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  1. It isn’t ‘race’ (an attribute I reject) but a genetic component of the individual. So, skin colour, hair type, etc, are important attributes of correct identification of a suspect in a criminal case.
    How about the recent police request for information about a suspect sought in a slew of burglaries? What were the attributes for the public to use to identify said individual? Male, between the ages of 18-30, slim build. That’s all.
    But, they still requested the public to phone in information! Heh.

  2. I am always amused by people who confuse the legitimate form of government called fascism, ie state corporatism, with the violent Hitler version called Nazism.
    Some of the American Nazi name-calling is utterly insane, by educated people who should know better.
    Fascism, or state corporatism, is always marked by breaking a nation into its different racial, ehtnic, or religious groups.
    And then the most powerful (chosen) group always finds/invents reasons why its particular group is the only one qualified to run the state corporations.
    Fascism allows you to own property but when you deal with the govt, it all has to be done exactly as they say, so really you don’t own it.
    You know, just like Canada’s very own Compulsory Wheat Board.
    Nazism on the other hand is a particularly virulent form of fascism which is usually marked by militaristic endeavors and much violence.
    It always winds up as a very violent form of govt and is usually accompanied by the physical elimination of any opposition because the leaders refuse to allow any dissent.
    And why would they, when the fascist leaders alone know the path to Nirvana?
    BTW Hitler’s favorite name for the people was ‘mud’.
    In fact, one of the last books written by a Quebec professor pointed out that a young Pierre Trudeau was quite enchanted with state corporatism.
    Gee, maybe that’s why Canadian govt grew from about 30 crown corporations in 1967 to over 400 state corporations and govt agencies under him in 1983.
    But Trudeau was no Nazi, he was afraid of guns.
    Trudeau’s idea of going to war, was to fight over the words going onto a piece of paper.

  3. On Rudy: He will have the last laugh on that previous failed presidential candidate Pat Buchanan. He has turned out to be a smaller man than I thought. Rudy will likely be the next president. Envy will get you no where Pat.
    On Bam: Is anyone really surprised? We are talking Muzzies here.
    On the racial profiling DNA technology:” Maybe we should just give the police Ouija boards. All that high tech stuff is too racist. It is interesting that it was a black man who said “If I could push a button and make this technology disappear, I would.”
    On Shoes: I love a story with a good ending.

  4. In Toronto: “Year Of The Assassin”
    * Photos: Faces of the murder victims
    * Video recap of the year’s murders
    * Executioners reign – At least 12 victims were targeted by killers
    …“Young black men are killing young black men at an alarming rate,” he said. “How many times do you say it!” ….
    * Heat on the street
    ….Blair also said police ranks — brought up to strength with 1,000 more men and women hired since 2005 — will continue to be expanded with officers who speak the languages and understand the culture and life in neighbourhoods that can only benefit…
    * The death of innocents – Families, communities ripped apart over those caught in the crossfire of gang rivalries
    …At least 31 of Toronto’s 84 homicide victims are considered by police to be innocents — either as bystanders, not living a high-risk lifestyle or associating with those who walk the edge…
    * Gangs battle, everyone pays
    ….“These people don’t pay taxes,” he said and victims who survive a shooting, “may be on medical intervention for the rest of their lives … on the backs of taxpayers.”….
    torontosun.com/News/TorontoAndGTA/YearOfTheAssassin/2007/12/28/4743396.html
    *Greater Toronto’s Language Quilt
    …English is still, by far, the first language across Greater Toronto. But strip away that blanket of dominance and a colourful patchwork emerges, showing where newcomers from around the world chose to settle. The map shows the most prevalent mother tongue after English in more than 1,000 neighbourhoods…
    www3.thestar.com/static/PDF/20071230_ID06.pdf

  8. Great blog:
    http://www.irshadmanji.com/home
    Here’s a taste:
    “Is passivity truly prudent in times of moral crisis? As the anthropologist Margaret Mead observed, change only ever comes about because a small number of seemingly powerless individuals choose action over complacency. Jihadists know this. When will the rest of us wake up to our own agency?”

  9. According to this news report, Bilawal Zardari (Ms. Bhutto’s son) will only be the titular leader of the Pakitan People’s Party; her widowed husband is taking the reins.
    (The story has some not-so-flattering things to say about the latter, too.)

  10. no mention how Danny Whine for Wine Williams gladly picked up his cheque from the feds, and quietly cashed it after three months of a shrill screams of unfairness, nary a thankyou to the ROC for footing the bill for the professional welfare province. all this from a guy that made millions with a population of built in duff sitters watching his cable TV— a scam that makes cretians golf course a two cent effort.
    http://www.cbc.ca/canada/newfoundland-labrador/story/2007/12/30/hearn-williams.html?ref=rss

  13. The phrase, “mining Alaskan oil”, is the tip of the iceberg of this tripe from the UK warmoonbats. Show us an oil mine.
    There is an anxiety in this report from the left UK Guardian. The green propaganda sjgt is not working; hoi polloi is not listening to the ecomoonbats.
    …-
    ‘Green fatigue’ leads to fear of backlash over climate change
    Britons know that the planet is heating up – but are still not ready to change their lifestyle
    http://tinyurl.com/2c7r76 (guardianUK)

  17. Bhutto was the student of Yasser Arafat; Arafat was her mentor. This snuffing of Bhutto is but an intergang killing, a power struggle between factions of the gang; the gang being the Islamofascists.
    …-
    “Who killed Benazir Bhutto? The Sami Shawkat philosophy: alike in its Arab nationalist, Islamist, and Pakistani authoritarian versions, which dominate Middle East politics.”
    …-
    The Profession Of Death (How Islamofascism Wrecks Muslim Societies Alert)
    Much will be said about Benazir Bhutto’s assassination; little will be understood about what it truly means. I’m not speaking here about Pakistan, of course, as important as that country is, but rather the lesson – as if we needed any more – for that broad Middle East which begins in Pakistan and ends on the Atlantic Ocean coast.
    The following is a true story. Back in 1946, an American diplomat asked an Iranian editor why his newspaper angrily criticized the United States but never the Soviet Union. The Iranian said it was obvious. “The Russians,” he said, “they kill people.”
    A dozen years earlier, in 1933, Iraqi official Sami Shawkat gave a talk which became one of the most famous texts of Arab nationalism. “There is something more important than money and learning for preserving the honor of a nation and for keeping humiliation at bay,” he stated. “That is strength… strength, as I use the word here, means to excel in the Profession of Death.”
    What, you might ask, was Shawkat’s own profession? He was director-general of Iraq’s Ministry of Education. This was how young people were to be taught and directed; this is where Saddam Hussein came from. Seventy-five years later, the subsequent history of Iraq and the rest of the Arab world shows just how well Shawkat did his job.
    September 11 in the United States; the Bali bombing for Australia; the tube bombing for Britain; the commuter train bombing for Spain, these were all merely byproducts of this pathology. The pathology in question is not Western policy toward the Middle East but rather Middle Eastern policy toward the Middle East. …-
    http://tinyurl.com/243h7s (jerusalem post)

  19. Last sentence of this piece:
    “Last month, [Georgia Governor] Perdue held a public prayer vigil for rain on the steps of the Capitol.”
    Say Amen. Amen. …-
    Rain Saves Atlanta From Drought Record
    http://tinyurl.com/3dunvp (apnews)

  20. Pakistan, a culture of nepotism: keeping jobs and opportunity tightly held among family and relatives. Carried to extremes as in Pakistan , it leads to abject poverty in 60% of young employable men.
    Pakistan is without a universal school system so this contributes to the poverty and frustration of so many numbers of youth as well.
    Osama offers this economically locked out youth an opportunity with meals and a mat in a madrass or camp. It*s no surprise that this endless supply of young men agree to join in with the jihadists. Without education and the ability to evaluate politics, Osama looks like the only game in town.
    So Pakistan with ingrained nepotism and a shortage of schools is a natural pool of jihad recruits.
    Pakistani leaders should have invested in schools rather than nukes for a more stable and safe country.
    In Canada, our school system is more valuable than most of us realize. Nepotism is alive and well in places like the CBC and the liberal network, but at least we understand it must be opposed. = TG

  21. maz2 at 7:29 PM points to this story,
    Green fatigue’ leads to fear of backlash over climate change
    Britons know that the planet is heating up – but are still not ready to change their lifestyle
    http://tinyurl.com/2c7r76
    ============ GuardianUK
    Partly true, and you can*t blame them. I went looking for a checklist of practical things to do on several **Green** sites and could only find where to send donations.
    Partly true, because fleets of commercial delivery trucks have converted to battery operation to escape the London congestion fees and save gas costs.
    TDI diesel is catching on as well because the fuel savings are so impressive. = TG

  22. Saddam was hung December 29, 2006. Lethal injection was not used to send him to Allah.
    BTW, gotta like that office: Serious Fraud Office.
    …-
    Drug firms probed in Iraq scandal
    LONDON, England (AP) — Britain’s Serious Fraud Office has demanded documents from three major drug makers in connection with allegations the companies paid bribes to secure lucrative contracts in Iraq while Saddam Hussein was in power, the companies said.
    GlaxoSmithKline, AstraZeneca and Eli Lilly and Co. Ltd. — the British affiliate of Indianapolis, Indiana-based Eli Lilly and Co. — are all accused of violating the U.N.’s oil-for-food program, established in the mid-1990s to ease the impact on Iraqis of sanctions imposed on Saddam’s regime after his 1990 invasion of Kuwait.
    Under the program, money from Iraqi oil sales was to have been used for food and medicine.
    All three companies have denied wrongdoing and said they were cooperating with the investigation.
    The fraud office launched an inquiry after former U.S. Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volcker detailed the scope of the corruption that marred the oil-for-food program.
    His report, released in October 2005, accused 2,200 companies from some 40 countries of colluding with Saddam’s regime to bilk the humanitarian program of $1.8 billion. …-
    http://tinyurl.com/ywv4yo (cnn)

  23. maz2
    Re your post on the UN Oil For Food Program….is this not why Moe Strong is hiding in China? How many millions did he and his friends make from the same program? Do you think Power Corp was involved? Lots of unanswered questions eh!

  24. A fascinating interview with Benazir Bhutto from 28 April 2007:
    Destiny’s daughter
    Here is a sample:

    It was my understanding that Musharraf’s inability to control the Taleban-controlled Waziristan – on the Pakistan border of Afghanistan – was an inevitable source of disquiet for his American backers and likely to make them at the very least question his leadership qualities. Benazir Bhutto’s response to a recent treaty which had been negotiated was: “My party would not have allowed the Taleban to become such a huge force that they would need to sign a peace treaty.” What the West wants to avoid at all costs is the possibility of the fundamentalists seizing power. And according to Bhutto, who is, of course, hardly an impartial observer, Musharraf, far from being weak, is strategically catering to the extremists in order to convince the US that unless they continue to back him their worst fears will be realised. Does Bhutto know whether Musharraf is anxious about losing US backing? “The indications are that he is confident that he has the support of the White House and that because of the situation arising with Iran’s stand-off with the West he feels that he will continue to be a key ally,” she says. “In fact, as far as General Musharraf is concerned, I think he feels that he’s got the West in his hands.” A provocative remark fully intended, one feels, to pack a well-aimed punch.

  27. ‘walk a mile in my shoes’, it’s a great story Kate and one that should be repeated ad nauseum. we need to be reminded of the struggle for life, basic freedoms and how hard it is to come by.

  29. Al W: Moe Strong/Power Corp., etc., has been covered here exhaustively. Search SDA’s archives.
    Sample: Typically absent of mention in the mainstream Canadian press, the Opinion Journal outlines another breaking spending scandal at the United Nations (h/t); The tale is similar to Oil for Food in that money for programs designed to benefit North Korea’s…
    Maurice Strong is also known as the “architect of Kyoto”.
    http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/archives/005392.html

  31. Janet Daley, The West cannot afford cosy equivocation
    Democracy has another martyr. Now we wait to see whether its enemies will have the ultimate triumph. Will parliamentary rule be restored in Pakistan? Or will the country collapse into the most terrifying sort of rogue state – a nuclear-empowered one – or simply subside back into its familiar condition as a hell’s kitchen of tribal corruption and safe haven for resting terrorists?
    This is it: the moment of truth when we either resolve to see this thing through, or give up altogether on the greatest project in human history. There can be no worldly, cynical retreat from the fight to the death that has now been officially declared by those prepared to kill any number of innocents and sacrifice any number of their own to prevent the spread of political liberty.
    Don’t believe anyone who tells you that “Western democracy” can survive as some kind of local subculture providing prosperity and safety for those indigenous populations fortunate enough to have been born in the right places. The forces of anti-democracy are out to get you – in your own streets, on your own trains, and in your own office buildings…
    Somehow we must get past the hideous obstacle of George Bush, whose bizarre misjudgments nearly succeeded in discrediting the whole concept of liberal interventionism: there is a sound reason why, in spite of Mr Bush, no serious contender for the White House (or for Downing Street, for that matter) will actually renounce the principle of free-world intervention. Every responsible member of the political class is aware that the West actually has no choice. Its values are not simply being challenged in a global struggle for territory and influence as they were during the Cold War. They are under positive threat of destruction from a fluid alliance of Islamist fundamentalists, feudal warlords and corrupt dictators, all of whom see the spread of democracy as a viral threat to their survival…

  32. Frontier Post, Peshawar/Quetta, on government ineptitude surrounding the Bhutto assassination:
    Suspect version unravelling
    …Even the release of the purportedly felicitation conversation between Baitullah Mehsud and an unidentified maulana that it claims to have intercepted has failed to change the direction of this finger-pointing; rather, that has given rise to more questions, all banefully hurtful to itself alone. He has denied the charge of his complicity in her murder, as he did to its accusation against him for masterminding the earlier terrorist attack on her October 18 Karachi rally, stating again that his Pakhtun culture doesn’t admit of a woman’s killing. And if the administration is not coming convincing to the people on this score, it itself is to blame. Now for pretty long, it has been accusing Baitullah Mehsud for almost every terrorist act and suicide bombing in the country, but never coming up to the people with a clinching proof or credible evidence to this effect…Already, they were very angry that in the so-called war on terror this administration had made the sacrificial goats of them, to be mowed down no lesser by the military incursions from across the border as by our own security apparatus. And their anger is now being increasingly intensified by such unsubstantiated accusations, which they view as an affront to their Pakhtun culture, which they hold dearest to their hearts. Indeed, it would be disastrously unwise on the administration’s part if it doesn’t take note of the wind currently blowing in the entire tribal belt. The public mood over there is presently very nasty; and if the administration doesn’t act sensibly right now to mitigate it, the tribal people’s roused sentiments may blow up soon into unpredictable conflagration. As it is, the region at present stands very edgy and on the brink. This tragic murder indeed must propel the administration on to a surgical review of its entire anti-terrorism campaign. While it must ensure a credibly impartial and thorough probe into this terrible death, no less importantly, it must think out how to enlist the cooperation of the tribal people in fighting terrorism and keeping their region calm. The stakes are too high to keep holding on to a shoddy strategy that spells enormous trouble not peace in the country’s strategically-placed underbelly.

  33. ‘Sent this yesterday morning, but error on site. So, vis a vis politically incorrect genes:
    I wonder who coined the phrase “Don’t confuse me with the facts”?
    ‘Quite likely either Adam or Eve, which is why I tend to the Christian view of original sin which seems to continue unabated in the human species:
    You’ve got a fact staring you in the face, discovered by a molecular biologist–that DNA evidence has a racial component which is 100% verifiable–but police have been reluctant to use it because the “racial profiling” it suggests might “offend” people.
    If DNA evidence can find and convict killers, rapists, or thieves, then knowing the racial profile of the felons should be seen as a positive good in enabling the police to speed up putting them behind bars. What’s offensive about that?
    I’d rather the killers, rapists, or thieves, and their families, “be offended” than the innocent victims and families of their crimes due to some misplaced scruples on the part of “sensitive,” politically correct law enforcement agents.
    Apparently, Tony Clayton, a black prosecutor in Baton Rogue “doesn’t like the idea that DNA shows that humans are different on a genetic level, no matter how remotely tiny, saying ‘If I could push a button and make this technology disappear, I would.'”
    If I had a button to make the don’t-confuse-me-with-the-facts-crowd disappear, I’d push it.
    GIVE ME A BREAK!

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