Open thread to start your Monday. (I’m working against a deadline in the next two days, so things will be slow here.)
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For those of you who are interested in what the people who are actually looking after you are doing, you may find this paper by Ivar Halvorsen and Sigurd Skogestad from the Department of Chemical Engineering at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, in Trondheim, home of the famous Trondheim Hammer Dance, interesting. If I may paraphrase the title, it’s: Introduction to high-volume moonshine production. tinyurl.com/3bfdlt (180 kB PDF)
By the way, if you’re in the mood to get mad at me because I’ve just posted a particularly obtuse link in a reader tips thread, then don’t read the link. At least I’m honest about it. Yet for the many gear heads who I know from experience are Friends of SDA, some of you may find this essay I stumbled across doing some research at work last week worth exposure to. You can get the gist of it with a basic knowledge of physics and thermodynamics, yet it still covers the Murphee efficiency factor, Gibb’s phase rule, Raoult’s law, Dalton’s law, the Claperyron equation, and a host of other delightful characters.
I find the McCabe-Thiele algorithm particularly delightful; who would have thought there was such a simple way to come up with the number of ideal trays and their positions.
Really, I must say, life is beautiful.
It’s inevitable: Whenever you get high-volume moonshine production, out comes the Knurtel…
Here’s a link to a recent essay from Theodore Dalrymple. Excerpt:
“Just as Marx says that a showdown between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie is inevitable, leadind to the triumph of the former and the subsequent establishment of a classless society, so Qutb thinks that a showdown between believers and infidels is inevitable, leading to the victory of Islam, which will eliminate all religious conflict. Is this Marx or Qurb speaking: ‘(there) is a natural struggle between two systems which cannot co-exist for long.’ It is Qutb, but it could have been taken from the writings of thousands of followers of Marx, if not from Marx himself, including Mao Tse-Tung.”
Later: “Qutb insists that the triumph of Islam is the only way that what he calls the lordship of man over man will be abolished, just as Marx and Marxists insist that the triumph of Marxism is the only way the the exploitation of man by man will cease.” http://www.newenglishreview.org/custpage.cfm?frm=7240&sec_id=7240
Well, the Liberal Garth Turner, will stop at nothing to get his bashing of Stephen Harper.
On Sunday, Mother’s Day, he posted his vengeful diatribe about the Thursday’s “march for Life” parade.
Whether one is on one side or the other side of issue, the abortion issue is a sensitive issue for women. He deliberately chose to post on Mother’s Day, where women are being celebrated for motherhood.
He has no sensitivity towards women, who may have had an abortion and now are mothers and may have some regrets; who may have chosen to proceed with the pregnancy and raise their child; who may have chosen to proceed with the pregnancy and give their child up for adoption.
He has shown that he doesn’t understand women’s emotion around their pregnancies. This man is such a scum. Surely Mr. Dion, his new boss has more compassion and will fire him.
Tory, Tory, Tory, Tory, Tory? Blue, Red, Green, Burkean, …
Harperian?
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Curmudgeonism
William Watson, Financial Post
Responding to Terence Corcoran’s lament over the Conservative government’s lack of conservatism
(“All Wind. No Change,” May 3), one letterwriter observed: “Some conservative curmudgeons prefer to sit in opposition (or in the media), where it is easy to remain ideologically pure, rather than sit in government where principled compromise is a necessity — especially in the context of a minority parliament.”
Maybe it’s because I’ve reached an age where curmudgeonship is a looming danger, like ear hair and incontinence, but this comment struck close to home. (Truth be told, I’ve always admired curmudgeons. Think of H.L. Mencken.)Beyond morbid self-contemplation, however, the comment raises the question: Are we free-marketeers wrong to criticize the government’s compromises, principled or otherwise?
As “All Wind. No Change” noted, there are many varieties of conservative.
Some seem motivated mainly by team loyalty. As there is a Leafs nation, so there is a Tory nation, albeit not as big….- http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/financialpost/story.html?id=6b32ef90-52c1-4d2b-94f0-86cd8b2ee222
Then, there is “the crucifix crowd”.
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Mac’s Comment: calling a spade a spade
What a great article! A tip of the hat to kwlafayette at the Blogging Tories forum who brought my attention to this Western Standard article by Patrick McGee… I’m not sure how to do a trackback but here’s the URL… […]
Let’s use the appropriate terms. To summarize for quick reference:
Jihad means “holy war”
Hirabah means “unholy war”
Jihadist means “holy warrior”
Irhabist means “terrorist”
Mujahideen means “combatant”
Mufsidoon means “evil doer”
-Mac
Sunday, May 13, 2007
Christianism?
Apparently Andrew Sullivan has been using the term “Christianism”.
“Hey, if fundamentalist Muslims are Islamists, why aren’t fundamentalist Christians Christianists?”, related a friend to me. My answer was that Islamists themselves use the term — that’s why use it. Nobody calls themselves a “Christianist”, and if we start labelling them in that way, it seems to promote a moral equivalance between fundamentalists of two very different religions.
He reponded, ‘But what if they called themselves by positive names? Would you support using those terms?” Admitedly, this silenced me; but though my answer isn’t a clear “yes”, it’s worth noting that in the current war, we do that already. Jihadist means “holy warrior”, for instance, implying the Islamist cause is a just one. If mainstream media were even semi-competent in understanding the role that they play in the war, they would have learned the arabic term for “unholy warrior” (ie a Muslim fighting for an ignoble cause) a long time ago. Otherwise, as Jim Guirard pointed out to James Fallows in September’s The Atlantic, we’re actually validating Bin Laden’s worldview on daily basis. Guirard says we should use the following terms: hirabah (“unholy war”) instead of jihad; irhabists (“terrorists”) instead of jihadists; mufsidoon (“evildoers”) instead of mujahideen. Unfortunately, it’s hard to see how we could start using such terms almost six years after 9/11, but then again, if editors of large papers (and TV moguls) encouraged using them, how many journalists would oppose it?
Back to “Christianism”: the “ism” denotes that the religion is being used not just for spiritual/religious reasons, but for political ones as well. But Islamist means not only someone who wants the laws of Shari’a governing the state, but also someone who is at odds with any other political system, who can’t be compromised with, and who is willing to use violence to achieve that end. What would “Christianism” be? …- http://www.jacksnewswatch.info/
Duceppe reversal plays right into Harper’s hands
By STEPHEN MAHER Ottawa Bureu [sic] / Letter from Ottawa
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Maher/Chronically Terrible abhor the linkage of Prime Minister + Stephen Harper = Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Revealing of the socialist mind, wot?
More”
Who “Harper”? Maybe, Prime Minister Harper?
Next reference: “Stephen Harper”. Who Stephen Harper? Maybe, Prime Minister Stephen Harper?
Next reference: “the prime minister”; small letters; no capital letters. This is the key to the hatred/scorn of the left liberals-socialists for Prime Minister Harper.
Next: “Mr. Harper”.
Here’s is a howler: “Mr. Harper hypocritically but wisely appointed backroom Montreal Tory Michael Fortier”
But, wait: here is the respect for the separatist:
“Ms. Marois”.
Closer:
“Ms. Marois looks like she will be a formidable PQ leader, and the separatists can never be counted out, but if Mr. Harper outfoxes them again, neither they nor we should be surprised.” http://thechronicleherald.ca/Opinion/835320.html
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Now decide: Is Prime Minister Harper a hedgehog or a fox? (H/T Sir Isaiah Berlin, The Fox and the Hedgehog.)
Me anarchist? Me bomber? Me unabomber? A paraphrase/short biography of the life of anarchist Jeff Monaghan; as he writ his own exculpation. Monaghan: “The Secret Agent”*, no longer?
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Does it concern you a man, who was observed pacing suspiciously in front of the PM’s official residence yesterday just before he tossed a gym bag over the fence (did not contain explosives, just personal articles) – was able to escape on foot?
Not really – The Prime Minister & family were not there, so security was somewhat relaxed
8.42%
Absolutely, especially because of the recent anarchist attack on the Forces recruiting centre – and the history of security breaches at 24 Sussex
90.4%
Other (email mornings@cfra.com)
1.09%
Total Votes: 273 http://cfra.com/headlines/index.asp
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*Joseph Conrad.
Q: When does the kidnapping, and brutal double rape and murder of a paair of young students go unnoticed by the Media?
A: When the perpetrators are a media pet minority http://www.charliedaniels.com/soapbox-2007-050707.htm
“Bet You Haven’t Heard
I live about 150 miles from Knoxville, Tennessee and you would think that any kind of sensational crime would be like local news in our part of the country. But such is not always the case.
You’ve probably never heard the names Channon Christian or Christopher Newsome. They were two young students at the University of Tennessee who were carjacked, raped, tortured and murdered.
If you don’t have a strong stomach you probably shouldn¹t finish this column, as the murders were so brutal they’re apt to make you sick.
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It seems to me that with the headlines and airwaves screaming about such inconsequential things as who is the father of Anna Nicole Smith’s baby and the bogus case against the Duke lacrosse players they could find space to report a brutal crime worthy of Saddam Hussein and his two demented sons.
But have you seen anything on the networks, The New York Times, The Nashville Tennessean? I haven’t.”
Interesting politics between the Bloc and the PQ. Instead of being two sides of the same agenda, it turns out that they are two quite separate power cliques, each with their own turf, each with their own domains of power, and quite territorially protective.
Duceppe is head of the Bloc, that useless, irrelevant HangOut in Ottawa of Quebec separatistes, who are ideologically separatiste only in word but not in deed. And the PQ are also ideologically separatiste only in word but not in deed. Their hangout, however, is Quebec City.
The Bloc live well, with their upper upper middle class salaries and robust fat pensions paid for by the ROC. The PQ also live well, with their middle upper middle class salaries and robust fat pensions paid for by both Quebecers and the ROC. [Note: Quebec is unable to pay for any of its statist agendas without the help of the Occupiers, the Evil Roc.]
BUT, the Bloc’s turf is Ottawa; they have their lines of power and hierarchies confined to the land base of that one city. They are secondary representatives of the towns and cities in Quebec Province. The PQ’s turf excludes the ROC (the Occupiers); their immediate connections are to the towns and cities in Quebec Province.
The point is, these two power groups, despite the rhetoric, don’t mix. It all boils down to power, not ideals and goals. The ideals and goals (Freedom in Separation!!!) are irrelevant rhetoric, trotted out for votes. The reality is one thing – power. Personal power. And the PQ don’t want the Bloc moving into their turf.
So, the Bloc is confined to secondary representation, to issues deemed ‘federal’ rather than direct and local and provincial. That means that the Bloc is going to become more irrelevant, confined to rhetoric. And the PQ are going to fight the ADQ for power, power, power. Not for sovereignty. Just power.
Other “Great Leaders”, aka socialists, who had an “iron grip” on their party/countries:
To name a few socialists; Lenin-Stalin-Mao-Pol Pot-Hitler-Castro, …. Trudeau … Duceppe …
All now in the ash-dung heap of history.
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Leader’s iron grip on Bloc bound to slip
Thanks to his enormous personal popularity in the sovereignty movement, Gilles Duceppe has always been able to run the Bloc Québécois with an iron grip. But after the weekend’s stunning turn of events, it will be Mr. Duceppe whose future is dependent on others. (national newswatch)
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Selling out Deseronto
Wanna buy a house really, really cheap?
— Local News – Monday, May 14, 2007 @ 10:00 —
Deseronto council is getting a hard lesson in how
much say it has in land claim negotiations that
impact more than half their town.
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WL,
I think you forgot to mention that the two brutally tortured, raped (for two days) and then murdered students were white and the 6 killers were black – 5 men and one woman.
No, it didn’t get any mention in the national press. However, given the horrible (maximum prejudice) of the murders, it was obviously a hate crime of the most heinous nature. Fanatical muslims couldn’t have done a better job.
Where’s Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton? Where’s CNN? Where’s anybody?
Man Sentenced to Prison (for 4 years) for Saying Islam Not Tolerant!
Religion of irony alert: Court in Azerbaijan sentences journalists to four years in jail for suggesting that Christian teachings were tolerant but Islamic teachings were not.
We’ll teach you to say we’re not tolerant!
Al Jazeerah:
A court in Azerbaijan has jailed two journalists for writing and printing a newspaper article that was critical of the Islamic religion and the Prophet Muhammad.
Samir Sadagatoglu, chief editor of the Senet weekly newspaper, was sentenced to four years in prison on Friday, while Rafik Tagi, a journalist at the paper, was given three years.
The court ruled that their article ‘Europe and us’ was insulting to Islam and Muslims for saying that European societies were more successful than Muslim ones because Christian teachings were based on peace and tolerance while Islamic values, based on the teachings and actions of Muhammad, were not.
It is so tolerant! We’ll kill you for saying it’s not!
More (from al jazeera):
Soon after the article appeared, an Iranian cleric – angered by its depiction of Islam as a violent religion – offered his house to anyone who killed the journalists, Reuters reported on Friday.
Freedom of speech
The two journalists – both of whom are Muslims – have said that the trial in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, was an attack on their right to freedom of speech.
“A person can’t be condemned for their opinions,” Sadagatogli told the court.
Isakhan Ashurov, the lawyer for the two Azeri journalists, said the trial had violated articles of the European Convention on Human Rights which protect freedom of expression.
Ayatollah Lankarani’s fatwa:
‘Death ruling for the insulters of Holy Prophet (pbuh) in Senat newspaper’
Last November, Grand Ayatollah Sheikh Muhammad Fazel Lankarani, a senior Shia scholar from Tabriz, a mainly Azeri city in northern Iran, ruled that the two journalists should be killed for writing and publishing the article.
“Such a person is an apostate in view of his confessions, if he is a Muslim,” Lankarani ruled in a fatwa – or religious ruling – published on his website.
“If he had been an unbeliever (Kafir), he is considered as someone who has insulted the Prophet and in any case, given his confessions, it is necessary for every individual who has an access to him to kill him.
“The person in charge of the said newspaper, who published such thoughts and beliefs consciously and knowingly, should be dealt with in the same manner. We pray to Almighty Allah to grant Muslims and Islam protection from the evils of their enemies.”
Ashurov, the journalists’ lawyer, has previously said that he would appeal if the men were convicted.
Reporters Without Borders, a Paris-based media watchdog, criticised the court’s decision.
“While it is understandable that some members of the public may have been shocked by the article’s content and tone, the imposition of prison sentences and fatwas is outrageous,” the organisation said in a statement posted on its website.
“It should be remembered that these are not criminals but two journalists who were just expressing their views.”
At the court’s final session in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, fighting broke out in the courtroom as Muslims who were watching the proceedings tried to kill the two journalists, the AFP newsagency reported.
When, oh when can we begin a new crusades?
WLM Redux noted 9:16 am . .
** A free press is one of our most precious rights and a selective press one of our most dangerous realities. To suppress or ignore one of the most hideous murders of the decade is asinine and reeks of political correctness and agenda driven formats.
Is reporting the latest lewd episode of Paris Hilton’s privileged life or playing Alex Baldwin*s raging diatribe for the thousandth time really more important than letting the public know about a cruel and demented crime like
this?
Race should not enter the picture where crime is concerned and every decent human being should passionately condemn such a horrible thing as this no matter what color the victim or the perpetrators are.
Shame on the American media for letting such a violent crime as this slip through the cracks. I wonder what else they’re not reporting.
Pray for our troops. God Bless America What do you think?
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I think the race, or political correctness idea could be an error.
This crime has a terrorist cell flavour to it. There have been other stories where terrorists have been doing crimes to raise money for their cause and coverage never seems to get beyond city limits.
If this story is true, [ and I have doubts, the sickness factor is too high, but very Muqtada al Sadr in style, I admit], then keeping it quiet is suspect.
There may be a reason Washington wants to keep any cell related news quiet, [ No positive feedback to cells elsewhere? ],but I see it as a disservice to the American people.
We north Americans should be extra alert. Take special notice of the guy who always walks his dog along the refinery fence around 8 pm every night, for instance. = TG
TG,
I believe the story is true. I read it on another blog, with reference to a local paper, including pictures of the accused.
However, your analysis may be true. If the crime was commited by Muslims, then the government may very well want to keep it quiet. Not necessarily because of what media attention may communicate to other cells, but because it would help incite racial/religious war in America. From reports I’ve been reading, it’s getting to a snapping point.
I’ve always wondered about that TWA flight, for example.
As for profiling. Based on the flying imams, it appears congress/senate have approved a bill making it illegal for ordinary citizens to say anything. Most likely it will be vetoed by Bush, for the time being. Or until another terrorist attack. At which point, I wouldn’t want to be a senator that signed onto the bill.
Ezra Levant on Monaghan the leaker:
“When he isn’t taking a paycheque from the government, he is railing against it, and against order of any sort. That’s what anarchists do.”
No, that’s what hypocrites do. An anarchist working for the government; what’s wrong with this picture.
Given the Duceppe’s recent questioning of Shane Doan’s appointment as Captain of Team Canada, Team Canada’s undefeated path to the World Championship Gold Medal and Duceppe’s weekend flip flop on the PQ leadership I think a new poll is appropriate.
Should Duceppe attend the Shane Doan school of “Leadership through Commitment”?
Yes ____ No _____
Re: Venezuela’s Chavez:
The well-worn phrase “Tin Pot Dictator” hardly seems adequate anymore to describe loonies like Chavez.
Chavez has to staff all those new hospitals, clinics and senior care homes with professionals who insist on a paycheque.
Oilwars.blogspot.com
Acmahdinejad has a 30% crippled economy with Russia*s Putin giving him hell for bad behaviour and demanding 800 Million$ arrears.
Are these two nutjobs going to get ugly when oil prices slide due to reduced demand? [Hybrids, EVs & Biofuels]
Have you seen the size of the bio-fuels industry? No wonder the price of corn is rising.
Broin, now *Poet*, [20 years in business], is only one firm among many.
**Poet’s new slogan,- *There. Then. Now. Always. Poet.* is kind of ironic because Poet is a new name in biofuels.
It’s a rebranding of Broin, a 20-year old company that currently operates 19 production facilities in the United States andmarkets more than one billion gallons of ethanol each year.
And we can now add a 65-million gallon a year ethanol plant to Poet’s empire with the upcoming groundbreaking of a plant that will be built in Marion, Ohio.
There will be a ground-breaking ceremony for the new $130 million plant on May 16. The plant will use *21 million bushels of locally grown corn and produce 178,000 tons of premium Dakota Gold Enhanced Nutrition Distillers Products(TM),* Poet says. Poet has eight more ethanol plants in various planning stages. **
autobloggreen.com/2007/05/03/65-million-poet-ethanol-plant-coming-to-marion-ohio/
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All US states have bio-fuels distribution except for two or three small central states.
For a prime example of slick Big-Lobby Power in a video, try this. . choose the left one.
poetenergy.com/
= TG
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If AIDS drug regimes are covered… why
are cancer patients left out in the cold?
Ask George Smitherman.
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The San Francisco Chronicle demonstrates once again that it understands neither the distinction between freedom of speech and being paid for speech nor the distinction between a news article and an opinion column: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/05/14/MNG9PPQGVV1.DTL
As I write this, this story is the featured story at sfgate.com
Liberals bristle at being called unpatriotic re: Afghan detainees: http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20070514/qp_libs_070514/20070514?hub=QPeriod
It seems Tories are undermining the Liberal’s undermining of the mission, thus undermining the mission.
Man, our soldiers are way too sensitive. All Libs did was use them to score political points with false allegations of torture and thus, war crimes. It’s OK to be more concerned with the nutbars who are trying to off them with IEDs.
In Canada you see, as moonbat values go, we go above and beyond – common sense and reality that is.
How dare our soldiers act in an honourable fashion, denying Liberals points on the latest poll?
Deputy Energy Secretary says corn is not the way to go for fuel
Corn based bioethanol refineries have been popping up all over the United States over the past couple of years. This in turn has led to a spike in corn prices as more corn is being diverted from food and animal feed to fuel production which has led to criticism of the promotion of ethanol as a fuel.
Even the Deputy Secretary of Energy Clay Sell has acknowledged that corn will not remain a factor in fuel production in the future. As progress is made in processing cellulosic biomass like wood chips, grasses and corn stalks. Sell feels that cellulosic ethanol and bio-butanol will take over from current corn-based ethanol over the next 5-10 years as enzyme and bacteria based processing methods move into commercial applications.
Currently those fuels are more expensive than existing processes, but they have the potential for much higher yields and the costs will likely drop by a factor of ten as new processes come on stream.[Source: Reuters]…
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I heard / read that sugar cane is a really efficient biofuel stock.
Sounds great to me. Up goes the price and down comes the rate of bad teeth. Possibly even a lowering of dental fees. Naw.. let*s stay real about the dental rates anyway. = TG
This helped me understand the Catch-22 Turkey faces in joining the EU.
[[almost nobody in the West wants to understand that Islam’s problems are structural. Contemporary Islam hardly exists. Islam stopped thinking in the year 900 and has stood still for more than a thousand years. Western Muslims, however, live in an environment where you can think independently without your head being chopped off by somebody.]]
commentarymagazine.com/contentions/index.php/johnson/422
** While such direct military interference in the political and constitutional process runs counter to the letter and the spirit of the European Union, (membership in which Erdogan has made the central plank of his foreign policy), Hirsi Ali condemns as *naïve* the demands of EU leaders for civilian control over the Turkish military as a condition of entry.
The Europeans are, in her opinion, thereby unwittingly advancing the cause of transforming Turkey into an Islamic republic.
She calls on Western liberals to recognize the unique role of the army in protecting Turkish democracy from Islam.
There is no doubt that Hirsi Ali is correct to identify this Turkish paradox—that liberty and democracy are only guaranteed by the threat of martial law. But she is also right that the liberal mindset finds such a paradox not only uncongenial, but intolerable.
Most Europeans do not want Turkey to join the EU, where it would soon constitute by far the largest and youngest population. Even those who do favor Turkish entry—including the United States and Britain—insist on stripping away the political role of the army. **
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This author convinces me that the Army should remain in it*s controlling position, otherwise Islamists will make undue gains. = TG
60 Taliban killed in air strikes: Afghan police
ABC Online – 59 minutes ago
Kandahar police say air strikes by NATO-led forces in the area have killed 60 Taliban fighters in the Afghan province overnight. The province’s police chief says the strikes targeted three villages late Monday and ground troops entered the villages …
(google news)
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[Canadian] Liberals bristle at being called ‘unpatriotic’
The Opposition Liberals say they’re tired of being painted as unpatriotic whenever they ask questions about the war in Afghanistan. (national newswatch)
Prepare for summer of protests, chief warns
A renegade native leader in Manitoba is threatening widespread economic disruption, with a warning to CN Rail that he will attempt to blockade the rail line connecting Eastern and Western Canada next month. (national newswatch)
Video threatens Cdn railway lines
An Internet how-to video on sabotaging railway lines in support of Native land claims has drawn the attention of the RCMP and triggered investigations by the country’s two main rail companies. ..- http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2007/05/14/4180489-sun.html
Canada’s Cup runneth over. Well done, Shane Doan.
Shane Doan: a good, and faithful servant of Canada.
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National Post | Editorial: Shane Doan’s revenge
Despite more than a week of lunatic political grandstanding earlier this month over his selection as captain of Team Canada at the World Hockey Championships in Moscow, Shane Doan got the last laugh (or make that the last broad, beaming smile) Sunday, when he was handed the championship cup at Moscow’s Khodynka Arena. After piloting Canada to a solid 4-2 victory over Finland in the gold medal match — and after leading our national team to an undefeated 9-0 record for the first time in the championship’s modern era — Mr. Doan joyously hoisted the trophy above his head having clearly established that he was a worthy captain and an admirable role model for Canadian hockey players and citizens alike. …-
(jack’s newswatch)
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PRIME MINISTER CONGRATULATES TEAM CANADA ON GOLD MEDAL AT WORLD HOCKEY CHAMPIONSHIPS
May 13, 2007
Ottawa, Ontario
Prime Minister Stephen Harper today congratulated Canada’s senior men’s hockey team on their victory in today’s gold medal game at the 2007 World Men’s Hockey Championships in Moscow, Russia:
“All of Canada is proud of the outstanding victory of our national men’s hockey team at the 2007 World Championships. Once again, we have proven that Canadians are up to the challenge when facing the best hockey teams in the world.”
From the Prime Minister’s Web Site (http://www.pm.gc.ca/)
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ron in (visiting) ottawa.
And loving it !!
On Ottawa radio CFRA today was guest Terry Glavin. (Trying to find a link.)
Terry Gavin, professor from Victoria BC.
Terry writes for the Victoria Strait.
Terry describes himself as on the left.
From memory here is what he said on Ottawa radio.
The peace movement in Canada has been taken over by fanatics.
Islamic fanaticism, Brit George Galloway, Jack Layton are dangerous.
Canada and it’s troops are doing a tremendous job in Afghanistan. A very noble effort for women’s rights, and all.
This interview was from ” left”, no less.
Will the Canadian media widely report on this ??
IMO, the peace movement has been taken over by fanatics. Just like the environmental movement was.
Strange. Our beloved Canadian media always makes out that Canada is divided, blah, blah.
East against west. French against Anglais. English against Francais. Toronto, Calagary, left coast, newfies, ect.
But, howcome, whenever I visit different parts (Ottawa now, Quebec tomorrow) I find that we are all basically the same. Some agreement, some disagreement. Doesn’t matter where I am. That’s life. But we all just want to earn (well, most of us do)a living and enjoy.
So why does the media make out like Canadians are in perpetual war ?? That only the govmit can fix. Only Liberal govmits, of course. Now it makes sense.
Seems that biofuels could be headed for a ‘reality check’.
It might be interesting (and revealing) to check out just who’s neck is exposed here.
I bet one would find that most of the “investors” in so-called “renewable” energy projects are the vulnerable types. Grandmothers, farmers, pension funds, ect.
What happens when the govmit “guarantees” expire ??
Like, do ya think, Manitoba Hydro has their own money in wind farms ??
Is Exon exposed in alcohol ??
I would bet not. Too smart. They will “allow” others to make the “easy money”, …. will leave it to the pyramid-schemers — the flakes, the basket weaver crowd.
Seen it all my life.
Did embattled Jamie Carroll earn Stephane Dion’s loyalty, or did he purchase it?
Jamie Carroll is in trouble for making some serious allegations against the losing Liberal Party leadership candidates, saying that they are working to undermine Stephane Dion. As a result, there are calls for Carroll to be fired from his position as National Director. Stephane Dion is refusing to do this. Stephane Dion is acting very loyal to Jamie Carroll. There are many ways to earn loyalty. …- http://stevejanke.com/archives/226508.php
For those of you who are interested in what the people who are actually looking after you are doing, you may find this paper by Ivar Halvorsen and Sigurd Skogestad from the Department of Chemical Engineering at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, in Trondheim, home of the famous Trondheim Hammer Dance, interesting. If I may paraphrase the title, it’s:
Introduction to high-volume moonshine production.
tinyurl.com/3bfdlt (180 kB PDF)
By the way, if you’re in the mood to get mad at me because I’ve just posted a particularly obtuse link in a reader tips thread, then don’t read the link. At least I’m honest about it. Yet for the many gear heads who I know from experience are Friends of SDA, some of you may find this essay I stumbled across doing some research at work last week worth exposure to. You can get the gist of it with a basic knowledge of physics and thermodynamics, yet it still covers the Murphee efficiency factor, Gibb’s phase rule, Raoult’s law, Dalton’s law, the Claperyron equation, and a host of other delightful characters.
I find the McCabe-Thiele algorithm particularly delightful; who would have thought there was such a simple way to come up with the number of ideal trays and their positions.
Really, I must say, life is beautiful.
It’s inevitable: Whenever you get high-volume moonshine production, out comes the Knurtel…
Here’s a link to a recent essay from Theodore Dalrymple. Excerpt:
“Just as Marx says that a showdown between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie is inevitable, leadind to the triumph of the former and the subsequent establishment of a classless society, so Qutb thinks that a showdown between believers and infidels is inevitable, leading to the victory of Islam, which will eliminate all religious conflict. Is this Marx or Qurb speaking: ‘(there) is a natural struggle between two systems which cannot co-exist for long.’ It is Qutb, but it could have been taken from the writings of thousands of followers of Marx, if not from Marx himself, including Mao Tse-Tung.”
Later: “Qutb insists that the triumph of Islam is the only way that what he calls the lordship of man over man will be abolished, just as Marx and Marxists insist that the triumph of Marxism is the only way the the exploitation of man by man will cease.”
http://www.newenglishreview.org/custpage.cfm?frm=7240&sec_id=7240
Well, the Liberal Garth Turner, will stop at nothing to get his bashing of Stephen Harper.
On Sunday, Mother’s Day, he posted his vengeful diatribe about the Thursday’s “march for Life” parade.
Whether one is on one side or the other side of issue, the abortion issue is a sensitive issue for women. He deliberately chose to post on Mother’s Day, where women are being celebrated for motherhood.
He has no sensitivity towards women, who may have had an abortion and now are mothers and may have some regrets; who may have chosen to proceed with the pregnancy and raise their child; who may have chosen to proceed with the pregnancy and give their child up for adoption.
He has shown that he doesn’t understand women’s emotion around their pregnancies. This man is such a scum. Surely Mr. Dion, his new boss has more compassion and will fire him.
Tory, Tory, Tory, Tory, Tory? Blue, Red, Green, Burkean, …
Harperian?
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Curmudgeonism
William Watson, Financial Post
Responding to Terence Corcoran’s lament over the Conservative government’s lack of conservatism
(“All Wind. No Change,” May 3), one letterwriter observed: “Some conservative curmudgeons prefer to sit in opposition (or in the media), where it is easy to remain ideologically pure, rather than sit in government where principled compromise is a necessity — especially in the context of a minority parliament.”
Maybe it’s because I’ve reached an age where curmudgeonship is a looming danger, like ear hair and incontinence, but this comment struck close to home. (Truth be told, I’ve always admired curmudgeons. Think of H.L. Mencken.)Beyond morbid self-contemplation, however, the comment raises the question: Are we free-marketeers wrong to criticize the government’s compromises, principled or otherwise?
As “All Wind. No Change” noted, there are many varieties of conservative.
Some seem motivated mainly by team loyalty. As there is a Leafs nation, so there is a Tory nation, albeit not as big….-
http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/financialpost/story.html?id=6b32ef90-52c1-4d2b-94f0-86cd8b2ee222
Then, there is “the crucifix crowd”.
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Mac’s Comment: calling a spade a spade
What a great article! A tip of the hat to kwlafayette at the Blogging Tories forum who brought my attention to this Western Standard article by Patrick McGee… I’m not sure how to do a trackback but here’s the URL… […]
Let’s use the appropriate terms. To summarize for quick reference:
Jihad means “holy war”
Hirabah means “unholy war”
Jihadist means “holy warrior”
Irhabist means “terrorist”
Mujahideen means “combatant”
Mufsidoon means “evil doer”
-Mac
Sunday, May 13, 2007
Christianism?
Apparently Andrew Sullivan has been using the term “Christianism”.
“Hey, if fundamentalist Muslims are Islamists, why aren’t fundamentalist Christians Christianists?”, related a friend to me. My answer was that Islamists themselves use the term — that’s why use it. Nobody calls themselves a “Christianist”, and if we start labelling them in that way, it seems to promote a moral equivalance between fundamentalists of two very different religions.
He reponded, ‘But what if they called themselves by positive names? Would you support using those terms?” Admitedly, this silenced me; but though my answer isn’t a clear “yes”, it’s worth noting that in the current war, we do that already. Jihadist means “holy warrior”, for instance, implying the Islamist cause is a just one. If mainstream media were even semi-competent in understanding the role that they play in the war, they would have learned the arabic term for “unholy warrior” (ie a Muslim fighting for an ignoble cause) a long time ago. Otherwise, as Jim Guirard pointed out to James Fallows in September’s The Atlantic, we’re actually validating Bin Laden’s worldview on daily basis. Guirard says we should use the following terms: hirabah (“unholy war”) instead of jihad; irhabists (“terrorists”) instead of jihadists; mufsidoon (“evildoers”) instead of mujahideen. Unfortunately, it’s hard to see how we could start using such terms almost six years after 9/11, but then again, if editors of large papers (and TV moguls) encouraged using them, how many journalists would oppose it?
Back to “Christianism”: the “ism” denotes that the religion is being used not just for spiritual/religious reasons, but for political ones as well. But Islamist means not only someone who wants the laws of Shari’a governing the state, but also someone who is at odds with any other political system, who can’t be compromised with, and who is willing to use violence to achieve that end. What would “Christianism” be? …-
http://www.jacksnewswatch.info/
Duceppe reversal plays right into Harper’s hands
By STEPHEN MAHER Ottawa Bureu [sic] / Letter from Ottawa
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Maher/Chronically Terrible abhor the linkage of Prime Minister + Stephen Harper = Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Revealing of the socialist mind, wot?
More”
Who “Harper”? Maybe, Prime Minister Harper?
Next reference: “Stephen Harper”. Who Stephen Harper? Maybe, Prime Minister Stephen Harper?
Next reference: “the prime minister”; small letters; no capital letters. This is the key to the hatred/scorn of the left liberals-socialists for Prime Minister Harper.
Next: “Mr. Harper”.
Here’s is a howler: “Mr. Harper hypocritically but wisely appointed backroom Montreal Tory Michael Fortier”
But, wait: here is the respect for the separatist:
“Ms. Marois”.
Closer:
“Ms. Marois looks like she will be a formidable PQ leader, and the separatists can never be counted out, but if Mr. Harper outfoxes them again, neither they nor we should be surprised.”
http://thechronicleherald.ca/Opinion/835320.html
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Now decide: Is Prime Minister Harper a hedgehog or a fox? (H/T Sir Isaiah Berlin, The Fox and the Hedgehog.)
Me anarchist? Me bomber? Me unabomber? A paraphrase/short biography of the life of anarchist Jeff Monaghan; as he writ his own exculpation. Monaghan: “The Secret Agent”*, no longer?
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Does it concern you a man, who was observed pacing suspiciously in front of the PM’s official residence yesterday just before he tossed a gym bag over the fence (did not contain explosives, just personal articles) – was able to escape on foot?
Not really – The Prime Minister & family were not there, so security was somewhat relaxed
8.42%
Absolutely, especially because of the recent anarchist attack on the Forces recruiting centre – and the history of security breaches at 24 Sussex
90.4%
Other (email mornings@cfra.com)
1.09%
Total Votes: 273
http://cfra.com/headlines/index.asp
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*Joseph Conrad.
Q: When does the kidnapping, and brutal double rape and murder of a paair of young students go unnoticed by the Media?
A: When the perpetrators are a media pet minority
http://www.charliedaniels.com/soapbox-2007-050707.htm
“Bet You Haven’t Heard
I live about 150 miles from Knoxville, Tennessee and you would think that any kind of sensational crime would be like local news in our part of the country. But such is not always the case.
You’ve probably never heard the names Channon Christian or Christopher Newsome. They were two young students at the University of Tennessee who were carjacked, raped, tortured and murdered.
If you don’t have a strong stomach you probably shouldn¹t finish this column, as the murders were so brutal they’re apt to make you sick.
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It seems to me that with the headlines and airwaves screaming about such inconsequential things as who is the father of Anna Nicole Smith’s baby and the bogus case against the Duke lacrosse players they could find space to report a brutal crime worthy of Saddam Hussein and his two demented sons.
But have you seen anything on the networks, The New York Times, The Nashville Tennessean? I haven’t.”
Interesting politics between the Bloc and the PQ. Instead of being two sides of the same agenda, it turns out that they are two quite separate power cliques, each with their own turf, each with their own domains of power, and quite territorially protective.
Duceppe is head of the Bloc, that useless, irrelevant HangOut in Ottawa of Quebec separatistes, who are ideologically separatiste only in word but not in deed. And the PQ are also ideologically separatiste only in word but not in deed. Their hangout, however, is Quebec City.
The Bloc live well, with their upper upper middle class salaries and robust fat pensions paid for by the ROC. The PQ also live well, with their middle upper middle class salaries and robust fat pensions paid for by both Quebecers and the ROC. [Note: Quebec is unable to pay for any of its statist agendas without the help of the Occupiers, the Evil Roc.]
BUT, the Bloc’s turf is Ottawa; they have their lines of power and hierarchies confined to the land base of that one city. They are secondary representatives of the towns and cities in Quebec Province. The PQ’s turf excludes the ROC (the Occupiers); their immediate connections are to the towns and cities in Quebec Province.
The point is, these two power groups, despite the rhetoric, don’t mix. It all boils down to power, not ideals and goals. The ideals and goals (Freedom in Separation!!!) are irrelevant rhetoric, trotted out for votes. The reality is one thing – power. Personal power. And the PQ don’t want the Bloc moving into their turf.
So, the Bloc is confined to secondary representation, to issues deemed ‘federal’ rather than direct and local and provincial. That means that the Bloc is going to become more irrelevant, confined to rhetoric. And the PQ are going to fight the ADQ for power, power, power. Not for sovereignty. Just power.
Other “Great Leaders”, aka socialists, who had an “iron grip” on their party/countries:
To name a few socialists; Lenin-Stalin-Mao-Pol Pot-Hitler-Castro, …. Trudeau … Duceppe …
All now in the ash-dung heap of history.
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Leader’s iron grip on Bloc bound to slip
Thanks to his enormous personal popularity in the sovereignty movement, Gilles Duceppe has always been able to run the Bloc Québécois with an iron grip. But after the weekend’s stunning turn of events, it will be Mr. Duceppe whose future is dependent on others. (national newswatch)
Telemarketer entanglement. . .
youtube.com/watch?v=A6pRRSHVzaE
= TG
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Selling out Deseronto
Wanna buy a house really, really cheap?
— Local News – Monday, May 14, 2007 @ 10:00 —
Deseronto council is getting a hard lesson in how
much say it has in land claim negotiations that
impact more than half their town.
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WL,
I think you forgot to mention that the two brutally tortured, raped (for two days) and then murdered students were white and the 6 killers were black – 5 men and one woman.
No, it didn’t get any mention in the national press. However, given the horrible (maximum prejudice) of the murders, it was obviously a hate crime of the most heinous nature. Fanatical muslims couldn’t have done a better job.
Where’s Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton? Where’s CNN? Where’s anybody?
Man Sentenced to Prison (for 4 years) for Saying Islam Not Tolerant!
Religion of irony alert: Court in Azerbaijan sentences journalists to four years in jail for suggesting that Christian teachings were tolerant but Islamic teachings were not.
We’ll teach you to say we’re not tolerant!
Al Jazeerah:
A court in Azerbaijan has jailed two journalists for writing and printing a newspaper article that was critical of the Islamic religion and the Prophet Muhammad.
Samir Sadagatoglu, chief editor of the Senet weekly newspaper, was sentenced to four years in prison on Friday, while Rafik Tagi, a journalist at the paper, was given three years.
The court ruled that their article ‘Europe and us’ was insulting to Islam and Muslims for saying that European societies were more successful than Muslim ones because Christian teachings were based on peace and tolerance while Islamic values, based on the teachings and actions of Muhammad, were not.
It is so tolerant! We’ll kill you for saying it’s not!
More (from al jazeera):
Soon after the article appeared, an Iranian cleric – angered by its depiction of Islam as a violent religion – offered his house to anyone who killed the journalists, Reuters reported on Friday.
Freedom of speech
The two journalists – both of whom are Muslims – have said that the trial in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, was an attack on their right to freedom of speech.
“A person can’t be condemned for their opinions,” Sadagatogli told the court.
Isakhan Ashurov, the lawyer for the two Azeri journalists, said the trial had violated articles of the European Convention on Human Rights which protect freedom of expression.
Ayatollah Lankarani’s fatwa:
‘Death ruling for the insulters of Holy Prophet (pbuh) in Senat newspaper’
Last November, Grand Ayatollah Sheikh Muhammad Fazel Lankarani, a senior Shia scholar from Tabriz, a mainly Azeri city in northern Iran, ruled that the two journalists should be killed for writing and publishing the article.
“Such a person is an apostate in view of his confessions, if he is a Muslim,” Lankarani ruled in a fatwa – or religious ruling – published on his website.
“If he had been an unbeliever (Kafir), he is considered as someone who has insulted the Prophet and in any case, given his confessions, it is necessary for every individual who has an access to him to kill him.
“The person in charge of the said newspaper, who published such thoughts and beliefs consciously and knowingly, should be dealt with in the same manner. We pray to Almighty Allah to grant Muslims and Islam protection from the evils of their enemies.”
Ashurov, the journalists’ lawyer, has previously said that he would appeal if the men were convicted.
Reporters Without Borders, a Paris-based media watchdog, criticised the court’s decision.
“While it is understandable that some members of the public may have been shocked by the article’s content and tone, the imposition of prison sentences and fatwas is outrageous,” the organisation said in a statement posted on its website.
“It should be remembered that these are not criminals but two journalists who were just expressing their views.”
At the court’s final session in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, fighting broke out in the courtroom as Muslims who were watching the proceedings tried to kill the two journalists, the AFP newsagency reported.
When, oh when can we begin a new crusades?
WLM Redux noted 9:16 am . .
** A free press is one of our most precious rights and a selective press one of our most dangerous realities. To suppress or ignore one of the most hideous murders of the decade is asinine and reeks of political correctness and agenda driven formats.
Is reporting the latest lewd episode of Paris Hilton’s privileged life or playing Alex Baldwin*s raging diatribe for the thousandth time really more important than letting the public know about a cruel and demented crime like
this?
Race should not enter the picture where crime is concerned and every decent human being should passionately condemn such a horrible thing as this no matter what color the victim or the perpetrators are.
Shame on the American media for letting such a violent crime as this slip through the cracks. I wonder what else they’re not reporting.
Pray for our troops. God Bless America What do you think?
=============== charliedaniels.com/soapbox-2007-050707.htm
I think the race, or political correctness idea could be an error.
This crime has a terrorist cell flavour to it. There have been other stories where terrorists have been doing crimes to raise money for their cause and coverage never seems to get beyond city limits.
If this story is true, [ and I have doubts, the sickness factor is too high, but very Muqtada al Sadr in style, I admit], then keeping it quiet is suspect.
There may be a reason Washington wants to keep any cell related news quiet, [ No positive feedback to cells elsewhere? ],but I see it as a disservice to the American people.
We north Americans should be extra alert. Take special notice of the guy who always walks his dog along the refinery fence around 8 pm every night, for instance. = TG
TG,
I believe the story is true. I read it on another blog, with reference to a local paper, including pictures of the accused.
However, your analysis may be true. If the crime was commited by Muslims, then the government may very well want to keep it quiet. Not necessarily because of what media attention may communicate to other cells, but because it would help incite racial/religious war in America. From reports I’ve been reading, it’s getting to a snapping point.
I’ve always wondered about that TWA flight, for example.
As for profiling. Based on the flying imams, it appears congress/senate have approved a bill making it illegal for ordinary citizens to say anything. Most likely it will be vetoed by Bush, for the time being. Or until another terrorist attack. At which point, I wouldn’t want to be a senator that signed onto the bill.
China is putting on their “Sunday Best” for the Olympics next year — at the end of a gun, of course…
http://www.lassooftruth.com/the_lasso_of_truth/2007/05/the_red_flag_of.html
The good ole’ G&M runs the “feel good story” of the year about anarchists in the wake of the arrest at Enviro Canada.
The apologist article can be summed up as follows by this quote, “It’s not so much a political ideology that will save the world, it’s just lets have some fun.”
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070514.wxlanarchist14/BNStory/lifeWork/?page=rss&id=RTGAM.20070514.wxlanarchist14
Ezra Levant on Monaghan the leaker:
“When he isn’t taking a paycheque from the government, he is railing against it, and against order of any sort. That’s what anarchists do.”
No, that’s what hypocrites do. An anarchist working for the government; what’s wrong with this picture.
Venezuala is another step closer to the bulldozers of Kate’s predictions:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/13/AR2007051301124.html
Given the Duceppe’s recent questioning of Shane Doan’s appointment as Captain of Team Canada, Team Canada’s undefeated path to the World Championship Gold Medal and Duceppe’s weekend flip flop on the PQ leadership I think a new poll is appropriate.
Should Duceppe attend the Shane Doan school of “Leadership through Commitment”?
Yes ____ No _____
Re: Venezuela’s Chavez:
The well-worn phrase “Tin Pot Dictator” hardly seems adequate anymore to describe loonies like Chavez.
Chavez has to staff all those new hospitals, clinics and senior care homes with professionals who insist on a paycheque.
Oilwars.blogspot.com
Acmahdinejad has a 30% crippled economy with Russia*s Putin giving him hell for bad behaviour and demanding 800 Million$ arrears.
Are these two nutjobs going to get ugly when oil prices slide due to reduced demand? [Hybrids, EVs & Biofuels]
Have you seen the size of the bio-fuels industry? No wonder the price of corn is rising.
Broin, now *Poet*, [20 years in business], is only one firm among many.
**Poet’s new slogan,- *There. Then. Now. Always. Poet.* is kind of ironic because Poet is a new name in biofuels.
It’s a rebranding of Broin, a 20-year old company that currently operates 19 production facilities in the United States andmarkets more than one billion gallons of ethanol each year.
And we can now add a 65-million gallon a year ethanol plant to Poet’s empire with the upcoming groundbreaking of a plant that will be built in Marion, Ohio.
There will be a ground-breaking ceremony for the new $130 million plant on May 16. The plant will use *21 million bushels of locally grown corn and produce 178,000 tons of premium Dakota Gold Enhanced Nutrition Distillers Products(TM),* Poet says. Poet has eight more ethanol plants in various planning stages. **
autobloggreen.com/2007/05/03/65-million-poet-ethanol-plant-coming-to-marion-ohio/
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All US states have bio-fuels distribution except for two or three small central states.
For a prime example of slick Big-Lobby Power in a video, try this. . choose the left one.
poetenergy.com/
= TG
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If AIDS drug regimes are covered… why
are cancer patients left out in the cold?
Ask George Smitherman.
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The San Francisco Chronicle demonstrates once again that it understands neither the distinction between freedom of speech and being paid for speech nor the distinction between a news article and an opinion column:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/05/14/MNG9PPQGVV1.DTL
As I write this, this story is the featured story at sfgate.com
Liberals bristle at being called unpatriotic re: Afghan detainees:
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20070514/qp_libs_070514/20070514?hub=QPeriod
It seems Tories are undermining the Liberal’s undermining of the mission, thus undermining the mission.
Man, our soldiers are way too sensitive. All Libs did was use them to score political points with false allegations of torture and thus, war crimes. It’s OK to be more concerned with the nutbars who are trying to off them with IEDs.
In Canada you see, as moonbat values go, we go above and beyond – common sense and reality that is.
How dare our soldiers act in an honourable fashion, denying Liberals points on the latest poll?
Deputy Energy Secretary says corn is not the way to go for fuel
Corn based bioethanol refineries have been popping up all over the United States over the past couple of years. This in turn has led to a spike in corn prices as more corn is being diverted from food and animal feed to fuel production which has led to criticism of the promotion of ethanol as a fuel.
Even the Deputy Secretary of Energy Clay Sell has acknowledged that corn will not remain a factor in fuel production in the future. As progress is made in processing cellulosic biomass like wood chips, grasses and corn stalks. Sell feels that cellulosic ethanol and bio-butanol will take over from current corn-based ethanol over the next 5-10 years as enzyme and bacteria based processing methods move into commercial applications.
Currently those fuels are more expensive than existing processes, but they have the potential for much higher yields and the costs will likely drop by a factor of ten as new processes come on stream.[Source: Reuters]…
================= autobloggreen.com/search/2/?q=bio
I heard / read that sugar cane is a really efficient biofuel stock.
Sounds great to me. Up goes the price and down comes the rate of bad teeth. Possibly even a lowering of dental fees. Naw.. let*s stay real about the dental rates anyway. = TG
This helped me understand the Catch-22 Turkey faces in joining the EU.
[[almost nobody in the West wants to understand that Islam’s problems are structural. Contemporary Islam hardly exists. Islam stopped thinking in the year 900 and has stood still for more than a thousand years. Western Muslims, however, live in an environment where you can think independently without your head being chopped off by somebody.]]
commentarymagazine.com/contentions/index.php/johnson/422
** While such direct military interference in the political and constitutional process runs counter to the letter and the spirit of the European Union, (membership in which Erdogan has made the central plank of his foreign policy), Hirsi Ali condemns as *naïve* the demands of EU leaders for civilian control over the Turkish military as a condition of entry.
The Europeans are, in her opinion, thereby unwittingly advancing the cause of transforming Turkey into an Islamic republic.
She calls on Western liberals to recognize the unique role of the army in protecting Turkish democracy from Islam.
There is no doubt that Hirsi Ali is correct to identify this Turkish paradox—that liberty and democracy are only guaranteed by the threat of martial law. But she is also right that the liberal mindset finds such a paradox not only uncongenial, but intolerable.
Most Europeans do not want Turkey to join the EU, where it would soon constitute by far the largest and youngest population. Even those who do favor Turkish entry—including the United States and Britain—insist on stripping away the political role of the army. **
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This author convinces me that the Army should remain in it*s controlling position, otherwise Islamists will make undue gains. = TG
60 Taliban killed in air strikes: Afghan police
ABC Online – 59 minutes ago
Kandahar police say air strikes by NATO-led forces in the area have killed 60 Taliban fighters in the Afghan province overnight. The province’s police chief says the strikes targeted three villages late Monday and ground troops entered the villages …
(google news)
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[Canadian] Liberals bristle at being called ‘unpatriotic’
The Opposition Liberals say they’re tired of being painted as unpatriotic whenever they ask questions about the war in Afghanistan. (national newswatch)
Prepare for summer of protests, chief warns
A renegade native leader in Manitoba is threatening widespread economic disruption, with a warning to CN Rail that he will attempt to blockade the rail line connecting Eastern and Western Canada next month. (national newswatch)
Video threatens Cdn railway lines
An Internet how-to video on sabotaging railway lines in support of Native land claims has drawn the attention of the RCMP and triggered investigations by the country’s two main rail companies. ..-
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2007/05/14/4180489-sun.html
Who da boss? Kyoto howls.
The pack barks: You da boss, Kyoto.
You da number one dog, Kyoto. Ooowooolooowwoo …
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Top Liberal official frets about possible rivals to Dion
http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=bbb95dc2-be14-4c04-bcc0-e8d70d724555&k=1408
Canada’s Cup runneth over. Well done, Shane Doan.
Shane Doan: a good, and faithful servant of Canada.
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National Post | Editorial: Shane Doan’s revenge
Despite more than a week of lunatic political grandstanding earlier this month over his selection as captain of Team Canada at the World Hockey Championships in Moscow, Shane Doan got the last laugh (or make that the last broad, beaming smile) Sunday, when he was handed the championship cup at Moscow’s Khodynka Arena. After piloting Canada to a solid 4-2 victory over Finland in the gold medal match — and after leading our national team to an undefeated 9-0 record for the first time in the championship’s modern era — Mr. Doan joyously hoisted the trophy above his head having clearly established that he was a worthy captain and an admirable role model for Canadian hockey players and citizens alike. …-
(jack’s newswatch)
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PRIME MINISTER CONGRATULATES TEAM CANADA ON GOLD MEDAL AT WORLD HOCKEY CHAMPIONSHIPS
May 13, 2007
Ottawa, Ontario
Prime Minister Stephen Harper today congratulated Canada’s senior men’s hockey team on their victory in today’s gold medal game at the 2007 World Men’s Hockey Championships in Moscow, Russia:
“All of Canada is proud of the outstanding victory of our national men’s hockey team at the 2007 World Championships. Once again, we have proven that Canadians are up to the challenge when facing the best hockey teams in the world.”
From the Prime Minister’s Web Site (http://www.pm.gc.ca/)
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ron in (visiting) ottawa.
And loving it !!
On Ottawa radio CFRA today was guest Terry Glavin. (Trying to find a link.)
Terry Gavin, professor from Victoria BC.
Terry writes for the Victoria Strait.
Terry describes himself as on the left.
From memory here is what he said on Ottawa radio.
The peace movement in Canada has been taken over by fanatics.
Islamic fanaticism, Brit George Galloway, Jack Layton are dangerous.
Canada and it’s troops are doing a tremendous job in Afghanistan. A very noble effort for women’s rights, and all.
This interview was from ” left”, no less.
Will the Canadian media widely report on this ??
IMO, the peace movement has been taken over by fanatics. Just like the environmental movement was.
Strange. Our beloved Canadian media always makes out that Canada is divided, blah, blah.
East against west. French against Anglais. English against Francais. Toronto, Calagary, left coast, newfies, ect.
But, howcome, whenever I visit different parts (Ottawa now, Quebec tomorrow) I find that we are all basically the same. Some agreement, some disagreement. Doesn’t matter where I am. That’s life. But we all just want to earn (well, most of us do)a living and enjoy.
So why does the media make out like Canadians are in perpetual war ?? That only the govmit can fix. Only Liberal govmits, of course. Now it makes sense.
Seems that biofuels could be headed for a ‘reality check’.
It might be interesting (and revealing) to check out just who’s neck is exposed here.
I bet one would find that most of the “investors” in so-called “renewable” energy projects are the vulnerable types. Grandmothers, farmers, pension funds, ect.
What happens when the govmit “guarantees” expire ??
Like, do ya think, Manitoba Hydro has their own money in wind farms ??
Is Exon exposed in alcohol ??
I would bet not. Too smart. They will “allow” others to make the “easy money”, …. will leave it to the pyramid-schemers — the flakes, the basket weaver crowd.
Seen it all my life.
Did embattled Jamie Carroll earn Stephane Dion’s loyalty, or did he purchase it?
Jamie Carroll is in trouble for making some serious allegations against the losing Liberal Party leadership candidates, saying that they are working to undermine Stephane Dion. As a result, there are calls for Carroll to be fired from his position as National Director. Stephane Dion is refusing to do this. Stephane Dion is acting very loyal to Jamie Carroll. There are many ways to earn loyalty. …-
http://stevejanke.com/archives/226508.php