The Religion of Submission

Religion Of Submission 12 Comments

As Kate reported a year ago, the governor of the Pakistani Punjab province was assassinated by one of his own bodyguards. That murderer has now become a hero of sorts to many in Pakistan (audio version).
What’s often left out of reporting on this case is what precisely lead to the murder. From the aforementioned article is this interesting snippet:

So why did his bodyguard kill him?
Taseer – who had a record of protecting minority communities in Pakistan – was campaigning on a blasphemy case, that of a Christian woman called Asia Bibi.
Some Muslim women in her Punjab village accused her of defiling their well by drinking out of it and they demanded that she convert.
She refused and they accused her of blasphemy.
When he heard about the case Taseer decided he would try to get her a presidential pardon. He called a few journalists and visited her in prison and there he criticised the blasphemy law.

Remember this the next time you read a story involving Radical Islamists petitioning for more special privileges in Western countries.

Y2Kyoto: I’ll Miss The Polar Ice Caps

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Fox News;


Jan. 6, 2012: The Coast Guard Cutter Healy breaks ice around the Russian-flagged tanker Renda 250 miles south of Nome. The Healy is the Coast Guard’s only currently operating polar icebreaker. The vessels are transiting through ice up to five-feet thick in this area. The 370-foot tanker Renda will have to go through more than 300 miles of sea ice to get to Nome, a city of about 3,500 people on the western Alaska coastline that did not get its last pre-winter fuel delivery because of a massive storm.

The Suzuki Foundation could not be reached for comment. (h/t manversgwtw)

One Volcano & The Massive Carbon Scheme Fraud

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Greenbot’s, are you sitting down?
Okay, here’s the bombshell. The volcanic eruption in Iceland, since its first spewing of volcanic ash has, in just FOUR DAYS, NEGATED EVERY SINGLE EFFORT you have made in the past five years to control CO2 emissions on our planet, all of you.
Of course you know about this evil carbon dioxide that we are trying to suppress it’s that vital chemical compound that every plant requires to live and grow, and to synthesize into oxygen for us humans, and all animal life.
I know, it’s very disheartening to realize that all of the carbon emission savings you have accomplished while suffering the inconvenience and expense of: driving Prius hybrids, buying fabric grocery bags, sitting up till midnight to finish your kid’s “The Green Revolution” science project, throwing out all of your non-green cleaning supplies, using only two squares of toilet paper, putting a brick in your toilet tank reservoir, selling your SUV and speedboat, vacationing at home instead of abroad, nearly getting hit every day on your bicycle, replacing all of your 50 cents light bulbs with $10.00 light bulbs…well, all of those things you have done have all gone down the tubes in just four days.
The volcanic ash emitted into the Earth’s atmosphere in just four days – yes – FOUR DAYS ONLY by that volcano in Iceland, has totally erased every single effort you have made to reduce the evil beast, carbon. And there are around 200 active volcanoes on the planet spewing out this crud any one time – EVERY DAY.

Quick Reference to the Cultural Marxist Dictionary

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Courtesy of SDA regular “Occam’, here’s a handy guide to help you translate the nonsensical catch phrases frequently used by talking heads these days:
Behavior Modification = Conformity instead of individualism
Community Education = Spreading propaganda
Community Grassroots = Low-income citizens, parasitic Leftist NGOs
Community Organizer = Agitator, radical, anarchist
Diversity = Race-based employment
Equality = Discrimination against majorities
Ethical Development/ Environmental Rights = Anti-development, anti-industry, anti-property, anti-technology Luddite-ism
Immigration Reform = Amnesty for illegal aliens
Inclusion = Special identity group rights
It Takes a Village = Cradle-to-grave Socialism
Judgmental, Extremist, Hate speech, Bigotry, Racist = Dissent to Socialist dogmas
Life Long Learning = Socialist propaganda saturation
Multiculturalism = Race politics
Outcome-based Education = Indoctrination disguised as education
Pregnancy Prevention = Population control, sterilization Eugenics
Progressive = Radical Leftist
Raping the Earth = The normal operation of capitalist development, hunting, fishing, private land use
Reproductive Freedom, Women’s Rights = Abortion = State-sanctioned fetal homicide
Social Solution = Expansion of government size and power
Socialization = Collectivist group-think instead of individual achievement
Sustainable Economy = Socialism, Marxism, redistribution of wealth
Unionism/Solidarity = Communism, anti-capitalism
As ‘Occam’ indicated, whenever you hear one of these terms, know with absolute certainty that the speaker (or writer) has an agenda they’re pushing.
If you know of other such terms, please mention them in the comments, along with a plain English translation.

Y2Kyoto: We’re Winning

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BWAAHAAAA!

The Green Party of BC will not be running candidates in the by-elections to be called in 2012. Because this decision seems to be of interest to some in the media, I thought an explanation might be in order.
There are all kinds of reasons we might not want to participate in by-elections. As a party that believes in evidence based decision-making, we now have data based on the four by-elections in which we have participated: the 2011 by-election in Vancouver Point Grey (3.42%); the 2008 by-elections in Vancouver Burrard (5.37%) and Vancouver Fairview (7.35%); and the 2004 by-election in Surrey Panorama (8.37%). With the exception of Surrey Panorama, the percentage of support for Green Party candidates in the by-elections is substantially lower than we receive in those same ridings in provincial elections. On evidence, therefore, that might be reason enough to take a pass on future by-elections unless there is compelling counter evidence that the outcome could be different.

h/t Paul

A Second Helping of Steyn: The Left’s So-Called Empathy

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If you have a friend who repeatedly tells you how open-minded he is, does his rote repetition ever reach a point where you think he’s covering up for his lack of open-mindedness? If you have a friend who constantly hints at how generous he is, but yet never seems to pick up his fair share of a restaurant bill, never seems to donate to charity, and never seems available to help you out with large or small tasks, do you begin to think he’s full of it?
In this light, Mark Steyn eviscerates the WaPo’s Eugene Robinson, who has long claimed that his column is all about empathy. After his vicious attack against the Santorum family, and by extension all families who have lost a baby right before or after childbirth, it’s little wonder why Robinson feels the need to keep reminding everyone that he’s a Man of Empathy. Fact is, he’s not. Even worse, he’s indicative of the modern Leftist mindset, which feels there’s nothing wrong with saying the vilest of things, as long as they’re against your political enemies.
The comments on this video about the Santorums and their dead child are absolutely common amongst Leftists these days. Here’s just one example:

The Santorums ought to give the Palins some tips on proper abortion methods. You think that stem cell/afterbirth/fecal matter amalgam they called Trig is ever going to amount to ANYTHING? Hey, Sarah: If you’re reading this, you can borrow my Sam’s Club Card and stock up on coat hangars if you’d like….

Such filth is typical in hate-filled Leftist echo chambers. Don’t believe me? Here’s another example from a very mainstream blog/discussion site.
Read Steyn’s column. Read every word. And you’ll get a small glimpse into the battle that all centrists & conservatives are facing this decade. The Left absolutely wants to take over every aspect of our lives. They want to control how many children you have. They want to indoctrinate your children with Radical Leftist narratives from a young age. They want to ensure that most everyone belongs to a union. They want to control the maximum amount of money you can make. They want it all. And to accomplish this, they will do & say anything . . . without ever feeling the need to apologize. You can choose to avoid this fight. But they won’t.

Pleasing Your Enemies Does Not Turn Them Into Friends

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Mark Steyn;

This country is broke, and the unprecedented scale of its brokeness is an existential threat. Yet, with the exception of Newt’s occasional flashes of contempt for the questioners, everyone else plays along with this absurd game. It’s not merely that the GOP is letting the left frame the contest but that a party willing to dignify this pitiful charade is sending a broader message about the likelihood of its mustering the determination to stand up to a Democrat-media establishment once in office and effect meaningful course correction.
I see Terence Jeffrey and Andy McCarthy are having a disagreement about the correct response to a question on gay adoption. The correct response is to take an unconstitutional federally-funded supersized condom, roll it over George Stephanopoulos’ head, and say, “That’s odd. I can no longer hear a word you’re saying. So let me throw in my two bits on impending multi-trillion-dollar ruin…”

Reader Tips

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In tonight’s Tips music, recorded live during a June 1975 concert at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto, the Rolling Stones – along with Ian Stewart on piano – blast their way through a rollicking performance of It’s Only Rock ‘n Roll.
They like it. Best through headphones, if you have ’em, so you can hear the deft, weaving interplay of the honking guitars — that’s Ron Wood in your left ear, Keef on the right.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.

“Social Justice” + Math = Trouble

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A few days ago, a comment by ‘chip’ to this topic on SDA contained the following:

The state of public education in BC is very poor compared to what we have experienced in Asia. And now that UBC has initiated its new teacher training program that will bring the issues of social justice into math and science classes one can expect it will get a lot worse before it gets better.

One has to wonder if the “brain trust” behind the B.C. education system might soon be emulating this example set in Georgia:

Update: Courtesy of ‘rita’, here are some instruction manuals for “educators” who wish to breathe new life into the class warfare fires and amp up animosity & distrust between the races. Bravo, Leftie Social Engineers, you’re doing such “good” for society! 🙁

Things You’ll Never See On The CBC

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Rex Murphy;

Justice is not, as the maxim has it, blind. Not in Canada, at least. Lady Justice very definitely peeps out from under the blindfold when it comes to certain groups. Choices of when to enforce the law, and when not to, and upon whom it will be enforced, sometimes are made according to skin colour. It’s something we were supposed to stop doing decades ago, when racism fell out of fashion. But now we’re doing it again – this time, under a “progressive” banner.
In fact, maybe Lady Justice wears her emblematic blindfold these days – not out of determined disinterest – but because she’s just a little ashamed. She doesn’t want to see what’s happening to the values she once embodied.

Related word search at CBC for “Richard Smoke”.
h/t Rita

This Was The Moment

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That the rise of the oceans began to fall, and the planet began to heal…

Ten young whooping cranes and the bird-like plane they think is their mother had flown more than halfway to their winter home in Florida when federal regulators stepped in.
Now the birds and the plane are grounded in Alabama while the Federal Aviation Administration investigates whether the journey violates regulations because the pilot was being paid by a conservation group to lead the cranes on their first migration instead of working for free.
FAA regulations say only pilots with commercial pilot licenses can fly for hire. The pilots of Operation Migration’s plane are instead licensed to fly sport aircraft because that’s the category of aircraft that the group’s small, open plane with its rear propeller and bird-like wings falls under. FAA regulations also prohibit sport aircraft – which are sometimes of exotic design – from being flown to benefit a business or charity.

We Don’t Need No Stinking Sparky Cars

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The Worst Product Flops of 2011;

3. Volt
Company: General Motors
GM (GM) was originally so excited about the Volt that the company had announced in January it was speeding up its roll-out by six months. But by November the excitement had fizzled out. Larry Nitz, GM’s executive director for vehicle electrification told Reuters, “It’s naive to think that the world is going to switch tomorrow to EVs [electric vehicles].” Indeed, sales for the vehicle have been consistently low. Only 125 models were sold in July 2011. This was after GM spokeswoman Michelle Bunker was quoted as saying that the Volt was “virtually sold out” due to its popularity — a statement later shown to be misguided. Adding insult to injury, Chevy Volts are under investigation for fires involving the cars’ lithium-ion batteries. For concerned Volt owners, GM has offered free loaner cars.

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