Like Oriana Fallaci with puppies and a push-up bra. You go girl!
In the new paper,
Emanuel and his co-authors project activity nearly two centuries hence, finding an overall drop in the number of hurricanes around the world, while the intensity of storms in some regions does rise. For example, with Atlantic hurricanes, two of the seven model simulations Emanuel ran suggested that the overall intensity of storms would decline. Five models suggested a modest increase.
Willful blindness – “Do I have the sides right? They say “Allahu Akbar!” we say “Imagine the liability!””
Forced to pay $50K for denying service to Jewish man…
Yours in the comments.
Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss time once again (already? so soon again?)
Conservatives, April 2008:
“The Conservative Party sees this as a PR stunt and a tactic of intimidation.”
Conservatives, January 2006:
“From our standpoint as parliamentarians, people who want to have responsible and ethical government, that is not adequate…I think the mere existence of a police investigation indicates we should have a wider public inquiry into the practices that are going on here…”
And who actually made those comments in 2006? The Right Honourable Stephen Brian Jean Harper, that’s who.
Italy: A truly historic election.
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“in the latest election, Italy’s left Socialist Party has vanished from parliament for the first time since 1892, along with the Communists, whose hammer and sickle has been a parliamentary feature since 1921.”
“Why Berlusconi beat the ‘Italian Obama’”
http://tinyurl.com/5lafpk (spiked
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“What News from the Peasant?
Monday, May. 05, 1958
In the old days, Italy’s Palmiro Togliatti amazed everyone by his cocksure confidence about Moscow’s ways. For more than three decades the unquestioned leader of Italian Communism, he built the party into the largest outside the Iron Curtain, formed a leftist front that captured the votes of one of every three Italians. He had spent long years in Moscow, was a big wheel in Stalin’s Comintern, won such confidence from the Kremlin that he was allowed to pursue his own “Italian line” of Communism. And he knew them all personally—Stalin, Beria, Molotov, Malenkov, Bulganin, Zhukov. All except one*.”
http://tinyurl.com/6drwuk (Time)
[*The one was the snuffer of lberia: Nikky.]
Re: Los Gatos Camera
A businessman who turns away custom because of his bigotry is limiting his prospects of success — no more and no less. He is no different than someone whose inefficiency prevents him from accepting all orders. It is best that the market resolve the fate of his business.
What happened before “human rights” legislation? Some people were denied services or accommodations. Other people of principle refused to support the enterprises run by bigots. For example, personages such as Ronald Reagan refused to join country clubs that excluded Jewish members decades before discrimination was proscribed by law, and frankly decades before there were public relations benefits attached to taking a stand.
This may be the first, last and only time I’ll offer a libertarian opinion.
The sort of interfaith dialogue advocated in this vodcast (6:41) may work with moderate Muslims, however we define that term. I can’t see hardcore headchoppers having the slightest interest in the exercise.
A Christian Response to Fitna
http://godblogger.org/2008/04/16/a-christian-response-to-fitna/
One question for Kate: are the puppies in the push-up bra? If so, wouldn’t that make them sweater-puppies?
*juvenile snickering*
Thanks for joining me on this trip back to Grade 9.
Puddin and pie: “Best advice to any shop owner who wants to provide selective service…”
“Selective service”? Well, despite the wink and the nudge, “selective service” is just code for illegal discrimination. And desipte the fancy footwork, a person who practises it is still a bigot.
And no one has a right to behave like a bigot.
Before the civil rights act in America, racists had all sorts of clever tricks for circumventing the rights of people to enjoy the rights and privileges afforded to others. “Sure you have right to vote,..um…just can’t find your paper work right now…” “Sure you have a right to an education…in that really nice school over on the other side of town with the rest of your kind.” “What’s that? You want a hair cut? Oh look at the time, I promised the wife I would close early”. “I know the apartment is advertized in the paper, but really, someone was just here ahead of you and rented it. Yeah, about 5 minutes ago.”
People who think that is O.K. don’t know the first thing about the principles this great nation was founded on.
Sean: As for Scott Brockie, I don’t think he or anyone else has a right to “refuse services to anyone he wants”. But a serious argument can be made that his right to freedom of religion and conscience should be given equal weight and consideration in determining who’s rights should prevail. In his case, I don’t think that happened, and that is a problem with HRC’s, as opposed to a court of law.
Eeyore: “Los Gatos would have posted a sign saying “The Owner reserves the right to refuse service for items deemed, in the Owner’s sole opinion, to be pornographic or associated with illegal activities or for activities which honour or support terrorism in any form”
That is fair, because discrimination against people’s taste for pornography, or for illegal activites is not against the law in California apparently. Neither is “no shirt, no shoes”.
But it is not up to the “owner’s sole opinion” either. A judge’s opinion was given in a court of law, ruling was that the problem was not about a photo of a “terrorist” but a photo of a jew. The “owner’s sole opinion” becomes meaningless as soon as it results in a violation of the law against discrimination based on race, religion, etc.
Of course it has to be that way or you get something like:
“I’m not against jews at all, I am only against terrorists. But in my experience, most zionist jews were terrorists, so… sorry, no service.”
“I’m not against blacks, I am against illegal activities. But, you know, just about all blacks are gun-packing drug dealing thieves, so…sorry no service.”
“I’m not against Canadians. I am against pornographic images. We all know though, about those sex-crazed Canucks and their porn, and you look like you might be a Canadian, so, I’m not even going to take a chance on developing your pictures, you left-wing, back-bacon eating, hockey playing, heathen!”
Putting up a cleverly worded sign doesn’t absolve anyone from their legal and moral responsibility to behave civilly to a fellow citizen.
“An open letter to the General Manager, Global Warming – Europe
15 April 2008 – Haute Provence office
Dear Sir / Madam As a long time resident of the south east of France, notably the famous region called “Provence”, I would like to make a complaint.
Firstly, I am writing to the “General Manager” because I assume that there must be one. With so many “experts” in the world, someone somewhere must manage them. I assume.
I have spent the day with 2 people from the south of England who are very serious about buying a property in northern Provence. They have read most of my previously published news articles about the climate (300 days of sunshine, Provencal summer and Alpine winters), the exchange rate (which is not getting any better – I have written to Mr. Brown and Mr. Bush too and have expressed my wish for comment by return of post), and the lifestyle which, I hasten to add, seems to be the only thing that is not in jeopardy at the moment.
So, why is it, then, that my clients and I have had to endure a day of driving rain, snow and gale force winds when I would have expected 20 degrees Celsius and deep blue skies? Why is it that spring has been denied the right to break when, according to your “experts”, the planet is warming at an alarming rate and that “winter in Europe is a thing of the past”?”
http://tinyurl.com/5ab4p9 (via newsbusters)
My biggest beef with the HRC is their structure and their expansion not individual cases. From noble and humble beginnings they have become an organization that does not have the skills and abilities to deal with complex social,medical and business issues.
When they arbitrated small cases involving rentals and employment they did little harm. They had the ability to settle these cases and thereby reduce the use of the regular courts. The appointment process by which they were hired was not as big a deal because their cases had little impact.
Now they have expanded into hate speech, the internet, medical decisions and in fact wish to add classification like “social condition” as protected groups. Their lack of oversight, unprofessional conduct and bias is showing in the cases they take and their means of securing a conviction. They are creating rights out of thin air. The defendants are having their legal rights trampled by the unequal financial burden and presumption of guilt.Unaccountable appointees should not have this degree of power.
At the very least they should be returned to their very limited role. I think the public would find that there is really not much of a case load for them anymore and they can then be disbanded. All of the more complex issues need to be handled by the real legal system and our elected representatives.
Laws must be return to being based on one common standard for all Canadians not different rights based on group identity and PC. Being a libertarian, I would prefer laws based on maximum individual rights and minimum government intervention but at the very least citizens deserve fairness and accountability. The HRC is not fulfilling even this low standard.
Re: The Election Canada “visit” to Conservative Party HQ: Not a set up for initimidation/political manipulation????
Thhnk again. According to Don Martin the CBC crew with cameras and reporters were waiting outside Tory HQ for TWO HOURS BEFORE EC and their RCMP props arrived.
AND the Liberals had a HIRED videographer on hand.
This stinks. And it could happen to any of us – getting bludgeoned if you try to take on a government body like Elections Canada. No matter what political stripe you are this is just plain wrong don’t you think.
Charles MacDonald: “A businessman who turns away custom because of his bigotry is limiting his prospects of success — no more and no less.”
Charles, I’m not an expert on libertarianism, which is why I am a conservative, so I’ll accept your definition of a libertarian view. But I am surprised by how amoral a philospophy you paint it as.
Would you still support this statement if it read: “A businessman who turns away custom because of his penchant for eating babies is limiting his prospects of success — no more and no less”? Maybe someone would defend this, provided that the shop owner didn’t actually
eat any babies. The problem with an attitude, such as bigotry is when it becomes behaviour that effects other people. In acts of discrimination, along with being denied a needed service, an individual is insulted, disrespected, their worth as a human being denigrated. That is a type of real injury. And its impact is multiplied when an entire population experiences the bigotry, just because they are in the minority.
The problem with market forces dealing with bigotry, is that that markets are amoral – they don’t choose between moral or immoral actions. In this market, the playing field is not level – those being discriminated against are in the minority. The discriminatory shop owner is not going to go out of business by driving away the custom of those who are in the minority. Which is why we have laws and charters to prohibit discrimination and protect the individual rights of everyone.
You can salute Ronald Reagan for taking a personal stand against anti-semitic organizations, but really, how many country-clubs did he close down? And it was not “some people” who were denied some services, it was a whole lot of people, denied services and a great deal more. And how many years, decades, or even centuries are supposed to pass, perpetuating these egregious injustices, before the market forces finally complete their work?. Sometimes, such as in Britain during the slave trade, the Jim Crow south, or Germany’s anti-semitic Nazi regime, bigotry and discrimination are so entrenched in the system that civilized and moral societies must take action against it, and to defend civil and human rights for the minority as well as the majority.
Acts of discrimination based on race, religion, colour, etc. is wrong, and it hurts people. That is why we have laws against it.
Ted,
The difference is billions of stolen taxpayer dollars that are still unaccounted for. These are merely weekly staged scams by the Liberals that they are using for possible election ads. And also to keep the focus off their Achilles hanging toenail – Dion.
199 Liberal scams, since Chretien. You have a long way to go to even attempt to create similarities.
“…an individual is insulted, disrespected, their worth as a human being denigrated. That is a type of real injury.”
My heart bleeds for them. Of course, we have an entire industry of social scientists, HRC functionaries, and Supreme court of Canada justices to emote for these people and pander to their subjective — not to say nomogenic — psychological pain. Awards of damages based on objective tests and objective injury are a much surer path to justice, I suggest.
How many country clubs did people like Ronald Reagan close down? They opened the vast majority of them to accepting members of all races and creeds.
Similarly, the decades-long boycott of Pepsi did no more than hurt its bottom line. That is a type of real injury. Yet for years Pepsi pursued commerce with communist regimes and repressive Arab tyrannies but refused to trade with Israel. Then its totalitarian friends crumbled due to the sustained, moral opposition of people like Ronald Reagan and Pepsi had to adapt to a new reality.
“markets are amoral – they don’t choose between moral or immoral actions.”
The market is an abstraction that does not exist separately from the people who comprise it. Those people have moral beliefs and act on them, much more efficiently than an ossified bureaucracy such as a human rights commission or a court, which is of necessity committed to stare decisis and incremental change as precedent responds to changes in society.
“Grits demand Answers about RCMP on Tory HQ”-ctv.ca
ctv once again shows its liberal bias just in the picture of the PM. it shows the PM answering a question in the HOC & with his head down(much as he does all the time when he is in thought of Rebutal to slam Dunk the Liberals)
But put the 2 together the Headline & photo & we have CTV bias trying to make out the Shame of another conservative Scandal.
Now what i would like to know, like Most Canadians & The Answer that should be Demanded should be coming from the Liberals WHERE IS THE STOLEN TAXPAYER MONEY?
Here’s a sociological view of why anti-capitalist Marxists are what they are, and why journalists, academics, and bureaucrats are so often populated by those who hate a market economy. And eventually, seek and push policy options that are left-wing.
“The intellectual wants the whole society to be a school writ large, to be like the environment where he did so well and was so well appreciated.”
http://www.cato.org/pubs/policy_report/cpr-20n1-1.html
Makes alot of sense to me.
From the Braaaaaaaawdcast (Newman) re the PMSH/Elections Canada thing:’We could have a Robert Mugabe moment if we’re not careful!’
“French Eurovision entry to sing in English”
“YouTube: Sebastién Tellier’s Divine video”
http://tinyurl.com/6f66vx (telegraph)
a poll on C02 caue of climate “crisis” …
http://www.climatescienceinternational.org/index.php?option=com_poll&Itemid=49
results so far – 63.6% = C02 not likely cause …
http://www.climatescienceinternational.org/index.php?option=com_poll&task=results&id=15&Itemid=49
Paul Martin’s ships are registered offshore, but his golf course is out back baby!
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/posted/archive/2008/04/16/graeme-hamilton-paul-martin-s-backyard-golf-course-approved.aspx
communist terror, communist invasion
Journalist threatened
4/14/2008
Vancouver columnist and broadcaster Bill Tieleman has received death threats to himself and his family. This after writing a column in 24 Hours last week suggesting we all boycott China instead of just the summer Olympics.
Tieleman received a flurry of emails from around the world but there was one from China that mentioned a weapon, “When I got the second email right in a row, I responded to it thinking that it was probably a fake email address and just said the police had been notified immmediately. And I immediately got another email back saying, “I have a gun and I’m waiting.” So, at that point it became even more serious than I was initially thinking about it.”
Another email from Mainland China said, ” I am normal Chinese. I must kill you and your family.”
Tieleman will visit the Bill Good Program this morning.
http://www.cknw.com/Channels/Reg/NewsLocal/Story.aspx?ID=1004228
“Watson defends statements he made 30 years ago about exploiting the seal hunt
By Alison Auld, THE CANADIAN PRESS
HALIFAX – An environmental crusader at the centre of the anti-sealing movement is standing by comments he made 30 years ago in which he rebuked other conservation groups for exploiting harp seals for profit.
In a 1978 CBC radio interview, now being circulated on YouTube, Paul Watson slams Greenpeace and others for focusing protests on seal hunting because “it is very easy to exploit,” even though the species is not endangered.
Watson, the 57-year-old co-founder of Greenpeace who later established the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, tells the interviewer that conservation groups campaign to protect seals because the animals are “cute” and their images help generate more donations than efforts to save other species.
“Oh, it’s definitely because it’s easier to make money and because it does make a profit,” he says in the seven-minute discussion with Barbara Frum.”
http://tinyurl.com/5ujkxm
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Barbara Frum – Paul Watson Interview, 1978 CBC
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_gTBDFTXE0
(text)
Thanks muchly for that Maz2, I’ve been meaning to try to hunt down a YouTube or equivalent version of that since Ardvark mentioned it[1] (and I commented on it) in reference to Hunter’s Place[2].
[1] http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/archives/008476.html#c262334
[2] climbingoutofthedark.blogspot.com/2008/04/poor-seals-or-rich-protesters.html
Rudy: “One right we should all enjoy is “the right to be treated like anybody else”.”
Kinda like white males are treated by affirmative action? Who is this anybody else? … the married white man/white lady with 1.2 kids?
In matters that the state sticks their noses into, yes, everyone should be treated like anyone else … but that isn’t the case, is it? … even for the state.
Ok, treated like everyone else. We had a Sikh Parade in Surrey last Sunday. I drove down 132nd … hundreds of illegally parked cars (clearly marked no parking) … even blocking private driveways .. 4 blocks away from the parade. Didn’t see one ticket on a car … didn’t see one tow truck. Why? Non ethnic events like this in the lower mainland usually have the tow trucks working overtime … swarming is a better word.
Quick – tell me what is the difference if I don’t want to do business with a white guy or a black guy because they are are a dickhead? … PC answer – only white guys can be dickheads … unless of course a black guy thinks a black guy is a dickhead.
And BTW, I prefer to do business with businesses that don’t treat me like “anybody else”.
Ural: “Yeah man, a poor white guy can’t get an even break in this country. I tell ya, I could’ve been a contender, if it wasn’t for all those Sikhs getting all the good stuff…”
Your claim to victimization underwhelms me. This is Canada. Stand on your own two feet and go make something of yourself.