Frost Hits The Rhubarb has a series of items up, beginning with this;
Today was a good day to develop Islamophobia, if you have been holding back due to some warped sense of moral equivalence. A perusal of Saturday’s news pointed out why you should be afraid, very afraid, of the way Islam is being used to justify the worse atrocities you could conjure up in a nightmare. Attacks on the Buddhist Thais in Southern Thailand, another bombing of a Turkish resort, a fuel truck suicide mission against the Shi’ites in Iraq–all topped off by a running street battle between Hamas and Abbas’s Fateh. That isn’t the full account I’m sure, because the nitpicky individual murders by Islamic fanatics just get crowded out by the spectacular massacres. These attacks are all part and parcel of the daily carnage wrought by diseased religious fanatics, who remember how Islam got its converts in the good old days–by the sword.
At Newsbeat1;
It’s been 4 years since 9/11.
That’s more than plenty of time to have been prepared but obviously Canadians’ security was not a priority.Otherwise CSIS would have had 700 more staff members- the RCMP would have had 2500 more officers and CBSA would have had at least 1200 more people.That would only bring them up to the levels they were 12 years ago.
North Korea loses a friend at the UN. Maurice Strong has been canned.
USA Today on the potential impact of bloggers on the upcoming US Supreme Court nominations.
Do you have an interest in medicine and the greater health care debate south of the border? Check out the Doctor blogs.
Plato’s Stepchild recalls “a landscape of blood and horror” and the bravery of those who entered it with pure hearts.
Thanks for the link!
Grandiose words are fun and seem noble, but facts point to a simple disgrace of the nature of humans.
Fudalmentalist bombings are the selfish impulse of adults using religious ideas to allow petulant childlike behaviour.
War is similar and represents the reactive behaviour of two toddlers mindlessly bashing
each other over a toy in a crib.
If nations had ignored the UN and agreed to combine efforts to promptly subdue Saddam and his gang through every means other than war, we may have arrived at a better position today.
That would have required levels of maturity and compromise that seem to be missing among nations, even after all these endless ongoing conflicts that we have collectivly failed to learn from.
Looking at China, the older and wiser of nations. China enjoys making and trading of widgits. Yet China’s infant impulse is to fight over a bit of land it used to own. Taiwan.
Would China risk everything gained in world markets over the last fifty years for this trinket in the playpen?
Let’s hope China and Japan can bury their nasty deeds of history and just enjoy the wheeling and dealing of modern day widgets.
Every nation has nasty deeds in their history. Bringing those misdeeds out on parade and crowing about them is the stpid part. Why?.. Everybody loses, nothing gained.
Here’s hoping for Maturity , diplomacy and wise negotiation among nations. Aggression is no longer useful and always leaves a big mess to clean up. 73s TG
Pogey no goody; worky is goody, and goody for you.
Welfare cuts didn’t increase poverty
Following the cutbacks in welfare benefits and entitlements in the 1990s, left-wingers predicted that poverty rates in Canada were bound to skyrocket. Instead, the opposite has occurred. Full Column
Columnist RORY LEISHMAN
http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/Columnists/London/Rory_Leishman/2005/07/19/1137575.html
Toronto Man to be Evicted from Apartment for Displaying Sign in Favour of Traditional Marriage
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2005/jul/05071903.html
Marurice strong the pagan new age blabberer of this new age crap i mean this jerks so far out there he must have gotten lost i say GOOD RIDANCE