Sep

30

The Big Lie Walking

September 30, 2006 | Leave a Comment

The liar Waren Kinsella provokes strong reactions in the Canadian blogosphere. Partly because he engages in the doubtful practice of suing bloggers, mainly because he is such a throughgoing asshole.
My friend Kevin Grace has compiled something of a compendium of the liar Kinsella’s more fragrant falsehoods. You can read several of the liar Kinsella’s greatest […]

Sep

24

Crunch

September 24, 2006 | 1 Comment

Over at The Agonist a guy has put together some graphs about the US housing market. Not pretty.
If it was just the housing market it would be troubling but not tragic. But the fact is that the leveraging and the refinancing which has been going on for the last three or four years means that […]

Sep

23

Aye, Aye Captain

September 23, 2006 | Leave a Comment

as a nation we need to end this argument if we want to get some consensus on engaging the enemy, and the enemy is not Bill Clinton.captains quarters
Dead right Captain…nor is it Bush pere or fils. The enemy is a disperate bunch of Islamofascists here and abroad.
More importantly though we have to be clear […]

Sep

20

Apprehension of Bias

September 20, 2006 | Leave a Comment

While admitting that Arar had suffered a “tremendous injustice,” Harper would only say the government “will act swiftly” based on the recommendations. cbc
There is no doubt that the Liberals owe Arar an apology as this occured on their watch. But that is amazing is the phrase “would only say” which implies Harper was being mingy […]

Sep

19

French Solidarity

September 19, 2006 | Leave a Comment

I have to hand it to the French, not even their national idol Jerry Lewis could come up with a foreign policy quite this wacky. Concerned that the French contingent of maitre’ds in Lebannon may be targetted by angry hezbollah dude who have real guns and rockets and stuff, that flower of French prefidity came […]

Sep

19

ITLAPD

September 19, 2006 | Leave a Comment

Around our house ITLAPD is just after Halloween in terms of celebration. Arrrgh, Aye, Aye-Aye…well, if you don’t know, here’s the video:

Sep

17

Imagine

September 17, 2006 | Leave a Comment

Imagine you were a Pope with a deep interest in and knowledge of Islam.
Imagine you believed very deeply in the unity of faith and reason. That you took the Enlightenment with reservations but seriously.
Imagine that you saw what might be the terminal decline of your Church in Europe and Europe itself. And imagine that you […]

Sep

17

Making Muslims Babies

September 17, 2006 | Leave a Comment

Neither the pope nor the Muslim clerics are the only actors here. Tens of thousands of Muslims chose to act in violence or condone violence yesterday. Millions more supported them in this, the evidence being that Muslim politicians jumped on the bandwagon. These millions of Muslims are hardly candles in the wind, helplessly manipulated by […]

Sep

16

Orianna Fallaci

September 16, 2006 | Leave a Comment

Kathy at Relapsed Catholic rounds up comment on Orianna Fallaci who died yesterday.
While there is still every chance that the current onflict between the Islamofascists and the West will be won with words, it will not be won by cringe and this is the point Fallaci made again and again in her leter books. She […]

Sep

15

Seething

September 15, 2006 | Leave a Comment

During his speech in Cologne, the Pope read lines from a book detailing a conversation between the Christian Emperor Manuel Paleologos II and an educated Persian on the truths of Christianity and Islam.
He quoted the emperor as saying: “Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil […]

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