The founder of The Weather Channel doesn’t mince words.
Age of consent mandatory. Celibacy vow at the discretion of the Archdiocese.
Why the Violence is Down in Iraq (Interviews with Senior Military Officials) at theLong War Journal.
Your Friday thread starts here.
Who’s your favourite foreign politician today?
Notice the tricky wording of the question, which allows me to dodge the problem of not choosing Prime Minister Stephen Harper of the Dominion of Canada, whose government I have been quite satisfied with lately (given that we can’t really completely get rid of government in the first place, and then allowing for the huge Henrys per Ohm values involved in steering the course of the ship of state).
So with that out of the way, I present for you my choice for the answer to the question: M. le President Nicolas Paul Stéphane Sarközy de Nagy-Bocsa of the Republic of France.
Cribbed from Wikipedia: M. Sarkozy is the son of a Hungarian immigrant father, Pál Sárközy de Nagy-Bócsa, and a mother of French and Ottoman Sephardic Jewish descent, Andrée Mallah. Pál Sárközy was born in 1928 in Budapest into a family belonging to the lower nobility of Hungary. The family possessed lands and a small castle in the village of Alattyán, near Szolnok, 92 km (57 miles) east of Budapest. Pál Sárközy’s father and grandfather held elective offices in the town of Szolnok. Although the Sárközy de Nagy-Bócsa family was Protestant, Pál Sárközy’s mother, Katalin Tóth de Csáford, grandmother of Nicolas Sarkozy, was from a Catholic aristocratic family.
For those of you keeping score at home, the ethno-cultural history of the current President of France is Hungarian Ottoman Protestant Jewish Catholic lower-nobility immigrant. And he’s the President of France. This must be driving the pure wool people nuts 😉
M. Sarkozy’s legacy has seen a lot of oppression, a lot of freedom, a lot of honest men, and a lot of shysters. With that in mind, I recommend to you M. Sarkozy’s address this week to the Congress of the United States of America:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlt2GE4EYo4
H. L. Mencken said, “Government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office. Their principal device to that end is to search out groups who pant and pine for something they can’t get and to promise to give it to them. Nine times out of ten that promise is worth nothing. The tenth time is made good by looting A to satisfy B. In other words, government is a broker in pillage, and every election is sort of an advance auction sale of stolen goods”.
I haven’t changed my opinion about that; assuming it is true: it remains up to us to pick the best auctioneer. I’d vote for Sarkozy.
The first link won’t load.
Solar energy driven (Carbon-free!) web hosting:
http://www.floatingworld.ca/content/view/72/
Does anyone ever ask how much CO2 is produced during the manufacture of all the bits that go into making ‘carbon free’ widgets? What is the carbon return on investment curve look like? Should we just have a nuclear plant drive the web hosting environment, instead of driving all the plants that make the materials and components that go into a carbon free solution? Just wondering…
Just read one about JOHN TRAVOLTAS new 707 and this wack is blabbering about this global warming poppycock bull kaka what a pathetic hypotcrit and all around pain in my tail feathers SQUAWK SQUAWK
“It is a SCAM. Some dastardly scientists with environmental and political motives manipulated long term scientific data to create an allusion of rapid global warming.” By John Coleman
Now quoting a TV weatherman. Oh Kate, that is funny.
“Age of consent mandatory. Celibacy vow at the discretion of the Archdiocese.”
Within the context of only 2% of convicted female pedophiles ever serving jail and 49 out of 50 Canadian federal inmates being male I have to say:
YES!!!!! YES!!!!!! SCORE ONE FOR THE BOYS!!!!
43% of pedophiles are women.
Alby just for you I will use a Homer Simpsonism…
Temperature go up, Temperature go down, Temperature go up, Temperature go down, Temperature go up, Temperature go down…..
I hope you get the picture and stop flogging this dead horse.
No Joe, a horse would be a big dead animal.
Weird thing is….i know Father Dohey. Not on a personal level, but he’s celebrated masses that i’ve been to before. It’s a little disconcerting, to say the least. I was surprised when I heard the allegations and a little angry that this is still going on. In Newfoundland, the spectre of sexual abuse at the Mount Cashel orphanage by the Christian Brothers is still quite a haunting one, after all these years. Nowadays, a supermarket stands on the location where the orphanage used to be but the memories of the scandal are still quite vivid for many.
Amen Mark. As a Catholic convert, I’m devastated when I hear of this type of thing. Let me speak for all faith-loving Catholics out there, of our hope for the truth to be revealed in this situation, for justice to be wrought upon those guilty of doing wrong, and for healing upon those wounded by not only the direct harm caused to them, but for those who are scandalized and upset at yet another allegation of this nature.
This is not our Church, and not our God, that does these horrible deeds. For those who have been wronged in this way by members of our clergy, we the faithful offer our apologies and pray for your healing.
Wild sounding Reverand Robertson Rant ..
Then Secretary of State Colin Powell echoed the president’s remarks when he told a State Department audience, *This kind of hatred must be rejected.* The director of the American Jewish Committee called Robertson’s *Nazi* omment *outrageous.*
On his *700 Club* program, Robertson has repeatedly defamed Islam and Muslims. He called Muslims *satanic,* claimed the Quran, Islam’s revealed text, is *fraudulent* and said Islam is *a monumental scam.* Robertson also called the Prophet Muhammad *an absolute wild-eyed fanatic, a robber and a brigand…a killer* and said the goal of Islam is *world domination.*
He called Islam the *religion of the slavers,* claimed Americans who convert to Islam exhibit *insanity* and said he would be *wary of appointing Muslims to positions in the U.S. government, including judgeships.*
In announcing his endorsement of Giuliani, Robertson referred to the *bloodlust of Islamic terrorists.*
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Careful, one can easily become worked up and call for a Hangin* posse for Robertson.
It may be wise to check each Roberton anti-Muslim claim against the papers of the brilliant scholar, Winston Churchill.
Colin and Bush are decent enough in their indignation, but I suspect they never had time to do the research.
I am no fan of Rev. Robertson or of any religion, yet comparing Robertson notes to Churchill notes, all points seem to ring true.
Many a poor soul who spoke the shocking truth through history have been tarred and feathered and worse.
Robertson could have used more moderate words like, *Americans who convert to Islam are uninformed, rather than using *insanity*. = TG
Wild sounding Reverand Robertson Rant ..
Then Secretary of State Colin Powell echoed the president’s remarks when he told a State Department audience, *This kind of hatred must be rejected.* The director of the American Jewish Committee called Robertson’s *Nazi* omment *outrageous.*
On his *700 Club* program, Robertson has repeatedly defamed Islam and Muslims. He called Muslims *satanic,* claimed the Quran, Islam’s revealed text, is *fraudulent* and said Islam is *a monumental scam.* Robertson also called the Prophet Muhammad *an absolute wild-eyed fanatic, a robber and a brigand…a killer* and said the goal of Islam is *world domination.*
He called Islam the *religion of the slavers,* claimed Americans who convert to Islam exhibit *insanity* and said he would be *wary of appointing Muslims to positions in the U.S. government, including judgeships.*
In announcing his endorsement of Giuliani, Robertson referred to the *bloodlust of Islamic terrorists.*
==================== NewsMax.com
Careful, one can easily become worked up and call for a Hangin* posse for Robertson.
It may be wise to check each Roberton anti-Muslim claim against the papers of the brilliant scholar, Winston Churchill.
Colin and Bush are decent enough in their indignation, but I suspect they never had time to do the research.
I am no fan of Rev. Robertson or of any religion, yet comparing Robertson notes to Churchill notes, all points seem to ring true.
Many a poor soul who spoke the shocking truth through history have been tarred and feathered and worse.
Robertson could have used more moderate words like, *Americans who convert to Islam are uninformed, rather than using *insanity*. = TG
Heidi Cullen, The Weather Channel nut case — her blog is virtual war !! For awhile now. She will get lambasted by hundreds and hundreds of very qualified people.
This one by her is typical. It recieved 1100 replies;
An excerpt from the original post from Dr. Cullen on Dec 18, 2006.
“Meteorologists are among the few people trained in the sciences who are permitted regular access to our living rooms. And in that sense, they owe it to their audience to distinguish between solid, peer-reviewed science and junk political controversy. If a meteorologist can’t speak to the fundamental science of climate change, then maybe the AMS shouldn’t give them a Seal of Approval. Clearly, the AMS doesn’t agree that global warming can be blamed on cyclical weather patterns. It’s like allowing a meteorologist to go on-air and say that hurricanes rotate clockwise and tsunamis are caused by the weather. It’s not a political statement…it’s just an incorrect statement.”
read the post here, including the 1100 + comments
http://www.theronhatch.com/blog/icontact/2007/01/heidi_cullens_blog_receives_gl_1.html
Got a double posting error message.. Nothing there.
Second try = 2 comments. Sorry. = TG
An Act of Kindness from Iraq
Iraqi Army officers in Besmaya raised a thousand dollars in donations for fire victims in San Diego, California, and the only place that seems to have reported the story is the military blog OPFOR.
Author Richard S. Lowry learned about it in a press release from the Multi-National Security Transition Command-Iraq Public Affairs, so it’s unlikely he’s the only one in the media who knows something about it.
MichaelTotten.com
UPDATE: CNN now has the story on their Web site. Good for them. = TG
Vitruvius: Henrys per Ohm? WTF? What does that measure? Or were you just being arch?
CANADA GREATEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD – FOR PEDOPHILES
From 580CFRA Web
“Man Wanted in Thailand Granted Bail in BC
Josh Pringle
Friday, November 9, 2007
A provincial court judge in British Columbia has granted bail to a Canadian man wanted in Thailand on child sex charges.
Orville Mader has been ordered to stay 300 metres from parks, libraries or any other public place where a child under 14 may be present.
The 54-year-old man is also not allowed to have a computer or cellphone where he may be able to access the Internet.
Mader was arrested at the Vancouver International Airport last week, after Thai authorities had issued an arrest warrant on allegations he molested an eight-year-old boy.”
Libs make law to prosecute people trolling for kids in other countries then install lib judges to let them go.
Librano$, aka Liberal on the lam, running from the law.
Anyone knowing the whereabouts of “Grit honcho”, please call Lib leader Citoyen Dion. …-
Grit honcho hunted
LONDON — A warrant was issued yesterday for a former Liberal riding association treasurer who failed to appear in St. Thomas court.
Suzan Pawlak, 49, is charged with 42 counts of fraud and issuing forged documents.
Treasurer of the Elgin-Middlesex-London federal Liberal association from August 2005 to April 2006, Pawlak was charged after money disappeared from the association, prompting a police investigation that lasted six months.
Pawlak moved to Toronto and was working as manager of political operations for Southwestern Ontario for the federal Liberals. …-
http://www.torontosun.com/News/Canada/2007/11/09/4642428-sun.html
“Henrys per Ohm”?
My guess is that it’s a clumsy attempt to communicate the idea of ‘inertia’ in a manner only comprehensible to another electrical engineer.
vitruvius – I fully agree with your support for Sarkozy. Quite the change from Chirac, isn’t he.
Back to my speculative-conspiracy theory. I’m suggesting that the Liberal Backroom Boys are behind the current scuffle with Mulroney-Shreiber. Yes, I’m suggesting they are advising and even funding him. And advising the Liberal MPs who are fronting the issue in the House. After all, why is this issue coming up now?
Their agenda is to take the MSM focus off Dion, and above all, try to smear Harper and the CPC. They can’t find anything on Harper. Or the CPC. So, they are trying the Proverbial Link by dredging up Mulroney, who is not CPC but PC.
Nevertheless, their agenda is twofold- take the heat off Dion and try to link Harper and the CPC with a corrupt Mulroney. Impossible to do ‘de facto’ but, heck, the MSM isn’t interested in facts.
http://www.zombietime.com/gore_in_marin/al_gores_secret_message/ this from best photo blog very amusing
CBC reports on Brad Wall announcing the time of the next election. Do you think they could have picked a stupider looking picture of him?
Mao say: Blair rip off taxpayers.
Citoyen Dion rips off/plagiarises Blair.
It’s socialism’s pyramid scheme: Rip off.
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Dion to promise benefits to poor and working class
Liberal Leader Stéphane Dion will rip a page out of the Tony Blair playbook today with an election-style policy announcement that would offer tax breaks and other benefits to poor and working-class Canadians, as well as senior citizens. (national newswatch)
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China’s media scorns Blair’s £200,000 ‘cash raking’ lecture trip
By Clifford Coonan in Beijing
Published: 09 November 2007
Tony Blair earned the scorn of the Chinese media yesterday for accepting £200,000 for a three-hour spin through southern China, during which he gave a “cliched” speech and fitted in a quick jaunt around a high-class villa complex.
“Is he worth the money?” asked some Chinese newspapers and compared the former prime minister’s oratorical insights to those of a village official.
The Guangzhou Daily said the trip was simply a “money-raking” exercise and complained that China was becoming a place for celebrities and former leaders to come and cash in. The paper said it was time for Chinese sponsors to think a bit harder about who they invite to open their supermarkets and walk down their red carpets.
“We should exercise less ostentation and vanity… learn more new and genuine knowledge – especially when we are using even a cent of taxpayers’money,” the paper said. $$$$$$
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/article3143255.ece
Bruce. no they couldnt . if they had one with a swastiki in the back they would have used it. the anti Sask Party CBC coverage started the night of the coverage when they stopped showing the seat count right when the Sask Party took the lead.expect 4 years of same.
cal 2 – With any good fortune CBC will no longer exist within four years.
The billion and a half yearly of coerced tax money that feeds the leftist brute should be choked off and soon.
How about it Mr. Harper?
Use that billion and a half for stay at home mothers.
http://thechinagame.com/2007/11/08/chinese-diplomats-pressure-canadas-cbc-television-program-pulled/
Stunning (or maybe not) – CBC caves into Chinese government pressure on what to air.
The only way it can get any worse for men under socialism is if they just start rounding us up at random:
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TOUGH new rape laws which make it clear being drunk does not constitute consent have been condemned by barristers, who insist: “It will turn our sons into criminals.”
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The law will define the meaning of consent for the first time, making it clear that being drunk or under the influence of drugs does not mean consent has been given.
It will also introduce an “objective fault test”, meaning a man can no longer use the defence that he thought he had consent if the circumstances appear unreasonable.
“It will turn our sons into criminals,” new Bar Association president Anna Katzmann SC said yesterday.
“For years women have been insisting ‘No’ means ‘No’. What troubles us about this new legislation is that it introduces a new regime where ‘Yes’ may mean ‘No’.”
Ms Katzmann gave the example of a woman on a first date who might not want to have sex but after both she and the man had drunk too much said “Yes”.
The next day she feels guilty and tells her mother, who goes to the police.
“That would be rape under the new laws,” Ms Katzmann said.
http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,22726261-5001021,00.html
Ron Baul vs Bernake on Fed created stag-flation
http://tinyurl.com/35d49n
One of the most pertenent facts suppressed by the anti- Ron Paul media is that he has served 2 terms as chairman of the house banking committee and is well aware of the slight of hand the Fed reserve money-printers have pulled off….as he states to Bernake in this video.
A link for the week-end.
http://www.cdli.ca/monuments/
pax
2 Very Misleading headlines today
National NewsWatch Says: PM tells cities to Drop Dead
Link to TO Star headline: Harper rejects aid to cities
the article then goes on to say Pm “Don’t bother asking”
However,Mcguinty stated that the PM is receptive to the idea.
So receptive means No! or Don”t bother asking, He did not say that and once again we see misleading Headlines damage has been done, Who said there is no media bias.
The other point is that the meeting between the PM & Ont Premier was a 45min closed door meeting, we are going by what Mcguinty has stated leaving the meeting.
Not Mincing Words …. Good Article there and yet I find the Weather Network regularly repeating the jargon of the Suzukiists and the Gore-O-philes.
On a somewhat related note …. there is a report going around that a convoluted effort to discredit the ANTI AGW argument has been discovered.
Flares Into Darkness reports and links to investigations by bloggers into this apparent SCAM .
My question … Who has time and motivation to initiate such efforts?
Curious ……….!
Holy Hangovers
…Communion wine, in the tiny quantities the priest must drink at Mass, may now put them over the new and more severe Irish drink-drive limit. Some have three or four different villages to say Mass in, and have to travel. “”Perhaps it could be enough for you to fail a drink-driving test,” the Rev. Brian D’Arcy, a priest from Enniskillen, told the Irish Times. “I don’t like to use the word wine, as it is Christ’s blood in the Eucharist — but it still has all the characteristics of wine when in the blood stream.”
Caroline Glick, Column One: America’s Strategies for Victory and Defeat
The Battle of Iraq is nearly over. And the Americans have nearly won. Their enemies are on the run. Al-Qaida forces have lost or are losing their bases of operations. Its fighters are being killed and captured in ever increasing numbers. Iraq’s Sunni citizens, who, until recently, refused to take any part in the post-Saddam regime, are joining the army and citizens’ watch groups by the thousands.
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The numbers speak for themselves. Over the past month, some 46,000 Iraqi refugees returned home. Since May, the number of civilian casualties has decreased by 75 percent. US military casualties have also dropped precipitously after the death rate rose in recent months of hard fighting. Neighborhoods in Baghdad that had ceased to function under al-Qaida’s reign of terror have come back to life.
Businesses are reopening. People are rebuilding their homes. Even churches are reopening their doors. This is what victory looks like.
Yet the promise of Baghdad is a lone ray of light in an otherwise darkened field of failed US policies. As President George W. Bush prepares to enter his last year in office, America’s international standing is at a low point. The forces of jihad, while being defeated in Iraq, are rising everywhere else. The price of oil races toward the once inconceivable price of $100 a barrel. New jihadist mosques open daily throughout the world. Pakistan is a disaster. Iran is closing in on the bomb.
Pop Up: Canada’s ex-Liberal PM Paul Martin, Jr.
Paul Martin, Jr., forever branded as: AdScam Martin.
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Martin emerges from his party’s shadow
Former PM speaks out for aboriginals
[…]
For example, he declined to respond to comments in the recently published memoirs of his predecessor, Jean Chretien, who blamed Mr. Martin for getting Canada’s military into “the killing fields” of Kandahar, Afghanistan. Others have spoken up on his behalf, he said, referring to Janice Stein and Eugene Lang, authors of a book on how Canada wound up in Afghanistan.
Mr. Martin did respond, albeit curtly, to Mr. Chretien’s opinion that Mr. Martin should never have established the Gomery inquiry into the sponsorship scandal, one of the factors in the Liberals’ defeat.
“The answer is: I don’t regret it,” Mr. Martin said. “I believe I did the right thing.” …-
http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/canada/story.html?id=259c8e8a-8001-495d-948f-ef4c557c32d9
Completely unrelated to anything at all, here’s an amazing hack I spotted at Hack-A-Day.
http://video.google.fr/videoplay?docid=-2237947353453839215&hl=en
This guy has a pan/tilt videocam mounted on an RC airplane, feeding to a head set so the camera is controlled by his head movements. The movie is quite good, and lists all the equipment used in the credits at the end.
Off the shelf, baby. You can build anything these days.
I too am getting tired of National News Watch and their misleading headlines. Who runs that site ?
Any suggestions a Canadian news aggregator ?
Are there any other Canadian news aggregators ?
Lieberman suggests WWIII
In the stunning speech he delivered today, which I,[John Podhorertz],wrote about just below, Sen. Joseph Lieberman sheds some horrifying light on one of the issues that made last week’s Democratic presidential debate so contentious — the amendment he co-sponsored in the Senate declaring the Iran Revolutionary Guard Corps a terrorist organization for the purpose of imposing economic sanctions on the group. For her vote in the affirmative, Hillary Clinton came under withering assault from her rivals for supposedly giving President Bush a green light to attack Iran militarily.
Lieberman:
The reason for [the] amendment was clear. In September, General Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker testified before Congress about the proxy war that Iran—and in particular, the IRGC and its Quds Force subsidiary—has been waging against our troops in Iraq.
Specifically, General Petraeus told us that the IRGC Quds Force has been training, funding, equipping, arming, and in some cases directing Shiite extremists who are responsible for the murder of hundreds of American soldiers.
This charge had been corroborated by other sources….It was also consistent with nearly three decades of experience with the IRGC, which has been implicated in a range of terrorist attacks against the United States and our allies—long before the invasion of Iraq.
commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/category/contentions/
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In months past I may have suggested Bunker Busting Iran*s centrafuges, [ flippant blogger..tongue in cheek ].
Coming from US powerhouse Lieberman however, it makes one*s stomach churn.
With Russia and China ready to protect their interests, anything more than *conventinal counter measures* is loony suicide talk. = TG
Taliban Jack Layton-NDP’s allies: Islamist Taliban, aka child murderers.
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Fifty nine children dead in Afghan suicide attack
KABUL (AFP) – Afghanistan’s education ministry said Friday that a suicide attack this week had killed 59 children and five teachers, taking the death toll to 75 in the deadliest such bombing in the insurgency-hit country.
Six lawmakers and five bodyguards were also killed in the blast on Tuesday in the northern province of Baghlan, which has been free of the regular attacks by Taliban and other extremist militants that plague the south and east.
“We have got 59 school children, aged from eight to 18, and five teachers killed in that blast,” education ministry spokesman Zuhor Afghan told AFP.
Nearly 100 more children were wounded, he said.
The children, whom one official said were from the same school, had gathered to welcome a visiting delegation of parliamentarians to a sugar factory outside the town of Pul-i-Khumri, about 150 kilometres (90 miles) north of Kabul. …-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1923436/posts
The way we hear it in the media, the US economy is about to go over a cliff.
[The country remains on track to produce $50,000 in per capita GDP by 2010, up from $44,000 in 2006. The moment will be symbolically important – demonstrating that the “GDP gap” between the U.S. and the rest of the world will probably widen in the years ahead whether Americans produce the highest rates of growth or not. ] Neil Reynolds, Globe Investor.
Americans are simply a lot more productive than most. Especially Canadians.
[American GDP, however, is not simply living off its past success. In the third quarter, the BEA reported, worker productivity increased at an annual rate of 4.9 per cent (seasonally adjusted), a phenomenal showing by the statistic that heralds the rise of a country’s standard of living.
And real wages did increase sharply in the quarter – personal incomes rising by a nominal 5.8 per cent, and disposable personal incomes rising by a nominal 6.1 per cent. On an annual basis, in the past 12 months, disposable incomes – after taxes and adjusted for inflation – have increased 4 per cent, a national increase in spending money of $340-billion. (Statistically, in the quarter, higher gasoline prices appear to have had almost zero impact on the economy, in part because consumer energy consumption, per unit of GDP, has fallen 50 per cent since 1987.)]Reynolds.
IOW, if energy is expensive, Americans will simply use it more wisely — even without Maurice Strong nagging them.
[And the falling dollar?
The currency now hovers roughly where it hovered 15 years ago in the prosperous years of Bill Clinton’s presidency.] NR
Compared to all currencies. Yen, Yuan, ect. Not just the Euro and the CAD. Canada is on a roll for a few reasons 🙂
in all the toil and strife a table to make us all feel insignificant.
http://haydenplanetarium.org/universe/duguide/app_light_travel_time_dista.php
http://www.globeinvestor.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20071109.wrreynolds09/GIStory/
Today’s front page headline in the Moonbat Star:
“PM to cities: Drop dead”
Buried in a column in the back pages:
(Harper speaking in Toronto yesterday)
“Here in the GTA, our government is investing nearly $1 billion in our long-term transportation action plan, including extending the Spadina subway line to the Vaughan corporate centre,” he said.
“We’re helping to develop parks, beaches, and trails along Toronto’s waterfront, improving clinical and stroke recovery centres of excellence at St. Michael’s Hospital and the Heart and Stroke Foundation Centre.”
“And we’re unleashing millions of dollars in support to key GTA cultural institutions by enhancing tax benefits on donationss,” he said.
And then there’s the newest ‘findings’ from the Centre for Policy, scratch that, Moonbat Alternatives. They’re claiming that the top 1% of earners are paying less in taxes than the poor. Of course, not a word on the fact that the top 10% pay pretty much all the taxes.
However, it’s got all the outraged moonbats fluttering out of the cave. Girly man Dion’s new key policy: “A bold plan on action on poverty.”
IraqTheModel blog is under fire from..
AntiWar.com
The first oddity that leaps out about the Fadhils is their rather singular outlook on the American occupation of Iraq.
The Fadhil brothers aren’t the only pro-occupation Iraqis blogging, but they stand out by virtue of their relentlessly positive postings and lack of criticism of events that most Iraqis are finding, to put it mildly, disturbing. Middle East expert Professor Juan Cole, in his Informed Comment weblog, speculated,
The MR posting (Martini Republic) brings up questions about the Iraqi brothers who run the IraqTheModel site. It points out that the views of the brothers are celebrated in the right-leaning weblogging world of the US, even though opinion polling shows that their views are far out of the mainstream of Iraqi opinion.
[Lots more in detail at:
antiwar.com/blog/2005/01/21/the-betrayal-of-the-iraqthemodel-bloggers/
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Not that I agree with anything they say but blog fights are informative. Wonder if the AntiWar.com backers are interesting folks? = TG
Women significantly more racist than men:
“Another clear gender divide, this one less expected, emerged in our findings on racial preferences, reported in a forthcoming article in the Review of Economic Studies. Women of all the races we studied revealed a strong preference for men of their own race: White women were more likely to choose white men; black women preferred black men; East Asian women preferred East Asian men; Hispanic women preferred Hispanic men. But men don’t seem to discriminate based on race when it comes to dating. A woman’s race had no effect on the men’s choices.”
awww.slate.com/id/2177637/nav/tap3/
race ? race?
do women come in different races?
I noticed sizes and shapes but not much else.
Guess who owns AntiWar.com
you can netsol.com/whois or sumthin’
or just take my word for it the irony of it all
webcommanders.com serves antiwar.com
surely from California.
anyhow that’s my comic relief
or just plain ‘hey lookie’ for the night
shut em’ down America
http://tinyurl.com/24mlqe
=========================== MacMinuteCafe.com
shut em’ down.
= TG
I sent an email to John Coleman to ask him if Hedi Cullen excommunicated him from the AMS over this comment, as she threatened in a Dec 21 2006 post in her Weather Channel blog.
I honestly wish she does. What a debate this would be!
National Newswatch Bias in headlines??
Maybe it’s just a reflection of what the headlines actually are!!
Kate’s sidebar news aggregator suggestions —– any reviews for ‘Primeminister.ca’ ??
American blogger, Dr. Rusty Shakleford (aka My Pet Jawa) has been threatened by a Muslim blogger from North Carolina:
“Jazakullah Khair to everyone for informing us of what the enemy of Allah, Rusty Shackleford aka mypetjawa (qatalahumullaah), had done with some of the pictures. We initially had a bad feeling of what he might do if we were to link the pictures from his blog.
So now that this true enemy of Allah has shown his ugly face, we say to him: we pray that Allah does not guide you, makes your whole life miserable, and that you are eradicated from the earth by a Mujaahid. We cannot wait to see your expression on the Day of Judgment when reality hits you in the face and the Angels who don’t know the meaning of Mercy will tear you apart into pieces for eternity. We hope that Allah gives you a severe torment in both worlds for your evil deeds. We pray that you die the way Pharaoh died… at the last minute, when his soul was about to be taken by the Angels, he wanted to become Muslim when he saw the truth (i.e., death)… but Allah rejected it and the Angel threw mud in his mouth so that he couldn’t pronounce the testimony which would take him to Paradise.
So let them laugh now, but we will be the ones laughing in the afterlife.
O Allah kill Rusty Shackleford and terrorize his family.
O Allah kill Rusty Shackleford and terrorize his family.
O Allah kill Rusty Shackleford and terrorize his family.
May this Kaafir rot in this world and be tortured forever in the Hereafter.
inshallahshaheed.muslimpad.com/2007/11/07/the-defeated-us-army/
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Nice description of the Muzzie god and his angels.
Meantime a female muslim blogger in Florida discusses the “less than human” kaffir with other muslims on a thread from her blog:
At Friday, October 05, 2007 6:48:00 PM, Anonymous said…
You live in Florida in the United States and you use the word “kaffir” to refer to the people who live next door to you? I’m not trying to be rude but I’m just curious as to why you would do that…
At Monday, October 08, 2007 5:28:00 PM, abdullah said…
The kaffir (kuffur) are the enemies of islam. They are less than human unless they revert to the one true way. It is acceptable to be rude to them – regardless of where you live, for they are less than us.
At Monday, October 08, 2007 6:50:00 PM, Muslim Wife said…
Muniqaba: I pray we are amongst those who are called through this Gate of Jannah, ameen!
Zainab & Baraka: ameen! Hope y’all are having a great Ramadan and taking advantage of these last few days!
Anonymous: Did I do something wrong by calling a kaffir a kaffir? Anyways, Abdullah explained it well,masha’Allah, but I’ll put it to ya like this…if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck….
At Wednesday, October 10, 2007 2:43:00 AM, Anonymous said…
I’m hungry.
On another thread she sez:
What Comes to Mind When I Hear
Car: stupid loud muffler
Murder: non-Muslim: Haha. Muslim: du’a
muslim-wife.blogspot.com/2007/10/whats-so-good-about-fasting.html
Alhamdulillah, A Muslim Wife
Florida, United States
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And a Washington D.C. Imam calls for the overthrow of North America:
“As-Sabiqun is an Islamic movement that believes in the Islamic State of North America no later than 2050. Those who engage in this great effort require a high level of commitment and determination. We are sending out a call to the believers: Join with us in this great struggle to change the world!”
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Just a day in the life of moderate North American Muslims, I guess.