Naval bombardment? WTF?

http://news.yahoo.com/syrian-navy-hits-latakia-crush-protests-4-killed-082208194.html

When I took a look at one of the British web sites with pictures of London looters, it struck me that probably 80% of the individuals in the photographs were black. However, mentioning that fact in the UK seems to be verboten:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/starkey-raving-bonkers-historian-accused-of-racism-on-riots-2337441.html

Responding to Loki. The Daily Telegraph and Breitbart's Big Government have published supporting stories. Links on the topic here
http://metanoodle.blogspot.com/2011/08/london-riots-were-about-race-telegraph.html

From the Star:

A column by Heather Mallick on July 28 contained a number of inaccurate statements about the well-known British journalist and author Melanie Phillips.

Ms. Phillips has expressed her horror at the slaughter at Utoya, Norway in a clear and unambiguous way, writing “there can be no excuse, justification or rationale whatsoever for the atrocity perpetrated by Anders Behring Breivik.”

The column made reference to Ms. Phillips’ writings in an entirely misleading and inappropriate manner.

The defamatory article has been removed from our website.

The Star and Ms. Mallick regret the errors and apologize to Ms. Phillips.

From ctv Nat.News,a father on an outing with his wife and kids was MURDERED at a friggin' mini-golf in Barrie Ont..by 3 teens..two 18 yr old's and a 19 yr old.All Dad wanted,was for the teens to tone down their language.Unbelievable.

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Forceful+governor+general+tells+lawyers+Heal+thyself/5254397/story.html

Yesterday, I was deploring our Chief Justice's venture into political commentary. Tonight, I'm reading about our Gov. Gen, David Johnson's speech at the Canadian Bar Association meeting. I think his comments were appropriate because they did not venture into the political arena. Also, considering that he was a former Dean of Law, he's probably fairly qualified to comment on that profession. Makes a nice change from eating raw seal meat--not that there's anything wrong with that of course.

Paul Krugman channels Orson Welles...

http://www.breitbart.tv/paul-krugman-reccomends-military-build-up-to-fight-alien-invasion-as-remedy-for-economy/

Link re: Sammy's tip:

http://toronto.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20110814/barrie-mini-putt-murder-110814/20110814?hub=TorontoNewHome

David Warren regains a quintessentially English sense of optimism after witnessing Clapham citizens' civic response to the riots.

The name won't be familiar to those who aren't fans of the mixed martial arts, but noted Canadian MMA trainer Shawn Tompkins, who has worked with the likes of Mark Hominick, Chris Horodecki, Vitor Belfort and Randy Couture, has passed away suddenly at the age of 37.

Head of Oxfam Haiti resigns. Yeah looks like the money we're sending there is going to good use!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-14514905

Mark Steyn has an interesting thought, and wonder how many others here think the same regarding the helicopter that got shot down with all the SEALS aboard.

MS: …because it went with the downgrade on the Friday that is was too poignant a symbol of a superpower in eclipse, because the theme of my book is that it starts with the money, but it very quickly turns into questions of geopolitical power and of military reach. And to have this, what for the moment remains an incredible stroke of luck on some Taliban guy with an RPG, that he manages to kill over 20 of the elite of the elite, over 20 of America’s most highly-skilled warriors, it was almost too poignant a symbol of the way that financial decay always results, and very quickly to, in military decay. And believe me, as a foreigner, I well know that. And as the citizens of prior great powers would be able to tell you, the two always go together.

http://www.hughhewitt.com/transcripts.aspx?id=00f56e53-3602-4c72-849a-01697e879afa

Mark Steyn - brilliant man unfortunately.

HH: And Egypt, Iran, Russia, they all control the internet. Our tech-happy buddies in Silicon Valley think oh, the internet will liberalize everything. It ain’t so.

MS: No, and I think what’s interesting, and you don’t even have to go to those countries. If you look at Canada, Australia, Europe, they’re talking in various free speech areas of setting up controls over the internet for some kind. So I think this idea that cyberspace will liberate everybody is delusional. I think it’s also the case that if you look at the industrial espionage and the cyber espionage that China engages in, the idea that somehow, which is the delusion of your Thomas Friedman types at the New York Times, that moving to a world of Chinese economic dominance is just the merest, it’s just one of the many colorful features of globalization, celebrate diversity and all the rest of it. It isn’t. It’s a once a half millennium civilizational shift. And if you just look at what…and so it’s not like, I mean, I compare at one point in the book the transition from pax Brittanica to pax Americana. Well, the transition from the United States to an era of Chinese economic dominance isn’t going to be like that at all, and it’s precisely because that British-American transfer of power was so smooth, and so benign, that nobody even noticed it. I mean, nobody even, people occasionally mention it in, you might find it mentioned in the footnote of an Andrew Roberts or a Martin Gilbert history book. But it’s basically unnoticed in human history, because it was so rare.

HH: It was gentle.

MS: It was so rare.

HH: I’ve got to also tell people that if they read After America, they will realize the future, if it is not changed, if the course correction doesn’t come, will not only be far less energy-filled, but it will be far less Jewish, far less gay, far less religiously tolerant, and indeed, all of the world’s current hellholes, you write, like Sudan, Iran, Pakistan, North Korea, they will all be less civilized than they are now in 2011, Mark Steyn. It’s stark.

MS: Yeah, what I find odd, again, is this assumption that…the assumption of the sort of globalists…

HH: Yeah.

MS: …is that the natural course of events is for the world to turn into, you just leave this, this country starts out as a dump, and then it gets a couple of factories, and the next thing you know, it’s turning into Sweden. And it doesn’t work like that. A lot of the world has actually gone backwards. Pakistan, which is the source of a lot of American problems at the moment, Pakistan is far worse than it was in 1950. It’s gone backwards. Sudan has gone backwards. Sierra Leone has gone backwards. And then when you look at the tensions in various other corners of the map, what’s to prevent them from going backwards, too?

http://www.hughhewitt.com/transcripts.aspx?id=00f56e53-3602-4c72-849a-01697e879afa

One more:

HH: It’s got everything in it that you need, including quick reviews of Harvey Mansfield’s book on manliness, which you can’t carry on a plane or you’ll be arrested, I think. It’s got James Cameron. I did not realize, Mark Steyn, that James Cameron had slandered First Officer William Murdock of the Titanic. To paraphrase Ray Donovan, where do you go to get your reputation back when you’ve drowned?

MS: Yeah, no, his whole thing on Titanic was that it was a class thing, you know, that the people were pushing past the women and children to get onto the lifeboats. And this particular fellow from Scotland, who’s just an ordinary member of the Titanic’s crew, in fact, he gets slandered in the movie, because he’s shown taking a bribe and then murdering a third class passenger. And in fact, in real life, this guy, Murdock, went down, he did the dull, decent, British thing. He stood on the deck throwing life belts to passengers in the water to help them keep afloat until help came, and then he went down with the ship, all very dull, decent, stiff upper lipped and British. James Cameron slandered him in that movie of his, and then to add insult to injury, offered, I think it was, five thousand pounds for a memorial to the guy in his hometown in Scotland.

PET Cemetery Report.

Wherein we welcome the legend of Al Gore.

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"Is Al Gore Off His Rocker?"

"Al Gore Goes Nuts in Aspen Speech

Global warming crusader Al Gore lost his cool and dropped several s-bombs in a recent speech accusing climate change skeptics of manipulating the media.

Addressing the Aspen Institute in Colorado on Aug. 4, the former vice president declared that skeptics "pay pseudo-scientists to pretend to be scientists to put out the message: 'This climate thing, it's nonsense. Manmade CO2 doesn't trap heat. It may be volcanoes.' Bulls***! 'It may be sunspots.' Bulls***! 'It's not getting warmer.' Bulls***!""

"New York Post columnist Andrea Peyser was even harder on Gore: "Has the guru of global warming, the Bozo of ozone and pooh-bah of the probably-not-so-endangered polar bear, gone completely off his bleeping rocker?

"I'm talking about Al Gore, the former vice president who, after losing the White House, reinvented himself as a minor deity — a Gulfstream-riding, energy-slurping champion of Planet Earth."

Peyser noted that Gore continued his "potty-mouthed tirade" with this comment: "It's no longer acceptable in mixed company, meaning bipartisan company, to use the god**** word 'climate.'".

http://www.newsmax.com/InsiderReport/Al-Gore-goes-nuts/2011/08/15/id/407267

"All Dad wanted,was for the teens to tone down their language.Unbelievable."

"Sammy at August 14, 2011 11:09 PM"

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"By Max Hastings" "10th August 2011"

"I never enjoyed school, but, like most children until very recent times, did the work because I knew I would be punished if I did not. It would never have occurred to my parents not to uphold my teachers’ authority. This might have been unfair to some pupils, but it was the way schools functioned for centuries, until the advent of crazy ‘pupil rights’.

I recently received a letter from a teacher who worked in a county’s pupil referral unit, describing appalling difficulties in enforcing discipline. Her only weapon, she said, was the right to mark a disciplinary cross against a child’s name for misbehaviour.

Having repeatedly and vainly asked a 15-year-old to stop using obscene language, she said: ‘Fred, if you use language like that again, I’ll give you a cross.’

He replied: ‘Give me an effing cross, then!’ Eventually, she said: ‘Fred, you have three crosses now. You must miss your next break.’

He answered: ‘I’m not missing my break, I’m going for an effing fag!’ When she appealed to her manager, he said: ‘Well, the boy’s got a lot going on at home at the moment. Don’t be too hard on him.’

This is a story repeated daily in schools up and down the land."

"Years of liberal dogma have spawned a generation of amoral, uneducated, welfare dependent, brutalised youngsters"

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2024284/UK-riots-2011-Liberal-dogma-spawned-generation-brutalised-youths.html

I like this guy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5INFAuM1xI&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Gun Registry News: Of "friends with gang history".

"He says a patient with a known gang affiliation was being treated there and the lockdown was to prevent any friends with gang history from gathering at VGH."

"Massie says it would not be appropriate to comment on the Kelowna investigation that began Sunday afternoon when a masked gunman sprayed a Porsche SUV with bullets outside an upscale Kelowna hotel."

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"Vancouver hospital locked down over anxiety about renewed B.C. gang war"

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/canada/breakingnews/vancouver-hospital-locked-down-over-anxiety-about-renewed-bc-gang-war-127724878.html

"Oh my God, I was shaken up. I watch a lot of CSI, but you don't see anything like this."

Gun Registry News: Question Period.

What is CSI?

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"Hero shopper shot in botched flea market heist"

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Crime/2011/08/14/18552381.html

How does CTV figure that the 3 charged with the murder of a Collingwood, Ontario man at a mini-golf in Barrie, Ontario are Teens?
When 2 are 18yrs of age & the 3rd is 19yrs of age, They are Adults Not Teenagers.

http://toronto.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20110814/barrie-mini-putt-murder-110814/20110814?hub=TorontoNewHome

http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/

Remember Iraq? Things aren't so peaceful, 70 killed in bomb attacks.

Terry Anderson @ 7:56 - Great video by "Wild Bill"...thanks for sharing! His tidbits on which presidents treated the secret service agents with respect were not surprising.

Love the names the Rep.are giving the Obama bus tour! From the Gingrich camp: The Magical Misery Tour..and Rence Pribus refers to it as The Debt-End Tour..any suggestions?

Witnesses claim it was a sub machine gun that killed one and injured several others in front of Kelowna's Grand Casino, but

["Police believe the general public is not at risk," said Holmes, explaining police believe the shooting was targeted.]

and we all know that AK47's spray bullets only on target.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2011/08/14/bc-four-shot-kelowna.html

Witnesses claim it was a sub machine gun that killed one and injured several others in front of Kelowna's Grand Hotel, but

["Police believe the general public is not at risk," said Holmes, explaining police believe the shooting was targeted.]

and we all know that AK47's spray bullets only on target.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2011/08/14/bc-four-shot-kelowna.html

Via Andrew Bolt's blog:

Wylie the Afghan mutt shows how every dog will have its day

IN Afghanistan's 10-year war, where acts of cruelty are commonplace and so many thousands have died, the account of one dog's extraordinary survival is an oddly affecting tale.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/defence/wylie-the-afghan-mutt-shows-how-every-dog-will-have-its-day/story-e6frg8yo-1226114841728

Isn't the abuse of animals is one of the signs of sociopathy. This level sadism and cruelty towards animals must say something about the deranged attitude of this culture/religion/country - they don't just simply kill the animal, they repeatedly torture it to maximize its pain. I doubt that there is any way to fix a culture this backwards.

Red-Green AGW FAIL.

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"Evergreen Solar files for bankruptcy, plans asset sale"

"Evergreen Solar Inc., the Marlboro clean-energy company that received millions in state subsidies to build an ill-fated Bay State factory, has filed for bankruptcy.

Evergreen, which closed its taxpayer-supported Devens factory in March and cut 800 jobs, has been trying to rework its debt for months. The company announced today it is seeking a reorganization in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Delaware and also reached a deal with certain note holders to restructure its debt and sell off certain assets.

Evergreen secured a $58 million financial aid package from the Patrick administration to help build the $450 million Devens factory. The state has been trying to recoup about $4 million in cash from the company, the once-promising poster child of the governor’s clean-energy economic agenda."

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2763987/posts

"Creator of Obama “Hope” poster beaten up in Denmark misunderstanding"

Shepard Fairey's widely acclaimed "Hope" poster in support of Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign has gained him international renown, but an apparent misunderstanding recently caused Danish leftists to view him as a pro-government propagandist. Now Fairey and a colleague are recovering from a beating by two men who accosted him outside a Copenhagen nightclub last Saturday, accused him of being an "Obama illuminati," and told him to "go back to America."

...he told The Guardian he had not filed a police report..."I'm not a huge fan of the cops anyway," he added.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/08/12/creator-of-obama-hope-poster-beaten-up-in-denmark-misunderstanding/

PJ Tatler:

"Obama to carmakers: ‘You Can’t Just Make Money on SUVs and Trucks’

Alternate title: Man with no economics or managerial or marketing background, on the verge of launching a “jobs” bus tour to distract the nation from his own wretched record on jobs, scolds US industry for building products Americans will actually buy:

http://pajamasmedia.com/tatler/2011/08/15/obama-to-carmakers-you-cant-just-make-money-on-suvs-and-trucks/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

PJ Tatler:

"Obama to carmakers: ‘You Can’t Just Make Money on SUVs and Trucks’

Alternate title: Man with no economics or managerial or marketing background, on the verge of launching a “jobs” bus tour to distract the nation from his own wretched record on jobs, scolds US industry for building products Americans will actually buy:

(removed PJ tatler link due to filter problems)

http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/677-e2-wire/176917-obama-to-auto-industry-you-cant-just-make-money-on-suvs-and-trucks

Dissent spreads throughout Israel

As Israel's social-protest movement spread beyond Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday tempered a promise to find "concrete solutions" to demonstrators' concerns with a warning that the global financial crisis precluded quick change.

By STEPHEN FARRELL

BEERSHEBA, Israel — As Israel's social-protest movement spread beyond Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday tempered a promise to find "concrete solutions" to demonstrators' concerns with a warning that the global financial crisis precluded quick change.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2015911707_israel15.html?syndication=rss

Of mice and fat vegans.

Fat is in.

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"PETA pushes vegan diets on cats
Toronto Sun"

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"Being obese not necessarily bad: Study"

"A study found some obese people who are generally healthy without any underlying medical issues live just as long as their slim counterparts. The surprising kicker is that these obese people are also less likely to die of cardiovascular causes."

http://www.torontosun.com/2011/08/15/being-obese-not-necessarily-bad-study

Being obese not necessarily bad, macd? A weighty thought indeed, but my own view is, "Fat chance!"

But now my detractors are saying "Obese silent!"...