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“We are halfway through March, and the sun has been very quiet, Ap magnetic index remains low, sunspots are zilch, all we have is a bit of solar wind from the occasional coronal hole. […] This is the one that worries me though, as I’ve pointed out before, we have that step function (or discontinuity) in 2005 (see red arrows) which gives the impression that something just “switched off” in the solar magnetic dynamo.” |
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Where the foxes caper unmolested ….breaking police investigation!
Open for Monday.
… and just don’t say a word:
With a story like this you just have to know this emanates from our favorite, always entertaining Kingdom.
At least this story has a happy ending, the nurse is now back in South Africa:
Noach had been working as a clinical coordinator at King Abdulaziz Medical City here and allegedly had submitted a report exposing various irregularities at a hospital clinic, implicating top hospital executives and workers.
The woman was reportedly accused of performing black magic, a charge in Saudi Arabia can lead to arrest and punishment.
I’m sure the black magic charges had nothing to do with exposing irregularities, whatever they were. This being Saudi Arabia we’re not told anything about those.
Ezra Levant takes another look into the inner workings of the Human Rights Commissions. The closer you look at these things the uglier they get.
More.
Tips thread open.
Look, you stupid feminazi twits – not everything is about you.
Heh. But it’s still entertaining to watch the churning pink froth….
Honduras beats Cuba in an Olympic qualifying soccer game in Tampa, notable mostly because Cuba had to play shorthanded, after seven players defected. Welcome to freedom and good luck, guys.
Obamamania is either reaching new heights, or the mania has peaked and he’s now toast. I’m not sure which.
As Britain continues its slow but steady transformation into a dhimmi state, I suppose we shouldn’t be surprised that they are now starting to ban senior Israeli politicians like Moshe Feiglin:
The deputy leader of Israel’s Likud party, Moshe Feiglin, has been excluded from Britain by Home Secretary Jacqui Smith using powers invoked after the July 2005 London bombings — even though he had no plans to visit.
Among other controversial statements that offended Britain’s poor home secretary, he had the nerve to say this:
Arabs are not sons of the desert, but its father. They created the desert – everywhere they come vegetation stops and the wind blows everything away.
Okay, that’s not very flattering to Arabs, but as with Mark Steyn getting slapped with a human rights complaint for accurately quoting a Norwegian Imam, Moshe Feiglin is getting excluded from Britain – in part for quoting former British High Commissioner for Sinai, Sir Claude Jarvis.
Maybe that’s not so surprising as there are few things more loathed in modern, multi-culti Britain than reminders of the Britannic heritage and their history of the British Empire.
In any case, Moshe Feiglin responds:
Considering the moral depths to which your nation has sunk, I find your letter most complimentary. It is a great honor for me to join the illustrious list of former prime ministers of Israel, Menachem Begin and Yitzchak Shamir, who also received similar letters from your offices.
In the article Moshe Feiglin claims he is giving a lecture in Canada at the end of the month, but I can’t find any announcement of the time or place. If anyone knows the details, leave them in the comments.
Update:The announcement for Moshe Feiglin’s March 27th visit to Toronto is here. Thanks to the person who left the info in the comments.
“By Asians do you mean white Russian Asians from the Russian far east ? Chinese Asians ? Japanese Asians.”
h/t Maz2
Robert Fulford asks Why aren’t the Vietnamese more grateful to Tom Hayden?:
Recently, he returned for the first time in 36 years to the country that he and his then-wife Jane Fonda tried to save from American domination in the Vietnam war. The trip disappointed him.
Ah yes, those ungrateful Vietnamese. After Hollywood cleared their path for a worker’s paradise they’ve decided they don’t like it much after all and are abandoning it. Oh well, Hollywood still has Cuba and there’s always Hugo Chavez in Venezuela to embrace.
MP Keith Martin wants the March 25 CHRC hearing opened to public;
“I think it speaks to the fact that the tribunals themselves have to be examined, writ large,” Martin said in a telephone interview today from Parliament Hill.
On the 25th, commission staff, as well as a frequent complainant, will be cross-examined on whether they have used assumed names to plant hate messages or entrap other posters on websites and message forums under investigation.
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“We can’t let the commission go on as it is now,” he said. “The issue is much larger than 13.1,” he said, describing his motion as a mere “springboard” to examine the CHRC. He hopes that a thorough examination of the federal commission will prompt provincial legislatures to look at their own legislation and commissions.
Ezra Levant has more on the complaints racketeers;
My feelings towards human rights commissions, especially the CHRC and their busiest customer Richard Warman, have curdled as I’ve learned more about them. Before I started researching the matter, I thought it was simply a matter of philosophical disagreement about where lines should be drawn between what’s merely “offensive” and what’s an actual “crime.” But I don’t think that’s our real difference. Our real difference is that I believe in the rule of law, and giving even those we despise natural justice. When push comes to shove, the CHRC and its courtiers don’t. They believe in what Warman has called “maximum disruption”. Warman says he likes tussling with his foes because it’s “fun”. But that’s not justice. That’s harassment. We’d be distressed if we heard a policeman saying he was motivated by how much fun he has arresting people, or using his Taser. Same thing should go for the human rights industry.
I first had a flash of this when I saw the videotape of Richard Warman campaigning against his nemesis, David Icke. That’s where I saw Warman giggling gleefully with his co-conspirators as they talked about physically assaulting Icke, and “humiliating” him.
I felt it again when I read about the outrageous ex parte attempt by Warman and his enablers at the Canadian Jewish Congress to block foreign websites from Canada. That application was properly dismissed by the CRTC, but the very fact that Warman and the CJC though they could — in a hearing with no opposition invited — set up a system for blocking 33 million Canadians from surfing where they want to surf, shows the true character of the people we’re dealing with here.
It’s time to get the ball rolling on this in this province – where even welfare recipients have successfully abused the commission process to reap windfall cheques over perceived insults to their economic status.
Coulter has an uncanny ability to hit moving targets … don’t ever give her a big stationary bull’s eye:
According to the wiretaps, New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer was delighted to be getting the prostitute “Kristen” again. At least he knew her name. It took Monica Lewinsky’s boyfriend six sexual encounters to remember her name (raising his lifetime average to 8.2).
You know that queasy feeling you get thinking about Bill Clinton back in the White House again? Now you remember why. Hillary Clinton couldn’t feel worse about the Spitzer case if she were an actual New Yorker.
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It’s absurd to talk about Spitzer’s problem being “hypocrisy” — as if everything would be fine if only he had previously advocated legalized prostitution.
It’s absurd to talk about “alpha males” and political power — an alpha male does not bring his family shame and disaster. Who was more alpha than Ronald Reagan? Think he ever had a “whore problem”? This is more like a dog who wee-wees on your leg.
And then, there’s Kristen.
From a Green Party press release passed along by email;
LA RONGE – Green Party by-election candidate Robin Orr is running in second place among decided voters in Desnethe-Missinippi-Churchill, according to a
phone survey conducted by the Green Party.
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The phone survey was conducted by the Green Party over the weekend of March 8 to 10, 2008. The voice message asked “which political party are you planning to vote for on March 17th”. Of the 237 voters who responded, their voting preferences were:
26.6% Conservative
13.9% Green
13.1% Liberal
11.0% NDP
35.4% Undecided
Small sample size, and who knows who drafted the methodology, but the by-election could prove interesting in this “Liberal held – television raffle won” seat.
Tips thread open.
Crank the volume way up for this one:
Oh my … no CO2 you say … pity!
Will the Real Global Average Temperature Trend Please Rise?
In AR4 IPCC projects warming of 0.2C per decade for the next two decades in a variety of its climate change scenarios. That will take a lot more warming than we’ve seen in recent decades. And with the leveling off of the trend in recent years, even if an upward trend resumes, at present it seems highly unlikely that we will see a rise of 0.4C over the next two decades. Of course, the future has a way of humbling all forecasts. But perhaps the apocalypse is not as near at hand as some fear.
