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This has all the makings to become another case of the “double sided fax”.
Question and Answer Time, with Don Surber.
Yours in the comments.
It’s A Good Thing They Fought For Freedom
And not intelligence.
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It’s Just The Pig Israeli Zionists They Hate
Seven ancient synagogues in the Iranian capital, Tehran, have been destroyed by local authorities.
The synagogues were in the Oudlajan suburb of Tehran, where many Iranian Jews used to live. “These buildings, which were part of our cultural, artistic and architectural heritage were burnt to the ground,” said Ahmad Mohit Tabatabaii, the director of the International Council of Museums’ (ICOM) office in Tehran.
“With the excuse of renovating this ancient quarter, they are erasing a part of our history,” said Tabatabaii.
“Know any insurgents?”
(Jules Crittenden has a transcript.)
She’s “taken care of lots of Italians”
When the concept of “multiculturalism” was introduced to Canadians, most assumed it meant more pavilions at Folkfest;
Ms. Kermani — who as recently as two months ago tried to reinstate her business with Loblaws — told police that her threat to shoot another executive wasn’t a real threat. Rather, it was an old Iranian expression about shooting a snake to stop it from biting you, she said.
From the comments…
Does that mean Loblaws WON’T be rolling out their new “Imam’s Choice, Die Infidel DIE Goat Swarma.” Or the new “Roasted Stomach In Hell Sauce”?
Cave Dwelling – No Longer Just For Bin Ladens!
While answering a question last night at the St. Lawrence debate, I mentioned that it’s important for us to realize that there are currently Canadian military officers serving in Iraq as part of the American command. Bob Rae interrupted me to object adamantly, almost angrily. “No there aren’t!”
Yes, I said, there are. “No there aren’t,” Mr. Rae said again. “They’re part of our military exchange program,” I explained. […] Strangely, Mr. Rae demanded I tell him where in Iraq our officers were stationed, as if my inability to do so would prove they weren’t there.
At that point, seeing no immediate resolution to our disagreement, I moved on with the rest of my answer. Today, however, having confirmed that I was correct, I’m quite taken aback that Mr. Rae could have been so misinformed about our military’s exchange program with the United States and our direct involvement in the war in Iraq. It’s made worse by the fact that Mr. Rae isn’t just any Liberal candidate: he’s the party’s foreign affairs critic.
Related: Veteran of Iraq war heads list to succeed Hillier
(h/t Maz2 in the comments.)
Jimmy Carter Is The Secret Love Child Of Helen Thomas
And some poor bastard who promptly hung himself upon realizing just what it was he’d done.
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Like Oriana Fallaci with puppies and a push-up bra. You go girl!
In the new paper,
Emanuel and his co-authors project activity nearly two centuries hence, finding an overall drop in the number of hurricanes around the world, while the intensity of storms in some regions does rise. For example, with Atlantic hurricanes, two of the seven model simulations Emanuel ran suggested that the overall intensity of storms would decline. Five models suggested a modest increase.
Willful blindness – “Do I have the sides right? They say “Allahu Akbar!” we say “Imagine the liability!””
Forced to pay $50K for denying service to Jewish man…
Yours in the comments.
Moment of Truth in Iraq
| From “the longest serving embedded journalist in Iraq” – Michael Yon’s new book is #8 on Amazon with a bullet. So, the lack of reporting out of Iraq by the mainstream hacks isn’t due to lack of public interest, after all. You can also catch an interview with Glenn Reynolds. |
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Space Junk Science News
It makes one afraid to leave the house, eh?
The BC Human Right To Foodborne Illness Tribunal Rules
the relationship between food contamination and hand-washing; the risk to the public if Ms. Datt’s hand-washing was limited; and other employees being adversely affected by Ms. Datt’s limitations.
Via…
Hillier Stepping Down
Gen. Rick Hillier, Canada’s high-profile chief of defence staff, will be stepping down as leader of the Armed Forces, CTV News has learned.
Robert Fife, CTV’s Ottawa bureau chief, told Canada AM on Tuesday that Hillier has reportedly decided that he wants to move on.
Fife said there is no policy disagreement or other troubles with the government.
CTV News reported in October 2007 that Hillier would be replaced when his three-year term expired in February.
(I’d watch the Torch (sorry, link fixed) in the coming hours for the useful and informed commentary.)
Berlusconi Is Back
Michael Ledeen on a “huge, perhaps historic, victory;
It’s considerably worse than AP lets on. Berlusconi defeated Walter Veltroni’s “Democratic Party” by a full 9 points in both the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies. And since the Italian electoral system gives a bonus to the winning side, the margins are very big and stable: 340 to 241 in the Chamber (with another 36 for a couple of small parties), and 167 to 137 in the Senate (with 5 to three little parties), which was expected to be a photo finish. Eighty percent voted, down about three percent from last time.
The big news is that the Communists are gone, for the first time since the end of the Second World War. Really gone. They didn’t win a single seat in either chamber. A lot of famous faces will vanish from Parliament, and it is even possible, although unlikely, that some of the comrades will be forced to join the working class. The Greens are also gone..
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Berlusconi is an outspoken, even passionate admirer of George W. Bush and the United States of America. Reminds one of the elections that brought Sarkozy to the Elysee, doesn’t it? Best to keep that quiet, or somebody might notice that hatred of America doesn’t seem to affect the voters in Italy, France or Germany.
Return Fire
Today, I filed a complaint to the Canadian Human Rights Commission (CHRC) for “hate propaganda” against Montreal salafi imam Hammaad Abu Sulaiman Al-Dameus Hayiti who officiates at the Association Musulmane de Montréal Est mosque. The complaint relates to his book L’Islam ou l’Intégrisme ? À la lumière du Qor’an et de la Sounnah downloadable from the Internet, and his extremist teachings that are also broadcast on the Internet.
The teachings of imam Al-Hayiti are suprematists, misogynistic and hateful. According to the imam, his fellow non-Muslims are “koufars” (unbelievers, infidels, impious), Québec women are perverse, and the population is “stupid and ignorant.” The imam also calls for the destruction of the “idols” of the West: democracy, human rights, secularism, freedom and modernity. By disseminating his teachings on the Internet, the imam tries to win adherents to his extreme views.
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If the CHRC refuse to investigate my complaint, the public will be free to conclude that an institution meant to promote human rights is practicing a form of one-way absurd censorship. As a result, legitimate criticism of Islam is discouraged, while those who advocate the destruction of democracy and freedoms are protected. If the CHRC agrees to open an investigation, the writings of the imam will be exposed and scrutinized and, hopefully, discredited by the media. In the future, the media and the public will feel free to denounce subversive and hateful preachers without having to resort to the CHRC.
Hammaad Abu Sulaiman Al-Dameus Hayiti… “Alphabet Imam” works better for me. (Speaking of which – whatever happened to that perfectly sensible convention of changing one’s surname to something pronouncable when arriving on our shores?)
Y2Kyoto: The Mouthpiece Media
| When Stephen Harper freezes out the Canadian media, they talk about the “hidden agenda”, and invite his opponents to the microphones. When Al Gore does it, they read aloud from his press release. |
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Let Us Take A Moment
To thank the one person who, nearly singlehandedly, brought this about;
[Saskatchewan’s] record haul of $265 million from its oil and natural gas land sales in April — the first of the 2008-2009 budget year — is $73.5 million more than the province budgeted for the entire year.
It followed a record sale in February, which bodes well for the five other land sales that will be held this budget year.
Here’s to you, Ed Stelmach!
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Tony Blair’s Britain
Where the foxes caper unmolested, the government packs your school lunch and this little piggie went dhimmi…
Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council (Tory-controlled) has now announced that, following a complaint by a Muslim employee, all work pictures and knick-knacks of novelty pigs and “pig-related items” will be banned. Among the verboten items is one employee’s box of tissues, because it features a representation of Winnie the Pooh and Piglet. And, as we know, Muslims regard pigs as “unclean”, even an anthropomorphised cartoon pig wearing a scarf and a bright, colourful singlet.
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When the Queen knights a Muslim “community leader” whose line on the Rushdie fatwa was that “death is perhaps too easy”, and when the Prime Minister has a Muslim “adviser” who is a Holocaust-denier and thinks the Iraq war was cooked up by a conspiracy of Freemasons and Jews, and when the Prime Minister’s wife leads the legal battle for a Talibanesque dress code in British schools, you don’t need a pig to know which side’s bringing home the bacon.
(Note – a commentor has brought the date of this piece to my attention. I’d missed that it was written in ’05.)
What Is Amazing
“… is the fact that all those “free-speechers” who have gathered around the likes of Steyn, Ezra Levant and even one high-profile Neo-Nazi/anti-Semite never raised a stink about that case – and that one was an actual attack on freedom of speech. But since it involved a Liberal, and a non-white person to boot, those “free-speechers” did not much care about the case.”
No – what is “amazing” is that leftie bloggers would simply assume that we read them, and that we follow every twitch in that corner of the sphere. (Do they not know their traffic stats?) For the record, the first time I heard of the Mark Francis case(link fixed) was about 2 days ago. Whose fault is that?
So, what is “amazing” is that his fellow travellers on the left lifted not a hand to help him, expended no effort to get the word out. Even in this post, Patels neglected to provide a name or a source link.
For all the left’s faith in the power of the collective, it rather failed to kick start when needed, no?
Perhaps they were waiting for the government to do it.
When They Began Firing Marriage Commissioners
…who refused to marry same sex couples on the grounds that it violated their religious freedom, defenders argued the dismissals were justified as commissioners are “agents” of the state.
You didn’t honestly believe it would end with that?
Elaine Huguenin co-owns Elane Photography with her husband. The bulk of Elane’s work is done by Elaine, though she subcontracts some of the work some of the time. Elane refused to photograph Vanessa Willock’s same-sex commitment ceremonies, and just today the New Mexico Human Rights Commission held that this violated state antidiscrimination law. Elane has been ordered to pay over $6600 in attorney’s fees and costs.
Thus, precedent has been established in New Mexico – owning a registered business now submits an artist’s individual liberty to state ordered servitude. Of course, they’re only following in our enlightened Canadian footsteps.
I wonder, though… if a Harley owner were to file a HRC complaint that I’d refused to paint two nudie nymphetes making out on his bike tank, would they accept the case?
(There’s more discussion here.)
h/t Sean McCormick