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  1. Dhimmitude in Vancouver…..
    Vancouver’s hookah-parlour owners are celebrating after winning an exemption Thursday from a proposed new bylaw that will ban smoking on most sidewalks in commercial districts, in bus shelters and even in taxis passing through Vancouver.
    In giving the bylaw unanimous approval-in-principle, Vancouver city council members bowed to arguments that hookah lounges provide an important cultural space for the city’s Muslims and granted them a temporary exemption…

  2. “Among the dead was journalist Kenji Nagai of the Japanese video news agency APF News. Japanese broadcaster Fuji posted a photo on its Web site showing a man believed to be Nagai lying on his back — apparently wounded in the chest but holding a video camera in his hand — with a soldier pointing a gun at him at point-blank range.”
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070927.wmyanmar0927/BNStory/International/home?cid=al_gam_mostview

  3. Growing the Liberal Lexicon
    Stephane Dion came out swinging today when talking about the Throne Speech. Here’s his daisy-cutter-sized zinger:
    “This hidden agenda will be stopped”
    Wow. Hidden Agenda. That’s fresher than the apples on the slopes of Oka. And it got me thinking, there’s a whole slew of expressions that Stephane Dion should resurrect to keep his rhetoric young and punchy. So, here’s my contribution….
    Bling-Bling. Don’t call it a surplus, call it “bling-bling”. As in, “you know, a Liberal government would know exactly how to spend all that bling-bling.”
    Hammer Time. …
    Not. … etc
    …-
    https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17821047&postID=6189334779889385941
    Springer said: “Listening to Dion today, as he waved pages from Tom Flanigan’s book, crying “dis is prooof of ‘arper’s ‘idden hagenda!”
    “Excuse my french but, …”

  6. OMMAG posted on the Flight 93 Crescent of Betrayal.
    This thing’s not dead?!! I thought a new design had been chosen and was moving forward? WTF?
    Here’s a couple more links on it.
    errortheory.blogspot.com
    crescentofbetrayal.com This is a pre-release manuscript of a book on the subject.
    This is A Big Deal for the Americans. Get going boys.

  7. Sharia banks. Hmmmm.
    So which limb do I lose if I miss a payment on the loan I took out with them?
    Just wondering.

  8. http://www.torontosun.com/News/Columnists/Goldstein_Lorrie/2007/09/27/4529837.php
    Folks, he’s clearly a hoax
    By LORRIE GOLDSTEIN
    What follows is my personal expression of gratitude to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for his many contributions to the field of Holocaust studies …
    Ladies and gentlemen, allow me to welcome you to the opening of our three-day international conference to consider the question of whether Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad actually exists and whether his recent trip to New York ever happened.
    Of course, even by raising these issues in the most scientific and objective way possible, we already know what the reaction of many of our fellow citizens will be.
    They will say how dare we question whether President Ahmadinejad exists and whether his trip to New York happened, because the historical record is incontrovertible.
    […]

  9. The King & King – queer tales for Grade 2 kids.
    http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,298307,00.html
    A fairy tale about two princes falling in love sparked a backlash — and a lawsuit — against a teacher and a school last year when it was read to a second-grade class in Massachusetts.
    But the three frontrunners in the Democratic presidential race suggested Wednesday night at their debate in New Hampshire that they’d support reading the controversial book to children as part of a school curriculum.

  11. Tomax.
    Two fairy princes falling in love in Massachusetts? Sounds like everyday life in that state to me.

  12. …would you let this guy operate on you?
    http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,298278,00.html
    RICHMOND, Va. — A controversial leader of a U.S. Muslim group resigned from a Virginia state board hours after Gov. Tim Kaine learned during a radio call-in show about incendiary comments the appointee made about Israel, Islam and U.S. foreign policy.
    Dr. Esam Omeish, who is a top surgeon at a Washington, D.C., area hospital, also is seen in videos found on YouTube.com that show him advocating “the jihad way,” decrying the Israeli invasion last year of Lebanon, and calling for President Bush’s impeachment.

  14. It’s cracks, not clacks. Crackup, not clackup.
    Citoyen Dion is cracking up.
    Canadian Press, aka CP, is leading the mutiny. …-
    Liberal rift widens as members criticize Dion and a top aide
    OTTAWA – Stephane Dion and his palace guard were under attack on two fronts from Quebec members of his own Liberal party on Thursday.
    Several MPs and senators demanded that the Liberal leader dismiss one of his closest aides over alleged remarks about Quebec.
    And a candidate who was set to run for the party called The Canadian Press without any prompting – saying he was asked to do so by a well-known Liberal – and announced he was no longer interested.
    Paul Leduc, a three-term mayor of a large Montreal suburb, says that he’s changed his mind about running for the Liberals and that one of the party’s household names provided him with phone numbers for journalists and urged him to go public with his story.
    The former Brossard mayor had been endorsed in April by the Liberals’ provincial election commission to run without a contested nomination – but he said Dion kept him cooling his heels all summer.
    “I never heard any news from Mr. Dion or his entourage,” Leduc said.
    “A leader who doesn’t follow a recommendation, I call that inaction and indecision and it’s a lack of respect not only for me, but also for the commission, and for members of my riding.” …-
    http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2007/09/27/4531590-cp.html

  16. He comes across as hot-tempered and emotionally unstable. Not necessarily what we’d look for in a first lady.
    google it

  17. Hi Kate
    Cant Post this to
    Censorship At Columbia
    Notice how many fewer human transported bombs have been exploded in Israeli pizza parlors since the weapons of mass destruction were not found in Iraq.

  19. Citoyen Dion leads the crackup.
    …-
    Confidence in Dion reaches crisis level
    Chantal Hébert
    Big parties are like big ships. They are designed to be virtually unsinkable but once they start taking on water they tend to go down quickly.
    The listing Liberal Party of Canada is fast approaching the point of no return.
    Over a bit more than a week, the cracks caused by a triple by-election hit have expanded into a gaping hole. …-
    http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/261488

  20. PM Harper as matador preparing the political kill while Citoyen Dion stands, head down, contemplating his Hobbesian choice: now, or later.
    Politics is a blood sport.
    …-
    Two unpalatable choices for Dion
    Before the bull dies, he bleeds.
    First, the passes with the cape, then the picadors, ultimately the sword.
    The matador almost always administers the coup de grace when the bull has moved out of his querencia, the place in the ring in which he has decided to make his stand. To dispatch a bull while he is still in his querencia is very dangerous work.
    Even political matadors understand that principle. Sword in hand, Stephen Harper is about to tease Stephane Dion out of his comfort zone. As isolated as a doomed bull, Dion has just two choices left: Now or later. …-
    http://www.ottawasun.com/News/Columnists/Harris_Michael/2007/09/28/4532672.html

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