Dear Toronto Real Estate Board – “Last summer, we received a number of posts from your server that were so harassing that we had to ban your server IP address from our website.”
Dear Toronto Star readers; Act like a mature society that understands the importance of diversity.
There can’t be enough laws against hate! So, let’s start with CHRC legal counsel Ian Fine.
Yours are welcome in the comments.
Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here is the Sonny Rollins Trio performing Weaver of Dreams somewhere in the Netherlands in 1959:
video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=9151225149534794015
Where the foxes caper, lol
http://theopinionator.typepad.com/my_weblog/2008/05/recently-ben-sm.html
[quote]At another point in the debate, I tried to show the absurdity of banning any hateful words through a law that doesn’t permit legal defences like truth, fair comment or even common sense. I pointed out that Fine himself had given an interview with the National Post in which he read out a bigoted remark, namely: “a n*gger will try to kill you just for a slice of pizza or a piece of chicken … By Aryan standards, negroes are dangerous animals”.[/quote]
IMO Ian Fine actually mocked the public and brought disrespect to the legal profession. If the words or phrases are NOT hate speech, when he used them.. What is the legal Argument used by the CHRC?.. Only the Peons are guilty? … Is Canadian Law Class selective?. If it’s not the words then it must be association, of some kind.
When this was first reported I posted a US Appeals Court Parallel… FCC vs. B’cast Networks: This is the case were the FCC had fined the Networds for vulgar Words said in a Music awards show. The Justices MOCKED the FCC lawyers by repeating the bad words, from the Bench, and then asking the FCC lawyers why they (Justices) could use those words without violating FCC Rules (the hearing was Broadcast on Cable & likely picked up by Network News). The FCC lawyers did badly, but as yet the ruling has not been published.
The Toronto Real Estate Board meets the Simpsons:
“I know what you diddly-iddly-did!”
When will the Cherniaks and other a**hat liberals of the world understand that Canada’s major institutions, from Confederation and before, were founded on Judeo-Christian values, which are fair, which grant equality before the law, which defend the rights of the individual against tyrannical government, etc., etc.?
Sure there were “Canadians” who were not Christian at the time of Confederation, but the tenets of their faith–or lack of faith–were not the foundation upon which the once-great nation of Canada was built. The foundational values of our Parliamentary democracy, our judiciary, our educational institutions were Christian, like it or not, and were values that created a free and democratic country, which has been the envy of the world–up to now.
True diversity means respecting and treating fairly individuals and groups with whom we might disagree. It doesn’t mean “tolerating” or “accepting” values which run counter to Canadian values of justice and equality before the law for all.
True diversity also means respecting the values of the founders of our democracy, who based the institutions of our nation on Judeo-Christian tenets: Love your neighbour as yourself, NOT walk all over your neighbour if you don’t like what s/he stands for and get rid of his/her historic symbols.
Canada’s motto is “Ad mare usque ad mare”: From sea to sea, which comes from Psalm 72, a reference from the Christian Bible which our founding fathers were not ashamed of. And neither should we be. This revisionism, which would insist on obliterating OUR history, the history of the founding peoples of Canada, because it might offend some of the immigrants coming to present-day Canada is offensive to me. Does that count?
Our history is non-negotiable.
What we do from here is negotiable–through our elected members in Parliament and provincial legislatures, not through our mickey-mouse, kangaroo-court HRCs–or, public opinion, for that matter.
The true intolerance is from people like Jason Cherniak and the writers of the Taylor Report, who ask US to be “tolerant” and to accept “diversity,” while championing the cause of some new groups to our country who say they’re offended by our values and our symbols.
If any of us–and many have–were to go to another country to work and live, where their values and symbols were different from ours, and possibly offensive, would we be given “the right” to insist that they remove those symbols from public places so that WE wouldn’t be offended? I DON’T THINK SO. In fact, in some places that could land us in jail and heading for home.
I’m at the point where my patience is running very thin. If immigrants to Canada are offended by our Christian/Judeo-Christian values and symbols, my suggestion to them is “Suck it up” or go back to your country of origin.
I rather suspect that one of the reasons they have come to Canada is to flee values and symbols they found intolerable or offensive. They certainly have no right to criticize Canada and ask to change OUR ways to accommodate them.
That’s what this multicultural madness, Canada-style, has been agitating for, for far too long. Only the lawyers are getting rich as Canada’s heritage is being trashed and left in shreds.
Enough is enough. Good on the Quebec Legislature for voting unanimously to keep the crucifix on the walls of their chambers. Too bad McGuilty and his sorry crew are such surrender monkeys to have rid the Ontario Legislature of The Lord’s Prayer.
Finally some fallout from the Barack Obama endorsement…
A Few Tremors in Oprahland
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/26/business/media/26oprah.html?_r=2&ei=5065&oref=slogin&partner=MYWAY&pagewanted=print&oref=slogin
My nominee for most dishonest column of the day:
“The McAllister Opinion Research survey, commissioned for the Pembina Institute — an environmental research group — revealed that Canadians would be supportive of a federal carbon tax and would like to see its new revenues invested in improving energy efficiency and clean-energy technologies”
“However, when asked how revenues from a proposed federal carbon tax should be spent, most Canadians told the polling firm that they would prefer to see more green spending, rather than income tax cuts.”
Who’s worst? The Pembina Institute and their agenda surveys? Or the Ottawa Citizen for constantly printing such dreck?
Personally I think working for a cigarette company is a far sight above working in Canada’s media.
— revealed that Canadians would be supportive of a federal carbon tax and would like to see its new revenues invested in improving energy efficiency and clean-energy technologies…
red star poll…
Are you willing to pay 50 per cent more for power generated from environmentally friendly sources?
Yes 35 16%
No 176 83%
Canada’s pollsters. We have the questions and the answers you want. Fool your readers on a daily basis. Best of all, we really don’t have to speak to real people. Tell us what you want to hear, we’ll give it to you.
well maybe, The Toronto Star bought the software to conduct their internet poll from the same company that provided the poll to “raise the flag” (Nov.23.2005) for the NDP in Saskatchewan?
1500 new votes and the ratio stays exactly the same?
“On ‘human rights,’ the Bard has it right
George Jonas, National Post
Whenever I think of Canada’s human rights commissions — which has been frequently of late — Hamlet’s exclamation, “O my prophetic soul!” rings in my ears. I’m not talking about my soul, but the Bard’s. It’s hard to believe Shakespeare foresaw the adventures of Canada’s social engineers, but there it is. Looking far into the future is what visionaries do.”
http://tinyurl.com/4excec
Another day. Another poll gone wrong.
The G&M story:
Globe essay
Dealing with China
“…striking symptom of something missing in the Harper government’s policy toward China on other fronts, too. In our business relationship with China, public policy matters….”
The G&M Poll:
Has the Harper government’s harder line toward China over the past two years hurt Canada?
Yes
33% – 2892 votes
No
67% – 5758 votes
RE: The Toronto Real Estate Board and the asshat Murphy.
Ya know I really hate to see the blogosphere turned into a shooting gallery for litigation shysters and nanny state speech control freaks who are offended by nasty words…but I DO think we (bloggers) have to be self policing. At the very least to stave off the feds from doing it for us.
The breaking point between potty mouth political ranting and being a lurking stoolie or a whiney defamation crybaby is a big and significant leap. Once made, it puts the stoolie/sniveller/miscreant in contempt of the free internet community and open to our collective banishment.
Tough talk, rough talk, offensive and potty talk, offending subjects and offensive debate are all part of our freedom in the free fire zone of the internet…and we are in danger of losing that because we allow these stoolies and tyrants surfing among us to remake the rules. As much as we loath some vacant offensive blogger, we have to support their right to be offensive because it’s in all our best interests.
Where we should cut toleration is when these offensive TALKERS turn to being active stoolies, spooks, lurkers, spies and tattletales and nanny state storm troopers…pissy pants litigants or lurking informants for the hate crime racketeers.
At that point the collective blogoshere should use every legal resource available to take down a stoolie or a suer…we need to share and block the IPAs of offenders, we need a bloggers council and a code and we have to self regulate before the feds (and their on-line stoolies, stooges and sycophants) turn this e-freedom into another repressed, bland, over regulated intellectual desert.
I think Murphy is a vacant asshat, and what he did to Free Dominion sucked and was cowardly and childish…BUT has he ever ratted FD out to the hate speech racketeers or frivolously sued them?? Does he ever threaten others with this???
If NO, then why should we watch him attacked with the nanny state? If yes, we should be doing everything we can for the take down of a stoolie.
Words don’t hurt…sending a blogger up to the kangaroo courts and tribunals for sheer petty partisan vendictiveness…now that’s a crime in my book and punishable by banishment by the blogosphere.
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada: Muslim Kurds vs Muslim Turks.
The end result of multiculturalism in Canada: police denial of Muslim Kulturkampf: Muslim criminal gang warfare.
The Conservative Minister of Public Safety, Stockwell Day, is silent. Where are you, Minister Day? Are you hiding? Come out. Speak.
“Police have now ruled that the fight that sent three customers of the Ankara Cafe to hospital wasn’t ethnically motivated. Tan, however, believes otherwise.”
“Bracing for violence
Turkish Canadian Association president fears Ankara Cafe attack could lead to more skirmishes”
http://tinyurl.com/63oytp
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“Surge in violence against women in Iraqi Kurdistan
France 24 ^ | May 24, 2008 | Shwan Mohammad
Medics in Iraqi Kurdistan said on Saturday that they had seen a surge in violence against women in May, with both so-called “honour” killings and female suicides on the increase.
“At least 14 women died in the first 10 days of May alone,” a doctor told AFP in the region’s second largest city of Sulaimaniyah.
“Seven of them took their own lives, the other seven were murdered in still unexplained circumstances” — apparently the victims of “honour” killings.
“Over the same period, we recorded 11 attempted self-immolations. These women were so desperate they set fire to themselves,” the doctor added, asking not to be identified.
According to Kurdish regional government figures, in Sulaimaniyah province alone more than 50 women attempted suicide by burning in the first four months of the year and another eight tried to hang themselves.
The United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq has regularly highlighted “honour” killings of Kurdish women as being among the country’s most severe human rights abuses.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2021368/posts
Housing crisis hits Hamptons! According to the Mational Post (via The Daily Telegraph), at least ten mansions have been foreclosed and more are on the way.
Let’s see – maybe I have a few millions hidden away somewhere, and I can pick up one of these bargains.
(Some of people trying to off-load their summer homes are executives of the Bear Stearns bank, the biggest Wall Street casualty of the mortgage crisis)
Re: batb at May 26, 2008 7:33 AM
Nice rant sister! You hit the proverbial nail on the head.
A new copyright bill is expected to be tabled any day now in parliament, and it looks like it’s going to have many problems. Please get involved!
(Via Andrew Bostom) Kanchan Gupta, Islam’s enemy within
At a recent conference on radical Islam, attended by scholars from India and South-East Asian countries, it was irritating to hear professors from Jamia Millia Islamia repeating the canard about the 9/11 terrorist attacks being an elaborate conspiracy hatched by the Christians (of America) and the Jews (of Israel) to “defame Islam” and use the globally televised images of the imploding twin towers as justification for the US-led “war against Muslims”. The first time I heard this astonishing fiction was in Cairo where I had arrived soon after the terrifying attack, led by an Egyptian, Mohammed Atta, on the World Trade Center, one of the symbols of American power. The war in Iraq had not yet begun but the Taliban hoodlums, including Mullah Omar, were fleeing Afghanistan to save their lives. The fall of a ‘model Islamic state’ and the walloping the ‘soldiers of god’ were receiving from the invading kafirs had greatly distressed my friends in the Muslim Brotherhood who had wrongly believed that the flattening of the twin towers would signal the liberation of Cairo, not Kabul. Instead, they were shocked to see a tsunami of anger striking Arab shores. Rather than accept the 9/11 attacks had proved to be counter-productive, they chose the path of denial…
Melanie Phillips, The Islamisation of Britain
The Bishop of Rochester, Dr Michael Nazir-Ali has been getting some stick for suggesting that Christians should try to convert British Muslims to Christianity. Dr Nazir-Ali, who previously received death threats for suggesting there were Muslim no-go areas in Britain, has been outstanding as a rare voice within the Church of England to speak out against the erosion of Britain’s Christian culture and traditions under the cultural onslaught from radical Islam. But now his concerns are echoed in a striking cri-de-coeur by the Church of England newspaper…
(Via Azure) Thomas Bartlett, The Betrayal of Judas
When the Gospel of Judas was unveiled at a news conference in April 2006, it made headlines around the world — with nearly all of those articles touting the new and improved Judas…
But almost immediately, other scholars began to take issue with the interpretation of Meyer and the rest of the National Geographic team.
PMSH giving speech in HofC right now to welcome pres.of Ukraine.Is the msm coveruing it?No!Instead they have Roger Smith on ctv slagging PMSH about his european trip,climate change,and the ‘photo op’Un-frikken-believable.
The member for Ajax-Pickering gets spanked-
“Monday, May 26, 2008
The O’Brien Dossier
Madely in the Morning – 7:10am — Steve Madely is joined by OPP Commissioner Julian Fantino. Liberal MP Mark Holland believes that political interference has led to the OPP not sharing the files on Mayor Larry O’Brien’s bribery dossier with the RCMP.”
http://www.cfra.com/chum_audio/Julian_Fantino_May26.mp3
Batb,
Agree completely.
The progressives new line is – When in Rome do as the Muslims do. These dangerous imbeciles need to be marginalized and rejected from any further debate on so-called accommodation.
Multiculturalism must be rejected for the proven, undermining rot that it is. In place, a renewed commitment to and integration into our own (and I will say it) far superior culture must thoroughly be enforced. As a filter, the good and productive immigrants will agree and become a welcome part of our culture. The undesirable, law breaking, jihadi system abusers won’t be welcome.
Future generations depend on it. So does ulcer relief.
Largs on Flight of the Phoenix thread said:
“It is a well known fact that Columbus never discovered the new world.”
“L’Anse aux Meadows likely marks the first European contact with New World — 500 years before Columbus”
“Newfoundland Viking site remarkable”
Note: Eric the Red farmed in Greenland in 986 AD.
“The most famous Viking ruins can be seen at the former “Eastern Settlement” on the southwest tip of Greenland, near the present-day towns of Narsaq and Qassiarsuk. Here is found Brattahlid, the farm Eric the Red established in 986,”
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” More than 1,200 years ago, Vikings from Norway set out on a series of daring voyages that would eventually result in their being the first Europeans to explore the east coast of North America. In stages they established settlements in the Shetland Islands, Faroe Islands, Iceland, Greenland, and finally Newfoundland and Labrador.
Though we passed through an area around the capital of Nuuk, that would have been near the former Viking “Western Settlement,” ruins or reconstructions were either not easily accessible or part of the itinerary.
The most famous Viking ruins can be seen at the former “Eastern Settlement” on the southwest tip of Greenland, near the present-day towns of Narsaq and Qassiarsuk. Here is found Brattahlid, the farm Eric the Red established in 986, as well as reconstructions of the bishop’s residence at Gardar and Hvalsey Church.
Though these towns were not ports of call on our voyage, we did sail down the coast of Labrador, where Norse sagas report that Leif Ericson and other Viking explorers landed to harvest wood. But the main attraction for Viking buffs — and a much more accessible one for Canadians — is at the tip of Newfoundland’s Great Northern Peninsula.
L’Anse aux Meadows is the first and only authenticated Norse site on this continent. It was first brought to worldwide attention in 1960 by Helge and Anne Ingstad, a Norwegian couple who had searched for years to solve the puzzle of the sagas.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2020723/posts
Attention PM Harper and Minister Baird.
From Guardian, an ultra left UK newspaper, a report on Maurice Strong’s socialist pyramid fraud/scam.
The United Nations is a criminal organization.
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“Billions wasted on UN climate programme
Energy firms routinely abusing carbon offset fund, US studies claim”
http://tinyurl.com/4sa9t8
“Oriana Fallaci Square in place of a mosque”
Some good news from Via Cutrone
VERONA — Goodbye mosque. In its place, Oriana Fallaci Square. This decision was taken by the committee of Oppeano (Verona), where yesterday morning a building used by Muslims for prayer was bulldozed. In its place, the Municipality will create a public square named after the writer of The Rage and the Pride, which promoted a bitter campaign against Islam.
Perhaps this will set a trend for the future. Bulldoze radical mosques and in place promote anti-jihad heroes.
Carbon Credits – The Mother Of All Fraud Suits ?
“Perhaps the only saving grace for Mr. Harper and his Conservatives is the Liberal Opposition keeps hinting at jacking up energy taxes even further with the implementation of a carbon tax. Maybe Liberal Leader Stéphane Dion needs to fill his government car up with his own money to get a dose of reality.”
http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=95240e95-d535-4478-b9e1-0734da417ca2&p=1
Presumably, it would have been more politically expedient to veer towards populism.
“This is not a nationalistic issue, it’s not a religious issue, it’s a planning issue, and it will be addressed on those merits,” he says.
One would hope so.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-acific/7416145.stm
For the “Tony Blair’s Britain” file… England’s flag banned in England
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A TEENAGE motorist was told to remove an England flag from his car by a police officer because it could be offensive to immigrants.
Ben Smith, 18, was driving back home to Ingram Road in Melksham on Thursday evening after filling up with petrol, when the officer stopped him on a routine patrol.
He checked the tax disc and tyres on his Vauxhall Corsa but when he noticed the flag of St George on the parcel shelf he told Mr Smith to take it down.
http://tinyurl.com/6ck6rh
Billions wasted (aka. fraud) in the UN carbon scheme. I know, shocking to imagine such a thing. Don’t worry though, all of the faithful progressives will be assured by their trusted leaders that it is merely an implementation problem. Not, I repeat, not the inevitable result of any and all big government programs.
lynnh,
A couple years ago on some liberal site, some liberal was trying to convince me that because Adscam and the money stolen from us taxpayers was only a tiny percentage of the money handled by the Canadian governement we should not make a big deal of it.
Just to show how the average liberal will bend over back wards to try and justify almost any immoral, illegal stupid act or idea.
Islam & Mormonism: cults of polygamy.
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“‘Gutless’ politicians ignore polygamy
Religious practice turns women, children into property and must be stopped — journalist”
David Staples
The Edmonton Journal
“Canadian politicians are refusing to enforce anti-polygamy laws and crack down on men with multiple wives, Vancouver journalist Daphne Bramham said Sunday.
“Politicians are too gutless to do anything about it,” she told the national conference of the Canadian Association of Journalists in Edmonton.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2021502/posts
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More gutless Big Government:
“Investigator digs into sewage river dump
By DEREK PUDDICOMBE, CITY HALL BUREAU
The Ottawa Sun
An independent investigator will be appointed next week to get to the bottom of the 960,000 cubic metres of raw sewage dumped into the Ottawa River in August 2006.
Mayor Larry O’Brien, with the city’s three east-end councillors, said yesterday an outsider will be hired by Wednesday to dispel any public perceptions of a coverup.
Council will need to approve the move, but O’Brien said there will be enough support to proceed with the investigation.
“The impacts are so broad, we want to ensure the citizens of Ottawa have a comfortable feeling that all actions are being taken,” he said. “We need an independent review of all of the facts, including environmental impacts and legal issues in order to regain the public’s trust.””
http://tinyurl.com/5tv9dy
No kidding:
Paris during Nazi occupation was ‘one big romp’
Globe & Mail, from one of their own commenters – Ukrainian Presidential visit;
“What do Yuschenko and Harper have in common?
They have both thrown off the yokes of oppressive socialist governments and now their people are free!”
this is cool, push the now button and watch for about 5 minutes.
http://www.chippynews.com/worldclock.htm
David Warren, Al-Durable
The case casts much light into the background condition of media reporting on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Left-wing, anti-Israel journalists such as Charles Enderlin depend regularly for emotion-laden pictorial content, and for the rumours they report as breaking news, on locally-hired Palestinian photographers, cameramen, and stringers. The interests and loyalties of these people are not even an open question. For even if they personally desire to reveal only the truth, we must consider the physical consequences to them of reporting a single item favourable to Israel. Palestinians are frequently publicly executed as “Israeli agents” — on direct orders from Fatah or Hamas — on the basis of much vaguer suspicions.
Knowing that falling asleep would almost certainly mean death, Mr Ball resorted to punching his left leg repeatedly, which was broken in 12 places and would eventually have to be amputated. The pain, he said, was the only thing that kept him from drifting into unconsciousness. It would be another 30 hours before he was chanced upon by climbers…..
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/australasia/the-great-survivors-834310.html
In the great tradition of SDA – a note about the Independent’s fact checking in the above article: In the last story, there is a reference to a guy getting stalked by ‘wolves and hyenas’ – in Alberta no less.
If I’d seen that, I would not have posted the junk.
http://www.socksandbarney.com/2008/05/24/florida-hillary-and-the-final-desperate-crusade/
Florida Hillary and the last desperate crusade….
An expert thinks that the HofC should recess early.
http://www.thehilltimes.ca/html/index.php?display=story&full_path=2008/may/26/legislation/&c=2
The Hill Times just happens not to mention that this expert is a card carrying Lib, and a former BC Lib MLA.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_J._Mitchell
This expert wouldn’t have a hidden agenda, would he?
Selling England by the lopped off head:
“Religious trends and our religious future”
(Church of England Newspaper – Ghost of a flea)
If recent reports of trends in religious observance prove to be correct, then in some 30 years the mosque will be able to claim that, religiously speaking, the UK is an Islamic nation, and therefore needs a share in any religious establishment to reflect this. The progress of conservative Islam in the UK has been amazing, and it has come at a time of prolonged decline in church attendance that seems likely to continue.
This progress has been enthusiastically assisted by this government in particular with its hard-line multi-cultural dogma and willingness to concede to virtually every demand made by Muslims. Perhaps most importantly the government has chosen to allow hard-liners to act as representing all Muslims, and more liberal Muslims have almost completely failed to produce any leadership voices to compete, leading many Britons to wonder if there are indeed many liberal Muslims at all, surely a mistake.
At all levels of national life Islam has gained state funding, protection from any criticism, and the insertion of advisors and experts in government departs national and local. A Muslim Home Office adviser, for example, was responsible for Baroness Scotland’s aborting of the legislation against honour killings, arguing that informal methods would be better. In the police we hear of girls under police protection having the addresses of their safe houses disclosed to their parents by Muslim officers who think they are doing their religious duty.
While men-only gentlemen’s clubs are now being dubbed unlawful, we hear of municipal swimming baths encouraging ‘Muslim women only’ sessions and in Dewsbury Hospitals staff waste time by turning beds to face Mecca five times a day — a Monty Pythonesque scenario of lunacy, but astonishingly true. Prisons are replete with imams who are keen to inculcate conservative Islam in any inmates who are deemed to be culturally ‘Muslim’: the Prison service in effect treats such prisoners as a cultural block to be preached to by imams at will. Would the Prison service send all those with ‘C of E’ on their papers to confirmation classes with the chaplain?! We could go on.
The point is that Islam is being institutionalised, incarnated, into national structures amazingly fast, at the same time as demography is showing very high birthrates. Charles Taylor’s new and classic work on the Secular Age charts the rise of the secular mindset and what he calls the ‘excarnation’ of Christianity as it is levered out of state policy and structures. Christianity is now regarded as bad news, the liberal elite’s attack developed in the 1960s took root in the educationalist empire, and to some extent even in areas of the church.
Today the Christian story is fading from public imagination, while Islam grows apace. There needs to be some fresh thinking in this area where the claims of Christ are sensitively explained. Our church leaders must develop ways of explaining this, as our feature on mission and evangelism this week demonstrates.
The Penultimate Islam Analogy – An Ichneumon Wasp:
Steven Jay Gould, in arguing for the existence of natural evil, could find no better analogy than the ichneumon wasp, after which the monster in Alien was modeled, and which not coincidentally describes Islamofascism and its Leftist helpers.
The ichneumon, like most wasps, generally live freely as adults but pass their larva life as parasites feeding on the bodies of other animals, almost invariably members of their own phylum, the Arthropoda. The most common victims are caterpillars (butterfly and moth larvae), but some ichneumons prefer aphids and other attack spiders. Most host are parasitized as larvae, but some adults are attacked, and many tiny ichneumons inject their brood directly into the eggs of their host.
The free-flying females locate an appropriate host and then convert it into a food factory for their own young. Parasitologists speak of ectoparasitism when the uninvited guest lives on the surface of its host, and endoparasitism when the parasite dwells within. Among endoparasitic ichneumons, adult females pierce the host with their ovipositor and deposit eggs within. (The ovipositor, a thin tube extending backward from the wasp’s rear end, may be many times as long as the body itself.) Usually, the host is not otherwise inconvenienced for the moment, at least until the eggs hatch and the ichneumon larvae begin their grim work of interior excavation.
Among ectoparasites, however, many females lay their eggs directly upon the host’s body. Since an active host would easily dislodge the egg, the ichneumon mother often simultaneously injects a toxin that paralyzes the caterpillar or other victim. The paralyzes may be permanent, and the caterpillar lies, alive but immobile, with the agent of its future destruction secure on its belly. The egg hatches, the helpless caterpillar twitches, the wasp larvae pierces and begins its grisly feast.
Since a dead and decaying caterpillar will do the wasp larvae no good, it eats in a pattern that cannot help but recall, in our inappropriate anthropocentric interpretation, the ancient English penalty for treason — drawing and quartering, with its explicit object of extracting as much torment as possible by keeping the victim alive and sentient. As the king’s executioner drew out and burned his client’s entrails, so does the ichneumon larvae eat fat bodies and digestive organs first, keeping the caterpillar alive by preserving intact the essential heart and central nervous system. Finally, the larvae completes its work and kills its victim, leaving behind the caterpillar’s empty shell. Is it any wonder that ichneumons, not snakes or lions, stood as the paramount challenge to God’s benevolence during the heyday of natural theology?
http://belmontclub.blogspot.com/2004/03/ichneumon-wasp-european-left-has.html
So now Ignatieff thinks there’s been a security breach because Bernier’s biker chick ex ran a high tech company that received airport security documents in 2005. Her partner was a biker.
Perhaps someone should remind Ignatieff that said “security breach” happened under a Liberal government.
Did they not do security screening on someone who gets airport security documents? If so, and she passed, then clearly there is no issue with Couillard.
Churchill predicts “Islamophobia”
“In a very few years, perhaps in a very few months, we shall be confronted with demands with which we shall no doubt be invited to comply. Those demands may affect the surrender of territory or the surrender of liberty. I foresee and foretell that the policy of submission will carry with it restrictions upon the freedom of speech and debate in Parliament, on public platforms, and discussions in the press, for it will be said–indeed, I hear it said sometimes now – that we cannot allow the Nazi system of dictatorship to be criticized by ordinary, common English politicians. Then, with a press under control, in part direct but more potently indirect, with every organ of public opinion doped and chloroformed into acquiescence, we shall be conducted along further stages of our journey.” — Winston Churchill
Most insanely ignorant quote from CBC ever. From their article exposing the new, formerly secret, military spy agency:
“The military is tight-lipped about the size of the unit, where its members are stationed and what equipment it uses.”
Who are these people working for?
Did anyone catch the great coverage of the Mars Pheonix landing on CNN yesterday?
While skipping around the channels later in the day there was an excellent report on the Mars Phoenix mission where NASA’s latest is sent to the Martian Pole to look for water among other things. They had a lot of background and great graphics as they followed the last hour or so of the probe descent. Really impressive …
…. Until the CNN science and tech host Miles O’Brien chimed in with his observation that the Phoenix would be landing on the Martian “Tundra” …….
Leaving me wondering why NASA had to go to all that effort to send probes to Mars in search of water and signs of life when all they had to do was consult Miles O’Brien at CNN ?
Apparently ” just like our own Polar Regions” ( according to Miles ) Mars has Tundra!
Hey, Texsas Canuck and irwin daisy: ‘All in a day’s work!
That rant sure felt good; ‘great way to start my day.
‘Time for us to stand up on our hind legs and shout, “I’m mad as Hell and I’m not going to take it anymore”–and eat our Wheaties for breakfast.
Friend of USA,
Ahhh…that is because progressives always focus on what the original intent of the idea not the mess that it morphs into. The pursuit of a Noble Goal can be the excuse to absolve themselves of any guilt or responsibility in the subsequent human disaster. It is never that the idea is flawed, it a fault of either implementation, the stupid masses or an evil opposition.
Universal health care -> waiting lists
welfare -> welfare trap
communism -> tyranny
HRC -> corruption
eugenics -> human culling
multiculturalism -> minority/majority and minority/minority group friction.
Soon to be added to the list of failures : AGW, accommodation, relativism and polygamy. Beware of progressives with big ideas and grand plans.
“Free Speech Case Tests Afghanistan
A young Afghan has been sentenced to death for printing out a Web page in which Muhammad is described as a misogynistic prophet. The case will help to determine whether an Islamic country can open itself up to the West.”
“The text read:
Muhammad sinned often. Muhammad subjugated women. The Koran portrays women as if they were not quite sane. Islam is a religion that is against women.
The Koran justifies Muhammad’s sins. Whenever Muhammad wanted something, he would sing a sura and claim that it was coming directly from Allah. He simply banned everything that didn’t suit him and allowed the things he liked. It’s a joke. This is the true face of Islam, Allah and Muhammad.”
http://tinyurl.com/6ovpr7 (spiegel)
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In Islam, the means of execution is beheading.