So you can understand why while staging a coup it would be necessary for the Thai coup leaders to ban go-go girls from dancing near tanks and troops
Canadian soldiers may want to point out that they are not staging any coups at the moment, though you wouldn’t want to disrupt any overseas operations.
Ramadan Rioting in Brussels?
Paul Belien at Brussels Journal suggest Belgian “youths” might be starting to make Ramadan an annual Car-B-Q season
It looks like some Brussels immigrant youths want to make “ramadan rioting” an annual event. Last Saturday morning, between 1 and 4 am, ten cars were set on fire in the Brussels borough of Schaarbeek. Last night several car and shop windows were smashed and one shop and five cars were set alight in the Brussels Marollen quarter.
The Brits Got One
Some time ago Al-Qaeda terrorist Omar al-Farouq escaped from American custody in Afghanistan.
Today, the British killed him in southern Iraq.
Good shooting, Brits.
My kind of women’s empowerment
Chicks Carrying Guns and Kicking Tail:
In 2002, Charmaine Dunbar met a man on an early-morning walk, who threatened her with a rifle. She shot him twice in the stomach.
Click the link for more heartwarming stories like that.
Kyoto Boondoggles
The upcoming Auditor-General’s report is expected to be scathing in its assessment of the former Liberal government programs, but this should be no surprise to anyone.
Back in 2003 no less than David Suzuki was warning about the bizarre junk science boondoggles being funded:
Is pig iron the way to a better planet? The Canadian government apparently seems to think so. It’s funding a bizarre project in Brazil to plant vast farms of eucalyptus trees, which will eventually be made into charcoal to produce pig iron – a low grade iron. Somehow along the way, this is supposed to slow global warming.
When David Suzuki is complaining about useless money wasting government programs you can be sure it will be a target rich environment indeed for the Auditor-General.
But would you believe Kyoto would end up subsidizing the Saudi oil industry, bringing depleted oil fields back to production?
Fatwa Friday special
Via Mark Steyn, we find this amusing Mitsubishi ad campaign that some Ohio radio stations are refusing to run:
In the spot, Keith Dennis of Dennis Mitsubishi talks about “launching a jihad on the automotive market.”
Sales representatives “will be wearing burqas all weekend long,” the ad says. One of the vehicles on sale “can comfortably seat up to 12 jihadists in the back.”
“Our prices are lower than the evildoers’ every day. Just ask the pope! ” the ad says. “Friday is fatwa Friday, with free rubber swords for the kiddies.”
Sounds like a good excuse for the perpetually outraged to have a Car-B-Q party. The radio stations are certainly entitled to decline any ad for their own reasons, but I think this type of mockery is the best response to the jihadists. We should not allow the slightest hint of being intimidated by the serial rioters.
And speaking of the perpetually outraged, Salim Mansur has an excellent column today:
But it is futile to engage with drivers of the perpetual anger machine — the political leaders, intellectuals, religious heads and demagogues — as they rush head-long to go over the precipice of history into oblivion. Indeed, the sooner this occurs the safer the world will become.
Hence, instead of dignifying outrage by striving to find any merit in what has led to the burning of Pope effigies in the Arab-Muslim world, I am reminded of another conversation worth recalling that took place in Baghdad in 1258.
Read the whole thing, as they say, but I’m encouraged to see him simply refusing to dignify the outrage.
Looking on the bright side
It would be nice if the Iranians ditched their president because he’s an Islamofascist nutbar bent on bringing them to the brink of a nuclear Armageddon. Or even if they just wanted someone sane and democratic for a change. But if that doesn’t happen,
we can always hope that some Ayatollah will hang him for engaging in this homosexual tryst with the Lebanese president.
More photos of the rally on Parliament hill
“Canadians do not start fights, but we finish them, and we don’t leave until we’re finished.”
Great photos and coverage of the rally.
Sensitivity training in Academia
Ryerson computer science instructor Ilkka Kokkarinen has ended his blogging days
After the events of the recent days, I have decided to take down my blog, and would like to apologize to all people who have been hurt or offended by my old posts.
And what mortal sin did he commit? He was reportedly in need of sensitivity training after writing comments like this:
“I have never really understood how lesbian separatism could work even in principle, since few modern women would want to live in what is essentially a stone age society, which is pretty much what women could ever achieve on their own without men around.”
He goes on to say that the feminists would live off the “generous” welfare cheques provided by men, “assuming that they wanted to eat (and usually lesbians do eat a lot, as you can tell just by looking at them).”
And we know what a keen sense of humour lesbian feminists have.
No Abu Ghraib horrors for them
Unlike the humiliation of American prisons, Indonesia treats Christian militants in Sulawesi quite differently:
Three Indonesian Christian militants sentenced to death for attacks on Muslims in 2000 have been executed by firing squad. …
The militants’ supporters and rights groups have questioned the fairness of the trial.
I don’t know if they got a fair trial or not, but it in Indonesia it’s certainly doubtful.
Advice from Joe Settler
Here’s the advice an Israeli settler in the West Bank has for the Americans in Iraq:
The US is fighting a losing battle trying to help a people that wants, or more accurately, needs to be subjugated and managed with a heavy hand. Saddam’s style of rule was unfortunately right when it comes to Arabs.
Just look at all the primitive Church burnings the Arabs are doing now merely because of something the Pope quoted.
These are the actions of a primitive people – nothing more.
When he puts it that way it sounds like bigotry, but when you live in the West Bank you can’t afford to indulge in multi-culti happy thoughts about your neighbours.
Reading this reminds me of a conversation I had with some white Rhodesians many years ago when they lectured me on the backward, tribal customs of the majority in the country. They predicted that the people would never successfully manage a democratic country themselves and it would quickly descend into corrupt and vicious tribal chaos. It sounded like bigotry at the time, but more than twenty years later one could not say the prediction was inaccurate.