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  4. This morning on the 6 o’clock news.
    The big, rrreally big news was that a well-known Muslim preacher guy in Calgary was attacked and pushed to the ground, by a woman at that.
    CHQR, the station that claims to be a “news” and talk, put it this way:
    “Syed Soharwardy, founder of Muslims Against Terrorism and the Islamic Supreme Council of Canada, says that he was knocked over by a woman driving a vehicle Syed Soharwardy, founder of Muslims Against Terrorism and the Islamic Supreme Council of Canada, says that he was knocked over by a woman driving a vehicle…..”
    There is another “news” station, CFR 660, which forever repeats itself and calls it the news. Eventually they started to change the story. Last of the morning that could be heard was that there was no knocking over. The woman got loud with him and he did not like it.
    The Calgary Herald put it this way:
    “Imam Syed Soharwardy said he was walking from his car to the Genesis Centre in northeast Calgary when a car struck him from behind.
    The woman who was driving the car got out and started shouting at him, calling him a terrorist and saying he was a threat to Canada.”
    You have to give it to the woman though, got a lot of guts.
    On the other hand we have a victim, his cohorts will use the episode to their advantage.
    The whole incident means absolutely nothing except for the “journalists”.
    It is difficult to put this together since, as is common with the “journalists” they go with the sensationalism and leave out the rest of the story.

  5. Lev: Re: ”You have to give it to the woman though, got a lot of guts.”
    Am I reading this right. What you’re saying is that someone has to have a lot of guts to hit a pedestrian with an automobile, and simply because he was on his way to prayers to a church that you don’t understand. .
    I read the story in The Herald and in The Sun, and they both state that there was an ”alleged” incident involving a woman striking an Imam on a parking lot, and with the use of an automobile.
    I also read the Imam’s bio on a couple of websites, and outside of being a bit of religious fanatic, as are many religious people, he seems to be on the level. There’s nothing there that says that the he deserves to be run over by an automobile.
    Gee–I wonder why the Conservatives are running behind in the polls??

  6. It is at all not clear that, that is what happened.
    The CFR66 radio said later in the day that three was not a knock down.
    As mentioned, the “journalist” are not telling the whole story.
    To say:
    “What you’re saying is that someone has to have a lot of guts to hit a pedestrian with an automobile” is pretty stupid.
    If you don’t want to understand, I’m certainly not going to make you. Think and write what you want.
    Not interested in polemic.

  8. Let me get this right Lev.
    An incident occurs where a woman allegedly hits a pedestrian (who is walking on a parking lot on his way to a prayer service) on purpose with an automobile, because she doesn’t like his religious and-or political views.
    You wrote: ”You have to give it to the woman though, got a lot of guts.”
    And I’m stupid because I don’t interpret your words as saying the woman has to have a lot of guts for what??
    ”It’s not clear what happened” because the Imam most likely won’t be pushing the issue, or pressing charges against some idiot who ran away from the Fourth Floor. End of story.

  9. Plainzdrifter is over and out.
    My original handle was ”Joe Citizen.” After 7 years, I’ve seen enough loose cannons to last me a lifetime. No–I’m not wearing a pistol to the food store nor do I want to run over pedestrians who have a different Bible than I do. At least, not when I’m living in Canada.
    It’s been a slice!

  10. Plainzdrifter, you’re in my pantheon of all-time great commenters. You regularly give me laughs in an era in which laughs can be in short supply, you always display a reasonable perspective in an entertaining way, you’re never po-faced, and you don’t attack people for being insufficiently po-faced. I’m always happy to see your comments.
    It’s not my intention here to attack Lev, but his assertion that the women who allegedly struck Soharwardy with a vehicle and then allegedly started shouting at him and calling him a terrorist “has a lot of guts” is unreasonable on the face of it – as you noted – and contains a lot more polemic by the strict definition of the word than your response did.
    There are a lot more readers here than commenters. I hope you reconsider your decision to sign out.

  12. Toronto Star, Fri., Sept. 12. Rick Salutin, in his usual sloppy, meandering style, deludes himself into thinking he’s making a point:
    http://www.thestar.com/opinion/commentary/2014/09/11/franklin_expedition_ends_the_great_publicprivate_debate_salutin.html
    RS: “I’d like to thank the Franklin expedition and its many follow-ups for definitively settling the irritating argument between the private sector and the public sector over who’s the problem and who’s the solution.”
    “Reagan and Thatcher said government wasn’t the solution, it was the problem; business was the solution.”
    Not so fast. If someone beats you up, it’s government’s job to apprehend the perpetrators and bring them to justice. Some private business may help, but it’s mostly the police and the court system, two branches of government, who have that responsibility. In this case, government is the “solution”, insofar as it can provide one.
    But where the economy is concerned, government should butt out. The economy is about trade between individuals based on their value-judgments about products available, and government intervention — that is, coercion — distorts the value-judgments to the detriment of trade and the economy. There, government is a problem.
    RS: “But look at this week’s discovery of the wreck of the Erebus (or the Terror). It was headed by Parks Canada (public) with a role for entrepreneur Jim Balsillie’s Arctic Research Foundation along with others that get tax breaks from the government. The technologies involved had public money in their development. There are profs — an archeologist from Waterloo, an anthropologist from Manitoba — who are basically public servants, along with those from Parks Canada and the Canadian Hydrographic Service …”
    Please identify exactly what government brought to the expedition, other than taxpayers’ money which taxpayers might have had a better use for. None of the government agents here gained any special powers or insights by virtue of being a government employee. It isn’t possible.
    In private business, companies and employees have to cater to the public to try to make a profit through efficiencies. But government employees can get lazy by virtue of being cut off from market signals that indicate the best use of resources, and of being paid through coercion. Thus a weak government enterprise that would fail and be replaced by a better private one stays afloat, draining the economy.
    The Franklin expedition was not a business, and persons in scientific fields are possibly more likely to maintain their acumen and desire for advancement of scientific knowledge, but this is not an advertisement for government action. The historical or scientific knowledge obtained from finding the wreck might be of interest to some, but this search was not a proper function of government.
    RS: “Economist Mariana Mazzucato’s new book, The Entrepreneurial State, takes a bold step in “debunking” this fake construct. (Steve Paikin interviewed her on TVO this week.) She doesn’t just argue that public spending (on defence) was crucial in basic advances like computers and the Internet. That’s well-known. She also shows how U.S. public money funded product innovation way down the line, including some of the smallest details of the iPhone! She says the necessity of venture capital is highly exaggerated. Private investors are now far too focused on short-term profit to take real risks. It’s governments that do it. The private sector then steps in when results are assured, to take the credit and the profits.”
    Again, not so fast. There is no one who is more focused on the short term than a politician looking to the next election. Businesses are founded with the intention of surviving and prospering in perpetuity, and to that end they have to focus on the long term. If private capital is scarce, it’s because taxes and regulation are draining the economic surplus from which it derives. How much of that “public money” which “funded product innovation” was taken in taxes from businesses? Taxation takes from one pocket and subsidy puts it in the other, with unproductive bureaucracies skimming off their undeserved cut. That’s waste. It is true, though, that innovations sometimes arise as a result of defense spending, as the Internet did.
    RS: “It’s like the bogus conflict of the individual versus society. What’s with the versus? Individuals can only flourish in strong collectivities where the basics are looked after and personal gifts can then be nurtured. You’d need your Ayn Rand ideological blinders on to think otherwise.”
    Individuals flourish in societies where their freedom is respected and where they benefit from trade with their productive fellow men and women. They don’t accomplish much in a state in which government runs everything, entrepreneurship is discouraged and incompetent government enterprises cannot be dislodged. It’s mostly up to families to look after “the basics” and to nurture the “personal gifts” of their children. Government adds nothing except coercion, and that drags down everyone. A person not wearing ideological blinders would recognize that.
    It’s a standard leftist tactic to blur the distinction between the voluntary and the coerced. Salutin’s column is just another angle on that.
    As for Ayn Rand, she was right about just about everything, and vapid columnists are absolutely no match for her.

  13. Stick around plainz, always welcome.
    Not everybody agrees all the time with everything.
    Even me and the good woman cross swords every now and again……

  14. Are you high, Plainzdrifter? You can’t in decency just flounce off to join a monastery in the desert because someone says something you find daft. It ain’t decent. Reconsider your decision, I beg you. EBD is right.
    This whole Sheepface Supreme Self-proclaimed Intergalactic Ruler of the Universe and Calgary Syed Soharwardy thing is just dumb anyway. See name link.

  15. NBC’s 3 Steps for Home Invasion Defense: Use Wasp Spray Illegally, Treat Invader ‘Like Royalty’ and Don’t Own a Gun.
    http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/09/13/nbcs-advice-for-dealing-with-a-home-invasion-wasp-spray-and-car-alarms-no-mention-of-guns/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=story&utm_campaign=ShareButtons
    Also, you should probably try losing control of your bodily functions. http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/02/20/university-of-colorado-removes-safety-tip-sheet-advising-rape-victims-to-vomit-urinate/

  16. Plainzdrifter
    It is not a different bible. It is not the same god. It is not a religion of peace.

  17. To add to what you said, until Trudeau’s Year Zero, universities were all private organizations and they all did this type of work. So, it is highly likely that this discovery would have been made with private money, by a private institution, like just about every scientific, technological, archaeological, palaeontological discovery was before Year Zero.

  19. Strong support for Doug will keep Olivia’s numbers down. I think that part of Tory’s support comes from lefties who are panicking about another Ford getting in.

  22. Look guys–I’m sorry–I flew off the handle.
    Obviously, some of you haven’t spent much time in Calgary.
    In Sept-2013–I was invited to a luncheon that was being held on an acreage near Airdrie. There were 22 invited, all worked for Cenovus, Enbridge, Shell etc.
    Of the 22 present, one guy was from New Brunswick, bilingual white French-English Christian at Christmas and Easter. His wife is white, Christian of Portuguese-Canadian origin. I’m white–Canadian Christian of German-French origin.
    The remainder were (mostly) Chinese, (Hong Kong and Vancouver,) Vietnamese, Laotian, Congolese, three I couldn’t figure out–my guess is Korean.
    There were no guys or gals wearing Stetsons and cowboy boots. Even the couple who own the acreage that the restaurant is built on are foreign.
    You have to be an escapee from a psyche ward to go after a person wearing a turban, burqua (etc.) in Calgary. Even worst to come out with a hideous statement that ”she has courage.” If the story is accurate, and I do have a lot of respect for the Herald and the Sun, she should be locked up for good. What next–when she sees a guy wearing a baklava, she’s going to drive over him with her Taurus just in case he’s on his way to rob a store?
    The point is that these types of statements when published, posted or aired on a Conservative web site do reflect on our school of thought. This is advertised as a Conservative web site isn’t it?? And in ending Lev, even John Gormely, whom I consider to be the most outspoken and faithful Conservative I’ve ever come across, would have stopped you dead in your tracks if you were to utter such a statement on his show.
    But in the end, I guess you are entitled to your opinion. I just hope you that the end result of your freedom of expression isn’t another Trudeau in Ottawa!

  23. Cheryl Gallant Conservative MP – Renfrew-Nipissing – Pembroke
    Wants to know if UN Agenda 21 should be an election issue
    “While many people support the United Nations for its ‘peacekeeping’ efforts, hardly anyone knows the organization has very specific land use policies they would like to see implemented in every village, town, city, county, province and nation. The specific plan is called United Nations Agenda 21 Sustainable Development, which has its basis in Communitarianism. Most Canadians have heard of sustainable development, but are largely unaware of the U.N. initiative Agenda 21.”
    Your Voice – Agenda 21
     Should Agenda 21 be an election issue?*
    a. Yes
    b. No
    c. Not sure
    http://cherylgallant.com/2014/08/28/report-parliament-9/#gform_wrapper_42

  25. You bring up some interesting discussion points. Agreed that the woman is closer to nut bar than courages. Could well tie into the beginning of your Airdrie report where whites are becoming a minority and some people are threatened by that. Nothing wrong with multiculturism as long as the immigrants are compatible with our way of life. And there’s the crux of the problem. Many of them will never be Canadian or even want to be. Muslims and Christians are like oil and water. Except for a small minority they will never blend. The solution is to stop bringing them into the country, which of course is hampered by political correctness. People with functioning brains can see what’s happening in Europe and Britain and they know full well that the same problems will surface over here. Can be frustrating to see the future and know that spineless politicians would rather ignore the situation than lose a few votes.
    Also, I have never really seen SDA as a conservative web site. Seems like any party is fair game. Just that the NDP, Greens and Liberals always offer more free ammunition than the Conservatives. Hope you stay as I’ve enjoyed most of your posts.

  26. Peterj:
    My visit to Airdrie was indeed an eye opener. I do however believe that most of the people who attended the meeting were devout oil people, many who were petro-chemical engineers.

  27. The New York Times had to print a correction which is probably the number one all time winner in a long line of their recent corrections: “Correction: September 8, 2014
    An earlier version of a summary that appeared with this article misstated the former title of Dick Cheney. He was vice president, not president.”
    http://iowntheworld.com/blog/?p=252029

  28. Stop grandstanding, it’s beneath you. Either keep participating in discussions or not. Announcing it is pretentious. You’re better then that.

  29. Some folks like to label anyone who disagrees with their particular form of conservatism as ‘liberals, ‘media party’, JT supporters, etc.
    It would be enlightening for them to reassess their political beliefs against a recognized standard.
    http://www.politicalcompass.org/test

  30. Thanks for that. I’m a great fan of Gallant. She has tabled a private members bill in the HoC and I have been lobbying our MP for her support.

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