“Today, I’ve received information from the east coast that some journalists have been sniffing around the shipyards on what is either a similar project or an extension of this one. Which means that information on this project is going to be out there in a couple of days. And I’d bet good money that the way that information is presented is going to be wrong.”
Well, now we know what that “L” on his forehead stands for!
“Deborah Gyapong reported in Canadian Catholic News that Stein proposed traditional religious groups essentially must either abandon any religious beliefs that conflict with the ideologies of the state, notably that of radical feminism, or cease to make any claims to special financial considerations for their charitable, non-profit works for the community.”
Where’s my .22?
Use this thread for your own.
The ICE, The ICE… The POLAR BEARS are coming…-
“Last week’s return of the pack ice to Iceland initially suggested that those predictions might have been overly pessimistic.” …-
Iceland fears bears that go with the floe
By Gethin Chamberlain, Sunday Telegraph
The oceans may be warming and air temperatures rising, but in recent days Iceland has bucked the global climate trend.
Thick pack ice, the like of which has not been seen for decades, stretched into the western fjords as temperatures plummeted and a bitter wind blew in from -Greenland.
The ice has proved a headache for fishermen, who have been unable to put to sea, but it is what comes with pack ice that has caused most concern: polar bears.
People living around the fjord of Dyrafjördur, which last week was almost filled with the ice, were keeping an eye on the sea, conscious that the bears live on the pack ice that covers much of the Arctic ocean.
When chunks break off, as appears to have happened last week, the bears become stranded, drifting wherever the ice takes them.
There have been numerous accounts of bears making land on the shores of Iceland in the past. But it is the bears who tend to come off worse in encounters with the Icelanders, who take a distinctly unsentimental approach to wildlife.
In 1993, the last time a bear is known to have made it to Icelandic waters, it was caught by a fishing crew and killed. It is believed to have been stranded on a piece of pack ice that broke off the main pack and melted, leaving the animal swimming in the open ocean 70 miles from the main ice sheet. Five years earlier, the last bear to make it to shore was promptly shot when it turned up near the town of Haganesvík in the north of the country.
Coastguard commander Asgrinur Asgrinsson remembers a polar bear coming ashore on the island of Grimsey, north of the mainland, when he was a child. It was shot and stuffed and now has pride of place in the museum in the town of Husavik.
There are thought to be about 25,000 polar bears in the wild and environmentalists have warned that they are in danger of becoming extinct as their habitat shrinks. Climate change scientists say that with temperatures rising, the pack ice may have melted completely by 2040, leaving the Arctic ocean navigable and the polar bears with nowhere to go.
Last week’s return of the pack ice to Iceland initially suggested that those predictions might have been overly pessimistic.
“I have lived here my whole life, but I have never seen so much pack ice before,” said Helgi Árnason, a farmer in -Dyrafjördur.
“Forty years ago, large icebergs drifted on to beaches but it was nothing compared with this.
“[Pack ice] used to be Iceland’s ancient enemy, but we stay calm so long as the situation doesn’t worsen. This is just to remind us where we live.” …-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1779035/posts
Taliban Jack Layton/NDP are quiet these days; the Taliban has murdered “at least 61 teachers in the past 18 months”.
How many of those murdered were women? The feminists are quiet. Have their tongues dried up; have their tongues been cut out? Where does SOW stand on this? Why is SOW deaf/dumb? …-
Parents of young girls are fearful to send them to class
Across the border in Afghanistan, the Taliban’s antipathy towards the education of girls is well-documented, and has led to the
murders of at least 61 teachers in the past 18 months
and the razing of 183 schools.
But now hard-line Islamists in Pakistan – known as local Taliban – have launched their own campaign against girls’ schools, claiming the pupils are being “westernised”. …-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1779034/posts
When a 30 man contingent of British soldiers pulled out of the area
under an agreement with village elders… the mainstream media
dined out on stories of Taliban over-running the countryside.
Seems the local Tali-boss is gonna be seeing Allah a little sooner
than he thought…
Good news: UK commandos preparing for British Beslan
Excerpts:
SAS is Britain’s special forces. And it’s not just beheadings for which they’re on standby:
The intelligence services fear that Britain could be subject to a Beslan-style siege, with multiple hostages forced to plead for their lives on camera.
Whitehall sources have said that the threat is considered so credible that MI5, the police and the SAS have conducted at least two mock counter-terrorism exercises to work out how to deal with such an eventuality.
The last exercise, shortly before Christmas, took place at an RAF base near Chester. Five police forces were involved in an operation that envisaged an international conference being stormed by terrorists, who then held a group of children hostage in a creche wired with explosives.
Exit question: What’ll destroy the UK first — terrorism, bird flu, Iranian nukes, or those dreadful melting glaciers?
http://hotair.com/archives/2007/02/03/good-news-uk-commandos-preparing-for-british-beslan/
Noddingk in/on MSM re Holland’s spilling his guts re the take-over/coup planned by the Librano$? The MSM is the little Dutch boy with its finger plugging the dike. It’s a “sekken”. David explains it’s all about social control.
Quote: “The several stubborn Tokyo art dealers who persisted in doubting the finds were bullied into silence.”
David Warren knows a media frenzy when it doesn’t happen… and why … and why not. Think “global warming” media frenzy. …-
Sekken
There is a Japanese word, “sekken”, I would like to understand better. It is used to name the otherwise nameless social consensus, that is held to control Japanese public life.
I first encountered the word many years ago, in reading about a great controversy of the early 1960s, over the discovery of a hoard of ceramic pots and drawings in the village of Sano, north of Tokyo. A group of famous artist-potters, learned curators, art historians, and other scholars and intellectuals, with unimpeachable credentials, pronounced the whole find to be the lost late work of the master potter Ogata Kenzan (1663-1743), working in obscure retirement. There was a media frenzy. …-
http://www.davidwarrenonline.com/index.php?artID=703
http://www.michaelyon-online.com/wp/the-hands-of-god.htm
Sometimes I feel almost guilty, living this life of no real cares and no real immediate threat of death. I wonder how it must feel to know that at any moment you may find yourself face-to-face with an extremist who is willing to kill himself just to teach you a lesson. I wonder if I would have had the courage to do what this man did, to wrap myself around a suicide bomber and so prevent anyone else getting killed. From the details given in this story it would appear that the mand in question could just as easily have walked the other way and let the other 100+ Muslims in the mosque be blown up without him. It’s hard to remember that Iraq is full of heroes as well as ful of ideological madmen. […]