Patrick Ruffini wonders why a link from blog behemoth DailyKos sends so few visitors? Click the link for his theory.
9/11: Physics for 3-Year Olds.
Manitoba Farm Land Expropriation – an interview with Rolf Penner.
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Patrick Ruffini wonders why a link from blog behemoth DailyKos sends so few visitors? Click the link for his theory.
9/11: Physics for 3-Year Olds.
Manitoba Farm Land Expropriation – an interview with Rolf Penner.
Add yours in the comments.
A gun for Kathy.
Understanding out Health Care System failure.
http://www.moneytalks.net/article.php?aid=248454221188510297&archive=0
Good evening ladies & gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio for Tuesday, December 4, 2007. For your perusal and potential delectation, tonight we have this excellent historic document. I love it where Don relates the story of when his mother told the wise guys to put their guns on the table before they talked to her Don 😉
Don Rickles – Interviewed by Charlie Rose (1 hr.)
video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=470188158617729457
Not a Scum-Bag lawyer, just an observation
The US Supreme Court Ruling addressed the problem that all “inner” cities are experiencing. Most people are not paying their taxes, and the city is broke. The State taxpayers have to fund essential services. IMHO the city had a valid reason for re-developing its tax base.
Most other cases would have a hard time fitting into that scenario. The lower courts do “Block” justice in these cases and rule for the Municipality. It costs a lot of money and may take years but State Supreme Courts have, in the past, overturned in the majority of the cases.
You know I once listened to a conversation at a bike sow in Cleveland Ohio between a citizen on one side and member of the Hell’s Angels on the other other side. To witness such an exchange was remarkable in itself and extremely rare. Most Angels don’t talk much to civilians.
The jist was … why are you an outlaw? Why not work and live in the great society?
The answer was more or less. What for? Why should I work my ass off and get to keep maybe half of the pittance I would earn. Why would I want to be eight to five slave with little time to live and do what I want to do?
Why should sit back and watch government lie and waste all our money on bullshit.
Why would I want to give up my freedom for anyone … be told what I can do and pay fines, and fees every time I turn around. I am not a robot, I am a free man living my life the way I want and I don’t care what anyone thinks.
That was the jist … far from a verbatim quote of the chat as you can imagine.
It made a lot of sense to me. When I listen to the daily arguments, debates and the putting across of each persons point of view which usually amount to wanting others to be responsible for the me.
Making more and more rules and regulations daily to make the me feel better and safer and more secure when it’s all Bullshit from the get go.
I continually wonder why we put up with as much as we do from our narcissistic, ego maniacal, thieving leaders in the first place. They have incrementally taken almost everything away from our once free society. It’s horrible. Our so called fellow citizens are so brain washed with it that they are not much better. They take is all seriously like it’s right and important.
In the above postings there is the link to a radio clip about farmer who is having his land stolen by the government for a tourist site so the greedy city leaders can get more cash into their coffers and supply opportunity to their business friends.
Who are the outlaws? We are all in a prison of our own making and we don’t even realize it. We are no longer free.
We may all be in a situation of our own making,
John, yet I am not in prison, metaphorically or
otherwise. Your mileage may vary.
In the sense you pessimistically deride freedom,
you are correct, but in that sense we have never
been free, so no longer does not apply.
On the other hand, we are civilizationally freer
than ever. Perhaps before civilization we were
freer, but then the average life expectancy was 30.
Your pick, sir.
John, you make some good points yet our present *keepers* allow us some wiggle room and seldom chop off hands or heads.
Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez says he wants to send oil to $200 a barrel. Robert Zubrin has a plan to stop him. In his just released book, Energy Victory: Winning the War on Terror by Breaking Free of Oil,
The clever Saudis are the most lethal enemy of our Western free world. Osama was / is a Saudi. 1999 oil income approx 4 Billion$…2007 oil income 800 Billion$. The Saudis finance madrasses world wide where hungry young men are offered regular meals along with anti-western brain washing.
Robert Zubrin correctly suggests a stroke of the pen in USA congress that will limit oil price gouging. There is NO shortage.
================== Expert and Author: of Energy Victory.
In a nutshell, his proposal is this: that the American congress should pass a law mandating that all new cars sold in the United States be flex-fueled, which is to say able to run on any combination of gasoline or alcohol fuels. Flex fuel is proven technology which only adds a few hundred dollars to the cost of a car.
[ In 2008/09, 100% of all new cars sold in Brazil will be 100% Flex fuel.= TG]
In 2007, roughly 90 percent of all cars sold in Brazil were flex-fueled, but outside of that country, their market share was quite low – comprising about 3 percent of US auto sales, for example. However, as Zubrin argues convincingly, if it were mandated that every new car sold in the USA had to be flex fueled as a standard feature, then practically every auto manufacturer in the world would be forced to switch their lines over to flex fuel.
[ If you own a Flex fuel vehicle you have a choice. Gas at $1.05 -litre or E85 or M85 at 49 cents per litre. If the Saudis / Opec lower gas prices to compete, you can revert to gasoline anytime the price is below biofuel prices.= TG]
Thus the effect of a US flex fuel mandate would be global, and within a few years, put hundreds of millions of cars on the road worldwide capable of running indifferently on either methanol, ethanol, or gasoline.
With such a market available, alcohol fuel pumps and associated infrastructure would quickly appear, and the vertical monopoly that the oil cartel holds on the world’s vehicular fuel supply would be broken, as gasoline would be forced to compete everywhere against alcohol produced from multiple sources, including biomass, coal, stranded natural gas, recycled urban trash, and so forth.
To be sure, such a development would not quite destroy OPEC. Alcohol fuels are only competitive against oil when the price exceeds about $50 per barrel. So in a free market, the best Zubrin’s plan could accomplish would be to send oil prices back down to that level. Still, in the face of current oil prices of $100 per barrel, and much worse potentially in the offing, forcing the price back to $50/bbl and containing it at that level would certainly be an enormous accomplishment.
[Hugo Chavez is suggesting Opec pricing go to $200 per barrel. ]
Which brings us to Zubrin’s idealism. He doesn’t just want to take away the Saudi’s treasure. He wants to use it to end world poverty. He says: **Instead of financing terrorism, our energy dollars could be used to fund world development. Instead of selling blocks of our media to Saudi princes, we could be selling tractors to Africa. Instead of paying for death, we could be helping to spread life. Instead of buying arms for our enemies and chains for ourselves, we could be building a world of prosperity and freedom.**
energy-daily.com/reports/The_Plan_To_Destroy_OPEC_999.html
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As Zubrin puts it: **So the crux of the matter comes down to this: Do we want to win or lose? The issue at stake in energy security is not a matter of whether the price of gasoline will be $2 per gallon or $3 per gallon; it is who will determine the human future. Do we want to have the enemy’s fate in our hands, or do we want to have ours in theirs?**
[BTW… gasoline in the UK sells for about $8 a gallon.. ]
Laos harvests sweet yams for bio fuels. China has been ramping up production. Brazil learned the lesson of 1972/73. North America*s and UK*s ExxonMobile, Chevron, Shell, BP and all are in bed with the devil.. Too bad for us. = TG
Wait until Ruffini sees what a SA link is worth for hits 😉
Crud…… SDA link. Must type sloooooower.
john w. i agree we are in a prison of our own making. we have lost our freedom slice by tiny slice. the constant increase of regulations(laws) we must follow. laws put in place because everytime there is a challenge we face, the sheep that are canadian citizens don’t act themselves thay always complain that the government must do something. tell me something in canada that doe not have some sort of government reg. applied to it.
“Well, all I can say is peace and blessings be upon her! In my book, a gang-rape victim deserves a whole heck of lot more peace and blessings than the Prophet, who continues to inspire such barbarism in the name of his religion.”
Death Before Burkas
American Thinker ^ | December 5, 2007 | Kyle-Anne Shiver
Anyone who thinks I’ve spent the last 40 years of my life learning how to properly apply makeup and avoid bad-hair days, only to end up donning that hideous black thing at the command of some foreign guy with a severe case of Male-Chauvinist-Pig syndrome, is in for a fight.
Give me death before burkas! …-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1934906/posts
Le flop for breakfast? Ouvrir le corn flakes.
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“the ambitious push to make Canada a truly bilingual country has been a flop.”
Rude awakening on bilingualism
By ROY CLANCY
http://tinyurl.com/25mpal (calsun)
After all the drumbeating and hair pulling the silence about the NIE here is deafening.
@Vitruvius:
I think you misunderstood John West’s point. By my reading, he was saying “at what point does the marginal costs of civilization exceed the marginal benefits?”
The life expectancy in present-day Zimbabwe, if I recall correctly, is 37 years. The social policies followed by Mugabe were standard twentieth-century social policy (inflation, “land reform,” etc.) What these two add up to is, “Zimbabwe: How Twentieth-Centure Social Policy Led To A Nineteenth-Century Life Expectancy.”
Something to mull over…
Whoops, “century.” I’m not sure of the strength of AIDS and other diseases as an affector.
Your point about civilization in general, though, is a good one. I wonder what the average life expectancy was in the Roman Empire…
Cartoon In Jordanian Paper and “Al-Quds Al-Arabi” On “New Sports In Egypt’s Arab Olympics”
MEMRI ^ | 12-5-07
Right to left: “Freestyle Beating,” “Javelin Throw,” “Abusing Women.”
Sources: Al-Ghad, Jordan; Al-Quds Al-Arabi, London, November 13, 2007
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1934970/posts
“What if everyone believes in global warmism only because everyone believes in global warmism?”
“How this honor has befallen the former Veep could perhaps be explained by another Nobel, awarded in 2002 to Daniel Kahneman for work he and the late Amos Tversky did on “availability bias,” roughly the human propensity to judge the validity of a proposition by how easily it comes to mind.”
“Their insight has been fruitful and multiplied: “Availability cascade” has been coined for the way a proposition can become irresistible simply by the media repeating it; “informational cascade” for the tendency to replace our beliefs with the crowd’s beliefs; and “reputational cascade” for the rational incentive to do so.”…..
….an editorial this morning in the Wall Street Journal.
Canadian Conservative Prime Minister Harper leads Republican USA President Bush around by the “free trade pact”. It’s not fair.
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Bush invokes Harper on Colombia in push to pass free trade pact
By THE CANADIAN PRESS
http://tinyurl.com/2d3ynb
Canada still beats the world!…
Paul Wells | December 4, 2007 | 14:33:37 | Permalink
paul.wells@macleans.rogers.com
…at finding incredibly oblique side doors into stories that might (shudder!) simply be dull but worthy.
Case in point: The OECD releases its occasional multi-country survey of student performance. Finland wins again. France tanks. The UK underperforms. The US is lackadaisical. Canada does quite well indeed — and has, consistently, for as long as the OECD has been doing this. (One is tempted to suggest that by producing globally-competitive high-school students and globally-so-so universities, we are helping the rest of the world to fill their best universities — and, later, graduate labs — with our best minds. Gee, we’re swell.)
This is useful information. But we had useful information a few years ago and we’ll have some more in a few years. Today, the news you need to know is about whether Canadian students fret sufficiently about the environment. In other words, whether they’d make good Star editorialists.
UPDATE: Other fun PISA facts:
– Countries where test scores are posted publicly produce students who score better than countries where each student is the only one to know his score;
– Countries where schools have more latitude to set and allocate their own budgets produce better scores than schools with tighter central planning;
– Canadian and US students are equally likely to be confident they can apply science to real-life problems; but Canadian students are significantly likelier to actually be able to apply science to real-life problems;
– socio-economic background of students is a worse predictor of test performance in Canada than in most countries surveyed: in Canada, showing up poor at school is less of a handicap than in most of the world. (This is fantastic news, so nobody will cover it.) Poverty is a significantly bigger educational handicap in the US — and bigger still in France, where university students are still striking today to protect what they believe is their nation’s sacred commitment to educational equity.
Link: forums.macleans.ca/advansis/?mod=for&act=dip&pid=92213&tid=92213&eid=43&so=1&ps=0&sb=1
An example of the much touted days of “principle over politics”? More like politics “squeaking” through with a win over principle. Wasn’t much of a competition. Yet again. As always. Plus ca change…
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Canada on Russia: Delightfully mild…
Paul Wells | December 4, 2007 | 06:20:21 | Permalink
paul.wells@macleans.rogers.com
When Stephen Harper penned this long-forgotten condemnation of the 2006 Belarus election [www.pm.gc.ca/eng/media.asp?id=1064], he growled — as two people breathlessly informed me later — “Don’t even show it to Foreign Affairs. Just put it out. Maybe they’ll learn something.” That’s the tough talk of a self-congratulatorily moral foreign policy.
One wonders, then, what lesson the good folks at Fort Pearson will learn from the squeak [w01.international.gc.ca/minpub/Publication.aspx?isRedirect=True&publication_id=385660&language=E&docnumber=171]that accompanied a similarly bogus election in a country 18 times bigger and more worrisome. Instead of the prime minister’s bold condemnation, we get polite questions from the most junior foreign-affairs minister since (checking the files) the last one.
This is what picking on somebody your own size looks like, right?
Link: forums.macleans.ca/advansis/?mod=for&act=dip&pid=92112&tid=92112&eid=43&so=1&ps=0&sb=1
Just another contributer to Global Warming. Don’t light your Hanukkia candles.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1195546797524&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FPrinter
The Rolf Penner interview is a good one.
If this land seizure is allowed without a fuss then I expect the issue to grow. There needs to be clearer and more stringent rules on when and who governments are allowed to take or alter the use of private property. In this type of case, if you give the government an inch they’ll feel free to take a mile or a house or a business or an oil field etc.
In A Place Among the Nations: Israel and the World (Toronto: Bantam Books, 1993), Benjamin Netanyahu argued that the roots of Mohammedan alienation and rage are quite understandable. Islam promises its adherents world domination, yet those faithful see Jews and Christians advance while Muslim nations stagnate or regress. True peace requires the spread of democracy through the Mohammedan world. Perhaps this author would agree:
Waleed Aly, Sudanese teddy saga lays bare Islamic inferiority complex
…And here, it seems, is the key to this unmitigated farce. Had Gibbons been Sudanese, or just non-Western, there would be no controversy here. Indeed Muslims have not generally been averse to naming their toys (and their children) with the names of prophets. For years, the Islamic Society in Britain sold a soft toy named “Adam the Prayer Bear”, while in the US, a Muslim multimedia organisation continues to produce children’s videos starring a Muppet-like character also named “Adam” – the name of Islam’s first prophet. This saga ultimately has nothing to do with teddy bears, and everything to do with anti-Western sentiment – a fact most nakedly revealed by the collective response of senior Sudanese clerics, who branded Gibbons’s conduct “a calculated action and another ring in the circles of plotting against Islam”.
This discourse is deeply implausible, especially when you consider Gibbons’s love for the Sudanese people and long-term desire to assist with their education. This kind of response discloses a siege mentality; one that must position the Muslim world as the victim in a global – but particularly Western – conspiracy against it. As a corollary, the West must have a singularly oppressive role in the conspiratorial imagination. It exists to repress Muslims, and makes its policy decisions only to undermine Islam, as though the West has no independent interests of its own.
There is arrogance in this assumption that the humiliation of Muslims must be the central goal of others, but more deeply it is the expression of an inferiority complex. Such stifling paranoia is not a trait of the confident, but of the humiliated. The result is a disposition that is avid for scandal, a seemingly incurable desperation to be offended, and to pin the blame on Western civilisation. By responding violently to such offence, the humiliated feel a sense of faux-empowerment. They rehabilitate their status by lashing out.
…Ultimately, it is Muslims who have the most to lose. Perpetual victimhood, though an emotional balm, is disempowering and self-fulfilling. By clinging to it, and even imagining ourselves victims when we are not, we are ultimately victimising ourselves.
An example of the much touted days of “principle driven politics” over “poll-watching”? Nope. Just the opposite with the biggest spending government in Canadian history. Yet again. As always. Plus ca change…
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Record-spending Tories review polling contracts
Minister says freeze put it place; office later backs off comments
Glen McGregor, The Ottawa Citizen
Published: Wednesday, December 05, 2007
Public Works Minister Michael Fortier said yesterday the government has put a freeze on all polling and focus-group contracts following a report that showed the Conservative government last year set a new record for spending on public opinion surveys […]
Mr. Fortier said yesterday in the Senate that he found the $31 million spent on public opinion research “considerable” and said the government has put a moratorium on new surveys in all departments.
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Actually, they did no such thing:
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But last night, Mr. Fortier’s director of communications said a moratorium was only one option under consideration.
“We might have been ahead of ourselves,” said Jacques Gagnon.
“We’re looking at all the necessary steps to correct the situation.”
Link: http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=a4598701-f296-4e83-bfb7-8cb0850c4464
The Knokke-Heist Memorial March Nov.04/07
Canadian Contingent Takes salute
You have to look at this Video
This is what makes you Proud to be Canadian
Kingstonlad & other with military exp. will relate
http://users.skynet.be/fb730011/salute.htm
Latest US National Intelligence Estimate: Iran stopped nuclear program in 2003.
Full NIE available here: dni.gov
Or for a more fair-and-balanced source: foxnews.com/story/0,2933,314708,00.html
Islamic students are on the sue-Mark-Steyn-Macleans train: http://www.cbc.ca/arts/media/story/2007/12/05/muslim-macleans.html
…the Conservative government last year set a new record for spending on public opinion surveys
Maybe they want to know what Canadians care about instead of doing what the liberals did;
tell us what we should care about?
But but but but Friend of USA, I thought the complaint was that the LIEberals/Fiberals made all their decisions based on the latest polls instead of principle and that Harper was going to change all that. That he was principle driven not poll driven.
What happened to all that in less than a year?
But but but but Friend of USA, I thought the complaint was that the LIEberals/Fiberals made all their decisions based on the latest polls instead of principle and that Harper was going to change all that. That he was principle driven not poll driven.
What happened to all that in less than a year?
“This party will not take its position based on public opinion polls. We will not take a stand based on focus groups. We will not take a stand based on phone-in shows or householder surveys or any other vagaries of public opinion.” ~ Steven Harper, Leader of the Opposition, January 2003
“We don’t make decisions in our governments based on polls.” ~ Prime Minister Steven Harper, August 2006
“Conservative spending on polls hits $31-million.” ~ National Post, 4 December 2007
Awkward.
“This party will not take its position based on public opinion polls. We will not take a stand based on focus groups. We will not take a stand based on phone-in shows or householder surveys or any other vagaries of public opinion.” ~ Steven Harper, Leader of the Opposition, January 2003
“We don’t make decisions in our governments based on polls.” ~ Prime Minister Steven Harper, August 2006
“Conservative spending on polls hits $31-million.” ~ National Post, 4 December 2007
Awkward.
“This party will not take its position based on public opinion polls. We will not take a stand based on focus groups. We will not take a stand based on phone-in shows or householder surveys or any other vagaries of public opinion.” ~ Steven Harper, Leader of the Opposition, January 2003
“We don’t make decisions in our governments based on polls.” ~ Prime Minister Steven Harper, August 2006
“Conservative spending on polls hits $31-million.” ~ National Post, 4 December 2007
Awkward.
Your Conservative Party of Canada, on the need for smaller government:
“The size of government is not diminishing. It’s at best flattening or slightly increasing.” ~ Jacques Gagnon, director of communications for Public Works Minister Michael Fortier, 4 December 2007.
ted, and your various aliases (hypocrite, middle). We know you hate Harper. That’s your personal problem; you cut and paste and focus exclusively on your hatred.
Do you have anything besides your personal issues, of factual and analytic substance to contribute to readers here?
CBCpravda All Khadr ,All the time.
the USA -global abuse of power.yadda yadda
http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2007/12/05/court-guantanamo.html
IAH.NYAH – nice catch!!
But you have to realize that pointing out the flip flopping, poll-driven, politics before policy of the Harper Conservatives… i.e. pointing out some facts… is not going to get too far with the kool-aid drinkers.
While there are indeed many principled conservatives and even principled Conservatives, they are slowly realizing that they are lead by Chretien in blue (and without the experience).
Just call him The Right Honourable Stephen Brian Jean Harper. Same as the old Boss. Plus ca change…
A most important court case, ignored by big MSM, is going to the jury soon.
http://www.brucemontague.ca/html/0303.html
Hopefully the jury can show some sense.
Hey leftards, don’t you just love communism? Is there any better system for improving a citizen’s quality of life?
GENEVA — China continues to evict 13,000 people each month in preparation for the Beijing Olympics, despite worldwide attention and increased scrutiny, a housing rights group said Wednesday.
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20071205/beijing_olympics_071205/20071205?hub=World&s_name=
ET: Do you have anything besides your personal issues, of factual and analytic substance to contribute to readers here?
Sure, how about:
– the fact that Steven Harper has gone on public record as saying that his government would not/does not govern based on polls;
– the fact that, in the past year, the Steven Harper-led government has spent $31 million in tax-payer funds on public opinion polls, which is more than any other administration; and
– the fact that the PM’s Privy Council alone spent $1.3 million, more that 4 times the amount spent by Paul Martin’s 04-05 Privy Council?
Would you like to offer any rebuttal or opinion on any of these three facts?
Ted: But you have to realize that pointing out the flip flopping, poll-driven, politics before policy of the Harper Conservatives… i.e. pointing out some facts… is not going to get too far with the kool-aid drinkers.
Yes, from recent experience, I’d sadly have to agree, Ted.
The facts of this particular flip-flip are especially plain, and rather difficult to argue against. Any real conservative worth her/his salt would more or less have to come out and criticize Harper on this one specific point. But alas, here at SDA, partisanship trumps conservatism, and so everyone will remain silent — except, of course, ET, who can’t help but pick a fight, even one that was lost before it even started.
I wonder: will anyone here prove me wrong?
The prison of our own making… Interesting!
When the forefathers drafted the constitution of the United States, they introduced the 2nd amendment, reading ‘everyone can keep and bear the muskets’…
The muskets being the most advanced weapons of the day, we Okay for the founding fathers. But then something strange started to happen.
One by one the firearms got banned from the hands of civilians, and now many in the society frown upon even semi-auto rifles, needless to say that full-auto is considered gangsters’ weapon and machine guns are out of reach and only exist in military. Even semi-auto is trumpeted as ‘assault rifles’.
This is where society wavered from the right path – when it allowed the government to regulate what weaponry is allowed and what not. If we could still possess the most advanced weapons of the day, neither municipal, nor state/provincial nor federal government would not be so comfortable taking away people’s freedom. Simply because a few hundreds or thousands of angry citizens could implement some drastic changes to the said government if, let’s say, they realized that their taxes were not used properly, or criminals got out of jail free, or someone advanced their career unjustly.
Quit whining! It is you and no one else who is responsible for the loss of freedom! Not your father, or grandfather, or your neigbour. Everything that happens to a person is that person’s making. There is no past and there is no future, there is only now and that’s when things need to be done.
It is as simple as that: freedom is based on two things – guns and children. Bring up your children decent people, talk to them, know what their troubles and joys are, take them to a rink, range and trail and be the most respected person in their life. And 2nd – buy guns, ammo, range membership and go shooting. Freedom requires constant protection from evil menaces and stupid people with best intentions.
Canada had a war with the US in 1812 and it looks to me like ever since the point in Canada was to be not like the USA. I.e. prevalence of collective interests over individual rights and mass fear of firearms.
ET: never mind them, go have a look at what i posted on the Knokke-Heist March this vid is only minute tops & this little 4yr old dutch boy will put a smile on your face, He makes you feel proud to be Canadian.
http://users.skynet.be/fb730011/salute.htm
Yes, ted/hypocrite/and your various other aliases. [And you ought to be ashamed of doing this.] The FACT that even if the CPC uses polls, that doesn’t mean that its policies are based on the poll results. There’s no way that you could prove it.
But, ted, hypocrite and etc, your focus is on your personal hatred, a hatred that is approaching a fanatic obsession, of Harper.
I don’t see any resolution to your obsessive anger. Certainly, it’s immune to facts and logic, and requires constant expression to ‘let off steam’.
John West, I think that the cognitive nature of our species puts us in a particular situation, to which we must adapt. Cognitively, almost all of our knowledge base is social, which means that it is stored within the beliefs and memory tactics of the collective, the community. We exist as individuals, but, our knowledge base is derived from a communal source.
Therefore, our species cannot function as a separate individual. Ever. Nor do we function as a collective. But only as an individual intimately connected to a collective. We can’t reject one or the other. Keeping a fine balance between these two realities – the collective and the individual isn’t easy.
“Would you like to offer any rebuttal or opinion on any of these three facts?”
Who cares? It’s not like the Conservatives are stealing millions of taxpayer dollars, or importing 80 keys of cocaine on the bottom of a ship, or boondoggling billions out of the public coffers.
“But alas, here at SDA, partisanship trumps conservatism,”
Actually, loathing of leftoid idiots like you trumps everything, in case you haven’t noticed.
Ted, er, Sybil is confused. He thought he was commenting at rabble, where people might actually care about his opinion.
You mean ted/hypocrite are the same sheeple,and he actually responds to his own comments?How pathetic is that?
ET: The FACT that even if the CPC uses polls, that doesn’t mean that its policies are based on the poll results.
So are you saying that the $31 million spent was wasted money? If CPC policies aren’t based on polls, why conduct so many of them, or any at all?
And what’s the opposite of a fanatical, obsessive, personal hatred of Harper? An unwavering, uncritical allegiance to him?
In A Place Among the Nations: Israel and the World (Toronto: Bantam Books, 1993), Benjamin Netanyahu argued that the roots of Mohammedan alienation and rage are quite understandable. Islam promises its adherents world domination, yet those faithful see Jews and Christians advance while Muslim nations stagnate or regress
Posted by: Charles MacDonald at December 5, 2007 10:45 AM
Damn good post Charles. This is exactly the issue — the explanation for Islamic insanity (if you’ll pardon the redundancy). And as I’ve tried to explain to ET, this is exactly what the Arab-Israel conflict is about. All other explanations are shams and amount to jihad-enablement and continued Muslim enfeeblement.
Congnitive dissonance on a gartantuan grotesque scale. Get it wrong — try it again, over and over again, only purer and purer.
Honour/shame addiction.
Zero sumism addiction.
Vile Jew-hatred scape goatism.
It’s the I-S-L-A-M, stupid.
MSM left-liberal bias in the MSM? Nah, no, none. What a POS is the MSM/Canadian Press.
Consider this HDS/BDS from the Canadian Press; an outright, baldfaced lie/distortion. MSM smears PM Harper, the Conservative Party, and its members.
Message to CP/MSM: You are despicable. Now you know why we hate/loathe you.
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“although not those who consider themselves Conservatives”
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TORONTO – The vast majority of Canadians – although not those who consider themselves Conservatives – want the federal government to work to maintain a national identity and culture distinct from the United States, suggests a new HarrisDecima poll commissioned by the Friends of Canadian Broadcasting. […]
National identity distinct from the U.S. important to Canadians: Decima poll
By Lee-Anne Goodman, THE CANADIAN PRESS
http://tinyurl.com/33tepb