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  1. “From 11 April (French) women will be banned from wearing the niqab – full-face Muslim veil – in any public place, including while walking down the street, taking a bus, at a bank, library or shop, or in a cinema or theatre. It will be illegal for a woman in niqab to visit the Louvre, or any other museum, take a train, visit a hospital or collect her child from school.
    “Face veils will be outlawed virtually anywhere outside women’s own homes, except when they are worshipping in a religious place or travelling as a passenger in a private car..”

  5. My poor aunt waited 8 months for a hip operation, in excruciating pain.
    I guess she just wasn’t important enough.
    Jack Layton, on the other hand…

  6. “Le silence éternel de ces espaces infinis m’effraie.”
    Far more than the monkey thing. I never got the big deal about the monkey thing.
    bestman – with any luck, the hip will reject Jack.

  7. I wonder if there is any way of finding out how long Jack waited and other circumstances that may show any kind of preferential treatment? After all, the NDP is so proud of Tommy Douglas’ part in bringing in what is now known as Medicare. Thank God for Tim Horton’s!

  8. Hey EBD (@12:01)
    Is there any indication of who is going to enforce that regulation?

  9. Jack Layton called my home with a pre-recorded message that lasted 5 minutes to tell me that he would be calling me again the next day at 7:30 pm to ask me some questions and listen to all my concerns. He called back the next day with another long pre-recorded message in question format. I was not around for either call – he filled up my voice-mail box completely. I was ticked, you just don’t do that.

  11. I suppose one could argue that if the universe is infinite, every place can be considered the center. Therefore, Jack Layton IS the center of the universe and should get his hip immediatement.

  12. Kakola (11:22), I guess it would be the police. The Guardian report says “After a teacher was convicted for trying to rip a face veil from an Emirati tourist in a shop, the law states public officials cannot force women to remove their niqabs in the street but must instead call the police of gendarmes…”

  13. Who’s driving the crazy train?
    Inmates at a British Columbia prison are in the final stages of efforts to form their own union to press for their rights as workers within the institution.
    Their lawyer, Natalie Dunbar, said Friday organizers at Mountain Institution in Agassiz are trying to sign up members for ConFederation, Canadian Prisoners’ Labour Union, Local 001.http://tinyurl.com/4l4jsy7

  15. PET Cemetery Report.
    >>> “But by far the most revolting element of Col. Gadhafi’s rehabilitation was the suck-up of the intellectuals.”
    Liberal Iggy’s Liberal Ad$Cam MartinJr and “the Loon of Libya”.
    Inside Liberal Iggy’s Big Red Tent.
    “In 2004, our own prime minister, Paul Martin, famously huddled with the Loon of Libya in a tent in the desert and declared him a “philosophical man with a sense of history.”
    “How the Loon of Libya won the West”
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/margaret-wente/how-the-loon-of-libya-won-the-west/article1930789/
    …-
    The “Loon of Libya” is Mohammedan Gaddafi.
    http://beta.images.theglobeandmail.com/archive/00250/Martin_and_Gadha_250081artw.jpg

  16. PET Cemetery Intellectual Report.
    Liberal Iggy: “Just Visiting”.
    Liberal Iggy: “the perfect non-Jewish Jewish intellectual”.
    >>> “But by far the most revolting element of Col. Gadhafi’s rehabilitation was the suck-up of the intellectuals.” (see above)
    …-
    “Letter from Canada
    The Return of the Native
    A public intellectual remakes himself as a public servant.
    by Adam Gopnik September 7, 2009″
    http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/09/07/090907fa_fact_gopnik
    …-
    “Treason of the Intellectuals, Volume 3″
    “Volume III: Islamic Fascism
    But a new magnet for intellectuals is emerging: radical Islam. It’s not that intellectuals are likely to embrace radical Islam themselves anytime soon – for one thing, the requirement of believing in God would deter many of them. But what they can do is obstruct efforts to combat radical Islam and terrorism, undermine support for Israel, stress the “legitimate grievances” of radical Islamists, and lend moral support to the “legitimacy” of radical Islamic movements.
    This is a phenomenon at first glance so baffling it cries out for analysis. Both fascism and Marxism censored, harassed, and imprisoned intellectuals, but they also gave lip service to intellectualism. Russia and Germany both had great universities. Both fascism and Marxism appealed to their respective nations’ cultural heritage in support of their ideologies. Our mental picture of fascism is now mostly colored by images of Nazi book burnings and bad art, but before World War II fascism was quite successful at passing itself off as a blend of socialism and nationalism.
    Marxism in particular offered an intellectual framework that many intellectuals bought into. Marxism presented a facade of support for culture and science, paid intellectuals highly and created huge academic institutions. True, intellectuals in the Soviet Union were well paid mostly in comparison to the general poverty of everyone else rather than in real terms, the economy was so decrepit that the money couldn’t purchase much of value, and a lot of the academic institutions were second-rate in comparison to any American community college, but at least the Soviet Union could put forth an illusion of fostering intellectual inquiry. (I once sent a letter to the Soviet Embassy inquiring about films on the Soviet space program. This was after word-processors had become universal in American offices. I got a reply – a couple of years later – typed on a manual machine that looked as if Lenin had typed his high school term papers on it, and the embassy was still using the same ribbon.) But radical Islam is openly hostile to intellectual inquiry. Iran under the Ayatollahs banned music. In the United States, the work Piss Christ ignited a fierce debate – not over whether such work should be allowed, but whether it should be publicly supported. In parts of the Islamic world, dissident works invite not debate over public funding, but death sentences. Fascism and Marxism at least offered the illusion that they supported intellectual inquiry. Radical Islam offers intellectuals nothing. So why aren’t Western intellectuals whole-heartedly behind any and all diplomatic and military attempts to combat radical Islam?
    What Made Treason I and II Tick
    Wrong End of the Telescope”
    http://www.uwgb.edu/dutchs/PSEUDOSC/TreasonV3.HTM

  20. grt vid
    phil you said Toronto City Council
    I was thinking of just Toronto & all of the elitist liberals

  21. EBD, that was really cool!
    Now can you do a similar illustrative comparison with people?
    I betcha that ol’ gasbag Al Gore would be VY Canis Majoris.
    Errr,… make that VP Anus Majoris.

  22. PET Cemetery Survey.
    Which leader was not leader – “he’s evil”, of Iggy’s Liberal Party?
    1. AlMoh Mohammedan Gaddafi.
    2. Liberal Ad$Cam MartinJr.
    Mansur cannot name #3 Liberal Ad$Cam MartinJr’s party. Why?
    ‘Scourse, it’s Liberal Iggy’s Liberal Party.
    “Yet Gadhafi was regularly courted by European leaders, as well as Canada’s former prime minister Paul Martin,”
    …-
    “Gadhafi not ‘delusional’ — he’s evil”
    “Dismissing Gadhafi as mad is also ironically delusional. He is instead evil, as were Hitler and Stalin, Mao Zedong, Pol Pot, Idi Amin and Saddam Hussein, to name a few. What these so-called “delusional” men had in common was the total lack of compunction in making war upon their own people.”
    http://www.ottawasun.com/comment/columnists/salim_mansur/2011/03/04/17498401.html
    Liberal Ad$Cam MartinJr & Gaddafi: Courting.
    http://beta.images.theglobeandmail.com/archive/00250/Martin_and_Gadha_250081artw.jpg

  23. OT perhaps…as regards the niqab…wonder if we’ll see an increase in suicide bombings?
    Just about the time the gendarme turns up on the scene with a pair of scissors in hand.
    Perhaps even a husky male or two with a kalisnikov(sp) dressed in drag.(make that tent drag).

  24. How many you demand?
    Two egglolls? Thlee?
    You wan what? stlike?
    “While not paying contributors is perfectly legal, Lasarow noted, it is “unethical and oh so very hypocritical.””
    …-
    “Huffington Post contributors go on strike, propose collective bargaining
    Arianna Huffington is being cast by some unpaid Huffington Post contributors as an unethical robber baron. With Huffington awash in funds from AOL’s $315 million purchase of the Huffington Post, contributors have called a strike to demand proper compensation.
    The Huffington Post, established in 2005, emerged as a leading source of aggregated news content and liberal commentary written by unpaid contributors. With the success of the site, founder Arianna Huffington rocketed to national fame, frequently appearing as a guest on cable news programs.
    Bill Lasarow, Publisher and Co-Editor of Visual Art Source, announced that his organization is “now going on strike. For now, at least, no more content from us will appear on the Huffington Post.”
    Visual Art Source members have contributed content to the Huffington Post for free since 2010. Lasarow wrote that “it is unethical to expect trained and qualified professionals to contribute quality content for nothing.”
    How far the strike will spread is currently unclear. But Lasarow wrote that his group is calling for broad participation by Huffington Post contributors. “I am also calling upon all others now contributing free content, particularly original content to the Huffington Post to also join us in this strike,” wrote Lasarow.
    Lasarow wrote that his organization has two demands. The first, that the Huffington Post develop a system for paying writers and bloggers. The second, for the site to differentiate between paid promotional content and writers’ work.
    The group proposes a system of collective bargaining for contributors, expressing hope that they band together to “form a negotiating partnership with Huffington/AOL in order to pursue these and other important matters so as to professionalize this relationship.”
    While not paying contributors is perfectly legal, Lasarow noted, it is “unethical and oh so very hypocritical.””
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2684111/posts

  28. “From 11 April (French) women will be banned from wearing the niqab – full-face Muslim veil
    – EBD tip
    At first blush this seems a positive development. But, is it possible this is just window-dressing, something to lull the people into believing that “something is being done”? I know, I know, “you gotta start somewhere” but this does absolutely nothing but remove some of the visual evidence of the islamic colonization which will continue apace.
    Remember Cameron’s honeyed speech about the “failure of multiculturalism”. Same deal. There are people, even on this board, who cheered that speech. But that was just a pretty speech, signifying absolutely nothing. The gutless-wonder Cameron won’t do anything. Bet on it. As mentioned on other occasions, when I hear that Anjem Choudary is taken off welfare, I’ll start getting interested.

  29. ‘Nother MSM report which doesn’t mention “then Prime Minister Paul Martin”‘s party name.
    PET Cemetery says, It’s Liberal Iggy’s Liberal Party.
    Yes, it’s Liberal Ad$Cam Martin, says PET Cemetery spokesmen.
    We PET Cemetarians have no “Cloud of uncertainty” which “hangs over” us.
    Da proof is da proof*:
    “World leaders soon came flocking to the colonel’s tent compound in Tripoli, including then Prime Minister Paul Martin who made a private visit to the Libyan leader in 2004 and then announced a string of contracts for Canadian companies.”
    …-
    “Cloud of uncertainty hangs over Canadian business deals with Libya”
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/cloud-of-uncertainty-hangs-over-canadian-business-deals-with-libya/article1931002/
    Da “dam” Mohammedans:
    http://beta.images.theglobeandmail.com/archive/01225/WEB-libya-petro_1225414cl-3.jpg
    *H/T Da proofer, aka Liberal Ad$Scam Chretien.

  30. cool little video, but i kept expecting the next body to be that of Rosie O’Donnell

  34. PET Cemetery proudly announces a citing has been found in the TORedStar.
    >>> ” former Liberal prime minister Paul Martin,”.
    MartinJr is an ex-leader of Iggy’s Ad$Cam Liberal Party.
    >>> “former Liberal prime minister Paul Martin, who was among the parade of world leaders to court Gadhafi in 2004″
    Persistence pays dividends*.
    *H/T Liberal MP McTeague, as he throws Good Buddy AlMoh Mohammedan Gaddafi to the wolves.
    “That is in stark contrast to Harper’s predecessor, former Liberal prime minister Paul Martin, who was among the parade of world leaders to court Gadhafi in 2004 after the Libyan regime renounced a secret weapons program, effectively ending decades of international isolation, and opening oil concessions to international bidding.
    Liberal MP Dan McTeague, who accompanied Martin on the journey to Tripoli as an adviser, said Monday that whatever Gadhafi might do next, his days are numbered. And he urged Ottawa to step up with help for the “wrenching transition” that is certain to follow.”
    http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/942366–libyan-protesters-rally-for-second-night-in-capital?bn=1
    http://www.bluelikeyou.com/2011/03/05/spring-election-unavoidable/#comment-63307

  35. AlMoh Mohammedan Gadaffi’s Mohammedans, aka Muslims.
    …-
    “Nearly 4000 Muslims Attack Christian Homes in Egypt, Torch Church
    Assyrian International News Agency ^ | 3/5/2011 | Mary Abdelmassih
    Posted on 03/05/2011 3:05:23 PM PST by Qbert
    (AINA) — A mob of nearly four thousand Muslims has attacked Coptic homes this evening in the village of Soul, Atfif in Helwan Governorate, 30 kilometers from Cairo, and torched the Church of St. Mina and St. George. There are conflicting reports about the whereabouts of the Church pastor Father Yosha and three deacons who were at church; some say they died in the fire and some say they are being held captive by the Muslims inside the church.
    Witnesses report the mob prevented the fire brigade from entering the village. The army, which has been stationed for the last two days in the village of Bromil, 7 kilometers from Soul, initially refused to go into Soul, according to the officer in charge. When the army finally sent three tanks to the village, Muslim elders sent them away, saying that everything was “in order now.”
    A curfew has been imposed on the 12,000 Christians in the village.
    This incident was triggered by a relationship between 40-year-old Copt Ashraf Iskander and a Muslim woman. Yesterday a “reconciliation” meeting was arranged between the relevant Coptic and Muslim families and together with the Muslim elders it was decided that Ashraf Iskander would have to leave the village because Muslims torched his house.
    [Snip]
    The Muslim mob attacked the church, exploding 5-6 gas cylinders inside the church, pulled down the cross and the domes and burnt everything inside…”
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2684238/posts
    http://www.bluelikeyou.com/2011/03/05/spring-election-unavoidable/#comment-63320

  36. This is from the article that maz2 has linked to above. The ‘religion of peace’ at it’s logical best.

    ” The father of the Muslim woman was killed by his cousin because he did not kill his daughter to preserve the family’s honor, which led the woman’s brother to avenge the death of his father by killing the cousin. The village Muslims blamed the Christians.”

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