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  2. Caroline Glick, Kosovo’s stark warning
    The fledgling failed-state of Kosovo is a great boon for the global jihad. It is true that Kosovar Muslims by and large do not subscribe to radical Islam. But it is also true that they have allowed their territory to be used as bases for al-Qaida operations; that members of the ruling Kosovo Liberation Army have direct links to al-Qaida; and that the Islamic world as a whole perceived Kosovo’s fight for independence from Serbia as a jihad for Islamic domination of the disputed province…

  3. Dan Hill. Do I have this straight, his father was Dan Hill III, so that makes the author Dan Hill IV and not just ordinary Dan Hill? Whatever, credit for the good sense in not naming his son Dan.
    The story is riveting, and these rivets are quite the problem. *picks at rivets* I’m baffled. How does something unlovely as this happen in Canada? Roger Moore convinced us that’s quite impossible, because of Canada’s gun laws, or Canadians’ attitude toward them, or something.
    I’m glad they got out of it alive. Oi.

  4. From the Mike Evans link:
    ” hate to break it to Mr. Evans but everyone comes from a family of some sort. Even if you don’t like them very much, unless you were cloned in a lab you had a father and a mother and unless you were abandoned or an orphan you had some semblance of a family…”
    Actually, I suspect that Mike really is a clone. Name of Ovis Sinistris Canadensis. There’s a lab somewhere, maybe in Jack Layton’s basement, where they turn out copy after copy of this misfit gone mainstream.

  6. I really felt for Dan Hill after reading that article. I would like to hear how you other guys would deal with it.
    The Eric character (and for the record I remember the stories about him at the time in the Toronto paper about how he was a good boy who was either never in trouble, or “trying to leave his past behind) needed a good beating and he never got one.
    If he got it when he was thirteen or fourteen Hill would have gone to Jail. If Hill had attempted to do it when Eric was seventeen or eighteen he would come out second best. Also, we are not dealing with people who have the same morality as normal people. A normal person would accept that he was wrong, deserved what he got, and change his ways so that it didn’t happen again. The thugs who run the streets of Toronto now are completely amoral. If Dan had beaten him and won, Eric would have shot him to death or burnt his house down. If Dan had called the the police, it would have been bail before morning and then gunfire. This is exactly why in certain parts of Toronto, no one ever witnesses a crime.
    I would like to think I would be brave enough to face down someone who wouldn’t think twice about killing me, and doesn’t even care about the consequences of doing so, but I don’t think I am.

  8. For your weekend reading pleasure:
    Andrew C. McCarthy, When Jihad Came to America
    Omar Abdel Rahman’s arrival in New York in July 1990 lit a fuse to the city’s nascent but already functioning jihadist community. He went to work right away. It was time, the sheikh exhorted his flock in Brooklyn and Jersey City, to stop pretending that the challenge for Muslims lay elsewhere in the world. The challenge lay right here in the United States. This country, he preached, was “the big evil,” the “fiercest enemy of Islam,” and the real power behind not only the Middle East interloper Israel but such secular Islamic governments as Hosni Mubarak’s Egypt.
    Sheikh Omar pilloried his followers for their empty talk, talk, talk about jihad. He wanted the real thing…

  9. Minuteman: Just had a boo at Dan Hill’s tale of woe and Kathy Shaidle’s devilishly accurate assessment of Danny’s testosterone-challenged response.
    There is but one method for handling people like the street crud Mr. Hill’s kid kept bringing home: Louisville Slugger. Just remember, its hard to burn somebody’s house down while wearing a cast. Fighting back is a requirement, not an option. Success depends on fighting smart, not fair.
    Then there’s the problem of Mr. Hill’s kid bringing home street crud. Members of a proper family act to increase the wealth, health and SAFETY of the family. If one member isn’t doing that, you adjust their attitude.
    I recall a friend of our family had a lot of trouble with his eldest son. The kid would steal stuff. Went to jail a lot. One time the dad went down to the jail to bail the kid out, talked to the cop on duty about what the kid had done, then turned around and walked out. After that the kid started straightening out, finally got it that Dad meant business.
    Sometimes attitude adjustments are painful. Another way to put it is tragic. You suck it up and do what you gotta do. Or, as Mr. Hill did, you end up with the family’s lives in danger. Call me a hard ass, but I think its better to leave a kid in jail for a couple years than go to his funeral. Or have him going to YOURS.
    My two cents worth, Dan Hill is a drooling moron who BEGGED for every bad thing that happened to him. His wife would have been better off to have divorced his worthless ass and bought a dog.

  11. Ad$cam Chretien, aka Jeancula*? Is it still above ground? Get him, ‘fore it’s too late.
    …-
    Chrétien receives Order of Canada
    Former prime minister Jean Chrétien received his medal as a companion of the Order of Canada at a ceremony in Ottawa on Friday.
    http://tinyurl.com/3e2x2z (jack’s)
    Comment:
    Order to go to JAIL is more like it !!
    MSM please ask old Cretch when Canadians will see the 40 to 80 MILLION you stole from tax payers ????
    MSM have no problem with wall to wall coverage on Mulroney
    and $225,000 from 15 plus years ago ……that may or may
    be legal ?
    Comment by Timwest | February 22, 2008
    *Jeancula: a face you will never forget.
    http://tinyurl.com/2wc8gy

  12. What is Liberal Citoyen’s Taliban policy today?
    Devvvlawpment: Les maudits Americains. Dis is izz ‘arper’s fault.
    …-
    Bombardier gives OK to sales deals for CSeries aircraft, may move work to U.S (canpress)
    CHC Helicopter sells to U.S. fund for $3.7B
    (cbc)

  13. Stephen “In general, I thought it was a good story and one worth reading” — thank you for expressing your views on the Dan Hill piece. They reflect my reaction and thinking about the story exactly. I thought it was an honest portrayal of a difficult family situation, the reality of gangs and the vulnerability of many kids. I think that it could well be an eye-opener for some parents who see themselves as somewhat insulated from gang violence. I think that some of the cynical comments posted above (as well as Shaidle’s post) are completely crass and reflect considerable ignorance about the challenges of parenting.

  15. From the Daily Telegraph via National Newswatch
    http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,23257306-5001026,00.html
    Too funny.
    “CELEBRITIES and Madonna are among hundreds of patrons urged to get a Hepatitis A vaccination after a bartender was found to be infected,….
    guests at the Socialista event, including Demi Moore, Ashton Kutcher, Madonna, Gwyneth Paltrow, Ivanka Trump, Liv Tyler, Catherine Keener, Lucy Liu and Salma Hayek.
    Hepatitis A is a liver disease caused by a virus and is spread from person to person by putting something in the mouth that has been contaminated with traces of fecal matter from an infected person.”
    Really, who would expect anything but shitty service at a place called Socialista. Hope they were all wearing their Che gear.
    Up the revolution………….Ivanka Trump.

  17. To all those who hate the idea of calling it Family Day:
    Call it Monday and get back to work. If you have a job.

  18. Busy news day for shoveling taxpayor cash out the door and into the welcoming arms of that ultimate Canadian (?) welfare case: Bombardier
    http://tinyurl.com/2mbqmk
    Way to go Jim! Another $350 million from taxpayor, to the old bum on the corner. Competing with every other politician in the hemisphere to get a little stroke for their cash.
    Meanwhile, the Mirabel sinkhole remains a stark reminder of such political genius of Trudeau, Prentice can’t help but aspire to be that old, wet fart of a man. Heck, why buy off one bagman or organizer, when you can buy off hundreds at a time – huh Jim?

  19. Hmm Kinsella has posted an “unsolicited” e-mail, authors name withheld of course praising Kinsella’s legal acumen. I suspect he has been punked yet again.

  20. Hardboiled,
    ** that ultimate Canadian (?) welfare case: Bombardier. **
    I recall at least two previous gifts of the popular $450,000,000 type during the wild and wooly Cretch and Mr. Diters reigns.
    $450 Million$ for the softwood gangs too.= TG

  21. GM exec stands by calling global warming a “crock”
    “General Motors Corp Vice Chairman Bob Lutz has defended remarks he made dismissing global warming as a “total crock of s—,”
    http://tinyurl.com/2gdeyp (reuters)
    …-

  22. Stephen: “others want to see it as a ‘he deserved it/told you so’ kind of thing. I think that misses the point.”
    Then you invite other opinions: GR-8. Here goes.
    Look, I stayed home with my children in their growing up years, fought the bloody feminists every inch of the way, sacrificed an affluent life style so I could spend time with my children, and talked a lot, to people who didn’t want to listen, about how neglected our children in Canada, generally, are and what the tragic consequences this parental absenteeism has saddled our kids and society with.
    While I stayed home with my husband’s and my children, it was just our luck to have the Librano$ at the helm (no $100/month/six-years-and-under children), who hailed the feminists, wanted women only in the workforce (their taxes filled the Librano coffers and bank accounts), and lib-lefties suggesting that women shouldn’t waste their time caring for their own kids but should be out “fulfilling themselves” and that anyone could care for the kids while women kicked ass with the guys.
    I chose not to fall for this feminist/Librano/Dipper myth and I’m happy to say, that I have a great relationship with my children. I’m still working and probably will until I drop in the harness. My husband and I don’t own a house, we drive a 10-year-old car, we haven’t had a real holiday in years, we pay all of our bills on time, we volunteer in our community–AND I’m sick and tired of the fallout I have to deal with every day in a society that’s totally lost its bearings and doesn’t know right from wrong.
    That fallout would include Dan Hill’s confused and amoral son and his thug-friends–and scores like him, white, black, and mixed-race–who didn’t seem to have any standards by which to discern that the company he was keeping was lethal.
    I’m tired of living in an amoral/immoral society, the result of bad choices made en masse by folks who seem not to have any moral compass. Why should I feel sorry for–or laud–adults who have failed to set high moral and ethical standards for their children, just because, years later, after the havoc has been wrought, they confess to bad parenting and absentee accountability?
    Those of us who were predicting these results–and we were right–were called every name in the book: Bible thumpers, fundamentalists, overly protective of our children, prudes, dinosaurs, etc., etc.
    Now that, sadly, I’ve been proven right, I find it pretty damned difficult to get out my violin to serenade the lib-lefties who delighted in casting stones at me and my ideas.
    I guess I’ve made myself pretty clear. 😉
    Thanks for listening!

  23. batb, glad to see there is someone else out there that doesn’t suffer from “white” guilt!

  24. Sickens me when Cretin is awarded the highest Odour of Canada. What a travesty and for why would he be given it? For winning 3 majorities when he called elections at great expense for no other reason than there was no real opposition parties to present a challenge. Luckily he had Wornout to advise him.
    Reading how he was livid after the 1995 referendum that the country had almost been torn apart yet he did nothing to prevent it even when Preston Manning warned him repeatedly about it makes me just boil. Later just an excuse to steal millions.
    ET nails it when she called him a narcissist egoist.

  25. Someone should give Preston Manning an Order of Canada. He really is an unsung hero of major proportions.

  26. batb at February 22, 2008 6:30 PM “Thanks for listening!”
    Glad to listen, batb. I could hear a lot more of what you’re saying on this subject.
    fc

  27. Those who deserve the Order of Canada–like Preston Manning, Ted Byfield, Gwen Landolt–because they’ve actually contributed to the moral and ethical fibre of our nation, will be relegated to the dustbin of Canadian history, largely because we don’t revere our history: What history?
    It’s now herstory and it started a second ago–or maybe in the ’70s, with the Magus, Trudeau.

  30. “I find it pretty damned difficult to get out my violin to serenade the lib-lefties who delighted in casting stones at me and my ideas.” Well said Batb
    The Hill article highlights a segment of or society, supported by government programs, that is loosing the ability to raise their children.

  31. “expect similar Castro nostalgia to the nth degree: Havana not as quaint as it used to be, full of ghastly American banks and fast-food outlets.”
    Heck, no need to wait. I recently overheard a conversation between two recently retired teachers who were bemoaning the fact that once Fidel was gone that Cuba would no longer be ‘authentic’ and that without doubt it would be ‘less charming’. I couldn’t help but interject that what they describe as authentic charm, most Cubans would likely consider poverty and oppression.
    The fact that the fancy hotels from which they ventured to find that ‘authenticity’ are off limits to the Cubans who labour for them in servitude just didn’t resonate with them at all.
    Socialism. It’s authentic!

  32. “and lib-lefties suggesting that women shouldn’t waste their time caring for their own kids but should be out “fulfilling themselves” and that anyone could care for the kids while women kicked ass with the guys.”
    Right on, Batb! CTV news just featured a piece on a yuppie Mom who was aghast to find that her ‘wonderful nanny’ was neglecting/abusing her two twin infants, who appeared to be no more than 10 mths. old. She had a video camera remote to her workplace and saw it all happening in real time.
    Her regret was not with running back to work shortly after popping twins out of her womb, but that she “hadn’t installed the video camera earlier”. These kids should have been enjoying being breastfed and loved. Instead, they were foisted off to a stranger with “great credentials” but no real connection to them – just give them to someone for whom their needs and lives were just a job.
    Her home however, was quite impressive for someone of her age. Heaven forbid we do with the old ‘bricks and boards’ for our books and stuff. After all, we deserve it. As for what our kids deserve….. not so much.

  33. batb…wohoo! and thank you!You could be telling our story!Those years at home were worth it indeed! But it was that experience of high taxes on our family (4 kids) that drove my passion for change.
    batb and lookout…we have probably rubbed shoulders at REAL Women conferences…one of the best had Lynk Byfield and Gwen Landolt.

  34. Batb, you’ve got me on a roll, too.
    Despite the best efforts of my wife and myself – and we do walk the walk – our daughter/son-in-law exemplify the “I want it all and I want it now” generation.
    Both in their early 30’s with high income jobs and one child (whom we love to bits, of course). Up to their eyeballs in debt. Their ‘starter home’ is in the best part of town, but mortgaged to the hilt in order to pay for the 25′ travel trailer (used 3 – 4 weekends/yr), the 21′ boat with a 200hp outboard – also used just a few times a year. The fabulous dining room set for eight, with the large china hutch of course.
    Oh, and did I mention she’s leaving for Costa Rica next week, leaving her soon to be three year old at home with a Dad who hardly ever sees him because his failing ‘small business’ is the most important concern in his life?
    Yet everytime we see them, they moan about how hard life is, how stressed they are, how much they’d like to have another child but first they need to get their life in order. Of course the massages and pedicures are necessary due to the stress levels and there’s money for the tanning salon so she doesn’t look too pasty on the Costa Rican beaches.
    What really pisses me off though is the position they put us in as Grandparents. For the most part we simply say no if they ask for babysitting time. But occasionaly we cave in because we feel that the wellbeing of our grandchild is better with us than with the alternative.
    Yet in contrast to so many others in society, they are considered exemplary parents.

  37. Antenor, felis corpulentis, erl, No Guff, and bluetech: I hear you loud and clear.
    We have a tragedy of epic proportions in North America–exemplified, No Guff, by the Mom/Nanny/Twins situation reported on CTV and your own daughter’s and son-in-law’s preoccupation with their “lifestyle.”
    The tragedy that seems to have eluded the attention of our affluent society–and the MSM–is the massive number of neglected children in a so-called First-World nation. Teachers see it in the classroom every day; others see it on our streets, on our subways, and in malls. Much of it is benign neglect–the kind your daughter, No Guff, bestows upon her son (she doesn’t “mean to”)–but it’s neglect, nonetheless.
    And that’s what gets my crank going: small, vulnerable human beings being relegated to a place in their families’ priorities well below careers and all the mod-cons “necessary” to keep up with the Jonses. Little people have bodies, minds, and souls that need constant nurturing; you can’t rewind the tape down the road after you realize you’ve made a mistake.
    The next thing that gets my crank going are Poltical Parties, like the Librano$ and Dippers, that feel that the only good mom is a salary-earning mom: all the more $$$ for their coffers and, heck, women who stay home with their own children tend to think for themselves and aren’t so easily herded into the socialist/feminist 1984 barnyard. So, tax them to the max: families that dare to make the care of their children a priority. ‘Can’t have THAT. (At least the CPC is moving in the right direction on this one…letting families choose where some of their taxes go vis a vis the care of their children, rather than Big Brother Government, which the Libs and Dippers are all about.)
    Our children are actually our most precious “resource” for the future. We’ve treated far too many of them like chattle, just another GAP/Roots-adorned accessory on the road to success.
    ‘A heavy and tragic failure of insight and foresight on our part–and we are reaping the Maelstrom. And the cost to too many of our children has been life-shattering.

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