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  1. NUANCE: A report.
    Go to the end: “”Global warming was the phrase used back in the 1980s and 1990s when the initial focus was on the globally averaged temperature of the planet,” said Richard Rosen, the senior adviser for climate research within the climate program office of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. “It was the focus of much of the research, and the concern that the globally averaged temperature was going to increase because of greenhouse gases.”
    Since then, scientists have come to realize that “the issue involves much more than the globally averaged temperature,” Rosen said.
    “It also impacts other parts of the climate system. Precipitation, Arctic sea ice, snowpack and glaciers,” he said. “It’s sort of a recognition that a lot more is going on than the globally averaged temperature.”
    …-
    Really? Is that all there is, is that all there is? No mention of Sol? …-
    ‘Climate change’ or ‘global warming’?
    McClatchy Washington Bureau
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1936251/posts

  4. This being the anniversary of Pearl Harbour iam posting this again for those that may have missed this Video.
    This is the Anniversary March Of the liberation of Belgium/Holland
    The march begins in Hoofdplant Holland & ends in Knokke-Heist Belgium.
    This little 4Yr old Dutch Boy is amazing in his tibute to The Canadian Contingent on Nov.04/2007
    this is only 45sec-1min long, It makes you proud to be canadian.
    veiw at
    http://users.skynet.be/fb730011/salute.htm

  5. Breaking: PM Harper does an “incursion” into Quebec! With troops, tanks, jets, and more. It’s an invasion. Not. Where’s Citoyen Dion?
    Glob-Pail says: “Quebec Liberals were clearly upset with Mr. Harper’s incursion into Mr. Dumont’s home riding.”
    “Natural Resources Minister Claude Béchard, the minister responsible for the region that includes Rivière-du-Loup, was furious at being left out of the meeting.
    “The condition (for Mr. Dumont) to be there was to not make any trouble, to talk about nothing.
    “When . . . (Mr. Dumont) comes out (of the meeting) today, I can only hope he isn’t wearing a new jacket because what we will see on it are the stains from the shoes being wiped on it before going in.
    …-
    Dumont praises Harper for ‘new dynamic’
    RIVIÈRE-DU-LOUP, Que. — Prime Minister Stephen Harper shared a stage Friday with the main political rival of Quebec Premier Jean Charest and boasted that Canadian unity has never been so strong.
    In return, Action Démocratique du Québec Leader Mario Dumont praised the Prime Minister for bringing “a new dynamic” to Quebec-Ottawa relations.
    Mr. Harper told about 500 people in the provincial opposition leader’s riding that his move to recognize the Québécois as a nation within a united Canada has proved wrong the critics who said the motion would endanger national unity.
    “The philosophy of this government is the very antithesis of the centralizing philosophy of the successive Liberal regimes of Mr. Trudeau through to his successor, Mr. Dion,” Mr. Harper told a gathering of the Chamber of Commerce. …-
    http://tinyurl.com/2ds5t8

  7. The latest from Ayaan Hirsi Ali:
    Islam’s Silent Moderates
    It is often said that Islam has been “hijacked” by a small extremist group of radical fundamentalists. The vast majority of Muslims are said to be moderates.
    But where are the moderates? Where are the Muslim voices raised over the terrible injustice of incidents like these? How many Muslims are willing to stand up and say, in the case of the girl from Qatif, that this manner of justice is appalling, brutal and bigoted–and that no matter who said it was the right thing to do, and how long ago it was said, this should no longer be done?
    [Also available in today’s New York Times. Believe it or not.]

  9. Goreacle, the Diesel Engine, does the can-can with Yasser Arafat and Jimmah Carter, aka Putting on the Ritz; takes the train. Breathe the saccharine, smarmy CO2 from Albert Poseur the Bore.
    …-
    Al Gore, in Norway to accept the Nobel Peace Prize, takes the train
    OSLO, Norway – Former U.S. vice-president Al Gore skipped the traditional airport motorcade and took public transportation when he arrived Friday in Oslo to accept the Nobel Peace Prize he shared for his campaign against global warming. […]
    “”I use public transport when I can. It isn’t always possible,” Gore told The Associated Press while walking to his hotel.” …-
    http://tinyurl.com/2fn8u7 (canoe news)

  11. Irwin, I don’t think you know what a “gnostic” is. Disproving the existence of Christ is something that a gnostic might do as a hobby, but it has nothing to do with gnosticism or being a gnostic. And of course a Gnostic Christian believes in the existence of Christ as much as any other Christian does, although in a really wacky way.
    I know nothing of Tom Harpur’s religious beliefs and I care to know no more, but I’d be flat out astonished if he were a gnostic. That stuff is kind of old hat. Do you actually have any reason to think he’s a gnostic? Or do you just not like him?

  12. Next: Mandatory human emissions tests. The human rights industry is in its infancy now; wait until it’s an adult.
    The propaganda from the MSM includes the pic, titled: “There’s a lot of junk in those lunch bags.” More on “human-rights expert” Maurice Brenner, below.
    It’s Nanny-Daddy socialism.
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    Kids with allergies ask [human] rights panel for lunch inspections
    “A group of Toronto-area children is asking the Ontario Human Rights Commission to force their school to launch mandatory lunch-bag inspections to screen out foods to which they have severe allergies, a case which could make all Ontario schools do the same.
    The six children, ranging in age from six to 11, contend that the local school board discriminated against them when it shut down a voluntary lunch screening program at St. Stephen’s Catholic Elementary School, in Woodbridge, Ont., aimed at keeping peanuts, egg products or other potential allergy-inducing foods off school grounds entirely.
    Maurice Brenner, a human-rights expert who is helping the children pursue their case,” …-
    http://tinyurl.com/2ubjg7 (natpost)…-
    Fraud charges dismissed against former councillor
    Durham Regional Police charged Maurice Brenner in May 2006, with two counts each of fraud under $5000 and utter forged document, and breach of trust by a …
    http://www.newsdurhamregion.com/news/ajax/article/81730

  13. Tom Harpur is an Anglican priest and a Rhodes Scholar. So, he’s not stupid. He was in parish ministry for many years and then began writing for the TorStar, I believe it was, about 25 years ago.
    I suggest that he’s a very liberal Christian, which usually means that everything biblical is up for grabs and is open to a secular interpretation, always under the guise of being “relevant,” “tolerant,” and multi-culti.
    Vis a vis orthodox Christianity, Tom Harpur has fallen off the wagon, a calamity which seems to pay him very handsomely, if not in dollars then in media popularity.
    I think his writing rather puts him in the category of being an apostate, which puts his soul in mortal danger.
    I don’t think that he much cares.

  14. I don’t follow Cherniac much anymore because he censors my comments but I do drop by occasionally to get a good laugh at his expenses.
    But, has anyone noticed that he rarely talks about the libs or the green guru, Borat Dion anymore..
    I guess, if he wants to talk about the libs. there isn’t anything positive to say. And-who the hell wants to talk about Dion anyway.
    Of course he could always mention KHS-oops,everytime he opesn his mouth liberal corruption seems to crop up.
    Horny Toad

  17. Harpur, the Gnostic:
    “Harpur’s one of Canada’s most respected and well-known Christian thinkers. He’s a former Anglican priest, and he was a professor of the New Testament at the University of Toronto from 1964 to 1971. A Rhodes Scholar, he’s done post-graduate work in the early Fathers of the Church at Oxford under some of the world’s foremost academics. He’s covered ethical and spiritual matters for The Toronto Star for the past thirty years, he’s regularly appeared on Canada’s major radio and television networks, and he’s written numerous best-selling religious books. When someone like this challenges the existence of the historical Jesus and champions Gnosticism, people take notice.
    An old and esoteric religious tradition, Gnosticism proclaims that human souls are incarnate expressions of the Godhead. According to the Gnostic account, at birth each of us emerges from eternity to become a finite, embodied, and separate consciousness. In Harpur’s words, “The vitalizing item of ancient knowledge was the prime datum that man is himself, in his real being, a spark of divine fire struck off like the flint flash from the Eternal Rock of Being, and buried in the flesh of body to support its existence with an unquenchable radiant energy. On this indestructible fire the organism and its functions were ‘suspended,’ as the Greek Orphic theology phrased it, and all their modes and activities were the expression of this ultimate divine principle of spiritual intelligence, energizing in matter.” During our incarnation, we forget our cosmic origins and suffer within a state of existential amnesia that Gnosticism hopes to remedy. Valentinus, a second century Gnostic, expressed this best when he wrote, “What liberates is the knowledge of who we were, what we became; where we were, whereinto we have been thrown; whereto we speed, wherefrom we are redeemed; what birth is, and what rebirth.” To the Gnostics, each of us is a slumbering Christ.”
    As I said, Gnostics have been attempting to discredit the historical Christ for hundreds of years and failed.
    Harpur is reviving the same old claims, this time for his own personal profit.

  18. Another interesting poll at the Glob and Mail.
    In Canada as a whole, multiculturalism is:
    – a failed policy of the past (so far 68%,5265 votes)
    – an indispensable part of our future (so far 32%, 2465 votes

  20. I know what you said, irwin. I don’t quite know why you said it. There is nothing in gnosticism that requires its believers to deny the historical existence of Christ. And Harpur might very well have occasion to explain the doctrines of gnosticism, which is all that is done in the quote you set out, without believing it himself.
    Do you actually have some reason to think he’s a gnostic?

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