Little dialogue in Herouxville

I, for one, am pleased to hear that these Muslim women have stepped up in Herouxville and are willing to answer questions about their faith.

-- HEROUXVILLE, Que. -- A delegation of Muslim women is visiting a Quebec town that passed a controversial code aimed at immigrants.

The women were clad in traditional Muslim headscarves as they met with about 50 residents of Herouxville, where the town council passed the list of societal norms that would-be immigrants would have to adhere to.

I'm even willing to ask the first question...

If you found out your daughter was in love with a non-Muslim man, would you...

• Support her decision, even though it is anathema to Islam.

• Forbid her to ever see the man in question again.

• Persuade the man in question to convert.

• Arrange a quickie marriage to an older man back home.

• Kill her to redeem the family honour.

• It's none of your "sons of pigs and apes" infidel business.

• Other (please elucidate).

Hey, relax... I'm just askin'.

RELATED: Then there's the Liberal line

"I think it's reflective of the fact that Canada is actually fracturing into two nations, he said.

"The urban nation where 80 per cent of Canadians live, and the rural parts of Canada which do not have a lot of interaction with immigrants and different cultures."

Which one are you... sophisticated, urban metro-sexual, or dumb-as-dirt rural racist?

It has to be true... CTV called an expert.

Technorati Tags: Herouxville, Islam, political correctness

And then the aliens...

Sorry... but if the IPCC can choose to ignore whatever science contradicts their political agenda... why would my extra-terrestrial theory be any different?

And what about those crazy, whacked out Solar Physicists?

Twenty years ago, climate research became politicised in favour of one particular hypothesis, which redefined the subject as the study of the effect of greenhouse gases.

The best measurements of global air temperatures come from American weather satellites, and they show wobbles but no overall change since 1999. That levelling off is just what is expected by the chief rival hypothesis, which says that the sun drives climate changes more emphatically than greenhouse gases do.

Solar physicists warn of possible global cooling, should the sun revert to the lazier mood it was in during the Little Ice Age 300 years ago.

What does the Intergovernmental Panel do with such emphatic evidence for an alternation of warm and cold periods, linked to solar activity and going on long before human industry was a possible factor?

Less than nothing.

But hey, screw it... it's easier just to hitch a ride with Al "Pinochio" Gore.

You can trust Big Al.

Technorati Tags: Solar physicists, politics of deception, Antarctica

Steffi the Safety Elephant

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UPDATE: 14 Feb 2007 - What now, oh wise Steffi?

Al-Qaeda has called for terrorist strikes against Canada's oil and natural gas facilities to "choke the U.S. economy."

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Stephane Dion and Taliban Jack know that Canada is "number one with a bullet" on the Taliban's shitlist. They know there's a pretty good chance that there will be a major terrorist incident... that will cost Canadian lives.

The Liberals know all this, because the anti-terrorism measures designed to prevent such attacks were introduced after 9/11 by, well... the Liberals.

So they must realise the danger of renouncing their support for those laws at this particular point in time.

Turns out... they're willing to take that chance.

-- OTTAWA -- Liberal Leader Stéphane Dion will join forces with the Bloc Québécois and the NDP next week to strike down the two most controversial anti-terrorism measures introduced by the Liberals in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

Looking for any way to try to undermine the Stephen Harper government, Stephane Dion is teaming up with Taliban Jack to try make cheap political points.

That's how desperate Steffi is... he's playing with the safety and security of Canadian citizens.

Let's see what he says when the first bomb goes off.

RELATED: Let's just suppose...

“I ran to help and I saw destruction everywhere, along with charred bodies and body parts. Blood was spilled across a big area,” he said.

“I carried six people who I thought were still alive but then realized they had died after being torn apart by shrapnel.”

What would you say then?

LAST WORD: Hmmm, a total flip... since October?

As recently as October, the Liberals had said they would support extending the provisions that allow preventative arrests of terrorist suspects and investigative hearings.

Gee... what's changed since then, Mr. Dion?

Technorati Tags: Stephane Dion, politics of deception, Jack Layton

Home Owner 1, Home invader 0

Forget about reality tv... let's play "Shank the Skank..."

A 23-year-old man who was wanted by Toronto police on a first-degree murder warrant has been stabbed to death in Montreal during a botched home invasion.

Ga-Yves Gandwimbi was fatally stabbed by a homeowner after he was involved in an early evening home robbery on Perraf St. Jan. 25, Montreal Police Const. Robert Mansueto said.

Proving the old saw about "honour among thieves", Gandwimbi was apparently abandoned and left to die at a gas station by his "home invasion homies".

Technorati Tags: Justice, home invasion, first-degree murder

More stupid-ass pot stirring...

From the Globe and Mail...

"PM drops puck, but won't divulge when he'll drop the writ"

From the G and M comments...

-- I can see the G M Sunday headline: "Harper takes a piss, but not a drop about an election -- "

Then Monday: "Harper drops his car keys, but unlocks nothing about an election"

Then Tuesday: "Harper takes his wife to dinner, drops his napkin. Is an election far off?"

UPDATE: What about real news?

In the wake of the Adscam scandal, it was revealed that of all judges appointed by the Liberals -- not advisory panel members, but judges themselves -- nearly two-thirds had personal ties to the governing party.

If one added in those from law firms with Liberal connections, the total shot up to nearly three-quarters.

Technorati Tags: Globe and Mail, politics of deception, no talent hack

Protesters attack the whaling ship...

That saved them.

-- WELLINGTON, New Zealand -- Two activists attacked a Japanese whaling ship with a bottle of acid and a smoke bomb Friday, slightly injuring two crew members after the vessel helped rescue the protesters from the icy Ross Sea off Antarctica, officials said.

Another proud moment in eco-warrior history.

RELATED: Gore, on lying for the "Greater Good"

"Nobody is interested in solutions if they don't think there's a problem."

"Given that starting point, I believe it is appropriate to have an over-representation of factual presentations on how dangerous (global warming) is... " said Gore in a May 2006 interview with Grist Magazine.

Technorati Tags: ecology, politics of deception, Antarctica

I read the news today, oh boy...

Damn that scary Stephen Harper.

Killer Karla

This is as much as I have to say about this homicidal, self-involved piece of shit.

She murdered her own sister. Then she murdered two other families' daughters. The only upside here is that this must be driving Paul Bernardo crazy.

Mahaffy was only 14 when she was abducted, tortured and murdered in 1991. Her body was then dismembered, weighted down with concrete and thrown into a lake.

One year later, Bernardo and his then-wife Homolka kidnapped French, 15, before raping, torturing and killing her. They videotaped the brutal crime, as they had done with Mahaffy.

The question is, "Why should Killer Karla get to have a "happily ever after"?" And don't talk to me about paying her debt to society... you can't "pay back a life."

How about a private member's bill to sterilise anyone convicted of murdering a child?

Make it retroactive.

A Brave Nuked World

This has to be where the Fiberals are storing Chretien's DNA...

The final design for a "doomsday" vault that will house seeds from all known varieties of food crops has been unveiled by the Norwegian government.

The vault aims to safeguard the world's agriculture from future catastrophes, such as nuclear war, asteroid strikes and climate change.

Technorati Tags: Plan B, doomsday, seed repository

Cauldron bubbling at Liberal coven...

Hey Steffi... what about the percentage of transgendered members... ah, candidates... in the upcoming elections?

In fact, while you're at it, why not just go all in... and even out all the lopsided percentages?

Dion's campaign strategists contend that declaring certain ridings off-limits to men at the outset will ultimately be fairer to all concerned. Still, they acknowledge that the measure is bound to be controversial.

"We're going to pay some price," Gerard Kennedy said.

However, Kennedy said the party's dismal record in recruiting women in the past "justifies disappointing some and requiring accommodations from others.

I'm sure a troll through the safe injection site and Vancouver's lower east side, would do wonders to square the lack of junkies and, uh... "sex trade" workers in Parliament.

Let's get the affirmative action juggernaut rolling.

Of course... maybe we already have enough old whores.

RELATED: Liberals all about helping women.

I can hear women all across Canada, cheering for former Liberal Cabinet Minister Judy Sgro's ambitions for their daughters.

OTTAWA -- Immigration Minister Judy Sgro is defending the government's policy of admitting foreign exotic dancers to work in Canada, saying the strip club business is "a strong industry" with "lots of customers."

LAST WORD: Dream candidate for Fiberals

A very single, passionate, working mom...

A fight over their soured relationship and a shared child led a South Shore Mountie to fire her semi-automatic pistol nine times through her bathroom wall and into a dirt pile while her ex-lover was still on the property.

Const. Adree Zahara described her affair with fellow officer Const. Chuck Simm as "tense" and told a probation officer that she had a "lot of conflicting feelings of guilt and uncertainty," court documents say.

Const. Zahara, an eight-year force veteran who has served only in Nova Scotia, was handed a conditional discharge Wednesday for careless use of a firearm. She was put on probation for a year and must not possess weapons, except at work, for two years.

Caution... don't try this if you have a penis.

Because you'll go to jail.

Technorati Tags: whores, junkies, Liberal Party

Nefarious Harper Cabal strikes again...

No, they haven't quite gotten around to "guns in our streets", but there is this...

OTTAWA — Canada is contributing $200-million (U.S.) toward an international effort to develop vaccines for the world's poorest nations.

Finance Minister Jim Flaherty, has been in Rome before meeting with G7 finance ministers in Essen, Germany, said Friday that the vaccination initiative could save millions of lives.

Damn you Conservative devils!

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NUMBERS: Paul Wells has the latest.

Léger polled after the he's-not-a-leader Tory ads against Dion started running in English. It's a damned interesting poll.

Highlights:

• National horse race numbers give the Harper Tories their strongest score since a week before the 2006 election, 38% to 31% for the Liberals, 14% for the NDP and 8% for the Bloc.

• Tory strength in Ontario too: 40% to 35% for Liberals.

Technorati Tags: Jim Flaherty, scary, hidden agenda, Conservative Party

Scary, unhidden lack of agenda

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UPDATE: Young Offenders Act kicks in

So I have to censor this murderer's name and picture.

The teen, who can no longer be identified under the Youth Criminal Justice Act, turned himself in early Friday morning.

Just over 12 hours earlier, Toronto police Homicide Det. Graham Gibson had released the youth's name and photo, after getting a judge's order to do so.

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I don't get it... why is the Liberal Party opposed to cracking down on the "worst of the worst" violent young offenders?

Police are hunting for a 14-year-old boy, wanted in the shooting of Kemar Long-Thompson who was killed in the city's far east end Sunday while attending a birthday party for his 16-year-old cousin.

In a move reserved for the most serious of crimes, homicide officers were granted judicial authorization to identify Xxxxx "Xxxxx" Xxxxxxx for five days in order to seek help from the public, Det. Graham Gibson said at a press conference at police headquarters this afternoon.

BACKGROUND: The murder of Kemar Long-Thompson.

This is precisely the type of offender the Conservatives proposed legislation is set to target... murderers and violent thugs who slip through under the current insanely ineffectual Young offenders Act.

Why are Stephane Dion and the Liberals so opposed?

RELATED: Remember Jane Creba?

Richard Steele pleaded guilty in an Old City Hall courtroom to being a gun runner and drug trafficker. He was arrested seven months ago during a Toronto police raid dubbed 'Project Green Apple.'

LAST WORD: Dug up by Kathy Shaidle

Here we go again: another specious racial-profiling controversy.

Al Sharpton has announced his intention to sue the New York Police Department for allegedly racially profiling black New Yorkers, based on recently released data on police stop-and-frisks.

Technorati Tags: YOA, aggravated sexual assault, murder

This shouldn't be news

If you have an incurable, communicable and ultimately fatal disease... you are legally and morally obligated to tell people... before you have sex with them.

It's just common sense & human decency.

-- REGINA -- A former Canadian Football League linebacker committed aggravated sexual assault when he exposed two women to HIV by having unprotected sex and not telling them he had the virus.

Unless you're Trevis Smith.

Technorati Tags: HIV, aggravated sexual assault, CFL

That ain't Chanel No. 5 you're smellin'

Nosiree, ladies and gentlemen, that can only mean -- it's Car-B-Q season in Paris...

Break out the wine bottles and the hi-test...

-- PARIS, Feb. 7 -- Hearings began Wednesday in a suit brought by two influential French Muslim organizations against a satirical weekly newspaper for printing cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad that had touched off international rioting.

The issue of whether revisions to the 1901 law separating church and state might be needed has become a topic of discussion in the presidential campaign.

Time once again, to hide the family sedan... preferably across the English Channel.

UPDATE: Israelis, Frenchmen, Canadians... whatever

Palestinian teenagers attacked a bus carrying a small group of Canadians and threw rocks at police.

The bus was carrying vacationing Canadians on a tour of the Mount of Olives holy site in east Jerusalem.

Technorati Tags: France, Prophet Muhammad, politics of fear

The highest bidder wins

The Iraqi government is a lot like the Liberal Party... the rot is so deep, you don't know where to stop cutting...

US and Iraqi forces in Baghdad have arrested the deputy health minister during a raid at his offices. The minister, Hakim al-Zamili, is a key member of the political group led by radical Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr.

He is accused of aiding Shia militiamen and using ambulances to move weapons, a ministry source told the BBC.

That, unfortunately, is simply the Middle East... where a Garth Turncoat is the rule and not the exception.

There will be more surgery, before this is over.

RELATED: Celestial Junk has this synopsis

For example, when Iraq’s interim government moved to arrest Muqtada Al Sadr for murder in 2004, it sparked a bloody confrontation between his Madhi army and American forces.

The coalition was given the perfect opportunity to take out Sadr permanently, yet it chose not to for reasons so illusive that one can only attributed them to Political Correctness.

Technorati Tags: Iraq, Muqtada al-Sadr, politics as usual

Mohawk Nation piles on Dirty Joos

Guess who has equal billing at the University of Toronto's... END ISRAELI APARTHEID WEEK?

It's the same old bunch of professional native protestors from Turtle Island... authors of such paranoid parables as, "Preparing for Invasion: A Guide to Current Threats Against the Mohawk Nation."

The Aboriginals even provide a somewhat jarring image of one of their solutions to oppression... which, to no one's surprise, is the same solution their Palestinian brothers are currently employing... albeit, against their Muslim brothers, at the moment.

Looking at the picture it's hard to imagine why the government is having such difficulty "negotiating" aboriginal land claims... I'm sure the clan mothers have some perfectly good explanation, for equipping clan kiddies with assault rifles.

So drop on in to the University of Toronto and celebrate Israeli Apartheid Week.

Just one suggestion.

You might wanna leave your Star of David at home.

ADDITIONAL INFO: Email -- Chancellor David Peterson -- or the University of Toronto -- Office of Donation Management -- to express your support for these worthy initiatives.

Technorati Tags: University of Toronto, Mohawk nation, politics of deception

Dalton's crapping his pants

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UPDATE: Get out the diapers.

NDP candidate Paul Ferriera -- who parlayed opposition to the 25% pay hike for MPPs and support for a $10 minimum wage into a strong campaign theme -- delivered a stunning blow to the ruling Dalton McGuinty Liberals in the York South-Weston byelection last night.

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Hey... nice to know that sometimes, the chickens DO come home to roost.

In York South-Weston, the New Democrats have tapped into a deep vein of anger over the 25-per-cent pay rise the McGuinty government awarded MPPs just before Christmas.

Their increase has become entangled with the province's minimum wage, which rose 25 cents to $8 an hour on Feb. 1.

"If politicians can give themselves a 25-per-cent raise and the Premier himself can take $40,000 into his own back pocket four days before Christmas, then surely the lowest paid working people deserve a bigger raise as well," said Paul Ferreira.

Technorati Tags: Dalton McGuinty, minimum wage, politics of deception

Monkey see... monkey do

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UPDATE: Oy, lads... wot's all this fussin' about?

Schools minister Jim Knight has ordered an inquiry into an Islamic school accused of promoting religious intolerance.

Crikey!

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When I hear about this type of thing, I always picture a ramshackle building... full of malnourished children being turned into robots.

I hadn't imagined the King Fahad Academy in west London.

A Saudi-funded Islamic school says it is removing from text books controversial passages which allegedly brand other faiths as "worthless".

In another textbook for 12 and 13 year olds, dated 2004/2005, the author allegedly says that a Koranic verse, which talks of turning people into monkeys and pigs, is about Jews and Christians.

The author quotes an early Islamic scholar as saying: "The monkeys are the Jews. And the pigs, they are the Christian infidels at Jesus's table."

The head insisted pupils were never taught religious hatred or intolerance.

Actually... they're not being taught anything at all.

They're being programmed.

Technorati Tags: Muslim, Koran, Great Britain

Global Ear-Warming

I had thought the politicians and bureaucrats -- not the scientists, mind you -- who write up the scary summary to the infamous IPCC report might have a little bit of a problem with misleading the public.

You know, especially after the scientists involved complained publicly that their work was being misrepresented.

In June 1996, Dr. Frederick Seitz, past-president of the National Academy of Sciences and president emeritus of Rockefeller University, wrote with regard to the 1995 IPCC report: "I have never witnessed a more disturbing corruption of the peer-review process than the events that led to this IPCC report."

He continued: "This report is not what it appears to be -- it is not the version approved by the contributing scientists listed on the title page."

I had foolishly imagined that somebody's ears would be burning.

Apparently though, much like abandoning newborn babies in the middle of a prairie winter... there is no such thing as shame anymore.

And no such thing as truth.

Technorati Tags: global warming, politics of deception, politically correct

This used to be called...

Attempted murder...

Try doing this with a puppy... and I guarantee you'll be hunted, charged and vilified on national television.

Apparently, with babies... you get a pass.

"She was upset, extremely confused," Staff Sgt. Kirby Harmon of the Saskatoon police service told reporters Tuesday.

"She didn't have supports in place and it added to her bad decision-making."

Uh, excuse me officer... she dumped a newborn baby on a stranger's doorstep at sunrise and walked away.

Oh yeah, one more thing I forgot to mention...

The temperature was –29 C.

LAST WORD: If you get caught driving drunk, they take away your licence. Fire a gun in your back yard, they'll prohibit you from owning firearms.

This twinkie can go out and get pregnant again next month.

Because society has loudly and clearly affirmed she's just a victim.

Technorati Tags: attempted murder, cultural bankruptcy, politically correct

I'm just sayin'...

I'm usually a freedom of speech kinda guy... but I'm thinkin' maybe Canada Post wants to rethink this brainwave.

Because you don't need a weatherman... to see which way this shitstorm's blowin'.

Technorati Tags: Canada Post, commemorative stamp, oh-oh

Attacking the Net

Who is attacking the Internet?

-- WASHINGTON -- Hackers briefly overwhelmed at least three of the 13 computers that help manage global computer traffic Tuesday in one of the most significant attacks against the Internet since 2002.

The attacks appeared to target UltraDNS, the company that operates servers managing traffic for websites ending in "org" and some other suffixes, experts said.

Among the targeted "root" servers that manage global Internet traffic were ones operated by the U.S. Defense Department and the Internet's primary oversight body.

Technorati Tags: UltraDNS, root servers, hackers

Garth misses an opportunity

The Liberals??!

"Everybody had expected frankly that maybe Mr. Turner would join the Green party. He was certainly close to Elizabeth May, the Green party leader, and had flirted with them for some time," Fife said.

Not sure Garth thought this all the way through... think of all the attention he could have focused on himself if he had just defected to Hamas.

UPDATE: Violating his own principles

From Garth's blog...

Some will wonder if the defecting Liberal should now go back to the people of his riding and have his decision ratified.

I would say yes.

AND ANOTHER: Courtesy of AGWN

I am a democrat who believes everyone in the House of Commons, including the cabinet members who make up the government, should be elected.

They should sit in Parliament as they were elected. If they decide to change parties, they should go and get re-elected.

INKLESS WELLS: It's not me, it's all those other guys

My favourite moment came when Turner - asked, rhetorically, what his decision meant for his oft-stated belief that floor-crossers should face the voters in a by-election.

"I didn't leave my party," he explained; "my party left me."

Ah. Original and persuasive! You know what this means, don't you. The entire Conservative caucus having crossed the floor to get away from Garth, they will now have to face by-elections.

All of 'em.

LAST WORD: Like Captain Kirk, Garth has a Prime Directive

Technorati Tags: Liberal Party, Garth Turner, politics of self-promotion

Sugar and Spice...

And everything nice... that's what the leftbots promise.

In the end, what exactly do they deliver?

-- And here's Satel on what she learned working on mental health issues during a Capitol Hill fellowship:

My Hill experience gave me a startling insight: Liberals and conservatives seemed to have mirror-image approaches to paternalism. Liberals made intrusive laws for the competent while conservatives preferred to rely on individuals to make their own decisions.

Conversely, conservatives preferred intrusive laws for the incompetent to whom liberals applied a hands-off policy.

Hadn't quite thought of it that way...

Funny though, the consistent inconsistency of the elastic left... as it hand-tailors supposed principles to grease the one-size-fits-all nanny state mentality.

Liberals were comfortable with public health paternalism: intrusive nonsmoking laws, taxes on unhealthy products, strict risk-averse EPA and FDA regulations...

...yet, when a person was incoherent, defecating in the streets, or freezing a limb off in the park, then -- and only then -- did the principles of autonomy apply.

h/t to SDA

Technorati Tags: Liberal, Conservative, politics of deception

How low will the Loony Left stoop?

Steve Janke has already caught one prominent Liblogger creating false propaganda videos on his blog.

One Liberal blogger is trying to counter with his own ad. But it flops. He manages to find a clip of John Baird, Minister of the Environment, stating "our party has got into a mess on the environment".

The problem is that Baird was quoting Liberal Michael Ignatieff.

And Ignatieff was talking about the Liberal Party.

But the beat goes on...

Here's the latest leftbot skullduggery... false flag entries intended to undermine conservative posts.

The Libranos must be proud of their winged monkeys tonight.

UPDATE: I did a little searching.

905neocon.blogspot.com -- the blog doesn't exist, he just uses the id -- has been busy running around Conservative blogs dripping his poison. He slags the Prime Minister, he lays out false positions.

It's disgusting.

Here's one of his sleazy offerings...

Fuck off is what i'd like to say to the many whom keep our party down. More guns, more fear, more inolerance. This is what our party says when we act like this. Why do we leave intelligent discussion to the left?

Technorati Tags: Libranos, dirty tricks, politics of deception

British soldiers... and Muslims

Zeeshan Hashmi, currently a student at Cambridge University, is a Muslim as well as a former British soldier.

His brother, Lance Corporal Jabron Hashmi, had also enlisted... and was killed on July 1, 2006 in Sangin, Afghanistan.

I do feel increasingly impatient when engaged in debates about my faith, its so-called link with extremism and its so-called rejection of democracy.

So why did my brother and I decided to join the British Army, having been born in Pakistan and being proud Muslims?

It's a voice we rarely get to hear.

RELATED: He will be remembered

The family of the first British Muslim to be killed on active duty in Afghanistan laid the foundation stone of the new Armed Forces Memorial on Tuesday 23 January 2007.

LAST WORD: The opposing point of view

LONDON, Jan. 31 — British police conducted a series of raids today, starting before daybreak, to arrest nine people whom the authorities said were terrorists conspiring to kidnap and torture a British Muslim soldier, behead him and broadcast video images of his execution on the Internet.

Technorati Tags: Muslim, Afghanistan, Great Britain

There's no avoiding it

Taking responsibility for your personal choices.

Margaret Somerville, founding director of McGill University's Centre for Medicine, Ethics and Law, says early testing will essentially eliminate Downs syndrome as women opt to abort affected fetuses in “humanity's quest for perfection.”

“It's a search and destroy mission,” Dr. Somerville said.

I'm afraid I have to part company with Dr. Somerville here.

The fact is, in an increasingly complicated, technology driven world... there is one unvarying constant in this situation.

You still get to choose what's right for you.

In this case, there is first... no way that your doctor, or the government, can force you to take these tests against your will. Second... in our current societal paradigm, there is similarly no mechanism that can force a person of conscience to abort against their wishes.

Unless the nanny-state Liberals choose to take this power away from the masses... this is still your call.

Totally.

Just as it's entirely your call... to drive on your side of the dotted line on your next trip to the grocery store. The only thing that's stopping you from slamming your two ton rubber and steel projectile into oncoming traffic, or the young kid walking his dog, or the local storefront chapter of Planned Parenthood... is you.

And you make that choice daily.

So choose.

Technorati Tags: choice, crime and punishment, life its ownself

Dion oratory inspires Canadians

The Doggerel Party has the edits for Stephane Dion's op-ed.

In the spirit of Martin Luther King, Steffi pulls out the inspirational stops -- "I... HAVE A DOG..."

"I call on the Prime Minister to cure cancer by the end of next week."

"I call on the Prime Minister to provide free daycare spaces to every child in Canada - two each..."

You go Steffi... because it's not about what you actually accomplish... it's simply about flappin' yer piehole.

Technorati Tags: I have a dream, Y2Kyoto, Stephane Dion

"We're all gonna die... I think"

If the science is so solid, maybe they could drag it out to the Arctic for the poor polar bears to live on, now that the ice is melting faster than a coed's heart at an Al Gore lecture.

Could it happen? Who knows?

But that's the point: Who knows?

You could take every dime spent by every government and NGO and eco-group to investigate "climate change" and spend it on Internet porn instead, and it wouldn't make the slightest difference to what the climate will be in 2050.

Technorati Tags: global warming, Y2Kyoto, junk science

Where there's smoke, there's gunfire

There was a big hue and cry in the msm recently, about how Scarborough is unjustly being tagged as a bad place to live.

Toronto Councillor Norm Kelly had issued a call for city council to ask the media to sign a "protocol" in which news outlets would agree to stop identifying Scarborough as the location of crimes occurring east of Victoria Park Ave.

The facts tell a different story.

Another couple who live nearby said they watched as carloads of teens pulled up around 10 p.m.

"There must have been 40 to 50 of them in very short order," the man said. "They all had their cellphones out because you could see them lit up with the little blue lights."

A 17-year-old boy was shot in the chest and pronounced dead at hospital, police said. His name was not released as police were trying to contact his family.

UPDATE: Shooting victim identified

Toronto Police have identified the teenager killed at a birthday party early Sunday morning as 17-year-old Kemar Long Thompson.

RELATED: When dealing death... is no big deal

When the pattern of black-on-black violence is occasionally broken, white fear and outrage are redoubled.

This happened earlier this month after the killing of a white filmmaker, when thousands of people marched on City Hall to demand change, a majority of them whites.

The small showing of black marchers saddened Mr. Raphael, the minister.

In the 2006 murders, he said, “99 percent of them were black-on-black, and we did not march. As a community, we could not bring ourselves to respond to that.”

Technorati Tags: Scarborough, homicide, politically correct

More welfare is obviously the answer

Because the culture of dependency has been working so well for the last hundred years...

One in 10 aboriginal children is in foster care, compared to one in 200 non-aboriginal children...

I'm sure the nanny-state fiberals would agree... it's the government, not the parents, who are responsible for child-rearing. Or you can just dump the kids on the grandparents...

Esme Fuller-Thompson, an associate professor of social work at the University of Toronto, said 17 per cent of all caregiving grandparents are of First Nations origin. "This was easily more than five times the numbers you'd expect to find given the population," she said. Today, however, Fuller-Thompson and other researchers are finding children are usually driven into their grandparents' homes when their parents succumb to substance abuse.

Hmmm... could it be that generations of never-ending government welfare is driving all these numbers? Or have the parents just given up?

Even after midnight during a weekday, many children can be spotted roaming through the town, which sees less than five hours of daylight and temperatures often hovering between -30 and -50 during January. “I don't know,” an eight-year-old Inuit girl said, when asked where her parents were.

Don't worry about the statistical carnage, you can blame it all on Stephen Harper... despite the fact that the Liberals did nothing to improve "the problem" during their 13 years in office.

Nunavut has the highest per capita homicide rate in Canada.

This list could go on and on, but you get the point. The fact that the aboriginal community feels that, rather than taking responsibility for raising their own children, they can just sue the government for more welfare... speaks to a serious moral and cultural deficit. 

The aboriginal community could take an honest look at its own shortcomings, with an eye to taking some responsibility... but, let's face it, it's easier just to sue. 

Taliban raises, Nato calls...

When a 30 man contingent of British soldiers pulled out of the area under an agreement with village elders... the mainstream media dined out on stories of Taliban over-running the countryside.

MEDIA FREAKOUT:-- "Afghan peace in tatters as Taliban seize district"

The reporting fails to mention... the peace ain't the only thing that's "in tatters."

NEWSFLASH: Seems the local Tali-boss is gonna be seeing Allah a little sooner than he thought...

NATO has not released the name of the Taliban leader, but Mohammed Wali, a resident of Musa Qala, said the strike killed Mullah Abdul Gafoor and some of his associates while they were riding in a truck through a small village near Musa Qala.

On Saturday another resident, Lal Mohammad, told The Associated Press that the Musa Qala militants were being led by Gafoor. He was the Taliban's militia corps commander in western Afghanistan before the Taliban was ousted from power.

Yeeeeowww... that's gonna leave a mark.

UPDATE: A Taliban reconstruction project

The Taliban's version of reconstruction in Sangin turned out to be a rotor salvaged from a helicopter crash, inscribed with lettering in English.

They had placed the lightweight blade across a creek, and invited children to stroll across the makeshift bridge for the benefit of the camera.

Technorati Tags: whatever it takes, Afghanistan, Musa Qala

If Israel gets nuked...

It ain't gonna be because they were asleep at the switch.

Rheva Bhalla of Stratfor, the US intelligence company, told the Sunday Times on Friday that Hassanpour had been targeted by Mossad and that there was “very strong intelligence” to suggest that he had been assassinated by the Israelis, who have repeatedly threatened to prevent Iran acquiring the bomb.

I've said it before... I'll say it again.

There will be no Iranian nuclear bomb.

Or, to be more precise, it'll only ever happen over Israel's blackened smoking corpse.

RELATED: Israel takes self-defence seriously

The Israeli Government has been known to go to extreme steps to maintain its position as the only nuclear power in the region.

In 1986 when a former technician in Israel's nuclear reactor, Mordechai Vanunu, revealed to London's The Sunday Times that Israel had about 200 nuclear warheads and provided photographs of the reactor, Mossad kidnapped him in Europe. He was convicted of treason and spent 18 years in prison in Israel.

Technorati Tags: whatever it takes, Iran, Israel

I don't need a special reason

Just because.

The politics of self interest

Are you prepared to make some sacrifice in your own standard of living to help fight global warming?

Yeah... that's what I thought.

2ND LAST WORD: Says Doug... from the comments

How far are you willing to bend over if you have a niggling suspicion that you are about to be shafted?

LAST WORD: An inconvenient truth

Well, what can we do, Canada? We can offer symbolic action, and, let's be clear, nothing more.

Canada could shut down tomorrow completely, and if the projections of Mr. Gore are correct, it would have no meaningful impact on global warming.

Ever feel something wasn't quite...

The next time you're having a really bad day and absolutely nothing seems to be going right... think about this...

A Malaysian Chinese couple are considering taking legal action against a hospital for sending them home with the wrong baby nearly 30 years ago.

But wait.. it gets better.

Now the family has gone public with their story because Zulhaidi wishes to take a Chinese name and renounce Islam.

That is very difficult in Malaysia, where the Islamic authorities regard abandoning the faith as a grievous sin.

Kind of a sequel to, "A boy named Sue."

Technorati Tags: Malaysia, bad day, life finds a way

As Canadian as suicide bombing

The U.S. military has filed murder charges against the only Canadian being held at Guantanamo Bay prison.

Khadr, who was born in Toronto and lived for years in various southern Ontario communities, was arrested in Afghanistan in July 2002.

The U.S. military alleges that he killed an American medic in a grenade attack, which wounded several other American soldiers.

Just how Canadian was Khadr and his family anyway?

Like Gamil Gharbi... he was "not one of us."

As Licia Corbella wrote in an excellent article in the Calgary Sun, Gharbi/ Lepine was "Not one of us". He wasn't a hunter, farmer or gun collector, but the product of an abusive, misogynistic father.

This so obviously affected young Gamil that, at 18 years of age, he legally changed his name, trying to erase the bad juju his father had inflicted on his family.

It really doesn't matter what it says on your passport... you can't be a Canadian AND a Jihadi.

So choose.

Technorati Tags: jihad, Afghanistan, Khadr

From the people who brought you...

Peace on Earth.

Hey... they've done such a great job in places like Rwanda and Darfur... why wouldn't we hand over the environment to the United Nations?

PARIS — Hundreds of scientists, business leaders, and non-governmental organizations have called for a new United Nations agency to manage the environment.

The new agency would transform the existing UN Environment Program, into “a fully-fledged international organization that is genuinely universal,” French President Jacques Chirac told delegates to the Citizens of the Earth conference, which was organized by his government.

Hell... if it's good enough for France... I'm in.

RELATED: What's this about a Jacques Attack?

Ok, relax... it's just some Frenchified version of "Who's on First..."

The Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett said: "It is not a sentiment I share and from what I understand, the French President doesn't share it any more either."

But in France, Le Monde newspaper said the comments had seriously dented the country's credibility. "One asks what credibility the French position will now have."

Not to worry, French credibility is actually a constant... not a variable.

Technorati Tags: global warming, politics of fear, United Nations

Why is pissing on religion...

The new cool..?

People assume that because I use the sobriquet "neo conservative", I must also be a fundamentalist zealot of some stripe. Now, as happy as that would have made my dear departed, somewhat schizophrenic father... nothing could be further from the truth.

In the interest of putting that perception to rest, I reprise this entry I made last year...

I should preface this by saying that, as a 'staunchly former' Catholic, who had religion jacked up his ass a nickel at a time by fierce nuns at a Catholic primary school, this piece by Charles Krauthammer resonated to the soul I may be closer to believing I possess.

So come with me, friend and foe alike... and experience the wonder of the Church of Charles.

ps... getting naked is totally optional

Technorati Tags: Roman Catholic, secular humanist, life finds a way

A lot of hot air...

And how often do the doom-mongers bring up China?

Carbon dioxide is responsible for about 80 per cent of the world's human-generated emissions of greenhouse gases.

Most of this comes from coal, and China is responsible for 90 per cent of the rise in world coal consumption in recent years. This country is hooked on coal.

From all the noise, you'd think Stephen Harper, or that evil George Bush are the guys we'll really have to keep an eye on, but the reality is a little different...

The latest projections show that China will overtake the United States to become the world's top producer of carbon dioxide by 2009, nearly a decade quicker than projected in previous studies. China will soon produce 20 per cent of all the carbon dioxide on the planet.

So with all this potential for environmental mayhem and the effects on the health of its citizens, China must be a huge proponent of the Y2Kyoto accord.

Wrong.

China and other developing countries are exempt from the Kyoto Protocol's rules for cutting the production of greenhouse gases.

And that's the way things work... in the real world.

Technorati Tags: global warming, Kyoto, China

Resistance is futile...

The best CTV push-poll yet...

The question here isn't, "Do you believe in Global Warming", because, of course... only an idiot doesn't get it... but, "When did you become convinced global warming is caused by human activity?"

I'm amazed they actually included a fourth option at the bottom, for those of us who don't blindly buy into the premise simply because Dr. Did Little named his dog Y2Kyoto.

I'd have to guess crusty, old Craig Oliver, dreamin' about one last shot at the Senate, is the left-leaning Gumbybot who thought up this oinker... well, either him, or the real Gumby.

Despite the obvious bias and implicit scorn for anyone who won't bite... 34% of participants registered "their ignorant disbelief."

Technorati Tags: global warming, politics of fear, CTV

Its 9 o'clock...

-- Do you know where your children are? --

He was in kindergarten, in Grande Prairie, Alberta when he first looked up at me with tear-filled eyes and said the war was over and they didn't wait for him. That was Desert Storm.

It was the first I knew of his desire to go to battle but it was not the last.

h/t to Celestial Junk

Technorati Tags: Iraq, 82nd Airborne, mother love

A long, hard road to democracy

You don't turn a 15th century feudal theocracy into a democratic state overnight... but that doesn't mean it isn't worth the fight.

And there are the usual setbacks...

For instance, the Afghani parliament has once again managed to cover itself in glory.

KABUL - Afghanistan's warlord filled parliament has come under criticism after passing a bill granting immunity from prosecution to all Afghans involved in the country's 25 years of conflict, despite calls by human rights groups and the United Nations for war crimes trials.

Parliamentary officials said it covers Mullah Mohammad Omar and other Taliban figures, as well as former prime minister Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, a warlord who now heads his own militant group, and several sitting members of parliament and senior government officials.

Hey... if it was easy, Bill Clinton could have done it.

Technorati Tags: Afghanistan, democracy, religion of peace

Guess who I-ran into?

Seems the Iranians aren't content simply to stir the pot in Iraq... they have a Gaza branch of Murder Inc. as well...

Overnight members of the presidential guard stormed the Islamic University - long regarded as a Hamas bastion - parts of which were later set on fire.

A Fatah official said seven Iranians were arrested at the university and an eighth blew himself up during the operation. Hamas denied that any non-Palestinians were inside the campus.

And it looks like business is booming...

Fresh fighting in the Gaza Strip has left at least 20 people dead over the past 24 hours, after a truce between the Fatah and Hamas factions collapsed.

Technorati Tags: Iran, Hamas, religion of peace

Pop Quiz: What do leftbots...

What do leftbots like Libnip have in common with Arab dictatorships?

They're both actively engaged in deciding what's acceptable for you and I to read.

Obviously, when they put their fingers in their ears and start chanting so loudly they can't hear you... you know they're starting to panic.

-- It's time to reclaim the word "critical." --

Critical thought, free speech... that's MY Canada.

UPDATE: Worshipping at the Church of St. Stephane

The Renewal of Green Vows

Celebrant: Do you renounce fossil fuels and all their emissions?
All: We renounce them. Next year, or maybe the one after.

Celebrant: Are you prepared to turn off the lights and sacrifice your economy?
All: There will be no economic consequences.

Celebrant: Are you willing to save the planet by reducing your 2% contribution to greenhouse gases while the rest of the world may or may not?
All: We are Canada. Somebody notice us, please.

Technorati Tags: censorship, Liberal Catnip, principles

Murderers and rapists...

Deserve real time.

The government is considering possible changes to the Youth Criminal Justice Act that would sharply increase the number of young offenders sent to adult jails, according to a memo obtained by CTV News.

The memo sketches a "preferred option" that would "give the Crown discretion to use adult criminal justice procedures for youths aged 16 and 17 who are charged with murder, attempted murder, manslaughter or aggravated sexual assault."

I'd sooner pay to keep murderers in jail, than for senators to vacation in Dubai.

UPDATE: Well, speak of the devils

The 19-year-old former high school football captain and first-year Mohawk College business student was attacked in May 2001 and beaten with sticks and bats after leaving a house party with his girlfriend.

He died the next day from head injuries

Sam Nop, 24, and Fadil Mujku, 23, can apply for parole in six or seven years.

Due to a two-for-one credit for time served, Stephen Papadopoulos, 26, was released from Maplehurst prison last night. He was convicted of manslaughter.

UBER-UPDATE: The Big Apple bites back

A man who shot two undercover police officers in the head has become the first person in more than 50 years to be sentenced to death in a federal case in New York and could become the first man executed there since the 1960s.

Technorati Tags: Youth Criminal Justice Act, Stephen Harper, murder

Leahy strangely silent on Arar

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UPDATE: -- An Arar rundown --

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I was taken to the woodshed last week, by left-leaning blogonauts over my stated willingness, to... rather than join the genuflecting hordes begging for Mr. Arar's forgiveness... wait a week for more facts on this murky affair to surface.

You'll recall that, last week, in front of the rolling tv cameras, Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy was almost insane with rage...

"We knew damn well if he went to Canada, he wouldn't be tortured. He'd be held and he'd be investigated. We also knew damn well if he went to Syria, he'd be tortured.

Now that they've been briefed by the Justice Department, Leahy and fellow senator, Arlen Specter, suddenly don't have much to say...

WASHINGTON — Two U.S. senators who have been briefed on the Maher Arar case say they have a lot more questions.

But Democrat Patrick Leahy and Republican Arlen Specter clammed up about what they were told by Justice Department officials on Thursday during a meeting that lasted an hour and 40 minutes.

C'mon boys... it's vindication day!

Or is it?

Oh well... I can wait.

Technorati Tags: Maher Arar, Patrick Leahy, Syria

Stop... drop... and cover

If you can't stand the heat, OR free speech... get the hell out of Hiroshima.

Kinsella tosses the ladyblogger bomb back to Liberal Catnip... triggering a predictable schmaltzy, partisan lovefest... that could've made the Romper-Room lady blush.

February 1, 2007 – Here’s a great way to start February – and, so, I hereby and herewith adopt this list.

Despite Libnip's petulant refusal to even allow a mention of the most popular blogger in Canada... who also happens to be a woman...

That decision is not open to debate. Period. Anyone who attempts to dispute that decision will have their comment removed since I'm not interested in wasting my time reading any defences of her behaviour.

Where exactly is Warren Kinsella on this type of censorship, the suppression of free speech?

The short answer is nowhere... he apparently can live with it.

From Supreme Arbiter to Supreme Asskisser in one fell swoop.

UPDATE: Blogger Lovefest gets a facelift

Shsssssshhh...

Like those black and white photos of the politburo, where some old guy just disappears, there's a new version of the post at Liberal Catnip.

I'm grateful to all of you who have broadened my horizons and please if your blog wasn't linked to in that list, don't take offense.

Unless, of course... you're that evil Kate.

HYPOCRISY UPDATE: -- Warren, ok... enough with the tease

Lemme see... you're ok with a little stalinism on the blog thing above... but suddenly this other info has to be "set free?"

One former politician has told me that the Liberals and the Conservatives have made a deal — silence about the $300,000 in exchange for silence about the income-trust affair with its allegations about leaks from Liberal insiders to Bay Street.

What of the Canadian news media? What is their excuse? What possible reason could they have for ignoring an extraordinary story like this one? Scandal fatigue, perhaps. Fear of lawsuits, maybe. But no one can deny the Gazette’s modest plea — namely, that “we need to know more.”

Well hell buddy, you're the ultimate insider... let 'er rip!!! -- Don't just point out how cowardly everyone else is... man up -- .

Technorati Tags: censorship, Warren Kinsella, principles

Another reason to vote Conservative...

Think this would happen under a Liberal government?

OTTAWA — The federal government has called in the RCMP and ordered a forensic audit of the Kanesatake Mohawk Police Service after allegations of mismanagement of funds.

Oh yeah, it ain't just about someone making off with petty cash...

7 Glocks, 6 Tasers and 2 Berettas... No, that's not a parody of the Twelve Days of Christmas.

It's a list of Kanesatake Mohawk Police weapons that have disappeared.

Politics, ideology and scaremongering

Margaret Wente is taking questions live at the Globe.

Kyoto always was unworkable for a number of reasons. The only countries that are meeting their Kyoto commitments are those whose economies have seriously declined (like Russia).

In all the other signatory countries (not just Canada), greenhouse gas emissions have increased.

It's also worth keeping in mind that even if all the Kyoto targets had been met, the reduction in greenhouse gas emissions would have been negligible.

A singular truth on this much ballyhooed topic...

Only one thing is for sure: Science isn't all that is driving this debate. Politics, ideology and scaremongering are too."

GOTCHA UPDATE: Let's not forget outright lies

One Liberal blogger is trying to counter with his own ad. But it flops. He manages to find a clip of John Baird, Minister of the Environment, stating "our party has got into a mess on the environment".

The problem is that Baird was quoting Liberal Michael Ignatieff.

And Ignatieff was talking about the Liberal Party.

Technorati Tags: global warming, politics of fear, Liberal Party

"Keepin' it real" in Iraq

The problem with Iraqi reality TV shows is Iraqi reality.

This week that cruel fact caught up with Diya al-Meqoter, a prominent Shia academic, who starred as the judge on two popular shows offering business loans and university places to impoverished fellow Iraqis.

He was ambushed and shot dead in the street.

Technorati Tags: Iraq, reality tv, religion of peace

PBS does Generation Next

And it's not good news for everyone.

Generation Next -- those young adults born in the 1980s -- are by and large healthier than their recent predecessors. Compared to the late 1980s when Generation X came of age, drug and alcohol use, teen pregnancy and teen suicide are all down.

Unfortunately there's a huge anomaly in the statistics...

One out of three black men in this generation will go to jail or prison by the time he is 35 years old, according to Harry Holzer, co-author of "Reconnecting Disadvantaged Young Men."

From 1979 to 1999, the risk of imprisonment for black high school dropouts by the age of 30-34 rose from 17 percent to nearly 59 percent, according Western's calculations. That rate is more than five times what it is for white high school dropouts.

It's being characterized as a "lost generation."

Technorati Tags: Generation Next, crime and punishment, statistics

Got your honour back now?

The recent ordinance against "stoning" and likeminded barbarity, passed in Quebec last week, had a very serious point... some behaviour is simply unacceptable.

Another atrocious example of "justice" from Pakistan.

KARACHI: A group of men has been accused of raping a teenaged girl and forcing her to parade naked through her village because one of her relatives eloped with a young woman from the men’s family, police said on Wednesday.

Such attacks, known as honour crimes because they are committed in response to a perceived slight on a family’s honour, are common in Pakistan, especially in backward, rural communities.

Perhaps some of the professional activists protesting animal testing, or greenhouse gases, could find some room on their busy schedules for "honour crimes."

I'm guessing this is just the tip of the iceberg.

Technorati Tags: Pakistan, honour crimes, religion of peace