June 2007
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Mr. K continues his feud with Chris Selly by accusing him of nasty linking. I’ll just quote the odious little liar so you won’t have to slime your browser going to his site (which I did take a screen shot of as Mr. K is happy to rewrite history).
Because he links to bigots who promote that old anti-Semitic canard, the “kosher tax”; a woman who calls for genocide in Africa; and another guy who calls himself a “bigot”. He’s a tit, in other words. And I still don’t understand why Adam hired him.
I’m the bigot guy and if you are really interested you can go over to James Bow’s discussion of my usage. Mr. K remains irony challenged.
Joining me in the links of hate list are my friend Kevin Michael Grace (”kosher tax”) and Kate MacMillan of Small Dead Animals. Interestingly Kinsella cannot find Grace’s original article and instead relies upon reports of Kevin’s article published on Usenet. I suspect that Kinsella’s use of the word “promote” in this instance is actionable. Indeed, having read the article in question, I could find no “promotion” of the anti-Semitic canard of the kosher tax if only because the words “kosher tax” nowhere appear in that article. And it is typical of Kinsella that he smears on no evidence and in the face of the face (know to Kinsella) that KMG is perhaps the only person in Canada to have been positively vetted by the Canadian Human Rights Commission as not anti-Semitic. I hope Kevin will be publishing chapter and verse on that.
His smear of Kate is, if anything, even more despicable. “a woman who calls for genocide”. Here is what Kate wrote:
“Is there a point where we are allowed to stop feeling sympathy for these people, seal off the borders and just let nature take its course?” SDA note, the liar Kinsella linked to a rather nasty anti-Kate site not being able to find the post itself I assume
Only in Kinsellaland is a question transformed into a “call”. Calling for genocide is rather different from expressing frustration at the seeming hopelessness of the situation in Africa. But in the liar Kinsella’s hands that question is twisted into a call to action.
For some reason, known only to his dishonest little mind, Kinsella seems to have it in for Chris Selly and, lacking any better stick to beat him with, grabbed his links. Lame, but even more lame as the liar Kinsella sends me a few uniques from the link to me he has had for months on his own site. He used to have another link to me but took it down when he realized that it was a lie and enabled me to call him a liar forever more. Good news Warren, I have a screen shot of that too.
Makes you wonder why the National Post lets a liar and a cheap smear artist continue to write for them. Perhaps not for much longer.
Update: Chris Selly in a completely pleasant way hand the liar Kinsella his head. Edward Michael George dons his hazmat suit and points out that for donkey’s years Mr. K. linked to arch lefty anti-Zionist (and possibly anti-Semite - see I got the memo, there is a difference) Robert McClelland on his blog roll but lately has demoted him to jerk (though it is still a link, a concept which the liar Kinsella still has trouble grasping.)
Update II: Kate weighs in as do her commentors,
Warren Kinsella is the Tanya Harding of Canadian politics.
Written by jay on June 5th, 2007 with 5 comments.
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Somewhere along the way, I stopped believing that a scientific consensus exists on climate change. Certainly there is no consensus at the very top echelons of scientists — the ranks from which I have been drawing my subjects — and certainly there is no consensus among astrophysicists and other solar scientists, several of whom I have profiled. If anything, the majority view among these subsets of the scientific community may run in the opposite direction. Not only do most of my interviewees either discount or disparage the conventional wisdom as represented by the IPCC, many say their peers generally consider it to have little or no credibility. In one case, a top scientist told me that, to his knowledge, no respected scientist in his field accepts the IPCC position. the national post via SDA
This is what happens when a journalist actually does his job - “When I began, I accepted the prevailing view that scientists overwhelmingly believe that climate change threatens the planet.” Now, having interviewed a couple of dozen world class scientists,
Somewhere along the way, I stopped believing that a scientific consensus exists on climate change. Certainly there is no consensus at the very top echelons of scientists — the ranks from which I have been drawing my subjects — and certainly there is no consensus among astrophysicists and other solar scientists, several of whom I have profiled. If anything, the majority view among these subsets of the scientific community may run in the opposite direction.
Poor Harper is going to look pretty silly having done the full green suck up when it turns out that the entire IPCC theory is at best, not proven, at worst simply wrong. So will Dion, Layton, Blair, Bush and, most of all Algore. Not that he will care as there is a chance he may be able to parlay his hysteria into the Presidency.
Written by jay on June 4th, 2007 with no comments.
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The Iranian clerics have much to fear, and not just from foreign threats. Their incompetence and corruption has ruined the economy. Unemployment among young Iranians is about 50 percent. Some 40 percent of the population is on the government payroll, and there is not enough oil money to pay off all the people who do support the government (about a third of the population). Thus the government keeps printing more money, and the result in an inflation rate of over 20 percent. The Iranian people are getting increasingly restless, and, more ominously, surly. strategy page
My sense is that Iran is an increasingly brittle society with an increasingly fragile economy. The mullahs can, probably, keep order in the streets by financing street fighting militas and giving them a free hand. What they cannot do is find more gasoline or food.
Internal opposition will tend to increase as economic conditions deteriorate. One of the reasons why sanctions against the regime should be tried is that they have a serious chance of working.
Or, of course, we could just reconcile ourselves to an Iranian bomb. A position a bit easier to adopt in Victoria BC than, say, Israel or even Italy.
Written by jay on June 3rd, 2007 with no comments.
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In other places people have suggested that I am anti-Palestinian. I am not. I am anti-Palestinian “leadership” and I am against the gunmen of all factions. So, it appears are many Palestinians.
Papers reported that some people in Gaza even want the Israelis to return to the Strip. Faiz Abbas and Muhammad Awwad, journalists for the Israeli-Arab weekly Al-Sinara, wrote: “People in Gaza are hoping that Israel will reenter the Gaza Strip, wipe out both Hamas and Fatah, and then withdraw again… They also say that, since the [start of the] massacres, they [have begun to] miss the Israelis, since Israel is more merciful than [the Palestinian gunmen] who do not even know why they are fighting and killing one another. It’s like organized crime, [they said]. Once, we resisted Israel together, but now we call for the return of the Israeli army to Gaza.” [20]
Al-Hayat Al-Jadida columnist Yahya Rabah wrote: “When the national unity government was formed, I thought, ‘This will be a government of national salvation.’ If a government that includes Fatah, Hamas, other factions and independents associated with [various] factions has not been able to save the day, it means that no one can, unless Israel decides that its army should intervene. Then it will invade [the Gaza Strip], kill and arrest [people] - but this time not as an occupying [force] but as an international peace-keeping force. Look what we have come to, how far we have deteriorated, and what we have done to ourselves.” [21]
Palestinian journalist Majed Azzam wrote: “We should have the courage to acknowledge the truth… The [only] thing that prevents the chaos and turmoil in Gaza from spreading to the West Bank is the presence of the Israeli occupation [in the West Bank]… [as opposed to] its absence from the Gaza Strip.” [22] memri
It is extremely likely that amidst the horror of Gaza there are literally hundreds of thousands of decent people whose lives are being destroyed by the bastards in Hamas and Fatah. But if they speak out the bastards - in the great tradition of the Troll of Ramallah tm - will shoot them. If the world had the wit it would cut off all support to Hamas and Fatah and figure out how to channel aid directly to the people of Palestine. Oddly, the people who probably know how to do this best are the Israelis.
Written by jay on June 2nd, 2007 with no comments.
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From Gateway Pundit here is a picture of Venezuelan students flooding the streets to for the third day of protests against Chavez’s shutting down of oppo media.
I post it a) because I would like to see Chavez gone sooner rather than later, b) when next you see a picture of the lamer peace demos remember what a real crowd shot looks like.
Update: The Belmont Club looks at who’s Chavez positive and their ethics:
My own personal opinion is that anyone would have to be a fool or on the Left not to recognize an incipient tyrant in Hugo Chavez. That does not necessarily mean that his opponents, like the owners of RCTV are honest or upstanding men. They may very well be thugs. That doesn’t change the fact that Hugo Chavez is a thug as well. But it seems clear to me that the Left’s criteria for judging fascisms is entirely partisan. Although they use such words as “democratically elected” or “legitimate” to justify Chavez, none of these words are really operative, except as protective coloration. What matters is that he is “their guy”. He is their thug. Principle, clearly on the Left and possibly among conservatives too, runs a far second to belief. belmont club
Not at this blog….
Written by jay on June 1st, 2007 with no comments.
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