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  1. In other news of great nothingness born by today’s justice, panhandlers are getting vicious in St. Catherine.
    http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=ef024592-b490-402c-bcfe-4bfee06d90de&k=68089
    “You know, [panhandlers] take offence to these things being said to them and it escalates. The panhandlers say things back and people take offence to that, and that’s how these things happen.”
    Merchants said yesterday they saw the escalation of violence
    coming.
    They say they have been complaining about “bully” panhandlers for some time, but the city has failed to take definitive action to curb the growing problem.
    Katie Matthews, owner of MissBehav’n, and her husband were attacked by a group of street kids armed with a beer bottle and a shovel about a month ago behind her store.
    “If you tell a panhandler to step aside and let your customers into your store, they will threaten to break your windows, attack you, harass your customers,” said Doc Von Lichtenberg, owner of Doc’s Leathers. “Most merchants are scared out of their minds to ask someone to move along and stop blocking their door.”

  4. Sorry no links to this but:
    Today on CTV Morning News they had Scott (Beer and Popcorn) Reid to comment on the current Meetings among the Harper Cabinet.
    As usual no counterpoint was offered to the Harper bashing tool …. just complacent head nodding and knowing smirks from the on air interviewer.
    According to Reid ..
    “Canadians Don’t Like Harper! Harper needs to hide from Canadians! Dion is in a very good position because of this!”
    Similar scene with Heather Hiscox on CBC who interviewed some female lib sycophant…….
    On and on goes the MSM lib love in!

  6. Here’s one for all of us chuckling at SDA’s “Tony Blair’s Britain” series on the UK surveillance state.
    US DOLES OUT BILLIONS FOR CCTV CAMERAS
    http://tinyurl.com/2pyy36
    “WASHINGTON — The Department of Homeland Security is funneling millions of dollars to local governments nationwide for purchasing high-tech video camera networks, accelerating the rise of a “surveillance society” in which the sense of freedom that stems from being anonymous in public will be lost, privacy rights advocates warn.
    Article Tools
    Since 2003, the department has handed out some $23 billion in federal grants to local governments for equipment and training to help combat terrorism. Most of the money paid for emergency drills and upgrades to basic items, from radios to fences. But the department also has doled out millions on surveillance cameras, transforming city streets and parks into places under constant observation.””

  7. The US government is on a ‘burning platform’ of unsustainable policies and practices with fiscal deficits, chronic healthcare underfunding, immigration and overseas military commitments threatening a crisis if action is not taken soon, the country’s top government inspector has warned.
    David Walker, comptroller general of the US, issued the unusually downbeat assessment of his country’s future in a report that lays out what he called “chilling long-term simulations”.
    These include “dramatic” tax rises, slashed government services and the large-scale dumping by foreign governments of holdings of US debt.
    Drawing parallels with the end of the Roman empire, Mr Walker warned there were “striking similarities” between America’s current situation and the factors that brought down Rome, including “declining moral values and political civility at home, an over-confident and over-extended military in foreign lands and fiscal irresponsibility by the central government”.
    “Sound familiar?” Mr Walker said. “In my view, it’s time to learn from history and take steps to ensure the American Republic is the first to stand the test of time.”
    http://www.ft.com/cms/s/80fa0a2c-49ef-11dc-9ffe-0000779fd2ac.html

  8. Posted by: WL Manckenzie Redux at August 14, 2007 11:00 AM
    Is this the poster formerly known as WL Mackenzie Redux.

  9. For all the hype and guessing that the media is doing to ‘plot’ Harper’s new cabinet I hope they end up with serious mudpie on their smug faces. The only change I would like to see is Bev Oda replaced with someone with backbone. The best however would be NO CHANGES just to stick it to the media.

  10. Courtesy of cbc’s Julie Van Dolten..’no one but PMSH and Ian Brodie know who will go where..or he may have whispered it to his cat’..also,commented that the MP’s arrived at PMSH residence..and she is spitting this out in staccato tone..in ‘their limousines,with their blacked out windows’
    I watched all the coverage,on the major news networks..saw majority of these Ministers commenting to the media,from the front seat,of what looked to me like a Chev.Impala..I also noted the Dodge medallion on one vehicle..looked like a black mini-van..but it did have darkened windows!Gee,I guess all you Impala/Dodge minivan drivers have been upgraded to LIMO status..better adjust your insurance coverage accordingly!
    And they wonder why we hate them!OMMAG,I saw the ‘Popcorn’ boy as well,and thot exact thots you shared..but to me,there is no more hateful “reporter” than that dolt I just mentioned..I think she’s just pi**ed off at having to cut short her taxpayer funded vacation,as she hasn’t been on news for weeks.

  11. For those living in Calgary. The “Al Gore is a Warm-monger” billboard bought by Oswald Czolgosz is located on Barlow Trail near 32 Ave.
    Here’s a nice picture of it.
    http://www.dustmybroom.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/gorestruth_calgary.jpg
    And I’d just like to include part of the email I received from Oswald (if I had been drinking coffee I would have shot it out my nose):
    An Inconvenient Fact – Gore served endangered Chilean Sea Bass at his daughter’s wedding last month in Beverly Hills. He demanded a recount of the fish to learn if they really are endangered. Florida surfer Dude “Hangin’ Chad” is in charge of the recount. Then Gore bought “fish offsets” to feel less guilty from the company that sells “carbon offsets” – the one he himself owns.

  12. tomax7 Just to clarify. The panhandler attack occured in Toronto. The victim that was brutally murdered was from St. Catharines,a city about 45 minutes down the road. This attack occured in a “trendy” part of town, near the tourist district. And no wonder Toronto’s tourist industry has tanked.

  13. On my way to Ottowa last Sat I saw a trailer in Deseronto with the Warrior Society board on it saying
    ‘Free 20 innocent in Afghanistand and Shawn Brant’
    How do those two go together is beyond me.
    Padilla’s name was more logical on the left side of the equasion.

  15. Lets not make Britains present our future.
    DOCTORS GIVE IN TO MUSLIMS (Daily Express)
    Monday August 13,2007
    By Tom Fullerton
    DOCTORS and health workers have been banned from eating lunch at their desks – in case it offends their Muslim colleagues.
    Health chiefs believe the sight of food will upset Muslim workers when they are celebrating the religious festival Ramadan.
    The lunch trolley is also to be wheeled out of bounds as the 30-day fast begins next month.
    But staff and politicians branded the move political correctness gone mad and warned that it was a step too far.
    Bill Aitken, the Scottish Conservative justice spokesman, said: “This advice, well-meaning as it may be, is total nonsense.
    “It is the sort of thing that can stir up resentment rather than result in good relations.”
    The new guidance comes in the wake of the failed terror attacks on Glasgow and the death of suspect Kafeel Ahmed, 27.
    Health chiefs in Lothian and Glasgow will give all employees time off to pray and to celebrate Eid, which marks the end of Ramadan.
    But Greater Glasgow and Clyde as well as Lothian NHS boards also issued the advice, warning workers not to take working lunches, and said all vending machines should be removed from areas where Muslims work.
    One senior consultant said: “What next? Are we going to have advice on how to deal with Catholics during Lent?
    “This kind of thing does more harm than good.”
    The guidance, which was sent round many organisations, was produced by Glasgow consultancy Meem, which advises on Muslim issues and counts the Scottish Parliament among its clients.

  16. Rough panhandlers are nothing new in Toronto Tomax7. They get pretty much free rein. I’ve stared down a few in my time (before I moved back to civilization), but then like all carrion eaters they don’t take on the healthy males and they only attack in packs.
    Just bust up one of these creeps and see how long your picture stays on the front page of the Toronto (Red) Star.

  18. This guy reviews Robert Spencer’s new book – Religion of Peace? Why Christianity is and Islam isn’t– and shreds post-reality leftards in the process.
    Christianity Sucks and Islam is Awesome?
    By Doug Giles
    Saturday, August 11, 2007
    Excerpt:
    So chill, you shrill shredders of Christianity.
    On the flip side, it is within the pages of the Koran to convert, conquer or kill non-Islamic people. And I’m a thinkin’ that no matter how much you work to besmirch Christianity and misinform on behalf of militant Islam, that if they had it their way, you, the secularist, would be a deceased grease stain on God’s green earth.
    Therefore, gay guy, loosen that neckerchief and relax on the anti-Christian rhetoric, okay? Atheists, dial down and go back to studying monkeys (or whatever you do) and secularists, switch to decaf and exhale because you guys are barking up the wrong tree in trying to paint Christians as a coercive, could-be-violent, cabal like, militant Islam.
    Radical Muslims, on the other hand, are the ones you need to sweat—because their book has zero tolerance for the likes of Sully and Jay—or anyone for that matter, who doesn’t lock step. You can bet your backside that if uncut Islam were in charge, Christopher Hitchens would be history, Drew Barrymore would be nevermore and Andrew Sullivan would never be seen again.
    The Judeo-Christian worldview (and subsequently, the great western traditions it under girds) is the only powerful cudgel in existence to ward off militant Islam. That’s what makes the Left’s lies about Christ’s Church and the Left’s desires to diminish it so diabolical. If the church’s presence and power gets marginalized via these secularists’s anti-Christian propaganda, then all I’ve got to say is, “I hope everyone is cool with wearing burkhas.”
    @ townhall.com
    Among the books many revelations: Timothy McVeigh was an athiest. Oops. Leftards lose another debating point.

  19. Did you know that CBC’s Julie Van Dusen who has an absolute HATE of all things Conservative is the SISTER of CPAC’s Peter Van Dusen who ALSO has a HATE for all things Conservative?
    Do you think this brother/sister Liberal insider political pundit tag team just MAY owe their good old Liberal friends for all the yummy career building LEAKS and inside gossip which they are now deprived of because of the big bad SECRETIVE Harper Conservatives who don’t throw media dogs their nice juicy career building bones?

  20. irwin daisy – yes, it’s political correctness gone awry – but, a biased political correctness! After all, if these people are defining themselves as evil for eating during ramadan, while their Muslim co-workers are not eating, then, shouldn’t restaurants be banned for serving bacon and eggs -after all, Jews and Muslims can’t eat bacon.
    And shouldn’t restaurants be banned for serving roast beef on Fridays – after all, Catholics can’t eat meat on Fridays.
    And then, there are the vegetarians…
    By the way – with regard to your second post and its insert on atheism – I’m an atheist, and no, I don’t study monkeys. It is quite possible for an atheist to reject Islamic fascism, you know.

  22. Scruton is a conservative….-
    “Nevertheless, there is surely an important truth concealed within Nietzsche’s wild generalisations. Resentment remains a fundamental component in our social emotions, and it is widely prevalent in modern societies. The 20th century was the century of resentment. How else do you explain the mass murders of the communists and the Nazis, the seething animosities of Lenin and Hitler, the genocides of Mao and Pol Pot? The ideas and emotions behind the totalitarian movements of the 20th century are targeted: they identify a class of enemy whose privileges and property have been unjustly acquired. Religion plays no real part in the ensuing destruction, and indeed is usually included among the targets.”
    The sacred and the human
    Today’s atheist polemics ignore the main insight of the anthropology of religion—that religion is not primarily about God, but about the human need for the sacred. As René Girard argues, religion is not the cause of violence, but the solution to it
    Roger Scruton
    It is not surprising that decent, sceptical people, observing the revival in our time of superstitious cults, the conflict between secular freedoms and religious edicts, and the murderousness of radical Islamism, should be receptive to the anti-religious polemics of Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens and others. The “sleep of reason” has brought forth monsters, just as Goya foretold in his engraving. How are we to rectify this, except through a wake-up call to reason, of the kind that the evangelical atheists are now shouting from their pulpits?
    What is a little more surprising is the extent to which religion is caricatured by its current opponents, who seem to see in it nothing more than a system of unfounded beliefs about the cosmos—beliefs that, to the extent that they conflict with the scientific worldview, are heading straight for refutation. Thus Hitchens, in his relentlessly one-sided diatribe God is Not Great, writes: “One must state it plainly. Religion comes from the period of human prehistory where nobody… had the smallest idea what was going on. It comes from the bawling and fearful infancy of our species, and is a babyish attempt to meet our inescapable demand for knowledge (as well as comfort, reassurance and other infantile needs).”
    Hitchens is an intelligent and widely read man who recognises that the arguments most useful to him were well known 200 years ago. …-
    http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/article_details.php?id=9708

  23. Did you know that dear old Craig Oliver, who turns 70 years old next year is LEGALLY BLIND!!!!
    Ever wondered why he does not seem to have his facts right. He can no longer read!!! and ad libs everything from memory.
    He told a class of Concordia journalist students last February that he can see shapes and colours, but can’t read or make out details.
    He says he wasn’t always handicapped in this way, and doesn’t recommend starting a broadcast career in this condition.
    He broke the audience up with his recounting of his Bureau Chief days (17 years) where he spent hours, “…barking out orders at empty chairs.”
    He once had a meeting with an MP….and thought it was another MP!!!

  24. Anyone ever peruse Wikpedia entries looking for edits of a partisan or malicious nature?
    Whenever I use the site as a reference I make a point of scanning for incongruous information or references. Apparently others are taking this more seriously! From LGF
    I wonder how seriously the operators of Wikpedia are taking this?

  25. Just got this in my e-mail. I haven’t confirmed if it’s true but if anyone has more info like what part of the sky to watch and such it would be appreciated.
    Subject: August 27th 2 moons!
    This will be an awesome sight to behold! It will definitely be neat to see.
    Two moons on August 27th, the whole world is waiting for it.
    Planet Mars will be the brightest in the night sky starting August.
    It will look as large as the full moon to the naked eye.
    This will cultivate on Aug. 27 when Mars comes within 34.65M miles of earth.
    Be sure to watch the sky on Aug. 27 12:30 am.
    It will look like the earth has 2 Moons.
    The next time Mars may come this close is in 2287.
    Share this with your friends as NO ONE ALIVE TODAY will ever see it
    again. End.

  29. Re: banning eating lunch in front of Muslim co-workers during Ramadan.
    Banning it is wrong. But…. I think generally it’s poor manners and inconsiderate to gorge myself in front of my co-workers who are fasting. So I try to slip off during my breaks.
    My Muslim co-workers who do fast (not all of them do) are cool with it if they do see me eat a little something, because they understand that my specialized healhty diet involves eating numerous small meals throughout the day.
    A little consideration both ways, and there’s no problems.

  30. …Mars is a hoax? OMG! Does this mean Global Warming is real then?
    😉
    Yeah, thank God for snopes.com
    I don’t want to stop and count the number of emails I get from ‘concerned citizens’.

  32. “my specialized healhty diet involves eating numerous small meals throughout the day.”
    …mine too – seafood.
    😉
    beer, beer, beer, beer…
    (…dang! can’t get that song outta me head now)

  34. Re the Ramadan & fasting and banning eating crap.
    Muslims still eat every day once the sun goes down during Ramadan. So wha’t the big deal? It’s not like they’re going a long period of time without eating. Hell, I fasted for 48 hours back in highschoold to raise money for famine relief. Big freakin deal.

  35. Barking? Moonbats? Full moonbats?
    Did ya hear about the three-legged dog who hobbled into a bar?
    …-
    Rally for suspended humane society officer ignites debate on ‘archaic’ laws
    TORONTO (CP) – An animal cruelty investigator’s actions are under review after he handcuffed the owner of a dying Rottweiler to his SUV and left him there while he rushed the dog to hospital.
    (canoe news)

  37. Re: Fasting sensitivity garbage
    The whole point of fasting is to have some sort of personal suffering, at least that’s what I was taught as a Catholic. What is the point of refraining from eating if it is easy? If you (as a faster) are offended that someone else is eating I would question the motives behind your fasting in the first place. Are you doing it for the right religious or personal reason, or simply so you can look at other people and say “I’m better than you because I’m not eating.”?
    Or are you offended because your religion tells you that other religions should be looked down upon?

  38. …difference between a religion and a Christian belief/lifestyle.
    Matthew 6:1-18
    “Be careful not to do your ‘acts of righteousness’ before men, to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven”
    17 But thou, when thou fastest, anoint thine head, and wash thy face;
    “18 That thou appear not unto men to fast, but unto thy Father which is in secret: and thy Father, which seeth in secret, shall reward thee openly.”
    —————-
    Fasting is to be done in secret, the purpose of fasting should be to take your eyes off the things of this world, and instead focus on God. Fasting is a way to demonstrate to God, and to yourself, that you are serious about your relationship with Him. Fasting helps you to gain a new perspective and a renewed reliance upon God.
    http://www.gotquestions.org/fasting-Christian.html

  39. Calgary Grit got a poll on best premiers! Same internet polling as the fruit fly guy. Delete cookies, set privacy to accept no cookies and vote away! Stupid is as stupid does.

  40. Islam: The Mother of All Darkness.
    The mass demonstration in Jakarta on Sunday in favour of the establishment of the caliphate (khilafah) is proof, if indeed any proof were needed, that the world is in grave danger of being dragged back into a ’New Dark Age’!
    People, sceptics, liberals, politicians, and leaders in our establishments can deny what is plain to see; but they would be foolish to do so. Our world is polarizing before our very eyes. To fail to observe what a blind man could see is tantamount to playing fast and loose with the future of our civilization, tantamount to playing fast and loose with liberty, equality, and democracy.
    If Islam won the day and a caliphate were indeed established, the world would be become bi-polar. The West would then be faced with an enemy of great dimension. As I stated in my book, The Dawning of a New Dark Age, an iron veil would have to be dropped between our two worlds, and this would have to be so for our own survival and safety. The concept of globalization will be effete: it will be of no more; the concept will become exhausted.
    Make no mistake about it, a world dominated by Islam will be a world enveloped in darkness. Political thought will come to a grinding halt; so will creative thought, scientific thinking, and much else besides.
    Islam is not conducive to scientific thinking because it stifles freedom and creativity in thought. Prophet Muhammad might well have stated, “Go in quest of knowledge even unto China”, but there should have been a cautionary addendum: If the knowledge you come back with contradicts Islam, you will be beheaded!
    more @ librabunda.blogspot.com/

  41. My G*d Reid, thanks (I guess) for the read about the cops putting down an armed attacker and the bleeding hearts comments. I am always amazed at how these latte sippers can come to a conclusion with out even being there. This was not an irritated cyclist with his 10 speed bike chain. This misguided soul had a rap sheet as long as your arm and wasn’t going to stop even if you said please.
    This reminds me of the cop who got knifed while trying to get a drunk from outside the front door of his family in Calgary. Yeah, the family called because they were scared of their own kin, the cop gets knifed and uses deadly force to subdue the attacker and ends up facing months of inquiery. BTW, the cop was alone when he arrived on scene. Heck, they even threw the race card out there. Can you imagine what Joe sixpack would have faced if he had pulled the trigger? The law and the general attitude in Canada seems to favour the misguided criminal and not the victim. Time for more basketball courts, I guess.

  42. My G*d Reid, thanks (I guess) for the read about the cops putting down an armed attacker and the bleeding hearts comments. I am always amazed at how these latte sippers can come to a conclusion with out even being there. This was not an irritated cyclist with his 10 speed bike chain. This misguided soul had a rap sheet as long as your arm and wasn’t going to stop even if you said please.
    This reminds me of the cop who got knifed while trying to get a drunk from outside the front door of his family in Calgary. Yeah, the family called because they were scared of their own kin, the cop gets knifed and uses deadly force to subdue the attacker and ends up facing months of inquiery. BTW, the cop was alone when he arrived on scene. Heck, they even threw the race card out there. Can you imagine what Joe sixpack would have faced if he had pulled the trigger? The law and the general attitude in Canada seems to favour the misguided criminal and not the victim. Time for more basketball courts, I guess.

  43. My G*d Reid, thanks (I guess) for the read about the cops putting down an armed attacker and the bleeding hearts comments. I am always amazed at how these latte sippers can come to a conclusion with out even being there. This was not an irritated cyclist with his 10 speed bike chain. This misguided soul had a rap sheet as long as your arm and wasn’t going to stop even if you said please.
    This reminds me of the cop who got knifed while trying to get a drunk from outside the front door of his family in Calgary. Yeah, the family called because they were scared of their own kin, the cop gets knifed and uses deadly force to subdue the attacker and ends up facing months of inquiery. BTW, the cop was alone when he arrived on scene. Heck, they even threw the race card out there. Can you imagine what Joe sixpack would have faced if he had pulled the trigger? The law and the general attitude in Canada seems to favour the misguided criminal and not the victim. Time for more basketball courts, I guess.

  46. “When historians write about the years 2000-2008, they will gasp at the expense, at the squandering, at the obstinate naiveté and failures of intelligence (of every kind) and of imagination. They will be amazed at the lack of ability of the people in charge to comprehend, to articulate, to instruct, and to protect. They will be flabbergasted at the trillion dollars wasted, at the great damage done to the morale of the military and to its capability, at a time of peril. They will not understand why nothing started to be done, then, about the campaigns of Daw’a and the slow but seemingly inexorable (it is not inexorable, it can be halted, and it can be reversed, but this requires a recognition of the problem and an intelligent awareness of what is at stake, and what is permissible – (see the Benes Decree of 1946 for a guide) considering the demographic conquest of the heart of the West — Europe.
    The historians will compare the failure of our leaders, or rather, of those “taking a leadership role” — with the intelligent awareness, and acts of mass auto-didacticism, whereby many, including those who come to this website, have begun to undertake their own study of Islam, because they sense the discrepancy between what they are told in the press and on television and by their “taking-leadership-role” leaders, and what they see all about them, if they are not deaf, and dumb, and blind.
    The political class, the ruling classes, the elites all over the West have failed. They failed when, without study or thought, they began some thirty years ago to let in Muslim migrants. They failed when they continued to avert their eyes from what such migration meant for the indigenous Infidels, their legal and political institutions, their freedoms, their art, their free inquiry, their physical safety. They failed for all kinds of reasons. Stupidity, cupidity, timidity – the Esdrujula Explanation that has been put up here many times. They will not be forgiven by posterity. So many things, now so difficult to deal with, could have been so easily avoided in the first place, had intelligence been properly applied.
    Future historians will sum it up this way:
    Never have so few done so much damage to so many.”
    – From an essay by Hugh Fitzgerald.
    Mere speculation or observable truth?

  47. Kate:did you read the Michael Smyth interview with Sen. Larry Campbell out here on the left coast?The Province,sundat,aug.12.

  49. “By the way – with regard to your second post and its insert on atheism – I’m an atheist, and no, I don’t study monkeys. It is quite possible for an atheist to reject Islamic fascism, you know.”
    ET,
    I didn’t write it, I only posted it.
    Jimbo,
    the question is about accommodating Muslims at all in their fast at Ramadan, or any other time for that matter. This is our country, our culture and our rules. Any accommodation outside of the ordinary is bowing to dhimmification. They can excuse themselves if they are offended. With any luck, permanently.
    I for one don’t give a rat’s ass about any fast made to a murderous devil god, made-up by an illiterate pedophile, institutionalized in a fascist ideology.

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