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  1. Oui, les écoles de Française, where Rioting 101 is an elective:
    “In the overwhelming majority of cases, the vandals aren’t foreign to the protest movement, explains a senior official. They’re students, even as young as 12 year old ones. These youth, says the official, are opportunistic and unstructured, forming sporadic groups according to the targets on the way. The most destructive are armed with makeshift weapons found on the way: a snatched post, or a stolen bicycle are used to smash store windows and then loot them, says a police agent in Seine-Saint-Denis. One of the ‘rioters’ even forgot his notebook in a shop in Seine-Saint-Denis which was looted by 40 people. Fifteen years old and without a police record, he was arrested six hours later at home. Earlier another gang targeted a bakery.. in order to pick up candy.”

  2. If you want to hear something that will get you really, really angry then listen to this segment from Charles Adler’s show today. You’ll hear him read a letter from a “Ms. Hussein”, an immigrant to Canada, who is a leech, a liar, and an embarrassment to all Canadians, let alone her own Muslim community.
    I know several Muslim Canadians who would find what she said as repugnant as I did. Thankfully a few of them were able to call up and express their views too.
    P.S. I wouldn’t be surprised at all to see Ms. Hussein running as an NDP candidate in Toronto or Vancouver in the near future!

  3. The KFC Double Down sandwich – two coated chicken breasts sandwiching bacon, Monterrey Jack, and “special” sauce – has arrived here in Ontario and something called the Ontario Health Promotion Minister briefly considered reviewing the sale of the item before making a hasty retreat as Ontarians woke to the fact that we actually have something called a Health Promotion Minister (asking ourselves how this could be with Brussels sprouts apparently for sale at local grocers).
    The sandwich is merely a chicken Cordon Bleu given the KFC treatment – a salty number that is good in concept but not so great in execution.
    Still, after a night of drinking it is a more than acceptable replacement or accompaniment for, say, the poutines on offer at Smoke’s Poutinerie in Toronto – pulled pork, Montreal smoked meat, curry chicken, nacho grande, Philly cheese steak, etc etc etc.
    If the government does not supply napkins for these unholy messes, what will we do? What will we do?

  5. From an editorial in last Sunday’s Ottawa Sun:
    “In light of the disproportionate amount of vitriol having already been spewed at Sun TV News before it has even gone to air, where is the corresponding vitriol over the CBC’s persistent refusal to release right-to-know documents regarding its operation?
    “Sun TV News — vilified by a small but hysterical group of very loud and arguably self-important critics — will never ask for a single dollar from the pocket of the Canadian taxpayer, and never had the intention or even the wish to do so.”
    (…)
    “The CBC, on the other hand, takes more than a billion in taxpayers’ dollars every year — like it or not.
    “To free enterprisers, or to those who do not share the CBC’s liberal bias, it borders on theft, especially as the CBC continues with its refusal to be accountable to those who pay its freight.
    “The CBC is so adamant about protecting internal documents, in fact, that it is now considering an appeal of a recent Federal Court order for it to hand over documents to Canada’s information watchdog to see if it is fairly excluding information or simply trying to avoid embarrassment. If it has nothing to hide, then why the fight?
    “We believe the public has the right to know where, and how, its money is being spent. Why, for example, is the CBC so adamant about not releasing Peter Mansbridge’s salary range and perks?”
    Verily. Hopefully we’ll be seeing those sorts of questions asked, on air, on a Sun TV News version of At Issue.

  6. Thanks for the link Robert W. Lord Moncton’s segment was far better IMHO than the “I’m not surprised to hear you say it, but it’s nice that it’s out in the open” involved in the email from the economical leech.
    I can’t understand why those who firmly believe that there is no more to evolution/where we came from than evolution don’t want to practice it in societal terms. Although it’s probably because those of use who like to read history know how it always turn out, and are disgusted by it (“Never Again” comes to mind). For the trolls, societal evolution would mean that the most productive that leads to the most wealth (ie even the poor have enough calories to become obese, it’s common for individuals to belong to both the lowest earning(pre or post education and when they’re on their own for the first time) and the highest (as they near retirement and their value to employers is at its highest) ). It would also mean that assimilation is a Darwinian process that should be aided and abetted whenever possible, and that multi-culturalism maintains the “inferior” culture beyond it’s time, by allowing it to leech off of a superior/richer culture and all that it produces.

  7. Via David Thompson, an excerpt from Charlotte Gore’s rant on public spending:
    “See, whilst many…are psychologically able to ignore, or excuse, or basically discount altogether the taking money from people bit of public spending, there are some of us that just can’t. One day it occurs to ask the question, ‘What exactly gives them the right to help themselves to whatever they want?’ and the answer turns out to be because they can. Then you get a bit angry and frustrated, feel almost entirely helpless then, just to make things that little bit worse, everyone else in the world comes and slaps you in the face for even daring to consider such heretical notions.
    “The taking from me bit doesn’t count. I don’t matter. It’s the no longer giving bit that counts. Think about how people feel! Think about all the things they could do with that money, or that job, or learn from those people or achieve with the support of those others! Don’t you understand? Have you no feelings?
    “Apparently not. I just keep thinking, ‘But it’s not your money. How can you live with yourselves taking it?’”

  8. @ Robert:
    Just heard that. Colonialism is such a crock, it was a huge mistake insofar as people just effing never stop whining about it. Cry some moar really. The islamic empire, may pork be upon it, was built exclusively on plunder and humiliation taxes too but why should we let that get in the way of onanism to imperialism porn?
    @ C_Miner
    I’m skeptical to the degree that societies evolve in such a manner. I mean the Roman society collapsed, the Islamic society collapsed and there begins a process of rebuilding it from scratch. The only thing that remains is the technology it left behind and maybe then people can’t even use it. Just think of say the Roman empire, it took a very long time just to even grow out of hamlets again. The Islamic empire collapsed and still hasn’t recovered. Like just think if a we had a HANE and the EMP wiped out the north american power infrastructure or a zombie apocalypse! Our civilization would be over. We’d still have guns of course. 😀 Which will be important in either scenario.
    Multiculturalism doesn’t need to be repudiated on those terms though. Anytime anywhere you have a bunch of people with wholly different philosophies and cultures you get conflicts and war. I mean no one ever says “Balkanized” in a good way.
    Anyways!!!! I heard about this on Fox today. Bride Kidnappings in Chechnya! If the girl won’t marry you, kidnap her and negotiate “final status” 2agreements with an Imam.
    http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e82_1187424827
    Well that’s one way to do it I guess 😛

  9. EBD, I totally agree with you on the CBC issue. But I like to make the numbers more eye-opening for Canadians, who live paycheque to paycheque, asking how they feel about it costing them $25 million dollars a week to run the CBC, how often they watch the CBC, and if that $25 million is justified when they stop to think about it.
    That said, I think what bothers me most about their whitewashing of their failure to disclose unredacted documents and thwarting ATI requests is how their reporters and anchors can accuse the Harper gov’t of doing the very same thing and do so with a straight face. It leaves me shaking my head, wondering not only how they can do that professionally but what kind of people they are in real life as a result of that.
    Sad. Really sad.

  11. One of the funniest movies ever made. I would also recommend two other of Peter Sellers greats, “Being There” and “The Mouse That Roared”.

  12. British children could have only virtual experience of snow. Via the internet, they might wonder at polar scenes – or eventually “feel” virtual cold.
    Heavy snow will return occasionally, says Dr Viner, but when it does we will be unprepared. “We’re really going to get caught out. Snow will probably cause chaos in 20 years time,” he said.
    That was then:
    http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/snowfalls-are-now-just-a-thing-of-the-past-724017.html
    This is what virtual cold looks like:
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/topics/weather/8076667/Snow-falls-in-Yorkshire-In-October.html

  13. In reference to the recent Col. Williams case, I was discussing possible sentences with a co-worker. He seemed convinced that this guy would spend the rest of his life behind bars. Not so I countered as a “life sentence” in Canada is actually 25 years max.
    He countered with the Dangerous Offender designation after which we both actually looked it up:
    http://www.publicsafety.gc.ca/prg/cor/tls/dod-eng.aspx
    It turns out you can get paroled even with a Dangerous Offender tag. 18 people are already out.
    So Williams can still possibly walk free one day.

  14. M @ 11:45
    Good points, but not necessarily enough to kill the idea. Saber toothed tigers evolved 3 separate times and were very successful, until changes occurred around them and they found out that they were far too specialized. Dinosaurs rules for millions of years before the event that caused the cretaceous/tertiary boundary, and very few survive today (crocodiles, for example). Some creatures even have no predators and yet are shrinking in numbers (manatees, and I say no predators because we humans aren’t hunting them for food)
    Islam turned inwards to preserve what they thought were the core values: some today seem to share those same values (al Queda comes to mind). My readings are by no means extensive, but didn’t the Romans get used to an easy life and dependence upon others (slaves, then hired hands because actual work was beneath the dignity of a natural born Roman)? That, combined with the changes in harvests when the cooling between 100 AD and 900 AD came along, made their far-flung empire weaker and the barbarians more willing to risk attacks. You also forgot China. The world leaders (arguably) for over 4000 years, their trading/exploration fleets in the 15th century didn’t find anyone worth trading technology or ideas with (some reports have them going as far as Africa) and they turned inwards, only to be surpassed by the Europeans and, later, Europe’s colonies. China is still playing catch-up after this “insult”.
    To me the common thread is the culture losing track of what had made it mighty in the first place, or being blind to what could be a fatal weakness. I don’t think that societies have enough self awareness to be compared with higher animals, maybe something lower down the chain should be compared instead. What do you think, do many societies have a backbone? I’d also be interested to hear whether ET thinks the comparison might be valid.

  15. National Post, Wednesday. Article about Michael Ignatieff and “pay equity”, from John Ivison.
    http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/columnists/Ignatieff+safely+show+cares+about+equity/3697585/story.html
    “… since 1977, Canada has had legislation that says employees should be paid the same for ‘equal work of equal value.’ This requires a complicated evaluation of skill, effort and responsibility to be carried out to calculate whether people doing different jobs are doing work of ‘equal value.'”
    This is irrational legislation that should be repealed. The only proper determinant of the value of the work is the employer. The bureaucrats who preside over these cases should be dismissed as surplus. It’s the vast reams of unproductive government jobs like this that are responsible for the economic stagnation of the past few decades.
    Ignatieff “wants to bring in a new law that frames pay equity as a fundamental human right, rather than a labour relations issue. He wants to introduce a system that would pro-actively seek to eliminate wage differentials between public servants deemed to be doing work of equal value — a move that would inevitably add to the federal wage bill.”
    “When I asked Mr. Ignatieff how he reconciled increasing wages, potentially by billions of dollars, with fighting the deficit, he said it is an issue of fundamental principle. ‘We can’t get this country back to balance on the backs of the hard-working women of the public sector,’ he said.”
    I would guess that the popular impression of all government workers as overpaid and underworked is false in at least some cases. But public servants like pay equity arbiters and the denizens of kangaroo court human rights commissions are doing work of NO value. Fire. Them. All.

  17. @ C_Miner
    I just have to nit pick a bit because darwinianism is applied to a lot of things and it’s implied as some kind of progress when it isn’t. The fact that our evolutionary profile allowed us to survive in this environment doesn’t necessarily mean that we are “better”. It’s just that the traits we’ve developed just happens to be ideal for the environs.
    The problem I think is that all societies eventually lose the mentality that made them great. I think China is a bit different since for the most part their empire was relatively safe and isolated for centuries and centuries. That and their culture is so strong and homogeneous that they can more or less retain their society until the Europeans came.
    The Roman, Arabian and, I think we both forgot, British empires were ethnically diverse and in many ways “multicultural” so it’s easier for them to fracture. Unlike the Chinese their state isn’t really natural because of all the competing ideologies. What kept them together was the sword. Though there are many arguments as to why the Roman Empire collapsed and I’m by no means a scholar on any of this; they basically had the same loss of confidence and reluctance to join and slog it out in the military that we’re having. The military is what made them great, and willing to apply it ruthlessly is what united them. Scipio didn’t bow before foreign leaders and appease them by denigrating Rome and holding ridiculous showtrials. Carthage was systematically raped and razed. It’s really that kind of gruff, take no b.s., fatalistic attitude. The same kind of tough people were the ones who went off to fight the foreign wars because they felt duty bound to their nation. Where you volunteer to face one horrible decision or another. Unlike Obama who said “the toughest decision is one between two good choices.”
    There’s no doubt that if there were another Nazi Germany we wouldn’t be able to get the enlistees we did in WW2. We just get too comfortable with the good life and we forget that life is really short nasty brutish and all that lovely Hobbesian stuff. Hell I probably wouldn’t go, I have to admit.
    That’s also why I really hate Ghandi. Indian independence wasn’t a vindication of the effectiveness of passivity so much as it was a grotesquely shameful act of weakness by the British. If they tried that crap with the Romans or Arabs or possible even the British of an earlier they would have been hanging from crosses or gallows. It was just their weakness and then a few decades later the Britain becomes an unlivable island filled with chavs. There would probably be something akin to full blown ethnic cleansing if this kind of islamic terror was happening in the West one or two generations ago. Or at least life would be so difficult that they would be driven out.
    To be honest if the muslims don’t take over from us I have no idea what we’ll become. To be honest I think that, the way it’s progressing, there’s not much to western society worth saving. Like they say: Sandals to sandals in three generations. Or Erwerben, Vererben, Verderben because German is awesome!
    On a side note I’m not really a fan of ET because his/her analysis just takes the form of: When x conditions are met and you have y exp your society levels up . I should like to believe, whether it is true or not, that it is possible for the greatness of the human will to press itself into history and move civilizations. That kind of just “oh sufficient conditions are met you get your capitalism badge” kind of belittles human agency. So it goes. Oh well I believe what I was PROGRAMMED to believe!

  18. The extremes of moderate Islam
    EVEN for supposedly reasonable Muslims, accommodation is a one-way street.
    PERCHED high in the verdant mountains of central Java recently, the rural silence was broken five times a day by the Muslim call to prayer. The chanting wafted up from loudspeakers in the local villages as Indonesian Muslims observed longer than usual prayers during Ramadan. I asked a cab driver if he was fasting until sunset during this Islamic month of reflection. Rules are made to be broken, he said with a smile. But not according to the government and police in Indonesia, a country hailed as the world’s largest, most moderate Muslim nation.
    http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/the-extremes-of-moderate-islam/story-e6frg6zo-1225940885857

  20. “Howdy parterner!”
    “I would have been so disappointed if you had not crushed my hand!”
    Love that movie.

  21. Nicholas N. Eberstadt, The Global Poverty Paradox
    The formula for generating steady improvements in living standards for a diversity of human populations, in short, had been solidly established. The matter at hand was now to extend that formula to the reaches of the earth where it could not yet be exercised—most obviously at that time for political reasons, given the fact that nearly a third of the world’s peoples were still living under Communist regimes in the late 1980s.
    By the early 1990s, with the final failure of the Soviet project and the widely heralded idea of the “End of History,” it suddenly seemed as if the liberal political ideals that promoted the spread of the Western growth formula would no longer encounter much organized global resistance. It now seemed only a matter of time until every part of the world could join in a newly possible economic race to the top. Prosperity for all—everywhere—no longer sounded like merely a prayer. Quite the contrary: the end of global poverty was increasingly taken to be something much more like a feasible long-term-action agenda.
    Alas, in the years since, new brute facts have asserted themselves….

  24. “Christians are threatened or maltreated by Muslims in many asylum-seeker centres in the Netherlands, TV programme Uitgesproken EO has reported. The Lower House is demanding clarification.
    “Uitgesproken EO bases its report on a study carried out by Gave, a Christian organisation that helps asylum-seekers. It says that Christians experiene discrimination in 75 percent of the asylum-seeker centres in the Netherlands. In 67 percent of the centres, threats of violence or death occur, and in 33 percent, there is physical violence.
    “According to the staff of the foundation, which surveyed 28 asylum centres, Muslims are mostly responsible for the violence and the threats made to the Christian asylum-seekers. Apostates from Islam also face violent Muslims.
    “Small Christian party ChristenUnie MP Joel Voordewind is shocked by the results of the survey. According to Voordewind, this is a matter of ‘religious persecution of Christians within the borders of our own country.'”

  25. Here’s an excellent essay on global warming by Czech President Vaclav Klaus, in the Financial Post:
    Excerpt:
    “How is it possible that so many politicians, their huge bureaucracies, important groups in the scientific establishment, an important segment of business people and almost all journalists see it differently? The only reasonable explanation is that — without having paid sufficient attention to the arguments — they have already invested too much into global warming alarmism. Some of them are afraid that by losing this doctrine their political and professional pride would suffer. Others are earning a lot of money on it and are afraid of losing that source of income. Business people hope they will make a fortune out of it and are not ready to write it off. They all have a very tangible vested interest in it. We should say loudly: This coalition of powerful special interests is endangering us.”
    Do read the whole thing.

  28. You can’t make up this shyte.
    “UK cafe owner ordered to remove fan because neighbor claims ‘smell of frying bacon offends Muslims'” (via Drudge)
    _http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1322435/Cafe-owner-ordered-remove-extractor-fan-case-smell-frying-bacon-offends-passing-Muslims.html

  31. We don’t need no stinkin’ Ghiz.
    “Two years later, the plan is in disarray.”
    G-M/MSM buries this in “Business”.
    …-
    “Electricity
    Why PEI’s wind plan is dying
    RICHARD BLACKWELL”
    “In October, 2008, Prince Edward Island Premier Robert Ghiz made a bold promise. The province was going to dramatically increase the amount of wind power it produced, boosting production to 30 per cent of its total electricity consumption from the 18 per cent it then generated.
    The move would make the province a green powerhouse, and the North American jurisdiction with by far the highest proportion of wind-generated electricity. At the same time, PEI would become an energy exporter – despite having no other homegrown sources of power – by building additional wind projects to sell power into the New England market.”
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/industry-news/energy-and-resources/why-peis-wind-plan-is-dying/article1752506/

  32. The Idiot vs Dirty Hildabeast.
    Reality slaps Hilda real hard.
    Leftist MSM’s pc is hilarious, to wit:
    >>> “Venezuela is moving some of its oil elsewhere for political reasons.”
    “Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has confronted the reality of the United States’ energy situation and decided that the U.S. needs Canada’s oil sands. It might be “dirty oil,” she said in a key speech last week, but supporting the flow of the oil is a necessary part of a “very hard balancing act” between energy security and the pursuit of new clean energy technologies.”
    Choke, Dirty Hilda, choke.
    O throws the Red-Greens a poison cup.
    …-
    “‘Dirty oil’ worry takes back seat to U.S. oil thirst”
    The United States needs Canada’s “dirty oil,” the energy-hungry country is set to concede after a raucous environmental debate that has threatened the expansion of Alberta’s oil sands.
    The U.S. especially needs the oil sands to keep the country’s crucial refining hub on the Gulf Coast humming, a key factor that underpins the U.S. government’s likely approval of a controversial new oil sands pipeline.”
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/industry-news/energy-and-resources/dirty-oil-worry-takes-back-seat-to-us-oil-thirst/article1767882/

  33. Where is Voodoo now?
    Voodoo has joined the elite UnaBomber at the UN, aka Ca$h-For-Life $inecure.
    How many billion$ have gone down the holes in Haiti? Haiti, the left-liberals’ sinkhole.
    …-
    “Outbreak: Disease Runs Through Haitian Refugee Camps
    Pacific Free Press – Cl Cook – ‎1 hour ago‎
    Al Jazeera (English) is reporting an outbreak of a disease thought to be Cholera, spreading rapidly through the crowded refugee camps of Haiti.
    Fatal Haiti outbreak investigated BBC News
    Outbreak of diarrhoea in central Haiti kills nearly 50 680 News”
    http://www.pacificfreepress.com/news/1/7202-outbreak-disease-runs-through-haitian-refugee-camps.html

  34. Once the plea deal is inked,and there are Khadre body parts on ebay…. I’ll be there.

  35. beagle :
    seems like televangelism not so lucrative anymore:
    We can only pray, but since the NT gives an inordinate amount of time talking about this type of scum I doubt it.
    Indeed in the first century a comedic play was written about a con man’s wind fall, by ransoming (Early Christians did it for non believers as well. As was checking the woods for babies left to die than raise) out of jail, than how gullible they where giving him money, food, clothing. The fact many manuscripts survives testifies to its popularity.
    JMO

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