Lord Nelson in Today's Royal Navy

Nelson: 'Order the signal, Hardy.'

Hardy: 'Aye, aye sir.'

Nelson: 'Hold on, that's not what I dictated to Flags. What's the
meaning of this?'

Hardy: 'Sorry sir?'

Nelson (reading aloud): '' England expects every person to do his or
her duty, regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, religious
persuasion or disability.' - What gobbledegook is this?'

Hardy: 'Admiralty policy, I'm afraid, sir. We're an equal
opportunities employer now. We had the devil's own job getting '
England ' past the censors, lest it be considered racist.'

Nelson: 'Gadzooks, Hardy. Hand me my pipe and tobacco.'

Hardy: 'Sorry sir. All naval vessels have now been designated
smoke-free working environments.'

Nelson: 'In that case, break open the rum ration. Let us splice the
mainbrace to steel the men before battle.'

Hardy: 'The rum ration has been abolished, Admiral. Its part of the
Government's policy on binge drinking.'

Nelson: 'Good heavens, Hardy. I suppose we'd better get on with it
........... full speed ahead.'

Hardy: 'I think you'll find that there's a 4 knot speed limit in this
stretch of water.'

Nelson: 'Damn it man! We are on the eve of the greatest sea battle in
history. We must advance with all dispatch. Report from the crow's
nest please.'

Hardy: 'That won't be possible, sir.'

Nelson: 'What?'

Hardy: 'Health and Safety have closed the crow's nest, sir. No
harness; and they said that rope ladders don't meet regulations. They
won't let anyone up there until a proper scaffolding can be erected.'

Nelson: 'Then get me the ship's carpenter without delay, Hardy.'

Hardy: 'He's busy knocking up a wheelchair access to the foredeck
Admiral.'

Nelson: 'Wheelchair access? I've never heard anything so absurd.'

Hardy: 'Health and safety again, sir. We have to provide a
barrier-free environment for the differently abled.'

Nelson: 'Differently abled? I've only one arm and one eye and I refuse
even to hear mention of the word. I didn't rise to the rank of admiral
by playing the disability card.'

Hardy: 'Actually, sir, you did. The Royal Navy is under represented in
the areas of visual impairment and limb deficiency.'

Nelson: 'Whatever next? Give me full sail. The salt spray beckons.'

Hardy: 'A couple of problems there too, sir. Health and safety won't
let the crew up the rigging without hard hats. And they don't want
anyone breathing in too much salt - haven't you seen the adverts?'

Nelson: 'I've never heard such infamy. Break out the cannon and tell
the men to stand by to engage the enemy.'

Hardy: 'The men are a bit worried about shooting at anyone, Admiral.'

Nelson: 'What? This is mutiny!'

Hardy: 'It's not that, sir. It's just that they're afraid of being
charged with murder if they actually kill anyone. There's a couple of
legal-aid lawyers on board, watching everyone like hawks.'

Nelson: 'Then how are we to sink the Frenchies and the Spanish?'

Hardy: 'Actually, sir, we're not.'

Nelson: 'We're not?'

Hardy: 'No, sir. The French and the Spanish are our European partners
now. According to the Common Fisheries Policy, we shouldn't even be in
this stretch of water. We could get hit with a claim for
compensation.'

Nelson: 'But you must hate a Frenchman as you hate the devil.'

Hardy: 'I wouldn't let the ship's diversity co-ordinator hear you
saying that sir. You'll be up on disciplinary report.'

Nelson: 'You must consider every man an enemy, who speaks ill of your
King.'

Hardy: 'Not any more, sir. We must be inclusive in this multicultural
age. Now put on your Kevlar vest; it's the rules. It could save your
life'

Nelson: 'Don't tell me - health and safety. Whatever happened to rum,
sodomy and the lash?'

Hardy: As I explained, sir, rum is off the menu! And there's a ban on
corporal punishment.'

Nelson: 'What about sodomy?'

Hardy: 'I believe that is now legal, sir.'

Nelson: 'In that case............................... kiss me, Hardy.'

Is it just me or is Al Gore Getting Weirder and Weirder

Notice a resemblance?
Check this out.

Response to Stageleft on Witless Environuts

Stagie has one of the best blogs anywhere, and I suspect his comments here are valid, but that he likely has an inkling of my mischief.
In the post I tease a ecodude for his despair at people not feeling sad for melting glaciers.
I don't feel sad at all. Fewer the glaciers the better, I think.
Because, I just don't need them to be happy.
And neither do 99.9% of the world's population, about 80% of which have one worry - survival of their contribution to the species; maybe getting a cup of rice for dinner.
It is pompous to the extreme for a teeny number of urban do-gooders to think that they have some divine right to preach to the world that their path to truth is the only way.
Sorta Mormonelderlike.
But my mischief is aimed at the inability of those in the WWF and the rest of the ecocult to have the faintest clue as to how the other 99.99999% think. How they make their pitch based upon images that are as remote to an average person as are the beasts of the Kalahari. (average African tribespeople excepted).
Images of polar bears on shrinking ice floes or Antarctic ice cubes shearing off (especially when the images are bogus or actually evidence of the opposite conclusion - of ice floes expanding and polar bears being over populated) lose the support of civilians (at least those that even pay notice).
They are speaking Swahili to the general public.
Small wonder that they're losing the debate.

From the WWF (World Witless Feelgooders) - and 637 Facebookers

The hardest thing is convincing the majority that problems like global warming exist and are serious. He says it will take visibly melting glaciers to make them pay attention.
"Then they'll probably say, 'So what? We'll live without glaciers'," he says. Ottawa Sun

Finally the truth...
Fact is, who among us has ever even seen a glacier? Who has had their lives dramatically affected by a glacier? Why would we give a fig about glaciers, when we have fancy refrigerators that create for us all the ice we need?

It is difficult to read the papers today without breaking out laughing.

Meanwhile - Facebook - an online community with 50 million odd members - almost all of whom are in that 15 to 25 generation which are most assaulted by save the earth messages, has an Earth Day group.
It has 637 members

Doesn't Israel Have Bigger Problems

than this?

Toronto Star Hyperbolize?? Really? How About This!!

That poster drove home the message that, cynics excepted, Earth Hour has touched a chord with Canadians like nothing else in recent years. by Bob Hepburn

Touched a chord like nothing else in recent years?

Talk amongst yourselves. Has your chord been touched?

New Anti-Earth Hour Logo Released

Star Slags Dalai Lama & Rob Ford in Same Breath

My Flabber is Ghasted.
I never, ever, ever thought I would ever see this juxtiposition...

Lemon: Ali / Lewis Rumble in the Studio - Round 1

Fred at Gay & Right Wrote About Hirsi's knockout of Avi Lewis - Here it is - Originally posted last August,

But not Muhammad Ali and Lennox Lewis...
Avi, husband of loonie leftie Naomi Klein, scion to ridiculous moonbatty parents Michelle Landsberg and Stephen, son of David.
hat tip to CCD

How to Catch A Terrorist - The Iberian Method

Let's Just Ban the Olympics. Period.

Again, the Olympics have been awarded to a Marxist totalitarian state, and again the chattering race is on to deny the world the experience of seeing pansies and tanks in short pants finding a camera in front of which to cry or celebrate, but most importantly to shed tears of heroic joy or sorrow.

Again, the Olympic Games (called a movement by those closely involved - which leads one to thoughts of a different type of movement) will be used for propaganda by the host nation - as an opportunity to prove its philosophical superiority.

Now I know that with 500 TV channels that there is a desperate need for programming, particularly since online gaming and Facebook is now fully occupying the minds and eyes of everyone under twenty. But shouldn't every piece of Olympic programming come with the warning that "this broadcast is designed to poison your mind either for or against a certain philosophy. It might not be suitable for younger or other impressionable viewers. Viewer discretion is advised."

They Ban, We Ban...

BEIJING - China might bar live television broadcasts from Tiananmen Square during the Beijing Olympics, apparently unnerved by the recent outburst of unrest among Tibetans and fearful of protests in the heart of the Chinese capital.
A ban on live broadcasts would wreck the plans of NBC and other major international networks, who have paid hundreds of millions of dollars to broadcast the Aug. 8-24 games and are counting on eye-pleasing live shots from the iconic square.

I had a great buddy who got shut out of the 1980 games - remember them - when someone else was beating up Islamic asshats before we were? He accepted it, even after about 15 years of dedicated training.

We should shut them down.

The Chinese Communist despots are ambitiously working to take over the world. They are working to destroy the American economy. They are stealing every piece of industrial intellectual property they can get their hands on. They are murdering Falun Gong and harvesting their organs.

And they expect us to sit on our hands, while WE pay for them to glorify their morally bankrupt regime that sets fire to monks and runs tanks over students? Puhleeze.

Pull out now. I know it's not manly, but shut off all contact with them. Let them go back to the days of being the hidden empire. Let them eat rice. Stop paying for the poisoned product they dump on us. Leave their crappy 2000 dollar cars to rot on docks in Shanghai.

Retarget the nukes.

The Beauty of Socialist Dimwittedness

Here

Actually They Stand for Surrendering to Freedom Hating, Murdering Misogynist Nutbars

Why do I keep getting these things?

Real Inspiration and Heroism

Cartoon of the Day

Canadian Justice in Action

Sometimes I wonder what country I am living in . . .

A former Ontario police officer was sentenced this morning to six months in jail for contempt of court.
Perry Dunlop has repeatedly refused to testify before an inquiry into the investigation of an alleged pedophile ring in Cornwall, Ont., in the 1990s.
The Star Story

Perry Dunlop is not a bad person he tried to do the right thing and now look what happend he tried to stop a pedophile ring and now their telling him to testify and lie. I don't think so he did the right thing not to testify and now he is being out to shame for not doing the bad thing they wanted him to. I was there when they came to get him at his very own house. I am his very own neighbour! I am 100% toward him and his and his familie's freedom. I believe that Perry Dunlop is a very respectful and brave man and should not be put to shame personally.
Link to Above

Global Warming Fraud Imposed on Wealthy World

A few weeks back I noted in my column that when times get tough, Americans will stop worrying about whether polar bears have enough ice and start asking whether those white, furry critters are edible. That comment caused quite a stir, and I would like to thank everyone, in particular the folks from Alaska, for the great recipes they forwarded—“Bear Claw Cordon Bleu” for instance.
Whole story here
Lorne Gunter gets a nice link.
In 1989 I was in a discussion group looking to organize something called "Metroworld" which was to be a conference of mayors and municipal leaders to save the world. A learned and wise colleague at the time said, "Environmentalism only interests people when times are good".
Sure enough, the economy went in the crapper and so did Metroworld.
The same guy said to always be skeptical of anyone who ever uses the phrase "planet" in reference to "the earth". It's a sure sign of an enviro lunatic.

More Hijinks from The August & Respected Toronto Star

Don't they proof read??

Let me get this straight . . .

Where are our White Heroes?

I've been around close to fifty years.
And I have a very difficult time thinking of a single true "caucasian" hero.
Someone of a Euro background who has put their life and living on the line for a belief or principle.
My heroes are Nelson, Muhammad and Martin.
Dudley George died for his beliefs.
Why do we of pale skin not have any person who can match up against these men?
Why?

Toronto Star - Masters of Redundency

The baby stories light up stupidity. The Mulroney link goes to a story of the cop who soaked the public for $1.2 mill in legal feels. Doh.
But this is Canada's largest circulation newspaper so the error must be mine.

IPCC Nobel Winner (?) Global Warming Denier

Our buddy JR found the following nugget and was kind enough to post a link in our comments:

I've had a lot of fun recently with my tiny (and unofficial) slice of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). But, though I was one of thousands of IPCC participants, I don't think I will add "0.0001 Nobel Laureate" to my resume. [...]
I'm sure the majority (but not all) of my IPCC colleagues cringe when I say this, but I see neither the developing catastrophe nor the smoking gun proving that human activity is to blame for most of the warming we see. Rather, I see a reliance on climate models (useful but never "proof") and the coincidence that changes in carbon dioxide and global temperatures have loose similarity over time. [...]
Mother Nature simply operates at a level of complexity that is, at this point, beyond the mastery of mere mortals (such as scientists) and the tools available to us. As my high-school physics teacher admonished us in those we-shall-conquer-the-world-with-a-slide-rule days, "Begin all of your scientific pronouncements with 'At our present level of ignorance, we think we know . . .'"<>

Link to John Christy

Hillary - Quick to Take Credit for Clinton 1, Slow to Accept Blame for Giving 139 Friends Get Out of Jail Free Cards

First 10 of the 139 Clinton Pardons:
the other 129 here.

Name	Home Town	Offenses
ALLEN, Verla Jean	Everton, Arkansas	False statements to agency of United States
ALTIERE, Nicholas M.	Las Vegas, Nevada	Importation of cocaine
ALTSCHUL, Bernice Ruth	Sherman Village, California	Conspiracy to commit money laundering
ANDERSON, Joe, Jr.	Grove Hill, Alabama	Income tax evasion
ANDERSON, William Sterling	Spartanburg, South Carolina	Conspiracy to defraud a federally insured financial institution, false statements to a federally insured financial institution, wire fraud
AZIZKHANI, Mansour T.	Huntsville, Alabama	Conspiracy and making false statements in bank loan applications
BABIN, Cleveland Victor, Jr.	Oklahoma City, Oklahoma	Conspiracy to commit offense against the United States by utilizing the U.S. mail in furtherance of a scheme to defraud
BAGLEY, Chris Harmon	Harrah, Oklahoma	Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine
BANE, Scott Lynn	Mahomet, Illinois	Unlawful distribution of marijuana
BARBER, Thomas Cleveland	Hampton, Florida	Issuing worthless checks

A Typical IPCC "Expert"

Yup - another global climate change expert...

Was she REALLY a Nobel Prize Winner as Dion implies?
“She was on the team of Nobel Prize winning Canadians for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change."

Academic Expertise: Kirsty Duncan is Adjunct Professor at the University of Toronto where she teaches medical geography. She also helps community groups to Fortune 500 organizations plan for a possible pandemic. She wrote a book (self-published I hear).

Additional Qualifications: A Liberal

Wanna Know the Truth? Roswell? Area 51?

Click here
Of course, the truth is that it's a military installation. They store obsolete materiel there. Betcha there's even a de-commed H Bomb shell or ten. Likely a lotta mothballed aircraft that could be brought into service.

Bio-FOOLS

Converting corn to ethanol in Iowa not only leads to clearing more of the Amazonian rainforest, researchers report in a pair of new studies in Science, but also would do little to slow global warming—and often make it worse.

With a Whimper

I feel free as I finish my second week without logging on to point at the foibles of others or make a few foibles of my own. I doubt anyone missed us, and I didn't really miss blogging so a happy non-marriage resulted.

When I read about Suzuki declaring that politicians that don't agree with him should go to jail, when I saw that Hep C denier Allan Rock had regained a pulpit from which to slander Brian Mulroney, when I looked at a weather forecast that called for nothing but frigid weather for the foreseeable future, when I considered the debate from the MSM supporting Islamic fundamentalists' rights to shut down Levant, I realized: All is Lost.

We are focked.

Western governments will continue acting only in their self-interest, in the belief that they only win when everyone else loses. Our planet will get colder and golf seasons shorter; and very possibly the laws of a primitive culture will become the law of the land before I pass on, sometime around the Mulroney inquisition reaches its 2000th day of sitting.

So that's all for now, folks.

Las Vegas - Deep Dark Secret . . .

Middle-aged men with expense accounts...
Every year 40 million odd usually pudgy guys visiting Babylon to sell or buy thingees and gadgets while spending cash like movie stars and doing things that really need to stay in Vegas.
There is little fabulous about the place, sure the casino hotels are magnificent, and yes 6 of the top 10 rated USA restaurants are in the city, but really Vegas is no more that a place for the ultimate expressions of greed, avarice, immorality, desperation and human weakness.
I've been coming here every year for likely 10 years or more, and it's gotten so that I don't put a nickle in a slot machine and don't bother leaving my hotel.
I do my business and leave.
I guess I won't get that job writing articles for the Tourist Bureau.

Plane Crash Averted

I'm alive.
En Route to the city of lucky and unlucky breaks, Fabulous Las Vegas our plane almost went down.
On final approach, about 1oo feet up we all of a sudden turned sideways and then back the other way. Then took off again found some quiet air and dropped about 30 feet.

I have a new life so I promise to no longer tease Red Tory, Jeff Davidson, Canadian Cynic.

To add a little politics to my survival, why did we ever buy airplanes made in France anyway?
Who got paid off??

There's Dumb, Dumber and Indubitably Dumber Beyond All Measure

Human Hamsters
The goal, he said, is to get developing nations to notice the bikes and tap into the energy they can provide. "It's a way to help places like Africa or Asia get electricity the way we have without creating the same environmental problems," he said.

So let me get this straight . . .
They want billions and billions of starving people in the third world to spend their days (and all their pent up energy) pedaling to death to create electricity (and lose weight). (Not to mention each of these bikes cost about 5 times per capita income...)

On the other hand, maybe it's not a bad idea for some, like, say Al Gore.

Iraq Near Peace - Part Two

Iraq Near Peace - Part One

Source - Al Jazeera

A Clinton Lies Again

"They're the underdog," says Bill Clinton, "and they're my home team."
But, Bill, I thought Arkansas, South Carolina, Iowa, New Hampshire, and Florida were your home team (at least until February 5th.

RAMBO!!!!

My favourite film of the year so far is one of extreme mayhem, violence and righteous devastation of murdering and raping genocidists.
Rambo's back.
It was a touching, sentimental, representation of a feeling, tortured war veteran escaping his past by meditating at a chamomile farm far from civilization. Sort of an "Under the Tuscan Sun" for men.
And I loved it - especially seeing what CGI can do with a large band of evil-doers and a 50 Cal MG.

Geoff Pevere of the Star, an irritating mugwump of a film reviewer, of course, had to make a political point of it:

Will he settle in this time, or will he once again find himself "going Rambo" somewhere deep in the heart of his home? And what will he make of all those newly minted Rambos, the next generation of walking wounded coming home from yet another unpopular and seemingly unwinnable war?

But from what I can see, the resisting deserting walking wounded of this next generation (all volunteers), ran away to Canada to chase hippy chicks.
Here's what I have to say about them.

Hockey is Not a Sport

Was driving to a work out this aft and listening to the Fan 590.
Show is called "Live from Gretzky's" I think, and the topic was Hockey and TV deals.
I've written before about how tired I am of being bombarded with Leaf propaganda.
I was gonna post this week on how within five days, a Star reporter had gone from stating that everyone knows the Leafs are eliminated from the play offs, to their winning a game and there being a "glimmer" of hope, and then their winning three in a row and starting a new play off run.
So many Torontonians are lost in Leafland, which is a delusional state in which nirvana is achieved with only a minimal amount, if any, of contemplation.
Hockey, in the scheme of things, is not much of our culture, nor symbolic of who we are,nor does it capture national imagination as it did at one time.
And, as pointed out on the radio program, in the US is isn't even judged to be a sport, because ESPN doesn't carry it and is unwilling to pay to air it.
They have Rodeo. They have the Winchester Dog Show. But no hockey.
I just wish I could turn on a radio station and not hear about the Leafs.

Are Proctology Exams Allowed in Sharia?

We might find out

The Penalty for Conservation? Higher Rates...

It happened with the TTC.
It happened with Toronto Hydro
And now it's happening with City Works...

Toronto's 9.4 per cent hike in the water rate – expected to be repeated annually for some years to come – reflects a trend across the GTA. Blended water and wastewater rates are rising everywhere as consumption continues to drop: 6.5 per cent in Halton, 9.5 per cent in Durham, 11.6 per cent in Markham and 9 per cent in Peel.

The city tells you to conserve, and once again, in their inimitable manner, they fail to realize that this will mean a reduction in revenues and a shortfall. And rather than reduce their expenses to compensate for reduced demand THEY RAISE FEES AND TAXES.

Once again, Toronto is proven to be managed by Larry, Mo and Curly Miller.

Gore Web Dating??

Islamists Deceive to Change Western Banking to Sharia

Tarek Fatah in The Globe:
The campaign to introduce sharia is back. Last time, the campaign took a populist approach, invoking multiculturalism. This time, the pro-sharia lobby is dangling the carrot of new niche markets and has the backing of Canada's major banks. Such icons of the corporate world as Citibank NA, HSBC Holdings PLC, and Barclays PLC have endorsed sharia banking and have started offering Islamic financing products to a vulnerable Muslim population.
[...]
Every English-language translation of the Koran has translated the Arabic word riba as usury, not interest. Yet, Islamists have deliberately portrayed bank interest as usury and labelled the current banking system as un-Islamic. Instead, these Islamists have created exotic products with names that are foreign to much of the world's Muslim population. This is where they mask interest under the niqab of Mudraba, Musharaka, Murabaha, and Ijara. Two authors, both senior Muslim bankers, have written scathing critiques of sharia banking, one labelling the practice as nothing more than "deception," with the other suggesting the entire exercise was "a convenient pretext for advancing broad Islamic objectives and for lining the pockets of religious officials." Why Canadian banks would contribute to this masquerade is a question for ordinary Canadians to ask.

Amnesty International Should Push Boycott UK - Maybe living in squalor and being subjugated and terrorized by Israel is a great thing . . .

From the usual anti-Israel suspect:
The next question that arises is that if 40 seriously ill people did die as a result of the Israeli government closing the borders to fuel shipments and humanitarian aid how will they be counted in the ever growing conflict body count? Will they be listed as casualties? Or will they not even count as collateral damage in the record books of history?

From Shlemazl
Let us check this out. Gaza has a death rate of 3.74 deaths per 1000 population (2007 est). That includes 0.24 death per 1000 population due to Israeli strikes, of whom 15% were unarmed civilians or unidentified people [based on source]. Not directly relevant, but for general knowledge Syria has 4.74 deaths per 1000 population per year (2007 est). So the rate of Syrian Holocaust is 27% higher. As a side note the reference to "Gaza Holocaust" comes from the Popular Committee Against Siege, which is lead by a Gaza MP. This site also serves as a useful Hamas-inspired reference for some Canadian left-wingers when they feel like publishing an anti-Israeli propaganda piece, which is often.

There is Leadership in the Aboriginal Community

Here

Time For EVERYONE to Buy SUVs

Again, I have to draw two obviously uninformed conclusions from reading newspapers and looking out my window.
1/ The Save the Earth from Warming movement has worked. Global Warming is OVER! Get out the salami and cheese.
2/ That, given the logic of the STEW movement, we must now act to fight Global Freezing, and again, to draw on this logic, we must all immediately buy SUVs, install coal burning and spewing furnaces, and fly in private jets. To save the earth...
Question, though: How many people have died from the Global Warming period we've survived? I haven't seen this stat yet. However:

There were at least five deaths attributed to the cold in Albuquerque last Sunday. So much for global warming. Mr. Gore warns us that the penguins and polar bears are all going to die. I have a suggestion for him. Send them to Gulf Shores. There is plenty of water, no people on the beaches, lots of food and freezing temperatures. They will never miss their polar caps, and that suggestion could earn me a Noble Prize.

HT to Fred

Lorrie, More Brilliance

Goldstein
"But Mr. bin Kyoto, your position is just knee-jerk anti-growth, anti-development, anti-capitalist, anti-Western and especially anti-American. It shuns complex thinking in favour of simplistic and false moral imperatives its adherents accept on blind faith and which ultimately hold human life to be cheap. Mr. bin Kyoto, you and Sharia Green sound a lot like Osama bin Laden and al-Qaida.

"Your point, infidel?"

VIDEO Newman SLAMS Gotta-Be-Kidding Party Fool to the Mat

Video of Newman Smacking Nathan



Nathan would know fools' logic - the NDP have been saying and doing the same things over and over again for fifty years and are still living in a planet where the skies are pink

Hmmm, Why Doesn't the UN Have Their Shorts in A Knot About This?

Star
As dusk settled over the eastern Mediterranean last night, countless vehicles were still lined up in both directions for more than a kilometre, as thousands upon thousands of long-suffering Gazans swarmed into neighbouring Egypt through a dismantled border wall, while an apparently equivalent number returned to the Palestinian territory, laden with whatever treasures they had managed to purchase during an unexpected Egyptian shopping spree.

Looks like the Egyptians don't like Palestinans all that much either...

Pielke on IPCC

Mainly the fact that the same individuals who are doing primary research into humans' impact on the climate system are being permitted to lead the assessment of that research.

Suppose a group of scientists introduced a drug they claimed could save many lives: There were side effects, of course, but the scientists claimed the drug's benefits far outweighed its risks.

If the government then asked these same scientists to form an assessment committee to evaluate their claim (and the committee consisted of colleagues of the scientists who made the original claim as well as the drug's developers), an uproar would occur, and there would be protests. It would represent a clear conflict of interest.

Yet this is what has happened with the IPCC process. To date, either few people recognize this conflict, or those that do choose to ignore it because the recommendations of the IPCC fit their policy and political agenda. In either case, scientific rigor has been sacrificed, and poor policy and political decisions will inevitably follow.

more here

More Evidence of Global Warming

From BigFootBubba in NC

Climate Catastrophists Foiled Again

Higher death rates from heat waves. (Exactly how many deaths from heat waves have we had, and how many compared to deaths of homeless by freezing? Huh?)

"We shouldn't build on vulnerable pieces of land," said Mark Yakabuski, president of the Insurance Bureau of Canada. "Building codes should have to take global warming into account."
Yakabuski said insurance claims related to geological and weather events are 20 times higher today than in the 1970s, if inflation is taken into account. Climate change, he said, "is a threat that is real beyond anything we've faced before."

(Yakabuski might be a whiz at insurance, but does he think that geological events (earthquakes & volcanoes) are caused by climate change? And has he taken into account that values of assets have increased much more than rates of inflation and that there is likely 20 times as many assets to insure as in the 70's. Huh?

Perks cautioned that the insurance industry is a big part of Toronto's financial success and suggested federal politicians might pay more attention to climate change if they considered the impact it could have on the private sector.

(And what exactly is Comrade Perks saying here? That Climate Change is gonna kill all the insurance companies? Huh? That they're not just gonna raise their rates to take on more risk - is it possible that these insurance companies might use this catastrophist outlook to raise rates anyway? Huh, Gord? Have you ever gotten outside your commune and read anything but the communist manifesto? Huh?)

And, meanwhile, in a moment of sobriety, The Star DID report on a York U physicist smacking down a shibboleth that jet contrails are a contributor to Global Warming. The "common wisdom" was that this was proved on 9/12 to 9/14, 2001 when the skies were free of aircraft.

"The American researchers need to look a bit harder at the original data," Wijngaarden said.

And, a proponent of the original study (a geography professor - David Travis - from U of Wisconsin) showed his knowledge of geography:

"It's possible that Canada simply doesn't have a high enough density of jet traffic for contrails to make any difference"But Travis said he had not realized Pearson Airport has been ranked 20th busiest airport in the world measured by takeoffs and landings.

Don't send your kids to be educated by this man.

I Am Legend

Umm, Not me... I'm just a weak-ass blogger / reviewer of the novel and a couple of film versions.
Just finished Richard Matheson's novella after seeing the release of a new version a couple of weeks ago. Thought it would be worthwhile to just offer a few observations.

Omega Man: Chuck Heston as Robert Neville

"Omega Man" has always stayed with me since seeing it thirty-odd years ago. Heston, who established Moses as the prototype of heroic Biblical heroes, continued his firm jawed, strong and stolid heroic performance in this film. His sister(?) film to this was "Soylent Green". Well worth a rental.


I Am Legend: Will Smith as Robert Neville

Will Smith, among my favorite actors, is good in this picture. My only complaints are that Hollywood had to add way too much CGI, had to create a huge cinematic climax, and a happy ending. I liked how the producers built the plot around an "unintended consequence".

Peter Dang's Amateur Production Based on Novel


I think this amateur mini well represented the tone of the book.

"I Am Legend" by Richard Matheson
A dreary depressing book, but Matheson was a much better writer than I expected. I expected schlock, and it wasn't. Rather a great description of the inner turmoil of a man alone. No happy ending to be found here. Worth a read.

Oh No!! Global Warming is Gonna KILL all the Dogs & Cats...

Do these vets and dog-owners figure they and their pets are gonna be around that long??

From the Ozzies

You thought penguins were in gravest danger of extinction from global warming.
Now bulldogs, boxers, Pekinese, pugs and French mastiffs are among the breeds of dogs that may not see out many more Australian summers, experts say.
Rising temperatures could also cast aside Persian cats in favour of fuller-faced felines. "Darwin's theory will take care of them," he said. "They won't be around in the future; they won't last."
The director of Melbourne University's veterinary teaching hospital, Mark Davis, said dog owners should act responsibly by opting for long-nosed or long-tongued breeds such as greyhounds or golden retrievers. Dogs cool themselves by panting, which makes summer more difficult for breeds like bulldogs and pugs, which typically have squashed airways.
"It will be more sensible to not have those breeds as a pet because as it gets hotter they are going to struggle more," he said.

You can read the whole story if you want - it's hilarious. The IPCC predict an increase in temps by what, less than 1 degree in the next 100 years. Do these vets and dog-owners figure they and their pets are gonna be around that long??

A Tom Nelson find.

Of the last 2 Presidents, who do ya think was more respected?

I await the deep thoughts from the usual trolls.

I Have A Dream

Tom Nelson Does it Again on Climate Global Change Warming (or whatever they're calling it today)

CBL Golden Lemon Award Winner Tom Nelson finds a report that shows that Global Cooling was a big issue 150 years ago!!! For links to the actual reference visit Tom . . .

“It is well known as a matter of history, that when Greenland was discovered, it possessed a much warmer climate than it does at present. The ice packs have been extending south from the polar regions for some centuries, and the northeast coasts of our continent are much colder than they were three centuries ago.

No - THEY CAN"T HANDLE THE TRUTH

Interesting Post on US Campaigning
At campaign stops, Senator Johnny Mac would exhort his cheering throngs of hopeful and desperate supporters by telling them these major job losses were not so much a temporary setback, but a permanent condition.

CPC Candidate Supports Affirmative Action

Got an email from a Liberal friend / critic who yadda yadda blah blahed but then dropped the following bomb.

The Tories appointee (Don Meredith) in Toronto Centre looks like he wants to bring "off-message" to new heights.
At an all candidates event last week he said he'd advocate for minority hiring quotas as a condition for awarding Federal contracts.
Yadda yadda

What's this about?
I suspect a lot of other peoples' flabbers will be ghasted over this.
(My Flabber's already ghasted out).

They Strike Back and The Globe Lets Them

The Globe gave equal time this morning to the poorly treated Islamic law students (one of whom works for the Chief Justice of the Ontario Superior Court, doesn't sound so down-trodden to me).

the provincial and federal Commissions to whom we submitted our case threatens the interests of us all. Canadians in all walks of life have come to rely on them to assert their basic human rights as employees, as persons living with disabilities, as women, as ethnic and cultural minorities, as gender-orientation minorities, and as visible religious minorities, to name only a few.

But of course we know that, in fact, Canadians in all walks of life have most definitely NOT come to rely on them. Most recently it's been two groups of highly educated and influential Muslims.

But most often it's Richard Warman, who's submitted more than half the claims.

Dem Debate

Got an email from a friend.

Said that Obama thinks he's better than Hillary and Edwards thinks he's better than Obama and Hillary thinks she's better than both and Bill's behind the curtains with a blonde.
Sort of Rock, Paper, Scissors, Sleeze and Ho.

Bill Clinton is the elephant in the room.
It's is hard for me to figure out how he can be involved in this campaign.
He was impeached for lying to congress.
He was disbarred for lying under oath.
I'm reposting this video just as evidence of how this bubba operates.

You Don't Think That Eco-Terrorists Play Dirty?

I happened across this Greenpeace site when I googled the author of an article that critized the approach of the IPCC.
They have an incredibly comprehensive strategy to try and discredit anyone that could stop them on their road to world domination.
Read Sterling Burnett's resume - seems to me his main expertise is in recognizing bullshit when he smells it. And I betcha he has one more PhD than all the executives of Greenpeace put together...

... okay, I found one - I was just being sarcastic anyway.

Newly Discovered Element is Densest and Heaviest in the Universe

A major research institution has recently announced the discovery of the heaviest compound yet known to science. This new element has been tentatively named "Governmentium".

Governmentium has one neutron, 12 assistant neutrons, 75 deputy neutrons, and 224 assistant deputy neutrons, giving it an atomic mass of 312.

These 312 particles are held together by forces called morons, which are surrounded by vast quantities of lepton-like particles called peons. Since Governmentium has no electrons, it is inert. However, it can be detected as it impedes every reaction with which it comes into contact. A tiny amount of Governmentium causes one reaction to take over four days to complete when it would normally take less than a second.

Governmentium has a normal half-life of four years; it does not decay but instead, it undergoes a reorganization in which a portion of the assistant neutrons and deputy neutrons exchange places. In fact, Governmentium's mass will actually increase over time since each reorganization will cause more morons to become neutrons, forming isodopes. This characteristic of moron-promotion leads some scientists to speculate that Governmentium is formed whenever morons reach a certain quantity in concentration. This hypocritical quantity is referred to as "Critical Morass." You will know it when you see it.

When catalyzed with money, Governmentium becomes Administratium, an element which radiates just as much energy since it has half as many peons but twice as many morons…
(Credit unknown - found on anonymous joke site)

I'm Not Sure Who to Credit for This - "Need a Passport?"

Found on a few different websites with no author noted.
Dear Mr. Minister,
I'm in the process of renewing my passport, and still cannot believe this. How is it that Radio Shack has my address and telephone number and knows that I bought a t.v. cable from them back in 1997, and yet, the Federal Government is still asking me where I was born and on what date. For Christ sakes, do you guys do this by hand?

My birth date you have on my social insurance card, and it is on all the income tax forms I've filed for the past 30 years. It is on my health insurance card, my driver's license, on the last eight goddamn passports I've had, on all those stupid customs declaration forms I've had to fill out before being allowed off the planes over the last 30 years, and all those insufferable census forms that are done at election times.

Would somebody please take note, once and for all, that my mother's name is Maryanne, my father's name is Robert and I'd be absolutely astounded if that ever changed between now and when I die!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SHIT!

I apologize, Mr. Minister. I'm really pissed off this morning. Between you an' me, I've had enough of this bullshit! You send the application to my house, then you ask me for my @#&in' address. What is going on? You have a gang of Neanderthals assholes workin' there! Look at my damn picture. Do I look like Bin Laden? I don't want to dig up Yasser Arafat, for shit sakes. I just want to go and park my ass on a sandy beach. And would someone please tell me, why would you give a shit whether I plan on visiting a farm in the next 15 days? If I ever got the urge to do something weird to a chicken or a goat, believe you me, I'd sure as hell not want to tell anyone!

Well, I have to go now, 'cause I have to go to the other end of the city and get another @#%in copy of my birth certificate, to the tune of $60! Would it be so complicated to have all the services in the same spot to assist in the issuance of a new passport the same day?? Nooooo, that'd be too damn easy and maybe make sense. You'd rather have us running all over the @#%in' place like chickens with our heads cut off, then find some asshole to confirm that it's really me on the goddamn picture - you know, the one where we're not allowed to smile?! (@#%in morons) Hey, you know why we can't smile? We're totally pissed off!

Signed - An Irate @#%ing Canadian Citizen.

P.S. Remember what I said above about the picture and getting someone to confirm that it's me? Well, my family has been in this country since 1776 when one of my forefathers took up arms against the Americans. I have served in the military for something over 30 years and have had security clearances up the yingyang. I was aide de camp to the lieutenant governor of our province for ten years and I have been doing volunteer work for the RCMP for about five years. However, I have to get someone 'important' to verify who I am - you know, someone like my doctor WHO WAS BORN AND RAISED IN COMMUNIST @#%ing CHINA!!!

Tell Me Where I'm Wrong Here

In September of 2001, a group of Islamic radicals flew airplanes into major landmarks in the United States. Thousands of innocent people were killed.

The United States decided to attack the leaders behind these acts of war in Afghanistan. The United Nations approved this invasion and NATO gathered around the US in undertaking this mission.

Shortly thereafter, with information provided by several different security and intelligence services, the United States with the approval of both Houses (and with the support of Senators John Kerry and Hillary Clinton) decided to invade Iraq to get rid of notorious despot Sadaam Hussein who was reported to have weapons of mass destruction. Seeing as he had used such against his own people, this seemed to be a reasonable action. The United Nations refused to approve this mission.

What was the difference?
Approval of the United Nations.
Could this have been influenced by the Iraqi oil that France and German had become dependent on?

Just asking.

Ellie May continues to confuse and be confused.

Note Picture
In this article she tells us that PMSH is a "climate denier". Huh? Does she think that PMSH thinks that the 25 below day today is the same as the 25 above day that he enjoyed in Afghanistan?
And where does it say that the climate doesn't change? Does Ellie May believe that it never has and never will? Does she ever think before she says something?

Let's All Starve to Save The Planet

The Sun
Which brings us to a report last week from Greenpeace that opposes all farming -- except the "sustainable" kind the organic farmers practise.

The environmental watchdog announced farming is one of the major causes of global warming and it wants the federal government to tax fertilizer to combat it.

Farming contributes 17 to 32% of emissions leading to global warming, the report said, much of it coming from overuse of fertilizer, but a lot also coming from animals we eat. Sheep emit the most methane, Greenpeace says, but cows are almost as bad and pigs aren't great either. Poultry contributes the least.

But even clearing more land and putting it to agricultural uses is now a bad thing environmentally, according to Greenpeace.

This is scary stuff. If food is too environmentally unsound to grow, what exactly are we going to eat?

Greenpeace wants a fertilizer tax so the government can provide programs for farmers to develop more "sustainable" practices. Or in other words, they want a tax on food.

What I Wanna Know is WHO Wrote the Manual?

We've seen in the past that bureaucrats will reveal confidences to embarrass this governent.
Who wrote THIS manual?
LINK to Manual

Toronto Councillor Shows More Stupidity on Stupidity Day

It seems that today is media stupidity day. Were they ALL out partying til dawn or take stupid pills or forget to take their medication? It's not only in their own errors, it's their failure to recognize and criticize the stupidity of others.

Pam McConnell is the south east side downtown Councillor for Toronto - very likely the centre of cockroach population in the city. She is left of left of left, but mostly, just one more self-promoting stupid councillor. Check this out:

After meeting with residents and Councillor Pam McConnell (Ward 28, Toronto Centre-Rosedale), city officials are ready to try out a new arrangement in the ward.
Residents can elect to get one bin only and use it for recycling one week and garbage the next.
Those choosing that option must make sure they don't jumble garbage and recycling together, said Geoff Rathbone, general manager of solid waste.

Okay - now understand, Pam, that residents don't only have to DISPOSE of garbage and recycling - they also have to STORE it until the city's pathetic garbage collectors come to pick it up.

Where should residents keep their stinking garbage for the week that they are using their bins for recycling? Huh?

What the Heck Does THIS Have to do with the Economy?

Yesterday I was attacked by the usual suspects for criticizing CNN for promoting the general population's 'opinion' that the US was in a recession. You can read about it here.

Today The Star confirms it's equivalent level of stupidity:

While Clinton was speaking, a few blocks away, 71-year-old Betty Turner was quietly listening to a credit counsellor, a sheaf of printouts spread across her lap. She knows the economy is in a rough patch when she looks in the mirror every day.
"My credit cards have gotten away from me, which is why I came here," she said inside the counselling service's office. She adds, however, that at least her house isn't being foreclosed on, like some of her neighbours in the state that leads the nation in home foreclosures.

Kindly inform me, gentle leftoid readers, what a kindly 71 year old lady being unable to pay her credit cars has to do with the economy? Did she lose her job at the plant? Does she travel, oh, say 2,000 miles a week to bingo so that gas prices are putting a dent in her pension?

Again - left-handed Media Morons are looking for evidence of a recession in places where they don't exist. Sheer and utter incompetent commentary. The Star should stick to wringing its hands over wars rather than delve into areas where they have no knowledge.

Is Ottawa Citizen Stunned, Stupid or Incompetent

This after the speedboat stupidity...
Maybe in a time warp, maybe just out of school?? Maybe never went to school?

YAHOO

YAHOO REDUX!!!

Step in the RIght Direction Reveals Death of Discourse in University

Step in the Right Direction is a remarkable blog - clear, topical and well written.
Today she describes how she fears being shunned and discredited - perhaps given the academic boot - by having beliefs that vary from those of her colleagues and faculty members

I do feel alone. I cringe in a classroom when we talk about "global warming"/"climate change" and how profs and colleagues refer to the opposite side as "climate change deniers." I finally spoke up this week in class (but was cautious not to make myself the guilty party) and said "climate change deniers" is inaccurate as many of them acknowledge that climate changes, which is their very point.

I wish I had had the courage to add, "if you would actually being a little open-minded and actually read/listened to the other side, instead of belittling it, you would know it." How ignorant of my prof (and most of Canadian/MSM) to call them "climate change deniers" (only because they language change from 'global warming' to 'climate change') when they are even denying that climate changes! It is precisely their point that it does change!

Brilliant. Visit often.
What has this country become?
Ezra Levant and Mark Steyn are brought before commissions with dubious absolutely no integrity and charged for writing their mind because people from another culture - where the constitution is a religious book - don't like it.

Professors believe that it is necessary to dictate their political beliefs to those they are supposed to guide with a mutual understanding that to disagree is to be dismissed. To have one's life ruined, perhaps.

Today, a bureaucrat who decided that it would be cheaper to pay off victims of tainted blood than to actually test it or let people know it was tainted got off stock free. And his lawyer's fees, likely in the millions of dollars, will be paid by, yes, the taxpayers.

What has Canada become? Canada, as a frigid country, was bearable because we were so damn decent and honest. Now almost anyplace looks warmer. Even Saudi Arabia - at least there you know where you stand.

This Picture Makes Me Really Laugh

From Here

Ezra Levant & Family Have Long History with Alberta Human RIghts Commission

CBL Presidential Likeability Poll Results In

We asked the question, "Who among the current Presidential Candidates in the USA election, would you be most interested in having dinner with?"

The objective of the survey was to determine which candidate was most likable, as this tends to be a significant factor in who people vote for.

Not much surprising...
The audience for the poll is largely Canadian Conservative, so naturally results were heavily skewed to GOP candidates.

And not surprising that Fred Thompson came out on top. He's got big face recognition from his acting (I believe he actually played the President once). He's a truck driving, down home, straight speaker that we Conservatives tend to like.

We'll see if this appeal carries over into votes in this week's Primaries in South Carolina - the first truck-drivin' , down home state.

Not surprised to see that Monica Lewinsky's Boyfriend's Wife barely passed the statistical significance test.

Updated - Should We Just Shoot Them? - New Car Cognitive Syndrome

Interesting that the day after I wrote the piece below, that THIS PIECE appeared in The Star. The facts as presented by proponents agree with me, while the opinions expressed by do-gooders agree with Charlie from Kingston (see comments).

One thing to make note: "The force's own studies show that people with mental health issues were the target in 30 per cent of Taser deployment incidents", he (the Toronto Police Chief) said. An example was the shooting of Robert Dziekanski at Vancouver airport last October, who has almost always been described as "confused and agitated", followed by his being a "nice boy"... Nowhere do I recall him being referred to as mentally ill. I guess that would be insulting, or rights depriving or something else that's bad.

Would the do-gooders prefer coppers just shoot the crazies when they get "confused and agitated?

From Yesterday

Ever got a new car that was different? A Red Chevy or a Black Bimmer? Bought it cause it was different and made you stand out from the crowd?
Then you get it home, roll down the windows or ragtop and cruise around the hood looking too cool only to discover that every second damm car is exactly the same?

Yogi said that "you can observe a lot just by lookin'". And how true that is - as humans, we generally only ever notice anything after for some reason it's brought to our attention.

Like Tasers...
Tens of thousands of police officers in North America have them and hundreds use them every day.
Yet, because of a few isolated incidents, (here's a link to the latest) we (collectively - certainly me is not included in that we) assume that people are getting fried everywhere, all the time.

And of course they're not. And in none of the media coverage is there any discussion of how dead would be those tasered souls if sidearms where used instead.

Review: Of Doves, Lonesome and Not

Over the last three nights was another (Comanche Moon) in a long line of Lonesome Dove sequels and prequels that followed the 1989 masterpiece.
For those who haven't been fascinated by these gritty representations of mid/late 1800 Texas, Larry McMurtry's series focuses on the life long relationship (but not in a Brokeback Mountain way) between two Texas Rangers Gus McCrae (originally played by Robert Duvall) and Woodrow Call (orig. Tommy Lee Jones).
McMurtry is among America's most prolific and successful authors, having won a Pulitzer and a few Academy Awards for his scribing.
The Lonesome Dove series is close to my heart, it really brings to the emotions the hard and often tragic lives led by those only a few generations before I was born. It also exudes what "manning-up" (as commonly used by light-loafered city hipsters today) really means.
McCrae and Call do what their superiors tell them to do to open up a new frontier, they endure whatever hardship is necessary, they don't countenance rudeness or mean-ness, especially to women and they put their lives on the line for a bigger cause. They also have fun (at least McCrae does) where and when they can find it.
It also reveals the pain of native Americans as they were participants in being swept away by more technologically advanced immigrants.
Comanche Moon is not what Lonesome Dove was - nothing could ever be. No one could replicate Duvall's and Jones' performance. But Steve Zahn does do a passable imitation of Duvall's McCrae, but fails in the good humour category.
All in all, any Lonesome Dove event is a big one (even when a dotty James Garner played Call in one of them). This was a great watch and stirred memories, even if it didn't spark new enthusiasms.
(Out of Four)

My Favorite Ad of 2008

Another Gore Video

Adler Tips Us Off on Gore Video

CNN Trying to Scare the Bejezus out of Americans

I was watching Wolf on CNN yesterday and he made the OUTLANDISH statement that 70% of Americans believe that the USA is already in a recession!

Now WHY exactly should anyone give a fiddler's fig about what the general population thinks about the economic condition of America. Exactly how many of them read the Dailies from Bureau of Economic Analysis?.005% - maybe. So why the eff does their opinion matter and why would it be a Wolf Headline? (Could it be because it's good politics if you're trying to elect Democrats...)

Here's the definition of a recession (for those who don't know)

First off the US economy has grown every quarter for the last year and is forecast to grow every quarter this year (especially because governments are unlikely to take action that will reduce the GDP during an election year). A recession as defined simply will not occur - the economy will just not grow as fast as it has.

Second of all, the USA has rebounded remarkably since 911. Here are a couple of charts - Unemployment and GDP:



Certainly the housing and new "thrift" crisis has hurt public opinion by giving the Lib Media something to moan about but face it - it was simply fools lending money to idiots, it's only about $100 Billion (which is peanuts in the US wealth pool), and a lot of it was absorbed by non-US financial institutions.

The War? again - $100 billion a year or so. About the same about that the USA used to spend in military bases in Europe during the Cold War. Peanuts.

And unemployment? 0% is not zero unemployment. 5% is zero unemployment - there are ALWAYS people in between jobs, newly retired, or taking time off.

America has never been so wealthy and healthy and powerful. Do not believe anything that CNN says.

Hillary Dominates (Nobody) in Michigan

Who Am I?

Koran Stats

CCD
In the Koran, the Sira, and the Hadith, only 17% of the Islamic trilogy deals with the words of Allah. The remaining 83% refers to the words and deeds of Mohammed.

Of all of the references to "hell" in the trilogy, 6% are for moral failings, while 94% are for the transgression of disagreeing with Mohammed.

97% of references to "jihad" relate to war and a mere 3% to the concept of "inner struggle."

About 67% of the Koran of Mecca deals with punishing unbelievers for merely disagreeing with Mohammed.

Over 50% of the Koran of Medina deals with hypocrites and jihad against unbelievers. Nearly 75% of the Sira deals with jihad. About 20% of the Hadith by Bukhari is about jihad. The majority of the doctrine is political and it is all violent.

In 4% of the cases, women were superior, in 91% of the cases they were inferior and in 5% they were equal. But there is a big catch. The only way that women are equal is after death on Judgment day, when men and women will be judged on how well they followed the Koran and the Sunna. And guess what? The only way to follow the Koran and the Sunna is to obey men. Equality means obeying men.

Woman are superior by being a mother, who must obey her husband. So the perfect woman on Judgment day will be a mother, who obeyed all the men in her life. So really, the women are subordinate to men in 100% of all of the Koran, Hadith and the Sira.

Why is the Muslim world plagued by instability, undemocratic governments, and sectarian violence?

Haqqani

The GDP of the world’s fifty-seven Muslim-majority countries combined is less than that of France

Those fifty-seven (Islamic) countries are home to about 500 universities, compared to more than 5,000 in the United States and 8,000 in India.

Fewer new book titles are published each year in Arabic, the language of 300 million people, than in Greek, spoken by only 15 million.

More books are translated into Spanish each year than have been translated into Arabic in the last century.

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Just Another Dead Gangsta Two

When 14 year old Jordan Manners was killed in his school hall last May we were tough on the authorities and tough on a media which first portrayed Jordan as a Shining Star, then once he was interred revealed that his nickname was Stackz. His sobriquet earned because he always had stacks of cash, presumably either his allowance from his Mom or as remuneration for delivering drugs, acting as a lookout, or somehow helping out others who had even bigger stackz of cash.

As a reaction to Julian Falconer's wrongly portrayed report (its ignoring of the recommendations by teachers to be tougher on teen criminals in favour of hugging them and its failure to attempt to interview all TDSB superintendents) Jordan's Mom pleaded that there be an "end to the silence".

Now, what exactly would an end of the silence accomplished? For one, Jordan would have likely been identified as a juvenile criminal and been directly involved with the criminal justice system. Secondly, hordes of students (synthesizing the report: 30% - or likely 50% of all males in the school) would have been rounded up, arrested and at least suspended. A good share of the faculty would likely also have been suspended as would all the principals and vice-principals.

Is that what she means?

It wasn't Mike Harris who forced teachers and their superiors to hide crimes taking place before their eyes so that their schools wouldn't look bad.

Liberal Performers Hate, Hate, Hate, Hate

Douglas Mackinnon in Town Hall:
A well-known self-described liberal Democrat in Hollywood once said that the thing that bothered him most about some of his fellow liberals was their “hate.” It’s not enough, he said, “that they disagree with Republicans and conservatives, but they have to hate them and hate everything they stand for.”
Over the last seven years, a large number of these liberal activists, actors, and entertainers, have professed their outright hatred of George W. Bush. Through their rants in columns, in books, and on television and radio, they have spewed varying degrees of unhinged loathing of this president.
. . .there's more . . .
Good insight into the real David Letterman.

Will we get a similar picture from Afstan but with a Cdn Soldier and Steffi?

More info on pic here.
Idea came from Hunter from Edmonton's post.