Down with context

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Get that little weirdo:

“(Danish filmmaker) Lars von Trier facing (French) charges for Hitler rant…”

“Danish police have charged Director Lars von Trier for comments he made about Hitler and Nazism…”

Good. It’s time to put a stop, once and for all, to all this ‘joking around’ crap. Politically incorrect quips, mischievous little provocations, winking jibes, black humour, Scandinavian deadpan, negative capability, irony – these things should be treated as criminal matters.
Let literal-mindedness reign.

How are they going to become Canadians…

Chinada 31 Comments

…or Americans–including immigrants’ progeny–when they are in constant contact with their home culture?

…The cheap, instant and often nearly constant communication made possible by the technology revolution has fundamentally altered the experience of moving away from home.
“Because telecommunications is everywhere and is so cheap, people never really leave their communities,” Mark Podlasly, founder of the Brookmere Management Group, a Vancouver consulting firm, told me. “You can leave but still have a 24/7 connection with your home community. People are never really gone. You can be a citizen anywhere.”..

And it isn’t just the Internet. See what’s at Rogers Cable:

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Arabic (4)
Bangla (3)
Bengali (1)
Cantonese (6)
English (4)
German (2)
Greek (3)
Gujarati (1)
Hebrew (1)
Hindi (18)
Italian (2)
Japanese (1)
Korean (2)
Malayalam (1)
Mandarin (10)
News (1)
Polish (3)
Portuguese (3)
Punjabi (8)
Russian (6)
Spanish (9)
Tagalog (4)
Tamil (6)
Urdu (4)
Vietnamese (1)

And see the “Packs” and “Packages”.

Big Risk of a Collapse Happening?

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A quick look at these US, European Stoxx, German Dax, Spanish Ibex, Italian, Hong Kong charts below and decide for yourself. 2008 redux or…er, ahem… worse.
More than a few sharp cookies think if we get a washout here it will mark the end of a secular bear that really started in the late ‘90s and some think it will be a generational buying opportunity. Liquidate real estate in Canada while you can, pay down or refinance debt with exceptionally low interest rates and build a sum you can deploy when things get so extreme some stocks will sell for less than their net cash in the bank.
“With Manic Markets, it is crucial to evalue both long and short term charts and levels often. We wrote of the Squeeze set up three days ago. Once again, the markets bounced off the support levels, and fooled too many of the new “smart” shorts. Our long term scenario is intact, and we still believe the big dynamics on the downside will evolve later this autumn. There is a big risk of a Collapse happening, just when everybody is sucked into the long trade, and shorts have given up. For now, let’s review the short term charts, all hitting resistance levels”. Charts & Big Risk of a Collapse Happening HERE
(Ed Note: Latest comments including Oct 7th at the bottom of this post)

The Insite Decision: Views from a Former Junkie

Baiting The Left 27 Comments

The recent decision of the Supreme Court of Canada to keep Insite open is going to spread more misery all over Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. It’s now being revealed that the “studies” done to prove the value of Insite were flawed or even fixed. Can you say “Drug-gate”?
As we all know, the Leftist mind is impervious to any & all facts it disagrees with. It only accepts data that concurs with its Kumbaya worldview. But perhaps the words of a former drug addict will have some impact. Gerry Verrier guest wrote a stinging indictment of Insite on David Berner’s blog. Here are some snippets:

I am a former addict that will stand up and say that I do not support Insite or needle exchange programs. If there had been safe injection sites back in the 70s, I would be dead.
Providing for addicts to continue to be addicted is anti-social. Not expecting our addicted brothers and sisters to contribute to the betterment of our society and community is anti-social. Helping an addict stick a needle in his or her arm is anti social. Harm Reduction as it is applied to addiction is anti social.

Adriana Barton – Canadian Bigot

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Adriana Barton is a far-left zealot who blogs for the Globe & Mail. Ms. Barton has never found a fact she couldn’t dismiss simply because she disagreed with it. What a great scientist she’d be!
In her latest hateful screed, she’s put on training wheels to get onto Heather Malice’s bicycle path of constant anger towards men and conservatives in general.
Charles Adler tears apart her insipid, clueless diatribe with great humour.
It would be most interesting to interview Ms. Barton about Climategate.

Be Brave! Be True! Be Conservative!

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With a small “c” too. Publius has some advice for Ontario Progressive Conservatives (why does that oxymoron survive?):

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The MSM has created the monster of Mike Harris, a crude caricature that has been successfully used to frighten the Ontario PCs back into their default Red Tory mode. They’ve been duped. The media is not the electorate, nor do they hold the same sway over the voters of this province as they once did. The internet has allowed voters more direct access to information and to candidates. The scare power of the MSM is greatly weakened…
The Ontario PCs have been playing a political game defined by their enemies. The Left is telling us what is and what is not too conservative. At such a game the Tories can never win. They are playing a game with loaded dice.
Rather than letting the Left define what the Right should be in Ontario, as well as in Canada as a whole, we should be defining that ourselves. The political middle is a constantly shifting target. A well timed and sold policy can shift that middle to either the Left or Right…

You Poor Oppressed Americans…

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…ground down by your false consciousness (many up here think similarly about Canadian society)–from the estimable George Will:

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Many members of the liberal intelligentsia, that herd of independent minds, agree that other Americans comprise a malleable, hence vulnerable, herd whose “false consciousness” is imposed by corporate America. Therefore the herd needs kindly, paternal supervision by a cohort of protective herders. This means subordination of the bovine many to a regulatory government staffed by people drawn from the clever minority not manipulated into false consciousness.
Because such tutelary government must presume the public’s incompetence, it owes minimal deference to people’s preferences. These preferences are not really “theirs,” because the preferences derive from false, meaning imposed, consciousness. This convenient theory licenses the enlightened vanguard, the political class, to exercise maximum discretion in wielding the powers of the regulatory state…

The PC BBC, 2011 CE

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We’ve got guests. Quick – hide our culture.
A recent memorandum sent out to BBC employees by the broadcaster’s religious and ethics department suggested that the use of the terms AD (Anno Domini) and BC (Before Christ) be replaced by BCE (before Common Era) and CE (Common Era) when referring to historical dates:

“As the BBC is committed to impartiality it is appropriate that we use terms that do not offend or alienate non-Christians.”

The new terms, of course, happen to use the exact same point of historical reference, as the Vatican points out:

The BBC has limited itself to changing only the description, rather than the computation of time, but in doing so, it cannot be denied that it has made a hypocritical gesture: the hypocrisy of those who pretend not to know why years began to be counted precisely from that moment.

Hmm. Hijri dates, anyone?

Permission to speak

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Four New York state senators recently released a report (pdf) called “Cyberbullying: A Report on Bullying in a Digital Age” which addresses the – very modern – problem of cyberbullying, particularly among teenagers, and looks at possible solutions.
One particular statement, delivered almost in passing, addresses the issue of free speech:

Proponents of a more refined First Amendment argue that this freedom should be treated not as a right but as a privilege – a special entitlement granted by the state on a conditional basis that can be revoked if it is ever abused or maltreated.

Why not? This “refined” approach to speech has always worked out so well in other countries, hasn’t it?
(h/t Dave Blount at Moonbattery)

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