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  1. press conference held on april 15th 2010 in montreal
    salim mansur – associate professor of political science at the university of western ontario cuts to the chase on the subject of islamists and tariq ramadan’s visit to montreal.
    http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xczapz_ywelcomingy-tariq-ramadan-the-islam_news
    other speakers and their statements from the same press conference — tarek fatah founder of muslim canadian congress, naser khader – danish member of parliament, and zuhdi jasser – american islamic forum for democracy can be found here:
    http://www.pointdebasculecanada.ca/article/1330-voir-et-ecouter-la-conference-de-presse-la-menace-islamiste-au-quebec-watch-and-listen-to-the-press-conference-the-islamist-threat-in-quebec.php

  5. johnnyonline – many thanks for the link to Salim Mansur. He’s said it perfectly – what an excellent outline of the conflict between democracy and Islamism.

  7. OT. Hi all. Can I be one of the first to object to the term, “absolutely” (which is usually used by professionally-trained marketers) in interviews?
    This word is generally used to deflect/redirect questions.
    It is most often used in an appeal effort to suck up to a softball question tossed by the interviewer. An example might be:
    Mediadrone: “Would you say that the current ash problem will affect North America?
    Interviewed Climate Expert: “Absolutely. Peer-reviewed articles have said that Global Warming…”

  8. Watch Salim Mansur and see if you also develop a chill up your spine. Political correctness run amok.

  11. Check out Mandyy March at the Miss Saskatchewan 2010 contest. http://www.miss-sask.com
    Your vote is needed. I know she is strikingly gorgeous, and extremely bright, not to mention that she’s worked on a pipeline crew and also sells horses. However she lives in Big Beaver, Sk. Population 20. She needs all the votes she can get. Come on people, let’s het her elected!!
    check her out at http://www.mandyymarch.webs.com

  13. Iranian cleric: “Ohhh! I felt the earth move!”
    Paramour: No, that was really an earthquake. BAM!

  14. Toronto Star, Monday, April 18. Article by John Crocker, president and CEO, Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan (HOOPP). Link:
    http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/797468–staving-off-the-pension-crisis
    “studies show Canadians are not saving enough for retirement on their own”
    “RRSPs simply aren’t working for most Canadians”
    “According to research conducted for HOOPP this month, 84 per cent of Ontarians are concerned about not having enough money for retirement. And 58 per cent believe it is principally the role of government — not individuals — to ensure Canadians have adequate incomes in retirement.”
    “The solution: Enable multi-employer private plans”
    The reason Canadians don’t save enough in their RRSPs for retirement is that they can’t afford to. And the reason they can’t afford to is the economic slowdown over the past 40 years or so caused by the expansion of government and the welfare state, the taxes on individual incomes and on corporate profits levied to pay for it, and the legions of regulatory bureaucrats who produce nothing — but who have gold-plated tax-supported pension plans themselves, by comparison to the productive citizens who are scraping by.
    Crocker’s proposed “solution” will probably help a little and is unlikely to hurt, but it’s a band-aid only. The real problem is not with the pension plans themselves but with the economy. And the first order of business is to convince Canadians that relying on government is foolish. Governments have no magic wands to wave about and create a perfect society — if they had, they would have done it long ago. The only thing government can do that nobody else can is to use coercion, and that should only be used to prevent violence by one individual on another and to settle disputes. Coercion doesn’t create or produce a single good or service — only individual effort can do that. Free the economy from excessive taxes and regulation, let individuals reap the benefits of their own economic judgments with government keeping out of the way, and the pension problem will solve itself.

  23. Bill Waco?
    …-
    PROF. KENNETH ANDERSON on Bill Clinton’s culpability at Waco.
    An independent report on Waco written by the Harvard Professor of Law and Psychiatry, Alan A. Stone, for the then Deputy Attorney General Philip Heymann, says it “is difficult to believe that the US government would deliberately plan to expose twenty-five children, most of them infants and toddlers, to CS gas for forty-eight hours”. Unfortunately, however, that appears to have been exactly the plan. . . .
    Professor Stone’s report is measured, careful and damning. It is hard to know whether Heymann’s courage in commissioning it was a reason for his subsequent departure from the Justice Department. In the mean time, questions about the performance of the Justice Department are treated by the Clinton administration not as serious allegations of criminal activity, but as little more than a below-the-belt salvo in the culture wars.
    I was shocked to read in Stone’s report that the Justice Department had undertaken, and had defended in the press as such, activities which if conducted in wartime would constitute war crimes. Because exposing the children to CS gas was the point of the FBI exercise: no children exposed, no pressure.
    And yet Janet Reno and Bill Clinton got a pass from the media at the time. Because, you know, they were on the right side of the culture wars. But Clinton’s re-opened this can of worms, and people are talking again.
    Posted by Glenn Reynolds at 8:53 am”
    http://pajamasmedia.com/instapundit/97935/

  24. Ash and “hopes”.
    …-
    “Flight hopes dashed as ash cloud again shuts airspace
    Hopes that flights would be possible from Heathrow, Gatwick and other major airports this evening were dashed at 3pm when air traffic controllers said that the airspace closure must remain over most of England and Wales until 1am tomorrow.
    The government’s emergency plans to get stranded passengers home via Channel ports and Spain were also descending into chaos as weary travellers in Madrid found that 100 buses, said by Gordon Brown to be available for transporting them much of the way home, were not there.”
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/apr/20/volcanic-ash-government-seeks-flying-routes

  25. Today is Yom Ha’atzmaut- Israeli Independence Day.
    Send you best wishes to the Israeli Embassy.
    Happy 62’nd. I am flying the Israeli flag today
    (much to the chagrin of a few of our neighbours.)

  27. Liberal “political earthquake” in Quebec.
    “On his blogue for l’Actualité, Jean-Francois Lisée argued that Mr. Bellemare’s accusations represented more than just a “a new episode in the construction industry corruption scandal.” He called the allegations a “political earthquake without precedent in the modern history of Quebec” and joined the chorus of pundits demanding a formal inquiry.”
    …-
    “Bellemare ‘earthquake’ shakes Quebec to its core
    While political commentators in the rest of Canada spent the past week dissecting the details of the Guergis/Jaffer saga, pundits in Quebec were preoccupied with a political scandal of their own. In two separate TV interviews broadcast April 12 on TVA and Radio-Canada, former provincial justice minister Marc Bellemare told reporters that during his term in the Liberal cabinet, he witnessed cash donations to party officials that were in violation of party financing rules. He also alleged that he was pressured to appoint judges recommended by influential Liberal fundraisers. Mr. Bellemare’s revelations rekindled ongoing debates in the Quebec press over what should be done about the growing number of accusations of corruption and collusion in Jean Charest’s government.
    The Premier’s initial reaction was anger and denial.”
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/bellemare-earthquake-shakes-quebec-politics-to-its-core/article1540914/

  28. DrD: “Another “right” (to be added to such rights as having your medical education paid for by your father), vacations!”
    Every group in the European Union, including young people from 18 to 25, will apparently have the right to a holiday, in part paid for by the taxpayer, whether they work, have earning power, save their money, make bad lifestyle choices or not.
    I know a lot of really hard-working, law-abiding citizens who haven’t taken a real holiday in years. ‘Too busy making ends meet, paying mortgages, education for their kids, medical and dental bills, etc. No one’s helped them out. No one’s suggested that they have the “right” to a vacation.
    NO ONE has a right to a vacation. NO ONE. Vacations are nice to have but not necessary.
    I’m beginning to get the gist of all of these rights:
    The dwindling European middle class is about to be completely bled of monetary resources. While the wealthy take advantage of tax loop holes and the lazy poor get a free ride on top of a free lunch (never being encouraged to crawl out of their miserable, dark holes which are not bereft, however, of televisions, booze, and ciggies), the political elites, como las communistas, bask in the glow of all that money can buy — THE MIDDLE CLASS’S MONEY.
    The middle class in Europe is about to be fleeced and fazed out.

  29. Make salt cuts mandatory, FDA told
    http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2010/04/20/salt-food-fda.html
    Another bite being proposed to be taken out of our freedom.
    People eat too much white sugar, too…let’s regulate that, too.
    And drink too much beer. And drive their cars too much. And drive too fast. And read too much pron on the internet. And recklessly run about while holding scissors.
    Will it take a revolution to end the madness?

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