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.
Toronto Star Poll:
Are you willing to pay 50% more for power generated from environmentally friendly sources?
Yes 23% (855)
No 76% (2836)
STOPIGGY! Someone, please STOPIGGY!
STOPIGGY said:
“I don’t care about her skirts, I don’t care about her cleavage, I don’t care about her past. I don’t care about any of it — it’s none of my business, quite rightly.”
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“Maxime Bernier resigns as foreign affairs minister”
http://tinyurl.com/4zvujz (ctv)
“Climate change is a natural phenomenon
Arguments that Prove that Climate Change is driven by Solar Activity and not by CO2 Emission
By OnTheWeb: Dr. Gerhard Löbert Monday, May 26, 2008
Conveyor of a super-Einsteinian theory of gravitation that explains, among many other post-Einstein-effects, the Sun-Earth-Connection and the true cause of the global climate changes.
Climatological facts
As the glaciological and tree ring evidence shows, climate change is a natural phenomenon that has occurred many times in the past, both with the magnitude as well as with the time rate of temperature change that have occurred in the recent decades. The following facts prove that the recent global warming is not man-made but is a natural phenomenon.
1. In the temperature trace of the past 10 000 years based on glaciological evidence, the recent decades have not displayed any anomalous behaviour. In two-thirds of these 10 000 years, the mean temperature was even higher than today. Shortly before the last ice age the temperature in Greenland even increased by 15 degrees C in only 20 years. All of this without any man-made CO2 emission!
2. There is no direct connection between CO2 emission and climate warming. This is shown by the fact that these two physical quantities have displayed an entirely different temporal behaviour in the past 150 years. Whereas the mean global temperature varied in a quasi-periodic manner, with a mean period of 70 years, the CO2 concentration has been increasing exponentially since the 1950’s. The sea level has been rising and the glaciers have been shortening practically linearly from 1850 onwards. Neither time trace showed any reaction to the sudden increase of hydrocarbon burning from the 1950’s onwards.
3. The hypothesis that the global warming of the past decades is man-made is based on the results of calculations with climate models in which the main influence on climate is not included.” [More]
http://tinyurl.com/5pqwt3 (cfp)
Well, our Foreign Affairs Minister Bernier has resigned, just as the Liberals have been demanding, now they’ll be looking for him to be drawn and quartered, tarred and feathered, calling in the RCMP, CSIS, hell maybe even Scotland Yard.
The BanTally List of Pinocchio McGuinty, aka Liberal-socialist Premier of Ontario:
This is the shining path to socialist tyranny using Soviet communist salami tactics: slice by slice Canadians are losing their freedoms; Canadians are being conditioned to love their chains of slavery.
McGuinty’s TallyBan List:
Ban tobacco (except for Indians)
Ban backyard pesticides
Ban backyard clotheslines
Ban guns
Ban secondhand tobacco smoke in personal vehicles
Ban cellphone/PDA use while driving
Ban The Lord’s Prayer.
McGuinty’s TallyBan List grows.
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“Premier Mulls Banning Cell Phone And PDA Use Behind The Wheel
CityNews – 55 minutes ago
Don’t call it a broken promise. Think it more as a change of mind. Premier Dalton McGuinty now says he’s willing to consider altering the law to force drivers to stop using cell phones, BlackBerrys and other distracting devices behind the wheel.”
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Cal2 — World Clock — cute. What I noticed was earth’s temperature seemed to be going up rapidly.
This article’s title speaks for itself.
A small portion from Touchstone
Mosque in Hiding
John C. “Chuck” Chalberg on Making Room for Prayer Rugs on a Secular Campus
One could quarrel with this label or that one. What is undeniable is that the space was initiated by Muslim students and remade by Muslim students. Whether it was a mini-mosque or a de facto mosque or just a highly unusual racquetball court, it became a space of, by, and for Muslim students, as well as a space in which a non-Muslim student would have been uncomfortable, if not unwelcome. In fact, after her column ran, Kersten learned from a Catholic student that she had entered the room, rosary in hand, only to be told to leave.
The reaction of many faculty members to the column was stunning as well. While the original column contained nary a loaded adjective, Kersten was characterized as “less than human,” “venomous,” “mean-spirited,” and “xenophobic” (the last courtesy of a sociologist, of course). To be fair, Kersten did have her defenders, but overall, the division among the faculty involved in the email debate ran about two-to-one against her.
What’s even more interesting is that many of those who were critical of the column have well-established campus reputations for being both secular and on the political left. Why would they be defending such an obvious violation of separation of church and state? Why indeed? But they were. Here multiculturalism trumped the church-state divide. Here true colors stood revealed.
Lovers & Haters
Why the shift in priorities? Better than a century ago, G. K. Chesterton offered an answer in an essay titled “The Neglect of Christmas.” He was not shocked that some people hated Christmas. “Everything that is really lovable can be hated.”
But more than that was going on then—and now. Behind this hatred of Christmas was a “hatred of Christianity.” Chesterton did not mention any haters by name, but he did note that they all seemed to have one thing in common, namely, their claim of an “all-embracing love of all religions.”
Precisely. Well, almost precisely. In practice, that “all-embracing love” did not—and does not—seem to stretch far enough to include a love of Christianity. If anything, the reverse is closer to the truth. The recent events on our campus indicate that Chesterton was right, that behind such claims of love is hate.
Not long ago I learned that the same administration that approved and then turned a blind eye to the Muslim “meditation room” ordered that our Phi Theta Kappa chapter cut all ties with a program called Christmas Child. The program had our college honors students help put together packages of toys and clothing for Third World countries. Included in these packages, if the receiving country approved, was a card explaining the Christmas story.
This was enough to put an administrator on the prowl. That prowl led to an Internet search, which revealed that someone in India had received the package, read the card, and subsequently converted to Christianity, and that this conversion caused great disruption in his family.
This Christmas story was enough to lead our administration to order our PTK chapter to sever any connection with the Christmas Child initiative. This same administration, by the way, approved a $1,500 appropriation of student activities money to fund an Eid dinner for Muslim students on the grounds that this was a cultural, and not a religious, event.
http://touchstonemag.com/archives/article.php?id=21-05-012-v
Great articles, Revnant Dream. ‘Same thing’s happening on Canadian campuses, on a smaller scale, like everything in Canada these days.
I’ve been in the pro-everything-but-Christianity-multiculturalism trenches for over 30 years, and Chesterton was, indeed, prophetic. The multi-culties pretend to love everyone, as they herd all religions into a one-size-fits-all-and-let’s-keep-it-in-its-place pen.
But, in a secular/socialist society, what multiculuralism actually morphs into–and really fast, as it was intended to by its initiators–is an exclusion of Christianity from the public square: Christian views, and Christians themselves, are not welcome on the voyage. They know that Christianity is a potent faith, that it’s been around for thousands of years, and that it opposes all attempts at coerscing individuals into the collectivist barnyard.
Hard-line proponents of official multiculturalism (sic) hate Christianity and everything it stands for, thus you will discover that many of the HRC suits are filed–and won–against individuals who are Christians.
Check out any Communist regime: One of the first things they had to do was cast suspicion on Christian churches, their priests/pastors, and practising lay Christians, which led to full-scale persecution, then annihilation.
To think that this kind of thing is not happening in Canada or “could never happen” is to have one’s head buried deeply in the see-no-evil, hear-no-evil, speak-no-evil sand.
The great irony, of course, is to see multiculti lapdogs drooling all over Muslims and ensuring their right to freedom of religion. I guess their motto is “the enemy of my enemy is my friend.” ‘Only problem is, they have no idea of the Pandora’s Box they’re opening. Do they think that extreme Muslims will stop at a prayer room or two on campus?
Does this willful blindness on the part of the multi-culti secular humanists in our midst mean that the multi-culties are stupid or just useful idiots–or both?
batb:
I think both. The majority are just young people following their social passions of their age.
They are few but I believe we have many quislings in this Country who would like nothing more than its dissolution. Hard line communists did not just disappear after the cold war was “officially” ended. They just dug deeper into the infrastructure of our polity.
I think the socialist figure as business men in the thirds Reich did by supporting a maniac, that they could control these wacky people. We all know the end of that story. Its interesting every country Stalin or Hitler took over its 5th column was established long before. So it is today. Your post is absolutely right on. Good analysis as it is already happening here.
Just my opinion.