all things new found land

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NB: This article appears in Education Forum, OSSTF's magazine. I'm shocked too.

"Moments Of Startling Clarity" Dr. Stephen L. Anderson

"The picture is horrific. Aisha’s beautiful eyes stare hauntingly back at you above the mangled hole that was once her nose. Some of my students could not even raise their eyes to look at it. I could see that many were experiencing deep emotions.

But I was not prepared for their reaction.

I had expected strong aversion; but that’s not what I got. Instead, they became confused. They seemed not to know what to think. They spoke timorously, afraid to make any moral judgment at all. They were unwilling to criticize any situation originating in a different culture.

They said, “Well, we might not like it, but maybe over there it’s okay.” One student said, “I don’t feel anything at all; I see lots of this kind of stuff .”

Another said (with no consciousness of self-contradiction), “It’s just wrong to judge other cultures.”

"While we may hope some are capable of bridging the gap between principled morality and this ethically vacuous relativism, it is evident that a good many are not. For them, the overriding message is “never judge, never criticize, never take a position.”

I bet he loses his job for that last line alone. Full page link here.

This is Bibi Aisha today. The surgery was performed by an evil Jew doctor.

Moments of Startling Clarity

Related: Out of the mouth of babes ... defeatism - Rondi Adamson

"Explain they did ... and all I can say is, out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained defeatism. Rather than the adorable youthful conviction that war is not the answer, these teens seemed sure of two things: 1) The United States is to blame for the anger and actions of Islamofascists, for "creating more enemies," and 2) War may be the answer, but since Islamofascists will always be two steps ahead of us, we're bound to lose."

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"An alert has been put out for a “non-Western-looking” suspect after the most recent attack."

Oslo on the uptake.

Downunder human rights case: "Mr Motahari was asked to resubmit his final assignment, a book review, four times, to be told each time it was not his work".

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My God but Erickson is a sickening whiner.

Thank Sdmatt for the vid.

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Tunisia secular, Islamist students clash on campus

They demanded a prayer room at the university? Tunisia is a muslim country and their universities don't have prayer rooms? Ours do.

h/t ds

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Egypt's Islamist parties at work on election day

"According to a source from the Judges Club, judicial supervisors observed an Islamist party representative intimidating a judge in 15 May district as well as voters attempting to break into a polling station where one of the judges was absent.

Al-Tahrir cites Al-Nakib Center for Training and Democracy Support as reporting that FJP representatives at one station coerced voters and ripped the ballots of those who did not cooperate."

Democrats at work on election day

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This makes sense:

And most of the arguments can apply to Canada too.

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Government regulators are all too often convinced that they know how we as individuals should live our lives and raise our children. At the same time most regulators are incredibly incompetent at getting people to do what they want.

Take this recent case in San Francisco as an example:

In order to include a toy with a meal, restaurants must now comply with city-generated nutritional standards. Those are standards that even the "healthier" Happy Meals McDonald's introduced earlier this year don't come close to meeting. (As SF Weekly noted in January, the school lunches our children eat aren't healthy enough to qualify, either).

And yet it seems McDonald's has turned lemons into lemonade -- and is selling the sugary drink to San Francisco's children. Local McDonald's employees tell SF Weekly the company has devised a solution that appears to comply with San Francisco's "Healthy Meal Incentive Ordinance" that could actually make the company more money -- and necessitate toy-happy youngsters to buy more Happy Meals.

It turns out San Francisco has not entirely vanquished the Happy Meal as we know it. Come Dec. 1, you can still buy the Happy Meal. But it doesn't come with a toy. For that, you'll have to pay an extra 10 cents.

It isn’t so much that they failed to force McDonald’s not to offer toys along with Happy Meals, that is funny enough but what really tickles me about this is how stupid the original premise is.

I remember loving Happy Meals as a child, but I don’t have any recollection of ever caring much about the crappy toys. At best I would play with the Happy Meal toys in the car ride home. If the toys didn’t come with the meals I don’t think I would have even noticed.

I suspect that I am not unique in this. Some children may have cared about the toys more than me, but I really doubt that many children liked the Happy Meals for the toys. The Happy Meals were good in of them selves. So the whole concept of stopping child obesity by forbidding toys be sold with unhealthy food is pretty much guaranteed to have a nil effect.

The fact that the policy failed even to stop the toys being sold with the meals is just icing on the cake.

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(AINA) -- "Thousands of Muslims attacked and besieged Copts in elGhorayzat village, population 80,000, killing two Copts and severely wounding others, as well as looting and torching homes and businesses. A quarrel between a Copt, John Hosni, and Mahmoud Abdel-Nazeer, who later died in hospital, turned into collective punishment of all Copts in the majority Christian village of elGhorayzat, in the Maragha district of Sohag province. Muslims vowed not to bury Abdel-Nazeer until John Hosni is punished. Mr. Hosni fled from the village with his family, "fearing a wholesale massacre of Copts," reported activist Mariam Ragy."

This happened on the 28th and received little attention due to the elections I suspect.

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"Tilman Nagel, an expert in Islam who appeared as a witness at an earlier court hearing, said that postponing midday prayers was acceptable if there was a good reason.

He also argued that the Islamic ritual of praying undertaken with other people was very different to the Christian private act of praying, and was thus disruptive in a public space."

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In other new's TIFF honours a child rapist with a film retrospective
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The genteel sport of Cage Fighting get's a Black Eye

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Video obtained exclusively by The Daily Caller shows Illinois Senator Barack Obama, then campaigning for Democrats before the 2006 midterm elections, praising Reverend Jeremiah Wright and telling an audience that he “stole” the title of his book “The Audacity of Hope” from Wright’s sermon of the same name, which he “loved.” Obama also referred to Wright as “my pastor.”

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"Our children are being indoctrinated to think that a lot of depraved behaviour that goes under the cloak of "Gay Lifestyle" is something that they can experiment with and claim as their own natural feelings. The aggressiveness with which the gay lobby is trying to push their agenda is not making them any new friends .... quite the contrary.

RightSideNews has an article today talking about this issue and mention is made about how the Gay Agenda has taken hold of the Canadian schools' mandate."

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"Asked if the Jewish community would benefit from the retention of Section 13, Fogel stated: “What was intended as a shield against hate has become a sword. Certainly in its day, it was helpful in confronting the challenges related to the likes of [Holocaust denier] Ernst Zundel… What it has really done is create difficulties for those who might legitimately want to raise questions about groups or ideas that in fact are a threat to the Jewish community or Israel.

In effect, the act has become an instrument to chill critical debate about important issues like radical Islam.”

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The grits might have had the stuffing kicked out of them but they are not giving up!

Despite premature obituaries by many political pundits, the party appears to be on the move. Organizational they have been holding cross country conversations with supporters and fundraising campaigns have improved dramatically. It appears that they have finally realized that grassroots supporters are the key to

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Why the hell are we a member of the U.N.? Anyone?

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The province's New Democrat's are calling on the Offshore Oil Industry to reconsider how it schedules it's workers.

NDP Labour Critic Dale Kirby (MHA, St. John’s North) is "demanding" that
government look at introducing a safer work rotation for offshore
employees. He says research proves that shorter work rotations make for safer workplaces.

His logic is sound, "Our oil industry workers are

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and now I'm as happy as can be...

h/t d9

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Obama. Doing his utmost to destroy America.

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Wow, another month is in the trash bin of my life.

I had really not realized that today was the last day of November until I arrived at Virginia Park Elementary for the breakfast program. No volunteers for tomorrow, a reminder that I have to get the December schedule posted and e-mailed to volunteers.

December is going to be a busy month. Just thinking of the chaos ahead has me a bit frazzled

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"It’s time – way past time – to stop the tail from wagging the dog.

The latest confrontation between the United States and Pakistan underscores the futility of working with an “ally” that is hell-bent not on saving Afghanistan as an independent country but on taking it over with China’s backing as U.S., Canadian and other foreign soldiers leave by 2014.

In the geopolitical sweep of Asia, Pakistan is not a friend of the West but a nuclear-armed enemy that can cause huge damage to stability and democracy in the Indian subcontinent."

Almost surprised to see this in the Globe.

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"He was coming toward us and my friend said he looked like a hunter so I asked him in English, 'Are you a hunter?' He said something in Arabic, which I didn't understand. Then he said 'Allahu Akbar' [God is Great]."

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CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood was leading in initial, partial results from Egypt's parliamentary elections but it was facing stiff competition in many places both from more hard-line Islamic groups and from a liberal-secular alliance, judges overseeing counting said Wednesday.

What a surprise!

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Bigot Michael Erickson: lead writer on TDSB gay resource guide

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Black Peter was lynched by political correctness in British Columbia this week.

New Westminster Sinterklaas event cancelled due to Black Peter concerns

"Roger Jones complained to organizers about the character, Zwarte Piet or Black Peter, who accompanies Sinterklaas. Those playing the Black Peter role would apply black makeup to their faces which for Jones conjured up images of American minstrel shows that used the technique to portray African slaves. Many Dutch residents say the characters' black face is due to soot from coming down the chimney, and should not be confused with the racist American tradition."

Oh Look these poor children have internalized White Dutch Racism!

Here we see the annual race riots that accompany Dutch Sinterklaas Celebrations

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Backround Article -Same sex adoption is not a game: "Experimenting on children by permitting adoption by same sex couples poses serious problems. Children have a right to and a need for parenting by both a father and a mother. This need should be recognized by the state and by professional groups as far more important than an adult’s supposed right to adopt.

The views presented here are based on extensive social science research and scholarship, on my clinical experience as a psychiatrist that includes consulting with adoptive and foster children for several years, treating adoptive children for almost 35 years, writing about their treatment in a textbook for the American Psychological Association (1) and as the father of three adopted daughters."

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"I'm 56 now in August...for 43 years I've

either been going to school,
or in the law

business and the 13 years in politics..

So after
43 years I think I'd like to sit back

for a couple of months, and
decide if it's

going to be retirement pasture, or maybe

some opportunity
will come by."

Retiring Kelvin Parsons

June 13, 2011

CBC

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h/t Vardit

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"The CBC's action was an irresponsible representation

of the Board's openess at best and reprehensible in its

reporting of false information at worst. It is a disservice

to the public and those working offshore and

their families."

David Wells

CNLOPB

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His ability to go straight to the heart of an issue is truly amazing. As good of an economist as he was, his true greatness was his ability to communicate.

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Shades of Jimmah!

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In response to a survey that says Canadians don’t feel they have the time to work out, the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada seems to want people to view exercise as an investment. If you spend time working out you will ultimately gain more time by living longer. Like any investment, however, this is not without risk.

This is the basic calculation that the HSFC wants us to make:

This includes getting 150 minutes per week of moderate to vigorous exercise, which the foundation said can reduce the risk of heart disease, stroke, high blood pressure and diabetes by 30 per cent. On the other hand, inactivity can shave four years off a person's lifespan, it said.

On the surface this looks like a good deal. Working out 150 minutes a week from the age of 20 and 80 amounts to a little less of a year in total and for that you get an extra 4 years of life. If only my other investments could match such a return.

Of course the 4 years claim is likely based on actuary data which means that it is an average over the general population. For you as an individual the results are far more variable than the claim would have you believe. After all there are other factors at work besides exercising. Genetics and other environmental factors play an important role. It is possible that you work out religiously from a young age and still die of a heart disease at the age of 50.

Furthermore there are a lot of other things you can die of. You don’t get any return on your investment if you get hit by a car and break your neck.

I don’t say this to imply that exercise is not worth the time or effort. I merely point out that the long term benefits might not be worth the time or effort (personally I put greater stock in the short term benefits of exercise). It probably is worth it but we should understand that there is what economists call a knowledge problem; as an individual I don’t know how beneficial exercise will be for me.

This is important to keep in mind because too often governments make policies on the misguided notion that encouraging people to exercise would be universally beneficial. Governments should allow individuals to make their own choices and take their own risks.

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“Homeless and at-risk youth need

educational and employment training

and
opportunities and stable, secure

housing to help them to grow into

independent, self-sufficient, contributing

members of society.”

Raising the Roof 2009 report

“Youth Homelessness in Canada:

The Road to Solutions”

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The national

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Last week's record breaking snowfall may be in the record books but the whiners are still gusting on about it!

If anyone wants check the archives of P&P you would find a number of posts about the need for the City to do a better job of clearing sidewalks in the winter. I am all for a good fight. I am all for a good cause. I am all for
keeping pressure on council to ensure that our city's

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Et Tu Brute Eh?

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I am sick of this minority parliament. I'm sure it is the opposition coalition of the Liberals, socialists and separatists are forcing Harper to make decisions like this: Minister of Agriculture defends protectionist policies in the poultry and milk industries. We need a stable majority government so that we can start standing up for free trade.

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"How ironic, then, that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton would travel to Libya, as she did this past October, to announce a U.S. foreign aid package to the country. When she arrived, she was greeted by "revolutionaries" in Tripoli, the capital of Libya, where the head of the LIFG and ex-Guantanamo Bay inmate, Abdul Hakim Belhadj, is presently the commander of the Tripoli Military Council, and another Islamist, Osama al-Juwaili, is the head of the Libyan Defense Ministry. Essentially, the entire military apparatus for Libya is, today, controlled by Islamists."

Wonderful.

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"The CBC panellist had a solution to the common complaint that the broadcaster competes for private ad dollars -- give the corporation more tax dollars."

Sounds like a punch line.

Ezra Levant: It’s time to sell the state broadcaster

"I heard that authoritarian streak several times in the debate. Marie-France Bazzo, a former CBC host, said that in a democracy such as Canada, there are too many voices — and they need someone to sort through them and filter them. Not surprisingly, that someone would be her and her CBC friends. She said the CBC was a “way to structure society.”

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On November 28, the opportunity that the Muslim Brotherhood has waited for since 1928 came. The first round of elections in Egypt took place, and although the results are not yet in, the Brotherhood’s mammoth political operation blew away its competitors. A Brotherhood spokesman was honest about what the group seeks: “The Sharia, the Muslim legal framework, must be the foundation for everything.”

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"Perhaps aboriginal televisions run on some mystical power other than electricity, because I noticed that the numerous children in two of the shacks were staring at working TVs."

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Please forgive me Sailor Moon.

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Go watch. h/t Minicapt

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Opposition Leader Yvonne Jones has reportedly gone with experience in filling the top unelected job in her office.

The deadline for interested individuals to apply for the job of chief of staff was Friday, November 25th, but the acting leader has apparently handed the job to a former colleague.

Rumor has it that former Liberal Cabinet Minister, Opposition House Leader and recently

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Trying to silence freedom of speech

"Michael Erickson, a high school teacher in Toronto and a candidate for the New Democrats in the last federal election has petitioned the board of directors of our parent company Quebecor, the Canadian Broadcaster Standards Council and the Advertising Standards Council over our decision to air an ad that he doesn’t like.

The ad, from the Institute for Canadian Values, is against the introduction of the McGuinty government’s graphic sex-ed curriculum."

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Aren't you grateful to know that Citizenship and Immigration is a wise steward of your tax dollars in these tough times?

Need proof? Look no further than London Ontario's Cross Cultural Learning Centre, which is hosting a Christmas dinner, (see Sat. Dec 10 event listing), featuring "Affra-Tighty" who I am guessing is representative of core Canadian values and hence a fine example to all. Funded of course by Citizenship & Immigration via a generous dollop of your tax dollars.

Thank you Mr. Government!

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Scaramouche has the details.

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Criminal Stupidity.

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"Without a doubt, the man, who performed the sentence and pleased the Muslims, will receive a great gift from the Almighty. Let the enemies of Islam know that decent young people will not allow anyone to humiliate Islam’s holy values and realize the intrigues of world imperialism and Zionism, and will punish those who betray their religion for their shameful acts."

Animals.

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This site, The Union Of Islamic World Students, based in Tehran has an entire section devoted to "Caricature of Zionism", like the one at left, more here.

The Union Of Islamic World Students links directly to the Ahul Bayt Assembly of Canada.

The Ahul Bayt Assembly was founded and is still run by Sayyid Muhammad Rizvi and links directly to the Islamic Shia Ithna-Asheri Jamaat of Toronto where Rizvi is the resident Maulana. Rizvi is also one of the principles behind CASMO - the David Duke lovers.

The Ahul Bayt Assembly also links directly to Al-Islam.org, a branch of the International parent Ahul Bayt organization which is run and funded by Iran.

Al-Islam.org contains a book dealing with Islamic marital morality authored by Sayyid Muhammad Rizvi "Marriage and Morals in Islam".

Here's an excerpt: Sexual desire is aroused in human beings at the age of puberty. In Islamic legal definition puberty (bulugh) is determined by one of the following:

1. age: fifteen lunar years for boys and nine lunar years for girls;
2. internal change (in boys only): The first nocturnal emission. Semen accumulates in the testicles from puberty onwards and more semen may be formed than the system can assimilate; when this happens, semen is expelled during the sleep. This is known as nocturnal emission wet dream or ihtlam in Arabic.
3. physical change: Growth of coarse hair on lower part of abdomen.

Since the sexual urge begins at puberty and as Islam says that sexual urge should be fulfilled only through marriage, it has allowed marriage as soon as the boy and the girl reach the age of puberty. In the case of girls, it not only allows them to be married as soon as they become mature, but also recommends such marriage. It is based on such teachings that Islam discourages girls from postponing their marriage because of education; instead, it says that girls should get married and then continue their education if they wish to do so."

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Never once does Rizvi condemn the prospect of a 9 year old marrying, he does make allowance for "maturity" but goes on to recommend that either parents & or the community encourage & financially support juvenile marriage. Isn't multiculturalism grand?

That's a pic of Barbara Hall chief inquisitor of the Ontario Human Rights Commission celebrating the diversity of child marriage with the good Maulana.

For all your Jihad inquiries check out Al-Islam.org's "Questions About Jihad" section. This will put you in the mood to celebrate our mosaic of diversity.

C- Jezyah?

"The third question relates to the word jezyah or tribute. We are told to fight them until they pay the jezyah, which means until they either accept Islam or pay the jezyah. In the Quran there is no doubt that a difference has been maintained between the People of the Book and the polytheists, or mushrikin, those who formally worship idols and do not follow any holy book.

Nowhere in the Quran are we told to fight the mushrikin until they pay the jezyah, and to fight them no more once they have paid it. Concerning the People of the Book, however, we are told that once they are willing to pay the jezyah, we are to fight them no longer. This is a difference that clearly exists."

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The bagpipes are blowing from the Cape Breton Highlands down into the Annapolis Valley!

The Newfoundland and Labrador Government and the Government of Nova Scotia has signed a memorandum of understanding regarding access to thousands of jobs and hundreds of millions of dollars in
contracts related to the Lower Churchill hydroelectric project.

The agreement gives Newfoundland and Labrador

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You don't get much more reputable than Deloitte. Just like the international consulting company Navigant, which found Nalcor's plans for
Muskrat Falls are better than other energy
alternatives that it could have explored. These companies reputations are beyond reproach. You can safely bet the family farm that they are not cooking the books.

How independent was this report on processing

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Yay!

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"Don't Vote White" I hope something is lost in translation...

Poste de Veille introduced us to two French blogs, fdesouche & Bivouac-ID

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"This is the biggest gift ever.

This is our Christmas gift.

The house
and just getting

all the family together,"

Nancy Cole

CBC News.

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RCMP PHOTO

The Elliston family that lost their uninsured home to a fire on Mother's Day moved into their new home over the weekend.

The family of elevens new home was

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Sid Ryan, Union Ass, is...Surprise!...alienating other unions who are withholding dues to the Ontario Federation of Labour.

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With only three days remaining in November, yesterday's wildly popular Downtown Christmas Parade provided a great kick-off for the Christmas season. My boys joined 70,000 other people who lined Duckworth and Water Street to watch the procession of floats, marching bands and other participants waiting for a glimpse of Santa Claus.

Yesterday was also the first Sunday of Advent. Liam, Aidan and

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"Less than one week after being evicted from St. James Park, a small group of Occupy Toronto protesters has quietly moved into a downtown building and constructed barricades inside."

Brick them in.

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Today's election is just the first of a 6 stage process that will linger into January. If anyone ever suggests an alternative to 1st past the post tell em no thanks.

Not a bad guide to Egypt's many political parties Keep your eye on the Al-Tahaluf al-Islami - the Islamist Alliance whose players are the Freedom & Justice Party aka The Muslim Brotherhood and various Salafist parties. They'll take the majority in today's vote.

Al Jazeera Live Blogs

Iran News Now Is Live Blogging ...News and Views from the Iran Wide Web;)

Live Streaming Video from a variety of sources

#egyelections twitter feed

#Egypt twitter feed

Muslim Brotherhood sure of election victory in Egypt

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"An Egyptian girl holds an anti-Israel banner during a protest at al Azhar mosque, the highest Islamic Sunni institution, after Friday prayers in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Nov. 25, 2011. The Muslim brotherhood demonstration was to denounce Israeli control over Jerusalem's Al Aqsa Mosque, one of the holiest sites in Islam. Arabic and Hebrew reads " Death for Israel". (Amr Nabil)"

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The results of an on-line poll on the CBC Newfoundland and Labrador website regarding safety of offshore drilling got me to thinking that the villianization of the industry has really really gotten out of control.

There appears to be a bias in the media - across the board - towards amplifying negative news about the industry into headlines. In short, the industry has become an easy target where

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LAHORE: The ulema of different schools of thought are discussing whether a fatwa for jihad should be issued against NATO and ISAF forces after a deadly attack on a Pakistan army checkpost.

Bring it on Mullahs.

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...and the benefits of Christian civilization.

Speaking of Christian civilization...

h/t ma & d9

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Heh:) Good fun.

Tweet of the day goes to Iowahawk:

"David Frum threatening to quit the GOP is like Dr. Smith threatening to quit the crew of Lost In Space"

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Hooked On Phonics Gold....Cannabis camp-out.

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Islam can never be said to flourish in the proper sense of that word. Fester is more appropriate.

The Fraud of Islam

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Shocking! h/t Minicapt

Old rules provide new amusement... "There were 10 rules for girls to follow to prepare them for married life. The first rule was "Have dinner ready." Plan ahead, even the night before, to have a delicious meal on time. This is a way of letting him know you have been thinking of him and are concerned about his needs. Most men are hungry when they come home, and the prospect of a good meal is part of the warm welcome needed."

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"On the eve of the Egyptian election, I’m really disgusted with the collapse of the moderate forces. While the Muslim Brotherhood is disciplined, united, working hard, and on message, the moderates are running around in circles. There is not the slightest sign of unity among the three main moderate parties (Wafd, Justice, and Free Egyptians) and the dozens of smaller ones.

Consider that instead of putting their energy into organizing, uniting, and getting out the vote, they are engaged in thoroughly useless demonstrations in Tahrir Square.

What is the goal of these demonstrations?"

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Yes, it’s true that:

The Shafia girls were likely the victims, not only of a crime, but of our perverse national habit: We emphasize multicultural propriety more than the welfare of individual human beings. And this goes triple for Muslims.
That’s the background that shapes the day-to-day policies of teachers, social workers and even police. It makes them overly anxious to conciliate, to mollify. It disarms their best instincts and prevents them from doing what they would want to do: Get potential victims out of danger.
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But Canadians (although not just Canadians) have another “perverse national habit”:
Working for the government and for might-as-well-be-government agencies like the police, education and the “helping” professions. All of which offer employees juicy benefits, which they’d lose if they didn’t keep their heads down.

Corbella: Here's hoping cultural relativism gets a life sentence

As far as Homa Arjomand is concerned, official multiculturalism belongs in the prisoners' box along with three Ontarians on trial for the honour killings of four female family members.

"If Canadian children - and by that I mean children who are born here to Canadian-born parents - approached child welfare authorities with the stories of fear and abuse that these girls did, then the child welfare workers would not have hesitated to take them to a safe place and start legal proceedings against the parents," adds Arjomand.

So, is it a kind of racism that helped do in the three girls and woman?

Arjomand takes a while to answer that. Official multi-culturalism tells immigrants that when they come to Canada they can keep their own culture - that their culture has as much right and validity as the Canadian culture, she explains.

"In Canada's attempt to be tolerant of all people what ends up happening is they are tolerant of intolerable things. They hold newcomers to a lower standard and expect less of them, rather than teaching them Canadian values before they come here, so they understand," adds Arjomand."

Related: The Arlene Bynon Show - Academic Pinhead apologist for Islam weighs in on the Shafia Murders...

Thank Sdmatt for the vid

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The Birth Of 'Ethical Oil'

"I started doing this math, trying to quantify ethics," Levant says. For example, using United Nations estimates of the number of people killed in Darfur and the Energy Information Agency's estimate of oil produced in Sudan, he calculated "how many millilitres of blood (there is) per barrel of oil in Sudan."

Read on

The Coming Oil-Shale Revolution

In terms of reserves, it is estimated that conventional sources across the world can yield around 1.2 trillion barrels, while in the United States alone, anywhere between 500 billion and 1.1 trillion barrels are thought to be recoverable from oil shale. An immediately astonishing observation to draw is the low-end of the estimates for U.S. oil shale, which is still around twice as large as Saudi Arabia's total reserves.

What makes this issue particularly relevant now is the emergence of reports on a potential breakthrough in oil shale extraction technology. Traditionally, extraction of oil shale has required the use of a method known as "fracking," or "hydraulic fracturing"
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The Green Thing...

In the line at the supermarket, the cashier told an older woman that she should bring her own grocery bags because plastic bags weren't good for the environment.

The woman apologized to him and explained, "We didn't have the green thing back in my day."

The clerk responded, "That's our problem today. Your generation did not care enough to save our environment."

He was right -- our generation didn't have the green thing in its day.

Back then, we returned milk bottles, pop bottles and beer bottles to the source. They sent them back to the plant to be washed, sterilized and refilled and re-used. So it could use the same bottles over and over. So they weren't recycled ( until they broke ) they were re-used.

But we didn't have the green thing back in our day...

h/t Miss Trixie

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Watch the vid when Oskar gets his first toys

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and who could forget Burqa babe...

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Social Justice Means Left Wing Equality - Communism

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"A worker who claims she was the victim of a race-hate campaign by fundamentalist Muslims because of her Christian beliefs has launched a landmark case against her former employers.
Nohad Halawi, a saleswoman at Heathrow Airport's World Duty Free shop, said she and other Christian staff were systematically harassed by Muslims."

She alleged the intimidation included:

Bullying a friend at the airport for wearing crosses.
Muslims telling her she would go to hell if she didn't convert.
A Muslim colleague insisting she read the Koran. And;
That Jews were responsible for the September 11 terrorist attacks.

h/t d9

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Bye Bye Aztec Sapphic Studies...

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Jihadi Video from Somalia, narrated in English.

Genç Mücahitler Hareketi (Şebab)Kenya... by elifmedya

11 million of your dollars went to Somalia last year.

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The UK is set to pour up to £1 billion of taxpayers money into helping African countries fight climate change.

Now that's stupid.

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Big Narcissism has a Christmas message for this nation’s poor and needy. Drop dead:

h/t MiniCapt

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Well I couldn't agree more.

Very related - Robert Fulford: Too much sensitivity doomed the Shafia girls h/t Uncle Meat

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Germany hosts the New Nazis, a reprise from 2009 of an infamous Gaza march.

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Oh Wait...

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So much...

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h/t Denyse

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And this is reader Munimula's gang!

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"But many schools have been accused, rightly or wrongly, of simply paying lip service to the consultation process; sending out letters which ‘play down’ the content of proposed classes and holding meetings at inconvenient times for mums and dads."

Sound Familiar?

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Kids Can’t Sit on Santa’s Lap

This is a billboard ad by the Metro Chain of grocery stores. What's the message? Keep Christmas a secret?

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For a change...

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The Other McCain has the story behind Angie Vazquez and her band, Los Vazquez Sounds

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Alan Shanoff

"It appears Section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act will be repealed now that we have a majority Conservative government in Ottawa.

That’s a censorship law making it illegal to use the Internet to communicate hate speech. While no reasonable person is in favour of hate speech, Section 13 has several fatal flaws.

Its application is subjective — where do you draw the line between legitimate, albeit crude, opinion and intolerable hate speech? There’s no defence of truth or fair comment. Decisions are rendered by so-called human-rights experts, rather than judges, using very relaxed rules of evidence.

Anybody who feels offended by the communication may file a complaint and initiate proceedings."

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Arab hate: A Muslim Brotherhood rally in Cairo's most prominent mosque Friday turned into a venomous anti-Israel protest, with attendants vowing to "one day kill all Jews."

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"A benefits fraudster who claimed he was bed-ridden yet was filmed dancing at a wedding has been jailed.

Mohamed Bouzalim, 37, cheated the authorities out of nearly £400,000, Isleworth Crown Court heard.

He will serve nearly seven years for 11 counts of deception, fraud and assisting illegal entry into the UK. The court heard he had also falsely claimed asylum saying he was an Afghan who had been tortured by the Taliban when in fact he was from Morocco."

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That's no way to go through life Michael Erickson.

Trying to silence freedom of speech

"Michael Erickson, a high school teacher in Toronto and a candidate for the New Democrats in the last federal election has petitioned the board of directors of our parent company Quebecor, the Canadian Broadcaster Standards Council and the Advertising Standards Council over our decision to air an ad that he doesn’t like.

The ad, from the Institute for Canadian Values, is against the introduction of the McGuinty government’s graphic sex-ed curriculum."

Watch the vid, Erickson is a total Asshat. Brian Lilley has the rest.

Here's the Ad and all you'll ever need to know about the Asswipe in question.

More at: Clay & Water , Mesopotamia West, Vlad Tepes, VanG, Wintery Knight , Theo Spark, 1389 , FiveFeetOfFury, Blogwrath, Freedo, I own the world, Zilla! & Xanthippa , DodoCanSpell and more to come

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Jason Kenney: Section 13 Has Been Clearly Abused

Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism Jason Kenney on Section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act.

Section 13: "has been abused by people seeking to shutdown freedom of expression without due process or natural justice"

Thank Sdmatt for the Vid

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Dodo has the video.

Just a matter of time before British Columbia Supreme Court declared Islamophobic

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Source: Today I found out

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Sinz and her cameraman were attacked in the square on Thursday. She says several youths and men tore off her clothes and beat her, humiliating her in a way that she claims could be considered rape. After almost an hour, other Egyptians came to her rescue...

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"But perhaps most shocking was the advice in the booklet that if they happened to be HIV-positive it was completely up to them to decide whether to inform any sexual partner of their condition."

I'm not sure I want to see the patch Girl Scouts earn for this.

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"Perhaps one of the most horrifying aspects of this situation is not that people who knew the girls and the family are saying “we didn’t know” (that’s bad enough), but that bureaucrats and police officers are candidly admitting they knew, but they were too afraid of acting and offending cultural sensibilities!"

Who made these choices for you and me?

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As Black Mamba suggests, she'd be a prime catch for Sun News.

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“If our enemy has his own myth of ruling all the land between the River Nile and the Al-Forat River, we have a promise by God to win this battle,” Al-Mahdy said. “Everyone should know that Al-Aqsa is a red line,” he added.

Attendees chanted “Our beloved Aqsa, your sun will never set,” “Egyptians have said it, Al-Aqsa is a main demand,” and “Islam regains its pride or we die as martyrs.”

Abdel Rahman Al-Mor, member of the Muslim Brotherhood’s advisory bureau, said the most important step to a free Palestine is to prepare the young generation for the upcoming battle.

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"Since Obama came into office, he has followed the Left's ideological guidelines of ending the fight against and seeking to appease America's worst enemies. This is why he has supported the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. This is why he turned a blind eye to the Islamists who dominated the opposition to Gaddafi. This is why he has sought to appease Iran and Syria. This is why he supports the Muslim Brotherhood-dominated Syrian opposition. This is why he supports Turkey's Islamist government. And this is why he is hostile to Israel."

Reap the whirlwind indeed.

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Some kids can be so cruel. Bullying, violence and harassment are unacceptable at school and in the workforce. Bullying has always been around but it appears to be more serious than it was a few decades ago. The best thing that a parent can do to make sure that their children do
not become victims or bullies is to talk about how serious a problem
this is.

My oldest fella is the agitator. He

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The Star is cheer leading the return of Sharia Law to Valley Park Middle School and the TDSB remains blissfully complicit in the subjugation of young girls.

The comments are the real story however.

h/t ds

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"QUEBEC, November 24, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Nearly a year after the Quebec government banned religion from the province’s subsidized daycares, they have signaled that they will extend the directive into daycares run in private homes."

Note that the Quebec directive extends only to those home based Daycare's receiving government funding.

Meanwhile in Ontario...The City of Windsor, under the auspices of the Ministry of Community & Social Services, subsidizes the operation of a daycare that provides an "Islamic Curriculum".

"We serve children from all faiths and nationalities. With that in mind, we try our best to accmommodate the needs of the children with the approval of the parents.

The Islamic studies are amied towards the children with the muslim faith. This curriculum includes teachings of the Islamic faith and culture.

Are there any Baptist Daycare's receiving a subsidy? How about a Wiccan daycare? Seriously, I just don't know at this point.

h/t BBW & Dodo

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"The composition of jobs is getting worse,

namely you have more jobs in low-paying jobs,"

Benjamin Tal

CIBC ECONOMIST -

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Misery loves company, or at least it is comforting to know you are not alone.

A new study released by Stats Canada indicates that workers are failing to keep
pace with the

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That's a 10 year old girl. Her school was blown up by the Taliban.

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Kelly Egan authored a column in the Ottawa Citizen that claims that “ordinary people” don’t want pot legalized. I suppose it Egan world “ordinary” is the minority of people because fifty-three per cent of people do want it legalized. I’m pretty sure that 1 or 2 of that fifty-three per cent are parents, and so I feel comfortable saying that at least some parents want it legalized.

That’s not good enough for Ms. Egan. You see, she has “eyes” and her “eyes” tell her that at least one parent doesn’t want it legal, and of course that means that no parents want it legal.

You know all that academic evidence that prohibition is bad for individuals and society? That doesn’t matter!

Ordinary people are not going to read academic studies, unravel complex science on addictions or solve a harm benefit equation.

They are probably going to ask themselves: Would you buy a bag of weed and give it to your teenager?

My parents wouldn’t buy me alcohol when I was a teenager, therefore alcohol should be prohibited by the state. Try to parse that as a logical argument if you dare.

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Background: 'It doesn't matter if you're Jewish, Arab straight or lesbian': Israeli women strip in support of nude Egyptian blogger"

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Or just a Sour Puss?

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Head of Section Hanna Norum Eliassen tells Dagsavisen, “Ethnic Norwegian pupils quit and applied to other schools last year and the year before. Some expressed loneliness at being “white” Norwegians, resulting in classes consisting of even more pupils from a minority background. Consequently, we lost some of the diversity we, students, and ethnic minority parents wanted.”

“It was a difficult, but responsible decision to keep the ethnic Norwegian students more united,” she continues, defending the choice by saying, “after much discussion and consideration, we ultimately took the difficult decision to place 14 ethnic Norwegians in the first two classes, but none in the third. It has led to fewer Norwegian students dropping out.”

h/t Islam vs Europe

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It turns out that the caution warnings on Tylenol labels regarding maximum dosages should be adhered to.

I am one of those people that just pop a couple when I need them, which is not very often. However over the last couple of days I have had to ingest anti-inflammatories, Tylenol and another prescription drug. This got me to thinking about dosage amounts and how drugs interact with each other.

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Gee I'm all broke up about this guy's fate.

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He looks like Pip.

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"FrontPage’s Interview’s guest today is Deborah Weiss, an attorney, freelance writer and public speaker. A 9/11 survivor of WTC attacks in NYC, she formerly worked for the Committee on House Oversight in Congress and the Office of the Corporation Counsel under Giuliani. She is currently President of Vigilance, Inc., and is an expert in OIC UN resolutions. She has written a chapter in the new book, Saudi Arabia and the Global Islamic Terrorist Network: America and the West’s Fatal Embrace."

Will Obama let Saudi Arabia fall? I'm betting in a New York Minute, here's the interview.

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And not just for this clever ad...

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Update: Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics - this ought to be good

With court on their side, Tories seek overhaul of CBC disclosure law

“Access to Information requests are levied against government departments all the time and nobody feels that is an attack on those departments,” he said. “Those are not attacks. Those are requests that are seeking transparency.”

Pic by reader Gama

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Federal Court Judge Michel Shore dismissed Christopher Bennett’s claim that, for him, marijuana is a holy sacrament and thus him smoking it is protected under the Charter as a freedom of religion. Judge Shore said that Mr. Bennett’s pot smoking is a “life style choice.” Yes it is a life style choice, but so are all religions.

A person must decide to belong to a religion. Even if they are born into that religion they are still given a choice at some point in their life (at least in this society). Some religions require a very strict commitment and others are more liberal, but there is no religion in the world that doesn’t come with a particular life style. This makes being a member of a religion a life style choice, the same as being a pot head or being a hipster is a life style choice.

So why would being religious be a life style that is particularly protected?

At least on the surface it would appear that belonging to a particular religion is the choice that has led to the most discrimination in history. It wasn’t until the early 19th century that the British allowed Catholics to be public employees and it doesn’t take much education to think of much more horrific discriminations based on religion. There is, however, another life style choice that has been more consistently discriminated against than belonging to any religion, and that is atheism.

It wasn’t until very recently that someone could be an atheist openly and not fear public ire at best and horrible death at worst. Yet we have no specific protection for atheists beyond the normal protection of freedom of expression.

There are other less notable examples that also don’t receive special comment in the constitution. For example, at a certain time in Russian history bearded men were legally discriminated against. There is no provision anywhere in the charter that assures beard growers that this will never happen in Canada, besides of course the same assurance that the baby faced among us have in the section referring to the freedom of expression.

It is puzzling to me why, if freedom of expression is enough to protect atheists and beards, the choice of religion would need special mention. If the purpose of the constitution is to ensure that people can live their lives as they wish (within reasonable limits) then why does one particular set of choices need extra protection? Why should the individual’s reason behind the choices he/she make have any significance?

In a truly free society Mr. Bennett should not have had to justify his life through religion. All he should have had to say is “it is my choice and I am not hurting anyone.” Case shut.

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Giant snowmen tower over the snowbanks along my cul-de-sac, testament to the fun the children had with the first major snowfall of the 2011-2012 winter season.

The road remains a narrow lane where the plow managed to cut a path earlier in the day. I am not looking forward to its return to finish the job. The snow is now hard packed and wet. The stuff that makes for busy days for chiropractors. I

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Accompanying article ... be sure to read the comments.

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Students of Canadian politics, particularly Liberals, should seek out this weeks edition of Macleans magazine.

The combination of Andrew Coyne's column, and an excerpt from Peter Newman's new book, make for some thought provoking reading.

Coyne argues that the Liberals have an opportunity to re-invent themselves.

He speaks to the many reasons the "big tent approach" has failed, the diminishing

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... yet:

The dispute over federal crime legislation has, in the Quebec legislature, become a proxy battle for whether the province really belongs in Canada.

Premier Jean Charest found himself forced to defend the merits of Canadian federalism Wednesday from opponents eager to make political hay over Bill C-10.

His opposition, the pro-independence Parti Quebecois, has been citing disputes lately with the new Conservative majority government as evidence Quebec and Canada don't really belong in the same country.

First off, I'm surprised the piggies lift their heads from the Canada provided trough long enough to snort out a comment ... least of all frame the debate into an anti-Canada rant.

Second ... please oh please give up on Canada ... the cost of pig feed is killing us. Quebec offers Canada little but angst, debt, and the surliest bunch of whining wankers this side of the Middle East.

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A little Demerol is the cat's ass after a few hours of excruciating pain resulting from the blockage of ones urinary tract by a renal calculus or kidney stone. I belong to the statistically improbable demographic of people with recurring kidney stone problems

On a nearly regular basis, about once a year, I get to enjoy the pain of childbirth, minus the naming process.

They solution to this

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I am not a huge fan of cell phones. They make me feel like I am on a leash. With three kids and the hectic schedule that goes with it, they have become a bit of a necessity.

My old phone went on the fritz necessitating a replacement. I wanted something simple. Despite my love of technology, smart phones are not on my list of Peter friendly products. My stubby fat fingers are just not

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Canada's new best friend ... China:

No one's telling Russia it has to make cars that plug into walls or put windmills atop the Kremlin. Instead, the West will probably just keep kicking Canada until its own toes bleed.

Hot Air weighs in.

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So much to blog about, so little time.

Instead of a half-baked diatribe on Martin Sullivan's prescription for the NL Fisheries, or a rant about this study on early childhood education that gave Newfoundland and Labrador the lowest grade of any province or territory in the country, I am going to post some funny pictures that were forwarded to me.

The Liberals could learn from the Pandas!

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... we told you they'd strike ... and now the snake is coiling:

That this is the final stage of an EU take over cannot be emphasised strongly enough. A country which cannot issue its own budget, where its financial decisions of subject to an over-ride by a supreme power, is no longer an independent country.

Not for nothing did we, in our discussion of increasing the power of citizens over their governments, recommend an annual referendum on the budget – on the premise that he who controls the budget controls the government.

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... otherwise those damn realists will win the debate:

Should this period of climate stability continue then the sceptics will publicise it and insist that global warming is a myth and many politicians and much of the public will believe them. Success for the sceptics will mean that no action will be taken to curb greenhouse gas emissions.

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"We won't allow them to treat us like fools....

Nuclear deterrent forces aren't a joke."

Dmitry Medvedev

President of the Russian Federation

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The language sounds eerily familiar. A Russian leader threatening to deploy missiles to target the U.S. missile shield in Europe. No this is not a throwback to the

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Tis the season..the Christmas shopping season.

The weather is cooling down meaning more time in the house. Games are lots of fun for families and friends and can teach or reinforce many
valuable skills. Maths, vocabulary, spelling, reading, strategic thinking,
planning, probability, puzzle solving and memory can all be improved through
game playing. And the social interaction from

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The mother load ... here.

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... that's about all that believers in Mann have:

A tree only grows on land. That excludes 70% of the earth covered by water. A tree does no grow on ice. A tree does not grow in a desert. A tree does not grow on grassland-savannahs. A tree does not grow in alpine areas. A tree does not grow in the tundra We are left with perhaps 15% of the planet upon which forests grow/grew. That does not make any studies from tree rings global, or even hemispheric.

One must admit though, that the sheep herders who have perpetuated the Global Warming scam really had a good run ... amazing when you come to think of it. But really, how hard is it to herd sheep?

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The first big dump of snow for much of the Eastern region of Newfoundland is on-route. Kids are crossing their fingers hoping for a snow day (as are teachers), folks are checking the belts on their snowblowers and digging out shovels.

Environment Canada is predicting some nasty weather tonight and tommorow. winter storm warnings for the Burin and southern Avalon peninsulas. Winter storm

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THE DOCTOR

The trend towards bigger bootay with the help of cosmetic surgery is bizarre enough, but for some women in Florida the desire to rival Byonce, at a discount, may be lethal.

Oneal Ron
Morris promised
buttocks enhancement at discount prices. An incredible deal for the bum deficient. The catch...Morris injected
women's behinds with cement, superglue, and tire sealant!

Morris

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... Oh My:

There’s an embedded archive file called all.7z which contains thousands of additional emails and files.

The 7zip archiver in which this is stored uses 256 bit AES encryption. It’s a tough nut to crack.

“FOIA” chose this most likely because there are no effective tools for 7zip, while there seem to be many for standard .zip and .RAR files.

[...]

But supposing he then sent the passphrase to Phil Jones and M Mann with a threat; Resign now, get the hell out, otherwise this passphrase goes online to the general public. That is a strategy that might push FOIA’s enemies out without completely disgracing the “scientific community”

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Dedicated to all the useful idiots who have helped propel the climate-scam along when anyone with an ounce of skepticism would have been suspicious ... like about 10 years ago.

Here's a partial list: Internet Trolls, "Progressives", academics, TV and other MSM personalities, Conservative Politicians and Hacks who drank the Kool-aid ... and of course, Eco-maniacs:

Tried to save the trees

Bought a platsic bag

The bottom fell out

It was a piece of crap

Saw it on the tube

Bought it on the phone

Now you're home alone

It's a piece of crap

I tried to plug in it

I tried to turn it on

When I got it home

It was a piece of crap

Got it from a friend

On him you can depend

I found out in the end

It was a piece of crap

I'm trying to save the trees

I saw it on TV

They cut the forest down

To build a piece of crap

I went back to the store

They gave me four more

The guy told me at the door

It's a piece of crap