Like Oriana Fallaci with puppies and a push-up bra. You go girl!
In the new paper,
Emanuel and his co-authors project activity nearly two centuries hence, finding an overall drop in the number of hurricanes around the world, while the intensity of storms in some regions does rise. For example, with Atlantic hurricanes, two of the seven model simulations Emanuel ran suggested that the overall intensity of storms would decline. Five models suggested a modest increase.
Willful blindness – “Do I have the sides right? They say “Allahu Akbar!” we say “Imagine the liability!””
Forced to pay $50K for denying service to Jewish man…
Yours in the comments.
Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. (Don’t read this, Irwin, it’s from Wikipedia:) The The is an English musical and multimedia group that have been active in various forms since 1978. Their 1983 album Soul Mining was voted the third best album of the year by British music magazine Melody Maker.
Soul Mining featured the song Uncertain Smile, a favourite of ours for that genre / era here in the studio. Here’s a live version from around that time:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLY5SJ-XIL0
Not all politicians are frauds, and not all frauds are politicians. And not all people who look for change and hope are frauds. Yet it remains the case that some frauds keep on going on and on about change and hope. You know why? Because they keep changing their story every day, and they hope no one will notice.
Is Islamophobia another entitlement reserved for Canada’s Left?
On his blog yesterday, Warren Kinsella said:
“Imam Flaherty’s jihad against Ontario’s majority government didn’t seem entirely unscripted, admittedly.”
In reply, I — an “Islamolucide”, along with Barbara Kay — said:
“Your Imam-on-a-jihad metaphor sounds like the kind of hurtful stereotype that attracts the attention of Canada’s various human rights commissions. The way you’ve used the metaphor implies that Imams and jihad are inextricably linked. Forgive me, but wouldn’t that tend to breed contempt for a certain religious group — not to mention offending them?”
for once bridgitte is right,,,,,,,,using computer models for predicting weather is like going to vegas and putting everything on one number on the roulette wheel,,,,,,,,,only the truely stupid ignore the evil that is islam,,,,,,,,,we can’t refuse service to homosexuals, should people be allowed to refuse service to jews?
TSowell Fan. No that metaphor would no imply that jihad and Imams are linked for two reasons.
1)Liberals can say or do no wrong as they are bending over back wards to appease said group.
2) Nobody reads them anyway. Liberal blogs are like a group of people whispering in a small circle. If you don’t hear it you can’t be offended by them.
The denial of service case is an interesting one. Can a photofinisher refuse to copy prints of pictures he or she might regard as pornographic while the customer insists they are merely a record of a “stable, loving relationship”?
Flaherty should sue.
Kinsella writes “CONSERVATIVES: RCMP ENGAGE IN “PUBLICITY STUNTS”. He then links to stories where one would expect to find that someone in the CPC accused the RCMP of a publicity stunt. There is no such accusation made anywhere. The CPC accuses the Commissioner of Elections Canada of engaging in a publicity stunt – not the RCMP. This is clearly dishonest of Warren. Maybe the CPC can sue WK for slander.
What is clear here is that the RCMP were asked to execute a search warrant obtained by Elections Canada from a judge – not from the RCMP itself. For WK to write that the CPC said the RCMP engaged in a publicity stunt is, in my opinion, a lie. They never said it. Must be a member of the Lieberal Party of Canada.
In the case of “Cutler v. Los Gatos Camera” the judge didn’t go far enough. He should have sent the owner of Los Gatos back to wherever he came from. Finally though, a judge with some justice in him.
I am Jewish, but the court decision to penalize the photo finishing company because the owners would not print his picture is wrong.
Discrimination should not be a crime.
The “S” words: socialism = sustainability.
Same old same old legal plunder.
Follow the “S” words to socialism’s = sustainability’s hell on earth.
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“Sustainability’s psychological roots lay in the counterintuitiveness of market economics and the urge to exploit that ignorance in pursuit of political power. There are undoubtedly “externalities” in industrial activity. That is why we have environmental laws, which have traditionally erred on the side of excessive cost. However, the new form of socialism claims that markets—that is, people—are so feckless of environmental costs that not merely laws are needed but a comprehensive reordering of prices by bureaucratic fiat, so that consumer/sheep might be led towards the heaven on earth that the old “S” word failed to deliver.”
Cracks in the core of sustainability
Financial Post Peter Foster
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2002348/posts
EarlW – with all due respect, the shop owner could have simply refused to do the job with no explanation given. When he stated why he did not want to do the job he betrayed deep hatred. While I have no problem with him thinking it – it is quite another thing to actually say it. He could have pulled an “Ezra” and said something like “I refuse to do this job because it is my bloody right to do so” and no one could haul his butt before a HRC. But he had to spew his poison. I’m glad he has to cough-up big time.
China Supporter Poses As Tibetan, Attacks Handicapped Girl
http://tcs2.instablogs.com/entry/china-supporter-poses-as-tibetan-attacks-handicapped-girl/
Interesting international commentary already on that thread as it just went up…
German schoolboy, 13, corrects NASA’s asteroid figures: paper
“Nico Marquardt used telescopic findings from the Institute of Astrophysics in Potsdam (AIP) to calculate that there was a 1 in 450 chance that the Apophis asteroid will collide with Earth, the Potsdamer Neuerster Nachrichten reported.”
“NASA had previously estimated the chances at only 1 in 45,000 but told its sister organisation, the European Space Agency (ESA), that the young whizzkid had got it right.”
http://tinyurl.com/52fqwg (afp)
Re: the Cutler case. This is a grey area for me…Los Gatos is offering a service, but not one I would deem to be a professional one…meaning it is not HIS special abilities that he is hawking but those of his MACHINES. In this case, I would think that Los Gatos should NOT discriminate UNLESS he has publicly displayed his intentions to discriminate on whatever grounds he wants to specify.
If I walk into a store that displays a sign that says the owner may refuse to provide service for “x” reasons, then I shouldn’t be surprised or upset when the owner refuses me service. If the shop does NOT display such a disclaimer, then I would pronounce guilt (as I play Solomon).
Cavaet emptor.
AFAIC, if the shop owner is going to be treated like a criminal, he should have the same rights as a criminal. The plintiff should have to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that his ancestors weren’t Zionist terrorists.
This photofinishing case is a perfect example of what ET was talking about the other day.
You have a store, you can’t refuse to print the Jewish guy’s “Zionist” pictures, doesn’t matter if you are the owner or an employee. If you open a store, part of the agreement you make with regulators and society at large is you serve everybody.
Your free choice in this case is you are free to not have a store. Hate Jews all you want, rant and rail and spew vindictive insanity off your soapbox, but you better print them pictures.
Makes me wonder though, is this store owner a black helicopter Right wing Jew hater or a Pro-Palestine Left wing Jew hater? Its the nuances of these things that are important, eh?
“Hillier says Relations with the Prime Minister Office were Great”
ctv.ca
So once again the Media(ctv) tried to Imply that Relations between the PM & Hillier were strained. Hillier has stated this morning that their were everything was great. Last Nite ctv made a ref: that the next man in charge will be more in tune with the PM In other words the PM’s Puppet, Unfortantly for ctv another fabrication that won’t work, But have put that thought in the publics perceptions of the PM.
Lowell Green of CFRA Radio has started todays program with the shocking news that blogger Doug Aldridge of therightside.ca, and known to the call-in program as Doug of Lombardy, was killed in an automobile accident yesterday. Doug was to have interviewed Lowell this coming week-end.
It appears that the blogsite has been cleared of all info save for the Home page.
Having heard many of Aldridges phone calls and the right approach he took to all subjects, this is indeed a loss to the blogging and commenting community.
Condolences to his family and friends.
Liberal leader Boob Rae, ComradeGeneralMarshal Mao Stlong’s nephew, say, No sordiels flom Canada in Ilaq.
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“Veteran of Iraq war heads list to succeed Hillier”
“Lt.-Gen. Walt Natynczyk, vice-chief of defence staff, is one of a handful of candidates on the shortlist to take over the job as Canada’s military chief.
Natynczyk has the experience; he is one of the few Canadian soldiers to have served in Iraq.”
http://tinyurl.com/3zy9na (canwest)
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“Chris Tindal » Rae Seriously Uninformed Regarding Iraq
… Canadian military officers serving in Iraq as part of the American command. Bob Rae interrupted me to object adamantly, almost angrily. “No there aren’t …”
http://www.christindal.ca/2008/03/12/rae-seriously-uninformed-regarding-iraq/
“Hillier says Relations with the Prime Minister Office were Great”
ctv.ca
So once again the Media(ctv) tried to Imply that Relations between the PM & Hillier were strained. Hillier has stated this morning that their were everything was great. Last Nite ctv made a ref: that the next man in charge will be more in tune with the PM In other words the PM’s Puppet, Unfortantly for ctv another fabrication that won’t work, But have put that thought in the publics perceptions of the PM.
The Phantom – The situation is a little different from the photographer. The printer is being paid to perform the simple service of copying.
A photographer, on the other hand, is trying to capture the essence of a thing or event using lighting, exposure, composition, etc. It’s an artistic endeavor, much less of a simple service for hire.
The photograph case is interesting. A while back there were a slew of photo labs who either a) refused to print, or b) called the police when firearms owners tried to get photos of their collections developed.
Last I heard guns were still legal.
Of course the advice given was to buy a digital camera and save yourself the hassle of having to be raided.
No one mentioned suing.
Paul Heiney, Sheep shearing and woolly minds
Animal “lovers” have complained, and the organisers of the Kent County Show have caved in. There will be no more public sheep shearing competitions at this annual event “in case the sheep are cut”. The bleating complainants will think this progress. Farmers say it is one more example of the lack of understanding between town and country. They are both wrong. What we have here is a fundamental misunderstanding of sheep…
Yes, we shall chide the miscreant, Allah love the man.
(Via Connecting… the Dots) Sebastian Rotella, Penalty for crossing an Al Qaeda boss? A nasty memo
Mohammed Atef was furious.
The Al Qaeda leader had learned that a subordinate had broken the rules repeatedly. So he did his duty as the feared military chief of a global terror network: He fired off a nasty memo.
In two pages mixing flowery religious terms with itemized complaints, the Egyptian boss accused the militant of misappropriating cash, a car, sick leave, research papers and an air conditioner during “an austerity situation” for the network. He demanded a detailed letter of explanation…
Re: LosGatos Camera…
I would be a hypocrite for supporting Scott Brockie’s right to refuse whatever business he wants and then not supporting LosGatos as well. That being said, LosGatos would NEVER see a dime of my money if I lived in the area and I say this as someone who uses high end printing services. I suspect a lot of other photographers would feel the same way once word got around. Ideally, his business would have gone belly up on its own without state intervention.
Phantom:
“If you open a store, part of the agreement you make with regulators and society at large is you serve everybody.”
As I stated in a previous thread, I was unable to serve a Korean customer in the past because I couldn’t read Korean, which is mostly what his computer displayed. The only languages I can work in are English and French. I worry about a similar situation arising in the future and an HRC complaint being filed as a result.
Do you REALLY think an HRC will take my inability to function in a foreign language into account should something like this come before a tribunal?
Jonathan Schanzer, Selling Terror
HEZBOLLAH, THE RADICAL Shiite terrorist organization in Lebanon, is best known for attacking Israelis. But the organization also attempts to gain the support of Lebanese citizens with a sophisticated network of social services, political outreach, and financial aid. And recently, the militia has turned to advertising campaigns to bolster its image.
Hezbollah owns or controls at least two known advertising companies: Ressalat and Media-Publi Management. The U.S. Department of the Treasury should designate both as Specially Designated Global Terrorist entities (SDGTs) immediately as part of its ongoing campaign to cut off Hezbollah from the global financial system…
“He should have sent the owner of Los Gatos back to wherever he came from.”
Ummm, I think he came from the states.
Horny Toad
Eeyore, you can’t have a sign that says “No Irish” on your store. That ship has sailed long since, its practically the only good thing to come out of the ’60s besides the music.
By which I mean the Beach Boys.
Still, you have a major point. This puts an interesting light on the Scott Brockie case though, doesn’t it? To my mind the difference is Mr. Brockie did not flatly refuse service to the gay customer.
It is my understanding that he provided service as normal for several pieces of work regarding gay related event flyers, and asked the client to please take -one- piece to a different printer. Indeed he went so far as to offer to have this done for the customer. Note that this was a repeat customer not a first time walk in, and that the work in question was quite (pardon the pun) graphic in nature.
This is where things get interesting. Yes the printer agrees to serve all customers. But, customers also have an agreement. They agree not to make the store guy demean or dishonor himself with unreasonable demands.
This used to be called “community standards”, and to my mind this is the half of the equation that has broken down. Customers are no longer assumed to have any responsibilities in the relationship. So the gay customer can get up on his high horse and drag Mr. Brockie through the Human Rights meat grinder. Cha-ching! Payday, baby.
EXCEPT NOT ALWAYS. This gets to the poison tap root of Liberal victimology. If I take the Western Standard down to Ahmed the fundamentalist Muslim printer and demand he run off 10,000 bumper stickers of the Mohamed cartoons, is the Human Rights Tribunal or any court in Ontario going to hear that complaint? No way. But they will for sure hear the Scott Brockie case. Some are more equal than others.
But that’s not the worst part. For me the worst part is, they’d be just as wrong to hear my bullsh1t case against the Muslim guy as they were to hear the Brockie case. The Muslim guy is 100% right to ask me “What, am I the ONLY printer in town? You can’t get a non-Muslim to print this stuff?”
Because going to a devout Muslim with that cartoon, deliberately planning a human rights complaint when he kicks me out of the shop, is really nothing other than assault. If I firebombed the guy’s store, chucked a frackin’ Molotov cocktail right through the plate glass window, it would cost him -less- than the human rights suit, even if he won. Less money, less suffering, less misery.
Please note the profound difference between the customer assaulting the store owner with an obnoxious, unreasonable demand, and the store owner assaulting the customer with an obnoxious, unreasonable refusal of service. Assault is not something to be encouraged in a civilized society.
Please note also all you rules lawyers, this is a moral argument, not a legal one. Law uninformed by morality is evil.
How would this had turned out, if it was a Muslim photoshop owner that had refused to print the pictures for this gentleman.
Best advice to any shop owner who wants to provide selective service.
Size up the potential customer.
Make your services contingent on a schedule.
Tell the customer you are very “busy”.
Can they wait a couple months?
I get tired waiting 15+ minutes for a haircut. See ya L8tr…….
KS and Sean, your arguments have merit, see my post 11:06am.
Sean, no I don’t think an HRC is going to take your limitations into account. If they take the case, you’re guilty. That’s what a 100% success rate means. Clearly, if you can’t read Korean you’re a racist.
KS, I agree. The photographer can decline a job for any reason or for no reason, because she is a contractor. Conversely, a guy with a camera shop that offers on-the-spot portraits can’t refuse to take pictures of gay couples. I would say he could refuse to take pictures of them making out, but that’s one of those “community standards” things again. If he had pictures on display of straight couples making out he’d have less of an argument. Maybe he should shut up and click.
Trial by combat is looking better and better, eh? ~:D
RE: Los Gatos Camera
I was totally against the HRC ruling against the printer for refusing to print gay posters and I’m totally against this judgement as well.
In private business, you should have the right to pick who you work for, what jobs you take and what business to refuse.
The other side is that the targets get to picket in their stores and discourage others from giving them business.
I support both the rights of Gays and Jews but being a targeted minority gives you no right to crush the rights of others while demanding rights of your own. It’s hypocritical.
In either case, the bad publicity would cripple their stores and that is the proper response in a democracy.
If they were refusing employment or housing to some targeted group, that would be different.
Socialism’s Albatross: Slavery; Death.
National Socialism’s “Valentin” in Germany & Soviet Socialist-Communism’s Kolyma, aka “Siberian Auschwitz”.
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“What to Do with Hitler’s Submarine Bunker?”
“The structure is left over from one of the most megalomaniacal projects of Adolf Hitler’s Nazi dictatorship: the submarine bunker named “Valentin.” Some 12,000 prisoners of war, concentration camp inmates and forced laborers constructed the bomb-proof submarine factory from 1943 to 1945. An estimated 4,000 of the slave workers didn’t survive to see the project’s completion.”
http://tinyurl.com/4gcy9m (spiegel)
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Picture Gallery
Kolyma – “Siberian Auschwitz”. KOLYMA: The Land of Gold and Death (link); Road from Magadan to Kolyma – ‘one way trip’ (16K) · Gravesite of dead prisoner …
okay.com/dunc/pictures.htm
Presumably, Phantom, Los Gatos would have posted a sign saying “The Owner reserves the right to refuse service for items deemed, in the Owner’s sole opinion, to be pornographic or associated with illegal activities or for activities which honour or support terrorism in any form” or whatever other principles he holds.
If that disclaimer is posted in the store, the “community standard” has been communicated to the potential client. The potential client, assuming he is a “reasonable man”, should be able to discern if his request for service is in contravention of posted store policy.
Besides, as I said on another thread, there doesn’t seem to be anything wrong with the signs that say “No Shirt, No Shoes, No Service”.
Having said that, however, I am NOT terribly concerned with the Los Gatos outcome since I strongly suspect that he is simply anti-semitic.
“Do you REALLY think an HRC will take my inability to function in a foreign language into account should something like this come before a tribunal?”
Absolutely sean,.. as long as you’re not , you know, a white male.
Oh wait, sorry, a quick history of cases shows us that you must be a white male if you’re before the HRC.
So please allow me to slightly re-phrase my original answer:
No.
Eeyore
“I am NOT terribly concerned with the Los Gatos outcome since I strongly suspect that he is simply anti-semitic.”
Undoubtedly that is true. The guy sounds like a left-wing, Kos-kid, anti-semitic, Pali-loving, tin-hat conspiracy mongering creep to me.
If you don’t support the rights of people you can’t stand, you shouldn’t expect any rights of your own. This is the entire point that people like Warmin, McClellend and Kinsella don’t seem to be able to comprehend.
Canada’s tributes to its fallen heroes are not going unnoticed in Britain:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=559303&in_page_id=1770
Will the OPP be helping them shut down the 401 again this year? It was so touching to see the working so well together last year
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OTTAWA — The Mohawk protester who helped shut down a stretch of Ontario’s busiest highway last June says Canadians can expect more disruption on May 29.
That’s the date chiefs across the country have circled for another day of peaceful demonstration to push for urgent action on native poverty. Shawn Brant, who led highway and railroad blockades near Kingston, Ont., last June, says placard-waving won’t cut it.
http://tinyurl.com/5z97px
The photo shop issue balances on a knife edge. Was he refusing to print the photos because the customer was Jewish? No, he’d served him before by printing photos of the Swedish ancestors on the other side of the family. Was he refusing to print the photos because the people depicted were Jewish? That’s tricky. The statute as described doesn’t blanketly prohibit refusal of service; it prohibits refusal of service on certain grounds particularly the customer’s religion or ancestry. The store owner, it appears, was not refusing service on the grounds of the customer’s ancestry, it was on the grounds of what he perceived to be the content of the photographs. Presumably if the customer had brought photographs of his son’s Bar Mitzvah, the owner would have copied them. But the owner seems to have believed (erroneously I would contend) that they were photos of Zionists. So, under California law can the owner refuse service on the grounds that the content of the photos are, to him, objectionable? Must he claim violation of a personal religious standard? Must he claim violation of a community standard? If yes, he can refuse; if no, then he’d be compelled to print the photos. Where does the onus lie? Presumably, a store owner would be required to serve all comers barring valid objection or else anti-discrimination legislation could easily be rendered meaningless. If, in court, the owner were to blurt out that “all Jews are Zionists” then there’d be a civil rights violation. But if the owner made a distinction between Jews and Zionist Jews then there wouldn’t. The owner may have violated other statutory law; but not anti-discrimination legislation. From the very limited information in the article, as muddle-headed as his thinking may be to me, and with the caveats expressed above, I’d have to side with the store owner.
Jonathan Schanzer, Selling Terror… Charles M..
Hezbollah shares Common Ground with Quebec Liberals.
McGuinty – Who needs food? Just give the enviro-whackos what they want…
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Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty says he will not reconsider his government’s program of helping ethanol producers despite concern that is driving up food prices.
He said today that the three-year-old program to support the production of ethanol – a corn-derived alcohol used as a gasoline additive – is not the dominant factor in driving up the price of corn and other commodities.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080416.wmcguintyethanol0416/BNStory/National/?page=rss&id=RTGAM.20080416.wmcguintyethanol0416
From cbc’s Nahlah Ayed commentary on the deadly fallout of ‘celebratory gunfire’ in Mid.East comes this gem…
“The improbable parallel would be watching bullets fly in the riding of Okanagan-Coquihalla whenever MP Stockwell Day appeared on tv”
link to story at DMB
EarlW / a different bob.
I am not a Jew only a great admirer of the Jewish people. I agree, however, with EarlW, who is a Jew, and who evidently understands the principle here.
Namely: a private business should be able to refuse service to anyone on any grounds whatsoever. Moreoever, he should be wholly free to determine the content of a business transaction, i.e., free to not print photos of any kind whatsoever. I have no issue with private censorship, only state censorship.
It seems that the “right of association” has been irretreivably lost, which is a tragedy considering how bound up it is with private property rights.
The media keeps telling us that the Arctic is melting but the facts, as obtained from
http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/
are quite a bit different. In the last five days the sea ice in the Arctic has expanded by about 100,000 sq. Kilometers.
In the Antarctic something even more intersting is happening. Each year for the last five the level of sea ice has been expanding leaving last year as the highest level ever recorded. This has never happened in all our recorded history of sea ice coverage.This beats the last record of 2 consecutive increases. The interesting part of the data is that the current level of Antarctic sea ice is about 33% above the norm for today.
If we look again at the Arctic we can see that the anomaly for this year is droppping rapidly. This indicates that the sea ice is melting slower than it did for the period from 1979..2000.( Which includes a cold period when there was more Arctic sea ice.) The current anomally is about 400,000 sq. Kilometers. It started at about 3 million below the mean.)( Remember the media’s ” the lowest level ever recorded’)?
Another interesting aspect arrived at by searching the cryosphere site is that the Bering sea is about 60% ahead of the mean. Another piece of info of interest is what is happening in the Barents sea. While still below the mean. The anomaly has been cut in half and the area is still increasing.
I have been monitoring this site since last year and while I question some of it’s revelations on the whole it seems to stack up pretty good.
We are currently one million square kilometers of sea ice ahead of the mean for the globe and world wide we should be at 19 million sq.Kilometers by the weekend.
Just what is a Zionist terrorist, and what does one look like?
The article could have given more information, but it sounds as though the store owner refused to print the photos because the people in them lloked Jewish – which makes him an anti-Semite.
He doesn’t seem like the brightest bulb in the chandelier – he didn’t know corporations have to be represented by attorneys in court? He’s facing a large lawsuit and doesn’t even bother to consult a lawyer, just to get some basic information?
Warwick, although I am not terribly concerned about Los Gatos, I AM weakly supporting his right to refuse to provide service…but only insofar as he is “principled” about his principles.
Actually, discrimination should be against the law, in cases of race, creed, colour, among others.
For any society that values fairness, civil rights and equality for all its members, anti-discrimination regulations are reasonable and necessary limitations on free speech, free association, etc. Discrimination in a case like los gatos is not “speech” or “conscience”. It is behaviour. And our society has the right to proscribe peoples’ behaviours that threaten people’s safety and the civil order.
One right we should all enjoy is “the right to be treated like anybody else”.
A superor court of California judge, after a trial (in a real court!), found that the store operator was “denying services on account of that person’s religion or ancestry.” Against the law in that jurisdiction.
No one among social conservatives and Christians would advocate for allowing discrimination or the denial of rights to people based on race, creed, skin colour, etc. The fact is that there are bigotted and prejudiced people in this world who will, if permitted, deny people services, just because they don’t like where they come from. Would anyone like to be told that you couldn’t rent an apartment, because of your skin color? Or that you couldn’t drink from a specific water fountain in a store, or eat in a specific restaurant? Or if your boss fired you because you had reached your 45th birthday? And what would happen if there were a couple of dozen “los gatos” in your city, who, once they find you are Jewish, or Catholic, or Irish, etc. tell you that “your money is no good here”?
It is true that government regulations aimed at supporting a “civil” civil society will never change the wickedness of prejudice and hatred in people’s hearts and minds. But they can punish behaviour that is detrimental and injurious to society and people in it, and send a message to every religious, racial, or ethnic group that they are as welcome as anyone else to be join into our society and make the most of it for themselves and their families.
It’s Jimmah Carter’s fault. Say, Amen Jimmah. Amen Jimmah.
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“Gaza on verge of eruption
Hamas faces unprecedented crisis, as Israel, Egypt prepare for flare-up
Egypt asked Israel to put its forces along the Gaza Strip border on alert, while at the same time the Egyptian army is on special deployment on the Philadelphi Route and south of it. Officials in Israel and Egypt estimate that Gaza is on the brink of eruption that may be violently manifested on the Strip’s border with the two countries.
Israeli security officials estimate that Hamas’ Gaza regime has reached a dead-end and is facing an unprecedented crisis not seen since it took over the Strip. Hamas has no real answers to the distress of the Palestinian public and the last resort is a flare-up on the borders.
At Egypt’s request, and after power outages started in the Strip Tuesday, Israel decided to renew the supply of fuel to Gaza power stations as of Wednesday. Israel also agreed to turn a blind eye to the concentrations of Egyptian forces and weapons deployed near the Philadelphi Route these days even though they are forbidden by the peace treaty.
In light of the crisis in Gaza, Egypt put the special forces it brought into Sinai on alert and reiterated the threat to open fire at Palestinians who attempt to breach the wall it built along the Philadelphi Route.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2002491/posts
Eeyore: “I AM weakly supporting his right to refuse to provide service…but only insofar as he is “principled” about his principles…”
There is no such thing as being “principled about one’s principles” when the principles themselves are un-principled. No one can enjoy the benefit of immoral “principles”. A person who stands on “principle” in a matter of immoral, or unethical, or injurious behaviour is not principled – he is a scoundrel.