"But then, there is the "progressive" class ... that aimless mass of Western humanity so burdened by cultural self-loathing that it is to Islam, as ungulates are to lions."
I'm often overcome by just how utterly bad jihadists are at planning and implementing terror attacks. For instance, in our free and open society Mumbai style attacks should be easy to conduct, with devastating consequences. It is testament to jihadist ineptness, not security service skill, that Canada has so far escaped an attack.
On the other hand, one must give credit to Western security services for their ability to uncover plots at the source, Pakistan, instead getting lucky at the eleventh hour. Makes one wonder how many heads have been dunked in Pakistan and Afghanistan ... and what kind of electronic wizardry is at work:
According to Sky News, the plan had been hatched by Pakistan-based militants and was “in an ‘advanced but not imminent stage’” and its planners “had been tracked by spy agencies ‘for some time’.” The report in The Telegraph states that the plan “was foiled after Western intelligence agencies, including MI6 and GCHQ, uncovered the plans by senior al Qaeda operatives in the lawless tribal areas.”
Some of the book delves into what one may consider environmental mysticism. Saying that, because air is in and around us, we are air and since we all share that air, then “I am you”. Because plants and animals ultimately come from the soil and we eat plants and animals, then “we are earth.” In referring to animals and plants, Suzuki says, “All life on Earth is our kin. And in an act of generosity [a strange concept to attribute to species other than humans], our relatives create the four sacred elements for us.”
... be sure to read the comments section @ Herald Sun.
... like toast. This is what happens when so-called conservatives try to play cute and instead of boldly and confidently pushing their brand, become cynical progressives in order to pick up votes in Quebec and the GTA. Harper-bots are welcome to post their obligatory defence of the indefensible ... I frankly enjoy reading them as they become more hollow each time.
David Harris notes the mixed messages being sent out by [Prime Minister] Harper’s actions.
On the one hand, as Ezra Levant noted, they have declared that they are distancing themselves from groups like the Canadian Islamic Congress (CIC).
Yet at the same time, Harris points out, “the Executive Director of the CIC was a featured speaker at a Department of Foreign Affairs put together by the Muslim Communities Working Group. The Working Group is a clearing house for all things Muslim, has no equivalent relating to any other religion or ideology, and came into existence early in the Harper government's existence.”
Harris points to the main webpage of Canada's Security and Intelligence Review Committee (SIRC) as example of the establishment’s privileging of Muslims.
“Canadian government websites are available in Canada's two official languages,” Harris explains, “but the site for the independent watchdog organization offers a third: Arabic.
"This is extraordinary in itself. It is the more remarkable given the propensity of some Canadian communities struggling with terrorism and espionage in their midst -- say, ethnic Tamils, Sikhs, Indians, Iranians, Chinese -- to speak non-Official Languages other than Arabic.”
Efficiency advocates sometimes dismiss rebound by only looking at "direct" energy consumption -- that is, consumption by households and for private transportation. Examples of rebound in this part of the energy economy would be driving your Prius more because gasoline costs you very little, or turning up the thermostat in your efficient home. But these "direct-use" rebounds are small in comparison to "indirect-use" rebounds in energy consumption. Globally, some two-thirds of all energy is consumed indirectly-- in the energy used to produce goods and services. A residential washing machine may be energy efficient in terms of function, but in terms of production, the metal body alone requires energy to mine, smelt, stamp, coat, assemble and transport it to a dealer showroom and eventually a residential home. The energy embedded in your washing machine, or just about any product or service you consume, is very large. And remember that any money you save on your energy bills through efficient appliances or the like is re-spent on other goods and services, which each take energy to produce, all while more productive use of our money (e.g. in spending, savings and production) spurs a more robust economy, demanding even more energy.
In the survey, 71% of Republicans described themselves as tea-party supporters, saying they had a favorable image of the movement or hoped tea- party candidates would do well in the Nov. 2 elections.
Already, the tea-party movement has helped to oust a number of incumbents and candidates backed by party leaders in this year's GOP primaries amid complaints that they lacked commitment to small-government principles. The poll findings suggest that the rising influence of the movement, with its push to cut spending and oppose the Democratic agenda, will drive the GOP to become more conservative and less willing to seek common ground on policy.
Some regard carrying guns uncivilized. Would you call an era of legal guns in the hands of Edwardian gentlemen less civilized — or less safe — than our own era of illegal guns in the hands of terrorists and drug dealers? I wouldn’t. The civilized place was turn-of-the century London, where citizens carried guns and the police didn’t.
"I don't stand with those who held out when everybody else is making sacrifices," said Obama, who made the announcement flanked by grim-faced task force members. "That's why I'm supporting Chrysler's plans to use our bankruptcy laws to clear away its remaining obligations so the company can get back on its feet and onto a path of success."
Saskatoon's public high school students will no longer be penalized for plagiarism or for turning in assignments late under a new evaluation method for report cards.
Some educational experts are critical of the move — an apparent first for Saskatchewan — saying it creates an uneven playing field for students in other parts of the province.
Czech President Vaclav Klaus on Saturday criticized U.N. calls for increased "global governance" of the world's economy, saying the world body should leave that role to national governments.
The solution to dealing with the global economic crisis, Klaus told the U.N. General Assembly, did not lie in "creating new governmental and supranational agencies, or in aiming at global governance of the world economy."
"On the contrary, this is the time for international organizations, including the United Nations, to reduce their expenditures, make their administrations thinner, and leave the solutions to the governments of member states," he said.
Klaus appeared to be responding to the address of the Swiss president of the General Assembly, Joseph Deiss, who said on Thursday at the opening of the annual gathering of world leaders in New York that it was time for the United Nations to "comprehensively fulfill its global governance role."
I regret to say that we have evidently arrived at an impasse: I cannot imagine any valid arguments that Taleb and El-Kassem could advance to justify their indisputable collaboration with the Muslim Association of Canada. Besides, given the limited space I have in a 700-word column, I could not do justice to whatever defence they might offer. For these reasons, I have concluded in consultation with others that you should publish the column as is and give Taleb and El-Kassem an opportunity to publish a rebuttal. Only in this way can Free Press readers weigh for themselves the opposing viewpoints on this vitally important and intensely controversial issue as presented by both sides.
In all the publicity given to the opening of "the world's largest wind farm" off the Kent coast last week, by far the most important and shocking aspect of this vast project was completely overlooked. Over the coming years we will be giving the wind farm's Swedish owners a total of £1.2 billion in subsidies. That same sum, invested now in a single nuclear power station, could yield a staggering 13 times more electricity, with much greater reliability.
Bono's anti-poverty foundation ONE is under pressure to explain its finances after it was revealed that only a small percentage of money it raises reaches the needy.
The non-profit organisation set up by the U2 frontman received almost £9.6million in donations in 2008 but handed out only £118,000 to good causes (1.2 per cent).
The figures published by the New York Post also show that £5.1million went towards paying salaries.
... sure thing Bono, obviously you still haven't found what you are looking for.
Two activists have exposed a disturbing phenomenon that they say is an open secret within the “peace camp”: female “peace” activists are routinely harassed and raped by the Arabs of Judea and Samaria with whom they have come to identify. They say the phenomenon has gotten worse lately and that many foreign women end up as wives of local Arabs against their will, but cannot escape their new homes.
THE idea that changes in the sun's activity can influence the climate is making a comeback, after years of scientific vilification, thanks to major advances in our understanding of the atmosphere.
The findings do not suggest - as climate sceptics frequently do - that we can blame the rise of global temperatures since the early 20th century on the sun. "There are extravagant claims for the effects of the sun on global climate," says Giles Harrison, an atmospheric physicist at the University of Reading, UK. "They are not supported."
Where solar effects may play a role is in influencing regional weather patterns over the coming decades. Predictions on these scales of time and space are crucial for nations seeking to prepare for the future.
... it's a start, and those with even a modicum of sense will ask; the sun can effect local weather, but it can't effect longterm trends in temperature? Really?
By the way, those who wish to "splain" why the sun hasn't/caused what is misunderstood as AGW ... save your breath. If anything, you should've learned by now that those who study climate don't know shit and that any scientist who wants to protect his/her gravy-train will never ... and I mean never ... bring doubt to AGW.
Listen to what President Obama, Justice Breyer, General Petraeus, The Seattle Weekly and Bluehost internet services are telling us about where we're headed. As I said in America Alone, multiculturalism seems to operate to the same even-handedness as the old Cold War joke in which the American tells the Soviet guy that "in my country everyone is free to criticize the President", and the Soviet guy replies, "Same here. In my country everyone is free to criticize your President." Under one-way multiculturalism, the Muslim world is free to revere Islam and belittle the west's inheritance, and, likewise, the western world is free to revere Islam and belittle the west’s inheritance. If one has to choose, on balance Islam’s loathing of other cultures seems psychologically less damaging than western liberals' loathing of their own.
It is a basic rule of life that if you reward bad behavior, you get more of it. Every time Muslims either commit violence or threaten it, we reward them by capitulating. Indeed, President Obama, Justice Breyer, General Petraeus, and all the rest are now telling Islam, you don’t have to kill anyone, you don’t even have to threaten to kill anyone. We’ll be your enforcers. We’ll demand that the most footling and insignificant of our own citizens submit to the universal jurisdiction of Islam. So Obama and Breyer are now the “good cop” to the crazies’ "bad cop". Ooh, no, you can’t say anything about Islam, because my friend here gets a little excitable, and you really don’t want to get him worked up. The same people who tell us "Islam is a religion of peace" then turn around and tell us you have to be quiet, you have to shut up because otherwise these guys will go bananas and kill a bunch of people.
Jeff Zucker decided to reveal he'd been fired by Comcast this morning because he'd just finished negotiating his severance package, insiders explain to me. So Zucker told reporters that the decision for him to leave as head of NBC Universal was made for him by Comcast COO Steve Burke 2 weeks ago during a face-to-face meeting. “He made it clear that they wanted to move on at the close of the deal and I was completely comfortable with that,” Zucker told his favorite journalist, Bill Carter of The New York Times. “We had both gotten to the same place.” It has long been expected that, once NBCU switched out of GE's control where Zucker was inexplicably protected by CEO Jeffrey Immelt, the savvy Comcast brass would recognize how badly the NBCU topper had "Zucked-up" his job.
Information obtained from the Obama Department of Justice by the Washington-based government monitor Judicial Watch appears to document that a political operative participated in the decision to drop large portions of a voter intimidation case against the New Black Panther Party that essentially already had been won.
Judicial Watch announced in a statement today that it has forced the disclosure of the existence of documents "indicating Democratic election lawyer Sam Hirsch was involved in the DOJ decision to dismiss its voting rights case against the New Black Panther Party for Self Defense."
"These documents show the Obama Justice Department's decision to drop the Black Panther case was certainly political and potentially corrupt," Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said today.
No ... I'm not kidding ... they are stark raving mad "progressive:
Stephen Colbert to Testify in Washington: Comedy Central humorist Stephen Colbert is set to testify before a House subcommittee on immigration at 9:30 a.m. today. Yes, you heard that right.
REP. CONYERS TO FUNNYMAN: 'I'm asking you to leave the committee room completely, and submit your statement'... MORE... Rep. Lofgren steps in: 'Many are eager to hear his comments' ... Colbert mugs: 'I'm here at the invitation of the chairwoman, and if she would like me to remove myself from the hearing room I am happy to do so. I'm only here at her invitation'...
The world is run by crazy people ... and many of them are green:
But there are no games when it comes to the subsidies. On top of the £40 million in electricity sales, Vattenfall will collect at least £60 million a year in Renewable Obligation Certificates (ROCs) top-sliced from our electricity bills so that we do not notice the theft. And theft it is, an undisclosed tax paid to these rip-off merchants for producing unsustainable electricity.
Over term for the 20 years these turbines are suppose to last, we are looking at a public subsidy of £1.2 billion – enough to build a 1GW nuclear power station – a plant with a deliverable capacity more than 13 times this wind array. That is the extent of the rip-off to which we are being subjected.
“In the Republican primaries she's very popular with the conservative base. She gets more people to come out,” he told me. “And she hasn't won all of her endorsements, but she's won most of them. And you know, she's a compelling, attractive figure.”
[...]
“I think she's clearly a public figure who is, who speaks well and persuasively to the people who listen to her. And she's somebody to be reckoned with,” he said. “And she's tough.”
A Southland weather expert says the weekend's snowfall could be the heaviest in Invercargill for 50 years.
45South Weather Services managing director Andy Fraser said there was no accurate way to measure the fall, but it was unusual to have snow of this magnitude.
Last week, he told people that the weekend's weather could be a shock but he never thought it would be this bad.
The snowfall was 10 to 12cm deep and up to 14cm in some areas.
... that's those wacky Zealandersfor you ... irritating as all heck.
"Allah did not create man so that he could have fun. The aim of creation was for mankind to be put to the test through hardship and prayer. An Islamic regime must be serious in every field. There are no jokes in Islam. There is no humor in Islam. There is no fun in Islam. There can be no fun and joy in whatever is serious."
Yet Mr Boehner's life story is the type of classic up-by-the-bootstraps tale of the American Dream that can put a tear in a voter's eye. As his story becomes better known, the Democrats could even be drawing favourable attention upon him. Right now, most Americans have never heard of Mr Boehner, and fewer still can pronounce his name, which rhymes with Rayner. The alleged elitist country club Republican is an Ohio Congressman who grew up in near poverty.
The other day I happened to see a picture of the CPC bus ... the one that is going to criss-cross Canada and spawn a tsunami of support for the CPC, followed by an election where ordinary Canadians, especially those in the middle, are going to embrace Mr. Harper in such great numbers that the Liberals and socialist NDP will be crushed beneath a conservative wave.
And anchoring it all, will be the rally cry on the side of the CPC Bus:
STAND UP FOR CANADA, it says.
The point being made is ... if you are truly a patriotic Canadian and wish to stand up for your country, don't vote NDP, or LPC ... vote conservative ... that's the way you can show true patriot love.
Really? Let's stop and think about it for a minute.
Stand up for Canada like the CPC have in Afghanistan ... by cutting the Canadian Forces budget and by hardly uttering a word of support for the mission in Afghanistan lest Quebec voters be offended ... leaving Canada in a complete leadership vacuum in the middle of our greatest military effort since Korea.
Stand up for Canada by railing against the BLOC, NDP, and LPC coalition because any association with the BLOC is "un-Canadian" ... yet relying on BLOC votes in the past to prop up a minority government.
Stand up for Canada by relying on your base to launch nationwide protests to save you from the coalition ... then promptly ignoring that very same base by setting up what is a PMO impervious to the opinions of the grass roots?
Stand up for Canada by mouthing full support for Global Warming mania and going as far as to plan the shut down of all coal fire power stations, put in place a carbon offset scheme, and trot the globe parroting whatever AGW "wisdom" is ejaculated from the IPCC ... despite the fact that Natural Gas, Oil, and Coal exports are critical to the Canadian economy; that Canadians have carved out a society on the icy northern fringes of the planet; and despite the fact that the science underpinning the theory has been brought into disrepute.
Stand up for Canada by ushering in one of the greatest, if not the greatest, increases in debt in Canadian history.
Stand up for Canada by willingly joining the NDP and LPC in non-stop parliamentary bickering and procedural wrangling that have made a number of key committees completely impotent and have utterly and totally disgusted Canadians with what is perhaps the most toxic tribalism in a generation.
Stand up for Canada by offering only limp-wristed critique of the HRCs which have victimized so many Canadians.
Stand up for Canada by making yourself indistinguishable from the LPC in rhetoric, decorum, tactics, and yes ... a good dose of policy.
And finally ... Stand up for Canada by suggesting that a majority of Canadians, who did not vote for the CPC, are clearly not patriotic because only by voting CPC, can one "stand up for Canada".
Ok ... perhaps I'm being a trite harsh, and am clearly putting some of the above "out of context", and perhaps the "Stand Up" logo is old news, but let's face it; once a brand has been spoiled, once it's been so watered down you can't tell it from the others, how in the world is a bus tour going to change anything?
So disconnected are the hoi polloi within the CPC, that they've utterly poisoned the brand with action after action that amounts to nothing more than good'ol political tribalism and vote buying at its finest ... actions that have nothing to do with being conservative, nothing to do with rising above the fray, nothing to do with bringing some decorum and dignity to the office; and certainly nothing to do with "standing up for Canada".
Hell, is it possible that anything could scream out the disconnect that abides within CPC HQ more, than splashing on the side of your bus the insulting canard that true patriot love and voting CPC are one and the same.
If there is any consolation to be had, it is that Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition is just as disconnected from Canadians ... for now.
Others weigh in:
Kennedy ... No High Road MacNair... Blue Sweater-Vest Tour Jay... Liberals in Blue
Forget the latest proposal by Caroline Spelman, our Environment Secretary, that all hospitals should in future be built on hills, to stop them being submerged beneath the rising seas brought by global warming (even that serial panic-monger Al Gore predicts that sea levels will rise by only 20 feet). A more serious problem is the chaos inflicted on our energy policy by our willing compliance with an EU obligation to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 34 per cent within 10 years.
Even with the Constitution on his side, Jones was in effect stripped of equal standing in the eyes of his fellow citizens. Little wonder, then, that his bank actually called in his church’s mortgage; his insurance company actually canceled his church’s policy; and his Internet server actually pulled the plug on his website — all repercussions of his planned 9/11 demonstration. Inside of a week, Jones achieved a state on nonpersonhood that exceeds that of most convicted criminals, despite the fact that the only law he contemplated breaking was Islam’s.
While Muslims destroy human dignity the world over and smear crap on human rights like pigs in a wallow ... the simple act of burning an inanimate object in the so-called tolerant West leads to retribution from our very own.
The world, indeed, is run by dangerous people ... and each and every one is a progressive.
It’s called Question Period but that doesn’t mean anyone is really looking for answers. A Question Period in which an opposition member asks a minister for information, which the opposition member really wants, is a spectacular rarity. A Question Period in which a minister respectfully and fully replies to such a request is equally spectacular and rare. The norm is radically different.
Opposition questions are really occasions to throw out some innuendo, start damaging speculation, catch a Minister in some inconsistency or impugn the government in general when some report or news story offers protective foundation for such attacks. Review Question Period during the first few days of the Guergis affair, and you get a glimpse of the feast of reason and flow of soul that most Questions Periods have become.
Makes one wonder ... is there some evil plot afoot to turn us all, except the most brain dead of tribalists, into political agnostics.
Palin drew the biggest crowd the event has ever seen and she delivered. Despite the now familiar "cluttered" speaking style, the message was clear. Unite ... America is good ... America is good because of her people, not because of her elites.
... with what passes for leadership in the West today, including in Canada, there is a real possibility that the head-hackers will soon be back in control of Afghanistan. The only thing between them and the Afghan people is a stubborn US military.
"Calling [the Taliban] our 'disgruntled brothers' or whatever is completely unacceptable for the people of Afghanistan. . . if we continue with this policy we will be giving [Afghanistan] back to the Taliban."
"Why are we continuously calling the Taliban our brothers? They are our killers. They put IEDs (improvised explosive devices), they facilitiate suicide atttacks, they burn schools, they throw acid at the faces of women, they have banned education. I don't need that type of brother."
... then we were changing; and now we are disrupting:
John Holdren, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, says that the term “global warming” is “a dangerous misnomer” that should be replaced with “global climate disruption.”
... I know what you're thinking ... just more layers of lipstick on a pig. Also, keep in mind that Holdren is the same chap who wants to "de-develope" the West and is the father of corny ideas like having trees gain plaintiff status.
An overwhelming 94 per cent of heraldsun.com.au readers disagree with the legal ruling approving the contentious ban during next year's Ramadan.
So far the Premier John Brumby has refused to weigh into the debate about the event, saying he will wait to see the VCAT ruling before making any comment.
VCAT has approved a ban on uncovered shoulders and thighs for a community event to be held at the Dandenong Oasis, a municipal pool.
It is now a world of big ideas ... the micro-managers have had their day, and it is done:
The problem is, Rove's aptitude for dissecting the nation precinct by precinct was confused by many as overall political and philosophical genius. It is not. It is right brain versus left brain. The case with many people who are advanced in left-brain thinking is that right-brain, big-picture truths often escape them.
The Reagan revolution was built on a right-brained concept of big ideas and big dreams -- and all of them based on our Constitution and the American dream. The same can be said for Newt Gingrich's Contract with America election of 1994. No one worried about ginning up certain precincts here and there with flexible philosophies because there was a wave of consistent philosophical truth that made renting individual precincts irrelevant.
... first it was a bitter curiosity ... now it's getting outright scary:
This is the 19th sequential outflow from US stocks, and amounts to $65 billion in redemptions for the year. With the market pretty much unchanged YTD, it means that mutual funds can not resort to capital appreciation as a substitute to outflows, and most are on their last breath (Janus: blink twice if you are still alive please). The kicker: the S&P is at the level it was when the outflows began back during the flash crash.
The police have told Sverigedemokraterna (the Sweden Democrats) that they must cancel all their public meetings because their safety cannot be guaranteed.
In other words, Swedish law enforcement admits that it either can’t or won’t prevent anarchist and Muslim thugs from assaulting and firebombing the meetings of a officially registered political party whose members are assembling lawfully and peacefully.
... if Muslims can't win the debate, they go for personal destruction... and failing that, they always choose personal body destruction:
“Last Monday, the lawyer who represented Rifqa’s parents in Ohio – who claims to be a “Muslim scholar” – filed a $10 million lawsuit against me personally in Federal Court alleging “emotional distress” and “damage to reputation” for my some of my comments on one of the Fox News interviews. This same lawyer has filed multiple grievances against me with the Florida Bar, trying to have me disbarred or disciplined as an attorney.
Remember THIS, and the many other insults to human rights the next time your "progressive" friends point to Indonesia as some sort of Shangri La of Muslim tolerance:
Christians in Bekasi, as in other parts of Indonesia, have been unable to secure a place of worship due to a permit system in the country that stacks the deck against non-Muslims. Lacking a building, they went to worship in a field, and that site has been attacked as well, with jihadists even punching female members of the congregation. It has been soiled with human feces, and worshipers there have been constantly harassed with shouts of "Infidel," and told they deserve to be stabbed to death. On this past Sunday, one worshiper was stabbed in the stomach, and the pastor was beaten over the head with a wooden plank.
The past couple of years have seen billions of dollars pulled out of the stock market, on top of that which was lost outright.
Confidence, not fundamentals or technicals are the cause ... and who can blame even institutional investors for pulling the plug:
It has been about a week since we have had a flash crash in our broken markets, and we were getting a little antsy. Then Nucor showed up and traded at $0.01. At 11:52:21 something broke, and as the QR chart below shows, it was basically precisely the same algo malfunction that either goes and hits all bids all the way to zero, or some HFT decided to shut down, and wipe out the entire bidside orderbook. The stock which had been trading at $39.58 literally milliseconds earlier, saw a SkyNet T-1 unit go berserk and take out the bids at $37.22, and $35.77 in sequential fashion, with the next trade being at at the residual stub quote of $0.01. Of course, circuit breakers were triggered, but not before even more irreversible damage to investor confidence was suffered. And those idiots 'upstairs' still wonder why tomorrow we will report another massive outflow from mutual funds.
In The Climate Fix, I present data suggesting that Europe's rate of decarbonization was essentially unchanged before and after implementation of the Kyoto Protocol, up to the period covered by the Sandbag analysis. The Sandbag analysis suggests that this finding holds to the present. The strong implication is the that EU ETS has not accelerated BAU decarbonization in Europe.
... or how to increase temperature by 70% using "adjustments":
Ken Stewart has been hard at work again, this time analyzing the Australian urban records. While he expected that the cities and towns would show a larger rise than records in the country due to the Urban Heat Island Effect, what he found was that the raw records showed only a 0.4 degree rise, less than the rural records which went from a raw 0.6 to an adjusted 0.85 (a rise of 40%). What shocked him about the urban records were the adjustments… making the trend a full 70% warmer.
They call it variable yield ... as in, do you want 3 bodies or 50:
COULD a variable-yield bomb reduce the number of innocent people killed or injured during an air attack targeting enemy soldiers? That's the thinking behind a US navy plan to develop a "dial-a-blast" bomb.
Stronger truck volumes were the main contributor as the number of new motor vehicles sold increased 2.4 per cent to 135,514 in July.
Statistics Canada reports preliminary industry data indicate the number of new motor vehicles sold fell five per cent in August.
Sales of trucks (which include minivans, sport-utility vehicles, light and heavy trucks, vans and buses) rose 3.1 per cent to 76,994, their fourth straight monthly increase.
Oil from the BP spill has not been completely cleared, but miles of it is sitting at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, according to a study currently under way.
Professor Samantha Joye of the Department of Marine Sciences at the University of Georgia, who is conducting a study on a research vessel just two miles from the spill zone, said the oil has not disappeared, but is on the sea floor in a layer of scum.
"We're finding it everywhere that we've looked. The oil is not gone," Joye said. "It's in places where nobody has looked for it."
All 13 of the core samples Joye and her UGA team have collected from the bottom of the gulf are showing oil from the spill, she said.
More people than ever now understand what is happening and see the words vs. deeds of the adherents of Islam. Remember the old adage, “Don’t listen to what they say, watch what they do?”
We live in a society of great opportunity though we are now in decline. Our decline is not pre-ordained to last forever, and it won’t. People who live in comparative luxury and opportunity are slow to see threats growing over time (the same denial occurred prior to WW2). The mosque at Ground Zero is now the flashpoint of our culture as it should be.
A large majority of American citizens oppose it, while our elitist “progressive” clueless, multicultural, internationalist, “leaders” support it. This support by our leadership for ideas and policies and oppositional ideologies that are opposed by the American people will be one of the main reasons why the leadership class will be rejected by the electorate.
When 9/11 occurred few knew anything about Islam or jihad; now many millions of Americans know all about it. The more they learn, the more they are not favorably disposed to it.
Update: From the SDA Comments where our very own pet troll can't help but become exhibit #1.
This is what the pendulum looks like when it has swung to the left as far as its going to go, and pauses for a moment.
dizzy, you've got to be kidding me bringing up historic intolerance of the Jews from the 1700's in support of the Obama mosque.
You want to know why Geert frickin' Wilders is famous dizzy? He's famous because of people like you. People like you who never, ever miss an opportunity to stick it to squares.
Let the enemy build a triumphal victory monument on the site of their sneak attack, in the name of tolerance and just getting along? Squares are no longer willing to ignore you, dizzy.
See, in the minds of probably 90% of Americans who actually have minds, the Muslim Jihadists crossed -way- over the line on 9/11/2001. Way over. Farther over the line than the Japanese did at Pearl Harbor. It is the full measure of American civility and tolerance that every Muslim in the country wasn't put on a boat or killed in the weeks following 9/11.
Now, nine years later dizzy, you and your fellow Leftists have finally crossed the same line with your defense of the Obama mosque. A mosque built on the vaporized bones of the 9/11 victims, people killed at work by the hate of Muslim barbarians. A mosque built on a Christian grave yard, in truth and in symbol.
That's as far as the political pendulum is going to swing my friend. For good or ill, you boys have stopped it ...
Newfoundland and Labrador plans to fund a study to observe how the controversial "liberation treatment" affects patients with multiple sclerosis, the government announced Monday.
The purpose of the provincially-based, observational study will be to evaluate how the therapy affects the symptoms and progression of MS in patients who choose to undergo the treatment. The government will not pay for patients to have the treatment performed; only to record what happens to those who undergo the treatment on their own.
The hard reality is that we have just been through a global economic crisis – which remains very preoccupying and is likely not over – and governments in both Quebec City and Ottawa are heavily indebted. Our government has just posted a huge $56-billion deficit and the priority is to get back to a balanced budget through reductions in our own programs, and avoid by all means getting involved in risky financial ventures.
I was not at all impressed by the Ernst & Young study, which concluded that the project would be “profitable” – but only on the assumption that governments provide full funding for the construction as well as the repairs and renovations that will be necessary over the next 40 years. That’s a deceptive way of putting it. The conclusion should rather be that the project is simply not profitable and will constitute a financial burden for taxpayers for decades to come, even in the best scenario. That’s why not a single private player has been found to invest in it.
This week a study on peak oil by a German military think tank was leaked on the Internet. The document shows that the German government is closely studying the issue of peak oil, and is aware of the potential for serious consequences as oil production declines. The study is reminiscent of the Hirsch Report, commissioned by the U.S. Department of Energy, that warned of the risks posed by peak oil.
... read it all, and be thankful you live in Canadawhere Alberta, Saskatchewan, and our offshore are oozing with the black stuff.
I wonder how much consideration the authors gave to the most abundant fossil fuel ... the new black gold ... the one which can be converted to methane or liquified at today's oil prices. For now there is no peak in this stuff, and Canada is drowning in it.
... when enemies of the state were harangued in public on state television, without any chance to respond:
In what had to be the ultimate in condescension and elitism, MSNBC's "Morning Joe" brought Pastor Terry Jones on the show merely to lecture him on Christianity, cutting him off before he could even respond. Co-host Mika Brzezinski explained to him "we don't really need to hear anything else, so thanks." Newsbusters' Mark Finkelstein first briefly reported on this segment this morning.
Tell me you watched this without wanting to crawl through your computer moniter and have a "come to Jesus" with the progressive prick in the red tie ... go ahead ... tell me:
The paroxysms of anguish and hand-wringing that our betters have gone through over the burning of an inanimate object is stunning ... especially given the fact that those they are trying to avoid offending are the very animals who would take away everything we have ... and who revel in the torture and murder of children, the removal of all dignity from women, and incineration of our own.
Mr. Obama gave clear support to the Ground Zero Mosque ... Mr. Harper was silent ... yet these same two chief executives, along with a herd of others, took no time at all to condemn a tiny church and its pastor for doing something that in the most concrete terms is a triviality. It is, in fact, the violent reaction of the barbarians to the torching of their precious guide book to hell that is the monstrosity.
Our betters ... for they certainly see themselves as such ... still live in a September 10th 2001 world:
The Conservative government hasn’t decided if new sports arenas in Canada — including a proposed $431-million domed stadium in Regina — should get federal funding, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said in Saskatoon on Thursday.
Ottawa has never subsidized professional sports teams, but if that precedent changes, every project in every city has to be treated equally, Harper told reporters after an event at the University of Saskatchewan’s Diefenbaker Centre.
“These are professional business operations and government does not and has never directly financed professional sports clubs,” Harper said when asked about the possibility of funding new stadiums in Regina and Quebec City.
Yes, by now all agree: a nutty fringe leader was compromising social cohesion, foreign relations and military security with grotesquely silly, gratuitous and hurtful plans for a Koranic cook-off.
But this portrayal missed key considerations. In the extent and scope of their criticism of Jones' aims, senior U.S. officials, including Clinton and Gen. Petraeus, exceeded their constitutional remit in ways that could undermine future security and liberal-democratic ways. The same can be said of Harper and his defence minister.
The message Muslims send the world (and it's very consistent), is that no matter what their wishes, non-Muslims must abide by Muslim wishes; or bad things will happen.
Rauf of course, recently opened his pie-hole and proved the point.
"Insult Muslims by burning Qur'ans and bad things will happen; but if you don't let Muslims insult 9/11 victims, bad things will happen."
So it is, that the burning of an inanimate object will cause barbarians to rampage around the world while the refusal to allow said rampaging barbarians to insult victims of the same rampaging barbarians will cause ... barbarians to rampage.
In the end, perhaps one of the most unwittingly brilliant political acts concieved recently was to hold the public cremation of qur'ans. Talk about wiping the lipstick off the pig ... the one squealing from inside the mosque, as well as all the pompous so-called defenders of our bought-with-blood Western freedoms.
And thenthere is this, equally as brilliant but well considered:
Donald Trump is offering to buy out one of the major investors in the real estate partnership that controls the site near ground zero where a Muslim group wants to build a 13-storey Islamic centre.
I'm opposed to the burning of Qur'ans for the same reason I'm opposed to the 911 Victory Mosque; both are unethical acts. But one must admit, the planned book burning and Mr. Trump's heroics sure have made a point.
Barbarism is, as barbarism does and our political class is as useless in defending us against barbarism as the levees were in defending New Orleans from Katrina.
The commander of Canada’s Task Force Kandahar is greeted with back-slapping hugs at a meeting with local officials, in the way Afghan men welcome one another.
Inside the meeting, Brig.-Gen. Jonathan Vance listens intently as the local official makes his way through a long list of queries, kudos and complaints. He makes note of what he can help with, makes clear what he can’t.
This is what war sometimes looks like in Afghanistan. It is not always played out on the front lines, but in stuffy meeting rooms and small villages where Afghans are just beginning to believe in a better future.
“I want Canadians to realize that what we’re trying to deliver is not kinetic effect, not gunshots, not dead Taliban; what we’re trying to deliver is a population that is experiencing the satisfaction of political assembly and political voice and responsive government,” Vance said in a recent interview with The Canadian Press.
The solution to Afghanistan’s woes is not military, he said. The military can set the right conditions but ultimately it will be up to the people of Afghanistan.
“We don’t expect the population to take up arms and somehow be soldiers,” he said. But the insurgency is irrelevant once the people of Afghanistan reject it.
George had arrived bang on time for this first discussion and had not fully said hello to all the participants. He didn’t know or recognize Guy, whose advice he listened to with considerable astonishment.
He turned to me and whispered, “Who is this guy?”
“He’s the prime minister of Belgium,” I said.
“Belgium?” George said, clearly aghast at the possible full extent of his stupidity. “Belgium’s not part of the G8.”
“No,” I said, “but he is the president of Europe.”
“You got Belgians running Europe?” He shook his head, now aghast at our stupidity.
I've been crowing for some time that PM Harper is going to bring down the CPC; that his complete lack of sizzle and over use of dirtypolitical chess are going to get the CPC crushed.
I beseech fellow conservatives to consider the polls. The CPC is stuckin a rut ... at best. The CPC is on the verge of losing any edge it holds ... most likely. The CPC is about to fade for good ... possibly. And, all this despite PM Harper's personal numbers being significantly stronger than either his Liberal or Dipper counterparts.
Some may find my stance contradictory, given Mr. Harper's strong personal favorability poll number, but I argue that there is no contradiction; that in a field of total duds, Mr. Harper is the least bad of a bad lot; a bruised apple in a basket of rot.
The reality is that all that remains now, is for the LPC to find a real leader ... someone who has a pulse or who can even equal Mr. Harper in appeal (not a difficult task); and the CPC will be washed away like a sandcastle at high tide. Hell, the Libs have managed to hold their numbers despite employing stunningly ham-handed tactics ... run on a shoestring.
And when we fall, I will blame it all on a CPC base so tribal in its loyalty to the chief, that it couldn't shake itself from the thrill of being in power long enough to face the reality that Mr. Harper just doesn't cut it. Perhaps most damning, is that this same base will blame any loss on “the media” ... the refuge of losers if there ever was one.
As I've said elsewhere, Mr. Harper does not have the skill to inspire Canadians to come over to the CPC ... he may be a brainiac who is skilled at parliamentary manoeuvres ... he may sing cute Beetle's tunes ... he may be good at preening before international economic gatherings where he claims for himself Paul Martin accomplishments ... but he is a complete dud when it comes to communicating the CPC cause to Canadians. When it comes to being a dynamic personality who can inspire Canadians in the wobbly middle to "come on down" ... Mr. Harper is an abject failure who relies on tricks and sleight of hand instead of treating Canadians like adults.
One can't even make the case that he's just too nice ... you know, the canard that "nice guys finish last", because the sand-bagging and dictatorial control Mr. Harper has extended over the PMO don't really make him all that nice a guy. When some CPC MPs have trouble breaking through the sandbags in order to communicate the concerns of their constituents ... how in the hell are we, the lowly base, expected to be heard? I’ve learned long ago to never ... never ever trust someone whose response to concerns is simply “trust me!” Sadly, that’s about all we get from party insiders these days ... “trust Mr. Harper”, keep your mouth shut, and send money.
Nevertheless, if CPC members are happy to remain a minority until the LPC find a leader ... keep Steve.
If however, CPC members want to gain a majority they'd better start seeking out a new leader ASAP ... either that, or more base forces will eventually take hold and crush our thin hold on power.
By now, polls should've shown majority territory for the CPC ... but that's clearly not about to happen. The high point came, in fact, just prior to the last election when Canada was given a choice between the smart economist Mr. Harper and the stammering buffoon Mr. Dion ... and going into a terrifying recession of all things. In retrospect, it should've been a slaughter where the CPC crushed the libs ... but it wasn't.
With a stable economy and an opposition leader who is similarly endowed with "personality" as Mr. Harper, any hope of handing the LPC a thumping is rapidly moving out of grasp. Only LPC ineptness, not CPC skill, have kept the enemy at bay.
All I ask Harper loyalists is ... how's it going to feel when you wake up the day after election night and stare into the face of an Iggy minority government? Perhaps then, you won't find my polemics so harsh.
Perhaps ... just perhaps, Mr. Harper will demonstrate that he truly is a brilliant leader, and just as talk of an election starts to rumble, he'll resign ... sending the opposition and press into a tizzy and will provide massive momentum to the new guy or gal. Now that, would be leadership.
Or, am I just blowing sunshine up my own ass ... dreaming that Canadians give a rip about CPC values and principles; maybe it's just the brand that sucks and Mr. Harper's CPC are giving us the best that the CPC can ever get.
The Prince of Wales – who also happens to be our future monarch, unfortunately – has embarked on an eco-tour of Britain. He is urging us not to throw away any of the £4,000 bespoke Huntsman suits we might have mouldering in the back of our wardrobes, demonstrating how easy it is to fashion a handy Gladstone bag from one’s old hunting boots or an egg whisk from one’s unwanted tiaras, and reminding us that unless we convert our Aston Martins to biofuels by the end of next week (just like he has done) then the polar ice caps will most assuredly melt and we’ll all die.
Sakineh Mohammadi-Ashtiani, an Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning for adultery, has also been sentenced to 99 lashes for a photo published of her without a headscarf, according to her son. In an interview published on the website of the French magazine La Regle du Jeu and the blog Dentelles et Tchador, Mohammadi-Ashtiani's son Sajjad said they learned of the new punishment from released inmates.
He said that a prison judge confirmed that she was to be lashed for spreading "corruption and indecency" by the publication of a photograph of her without a headscarf that appeared in a British newspaper.
There is a straight line between what the UN’s 1995 climate bible told the world about health issues and what McMichael had already written in his 1993 book. Although Planetary Overload isn’t included among the 182 references listed at the end of the health chapter, entire passages of the climate bible were lifted directly from it. A selection appears below:
... if by now you are wondering where the blog crawling warmists who used to mock us for our unscientific simplicity have gone ... they're still there, still believing, still clinging to their carbon and taxes. Not even blow after blow struck against their religion, or serious scientific doubt, will sway them ... that's why I don't debate them any more, it is like tossing pearls to swine.
The good thing is that AGW as a "fact" has been destroyed, and is likely to remain just a theory for good, no matter the ever more hollow supplications of the believers.
Professor T J Joseph, whose right palm was chopped off by activists of the Popular Front of India (PFI) and stitched back by doctors, got another shock on Saturday when the college he works for here dismissed him from service.
"I was shocked to get the letter. Honestly, I was mentally getting ready to get back to my job as a teacher. I was under the impression that the management would revoke my suspension and take me back. This has come as a real shocker," said Joseph lying on his bed in his home near here.
Whether it's hand chopping, acid attacks, or out and out murder, every day on this planet someone gets brutilized via Islam ... it never ends.
In the meantime, those Muslims who do stand up, like the parents who insist on sending their daughters to school despite dire threats, get little support from the West. For instance, Canada's hapless legislature where true cowards abide, can't even stir itself to defend the mission to Afghanistan where Muslims sacrifice their lives daily to push back the purists.
Anetta sits alone on the balcony of her Beslan apartment. Behind her the small room is quiet as her family sleeps. Beslan at night is quiet, the shattered school where so many died just a scowling shadow in the dim light.
Anetta whispers, “My darling… Alana, please come to me…”
Anetta trails off as a flood of tears fill her eyes, blurring the silhouettes of houses, apartments, and the school. And she sits, alone in the night, shuttering with sobs and racked with guilt, racked with regret, racked with the unimaginable pain that only a mother who has abandoned one child in order to save another will ever know.
The terrorists came on the opening day of school. Anetta had taken Alana, her 9 year old, to the school to enjoy the opening exercises. Little Milena, her one year old, had come as well, and together they had joined the throng of expectant children and anxious parents at the Beslan School.
The terrorists struck, and before Anetta could clearly comprehend what had happened, she was part of the distraught and terrified crowd that was herded into the gymnasium. Anetta, along with the children and parents, witnessed several murders, and the pools and smears of blood on the gymnasium floor added to the smells of fear and sweaty bodies huddled in the close heat. Soon children were stripped to their underwear or to the nude, as they tried desperately to shed the stifling heat. Some sat in mesmerized horror only inches from landmines wired to explode at the slightest sign that rescue was near.
Suddenly the terrorists ordered all mothers with little children to leave. And in that moment, Anetta’s darkest nightmare came to life. She pleaded with the thugs to let Alana go with Milena, but the devils would have nothing of it.
Alana began to cry, as she comprehended what was about to happen, and clung to her mother.
“Alana, you are a clever girl,” Anetta pleaded, “you wait!”
Then, Anetta firmly thrust her daughter away and left the building. She could hear her daughter crying as she hurried off, clutching Milena.
The sweet nine year old was found later, with a bullet in her neck, lying among the children on the floor of the Beslan School Gymnasium. But in the cool Beslan night Alana’s eyes still haunt, still implore, still condemn.
Alone in the Beslan night, a mother cries.
“My Darling… Mommy didn’t protect you. Mommy didn’t save you. I left you there. I thought all three of us would die if we stayed. Why don’t you come to me in my dream?”
Friday in Paris. A hidden camera shows streets blocked by huge crowds of Muslim worshippers and enforced by a private security force.
This is all illegal in France: the public worship, the blocked streets, and the private security. But the police have been ordered not to intervene.
It shows that even though some in the French government want to get tough with Muslims and ban the burqa, other parts of the French government continue to give Islam a privileged status.
An ordinary French citizen who has been watching the Islamization of Paris decided that the world needed to see what was happening to his city. He used a hidden camera to start posting videos on YouTube. His life has been threatened and so he uses the alias of "Maxime Lepante. "
... as you watch this and the Previous entry, realize that millions of Muslim purists the world over view Beslan as a victory ... as reason to celebrate. And, many millions more just remain silent.
It's the silencethat should cause us all to shudder.
When developing an unmanned vehicle there are two paths to choose from: create an entirely fresh design with no room for a carbon-based pilot, or simply take an existing craft and make it self-sufficient. That’s the direction Lockheed Martin chose for its submission to the the joint Army Marines Autonomous Technologies for Unmanned Air Systems (ATUAS) program, and it turned out to be a winner. The idea is to create an autonomous helo that can resupply military forces, and Lockheed Martin started with a Kaman K-Max cargo chopper (demo’d after the break), capable of lifting 6,000lbs plus one pilot — who was made optional.
The attempt to preserve the notion that there is no need to respond to injustices in faraway places lies at the heart of cultural relativism. In the guise of an objective position, relativism is nothing more than protection for selfishness and preservation of insularity. Relativism implies the privileges and freedoms we expect in the West are values that only we own. It's sloppy scholarship and a bad joke that far too many have fallen for.
... and I must note, far to many conservatives have now adopted as reason to leave the "undeserving" untermensch in Afghanistan to the barbarians.
The most disturbing thing of all to every freedom loving person should be the almost utter silence flowing from ordinary Muslims; not only about Beslan, but silence about all terror in the name of Muhammad ... and just as disturbing should be the endless excuse-making by the progressive class who try to use every reason to minimize Islamic terror ... it's never about Isam with them, it's always a "regional conflict" , or a "response to Western excess".
