To ease you ever so gently into tonight’s Tips, here’s dulcet-voiced Whispering Jack Smith singing If I Had You.
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To ease you ever so gently into tonight’s Tips, here’s dulcet-voiced Whispering Jack Smith singing If I Had You.
The comments are open for your Reader Tips.
“For what it is”? The best Canadian blog. Well, tell me – since inception, on what major issue has Kate been wrong on?
Sultan Knish tells us about the dhimmi political/criminal class: No One Expects the Muslim Inquisition.
“Monty Python may have surprised us with the Spanish Inquisition, but today there is hardly anyone who doesn’t expect the Muslim Inquisition. It is almost hard to imagine that there was a time not so long ago when it was possible to catch sight of Muslim terrorists in films and when it was permissible to crack jokes about Mohammed and the mountain.
“Today a few strokes of a pen can put you on the run, not in Islambad or Ridyah, but as far away as Seattle. And the mere whisper of a mosque protest can put you in a jail cell for ‘breach of peace’. Peace being another way of saying Islam.”
This story I found to be profoundly disturbing and proof positive of the well-intentioned but diastrous Iraq invastion.
The estimable Melanie Phillips tells us about the
The massacre of Iranian resisters at Camp Ashraf in Iraq.
OPENING:
According to the National Council of Resistance of Iran, the Iraqi Army used 2,500 troops equipped with armoured vehicles to attack Ashraf in tandem with the feared al Qods force of Iran. The NCRI claims: According to reliable information from within the clerical regime, the terrorist Qods Force of the IRGC was involved at its highest level in the planning and the execution of this assault. In particular, Brigadier General Qasem Soleimani, commander of the Qods Force, personally supervised the planning of this attack on Ashraf. According to this information, some of the officers of the Qods Force were present at the scene of the attack in Ashraf and took part in the killing of Ashraf residents. A number of elements of the Qods force who speak Arabic well participated in the attack of April 8.
CLOSING:
So far, however, no such language has been forthcoming from the British or the Americans — whose tender consciences have taken them to war in Libya to protect innocent civilians from a despotic regime. Could this be because the last thing the British and Americans want to acknowledge is that the Iraqi government of Nuri al Maliki – the country in which so much British and American blood and treasure has been so painfully spent in the cause of making it safe for the west — has merely become (as has been suggested on this blog many times) a puppet of the Iranians, the west’s most lethal foe?
Me quoting I forget whom: War is a government programme.
Take Me, Obama – by Dana Milbank
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Obama’s strengths and weaknesses come from his high degree of “integrative complexity” — his ability to keep multiple variables and trade-offs in mind simultaneously. The integratively simple thinker — say, George W. Bush — has one universal organizing principle that dominates all others, while the integratively complex thinker –Obama — balances many competing goals.
http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/article/20110428/OPINION/104280310/1006/RSS06
goings on down at the rez:
http://www.lfpress.com/news/london/2011/04/29/18084386.html
Just to give you a further example of the obscene length of time our courts take to try the simplest cases follow the one in Toronto where Richard Kachkar drove his stolen snowplow into officer Sgt. Ryan Russell, killing him. This should be an open and shut simple case as there are dozens of witnesses to this murder.
Yet though it happened on January 12th, 2011 Kachkar has just had another video showing in court today with his preliminary hearing to start Nov 7th, running to December 2nd to discuss this straightforward crime. The actual trial is scheduled for the fall of 2012 or maybe early 2013. Just an absolute travesty and we wonder why the cost of “justice” is so high and growing year by year!
Think of it, how long would it take to ask this man, did you steal the snowplow, did you drive it into officer Russell, did Officer Russell shoot you and wound you. What more needs to be said, guilty as charged, total elapsed time 8 minutes, additional time to verify through witnesses the sequence of events, maybe a full day.
I run my property as I see fit
Kinda like someone thinking they “own” their gmail account. Possession is 9/10s of the law…
Nonsense. Authority is nine-tenths of the law.
Yup, and the one who owns the server, in the end, has the authority. Try putting something on their server they vehemently disagree with.
Why bother? Someone owns the server, someone owns the blog, they have a contractual agreement, life goes on. They can delete your comments and you can’t delete their’s. At your blog, the policy is up to you. Here, the policy is up to Kate: because she pays the bills. The great threat to the future of this media is not the stifling of speech, it is The Pathology of the Blogosphere. Avoid it or die.
Someone owns the server, someone owns the blog, they have a contractual agreement…
A contract to rent…doesn’t meet the definition of property.
From your link;
If one is not careful, one can start to get caught up in the on-going parade of triumphant pessimism until at some point one actually starts to believe that things are actually as bad as they are made out to be by those who have gotten caught up in the feedback cycle of trying to out-bad-news and out-negative each other…
Ironic 🙂
Ah, no. Someone has to stop this per Kate’s request that we “Take our extended debates […] to private email”, as elucidated below, so I’m going to. You can reach me by said mail, Fiddle, via the link named below after me. Other than that, I’ve said my piece; thanks for the space, Kate.
I visit SDA most days, rarely comment, but always read the comments. There are blogs that don’t allow comments, and sorry, I don’t check them out – ever (beyond, of course, the first look, where I see they don’t have comments…). The comments are the most interesting part. Sorry, Kate – of course I agree 100% that your blog, your rules, etc. But I imagine there are others like me. I’ll miss SDA.