Tips on communications: “Kill your precious darlings.”
Hybrids.
The Department Of Unintended Consequences: Human Rights Commission puts Winnipeg transit riders at risk.
Yours are welcome in the comments.
Tips on communications: “Kill your precious darlings.”
Hybrids.
The Department Of Unintended Consequences: Human Rights Commission puts Winnipeg transit riders at risk.
Yours are welcome in the comments.
biff: Thanks for your link. Toward the end of a “frienship” with a AGW/Fruitflyguy cultist I threw out, without any pretensions of scientific knowledge, that solar activity is probably the main culprit in climate change. I also told him that we will soon hear about global cooling. As you point out, considering the sheer and violent mass that is the sun, it’s obvious.
But of course whereas the global WesternSinTaxLooters can’t plausibly nail the SUN with the SIN tag, then can with sinful humans’ generation of CO2.
Prince Charles will appear at conference as a hologram
Daily Mail
http://tinyurl.com/28r6w2
“The Prince wore a light-coloured suit to film the speech – if he had worn dark clothes, only his head would be visible.”
One of Chuck’s namesakes, King Charles I, had his head hologrammed on 30 January, 1649. He wore dark clothes.
Beware, Charles; 30 January is coming.
Canadian Jr’s win in OT to take the Gold
Global Hot Air from the BBC
“Billions of people now ‘know’ about global warming and how it threatens the planet. They ‘know’ that it is all the fault of decades of irresponsible, profligate industry and capitalism.
And yet, what exactly do they really know? Have they delved in to the research data? Have they made it their business to acquire a thorough understanding of atmospheric processes and of climatology? Or have they simply heard it ad nauseam on the news. Heard it so insistently, emphatically and endlessly repeated that it must be true. Surely? ”
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/01/global_hot_air_from_the_bbc.html
thanks for the compliment, me no dhimmi. Yes, I’m trying to avoid the term ‘money laundering’ and have come up with a new acronym, following the esteemed leadership of the UN-IPCC. This is the UN-WWS, or, the United Nations WorldWide Scam. Like most scams, the agenda is to make its CEOs very, very wealthy.
As for Ayn Rand, I haven’t read any of her work. If you are interested in an argument about morality, you might like Harry Gensler’s online instruction chapters:
http://www.jcu.edu/philosophy/gensler/exercise.htm
That’s his Gensler’s Philosophy Exercises and he has some great stuff on morality, set up in very readable outline, including such interesting people as Ima Relativist, Ima Subjectivist, etc.
Canada wins again at the World Juniors. Is it possible to express my admiration for these young men who worked so hard, and against such odds? It is truly our game, and for every coach and parent that makes that 6:00 am call to practice, I say “Thank you, and God bless”; without you, this wouldn’t be possible.
Nemo 2 If you are a George MacDonald Fraser fan, make sure you read the McAusland (sp?) novels. They are Semi autobiographical novels loosely based on Fraser’s experiences as an army officer late in WW2 and post war. They are great books, better than Flashman
The phrase, “may occur naturally in part”, gives the AGWarmites wriggle room/saves their face.
IMO, the AGW hot air balloon is being hauled down/ back to earth slowly. It will die without a whimper.
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“Study says North Atlantic waters may be warming naturally
Charles Mandel , CanWest News Service
The authors of a new paper published this week argue that warmer water in the North Atlantic Ocean – often cited as being caused by climate change and a trigger of more severe storms – may occur naturally in part.”
http://tinyurl.com/2wfzq6
British blogger “Lionheart” facing arrest for telling truth about radical Islam
http://lionheartuk.blogspot.com/2008/01/british-police-have-been-charged-with.html
PRIME MINISTER CONGRATULATES TEAM CANADA ON GOLD MEDAL AT 2008 WORLD U20 HOCKEY CHAMPIONSHIPS
January 5, 2008
Ottawa, Ontario
Prime Minister Stephen Harper today congratulated Canada’s junior men’s hockey team on their hard-fought overtime victory in today’s gold medal game at the 2008 World U20 (Under 20) Hockey Championships in Pardubice, Czech Republic.
”Along with all Canadians, I am extremely proud of the outstanding performance by our junior men’s hockey team at the 2008 World Junior Hockey Championships. Once again, Team Canada players have shown the talent and true Canadian spirit to take on the best hockey teams in the world and emerge champions.”
With this most recent victory, Canada has won the World U20 Juniors four consecutive years and has won a medal in every tournament since 1999.
The next World U20 Hockey Championships will be held in Ottawa from December 26, 2008 to January 5, 2009. Ottawa will be the eighth Canadian city to host a world junior championship after Vancouver (2006), Halifax (2003), Winnipeg (1999), Red Deer, Alta. (1995), Saskatoon (1991), Hamilton (1986) and Montreal (1978).
From springer at Chucker’s place Steyn on our HRC important topic folks , read it .
Canadian Sentinel: Re that UK blogger arrested for telling the truth about Islam, check this out:
Bill Gertz, Washington Times national security columnist, reports (1/4/08) that the Pentagon has fired Stephen Coughlin its most knowledgeable specialist on Islamic Law, and jihad terrorism. As Gertz observed aptly, the Pentagon thus ended the career of its most effective analyst attempting to prepare the military to wage ideological war against jihadism.
minuteman : Thanks, I read a little about him here:
http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article3307561.ece
Quote: “It needed only a few moments exposure to one of his reminiscing public performances to establish that George MacDonald Fraser had led quite a life. His experiences included being held upside down by his heels, while strafed by Japanese sniper fire, as he foraged for water during the Burma Campaign of the Second World War…”
ET:
In case you didn’t see it, my post contained a link to John Galt’s speech from Atlas Shrugged which is all about morality. Facts, existence, joy, high reason.
Here’s Rex Murphy’s dynamite commentary on the CIC/Macleans Human Rights (sic) Commission fiasco, broadcast on the CBC, no less:
“CBC Rex Murphy
“The National, January 3, 2008
“TRANSCRIPT
“Time was when ‘human rights’ was a truly large and noble idea. I associate the concept with, and its birth out of, some of the great horrors of the past century: the bestial depredations of the Nazis, their ‘race science’ and death camps, the horrors of unbridled totalitarianism – under which, the whim of the rulers was sufficient to mutilate, torture and destroy lives, collectively or individually – send millions to arctic slave camps – the debasement of internal exile and psychiatric rehabilitation.
“More currently, I associate real human rights advocacy with the case of a young Saudi woman, who very recently was repeatedly gang-raped – and then she – the victim – charged and sentenced by a Saudi court to 200 lashes and six months in jail for being in a car with a male not her relative. The sentence, after international protest, was voided — but that young woman’s case represents a real example of the violation of basic human rights.
“What I do not associate with this deep and noble concept is getting ticked off by something you read in a magazine – or for that matter hear on television – and then scampering off to a handful – well, three – of Canada’s proliferate human rights commissions – seeking to score off the magazine: this is what four Osgoode Hall law students and graduates — a very definition of the ‘marginalized’ — under the banner of the Canadian Islamic Congress have done after reading an excerpt from Mark Steyn’s America Alone in Maclean’s. The complainants read the article as ‘flagrantly islamophobic’.
“Maclean’s magazine? Well, we all know what a hotbed of radical bigotry and vile prejudice Maclean’s magazine has been. Go away … for what seems like a century Maclean’s was no more ‘offensive’ (that is the can’t term of choice these days) than a down comforter on a cold day and if Mark Steyn’s article offended them: so what? Not every article in every magazine of newspaper is meant to be a valentine card addressed to every reader’s self-esteem. Maclean’s published a bushel of letters following the article’s appearance: some praised it: others scorned it. That’s freedom of speech: that’s democracy: that’s the messy business we call the exchange of ideas and opinions.
“But where does the BC Human Rights Commission, the Ontario Human Rights Commission, the Canadian Human Rights Commission come into this picture? Has anyone been publicly whipped? Has someone or some group been hauled off to a gulag? Is there a race frenzy sweeping the land?
“Why is any human rights commission inserting itself between a magazine, a television show, a newspaper and the readers or viewers? Is every touchy, or agenda-driven sensibility now free to call upon the offices of the state and free of charge – to them – not their targets – to embroil them in ‘justifying’ their right to write and broadcast as they see fit? The Western Standard magazine, during the so-called Danish cartoon crisis got hauled before the Alberta Human Rights Commission for publishing the cartoons that all the world was talking about. The action drained the magazine’s resources – but it was free to the complainant.
“Meantime real human rights violations – threats of death against Salman Rushdie, riots after the cartoons, death threats against the artists, the persecution of Hirsi Ali, the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, neither inspire nor receive human rights investigations.
“Maclean’s and its columnists – especially of late – are an ornament to Canada’s civic space. They should not have to defend themselves for doing what a good magazine does: start debate, express opinion, and stir thought. And most certainly they should not have to abide the threatened censorship of any of Canada’s increasingly interfering, state appointed and paradoxically labeled human rights commissions.”
Here’s my two cents, sent to the CBC web site, in the Comment section after the transcription of Murphy’s remarks. My comment has not been posted: the last post was made yesterday, I think.
“This is, figuratively, a frosty Friday, and a Red Letter Day: this day, I PRAISE the CBC for a very fine piece of journalism!
“Rex Murphy’s surgically sharp indictment of Canada’s kangaroo courts, the Human Rights (sic) Commissions, hit nearly all the right nails on the head: 1) the fact that the hapless defendant of one of these Star Chambers is guilty as charged—whatever happened to the rule of law concept of ‘innocent until proven guilty’? 2) the fact that the defendant has to pay, out of his/her own pocket, to prove his/her innocence (the complainant takes no risk, monetary or otherwise); and 3) the fact that ‘being offended’, not the truth of the matter, is considered grounds for the collusion of an individual (or individuals) with the STATE to harass a fellow citizen of an apparently ‘free’ country, under threat of the censorship of his/her opinions and ‘free’ speech.
“This was a short piece, so the estimable Mr. Murphy didn’t have time to include in his indictment such additional facts as: 1) Members of all Human Rights (sic) Commissions are political appointees. So far, close to 100% are members of the left-wing elites that run this country. 2) A Human Rights (sic) panel may consist of only one person—usually not more than three—which acts as prosecution, jury, and judge. 3) The Commission has huge powers to punish the defendant: both large fines and censorship of future expression of opinion—under threat of further harsh penalties for non-compliance. 4) The rules of evidence are waived: hearsay evidence is both allowed and there is no onus to prove its validity.
“All of this should scare the Beejeesus out of law abiding Canadians who aren’t brain dead and have a few negative opinions about where we’re headed. And, yes, I’m delighted that, on January 3, 2008, Rex Murphy exposed the fraudulence of Canada’s Human Rights (sic) Commissions on our tax funded network. However. . . what took so long? Many conservative groups have been documenting the abuses of Canada’s Human Rights (sic) Commissions for decades. When conservative groups speak up, the MSM— the CBC being one of the worst offenders—have censored such opinions by omission. (Most conservatives avoid the CBC. I watched this via a link at Mark Steyn’s Macleans article.)
“Rex Murphy is one in a million. Thanks for speaking up—and so eloquently—Mr. Murphy! (And I hope your job is safe!)
“P.S. If more CBC coverage was of this calibre and fairness, I’d be watching again.”
The slow drum beat of death continues. Most of you here do realize, don’t you, that this is happening because of YOUR ***DEFECTION*** to the internet?
http://www.wbbm780.com/pages/1432062.php?
Sun-Times To Layoff 40
Bob Roberts Reporting
“CHICAGO — The Chicago Sun-Times plans 40 layoffs at month’s end, including as many as 35 newsroom staffers.”
“The Sun-Times itself reported that as many as 27 Newspaper Guild-represented copy editors, designers and reporters will be laid off, although none of those targeted will be sportswriters covering major beats or the newspaper’s photographers.”
“Published reports indicate that an additional five management employees will be laid off.”
“Crain’s Chicago Business reported that the newspaper’s efforts to increase revenues in the past year fell flat. Instead, Crain’s reported, Security and Exchange Commission filings show that ad revenue fell 10 percent during the first nine months of 2007, to $214.9 million.”
“The newspaper industry as a whole has been suffering as readers defect to the Internet.”
The Taliban did not spring spontaneously from the mountains of Afghanistan.
Taliban Jack Layton-NDP’s Taliban was “installed” by Benazir Bhutto.
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“During Benazir’s regime, the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) of Pakistan had installed the Taliban in Afghanistan and a large number of young Islamic militants were recruited to carry out ISI’s “dirty work in Kashmir”, Dalrymple writes in the New York Times.”
Assassinated ex-premier of Pakistan Benazir Bhutto was a victim of her own legacy, according to noted author William Dalrymple. …-
http://tinyurl.com/2gd3xy (andhrandnews)
ET @ 11:27: along with Me No Dhimmi, I’d like to congratulate you on a fine summary of the AGW scam. I’ve got some friends who read the Toronto Star: for their edification, I’m going to pass along the truth of the matter.
Defect. Defection. Defect to the enemy.
Implying that one is ‘defective’ if one sources information from the Internet instead of the MSM. Figures.
Have to hand it to the journalists though — they really know how to play on words. It is as if that is all they “study” at Ryersons.
I’m still wondering what the Winterpeg transit rider is all upset about. (“Human Rights Commission puts Winnipeg transit riders at risk.”)
I have seen both the automated stop announcements and driver announcement systems, and it ain’t rocket science. I have even seen drivers letting riders know where they should get off for connections or a specific location if the rider isn’t familiar with the route. Some people have no life if this is an issue. I’d worry more about the coffee drinking, cell phone talking driver trying that lane change in front of you.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper today congratulated Canada’s junior men’s hockey team
Dat is not fair.
concerned Canadian – thank you so much for an excellent letter. May I strongly suggest that you send a copy of the whole – that’s Rex Murphy’s comment and your own, by post to the Human Rights Commissions? And a copy by email to Harper’s office. I hope you do this.
me no dhimmi – thanks again for your comments; yes, I did look, briefly, through your link. That’s why I mentioned Harry Gensler’s work on ethics and morality.
Bill D. Cat at 6:10 pm: Thanks for the link to the Steyn article. I almost lost my whole monitor and keyboard when I read what no one has ever said better. When wondering why an Ontario labour organization would support the complaint against him to the CHRC et al, Steyn notes:
“Except that there seems to be some kinky kind of competition on the Western left to be, metaphorically speaking, Islam’s lead prison bitch.”
Nuclear jiggery pokery by Israel, Pakistan, and especially Turkey:
For sale: West’s deadly nuclear secrets
A WHISTLEBLOWER has made a series of extraordinary claims about how corrupt government officials allowed Pakistan and other states to steal nuclear weapons secrets.
Sibel Edmonds, a 37-year-old former Turkish language translator for the FBI, listened into hundreds of sensitive intercepted conversations while based at the agency’s Washington field office…
Edmonds described how foreign intelligence agents had enlisted the support of US officials to acquire a network of moles in sensitive military and nuclear institutions…
Biff, thanks for starting the process that generated so many interesting sources of information on global cooling. This has the potential to be far more devastating than global warming especially if huge amounts of food production have been diverted to the very inefficient production of ethanol.
I’m glad that I decided to make the move to the interior of BC a few years ago. It seems like a much safer place to spend 2012 than Vancouver. Now that the evidence for global cooling is so overwhelming, I’ve decided that my next vehicle is going to be an SUV.
Thanks, ET. I might just do that!
September 2007:
“Stéphane Dion is blasting the Conservative government’s foreign policy as mediocre, rigid, simplistic, amateurish, ineffective and incompetent.”
Well I guess HE would know.
They have Sinned. (Sin is not found in non-Western ideologies).
Where does that one come from? Every culture has some sense of ‘sin’ in it. Every society has
a ‘higher ideal’ towards which one is expected to strive. Failure to reach toward that higher ideal or the idea of being ruled by our base nature is pretty much shunned in any culture if for no other reason than lack of such an ideal precludes an orderly society.
Great, global cooling. Ten years from now we’ll look back at the heyday of AGW and say “those were the good old days!”
It’s global warming folks. Ever notice how Popsicles are getting smaller and your paying more? UN can tell you why!!! !!!!
@let there be light:
Thanks for the link to the story about the Queen Mother.
I’ve just taken ET’s advise and sent my above post to the PM. I added this:
“Prime Minister, the HRCs are improperly constituted and are out of control. It’s about time that these undemocratic kangaroo courts were disbanded altogether. The idea that having one’s feelings hurt—surely, a subjective matter—is enough cause for the state to take sides and seriously threaten the peace and order of a law abiding Canadian citizen’s life is abhorrent.
“I’m an observant Christian, who used to be active in the public square debate about a number of controversial issues. Now that I’m under threat, in order to protect my job—my ideas are out of line with my employer’s ‘Equity (sic) Policy’—and keep myself out of the sights of the HRCs, I now keep my mouth shut. Some freedom, Prime Minister!
“The whole ‘equity’ industry in this country is a complete sham. With impunity, and while threatening the rest of us with reprisals, certain groups are allowed to say and do just about whatever they please. This so called ‘equity’ is exactly the opposite: in reality, it’s reverse discrimination and the traffic is all one way.
As Canada’s Prime Minister, you have a duty to protect all its citizens from arbitrary and repressive measures of the state. One of the best ways to do this would be to dismantle the Human Rights (sic) Commissions, which have an altogether abysmal record of being objective and fair. In fact, they are set up to be just the opposite. The time is right to get rid of them.
It’s the Man From Hope!
No, not Clinton.
JFKerry? No.
It’s Hussein Obama, aka the Great Black Muslim Hope. Hussein is the H-word, a Muslim name; not to be mentioned/tabooed by the left MSM.
JFK? So sad for the leftists; JFK was assassinated/shot dead by a leftist of the leftists: LHO, aka Lee Harvey Oswald.
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Hail the rise of a new JFK
http://tinyurl.com/ywlwgt (timesonline)
I am planning on quoting a submission to National Post’s online Full Comment section to my local MP regarding HRC’s. The response was to George Jonas’s column yesterday on the outrage that are Canada’s Human Rights Comissions.
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2008/01/04/george-jonas-it-s-a-human-right-to-be-an-idiot.aspx#comments
“by haliburton
Jan 05 2008
5:42 PM Yes, it is a kangaroo court, and a most unCanadian one at that.
Before the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal, May 10, 2007, Transcript of Warman V. Lemire :
(Dean Steacy is an INTERNET “investigator” for the Canadian Human Rights Commission and Barbara Kulaszka, a lawyer representing a website owner)
MS. KULASZKA: “ Mr. Steacy, you were talking before about context and how important it is when you do your investigation. What value do you give freedom of speech when you investigate one of these complaints?”
MR. STEACY: “Freedom of speech is an American concept, so I don’t give it any value.”
MS. KULASZKA: “Okay. That was a clear answer.”
MR. STEACY: “It’s not my job to give value to an American concept.”
One can certainly infer that these statements are of a blatantly fascist, totalitarian nature. We clearly see Steacy treating the Canadian Charter of Rights with utter contempt. It’s not that Steacy rejects “freedom of speech.” He simply appears not to believe in the concept of a pluralistic democracy where people actually have a constitutional guarantee that the government won’t be able to silence them just because someone like Steacy says so.
Here we are shown a clear example of how we are served by an investigative civil servant on the Federal payroll. And where, pray tell, did he develop such ideas? With the KGB or the STASI perhaps? Why, no! With the so-called Canadian Human Rights Commission. Are not responsible officers with the Federal Government required to a take an oath to uphold and protect the Constitution of our country? Apparently not, if they work for the so-called Human Rights Commission.
In the Spring of 2007, the so-called Human Rights Commission made a motion that the Accused Person be excluded from the Hearing Room. This monstrous demand, going far beyond the most debased and despicable Star Chamber proceeding, was rejected by the legal authority on the Human Rights Tribunal on May 10, 2007, who stated: “If granted, Mr. Lemire will be excluded from the hearing examining his own alleged conduct. He will be denied the opportunity to view the evidence. His opportunity to assist and instruct his lawyer will be restricted. Section 50(1) provides that all parties shall be given a “full and ample opportunity, in person or through counsel, to appear at the inquiry, present evidence and make representations”.
It is clear that the so-called Canadian Human Rights Commission is totally out of control and has become an organization employing undemocratic radicals, with fascist tendencies, who disparage the Canadian Constitution and openly demand the suspension of the most basic rights in legal proceedings. The Federal Government cannot constantly rely on the Tribunal to suppress the ghastly totalitarian outlook and practices of the Commission, any more than the regular judicial system can suppress an out of control police system. The grotesque so-called Human Rights Commission has obviously been subverted and must be eliminated from our Government!”