No Swastika Was Drawn In The Making Of This Blog Post

Not hate speech;

Abul Kasem: Islam decrees that they be slaughtered Islamically, just in the manner as animals are killed, that is, by beheading. In Sunaan ibn Majah (hadis number 4.3126) we read that the blood of animals is very dear to Allah, and therefore, one must slaughter animals to please Allah (hadis number 4.3167). Since non-Muslims are animals it is evident that Allah has a great penchant for the blood of infidels.

Related not hate speech: “Is a T-shirt claiming that “9/11 was an inside job” any less offensive than a 7-year-old girl with a swastika drawn on her arm? … How about kids wearing the ubiquitous T-shirts of the murderer Che Guevara? Or even listening to the fading shock star, Marilyn Manson….?”
Probable hate speech!

COMICS FOR FREEDOM RALLY to be held at The Comedy Bar (945B Bloor West) on Saturday, July 19 in Toronto. Canadian Comic, Guy Earle, is holding a benefit show, celebrating 40 years of stand-up comedy, to raise money for his impending Human Rights Tribunal. Guy is being taken before the Human Rights Tribunal based on his comebacks to a heckler during a Vancouver comedy night back in May 2007.
The show is UNIQUE in its format. 40 comics will hit the stage for one minute of raw, uncensored social commentary. Stand-up is the embodiment of FREE SPEECH and this show personifies our right to speak while we still can. The show, on July 19th, starts at 9pm and tickets will be available before the show and at the door for 20$. Comics are invited to register for the show at guyearle.ca. Supporters for the cause are invited to come to the show or donate at the same homepage. Come one, Come all, but REMEMBER there WILL BE offensive language!

Elevating Canada’s Standing In The World

To the satisfying roar of head explosions on the left;

The trouble is that – partly because of the surging commodity prices that have made all incumbent regimes unpopular – G8 is led by politicians who lack authority.
Nicolas Sarkozy, Angela Merkel and Gordon Brown are disliked at home; George Bush is a lame duck; Silvio Berlusconi is changing the law to indemnify himself; Dmitri Medvedev is regarded as Vladimir Putin’s creature and, in any case, Russia does not merit inclusion in the G8 by virtue either of its democratic structures or the size of its economy; Yasuo Fukuda, the host, has just become the first ever Japanese leader to have a censure vote passed against him in parliament.
Of all the leaders, only Stephen Harper – the talented but curiously neglected Canadian prime minister – is able to point to a popular and successful record in office.
Some will regard it as alarming that, in current times, world leadership should rest with Canada. But the Canadian Tories are a model of how to behave during a downturn.

The Sound Of Settled Science

Plants eat C02. Who knew?

Increasing exposure to carbon dioxide appears to boost crop yields, Hans-Joachim Weigel of the Johann Heinrich von Thuenen Institute for rural areas, forestry and fisheries in the central city of Brunswick told AFP.
“Output increased by about 10 percent for barley, beets and wheat” when the plants were subjected to higher levels of carbon dioxide, Weigel said.

Tony Blair’s Britain

Where the foxes caper unmolested, the government packs your school lunch, and hey Jude, he’s got early warning;

The London-based National Children’s Bureau released a 366-page guide counseling adults on recognizing racist behavior in young children, The Telegraph reported Monday.
The guide, titled Young Children and Racial Justice, warns adults that babies must also be included in the effort to eliminate racism because they have the ability to “recognize different people in their lives.”
The bureau says to be aware of children who “react negatively to a culinary tradition other than their own by saying ‘yuck’.”

Put This Man On A Bull

Because boycow reho he has written all over him…

“We have a united Canada, a Canada built on clarity and mutual respect. We did it with the courage, the determination, of a cowboy from Calgary,”
[…]
“To me, it’s important for the world to know how much Albertans care about the environment, how much you are green and you want to do the right thing,” he said.
“I can’t accept that your reputation is damaged, as it is now.”

h/t

Saddam Hussein’s WMD Moved To Canada

Don Surber adds the “rest of the story”;

There is a happy ending. [550 metric tonnes of yellowcake] is not in the hands of terrorists, thanks to President Bush’s actions for which he has been hammered by the left for 5+ years.
[…]
There is a reason Bush has not fought back against critics: National security. There are secrets a president cannot divulge in his lifetime. History vindicates the Harry Trumans — and punishes the Bill Clintons. Never equate popularity with quality.

The Bush/Cheney Pipeline from Hell

You can beat it with a stick, drown it, bury it, and even disprove it … but it just won’t die:

We’ve been told about one trillion and forty-five times by leftists that Afghanistan is all about oil, and especially the famed Bush/Cheney pipeline from hell. I’m sure that somewhere at sometime a leftist “peace” marcher shouted out, “No war for pipes!”.
From Fat Bastard Michael Moore to intellectually challenged leftist bloggers, the refrain has been sung from the highest mountain tops … 200 years from now some alien will intercept radio signals from earth and be shocked at how many people died over “the pipeline”. They’ll invade then, and incinerate anyone caught living anywhere near a pipe of any kind … leftists of course will be hit the hardest, as they tend to dwell closest to sewer pipes.

Baghdad Is Still a Lawless City

Is that egg or sweat that I see on that journalist’s face?

You know things are going well, when Iraqis decide it’s time for payback:

Iraqi judicial source said his country would lodge a lawsuit against the United Nations at a U.S court over corruption charges in the Oil-for-Food programme overseen by the International organisation for seven years.
“A Texas-based legal firm would lodge an Iraqi government lawsuit at state court in NewYork”, Iraqi Justice Ministry source, who requested anonmity, told Aswat al-Iraq-Voices of Iraq(VOI).

Reader Tips

Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Sunday night classical music show, here are the Danube Symphony Orchestra performing Johannes Brahms‘s Academic Festival Overture, Héja Domonkos conducting (10:41).

(By the way, since I posted last night’s Here Comes the Rain Again show, it has been raining here ~ good thing too, the crops need it ~ ah, serendipity is wonderful.)

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July 2008 Order of Battle for Iraq

Remember … close your eyes, klick your heels, spin around, and repeat three times …
“The Iraq War is Lost … The Iraq War is Lost … The Iraq War is Lost”.
My, what a difference a year makes:

The July 2008 updates to the Iraqi Security Forces Order of Battle are now available at the ISF OOB homepage. The significant changes to the Order of Battle that occurred in June are summarized below.

… keep reading.

Fascist versus Fascist

Tony Blair’s Britain has arrived on our shores … and penetrated all the way to socialist Manitoba.
From Cjunk:

So, if the parents of a child have extreme political views … then that child is to be permanently removed from the home. Indian-haters, Muslim-haters, Conservative-haters, Che Guevara-lovers, Racists, Sexists, Communists, Christian-haters, Scientologists, Sikh extremists, pot-activists, nudists, Zionists, Fundamentalist Muslims, homophobes, extreme animal rights activists … hide your kids.

Richard:

Who’s next? Are Muslim children going to be removed from their homes because they’re taught that the Koran sez it’s ok to have sex with 9 year olds? Christian kids? How about kids from capitalist families?

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