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"[Chicago] City Government Closed For Business On Monday"

Budget troubles...

Gordon Brown's Britain: where the foxes still caper unmolested, but complainers are branded as enemies of the State.

"Cameron slaps down NHS 'traitor' MEP who branded health service a failure"

Samurai Bioethics

John G. West on a Noble Defense Doomed by Darwinian Materialism

Near the end of the film The Last Samurai, a forlorn but heroic group of Samurai mount a final desperate assault against opponents who have armed themselves with weapons produced by Western science and technology, especially the Gatling gun. The charge by the Samurai ends as one might expect, with the warriors mercilessly (but efficiently) cut down by the Gatling guns.

http://www.touchstonemag.com/archives/article.php?id=22-06-016-v

Vitruvius, thank you for the introduction to this music. a new favorite? possibly.
... simply amazing bass.

Ah, you're welcome, Marc. Technically, we featured this work here at SDA LNR well over a year ago, before we were officially SDA LNR, and then, during a couple of off-line symposia I've hosted here at the studios this summer, this work was particularly praised, so I thought it might be a good idea to put it out there again, for those who may have missed it the first time.

I've been informed that Mississauga Parks and recreation referred information, provided by concerned citizens, regarding Hizb-ut-Tahrir meeting at Mississauga Valley Community centre to Peel Police on Jul 30th.

So far there have been no press releases by Peel police regarding this matter. It would be interesting to see further development.

The Ontario Ministry of Transport had four companies bidding on a contract to "upgrade" 20+ service centres on the 400 and 401 highways... they picked the one run by former Liberal party National Revenue Chairman Lawrence Tanenbaum...

http://www.rafaelgomez.com/2009/08/14/its-getting-crowded-at-the-trough/

ManoManoManoManoManoManoMan,
Vitruvius.
Astonsihing, sizzling, tasteful stuff.
Have you ever heard the kick played like that?
Sounded like maybe he had two. Couldn't see from the clip.
THANKS!

Daniel Ryan: "Conservative" David Cameron is so keen on NHS, that he wants to expand it! Amazing how people bring up individual anecdotes of good outcomes to glorify the NHS. Reminds me of a former customer -- a retired professor -- in Vancouver, who after some kind of surgery, told me, sans irony, that "when you get in the hospital, the care's quite good".

A friend's daughter in law has a brain tumour. Wait time for surgery: two years.

BTW, according to Daniel Hannan who caused this ruckus, the NHS is the 3rd largest employer in the world after the Red Army and the Indian Railway. About 1.2 million souls, I think he said. He also mentioned he had a friend who had a serious illness and, refused a certain drug, he set out to purchase it privately. As a result, they cut off his NHS care.

Two United church ministers let go, including one who held seminars on Islam with her Muslim husband

Some say the two ministers clashed, and the congregation took sides. Others see a more sinister undercurrent of racism toward Ms. Davis and her husband, a Kuwaiti Muslim.

In the winter of 2007, Ms. Davis led weekly seminars on the history of Islam, providing tea, dates and tahini. Her husband, Salem, attended a class and recited in Arabic from the Koran while she recited after him in English. They also arranged for the group of about 30 to observe a Muslim service at an Ottawa mosque.

RULE 5: "Ridicule is man's most potent weapon."

Re: Obama's medical plan won't pull the plug on Grandma."

He never knew my grandma. You didn't pull the plug, you just shut the breaker off!!

Jennifer Lynch today -- at a CBA meeting in Dublin, Ireland -- asked for lawyers, academics and law school deans to come to the aid of the HRCs.

It's reported that Lynch told the CBA that rights commissions represent an important component of the justice system. Given the myriad ways in which they omit the proper safeguards of the justice system, it's clear they're not part of the "justice system" at all, and in fact are a transparent attempt to get around it.

We need a full list in one place of the problems associated with the HRCs, so here are some:

- lack of due process

- right to a fair trial does not apply

- no presumption of innocence

- complainants get the full resources of the state working for them, while targets of complaints are on their own

- no legal aid for the targets

- complaints can be launched in multiple jurisdictions, to see what "sticks to the wall"

- hearsay evidence is allowed

- documents are frequently not disclosed in a timely manner (if at all) and/or have portions "redacted"

- no search warrants are needed for investigators

- investigators sometimes obtain information from police who have obtained warrants

- truth is no defence to any expression

- no "costs" rule for unsuccessful or frivolous complaints

- cannot file lawsuit for malicious prosecution

- entrapment is routinely used on targets of complaints

- tribunal overseers sometimes want to hold proceedings in secret, and have been known to attempt to exclude the target of the complaint from his own "trial"

- judges are appointed for life and are independent, whereas HRC tribunal heads are not

- HRC personnel are often radical activists with a personal agenda or vendetta

- HRC proceedings are considered "remedial" even though there is no difference between fines from HRCs or from real courts

- "human rights" law is considered quasi-constitutional, even though it is made up on the fly by persons with no legal training

I don't know if the last point is enacted somewhere or if it just another example of Antonio Lamer's flakiness.

No one who upholds genuine justice could support a parallel system missing so many safeguards.

New disease discovered by MSM: "imploloding".

What is "imploloding"?
Ask Tommy Douglas. Look in the PET Cemetery.
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>>> "Health care system imploloding(sic) according to Canada's top doctor"*
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"Missing patient found inside Lethbridge hospital

A missing patient has been found in relatively good health inside a southern Alberta hospital, almost three days after he disappeared.

Wesley Stanko, 55, was discovered in a third-floor mechanical area of the Chinook Regional Hospital in Lethbridge, where he's believed to have been the whole time, according to his family."
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The FDIC is now bankrupt. Is there nothing The Messiah cannot do?

FDIC Reserve Ratio Graphic after Friday's bank failures.

Muslim's case* is "imploloding".
Left-liberals in mourning.

>>> "Don't let this happen again, critics tell Tories
Toronto Star"**
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[Muslim] *"Woman ailing after Kenya ordeal, lawyer says
CBC.ca - ‎59 minutes ago‎

The lawyer for a Canadian woman who was stranded for three months in Kenya on suspicion of identity fraud, said Suaad Hagi Mohamud is seriously ill and that a Kenyan lawyer had "no authority" to talk about launching a lawsuit on her behalf."

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The Naturally Deficient Party will keep their name. Not worth a link.

The joys of multiculturalism - British swimmers are told to wear burkinis.

O'takkiya*.

Co-ops are socialism.
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"White House Appears Open to Insurance Co-ops

New York Times - Joseph Berger - ‎2 hours ago‎
The Obama administration sent signals on Sunday that it has backed away from its once-firm vision of a government organization to provide for the nation's 50 million uninsured and is now open to using nonprofit cooperatives instead".
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*takkiya: "(Islamic doctrine of legitimate lying and deception of others)". (europenews)

From The Star;

'The Era Of Big Government Already In Retreat'

Is this sarcasm, or is David Olive really sad because, with economic recovery taking place, the Marxists did not have time to implement their 'do not let any crisis go to waste' thing?

So why would Americans want a Canadian health care system when the new head of the Canadian Medical Association Dr. Anne Doig says "We all agree that the system is imploding, we all agree that things are more precarious than perhaps Canadians realize".

Kathryn @3:57 - Just lie back and don't think of England anymore. It's less depressing.

I agree maz, the front door has slammed shut so they are going to try to sneak through a side window. Once any form of government gets in it is a signal of doom. They can't afford medicare, medicaid and the VA is pitiful. What can you hope they will deliver and what will be the cost?

O mOOned by "about 200" Aunty-Americans; but, MSM headline says, "hundreds moon".
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*"Hundreds moon U.S. spy balloon"

SARNIA -- The full moon rose early in Sarnia yesterday as about 200 protesters dropped their trousers to protest the deployment of a surveillance balloon on the U.S. side of the St. Clair River."
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"ThePoliticalCat: CANADIANS LOVE OBAMA!!!
CANADIANS LOVE OBAMA!!! President Obama is welcomed to Canada by Governor General Michaelle Jean and a contingent of Royal Canadian Mounted ...
kalimao.blogspot.com/2009/02/canadians-love-obama.html"

Another sad problem in a native community involving chidren.
The new report wants to blame society, the federal government...but 'parents' are not mentioned.

http://watch.ctv.ca/news/latest/street-kids/#clip204017