tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38571152011-12-14T18:35:03.200-08:00One Damn Thing After Anotherjcnoreply@blogger.comBlogger25171100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3857115.post-1122333576937705402005-07-25T16:16:00.000-07:002005-07-25T16:19:36.940-07:00

Why do we get these mountains of clothes? No one is freezing here. Instead, our tailors lose their livlihoods. They're in the same position as our farmers. No one in the low-wage world of Africa can be cost-efficient enough to keep pace with donated products. In 1997, 137,000 workers were employed in Nigeria's textile industry. By 2003, the figure had dropped to 57,000. The results are the same

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In my mail this morning came a note from a chap named Brian Mertens. He has a blog, called, appropriately enought, Free Advice. In his email he allowed as how he knew a bit about PHP and if I needed any help...I wrote back with a number of the issues at The Canadian Bullet. This afternoon I check my email and there is a full on stylesheet fixed!Thank you Brian!

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Great feedback, links and support for my little aggregator. There are any number of issues, the worst being the rather random nature of the truncation. This is my number one priority to fix because without it long posts take way too much space. Traffic is beginning to build with links from Let it Bleed, Anonalogue and Crawl Across the Ocean adding to the stream.One of the reasons I wanted to

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A controversial Toronto imam warned Public Safety Minister Anne McLellan at a closed-door meeting to stop "terrorizing" Canadian Muslims."If you try to cross the line I can't guarantee what is going to happen. Our young people, we can't control," Aly Hindy, the head of Scarborough's Salaheddin Islamic Centre, recalls telling the minister at the May meeting she held in Toronto with dozens of

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Conservative MP Vic Toews (Provencher, Man.), his party's high-profile justice critic and a former Manitoba justice minister, told The Hill Times that the Conservatives will definitely make it an election issue out on the hustings and said if the federal Conservatives win the next election they will attempt to repeal the law."The Conservative government will bring forward an alternative; that's

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Yipee! If you have been coming to this blog using certain flavours of FireFox you may have noticed a gap, a big, honking, gap. Blogger has finally fixed it....Thank you for your patience.blogger

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I ran across this excellent Avian Flu site while getting the dirt from the Zerb.Avian FluCanada, like many other countries, has failed to stockpile sufficient anti-viral drugs like Tamiflu in preparation for a (bird) flu pandemic. The government simply has not been paying attention until recently, and it is too late now: the sole manufacturer of Tamiflu has worldwide orders for at least 40

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I am still fighting with the code to try and get the posts to truncate. Two reasons: first because I want The Canadian Bullet, which is the "brand" for the blog aggregator as in, "Have you seen the Bullet?, to be a quick skim. Hit it, read what's up in the Canadian political blogosphere, hit an ad, and off. Second, because I think people, once their are interested in a post, should go to the

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Stephen Harper talked tough on security and not at all on same-sex marriage on Saturday as the Conservative leader's 10-day tour of Ontario drew to a close. Harper said Friday's deadly bombings in Egypt should serve as a warning to Canada.cpGood for Harper...It has finally dawned on the brainiacs in the CPC that SSM is a non-issue outside North Armpit Alberta. But if you are riding the subway in

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So now I have The Canadian Bullet up and, more or less, running. And I go to take a look at it in Explorer. And it renders with everything wrong. Grrr!microsoft

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The horrific Egyptian bombings have draw the comment from one Canadian lefty blogger,In the wake of the assorted terrorist incidents in London, and the interesting news - which took my by suprise, because I was not planning to move to the UK - that we are now all Londoners, I am relieved today to discover that we are not suddenly all Egyptians. I didn't want to move to Egypt. Of course, the

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The latest, and perhaps gravest, challenge to the journalistic establishment is the blog. Journalists accuse bloggers of having lowered standards. But their real concern is less high-minded - it is the threat that bloggers, who are mostly amateurs, pose to professional journalists and their principal employers, the conventional news media. A serious newspaper, like The Times, is a large,

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Just a quick update: the Canadian political blogs aggregator will be moving to its permanent home http://canada.info-syn.com shortly...Now if I can just get Kate's posts to truncate properly. [And, hey, talk about the perfect time to launch...I can get the bugs worked out while everybody is away, too hot, too lazy, too kidded out...Perfect!blogs

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Poor Frank...it never did have very interesting graphics...now it has this. E-Frank.

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The height of summer and all the bloggers are on vacation. Which will give me a chance to iron the kinks out of my new blog aggregator....Info-Syn.com. Everything, including the final url - likely a sub domain - is going to change. But go and kick the tires and send any suggestions along. Critically, which bloggers am I missing who I shouldn't be. I could really use help from my more leftish

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The Making of a Legend by Rod Stewart (Reader’s Digest/Dec/2004)"For me, just shaking his hand – knowing all the great musicians whose hand he’d shaken before –was mind-blowing. But so was John. Picture this elegant man with a proper English accent, never without a tie, a towering six-foot-seven. I was a huge fan and I was intimidated by his offer. Rod Stewart wasn’t in demand in those days; no

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Well, digging actually. Three people have been arrested after police raided a sophisticated tunnel intended to smuggle drugs under the U.S.-Canada border between Vancouver and Seattle, investigators said on Thursday.The smugglers spent more than a year building the 360-foot (110-meter) tunnel that ran from a Quonset hut-style storage building in the rural Aldergrove neighborhood of Langley,

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Our friends on the American Left seem to be taking London 1.5 in stride....Atrios - nada - Rove and RobertsKos Front Page - nada - RU-486, DeLay, Republican internal briefing memo on RobertsOthers are better. But it is amazing that a blog like Kos would not have something up. Though, given the moonbat reaction to the last bombings....It's the Jews and Blair and Bush...it may also be a blessing

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Details at Tim Worstall who links to news and blogs.This does not, at first reading, seem as serious. No deaths reported as I write. However, the co-ordination is worrying. The speculation is off to a huge start - copycat? Right wing extremists? Al-Qaeda farm team? My own speculation is that this may have been a botched set of suicide bombers. Bad explosive. After the first bombings no one would

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For those of you who find Masonic symbols in your cornflakes....Check this out. (Thanks Flea)buildings

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I've had enough. I awoke today at 7am. By 7.23am I'd heard two apologias for suicide bombing. I wake to the BBC's Today programme, you see. A nice woman presenter politely thanked both apologists very much for their time.I turned off and turned on my PC. At the BBC website I find the Tory Party Vice-Chair Sayeeda Warsi saying, 'Mr Blair should negotiate with the terrorists. We need to bring these

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I never thought that in the run up to the war we were discussing simply the difference between war and peace. We were discussing the difference between war and continued torture and genocide and abuse of human rights by a fascist state. I missed any sense of that complexity in the peace camp. I certainly had the feeling that whatever the strong moral arguments were for deposing Saddam, the

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The guys at Google take one more giant step for man....zoom right in heregoogle

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The UK is to set up a global database of extremists who face automatic vetting before being allowed in, Home Secretary Charles Clarke has told MPs.He said the database would list "unacceptable behaviour" such as radical preaching, websites and writing articles intended to foment terrorism. bbcOne might be forgiven for thinking that this should have been done....five years ago!

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Glenn Reynolds does an interview with J.D. Johannes of Faces From the Front. Basically, Johannes got fed up with MSM coverage of the war in Iraq and, with less than $10,000 in equipment and software, set about shooting video about a group of Reserve Marines from Kansas City. It is a pretty cool idea and it certainly represents a bit of a challenge to legacy media. Plus, Johannes gets what is

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If you want to get the full attention of the American public for a Supreme Court nomination which is of only tiny interest to anyone outside the legal biz of government...you leak a name. John G. Roberts. John G. Roberts may or may not be the actual nominee; but it doesn't matter for the spin.Karl Rove really is that smart...Update:The Dems are going to be split here. Roberts is not, on the face

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I enjoy reading about mathematics and I can even do elementary statistics. But, from the time I was a kid I recognized that there were other kids whose intuitive "feel" for numbers and the relationships of abstract qualities left mine in the dust.Larry Summers, the President of Harvard, got into big trouble a while ago for suggesting, "It does appear that on many, many different human

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Mark Steyn takes a pick-axe to the cult of multi-cult in the Telegraph, It has been sobering this past week watching some of my "woollier" colleagues (in Vicki Woods's self-designation) gradually awake to the realisation that the real suicide bomb is "multiculturalism". Its remorseless tick-tock, suddenly louder than the ethnic drumming at an anti-globalisation demo, drove poor old Boris Johnson

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Over at Winds of Change Joe Katzman writes an excellent post on the world of Islamic slavery. It links to this article.While the mortality rate for slaves being transported across the Atlantic was as high as 10%, the percentage of slaves dying in transit in the Trans Sahara and East African slave trade was between 80 and 90%!While almost all the slaves shipped across the Atlantic were for

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Britain's largest Sunni Muslim group yesterday brought the full weight of Islamic law against the perpetrators of the July 7 attacks on London's transport system, issuing a binding religious fatwa against suicide terror.Calling the bombings the work of a "perverted ideology," the Sunni Council declared such actions forbidden by the Qur'an, the Muslim holy book."Who has given anyone the right to

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In a word, this version of events brings spiritual calm for millions of troubled though affluent and blessed Westerners. There are three sacraments to their postmodern thinking, besides the primordial fear that so often leads to appeasement.Our first hindrance is moral equivalence. For the hard Left there is no absolute right and wrong since amorality is defined arbitrarily and only by those in

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Australia's government said that having babies is a patriotic duty and promised to pay accordingly — and its citizens appear to have answered the call.The 133,400 babies born in the six months ending in September were the most in a half-year period in 14 years, according to recent figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics.The government — responding to a falling birth rate, looming labor

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No, really, where did Harper manage to find a hillbilly hat and biker vest of quite this brilliance? (via iridescent spoke)Stephen Harper

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The chattering classes in the US are having great fun with, as John Tierney puts it in the NYT, For now, though, it looks as if this scandal is about a spy who was not endangered, a whistle-blower who did not blow the whistle and was not smeared, and a White House official who has not been fired for a felony that he did not commit. And so far the only victim is a reporter who did not write a

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A London-based Islamic radical has praised the suicide bomb attacks on the capital.Hani Al-Siba’i, an Egyptian-born academic, described the attacks that killed at least 55 people as “a great victory” that rubbed the noses of G8 countries in the mud.His inflammatory comments come as the government is preparing to create a new offence of “glorifying or endorsing” terrorism, such as praising suicide

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She recalls asking Mohamed al-Hindi, political leader of Islamic Jihad, where the Koran glorifies martyrdom; he insisted it was there, but even after looking up books and phoning colleagues, he couldn’t find one reference."His translator suggested I better go if I wanted to leave alive," she recalls. "I asked why he had even given an interview, and the translator said, 'Oh, he assumed you would

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At least 58 people have been killed in a suicide bomb attack in the town of Musayyib, some 60 km (40 miles) south of Baghdad.Police told the BBC the bomber blew himself up near a mosque. The blast caused a nearby fuel tanker to explode.At least another 80 people are said to have been injured.The blast, the worst single attack in over two months, follows a week of violence in which 100 were killed

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Canadian troops will take a more active role hunting down the "detestable murderers and scumbags" of al-Qaeda and the Taliban in southern Afghanistan next year, Canada's top military officer said in comments published on Friday.Canada is boosting its presence in Afghanistan and by next February there will be 1,500 soldiers in the southern city of Kandahar. General Rick Hillier, chief of the

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In the House of Commons last Wednesday, I was conscious of taking a gamble by calling on Tony Blair, the British prime minister, to help Muslims deal with the issue of extremists within our midst. Some would no doubt say that, in doing so, we are accepting some degree of culpability for the evil we have spawned.And yes, I did fear a backlash from irate Muslims – but, in reality, I have been

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A very funny bit of Gilbert and Sullivan agitprop via Andrew Sullivan.identity cards

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Osama bin Laden's standing has dropped significantly in some key Muslim countries, while support for suicide bombings and other acts of violence has "declined dramatically," according to a new survey released today.In a striking finding, predominantly Muslim populations in a sampling of six North African, Middle East and Asian countries also shared to "a considerable degree" Western nations'

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Interrogators at the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, forced a stubborn detainee to wear women's underwear on his head, confronted him with snarling military working dogs and attached a leash to his chains, according to a newly released military investigation that shows the tactics were employed there months before military police used them on detainees at the Abu Ghraib prison in

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Urgent action to exclude and deport religious extremists from abroad who are radicalising British-born Muslims was announced by Tony Blair yesterday.The Prime Minister called on Muslim leaders to join him in a world-wide drive to counter the "perverted and evil" ideology behind the London bombings. The four Muslim MPs who met Tony Blair at Downing StreetHe appealed for calm following the

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The substitution of the word "bombers" for the word "terrorists" at the BBC online in realtion to the London homicide bombings has been bouncing around the blogosphere. Here's how it happened: Within hours of the explosions, a memo was sent to senior editors on the main BBC news programmes from Helen Boaden, head of news. While she was aware "we are dancing on the head of a pin", the BBC was very

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CBS News plans to expand its operations on the Internet to create a 24-hour news operation, potentially one of the most aggressive bets by an established media network on delivering news over the Web.globe and mailI suppose having your anchor taken down by the pyjamastani makes you think there might be something to this internet thing.Update: Turns out that media blogger and all round smart guy

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The European Court of Justice approved the Food Supplements Directive even though the court's own Advocate-General advised that the Directive was invalid under EU law.The ruling - greeted with surprise - is a defeat for a concerted campaign by more than a million British health food customers and shops. They have argued that the law, which will come into effect on August 1, will impose an

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The country's total fertility rate – which estimates the number of children that women aged 15 to 49 will have in their lifetime – increased to 1.53 children per woman in 2003, from 1.50 in 2002.globe and mailNot a big jump, but at least a move in the right direction. At this point the feds seem to think we need over 300,000 new immigrants a year in Canada just to stay more or less even. The

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Iranian Poet and musician Naze Ezizi was called to a security office in Mahabad where she was told, "Woman singing is against the law. The punishment is honour killing". Iranian officials also warned all newspapers not to publish Ezizi's poems in their daily editions.Ezizi lives in Tehran but at the time of call from the Mahabad security office, she was visiting her parents in Mahabad. When she

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Around the net in the wake of the London bombings there has been a good deal of "root cause" speculation. The trial of Mohammad Bouyeri the self-confessed - to the Court and van Gogh's mother who was in Court - killer of Theo van Gogh, He argued that he did not killl her son, "but I have chopped off his head according to the law that orders me to do so to everyone who offends Allah. I do not not

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Closed-circuit TV video showed that all four had arrived at King's Cross station by 8:30 a.m. on Thursday, about 20 minutes before the blasts began that killed at least 52 people, Clarke said.In a Scotland Yard news conference, Clarke said police had "strong forensic and other evidence" that the man who carried a bomb onto a subway train that exploded between the Aldgate and Liverpool Street

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Ian Welsh left this comment which I am shamelessly promoting to the main page:And what would I be, your lefty isolationist friend? I opposed the Serbian war, by the way. The only two wars I've approved of in the last couple decades were the Gulf War and the Afghanistan War. Why? Because in both cases they were responses to countries attacking other countries (or in Afghanistan, refusing to turn

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David Ahenakew has been stripped of his membership in the Order of Canada, effective immediately.Governor General Adrienne Clarkson signed the revocation ordinance on Monday. cbcIf Ahenakew had really suffered a diabetic lapse a sincere appology would have done the trick...But this was how his actions had to end.Ahenakew

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At Canada's own Winds of Change, Dan Darling lays out the state of play in England and the world and offeres some concrete thoughts as to what might be done to reduce the threat. You can read him here and check the comments as well.If you have time there is an excellent article, complete with the Cabinet Papers, on the origins of the Islamic threat in England at the Times.A joint Home Office and

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Mark Steyn is answering reader mail and one reader sent this: Isn't it interesting that, in addition to the G8 summit, the bombings in London coincide with the week of the 10-year anniversary of the massacre of Bosnian Muslims at Srebrenica?mark steynMark agrees and so do I. the complete failure of the UN to protect the Bosnian Muslims - thank you Kofi - was a travesty. Of course, my lefty

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Since Thursday's attacks, there have been calls for a crackdown on radical Muslims, including some from Britain's Muslim leaders."As far as I am concerned these people are not British," said Lord Nizar Ahmed, one of the few Muslims in the House of Lords. "They are foreign ideological preachers of hate who have been threatening our national security and encouraging young people into militancy.

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London began the difficult journey toward healing on Friday after in deadly bombings struck its transport system.eyewitness newsQuick, call Oprah. When I read grafs like this I am inclined to think the bombers might well have a point. On purely aesthetic grounds this sort of sentimental gibberish really does demand an RPG where it hurts.bombs

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Josephus: Enough! You know who is behind the murders. You know the world they have created. You know the centers of the hatred. Act!ben Levi: We are acting. Carefully, precisely. Without more collateral damage than we can avoid.Josephus: Are you insane? Collateral damage is the key. Precision be damned. These people will never love you which means you have one alternative: fear. Fear for their

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Scanning the blogs and the news sites I've run across a couple of more options for the West to counter terrorism short of turning much of the Middle East into a sea of glowing glass.Over at Bob Tarantino's Let it Bleed a commentor named Ferrethouse suggested that immigration from any country which allowed terrorism or terrorist incitement to occur within its borders should be cut off. I like this

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The council that admits people into the Order of Canada has begun the process of revoking the membership of former aboriginal leader David Ahenakew, who awaits a judge's ruling on a hate crime charge.Lucie Brosseau said Ahenakew was sent a letter on June 30 informing him that the Order of Canada advisory council is considering his removal."The letter offered Mr. Ahenakew the option of resigning

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The blogosphere really came of age covering the outrage in London today. The Wall Street Journal covered the blogs and the Times of London covered English bloggers. Media has shifted. When Susan woke me up this morning with news of the explosions I hit Instapundit and then worked from there. Why watch old news on the television?At the moment the best guess is the bombings were the work of some

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Suicide bombers have largely been foreigners. As Iraqis are quick to point out, Iraqis are not into this sort of thing. Neither are the foreigners any more, many of them refusing to undertake missions that just kill Iraqi civilians. So more and more suicide bombers are not volunteers, but men kidnapped and told to carry out the mission, or see family members killed. The bodies of car bombers have

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The Ambler points to Kevin Steel's disection of Rachel Marsden in the current issue of The Western Standard and the objection it has provoked from Marsden's writing equal, Judi McLeod at Canada Free PressMs. McLeod's objection is that the conservative press in Canada should be supporting the convicted stalker as one of our own.Dear God, the point of mocking the National Post for its latest

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Wrting at TechCentralStation Hans Labohm reveals just how far the folks supporting the doubtful science surrounding Kyoto are willing to go: No wonder that economists, like me, become very suspicious if scientific bodies publicly espouse one line of thinking while denouncing alternative views. That was the case when London's Royal Society issued a statement last month announcing that the national

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KMG points me in the direction of an article by Peter Hitchens in the Spectator: The only argument is, ultimately, about tactics. There is a total lack of original thought, principle or even instinct. Every debate is a pathetic variation on one parasitical theme — shall the Tory party regain its position by becoming more like New Labour, or less like New Labour?...And here is the core of it. The

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I am in the middle of writing a short review of James Kunstler's new book, The Long Emergency. Basically Kustler, who last had his knickers in a knot over Y2K and publishes the wonderfully annoyed blog, clusterfucknation has strung together the more dire predictions of the peak oil folks, tossed in a bit of panic on the resource war classh of cultures front, seasoned with a dash of pandemic and

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Continuing through the Telegraph I came across this piece from a Tory MP on the Tory leadership race in England:Cameron's speech operates at three levels. At one level, it is about the way we do politics: it is a call for civilised debate in which we acknowledge the force of our opponents' arguments, avoid opportunism, and say things we think are true even if we think they will not at first be

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Rather a good piece in the Sunday Telegraph by Quentin Letts:It is time someone published a collection of essays entitled Why I Am Still an Anglican, because it is time we realised how lucky we are in our official Church. It is time our vicars were thanked for their good works, their stoicism and their general lack of hysterics. It is time we stopped assailing the Church of England and, as they

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James Bow, who says all sorts of absurdly flattering things about me at his blog, is promoting a meme:Name three political individuals (they don’t have to be politicians; they can be bloggers) with whom you frequently disagree. Be careful who you choose, because you’ll have to use them in your next answer.My fickle finger points to Ian Welsh, Kevin Grace and Antonia Zerbisas...For each individual

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Okay, maybe I am just to weird to be invited...but there I was reading the very readable Monte Solberg and he says:On Tuesday Stephen Harper began the process of rolling out some of the Conservative Party election platform. Many of us will be helping him deliver that message this summer on the barbeque circuit. Imagine that, talking about ideas. My hunch is that the public will gobble it up.monte

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There are divers in the water as I write but it appears there are no injuries so far in this accident. Let's hope that stays. Meanwhile, this could have a surprisingly large effect on the BC economy. If that terminal is significantly damaged or if the ferry itself is, one critical link to Vancouver Island as well as other locations serviced from Horseshoe Bay will be severed the day before Canada

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An exodus from Stephen Harper's office has decimated the Conservative leader's PR team as he strives to appear more friendly and election-ready.The Canadian Press has learned that Harper is set to lose two more communications staff as he embarks on a national trek of campaign-style whistle stops.He has become a magnet for criticism as the Tories lag well behind the Liberals in public opinion

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The Conservatives will propose direct payments to all parents, combined with new tax incentives for companies to expand daycare in the workplace. Ambrose wouldn't say how much parents would get under the new social program, promising the details will be made public when Harper formally announces the scheme sometime in the next few weeks. But she defended the core strategy of giving parents money

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Alberta Premier Ralph Klein has suggested that his province may get out of the marriage business altogether in the wake of the passage of same-sex marriage legislation in the House of Commons Tuesday.CBCOutstanding.Regular readers will know that I wholeheartedly support SSM but with the ongoing proviso that the Government has no business in the marriage game in any even. Nice to see Ralph Klein

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The new policy says the following types of treatment may indicate racial discrimination in work situations: * Exclusion from formal or informal networks. * Denial of mentoring or developmental opportunities such as secondments and training that was made available to others. * Differential management practices such as excessive monitoring and documentation or deviation from written

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Souter's opinion says explicitly that the Court would leave any review of Sony’s scope for another day. This means that new technology will not be illegal just because it is capable of being used for infringement. What makes the Internet file-sharing technology potentially illegal here, according to Souter, is evidence going beyond its basic characteristics or awareness of how it may be used, and

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BRITISH government diplomats have held secret talks in Zimbabwe aimed at persuading Robert Mugabe to hand over power and return his devastated nation to the Commonwealth, it was claimed last night.Senior sources in London and Zimbabwe told Scotland on Sunday that the dictator's closest allies have been pressing the British government to relax its stance against Mugabe in advance of an attempted

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The U.S. military in Iraq has been holding face-to-face meetings with some Iraqi leaders of the insurgency there, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and the U.S. commander in charge of Iraq confirmed yesterday.The talks are part of the military's revised campaign to drive a wedge between the Iraqi and foreign insurgents, according to U.S. commanders. Pentagon officials have acknowledged the new

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I was cruising about looking at various blogs and found Ian Welsh writing at The Blogging of the President about how things were coming up roses for Osama bin Laden and al-Q'aeda and their various allies. Welsh takes as true the following:The Iraq war could never be won, because, as the Downing Street memos so eloquently note, there was never a victory condition. There was never an end state

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But with Mitchell Anderson's Monday piece about cancer, the Toronto Star has transcended humbler achievements along this line, and reached the doorstep of the B.S. Hall of Fame.Mr. Anderson's piece is entitled "What's causing cancer?" And well he might ask, for cancer is his trade: the biography line on his column describes him as "a board member of the Labour Environmental Alliance Society, a

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No, I'm not talking about Canadian health care:Such is the fashion for public debate in London at the moment, that two societies were debating the same subject, broadly speaking, on the same night last week. Intelligence2 debated whether sexual intercourse really did begin in 1963.the telegraphWhat a lovely idea. instead of the media spun pap which passes for debate in our House of Commons or,

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They first met in the cafeteria, then later shared a prison condo. When Veronneau found out about Homolka's past with Paul Bernardo, she says was already in love.ctv newsKarla Homolka's former lover speaks...I am not really interested in listening but thought it nice to know that Canada's prisons run to condos. Charming.

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Every so often veteran horse bettors get a buzz. "There's stable money on the fifth." The buzz is all about the punter's belief that, despite the safeguards and the committees once in a while the trainers and the jockeys get together to ensure that a long shot wins a race. Most of the time the buzz is wrong. Sometimes it isn't.Looks like there was a little stable money on the table in Iran.Tehran

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Blogger seems to have forgotten how wide this blog is supposed to be or something else has gon wrong with the template so there is a big gap...I will now try to get rid of the gap...

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I spent the day over in Vancouver yesterday. The bizarre bus scheduling in Victoria - which has the only bus to the ferry arrive seven minutes after the hourly Vancouver ferry leaves, means the entire exercise takes five hours to get over can't take away from the sheer beauty of the voyage.Vancouver itself is looking terribly up to the minute. Lots of road construction, new buildings clambering

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But he (Blair) said that modernisation had to come sooner rather than later.It would be too late to wait until 2014 to change the fact that 40% of the EU budget currently goes on agriculture, for example, he said."There is no reason for large transfers of money from countries like Germany and Britain to other rich countries to continue, as was proposed last week."Last week France's President

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Citing documents from the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank in New York, Waxman said the United States flew in nearly $12 billion overall in U.S. currency to Iraq from the United States between May 2003 and June 2004.This money was used to pay for Iraqi salaries, fund Iraqi ministries and also to pay some U.S. contractors.In total, more than 281 million individual bills, including more than 107 million

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Not knowing history is worse than ignorance of math, literature or almost anything else. Ignorance of history is undermining Western society's ability to talk straight and think straight. Parents must attack the problem by teaching their own children the facts. Only fools would rely on the schools.david gelernter, la timesGelernter is writing about US history but exactly the same thing can be

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It's early days but Rick Mercer has a blog...slags all political parties but, of course, does not count the NDP as political party. Funny bit on how "The Monday Report" has now been moved to Tuesday.As ever with celebrity blogs - no blogroll and no comments. My God these people are afraid of comments. Much noise about legal liability no doubt.Blogrolls can be fixed, comments enabled...welcome to

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An experimental solar-driven spacecraft went missing after its launch from a Russian submarine on Tuesday, but backers of the privately funded mission hoped it would be found in an unplanned orbit rather than floating in the sea off Russia.Cosmos 1, the world's first solar-sail spacecraft, blasted off in a converted Russian ballistic missile from the Barents Sea at the start of a mission meant to

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Those interested in the bill could have saved themselves a lot of time by watching the CBC's coverage of the story last night. While I made it into the piece, more noteworthy was Graham Henderson of CRIA delight at the bill's introduction contrasted with an actual artist, the Barenaked Ladies' Steven Page, who expressed doubt as to whether the bill would actual benefit artists rather than just

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anecdotal evidence from all over the country indicated a very low turnout, as of late afternoon. Despite this, the mullahs trotted out rosy reports of big voter turnouts, and even broadcast "live" TV coverage of voters queued up, waiting patiently to make their voices heard.The only problem was that the pictures were from past elections. One woman called up a Tehran radio station to say that she

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Bill C-60 (PDF) which amends the Copyright Act was introduced in Parliament today. Law Professor Michael Geist comments: Further, there is the notice and notice system, which obligates ISPs to send a notice if there is a claim of copyright infringement and retain "records that will allow the identity of the person to whom the electronic location belongs to be determined" but they are permitted

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The Zerb was made for blogging. Yes, I do hate her politics. Yes, she is the poster girl for Canaidan moonbattery....but it just does not matter. This gal can blog.Word is that, last night at the paper's in-house awards bash at the Liberty Grand, very few editorial staffers were in evidence, despite the booze and cheezies.Could they be boycotting the bosses over their cosying up to their merged

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"In all likelihood the Parti Quebecois will become the Quebec government within the next couple of years and Gilles Duceppe will cross into Quebec politics to become the Premier. There will be another referendum with a strong likelihood that it will pass.Why do I say that?Because no one will be able to speak for Canada in any sort of credible way. The NDP and Tories are both without influence in

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Tomorrow is the scheduled launch of Cosmos 1 the first solar sail craft humans have put into space. It will be fired into orbit by a Russian sub. Then it will deploy solar sails and ground controllers will see whether thy can tack on the solar wind.The Christian Science Monitor covers the nuts and bolts and some speculation but for me at least the real excitement is in what amounts to a ferry

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Andrew is missing...no posts since the 2nd of June. While this is good news for this site in that people come from Coyne's link pages, it would be nice if he posted once in a while. Of course, Andrew does this once in a while...but he is missed.andrew coyne

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James Fallows writes an imaginary memo to a 2015 American Presidential candidate in this months' issue of the Atlantic. Like everything Fallows writes, it is beautifully researched and written. It is also a very bleak picture of the American future. And it is predicated on two assumptions about the world economy: first, that the Chinese are going to be in a position to seize economic dominance

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Biden, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee's top Democrat, gave no specific numbers, for foreign fighters as a whole or for the percentage from Saudi Arabia. He said he was told repeatedly that the totals are going up and that Saudis are ''a disproportionate number.''....Part of the Bush administration strategy in Iraq is to improve living conditions and security for ordinary Iraqis and

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I'll say it again: the Conservative Party of Canada needs new strategists. The current bunch would manage to get swindled at a church bazaar.babbling brookscanadian conservatives

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