Just curious as to what the Mount St. Helen’s webcam has to do with Canadian blogging…
On the matter of the princess from the Netherlands, you may also want to consider the words of Queen Margrethe II of Denmark:
“We are being challenged by Islam these years – globally as well as locally. It is a challenge we have to take seriously. We have let this issue float about for too long because we are tolerant and lazy.
“We have to show our opposition to Islam and we have to, at times, run the risk of having unflattering labels placed on us because there are some things for which we should display no tolerance.”
“And when we are tolerant, we must know whether it is because of convenience or conviction.”
The Dutch No Nukes movement was run by the KGB, and Princess Moonbat abetted her nation’s enemy.Oh well, nevermind.She now wants to abet AQ.
There always has been and likely always will be poverty and unfairness in the world. That is part of the human condition. On planet earth anyone can be successful, but not everyone. To try to mess with that is to be a foolish socialist.
Another root cause of much of the misery on this planet is Socialism. It is the sanctuary of the weak, stupid and fearful. These are the people who usually wind up deserving their lot in life. Smart motivated poor people don’t remain poor. If they do, it’s only because they are living under exteme repression and we know who they are.
If the poor were capable of learning something new and or changing their self-pittied minds about things, they may have a better chance of success in life.
Many of us in the West have a low tolerance for the suffering of others, even when they are doing it to themselves and that is most oftenthe case.
I for one, don’t feel guilty that there are those with a lot less. Similarly, I don’t feel envy nor contempt toward those who have more.
I have been down at the homeless level in my life and spent a good deal of time there. I changed my mind one day and my attitude. Now, by Canadian standards, I am rich and successful.
When I was homeless, I recall trying to blame someone or something else, but because I taught to think things through to a logical conclusion, I wound up placing blame where it belonged .. on myself!
When I changed my mind, I started to make better choices and to be patient. Slowly, things fell into place. I have no high education, nor do I have friends or family in high places, I just kept on going and learning from my mistakes untill I had enough food and then a home and so on. No one gave it to me and I never went to government, nor to charity.
I did what I had to do and so do the poor. There isn’t enough wealth on the planet to make everyone rich, so get used to the poor, they ain’t going away no matter how many moonbats declare their intention to fix it all.
Sometimes it’s just the luck of the draw, but mostly it’s character of the individual that makes the difference.
Screw the terrorists they want EVERYONE to be poor. They would do better to join with us as Japan and now China has. They need to get rid of their dark age mentality and change themselves so they can fit into this modern world.
Meanwhile, I say again … screw them all!
Finally, How about getting Dutch Queen Beatrix to go spend a few weeks with her beloved Islamofacists and then see if you can get an interview with her headless body.
Did I mention that nearly all of the violence in this world comes from the poor people. The rest of us are tying to live decent lives for the most part.
Sorry for the wordy comment, I am a bit bored today.
Good grief Duke. Sure you aren’t drunk or something? Suggesting that a socialist TAKE responsibility and that most poor are actually responsible for their own hard luck??? Hehehe…good post,bored or not.
Excellent post Duke. Thank you.
Socket
Maybe we can get her to make the “peace offer” to Al-Q personally! Maybe she can share her opinions with a group of murdering cowardly bigots who think that women in general shouldn’t be speaking so!
Moonbat and dingbat of the year awards. Sadly, there are many who either openly or discreetly share her views in Europe and right here in this country too.
Riches interest you? International Entrepreneur!
Something of a right leaning free enterpriser ? You can waste years going to university or you can accept and study some pages free from Royal Bank Websites. Better scan these pages free, first.
The Royal Bank wants you to get busy and make lots of money and then remember who helped you and let the RBC handle that money for you. In other words, * come bank at the Royal, but it would be nice if you managed to finesse lots of money first.
The Royal Bank website is huge and you may not know where to turn, so … Here’s where you get the free University grade material. http://www.RoyalBankofCanada.ca/html Gets you to pay dirt. Don’t forge /html http://www.banks-area.com/bank-banking-ca-online-royal http://www.harmeetsinghkohli.com/InterBusACan.htm
Separated At Birth:
Libidinous lounge lizard Boy George…
…and litigious Liberal lickboy Warren Kinsella?
“It’s all about the Students”
Teacher dodges slap
Cruising the internet for kiddie porn at school didn’t get his licence lifted in Ontario
By BRODIE FENLON
Two months from today, a former kindergarten teacher who repeatedly viewed graphic child porn at school — often just before his young pupils entered the classroom — will be eligible to teach in Ontario’s publicly funded schools… http://www.torontosun.com/News/Canada/2005/10/09/pf-1254906.html
Kudos to “Duke” for an excellent “Post a Comment”.
The title of the links shown are enough to advise one not to go there.
A cursory search found this link to Zimbabwe: a country where it is a crime to be poor. Yes, Zimbabwe is a specimen of a National Socialist regime where the poor are described as “crime-ridden”: as the link says, words for a morally palatable euphemism for poor. Woe to Zimbabwe.
The liberal left socialists are silent about Zimbabwe. The area was once a rich, productive garden; the socialists have ruined the land and the people: the end result of socialism is, as it was in the Soviet Union, a collapse of the economic and moral order. Down with National Socialism.>>>>
Driving out Gypsies and the urban poor
“In Zimbabwe, children caught up in the violent evictions of Operation …
Mugabe called ‘crime-ridden’ (a morally palatable euphemism for poor) areas … http://www.newzimbabwe.com/pages/bmarket22.12754.html – 24k –
The natural, end result of socialism is here. The socialist/communists have now allied themselves with the Islamist/murdering jihad/United Nations. Socialists live in another world of their dreams of a perfect world: Utopia. Their utopia ends as hell on earth.>>>>> http://www.crf-usa.org/bria/bria19_1a.htm
The Stalinization of Eastern Europe began. The communist party in each country held a complete monopoly of political power. This permitted no independent political parties, no meaningful elections, and no criticism of the ruling communist party. Ultimately, the lack of political accountability to the people led to communism’s collapse in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union itself.
Stalin imposed a socialist economic model. The government, in the name of the people, owned the factories, farms, mines, and other means of production. People could no longer own their own profit-making businesses and farms, as in the capitalist system. Government economic planners decided what and how much should be produced each year, what the prices should be, and what wages should be paid to the workers.
Following Stalin’s model, planners emphasized heavy industry such as steel making and coal mining. Consumer goods like automobiles, clothing, and TVs became scarce and expensive. The government guaranteed everyone the “right to work,” but this often meant a low wage doing a dirty job.
With the emphasis on industrial production, smoke billowed from factories and industrial waste flowed into rivers. Pollution became a major problem, but little was done about it. Factory managers were under pressure to meet production quotas. Consumers demanded more goods. Planners mainly ignored environmental problems.
In most countries, the government took over privately owned farms. It combined them into large, state-owned agricultural enterprises or cooperatives where farmers shared the land and equipment. Eastern European farmers often resisted this collectivization of agriculture, but the communist governments applied special taxes and denied health benefits to force them to comply. >>>
AdScam Martin’s free taxes & Librano$ bribes are “aimed at tightening the state’ grip on the people.” of Canada. Kim understands.>>>>
Big news from N.Korea this week?………..
“At the end of the event, North Korea may announce its leader Kim Jong Il’s successor,” a South Korean government official said. Kim may designate one of his three sons to become the country’s next leader during the celebrations, they said. Russia’s Itar-Tass news agency quoted diplomatic source in Pyongyang as saying North Korea could announce this month an eventual successor to Kim. “An announcement about the appointment of a successor could be made as early as this month, timed for the celebrations marking the 60th anniversary of the (Workers’ Party),” the report said. Jhe Seong-ho, a professor at Chung-Ang University in Seoul, said North Korea may revise the Party chapter to uphold Kim Jong Il to be the leader of unified Korea. Nam Sung-wook at Seoul’s Korea University said the gala events for this year’s Party birthday is aimed at tightening the state’ grip on the people. “North Korea may present a blueprint for economic development,” he said >>>> newsbeat1.com http://www.rapp.org/url/?XXNXZJN2
Rideau Hall sommelier’s last words to ex-GG Clarkson/Saul as they kissed him goombye:
Madame/Monsieur, am pleased to present to youse your new WHINE list:>>>
Exclusive: Adrienne Clarkson speaks out
In an exclusive interview, the woman who occupied the highest office in the land talks about misconceptions, prime ministerial relations, and her memoirs.>>>> http://www.rapp.org/url/?D7SY7QQ5 Torstar (Red).
See this NY Times story Oct. 9: “A Call for Islamic Revolt Spreads in Central Asia”: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/09/international/asia/09jihad.html?pagewanted=all
Excerpts:
‘Mr. Dzhalilov, 23, is one face of a vexing international security question. He is a member of Hizbut Tahrir, or Party of Liberation, which seeks to replace the existing governments in the Muslim world with an Islamic theocracy that would operate outside the reach and influence of Western life.
Founded in the Middle East in the 1950’s, the party and its activities returned to the public discourse after the suicide bombings in London in July, when Prime Minister Tony Blair said he planned to ban the party as part of a broader crackdown on groups that preach intolerance and hate. The group has long operated a headquarters in Britain…
One problem in choosing a public policy course is that Hizbut Tahrir’s members are Islamic revolutionaries with a catch. Unlike the Taliban, which Hizbut Tahrir supported after the terrorist attacks in the United States in 2001, Mr. Dzhalilov and his compatriots publicly renounce violence.
For Western governments, countering the party is difficult because its seeming insistence on struggle without arms places it in a gray area, where freedom of speech, worship and assembly can be hard to disentangle from public threat.
The group insists that an Islamic world will be delivered, country by country, through proselytizing and capitalizing on popular discontent with the corrupt and sometimes brutal leaders in Central Asia, Russia, the Caucasus and the Middle East. The suicide bomb and Kalashnikov do not yet fit in their public plans…
The party itself also displays occasional flashes of aggression. Despite its insistence that it maintains rigid internal discipline, individual members sometimes publicly stray off message. A leader of the party in Denmark was accused by the authorities in August of urging European Muslims to join the insurgency in Iraq and of distributing fliers urging Muslims to “eliminate your rulers if they stand in your way.”‘
Mark
Ottawa
And this from Lorrie Goldstein, Toronto Sun, Oct. 9: “Unfair to the CBC: Authors claim no evidence of liberal bias…but their report indicates otherwise” http://www.torontosun.com/News/Columnists/Goldstein_Lorrie/2005/10/08/1254520.html
Excerpts:
‘I recently wrote a column about a study of the political leanings of Canadian TV news directors by two Ryerson University journalism professors. I noted they had concluded, among other findings, that at the CBC, these key news “decision makers,” as they described them, hold political views to the left of the Canadian public.
But last week I read, with some amusement, a response in the Star by the study’s authors, Marsha Barber and Ann Rauhala, entitled: “No evidence of liberal media bias.”
While they didn’t mention me by name, their article was clearly aimed at mine and said I was wrong, wrong wrong…
But it was their suggestion in the Star that anyone who sees the CBC as being dominated by “lefties” (their word) must be a “fretful social conservative” that astounded me.
I mean, forgive me for actually having read their May 2005 article in the Canadian Journal of Communication about their own research. Have they forgotten what they wrote?
Among Barber and Rauhala’s findings, in their own words:
“It should be noted that journalists at Canada’s public broadcaster, the CBC, share a different profile and are more likely to hold left-of-centre political views.” (In this context, they are talking about a different profile from both their private sector peers and the Canadian public at large.)
“Although comparable numbers of public and private broadcasters intend to vote for the Liberals (45.8% in 2002), other voting patterns are different. Only 4.5% of private news directors intend to vote for the New Democratic Party. This contrasts with 13% of CBC respondents who have that intention. In addition, 11.4% of private news directors intend to vote for the Canadian Alliance. Not one of the CBC news directors had that intention.” (In the Star, Barber and Rauhala stressed the CBC numbers were at the low end of popular support for the NDP at that time of 13 to 16%. True, but they were also at the high end for the Liberals, at 40 to 46%. And why didn’t the professors similarly stress that at 0% for the Alliance, CBC staffers were rather spectacularly below the level of support for that party, of 14 to 18%?)’
Mark
Ottawa
Good Post Duke. Thank-you for printing some sane thoughts. My Mom says ‘poverty is a state of mind’ and I’m e-mailing her your post if that is okay. It will be music for her hard of hearing ears. Thanks again.
Bruno’s next gig(gle)?>>>>>>
The Sunday Times October 09, 2005
Big stars prefer smaller guards
John Harlow Los Angeles
nealenews.com
Hey Y’all,
An update on the terror war from the very highest war rooms. Revenge in Pakistan!
Various Islamo dorks have stated that Allah sent the Katrina hurricane to punish the West.
Our God just retaliated by sending an Earthquake to Pakistan to punish the Islamos for sending the hurricanes to our Gulf coast.
I think we lost about a 1000 people and they lost
about 20,000 and counting .. plus tens of thousands hurt.
Our God has the bigger guns it would seem.
This also suggests that our God is actually not a liberal lesbian … contrary to the CBC’s greatest hopes.
… a Spector is haunting…. >>>>>
He still has what it takes and MacKay knows it, according to former Mulroney chief of staff Norman Spector.
“Anybody who has his mind on a career in politics, perhaps another run for the leadership, would want to keep on Mulroney’s right side, perhaps (to) have him say a good word or encourage his allies to work for MacKay,” Spector said in an interview.
“Mulroney’s the sort of guy that you can see wouldn’t waffle in terms of advice, he’d have given him straight advice, probably like ‘You’re out of your mind, your future is in Ottawa,’ he’d be pretty straight.” >>> more http://www.rapp.org/url/?5I8GA8DW
Whoa, Dook. Look at this report: Al-Vince is just south of Andalusia>>>> heading souwest>>> dubbed by some omen as “The Turbanator”. Our sources say Al-Vince is one humoungous fatwa. >>>
Hurricane Vince forms in far-eastern Atlantic
MIAMI (AP) – Hurricane Vince formed Sunday in the far-eastern Atlantic, making it the 11th hurricane of the season, forecasters said. >cnews
Grand Challenge Results!
From the Stanford site, we have a DARPA Grand Challenge winner:
October 9, 2005 — Today Stanley and the Stanford Racing Team were awarded 2 million dollars for being the first team to complete the 132 mile DARPA Grand Challenge course. Stanley finished in just under 6 hours 54 minutes and averaged over 19 miles per hours on the course.
The teams that finished, together with their times are:
Team Time
Stanford Racing Team 6 hr 53 min
Red Team 7 hr 4 min
Red Team too 7 hr 14 min
Grey Team 7 hr 30 min
Team Terramax 12 hr 51 min
The team my son was rooting for (and me too as his dad), Monstermoto, did not finish and was way down at the bottom. It was a really cool all-terrain vehicle with sinister-looking headlights and an appealing video scored with really cheerful music. Poor Monstermoto.
The Independent reacts with a mixture of wonder and dread as the result of the race.
Not so long ago, the notion of cars driving themselves seemed no more than science fiction. This weekend, it took a giant stride towards becoming reality as a handful of robotically controlled vehicles completed a 132-mile obstacle course around the Mojave desert. … To some people, the development of robot fighters suggests a future not unlike the one imagined in the Terminator movies – where highly sophisticated machines are turned into merciless killers unburdened by considerations of conscience or their mortality.
> more; fallbackbelmont.blogspot.com
scott brison and his mate are making wedding arrangements.
Hey Maz: Got anything kinky on Kim Sung’s ‘black sheep’ son- (the one who got busted while trying to sneak into Japan to visit Disney World- using a fake passport)?
Bury this deep in the lone praireee. Dontya let anyone see it. What do the polls know? >>>>
Panic in the streets? >>> An outbreak of revoltion/revulsion/revolvers/revolution; no tanks.>>>>
Liberal Lead Down to Six Points in Canada
(Angus Reid Global Scan) � The Liberal party is still the most popular political organization in Canada, according to a poll by Pollara Inc. 36 per cent of respondents would support the governing party in the next federal election.
The opposition Conservative party is second with 30 per cent, followed by the New Democratic Party (NDP) with 19 per cent, and the Bloc Qu�b�cois with 11 per cent. Support for the Grits fell by two points since July, while backing for the Tories increased by three points.>>> bourque
Missed that, Dave. What is “kinky”?
Dook, Al-Vince turned around; you are correct. Prescient is the word, no? Yer god is, is the best, by Zeus. Hurricane Al-Vince returned to Spain-Andalusia; first time ever, “they say”, that a hurricane, birthed in the Atlantic Ocean , made landfall in Spain, mainly on the plain.
Just curious as to what the Mount St. Helen’s webcam has to do with Canadian blogging…
On the matter of the princess from the Netherlands, you may also want to consider the words of Queen Margrethe II of Denmark:
“We are being challenged by Islam these years – globally as well as locally. It is a challenge we have to take seriously. We have let this issue float about for too long because we are tolerant and lazy.
“We have to show our opposition to Islam and we have to, at times, run the risk of having unflattering labels placed on us because there are some things for which we should display no tolerance.”
“And when we are tolerant, we must know whether it is because of convenience or conviction.”
The Dutch No Nukes movement was run by the KGB, and Princess Moonbat abetted her nation’s enemy.Oh well, nevermind.She now wants to abet AQ.
There always has been and likely always will be poverty and unfairness in the world. That is part of the human condition. On planet earth anyone can be successful, but not everyone. To try to mess with that is to be a foolish socialist.
Another root cause of much of the misery on this planet is Socialism. It is the sanctuary of the weak, stupid and fearful. These are the people who usually wind up deserving their lot in life. Smart motivated poor people don’t remain poor. If they do, it’s only because they are living under exteme repression and we know who they are.
If the poor were capable of learning something new and or changing their self-pittied minds about things, they may have a better chance of success in life.
Many of us in the West have a low tolerance for the suffering of others, even when they are doing it to themselves and that is most oftenthe case.
I for one, don’t feel guilty that there are those with a lot less. Similarly, I don’t feel envy nor contempt toward those who have more.
I have been down at the homeless level in my life and spent a good deal of time there. I changed my mind one day and my attitude. Now, by Canadian standards, I am rich and successful.
When I was homeless, I recall trying to blame someone or something else, but because I taught to think things through to a logical conclusion, I wound up placing blame where it belonged .. on myself!
When I changed my mind, I started to make better choices and to be patient. Slowly, things fell into place. I have no high education, nor do I have friends or family in high places, I just kept on going and learning from my mistakes untill I had enough food and then a home and so on. No one gave it to me and I never went to government, nor to charity.
I did what I had to do and so do the poor. There isn’t enough wealth on the planet to make everyone rich, so get used to the poor, they ain’t going away no matter how many moonbats declare their intention to fix it all.
Sometimes it’s just the luck of the draw, but mostly it’s character of the individual that makes the difference.
Screw the terrorists they want EVERYONE to be poor. They would do better to join with us as Japan and now China has. They need to get rid of their dark age mentality and change themselves so they can fit into this modern world.
Meanwhile, I say again … screw them all!
Finally, How about getting Dutch Queen Beatrix to go spend a few weeks with her beloved Islamofacists and then see if you can get an interview with her headless body.
Did I mention that nearly all of the violence in this world comes from the poor people. The rest of us are tying to live decent lives for the most part.
Sorry for the wordy comment, I am a bit bored today.
Good grief Duke. Sure you aren’t drunk or something? Suggesting that a socialist TAKE responsibility and that most poor are actually responsible for their own hard luck??? Hehehe…good post,bored or not.
Excellent post Duke. Thank you.
Socket
Maybe we can get her to make the “peace offer” to Al-Q personally! Maybe she can share her opinions with a group of murdering cowardly bigots who think that women in general shouldn’t be speaking so!
Moonbat and dingbat of the year awards. Sadly, there are many who either openly or discreetly share her views in Europe and right here in this country too.
Riches interest you? International Entrepreneur!
Something of a right leaning free enterpriser ? You can waste years going to university or you can accept and study some pages free from Royal Bank Websites. Better scan these pages free, first.
The Royal Bank wants you to get busy and make lots of money and then remember who helped you and let the RBC handle that money for you. In other words, * come bank at the Royal, but it would be nice if you managed to finesse lots of money first.
The Royal Bank website is huge and you may not know where to turn, so … Here’s where you get the free University grade material.
http://www.RoyalBankofCanada.ca/html Gets you to pay dirt. Don’t forge /html
http://www.banks-area.com/bank-banking-ca-online-royal
http://www.harmeetsinghkohli.com/InterBusACan.htm
Separated At Birth:
Libidinous lounge lizard Boy George…
…and litigious Liberal lickboy Warren Kinsella?
“It’s all about the Students”
Teacher dodges slap
Cruising the internet for kiddie porn at school didn’t get his licence lifted in Ontario
By BRODIE FENLON
Two months from today, a former kindergarten teacher who repeatedly viewed graphic child porn at school — often just before his young pupils entered the classroom — will be eligible to teach in Ontario’s publicly funded schools…
http://www.torontosun.com/News/Canada/2005/10/09/pf-1254906.html
Kudos to “Duke” for an excellent “Post a Comment”.
The title of the links shown are enough to advise one not to go there.
A cursory search found this link to Zimbabwe: a country where it is a crime to be poor. Yes, Zimbabwe is a specimen of a National Socialist regime where the poor are described as “crime-ridden”: as the link says, words for a morally palatable euphemism for poor. Woe to Zimbabwe.
The liberal left socialists are silent about Zimbabwe. The area was once a rich, productive garden; the socialists have ruined the land and the people: the end result of socialism is, as it was in the Soviet Union, a collapse of the economic and moral order. Down with National Socialism.>>>>
Driving out Gypsies and the urban poor
“In Zimbabwe, children caught up in the violent evictions of Operation …
Mugabe called ‘crime-ridden’ (a morally palatable euphemism for poor) areas …
http://www.newzimbabwe.com/pages/bmarket22.12754.html – 24k –
The natural, end result of socialism is here. The socialist/communists have now allied themselves with the Islamist/murdering jihad/United Nations. Socialists live in another world of their dreams of a perfect world: Utopia. Their utopia ends as hell on earth.>>>>>
http://www.crf-usa.org/bria/bria19_1a.htm
The Stalinization of Eastern Europe began. The communist party in each country held a complete monopoly of political power. This permitted no independent political parties, no meaningful elections, and no criticism of the ruling communist party. Ultimately, the lack of political accountability to the people led to communism’s collapse in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union itself.
Stalin imposed a socialist economic model. The government, in the name of the people, owned the factories, farms, mines, and other means of production. People could no longer own their own profit-making businesses and farms, as in the capitalist system. Government economic planners decided what and how much should be produced each year, what the prices should be, and what wages should be paid to the workers.
Following Stalin’s model, planners emphasized heavy industry such as steel making and coal mining. Consumer goods like automobiles, clothing, and TVs became scarce and expensive. The government guaranteed everyone the “right to work,” but this often meant a low wage doing a dirty job.
With the emphasis on industrial production, smoke billowed from factories and industrial waste flowed into rivers. Pollution became a major problem, but little was done about it. Factory managers were under pressure to meet production quotas. Consumers demanded more goods. Planners mainly ignored environmental problems.
In most countries, the government took over privately owned farms. It combined them into large, state-owned agricultural enterprises or cooperatives where farmers shared the land and equipment. Eastern European farmers often resisted this collectivization of agriculture, but the communist governments applied special taxes and denied health benefits to force them to comply. >>>
AdScam Martin’s free taxes & Librano$ bribes are “aimed at tightening the state’ grip on the people.” of Canada. Kim understands.>>>>
Big news from N.Korea this week?………..
“At the end of the event, North Korea may announce its leader Kim Jong Il’s successor,” a South Korean government official said. Kim may designate one of his three sons to become the country’s next leader during the celebrations, they said. Russia’s Itar-Tass news agency quoted diplomatic source in Pyongyang as saying North Korea could announce this month an eventual successor to Kim. “An announcement about the appointment of a successor could be made as early as this month, timed for the celebrations marking the 60th anniversary of the (Workers’ Party),” the report said. Jhe Seong-ho, a professor at Chung-Ang University in Seoul, said North Korea may revise the Party chapter to uphold Kim Jong Il to be the leader of unified Korea. Nam Sung-wook at Seoul’s Korea University said the gala events for this year’s Party birthday is aimed at tightening the state’ grip on the people. “North Korea may present a blueprint for economic development,” he said >>>> newsbeat1.com
http://www.rapp.org/url/?XXNXZJN2
Rideau Hall sommelier’s last words to ex-GG Clarkson/Saul as they kissed him goombye:
Madame/Monsieur, am pleased to present to youse your new WHINE list:>>>
Exclusive: Adrienne Clarkson speaks out
In an exclusive interview, the woman who occupied the highest office in the land talks about misconceptions, prime ministerial relations, and her memoirs.>>>>
http://www.rapp.org/url/?D7SY7QQ5 Torstar (Red).
See this NY Times story Oct. 9: “A Call for Islamic Revolt Spreads in Central Asia”:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/09/international/asia/09jihad.html?pagewanted=all
Excerpts:
‘Mr. Dzhalilov, 23, is one face of a vexing international security question. He is a member of Hizbut Tahrir, or Party of Liberation, which seeks to replace the existing governments in the Muslim world with an Islamic theocracy that would operate outside the reach and influence of Western life.
Founded in the Middle East in the 1950’s, the party and its activities returned to the public discourse after the suicide bombings in London in July, when Prime Minister Tony Blair said he planned to ban the party as part of a broader crackdown on groups that preach intolerance and hate. The group has long operated a headquarters in Britain…
One problem in choosing a public policy course is that Hizbut Tahrir’s members are Islamic revolutionaries with a catch. Unlike the Taliban, which Hizbut Tahrir supported after the terrorist attacks in the United States in 2001, Mr. Dzhalilov and his compatriots publicly renounce violence.
For Western governments, countering the party is difficult because its seeming insistence on struggle without arms places it in a gray area, where freedom of speech, worship and assembly can be hard to disentangle from public threat.
The group insists that an Islamic world will be delivered, country by country, through proselytizing and capitalizing on popular discontent with the corrupt and sometimes brutal leaders in Central Asia, Russia, the Caucasus and the Middle East. The suicide bomb and Kalashnikov do not yet fit in their public plans…
The party itself also displays occasional flashes of aggression. Despite its insistence that it maintains rigid internal discipline, individual members sometimes publicly stray off message. A leader of the party in Denmark was accused by the authorities in August of urging European Muslims to join the insurgency in Iraq and of distributing fliers urging Muslims to “eliminate your rulers if they stand in your way.”‘
Mark
Ottawa
And this from Lorrie Goldstein, Toronto Sun, Oct. 9: “Unfair to the CBC: Authors claim no evidence of liberal bias…but their report indicates otherwise”
http://www.torontosun.com/News/Columnists/Goldstein_Lorrie/2005/10/08/1254520.html
Excerpts:
‘I recently wrote a column about a study of the political leanings of Canadian TV news directors by two Ryerson University journalism professors. I noted they had concluded, among other findings, that at the CBC, these key news “decision makers,” as they described them, hold political views to the left of the Canadian public.
But last week I read, with some amusement, a response in the Star by the study’s authors, Marsha Barber and Ann Rauhala, entitled: “No evidence of liberal media bias.”
While they didn’t mention me by name, their article was clearly aimed at mine and said I was wrong, wrong wrong…
But it was their suggestion in the Star that anyone who sees the CBC as being dominated by “lefties” (their word) must be a “fretful social conservative” that astounded me.
I mean, forgive me for actually having read their May 2005 article in the Canadian Journal of Communication about their own research. Have they forgotten what they wrote?
Among Barber and Rauhala’s findings, in their own words:
“It should be noted that journalists at Canada’s public broadcaster, the CBC, share a different profile and are more likely to hold left-of-centre political views.” (In this context, they are talking about a different profile from both their private sector peers and the Canadian public at large.)
“Although comparable numbers of public and private broadcasters intend to vote for the Liberals (45.8% in 2002), other voting patterns are different. Only 4.5% of private news directors intend to vote for the New Democratic Party. This contrasts with 13% of CBC respondents who have that intention. In addition, 11.4% of private news directors intend to vote for the Canadian Alliance. Not one of the CBC news directors had that intention.” (In the Star, Barber and Rauhala stressed the CBC numbers were at the low end of popular support for the NDP at that time of 13 to 16%. True, but they were also at the high end for the Liberals, at 40 to 46%. And why didn’t the professors similarly stress that at 0% for the Alliance, CBC staffers were rather spectacularly below the level of support for that party, of 14 to 18%?)’
Mark
Ottawa
Good Post Duke. Thank-you for printing some sane thoughts. My Mom says ‘poverty is a state of mind’ and I’m e-mailing her your post if that is okay. It will be music for her hard of hearing ears. Thanks again.
Bruno’s next gig(gle)?>>>>>>
The Sunday Times October 09, 2005
Big stars prefer smaller guards
John Harlow Los Angeles
nealenews.com
Hey Y’all,
An update on the terror war from the very highest war rooms.
Revenge in Pakistan!
Various Islamo dorks have stated that Allah sent the Katrina hurricane to punish the West.
Our God just retaliated by sending an Earthquake to Pakistan to punish the Islamos for sending the hurricanes to our Gulf coast.
I think we lost about a 1000 people and they lost
about 20,000 and counting .. plus tens of thousands hurt.
Our God has the bigger guns it would seem.
This also suggests that our God is actually not a liberal lesbian … contrary to the CBC’s greatest hopes.
… a Spector is haunting…. >>>>>
He still has what it takes and MacKay knows it, according to former Mulroney chief of staff Norman Spector.
“Anybody who has his mind on a career in politics, perhaps another run for the leadership, would want to keep on Mulroney’s right side, perhaps (to) have him say a good word or encourage his allies to work for MacKay,” Spector said in an interview.
“Mulroney’s the sort of guy that you can see wouldn’t waffle in terms of advice, he’d have given him straight advice, probably like ‘You’re out of your mind, your future is in Ottawa,’ he’d be pretty straight.” >>> more
http://www.rapp.org/url/?5I8GA8DW
Whoa, Dook. Look at this report: Al-Vince is just south of Andalusia>>>> heading souwest>>> dubbed by some omen as “The Turbanator”. Our sources say Al-Vince is one humoungous fatwa. >>>
Hurricane Vince forms in far-eastern Atlantic
MIAMI (AP) – Hurricane Vince formed Sunday in the far-eastern Atlantic, making it the 11th hurricane of the season, forecasters said. >cnews
Grand Challenge Results!
From the Stanford site, we have a DARPA Grand Challenge winner:
October 9, 2005 — Today Stanley and the Stanford Racing Team were awarded 2 million dollars for being the first team to complete the 132 mile DARPA Grand Challenge course. Stanley finished in just under 6 hours 54 minutes and averaged over 19 miles per hours on the course.
The teams that finished, together with their times are:
Team Time
Stanford Racing Team 6 hr 53 min
Red Team 7 hr 4 min
Red Team too 7 hr 14 min
Grey Team 7 hr 30 min
Team Terramax 12 hr 51 min
The team my son was rooting for (and me too as his dad), Monstermoto, did not finish and was way down at the bottom. It was a really cool all-terrain vehicle with sinister-looking headlights and an appealing video scored with really cheerful music. Poor Monstermoto.
The Independent reacts with a mixture of wonder and dread as the result of the race.
Not so long ago, the notion of cars driving themselves seemed no more than science fiction. This weekend, it took a giant stride towards becoming reality as a handful of robotically controlled vehicles completed a 132-mile obstacle course around the Mojave desert. … To some people, the development of robot fighters suggests a future not unlike the one imagined in the Terminator movies – where highly sophisticated machines are turned into merciless killers unburdened by considerations of conscience or their mortality.
> more; fallbackbelmont.blogspot.com
scott brison and his mate are making wedding arrangements.
Hey Maz: Got anything kinky on Kim Sung’s ‘black sheep’ son- (the one who got busted while trying to sneak into Japan to visit Disney World- using a fake passport)?
Bury this deep in the lone praireee. Dontya let anyone see it. What do the polls know? >>>>
Panic in the streets? >>> An outbreak of revoltion/revulsion/revolvers/revolution; no tanks.>>>>
Liberal Lead Down to Six Points in Canada
(Angus Reid Global Scan) � The Liberal party is still the most popular political organization in Canada, according to a poll by Pollara Inc. 36 per cent of respondents would support the governing party in the next federal election.
The opposition Conservative party is second with 30 per cent, followed by the New Democratic Party (NDP) with 19 per cent, and the Bloc Qu�b�cois with 11 per cent. Support for the Grits fell by two points since July, while backing for the Tories increased by three points.>>> bourque
Missed that, Dave. What is “kinky”?
Dook, Al-Vince turned around; you are correct. Prescient is the word, no? Yer god is, is the best, by Zeus. Hurricane Al-Vince returned to Spain-Andalusia; first time ever, “they say”, that a hurricane, birthed in the Atlantic Ocean , made landfall in Spain, mainly on the plain.