic who heckled hecklers.
July 18, 2008 - by Kathy Shaidle"
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/canada-charges-comedian-with-not-being-funny/

Mao Stlong say, three* bad. Tly again in Vancouvel in 2010.
...-

"Canada's OIympic hoops dream dies"
(g-m)
(*H/T VictorBorge)

"Sandy: Conservative ad also tasteless “joke”
Posted on 18 July 2008 by Sandy"
...-

Sandy harrrrumphs.
Her star witness for the prosecution is Herr Barney, Der Direktor of the Judenrein Bounty Hunter Org.

Jokes can only be told/laughed at by HRC approved comics and left-Liberals, don't-ya-know.
BTW, did you hear the one about Citoyen Dion where he staggered into a bar in Regina and ...-
http://jacksnewswatch.com/2008/07/18/sandy-conservative-ad-also-tasteless-joke/

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article4356394.ece

London, England.... mob attacks two cops who tell girl to pick up litter.

The UK continues to degrade. Under Labour, their cops have gone into loony left non-crime enforcement mode, and the outcome could not be clearer. Contrast with Rudy Giuliani approach in New York.

Gawds.... lefties are so willfully blind it drives me insane.

Here's a switch from Hamilton On. Maybe they are starting to get it.
Police recommend hate charges
Hamilton Spectator
7/18/2008

Hamilton police are recommending at least two people involved with a controversial rally last winter at McMaster University be charged with promoting hatred.

It happened during the so-called "Isreali Apartihied Week" on campus.

Demonstrators waved signs and shouted anti-Isreali slogans.

The case is now in the hands of the Hamilton Crown Attorney's office which is deciding how to proceed.

ET: ”Gottlieb cites an article by Canada's National Post columnist David Frum where he revealed that "Canada's overall crime rate is now 50 percent higher than the crime rate in the United States”…

That’s because Frum compared apples to oranges (or rather, a bag of apples and oranges to oranges). In the US, national crime rates are measured by the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reports, which has two indices: “violent crime” and “property crime.” Sounds like he simply combined these two categories to get the “US overall crime rate.”

Which is all well and good, except that in Canada, the StatCan UCR definition of “overall crime rate” includes “other CC offences” and “drug” categories in addition to violent crimes and property crimes.

For a more valid (but still imperfect) comparison, we could follow the US categorization scheme, and exclude the additional offences that Canada measures but the US doesn’t. If we do that, then in 2006 (the latest year available for US UCR), the overall crime rates would be approximately 3,808/100,000 (US) versus 3,643/100,000 (Canada).

He also cites the most recent complete data available from both countries that shows that in 2003, the violent crime rate in the United States was 475 per 100,000 people; while up north, there were 963 violent crimes per 100,000 people.

Again, apples/oranges versus oranges alone. The FBI UCR’s measure of “violent crime” comprises four offences: murder and nonnegligent manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery, and aggravated assault. The StatCan UCR’s “violent crime” measure includes 10 offences.

Again, when we restrict Canada’s rate to roughly the same 4 offence categories that the US measures (which would be homicide, attempted murder, assault 2, assault 3, all sexual assaults—which overestimates the US’s ‘forcible rape’--and robbery), then according to 2006 data, the US violent crime rate was 474/100,000, whereas Canada’s was 339/100,000.

The figure for sexual assault in Canada per 100,000 people was more than double that of the United States: 74 as opposed to 32.1

Again, Canada defines “sexual assault” much more broadly than the US (“forcible rape”). We don’t isolate forcible rape specifically, so we can’t make direct comparisons on this crime category (and neither should Gottlieb).

…and the assault rate in Canada was also more than twice that of the states: 746 to America's 295 for the people.

Again, Gottlieb simply takes Canada’s 2003 combined “assault 1, 2, and 3” figure, and compares that to the US’s “aggravated assault” figure. The problem with that is that in Canada, Assault 1 usually comprises about 75-80% of all assault incidents. “Aggravated assault” in the US is approximately the same as “attempted murder, assault 2, and assault 3” in Canada. If Gottlieb had taken those figures, then in 2003, the rates would’ve been 295/100,000 (US) vs. 153/100,000 (Canada), and in 2006, 288 (US) vs. 175 (Canada).

ET: "Gottlieb cites an article by Canada's National Post columnist David Frum where he revealed that..."

Frum's and Gottlieb's analyses are bogus, ET. They both make flawed direct US-Canada comparisons without adjusting for different crime category definitions between the FBI's and StatCan's UCR systems (e.g., different definitions of "Aggravated Assault," "Violent Crime," and "Overall Crime Rate").

When you adjust the categories to improve comparability, Canada comes out better in all of them. I've put together a more detailed comment that demonstrates this, but it got caught in the blog filter. You can either take my word for it (unlikely), wait for Kate to manually approve it (possible), or calculate the figures yourself (all freely available online through StatCan and the FBI's UCR).

Green Shifty McGuinty from TO heads west with his begging bowl for a megapile of Citoyen Dion's "izzy" money.

Look on down for EU's "killing jobs".
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"Ontario joins cap-and-trade network"
"Premier Dalton McGuinty says Ontario is "proud to be welcomed into this important organization of climate-change leaders.""
"The province is now part of the Western Climate Initiative (WCI), which includes British Columbia, Manitoba, Quebec and seven U.S. states."
(TORedStar) ...-

"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."
Numerous German companies would relocate abroad if the EU fully implements its carbon trading scheme."

"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.""
http://tinyurl.com/63ekx7 (spiegel)

Dr. Andrew Bostom, A Sign of Intelligent (Non-Dhimmi) Life in the Jewish Community of London

"All faiths have the right to their convictions. The only thing that should offend is an instruction to adherents to terrorise those who don’t share their own. So long as religious people respect the faith of others, they need not apologise for the intolerance of their forbears, for which they are not responsible."

A little light reading for the weekend:

Jeffrey Goldberg, Re-thinking Jeffrey Goldberg

Intrigued (and alarmed) by the new science of “neuromarketing,” our correspondent peers into his own brain via an MRI machine and learns what he really thinks about Jimmy Carter, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Bruce Springsteen, and Edie Falco.

Cbc newsworld just aired a bit of Al Gore proclaiming that we have to wean ourselves off of fossil fuels in a decade. Of course,it will be hard but if we all pull together it can be done,etc. Cbc then gave some fellow about 10 minutes if airtime to discuss this bold plan. He was from the Post Carbon Institute,which I figure is a 'think-tank' that supports the end of carbon based fuels.Gadzooks,hs thought it was a great idea and could be done. Then Cbc put on a fellow who thought the idea was ludricous and next to impossible to achieve......Nah,just kidding they only had the first guy's opinions and then went to a different story. This reminded me of how that whenever the conservatives make an announcement ,the cbc always puts someone on to tell us why it is a bad policy. No bias at that great institution.Adler got it right,what we have been saying for years. The cbc is the liberal propaganda machine.

QE...good news about those extra cops.
Me living in fear? Hardly...I live in Northern Ontario.
About those crime figures and misleading info:

http://mesopotamiawest.blogspot.com/2008/07/violent-crime-stats-canadas-deceptive.html

Take the Autism Quotient quiz:

http://blog.beliefnet.com/crunchycon/2008/07/take-the-autism-quotient-quiz.html

'Hope you don't mind, Kathy. This is part of what Kathy Shaidle about her score (32) over at five feet of fury:

[begin quote]

Adult females typically score around 15. I scored 32, just a few points short of Asperger's territory.

Those few points make all the difference. Someone with Asperger's is rude to people and doesn't even realize it or intend it. I'm rude to people and don't care. They were born without a tact filter, and I'm just too lazy to use mine.

[end quote]

LOL! Go, Kathy, go!

CBCpravda deleting comments that say anything bad about first nations and the blockaid, 200 comments deleted

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2008/07/18/fantino-blockade.html#articlecomments

Ctv just aired a breaking story on the washed-up feet. A half-body found down aways in Wahington matches one of the feet. This story is getting weirder and then some. The identified body belonged to a man that was described as'depressed'. I wonder if there is some strange murder and/or suicide cult in the area.