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A Change Of Turf (Bumped)
And a welcome opportunity for Lucy to pay someone else’s costs for a change.
Update – here. “Now, just for fun, can you think of any way of establishing that Warman did in fact use the IP from which the nasty screed on Anne Cools would have been posted? For example, is it possible that Lucy sent some emails from that IP on the days in question? And is it possible that he might have used such emails as evidence in other proceedings?”
Heh.
Update 2 – Understanding the evidence.
Six Unimportant Things
I’ve been tagged. As I like “the Anchoress” I’ll play along…
The Meme: Share six non-important things/habits/quirks about yourself.
1) The single time I attempted to eat shrimp, I had to spit it out. Thus began and ended my entire lifetime’s experience with an entire culinary category of oversized bottom-feeding gelatinous water beetles fraudulently offered to an unsuspecting public as “seafood”.
2) I don’t own a dishwasher.
3) I once flamed a blind chick on Usenet in braille*.
4) My website went *poof* a few years ago when the U.S. Department of Justice took the host server away over a little misunderstanding called “Operation Digital Piratez”.
5) Sock, shoe, sock, shoe.
6) I own a dog with prosthetic eyes.
Tagging 6 Canadian bloggers:
Jay Currie
Wonder Woman
Darcey
Mike Brock
Last Amazon
Alice The Camel
I Miss New York City
It seems like just yesterday that we stayed glued to the television sets as the permanent evacuation of Manhattan unfolded on the cable news networks…
An imminent scenario of catastrophic climate change is ‘plausible and would challenge United States national security in ways that should be considered immediately’, they conclude. As early as next year widespread flooding by a rise in sea levels will create major upheaval for millions.
Hard to believe it’s been three years.
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Giai Blows A Gasket
Inside Iraq Politics
Another installment in a series, from Bill Ardolino for The Long War Journal;
The first three installments of The Long War Journal’s series on Iraqi politics discussed the structure and progress of the executive branch and the composition of the legislative branch. This installment begins examination of progress on key legislation.
Sorry About That Breakfast
“What did that goodwill get us?”
From the comments at the Belmont Club, in response to news that the EU is withdrawing from northern Kosovo;
If the Clash of Civilizations occurring along Islamic fault lines is indeed the defining civilizational issue of the 21st Century then recognizing the extra legal independence of Kosovo is a major bonehead move.
Ultimately, the clash is between a world view that makes men Allah’s non-thinking automatons and women but 1/2 a man, and a world view that has raised the standard of living of billions of people to heights not imaginable even a few generations ago.
Ideas mean something. Every confrontational success or failure validates the ideas of one side or the other in a zero sum game. What do we benefit by handing a victory of any kind to Islam? There are many arguments that could be made about the vicitmhood of the Kosovors but the creation from nothing of a new Islamic state in Europe is the real story. How many times have we heard of the necessity to fight jihadism on many levels? How is shooting Taliban in Afghansitan while surrendering at the state creation level a good thing?
I couldn’t begin to count the number of posts I’ve read (and have written) about how the real danger to Western Civ is the loss of moral direction in the West – if only the Europeans, in particular, would take a moment to reflect on their Judeo-Christian heritage they would find the philosophical footing to stand up for themselves and push jihadism off the continent.
Well, those Europeans do exist in places called Ukraine, Georgia, Bulgaria, Armenia, Serbia, and in Russia too. Christendom – believe it or not is a word and concept still in use in the Orthodox countries. Christianity is very much alive in Central Europe and is very much a part of daily life despite the generational attempt of the Communists to bury it forever.
Life is rougher around the edges of the Islamic fault lines, and this where the Orthodox countries live. Politics are raw. Elected leaders can be thugs. Liberty can have the half life of a quantum particle. So what? I’ve paid up my touchy-feely dues and have turned in that membership card.
The Brits doll out to Muslim polygamists about $10,000 per wife. The Serbs put their own bodies on the line to build a wall against Muslim encroachment. We should be extending our palm to the people who have fought this fight for 700 years, and not be clucking in righteous judgment while giving them the back of our hand.
As I see it the USA is again trading its goodwill with the Orthodox countries, which are at least in a position to help put the squeeze on Iran and limit long term Islamic influence in the Caspian Basin, for the illusion of goodwill with Islam which has a proven value of exactly zero. In 1999 Sandy Berger admitted that NATO was intervening “for the Muslims.” What did that goodwill get us?
On the more personal level many Serbs consider Kosovo the birthplace of their unique Serbian identity. One of Huntington’s intriguing thoughts was that you could more easily grasp the concepts behind the Clash of Civilizations by overlaying today’s maps with a political map of Central Europe in the 1500s. What we are doing today is kicking the Serbs, and indirectly the other Orthodox countries, in the teeth to expand the Islamic empire. How does that make sense? Do we say “poor little misunderstand Kosovors” and just watch them start (continue) tearing down 1,000 year old Christian monasteries?
More here – “the wet noodle of European non-nationhood”.
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A little red meat for the knucklebusters among us – Dropyourgloves.com.
Speaking of which – Hillary turns to truth as offence. (Yes, that means you lived to see the day.)
Peace be upon him, indeed.
This seems to me to be related to the previous item, though for the life of me, I can’t say how.
Yours in the comments.
How Many Crows Had To Die To Put Penélope Cruz In That Dress?
The Oscars, liveblogged at Libertas.
Hyphen Nation
‘[O]ne might wonder how it is much of the left came to embrace dogmatic loathing and a pretentious disdain of territory. As when Joseph Harker, the Guardian’s deputy comment editor, repeatedly claimed “all white people are racist,” before identifying any fluttering of national identity as, almost by default, a sign of xenophobia. When such views appear in the mainstream organ of the British left, voiced by a member of its own editorial staff, this isn’t exactly a cause for optimism. Nor is it encouraging to discover that even the most positive expressions of shared national identity can meet with official censure and threats of punishment.
Y2Kyoto: The Twilight Zone
Quotable exerpts from two good Sun columns, both with harsh and deserved criticism for a media that seems more brain-dead by the week. Angelo Persichilli;
[Politicians] should tell us not to use our cars (and tell GM workers to prepare for even more pink slips), tell our children to dump their TVs, stereos, and iPods, tell us and store owners to lower the heat in winter, keep the air conditioning off in summer and stop killing trees to make paper we just throw in the garbage.
They should tell Canadians until we do all this, and more, we can’t stop the oil sands project in Alberta, nor can we stop throwing paper in the garbage, because if we do, we’ll kill the oil and paper industry.
They should also tell Canadians the environment is not a “Canadian” issue, it’s a global issue and that even if we were to eliminate all greenhouse gas emissions from all our industries, there will be no noticeable impact on global warming, although we will cripple our economy, sending more jobs to China, India, Brazil and the United States, countries responsible for almost 50% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions, none of which any of them are reducing under the Kyoto accord.
* In B.C., where charging people more for gas and heat by Premier Gordon Campbell’s government, part of a tax shell game we’re assured will be “revenue neutral” (no comment), is praised by the politician doing it as courageous and revolutionary, while mesmerized media pundits, having forgotten the story about the emperor having no clothes, mindlessly repeat the mantra.
* In Ontario, where Premier Dalton McGuinty is paying outrageously high prices, using tax money, for very little solar power, instead of doing something that would help the environment — cleaning up the air pollution spewing out of the province’s coal-fired energy plants, the same ones he promised five years ago to close by last year, and now won’t close, or even clean up, for six more.
* In Quebec, where consumers are being told by their government, with a straight face, that there’s nothing it can do to stop a new “green” tax intended to target oil and gas industry profits, from being passed along to them. Gee, how about not imposing the !@$@?! tax in the first place?
* And finally in crazytown … Ottawa … where, amongst so many other absurdities on the environmental front, Liberal Leader Stephane Dion, a man who can’t control his caucus, has a plan to control the climate.
(via National Newswatch)
I’m going to assume, for a moment, that the major voices in Canadian news media have spent the time required to read and digest all points of view on the claims and counterclaims, the data and the models, and the critics of those models, the history and qualifications of those behind the IPCC reports, and have decided. after weighing the evidence, that the theory of man-made global warming is legitimate and that the warnings and predictions are sound.
This means, among other things, that these individuals accept the assertion that we are approaching no less than “the end of civilzation as we know it” if something is not done to reverse the process.
Fine.
Very well.
So, then – how does one explain their avoidance of the solution equation, the hard facts of just what would be required for this country to meet the objectives laid out by the environmental gurus and climate modelling experts? Why do they fail, with near uniformity, to inform their viewers and readers that even if we gut every major industry in the nation and go back to horseback – it will make no difference at all?
These same individuals (and David Akin, I include you in this) who present this information on our nightly news with utter conviction, must have also studied with equal determination the question of how to achieve these targets, and what price Canadians must pay to do so.
And yet, it seems they haven’t, for it is mentioned only by a few scattered skeptics in media, most of them opinion columnists.
Why is that?
But let’s back up a little, for this is the end of civilization as we know it, and they’re apparently convinced of that. A planetary emergency, no less.
How does one convinced of impending planetary doom get up in the morning to work in the industry they do – an industry that employs vast numbers of people to travel the country via commercial jet and automobile, that sustains huge media complexes clogged to the ceilings with electricity consuming CO2-belching technology, that hauls tons of satellite equipment to produce on-the-scene reporting?
That indulges in the broadcasting of sporting events? And entertainment “news”?
“We interrupt this report on the last remaining meter of Arctic sea ice to bring you live footage of Britney Spears’ entourage leaving the hospital … John, you’re in the helicoptor, what can you tell us?”
When it comes to curtailing wasteful practices and excessive C02 emissions, shouldn’t they be among the first to go?
It’s beyond absurdity, beyond hypocrisy. It’s nothing less than blatant dishonesty, gross laziness, professional malpractice – or most likely, all of the above. Every one of these so called “journalists” would, if they belonged to any other profession, be called before an industry ethics board to explain their conduct – if their industry entertained such notions, or bothered itself with abstract concepts like “ethics”.
Remembering Bobby Kennedy
Hearts And Headchoppers
Rueing the day they threw their lot in with the BushCo War on Terror, I’ll wager.
Oh wait, they didn’t. It came to them;
RAE POH, Thailand – The tea shop is abandoned. Rubber plantations stand untended. Soldiers constantly patrol the one-lane road leading into this Muslim village.
Rae Poh was once designated a “green zone” village, one of more than 1,600 such islands of peace amid the violence that has torn Thailand’s southern tip since a Muslim insurgency erupted four years ago. Then, on Jan. 14, insurgents ambushed an army patrol about two kilometres away, killing all eight soldiers and beheading one of them.
Now Rae Poh is a “red zone” – one of some 320 loosely designated by the authorities as insurgent hotbeds and under virtual military siege.
Their number is up from 215 at the end of 2004, the first year of the insurgency, a dramatic example of the failures of a government hearts-and-minds campaign to quell an uprising that has taken more than 2,900 lives.
The insurgency worsened as the government of Thaksin Shinawatra adopted an iron-fist policy. The military leaders that overthrew him in 2006 tried a conciliatory approach, apologizing for Thaksin’s crackdown. But since December the violence has escalated. Now Thailand again has an elected government, and the insurgency is its big challenge.
Conciliation, indeed.
“Finally, consider this: Muslims are angrily at war with Buddhists in East Asia. Muslims are enraged with Animists in Africa. Of course, none of this approaches the sheer hatred that Muslims bear towards Hindus in the South Asia peninsula. And this foaming hatred blanches compared to the white-hot fury Muslims feel for the Christian American Crusaders. And this fury is but a candle to the incandescent, boiling, supernova of murder they feel toward the Jews.
Does anyone beside me detect a pattern here? You know, my Dad told me once, “Bill, if more than three people in your life are utter, total assholes, then maybe it’s you.” – Bill Whittle, Strength
Not Waiting For The Asteroid
The New York Stock Exchange halted on-the-floor trading of Sun-Times Media Group Inc. (STMG) when its share price opened at $1.00.
h/t Maz2
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Attention SDA Math/Physics Geeks
A problem I’ve been grappling with:
How large is this seemingly bottomless pit of non-renewable “innocence” we keep losing?
Is there such a thing as “peak” innocence?
How does the city of Toronto manage to lose its so often. (Is it growing back?)
Is lost innocence surrounded by mountains of unmatched socks?
Responses that provide equations preferred.
(As you may have noticed, I’m in a philosophical mood today.)
Update – Looks like we have our answer.
Ripe For Islamicization
David Warren;
I was not without sympathy for the “plight of the Kosovars,” however. Like virtually all journalists at that time, not of Serbian ethnicity, I fell for a great deal of typically Balkan propagandist rubbish that has since been quietly withdrawn.
My rule of thumb, on wars, is to fight them with your enemies, when absolutely necessary; but never with your friends, and in particular, never in order to create new enemies. True, as we all know from personal experience, sometimes your friends are more irritating than your enemies, and the temptation to bomb them is always there. It is a temptation that must be resisted, however.
Mr. Harper, I Think It’s Safe To Come Out From Under Your Desk Now
Where Stormfront leads, others are sure to follow!
Canadian Association of Journalists is calling on federal and provincial governments to amend human rights legislation to stop a pattern of disturbing attacks on freedom of speech. Two recent cases spotlight the dangers of allowing state-backed agencies to censor speech based on subjective perceptions of offensiveness – MacLean’s magazine, which is facing complaints in two provinces and nationally for an article by syndicated columnist Mark Steyn, and Ezra Levant, the former publisher of the Western Standard who is now before the Alberta Human Rights
Commission for his decision to publish the Danish cartoons of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.
“Human rights commissions were never intended to act as a form of thought police,” said CAJ President Mary Agnes Welch. “But now they’re being used to chill freedom of expression on matters that are well beyond accepted Criminal Code restrictions on free speech.”
The CAJ supports Liberal MP Keith Martin’s private members motion to have section 13(1) of federal human rights legislation, the clause dealing with published material, repealed. Similar provincial legislation should also be amended as required.
So, what’s the count up to now?
Over on my side, we have not only David Irving but Keith Martin, Liberal Member of Parliament; The Globe & Mail, Canada’s establishment newspaper; two-time Canadian columnist of the year Margaret Wente; the CBC’s Rex Murphy; Toronto Star columnist Kelly Toughill; leftie colossus Noam Chomsky; and PEN Canada, an organization headed by former viceregal consort John Ralston Saul and run by the cream of the CanCon literati – Margaret Atwood, Rohinton Mistry, David Cronenberg, Louise Dennys, etc.
You can email Joan Bryden here to ask if she’s feeling stupid yet.
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