For Tat
James Harper, a Colorado student who recently quit his high school choir rather than sing an Islamic song with the words “There is no other truth except Allah”, provides our quote of the week:
“I think there would be a lot of outrage if we made a Muslim choir (sing) ‘Jesus Christ is the only truth.‘”
He’s wrong, of course. There’d be tears of joy, and Muslim and Christian students would exchange hugs and kisses, and they’d dance and laugh and play with gumdrop smiles…
Its Out!
The CFL 2012 season schedule!.
The free agency period has been cause for celebration.
A few good-byes to long standing Riders. Thank you Wes and Gene.
And a couple of surprises, see ya Stuuuu and Andy all the best except when you play the Riders!
Two things. The OLine signings mean that whomever wins the starting running back position is going to have some excellent lanes opening up. They also mean that Darian is going to have a bit more time to make decisions.
I love the signings and GM Taman deserves accolades for his yoeman work. Last year showed our weaknesses and on paper GM Taman has addressed those issues. Now it’s up to our new coaching staff to bring the excellence we know wears Rider Green to the field.
How many months till training camp again?
Is There Nothing That Obama Can’t Do?
“The real threat is the sophisticated forces of Islamism, which have collaborated with the American Left not only to undermine U.S. national security but to shred the fabric of American constitutional democracy.”
President Romney a Disaster for America’s Conservatives?
Is James Delingpole wrong?
Is the Danish Gravy Train Running on Empty?
In Denmark, the Welfare State and Freedom seem to be more & more incompatible. Jacob Mchangama explains why.
A Brief History of Mississauga’s Palestine House
Feb 15, 2012: The Toronto Star’s Haroon Siddiqui refers to Jason Kenney’s decision to cut $1 Million of annual subsidies to Mississauga’s Palestine House as “scandalous”.
Jul 22, 2006: Elias Hazineh, a member of the board of directors of Palestine House, speaks at an anti-Israel rally in Toronto. The photos captured at that event are most interesting.
Jan 11, 2009: Nabil Nassar, a member of the board of directors of Palestine House, is interviewed by CTV News at an anti-Israel rally in Toronto, where this video was shot.
Feb 1, 2010: A 3-year investigation by the RCMP revealed that of 1,800 people who had submitted fraudulent immigrations applications to Canada 300 of them claimed the address of Palestine House as where they were living.
Apr 2, 2010: A young man related to Palestine House screams out “You need another Holocaust”.
Nov 16, 2010: Sobhi Salhia, the President of Palestine House, travels with his daughter, Yasmene, to the West Bank. In her blog entry about this trip, she posts a photo of her father and refers to the founding of Israel as “the catastrophe”.
Feb 16, 2012: Michael Coren & Brian Lilley disagree with the aforementioned Mr. Siddiqui.
Many thanks & praise are owed to Blazing Cat Fur & Mississauga Matt for their tremendous writing & videos over the years on this file.
Rex Murphy on Canada’s Newest Separatist, Justin Trudeau
h/t Sammy, with much thanks to Mississauga Matt for uploading the video
Reader Tips
In tonight’s Tips music we go all international-like to watch Neapolitan pianist and singer Renato Carosone and the boys sing Tu Vuò Fa’ L’Americano.
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Tales from the no dissent zone
Former “Daily Kos” contributor Eric Allen Bell was a filmmaker who had a POV entirely in keeping with that of typical west-coast progressives. In 2010, after leaving Hollywood for a quieter life in Murfreesbo,Tennessee, he saw American-flag-waving Evangelicals in his new hometown protesting against the proposed construction of a mega mosque, and decided to make a feature-length documentary about the controversy: “I saw this as something of a David vs. Golliath story – with fanatical Evangelicals bullying a peaceful Muslims population, which had been in the community for over 30 years without their being trouble.”
He returned to California to show a short version of the documentary to his backers and received the go-ahead. “It was decided”, he writes, “that the focus would be on ‘the enemy at home’, that being what we were calling ‘Apocalyptic Christianity'”, and America’s “religious lunatic fringe.” But “something kept nagging at me on a gut level.” He saw the Arab Spring “degenerate into the Islamist Winter”, and read about women in Pakistan facing execution for being raped, and Indonesians being arrested for atheism; he met a cab driver, a Coptic Christian, who expressed concern about his relatives in Egypt, and then “saw that cab driver’s worst fears come true as Coptic Christians were attacked by Islamist mobs.”
Now more informed, he told his backers that the documentary they were making wasn’t entirely honest, and suggested a more balanced view:
“I wanted to show what happens to countries when they gain a Muslim majority, how women are treated, that homosexuals were executed, that free speech did not exist, that the forced Islamic Law was not consistent with Democratic Values – anything and everything I could think of that ought to strike a chord with the Liberal mindset. And the response I received was, ‘Eric you are starting to sound like an Islamophobe.…‘”
The accusation was more than a warning shot: he was banned from Daily Kos, and personally denounced in articles published there; his photo was disseminated online with the appellation “Loon at Large”, and even his progressive friends and acquaintances vilified him a hatemonger and an Islamophobe. Read about Bell’s unpleasant experience with dogmatic forces of the Left in The High Price of Telling the Truth About Islam. Highly recommended.
Back to the Future
Thomas Sowell outlines a peculiar time in American political history that saw the rise of the Progressive Party. Much of what happened back then seems like the blueprint for Obama’s regime now.
Because Greece is so far away
Most with any recollection with recognize the name Don Drummond. No enemy of Liberals, he. Well, maybe now.
The Full Report.
You broke it, voters of Ontario, you buy it.
A Surefire Way to Make Liberal Heads Explode
I purchased Mark Levin’s latest book at a Costco in Seattle earlier this week:
The looks I received from the pair of hipsters working at the checkout was less than positive when they saw it. So I got to thinking, now that I’m back in Vancouver, what reaction would I get carrying that book wearing my red Canada mittens through the more Lefty infested stomping grounds of Vancouver? I might even opt to read it outside at a Starbucks with the cover prominently shown! 🙂
The Sound Of Settled Science
Why do most people today, scientists included, believe that small doses of radiation are harmful to human health when no proof for this theory exists, and when mountains of evidence show the opposite — that small amounts of radiation actually promote health? After years of sleuthing into historical records, a scientist at the University of Massachusetts has found a smoking gun, involving a scientific scam in 1946 at the very highest echelons — the Nobel Prize ceremonies in Stockholm.
In an august Nobel hall one year after the end of the Second World War, the scientific world was knowingly misled by Hermann J. Muller, winner that year of the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine. This is the verdict from a forensic review entitled Muller’s Nobel Prize Lecture: When Ideology Prevailed Over Science, just published by the Society of Toxicology in the Oxford University Press’s Toxicological Sciences. Had Muller spoken the truth and revealed the existence of contradictory research in the world’s most prominent scientific gathering, we might today have an entirely different view of radiation and its effects, preventing immense human suffering and the loss of countless lives.
Hubert Lacroix: How Dare Anyone Criticize Me or the CBC!
Some Workers Are More Equal Than Others
The $474,000 GM job
Update: Plus:
The strange budget priorities of Obama: Subsidizing car purchases for the 1% over poor children and airline safety
Meanwhile non-luxury Euro car makers are in trouble, especially Fiat (the proud owner of Chrysler which is in effect saving the Italian parent); VW–“slightly premium”–is however doing well, Ford is surprisingly not mentioned:
Too many cars, too few buyers
Nice charts. And note that Peugeot…
…is also worryingly dependent on selling cars in kit form to Iran, which account for 13% of Peugeot’s sales (compared with around 6% for Renault), and which would be vulnerable to any conflict over Iran’s nuclear programme…
Great Moments In Socialism
A “living wage” ordinance, far above the federal minimum wage, for all public employees and private contractors. A school system that spends significantly more per pupil than the national average. A powerful school employee union that militantly defends the exceptional pay, benefits and job security it has won for its members. Other government employee unions that do the same A tax system that aggressively redistributes income from businesses and the wealthy to the poor and to government bureaucracies.
Bill C-51: An End to Privacy or a Necessary Tool?
The problem with Crying Wolf or, in a modern Canadian context, declaring everything the Harper government does as the End of the World, is that people stop listening to you altogether. This seems to be the case with the Left-of-Centre political & media class in Canada.
Now the Tories are bringing in Bill C-51 aka the Protecting Children from Internet Predators Act. Its possible infringements into the privacy of Canadians does offer some legitimate pause for concern. Lorrie Goldstein offers a fairly balanced appraisal of the changes.
What say you?
h/t Several SDA commenters
The Occupy Movement: Fact vs. Fiction
Reader Tips
In tonight’s Tips video, from an old episode of the Outdoor Channel’s program The Huntress, Heidi Wilson shows us – good shot, Justin! – how to fix up some tasty and inexpensive Squirrel Melts.
h/t
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