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  2. Q: Who are the moonbats voting for?
    A: Moonbats.
    “Academy Award-winning actor Sean Penn endorsed Dennis Kucinich for president in San Francisco Friday. Penn made what had been billed as a “major political statement” at San Francisco State University.”

  3. “While I’m not a proponent of the Death Penalty, existing law provides that the likes of Cheney, Bush, Rumsfeld and Rice, if found guilty, could have hoods thrown over their heads, their hands bound, facing a 12-man rifle corps executing death by firing squad,” Penn said.
    Boycott this idiot’s movies.

  4. Now that Dutch Freedom Party leader and Parliamentarian, Geert Wilders, has opened his big mouth and God forbid, spoken the truth, he’ll be demonized and then killed, cause he deserves it:
    “The illiberal regime which has strengthened its grip on most of Europe over the last ten years is based on a convergence of interests between the Left and Islam.
    Both groups would like to see dissent silenced, the Muslims in the name of the Prophet, and the Left to ensure the ascendancy of the Socialist, Green, or Multiculturalist millennium — take your pick, it depends on the Utopia-of-the-Month flavor.
    The interests of these two unlikely allies will diverge soon enough, but in the meantime anyone who is interested in free and unfettered discourse is under siege.
    From Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s adopted country comes a story about a growing movement to silence Geert Wilders. According to Expatica:
    Front against Wilders on the rise
    The “reasonable people” of the Netherlands are starting a movement against the standpoints of Geert Wilders, the Volkskrant reports. René Danen of the anti-racist organisation Nederland Bekent Kleur and Mohamed Sini of the Islam and Citizenship foundation hope to be able to put together a broad countermovement in the coming weeks.
    The Refugee Council of the Netherlands also supports the call from Doekle Terpstra, former trade union leader and chairman of the HBO Council for universities of applied science. Terpstra said in Trouw last week that he was annoyed at Wilders’ actions and his statements about Islam as a fascist religion. He talks about the “Wilderisation of society” and “Wilders’ evil message.”
    “I feel more and more provoked by the constant insults towards Muslims,” Terpstra says. “Wilders abuses his position and freedom of speech as an alibi to bait society and create rifts.” He also says: “Am I the only one who is angry and concerned? Unions, employers, Muslims, churches, humanists unite, join forces and turn the tide.”
    Remember: truly free speech is provocative, controversial, and divisive. There is no need to protect words which are bland and offend no one.
    The first step in stifling an opinion is to declare it an “abuse” of free speech.
    “That is what we want to do now,” says Danen. There are no concrete plans yet, but one aim is to organise a demonstration around the time that Wilders’ much talked about film on Islam is to be shown, sometime in January.”

  5. Tenebris: I took your advice and checked out that link. It handles the left-right thingee well, i.e., that fascism and communism are both really left — or two departments within totalitarianism.
    However, it’s also quite confused. Notice how he justifies government interference in the market to correct “market failure”. According to my lights the market — in its proper milieu — can not fail, any more than the weather can fail, albeit it may produce results we may not enjoy (Vancouver – b-r-r-r-r, motorcyce on battery tender, grounded).
    The “market failure” is actually caused by government interference. Markets are not “inherently unstable” as the lib-lefty-socialists are wont to argue.
    And as we all know by now the great depression was both caused AND extended by government interference in the market.

  6. NDPGate.
    Another apology, this time over accusations levelled during the last election:
    NDP House leader Libby Davies formally apologized Thursday on behalf of her party for spreading allegations that a Liberal candidate in the last federal election tried to bribe his NDP rival to drop out of the race.
    **Ms. Davies admitted that the NDP erred in arranging for Hansen-Carlson to repeat his accusations widely in the media 10 days before the Jan. 26, 2006 election.
    And she said it made *another serious error in judgment* in failing to make public a letter from Canada’s elections commissioner, three days before the election, which cleared the two Liberals.**
    CalgaryGrit.blogspot.com
    Such unclean hands. = TG

  7. irwin daisy: re: Your Wilders post.
    The lasting lesson I got out of reading Bat Ye’or (I read 5 of her books) is how Islam expanded with the active collusion of Christian elites. Same deal with Europe, except of course the multi-culti socialist/fascist left.
    I have also come to the conclusion that the higher up you are in the hierarchy the less likely you are to understand the threat of political Islam. To wit: Condi Rice who has now equated Mahmoud Abbas with Martin Luther King, seen the suicide bombing “Palestinians” as innocent civil rights-era blacks, and actively joined in the Arab-Muslim jihad against Israel and by extention the West.

  8. irwin daisy: Connecting your Penn and Geert Wilders posts:
    Wilders is Dead Man Talking?

  10. “A Manifesto to Defeat Islamism”
    In 1964, Sayyid Qutb, the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood’s leading theoretician, published Ma‘alim fi al-Tariq (Milestones) in which he laid out steps to achieve an Islamic state and defeat the West. He described a generational process to ensure the victory of Islamism over Western liberal society. Liberal and traditional Muslims have yet to wage an effective counter-jihad against their Islamist brethren. There does not yet exist a liberal Muslim intellectual work equivalent to Milestones to lay the groundwork to defeat Islamism and ensure the creation of integrationist, tolerant American Muslim institutions.
    A starting point to counter the Qutb construct would be for Muslim leaders to acknowledge ten points:
    1. An Islamic narrative should not constrain universal human principles.
    2. Mosques should support the separation of church and state, even as they take stands on social or political issues.
    3. The affirmation of an egalitarian approach to faith beyond the constraints of simple tolerance. Tolerance implies superiority while pluralism implies equality.
    4. Recognition that if government enacts the literal laws of God rather than natural or human law, then government becomes God and abrogates religion and the personal nature of the relationship with God.
    5. Separation of mosque and state to include the abrogation of all blasphemy and apostasy laws.
    6. Empowerment of women’s liberation and advocacy for equality as is currently absent in many Muslim-majority, misogynistic cultures.
    7. Ijtihad negating the need for Muslims active in politics today to bring theology into the political debate. Nowhere in the Qur’an does God tell Muslims to mix politics and religion or instruct by what document governments should be guided.
    8. Creation of movements and organizations that are specifically opposed to such radical or terrorism-supporting groups as Al-Qaeda, Hamas, Hezbollah, Hizb ut-Tahrir, Jamaat al-Islamiya, and Al-Muhajiroun, to name a few, rather than simply being against undefined, generic notions of terrorism.
    9. Public identification without apologetics of leaders and governments of Muslim majority countries who are dictators and despots and are, as such, anti-liberty and anti-pluralism. Muslims enjoying freedom in the West have yet to create mass movements to liberate their motherlands from dictatorship and theocracy and to move these toward secular democracies founded on individual liberties for all based in natural law.
    10. Establishment of classical liberal Muslim institutions and think-tanks to articulate, disseminate, and educate concerning the above principles. The idea that individual liberty and freedom need not be mutually exclusive with Muslim theology must be taught to Muslim youth.
    – M. Zuhdi Jasser, a former U.S. Navy lieutenant commander, is chairman of the board of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy (www.aifdemocracy.org).

  11. “Wilders is Dead Man Talking?”
    Heh. And Penn would condemn him to death, apparently.

  12. Nice that the usual trolls (alby, Cross, TG, ect) have given up. Haven’t noticed them in a while. Migrated to some other blog I hope. The boss at this one has the backbone to both, allow comments AND monitor them adequately and fairly.

  13. My favorite Joe Cclark line:
    ‘I might be from the West but my heart is in Quebec.”
    Which of course is why he ran and won election so many times in Quebec, he said sarcastically.
    Since Clark sold out English Canada and knuckled under to Quebec, I guess somebody with a long, long memory wanted him to ‘knuckle under’ to a white Anglo-Saxon too.
    Also proves the old saying that one should always bury the hatchet, but one should never forget where they buried it.
    Heh.

  14. A webbed article in WesternStandard.ca begins with the troubles that Connie and Mark Fournier of the Free Dominion endured at the hands of an HRC: “Censure the censors.” [Registration required.]
    I suggest that this paragraph is the ‘money shot’:

    [A ruling mentioned in the previous paragraph] came right on the heels of larger reversal of the trend against speech in Saskatchewan. On April 13, 2006, the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal overturned a 2002 Court of Queen’s Bench ruling that supported a 2001 decision of the Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission against Hugh Owens. In 1997, Owens published an ad in the Saskatoon StarPhoenix that referred to Biblical passages which condemned homosexuality. Accompanying the citations was an illustration of two male stick figures holding hands inside a circle with a bar through it. The SHRC had fined both Owens and the newspaper $1,500 for violating s. 14(1)(b) of The Saskatchewan Human Rights Code. It was only a partial victory for freedom because the Appeal court didn’t rule that the section of the code was in violation of the Canadian Charter of Rights. The judges simply stated that the SHRC had been too lenient in its interpretation of the Code. Whether that ruling will have any impact remains to be seen. Tom Ross, a labour employment lawyer with McLennan Ross in Calgary, thinks other HRCs were paying attention. “This case certainly helps to rebalance the jurisprudence in Saskatchewan and I think it will have some impact elsewhere,” he says.

    Implication: the Court of Appeal is the proper venue to have an HRC action thrown out. Near the end, the article mentions that the HRC setup hasn’t been tested at the Supreme Court level. The people who otherwise would, are worried that the Supreme Court may uphold the underlying legislation – and they don’t seem to be ‘right wingers’, either.

  15. G-M puts up this “essay”. See the pic they put up?
    It’s Librano$ Robillard
    From a comment:
    “I’m with Karen Chan in that I think there needs to be a space where debate is kept on track and respectful, by force if necessary. Particularly with an issue as sensitive as multiculturalism.”
    Note: “by force if necessary.”
    Chilling words. It’s the socialist/political correctness/multiculturalist mind: Socialist tyranny.
    …-
    When multi morphs into plural
    Cultures can be sorted out; the hard part is getting ahead
    Claverdon, England — Canadians have successfully proselytized for multiculturalism overseas for years. Scholars trooped to European capitals to give PowerPoint presentations. Canada was the multi-culti go-to nation.
    But at a major conference on social cohesion last month at a hotel in the British Midlands, the Canadians suddenly found themselves on the defensive. Canada, it seems, no longer has any lessons for Europe. Multiculturalism looks like yesterday’s “ism.” …-
    Enlarge image:Minister of Citizenship and Immigration Lucienne Robillard helps new Canadian citizen Kelly Ku, 9, cut a cake decorated with the Canadian flag while House of Commons Speaker Gilbert Parent helps First and Second World War veterans Roy Henley, 95, of Sidney, B.C., and Tom Spear, 99, of Calgary. (CP/Fred Chartrand)…-
    http://tinyurl.com/yqksjn

  16. The book they used to burn now fires new revolution of faith in China
    In China it is known as the “sacred doctrine” and it has become one of the country’s bestselling books. Yet it has nothing to do with the thoughts of Chairman Mao and its teachings have been in conflict with the forces of Communism for generations.
    Demand for the Bible is soaring in China, at a time when meteoric economic growth is testing the country’s allegiance to Communist doctrine. Today the 50 millionth Bible will roll off the presses of China’s only authorised publisher, Amity Printing, amid public fanfare and celebration.
    …
    A country where the Communist ideology has lost much credibility is seeing an upsurge in conversions to Christianity. Li Baiguang, a prominent lawyer and Christian activist who was received by President Bush at the White House last year, said: “Rising wealth means that more and more people have been able to meet their material needs, the need for food and clothing.
    “Then they are finding that they need to satisfy their spiritual needs, to look for happiness for the soul. In addition, they are seeing a breakdown in the moral order as money takes over. Thus, more and more people are turning to Christianity.”
    (Via Israpundit) Basra’s murderous militias tell Christian women to cover up or face death
    In the past five months more than 40 women have been murdered and their bodies dumped in the street by militiamen, according to the Basra police chief. Major-General Abdul-Jalil Khalaf said that some of them had been killed alone, others gunned down with their children. One unveiled mother was murdered together with her children aged 6 and 11.
    The British Army will formally hand Basra over to Iraqi control in less than two weeks, claiming that it had done all it could to stabilise the southern port city during four years in charge. Yet as a tentative stability returns to Baghdad, where even alcohol shops are starting to reopen, Britain appears to be leaving Basra ever more firmly in the hands of lawless gangs and strict morality police.
    Messages are scrawled in graffiti warning women not to venture out without observing Islamic dress codes. “Whoever disobeys will be punished. God is our witness that we have conveyed this message,” says one scrawled in red paint on a wall. A huge advert for mobile phones, featuring a mother and child, has been defaced to blot out the uncovered woman’s head with the slogan “No, no, to unveiled women” sprayed below….

  17. First they came for your guns; then, they came for your tobacco; then, they came for your marijuana; then, they came for you.
    Socialistic tyranny salami-style: gun by gun, puff by puff, slice by slice …
    …-
    Smokers light up in N.S. town to protest tough anti-smoking proposal
    BRIDGEWATER, N.S. – Several dozen people lit up on this Nova Scotia community’s two bridges Saturday to protest tough anti-smoking measures that, if adopted, would make it illegal to smoke in almost all public places within the town’s limits.
    Because they are provincially owned, the two bridge’s that span the LaHave River would be the only public places in Bridgewater that smoking would be allowed under a proposed bylaw. Otherwise, it would be illegal to smoke while walking on the sidewalk or driving in a car.
    The police said Saturday’s protest, which alternated between the two bridges and at its height saw about 60 puffing away, was peaceful. Sgt. Al Cunningham said reporters almost outnumbered the smokers. …-
    http://tinyurl.com/22oa87

  18. Ron in Kelowna,
    Thank you for the points even though you err classing me with those two.
    Try not to be too red-faced regarding your careful reading of threads before commenting. = TG

  19. re: comment re Goreacle on “Libel Tourism” thread. Please delete.
    Note to self: Put the mouse to bed.

  20. CalgaryGrit need only look as far as Maclean*s and the Ottawa Citizen for anti-CPC ammo.
    ** First up, remember that investigation into Liberal Party polling practices headed up by former PQ Cabinet Minister Danielle Paille? Well, you probably don’t because his conclusions have been sitting in report purgatory for a month, no doubt waiting for a quiet December 24th publication.
    Well, it seems the CPC have broken Paul Martin’s spending record, with the PMO quadrupling its polling budget since ’05-06. When asked about it in the house, James Moore said he was *surprised* to learn this.**
    =================== And he probably was,
    Moore replied in the Ottawa Citizen..
    ** We are taking all the necessary steps to correct this in the future to safeguard taxpayers’ money,** Mr. Moore said.
    ==================
    Expect to see this played up Mansbridge style. = TG

  21. One more reason to detest flying rats:
    Awning collapse death link to pigeon droppings
    BUILDING inspectors had been looking at the condition of old shop awnings before one collapsed in a torrential storm at Balgowlah, killing a man.
    Investigators will examine if the weight of pigeon droppings left after years of roosting in the hollow awning contributed to its fatal collapse….

  22. Nicola Timmerman, you can buy a superlaive performance of The Huron Carol, and other English, French, Polish, Orthodox, and Renaissance gems, on a Naxos CD by the Elora Festival Singers. It’s called The Mystery of Christmas. The cost, a mere $9.98: ‘worth every penny.

  24. TG shouldn’t be classified as a troll. He is actually quite articulate and engaging… until you mention fossil fuel 😉
    Sorry Tony, me bad, but I couldn’t resist.

  26. “Smokers light up in N.S. town to protest tough anti-smoking proposal”.
    Should be a piece of cake.
    Word is that the same OPP from Caledonia, are on loan to Nova Scotia, I guess to keep “law and order”.
    Ha ha ha , I couldn’t write that and keep a straight face, sorry.

  27. Incredibly, the G&M still has the multiculturalism question up – failed policy of the past – 77% (11,434 votes), indispensible part of our future – 23% (3,430 votes).

  30. Taliban Jack Layton-NDP says: It’s not fair; it’snot echoes Citoyen Dion.
    …-
    Musa Qala, Afghanistan – Taliban leaders seized in assault on Afghan town
    Excerpt –
    KABUL, Dec 9 (Reuters) – Afghan and NATO-led forces have captured two senior Taliban commanders during their offensive to retake the insurgents’ most important stronghold in Afghanistan, the Afghan Defence Ministry said on Sunday.
    Musa Qala, in the southern province of Helmand, has a symbolic significance for both sides in the conflict in Afghanistan as the only sizeable Afghan town controlled by the Taliban.
    U.S. and British forces opened the operation on Friday, in the words of a British spokesman “kicking the door in to Musa Qala”, to be followed up by an assault by Afghan forces.
    The operation is expected to last several days, but Afghan and foreign forces appeared to have scored an early victory with the capture of two top Taliban civilian commanders in Helmand.
    “During the operation, two Taliban commanders named Mullah Mateen Akhond and Mullah Rahim Akhond have been captured by joint forces,” the Defence Ministry said in a statement.
    Mullah Rahim Akhond is the Taliban-appointed governor of Helmand, while Mullah Mateen Akhond is the Taliban dictrict governor of Musa Qala. …-
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1936885/posts

  31. Take a look at this “File Photo” which MSM puts up to accompany the story.
    It’s literally smoke and mirrors! The tobacco cigarette is prominent, not once but twice! How is that done? Mirrored. MSM has combined many messages in the one pic. All the messages are subliminal mind-control propaganda porn.
    In addition, the photo was taken in summer (trees green leaved); not winter. How do you know? It’s the background.
    The MSM is/are in collusion with the socialists.
    …-
    Drive-thrus unsafe, bad for environment, critics say
    It might be tempting to pull up to the drive-thru window to fill up on food and coffee on frosty winter mornings, but some Canadian communities are arguing that traffic safety and concern for the environment should trump convenience.
    (File Photo)…-
    http://thechronicleherald.ca/Canada/997128.html

  34. Thanks for all the feedback on carols. And now for something completely different. I just heard on the Nick show on CFRA radio in Ottawa an ‘answer’ by Premier McGuinty given to a question about property rights (especially for farmers). Basically he said he believes in government because people are unable to do things for themselves (e.g. schools – has he never heard of home schooling?, protecting the environment, hospitals, etc.).
    He envisages us ‘working hand in hand’ as I guess we go down the road to a socialist paradise I guess, where the government can conviscate your property and not even pay for it.
    To think we are planning to retire in rural Ontario!

  35. News article’s of China’s excess monies.
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20071207.r-cover-side08/BNStory/Business
    &
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20071207.r-cover08/BNStory/Business
    Read readers comments on last article.
    Nothing came up as China started to black market toys, clothes, electronic hardware, parts for vehicles. These things were payed in Foreign Currency that was shelved for later use. Now for last fifteen years plus they have been using this to boost their own dollar. Claiming they are a poor country, getting businesses to put factories in Asia countries so they can maximize their own GDP.
    Float the Chinese currency along the rest of the foreign currencies and see what becomes of it. The world consumers would be surprised at the cost of built in China products.
    Example: Buying Chinese products at a Walmart:
    The coffee pot with Canadian label: When the coffee pot lid busts, try to get it fixed on warranty. On the bottom of the Walmart till slip they will only cover it for 90 days. Send it to office of the manufacture, they will forward it to the repair center and “low and behold”, THEY DO NOT HAVE PART OR CANNOT GET PART, so you are without a coffee pot. Suggestion “BUY NEW ONE” with same warranty.
    Example: Coleman Boots: were made in USA until 4 yrs ago, manufactures in China. Try to get the same wear out of the boot that was good for 2 to 3 years. You will be lucky if you get +-12 months out of them. They only cost 100 dollars at the local Canadian tire store.
    I really think that all people should be demanding of their manufactures, that they will put out a better product and where it is made, products it made from and where it assembled. I think people would start to think of what has this manufacturer, country has done in the past and for the future.
    Like to here more posts on this from ordinary working people instead of MSM. Merle Underwood.

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