Find a anti-semite…
Tell me again, what does this have to do with the advancement of worker’s rights in Canada? I forgot…

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Part of a larger study to ascertain which countries may have a brighter and better future than the US, I found data that allowed me to calculate what percent of students were majoring in engineering or the sciences. The point being of course that “sociology” majors or “journalism” majors don’t really advance society or technology at all and are basically hobbies rich, spoiled suburbanite Americans like to major in thinking somehow they’ll produce the wealth necessary to support themselves throughout their lives (which they won’t).
Alas a good metric to gauge the future productivity of a nation is to measure what percent of the students major in something worthwhile, and thus these statistics from the OECD (2006)

As one would have previously guessed Asian nations score rather high with Korea having over a third of their students majoring in engineering or the sciences. The Scandinavian countries fair rather well, except Iceland which may go a long way in explaining why their country collapsed and others haven’t (engineers tend to have enough math skills to know you can’t spend more than you earn). Mexico beats out Canada by a wide margin, but Canada is not as bad as the US where only 15% of our students major in something worthwhile.
It’s not that difficult to understand that if your country majors in worthless subjects then your future productivity is going to suffer, but the problem you run into is where capitalism has produced so much wealth in the past it affords the masses the LUXURY of majoring in a hobby and not a career.
Alas, fluffy el crapo degrees will be with us for a long time.

I always shudder when leftists use every excuse under the sun to justify “peace-terms” with murderous Islamist forces. It’s like they’ve already decided that we can’t defeat the barbarians, so we might as well allow the killers to have their way over millions of people in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Then, I read pieces like the following, where mere children demonstrate incredible courage in the face of barbarism … where acid burned young women return to school and a Pakistani girl takes on the barbarians with poetry of all things.
I compare this to the loathsome left … the so-called bastion of the down-trodden and dispossessed, and I realize that the world is upside down … that left is right; and yesterday’s civil rights-fighter is today’s bellicose phony … more concerned with expanding bureaucracies and leeching off of taxpayers than in doing something positive about a very ugly world.
Tuba:

Tuba Sahaab is taking on the Taliban. But the 11-year-old Pakistani girl is no militant and her weapons are simply her words. She lives on the outskirts of Islamabad and writes poems about the pain and suffering of children in her country despite personal threats from hardline Islamic militants.
“If they kill me, do not worry,” she says. “I want everyone in Pakistan to be equal.”
The young poet has been interviewed by US network, CNN, and now regularly appears in the media. She is not afraid to express her views and is famous in Pakistan.
“I want to give peace to my nation,” she tells CNN (photo). “I will fight for it.”
Tuba is strongly opposed to hardliners who have tried to restrict girls from going to school in certain parts of the country.
Before a peace agreement announced in the volatile Swat Valley in the country’s northwest on Monday, the Taliban was forcing girls out of the classroom and destroying schools.
“This is very shocking to hear that girls can’t go to school, they are taking us back to the Stone Age,” Tuba says.

crossposted @ Cjunk

Can we take the bags off our heads yet?

I find all this openly worshipful behaviour more than a little disturbing. I don’t like it when I see it directed to rock stars — What possesses people to chant their names in unison? Is it not enough to be a slave? Why do you have to advertise it? — but I really mistrust it when it slops over into the political arena. And is it not all just a bit more loathsome for being attached to a foreign leader? Could we be more craven? Usually we reserve such spinelessness for Quebec separatists.

… a Saturday morning pick-me-up:

Melanie’s Story
… another tune:

Brought to you by the old-guy@ Cjunk

Indeed:

On the Plains of Abraham the political fate of the northern part of North America was settled. Not the ethnic fate, the political fate. And it was settled in favour of democracy and toleration. The British government promised francophones “langue, loi et foi” and kept their word. Does anyone think a victorious enlarged New France would have respected the English language, Protestant religion, common law or for that matter self-government?
So what’s the problem? Are the Montcalmites sorry they missed their date with Robespierre and Madame Guillotine? Do they wish they had stood with Napoléon at Waterloo, and Napoléon III at Sedan? Quebec nationalists didn’t exactly rush to the colours when France was threatened in 1914 or needed rescuing after 1940. What’s wrong with British self-government, suppression of the slave trade and defeat of Hitler that you’d rather be part of, say, Vichy France?

Something that’s really not news – Guantánamo Meets Geneva Rules, Study Finds. Well of course it does. Sir Hopenchange has sprinkled it with his magic pixie dust, so everything’s kosher now.
This isn’t really news either: Bagram Detainees have no habeas rights. Of course not. Terrorists fighting out of uniform and violating all rules of war can be summarily executed and this would be perfectly within the rules of the Geneva conventions. Geneva conventions protect legitimate soldiers who follow the rules of war, not terrorists. And terrorists detained overseas certainly aren’t entitled to the rights of U.S. citizens.
And now that Bush isn’t president anymore maybe all can agree on that.

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Remember … this.

When I was a lad, I remember learning that scientists present a hypothesis, then they test it. If the test fails, the hypothesis may be wrong. But then, what did I know about these big people things, I was only a wee lad:

Without a large uptick in temperatures in the next few years, the modelers really have to go back to the drawing board (or they need to discover another “negative forcing” to keep the models on track to reality).

… for you warmists out there, admit it, you’re praying for an “uptick” … aren’t you?

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Someplace, somewhere, a liberal heart bleeds and an army of social workers toil night and day to make sure that the word “punishment” never crosses our lips:

The body of 37-year-old Kerrianne Parks was discovered in her small Sudbury, Ont., home on the afternoon of Jan. 24, the result of an apparent stabbing.
Parks had spent the previous day with a man who identified himself as Jason Chatters.
Police quickly found the man and arrested him. After sending samples of his fingerprints to the RCMP lab in Ottawa, Sudbury police made another startling discovery. The man in custody was Warren David Rattray, who was on the run after failing to report to Saskatoon police last August, which he was required to do.
Rattray, 44, was charged with second-degree murder. The charge has since been upgraded to first-degree murder. If convicted, Rattray will receive a life sentence.

… keep reading.

A lengthy read for those looking to sit back and relax and mock faux rich folk who caused the housing crisis and successive global economic recession.
And a short funny haha. It actually goes a long way in explaining why it is the Chinese who are really bailing out this economy.