October 2007
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We are living in a 100-year period of terrorism, and we have another 100 years of terrorism ahead of us. We will forever be forced to live by the sword. We are not wanted in the Middle East, which is why we will have to continue to fight.
The purpose of disengagement was not to put an end to terrorism or Kassam fire. Its purpose was to stop being responsible for a million and a half Arabs who continue to multiply in conditions of poverty and madness. I am thrilled that we are out of there. The Kassams do not constitute a strategic threat, and the Palestinians will get the blow they deserve - though we do have to be cautious, because the situation is complex. Arnon Soffer, head of research, IDF Military College, Jerusalem Post
There are grown ups in Israel able to face the Long War.
There may be grown ups in Gaza and the West Bank who will realize that this is a war they will not win. And, therefore, should not fight. Or not.
If not they will be killed and the hope will be in the children born now.
The insane repeat patterns which do not work. Firing missiles into Israel is will not work. To keep doing it is insane. Grown ups will realize that, children will not. How long must the Palestinians be lead by children?
Written by jay on October 11th, 2007 with no comments.
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At this moment None of the Above has a clear lead in the recently concluded Ontario provincial election. Staying home is a vote too. Not in the election but rather on the lack of appealing choices offered.
55% did not like those choices.
A smart political leader would note that fact and consider how he or she might pick up 10% of the stay at home non-voters.
Written by jay on October 11th, 2007 with no comments.
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Distributing equipment to black farmers resettled on land seized from white owners, he said: “We have become the laughing stock because of hunger. We all need to eat, whether you are Zanu-PF or MDC. Let’s unite.”
Since Mr Mugabe began confiscating farms Zimbabwe has gone from being an agricultural exporter to a country where millions need food aid. He blames supposed Western sabotage for the situation, rather than his own actions. the telegraph via instapundit
Hilarious if you happen to have a bunch of kids who don’t have enough to eat. But, fortunately, it is all Western sabotage and has nothing to do with the forced re-distribution of land to ignorant black people simply because they were black not white. Dignity you know. Which will, no doubt, be comfort to the dying three year old.
Written by jay on October 11th, 2007 with no comments.
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My friend Alan at GenXat40 writes of the Ontario election,
And, just so I can also be among the first to point it out, between the massive win in Newfoundland yesterday for an anti-Harper Tory and today’s ditching of any vestige of a right wing agenda in Ontario, I see the message this week for the Prime Minister is not good. genx@40
I replied in his comments,
I fear, Alan, that you have managed to reason your way to a rather false conclusion; the very worse thing for Harper would have been a Tory win simply because our man John is all the red tory things Harper abhors. had he won it would have amounted to a repudiation of the sort Conservative party conservatives might support. John Tory was positioning himself to be the weak chinned David Cameron of Canadian politics, certain of nothing but his commitment to multi-cult lunacy and emission reduction.
He has now lost decisively to a miserable little man which strongly suggests that the conservative base was not drinking his watery Kool Aid. Which is grand news for Harper as it allows him to serve up the hard stuff.
Newfoundland does not matter…never has, never will.
Wimps who suck up to assorted urban minorities, fudge their positions and generally try to pretend that the are Liberals in a hurry do themselves, the conservative interest and their province/country no favours. Harper is smart enough to realize this.
Written by jay on October 11th, 2007 with 1 comment.
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In order for the film to be shown, the Government must first amend their Guidance Notes to Teachers to make clear that 1.) The Film is a political work and promotes only one side of the argument. 2.) If teachers present the Film without making this plain they may be in breach of section 406 of the Education Act 1996 and guilty of political indoctrination. 3.) Eleven inaccuracies have to be specifically drawn to the attention of school children.
How marvelous. And what are those inaccuracies?
* The film claims that melting snows on Mount Kilimanjaro evidence global warming. The Government’s expert was forced to concede that this is not correct.
* The film suggests that evidence from ice cores proves that rising CO2 causes temperature increases over 650,000 years. The Court found that the film was misleading: over that period the rises in CO2 lagged behind the temperature rises by 800-2000 years.
* The film uses emotive images of Hurricane Katrina and suggests that this has been caused by global warming. The Government’s expert had to accept that it was “not possible” to attribute one-off events to global warming.
* The film shows the drying up of Lake Chad and claims that this was caused by global warming. The Government’s expert had to accept that this was not the case.
* The film claims that a study showed that polar bears had drowned due to disappearing arctic ice. It turned out that Mr Gore had misread the study: in fact four polar bears drowned and this was because of a particularly violent storm.
* The film threatens that global warming could stop the Gulf Stream throwing Europe into an ice age: the Claimant’s evidence was that this was a scientific impossibility.
* The film blames global warming for species losses including coral reef bleaching. The Government could not find any evidence to support this claim.
* The film suggests that the Greenland ice covering could melt causing sea levels to rise dangerously. The evidence is that Greenland will not melt for millennia.
* The film suggests that the Antarctic ice covering is melting, the evidence was that it is in fact increasing.
* The film suggests that sea levels could rise by 7m causing the displacement of millions of people. In fact the evidence is that sea levels are expected to rise by about 40cm over the next hundred years and that there is no such threat of massive migration.
* The film claims that rising sea levels has caused the evacuation of certain Pacific islands to New Zealand. The Government are unable to substantiate this and the Court observed that this appears to be a false claim. newsbusters
Temperatures here in Victoria are just returning to normal after Al Gore’s short stop to tell more lies and show his resoundingly inaccurate bit of alarmist propoganda.
Written by jay on October 9th, 2007 with 2 comments.
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The main package of interventions Mr. Malunga offers (vaccinations, vitamin A, antenatal care, breastfeeding promotion and bed nets) was tested in a Canadian-funded pilot in 11 countries in West Africa and in 2003 was shown to reduce mortality by 20 per cent. Canada is the largest funder, globally, of both vaccinations against the killer childhood illnesses (at a cost of about $10 a child) and of vitamin A supplementation, which typically costs less than five cents a child but cuts mortality by 23 per cent.
Indeed, the most striking thing about these interventions, beyond how well they work, is that they are not, as the saying goes, brain surgery. They are ludicrously cheap and easy to deliver. Kenya, for example, cut child deaths from malaria by 44 per cent in the past four years simply by giving out for free bed nets that cost about $2. globe and mail
Before we go rushing off to make doubtful billion dollar investments in the doubtful “science” of global warming and CO2 reductions we might want to think about how many children a billion dollars in Vitamin A and bednets might save.
Which is what Bjorn Lomborg is driving at in his devastating opinion piece in the Washington Post today.
Bottom line: it is almost certainly cheaper and will save more lives to spend money on problems like childhood malaria than it is to spend much more money on carbon dioxide control measures which are unlikely to work in any event.
Written by jay on October 8th, 2007 with no comments.
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To my deep regret, the Western Standard has decided to stop publishing our print edition.
It’s a purely financial decision. Even though our advertising revenues were stronger than ever, with marquee brands like GM, Mazda, BMW and Air Canada filling our pages, and even though we had the most loyal subscribers in the business, with an unheard-of 80% renewal rate, we just weren’t close enough to profit. western standard
Making a magazine work is hard. Doing it on limited funds is very nearly impossible. Ezra gave it a shot for which he deserves kudos.
Conservative magazines tend to have a relatively limited audience in Canada (or the US for that matter). The only thing which will allow them to expand that audience is the ability to bring something fresh to the mix. Having Mark Steyn or Colby Cosh writing was a good move; but not enough when the news value of the magazine was minimal. (Which, of course, it almost by definition had to be given the publishing schedule.)
Dead tree magazines and newspapers make increasingly less sense as more and more people consume their news and opinions online.
What’s unfortunate about the Western Standard story is that, had Ezra spent the same money building a serious online publication it would be a huge, well read, must read website. All that paper and all that ink was just overhead the web lets you do without.
It’s encouraging that the Western Standard may rise from the dead with it’s online presence - and hats off to Kevin Steel who is pretty much the whole of that presence. But it is discouraging that Kevin - no doubt following orders - has been asking Canadian conservative bloggers to contribute to the Shotgun for free.
Here’s a hint: go read Nick over at Ghost of a Flea. The couple of million dollars Ezra pissed away on the paper version of WS would have bought a huge, vibrant, well informed and largely untapped conservative resource. Instead, it has sent a lot of trees to the landfill.
Written by jay on October 6th, 2007 with 3 comments.
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Paul Wells points to a Globe and Mail article which suggests the ROM new wing, well, leaks.
I spent several years of my life just down the street and I suspect that leaks are the least of the ROM’s worries. Here’s a surprise. It snows on Bloor Street. And there is wind. Stuff - and chaps staggering back from the Duke - freezes. Then it thaws. Then it slides down the hundred feet of glass and kills every single one of Miss Smith’s first grade class.
If you live in Vancouver and walk into the Courthouse you get dripped on. Do the same thing in April at the ROM and you risk the icicle to the top of the head or a ton and a half of semi-frozen snow avalanching on your noggin.
Written by jay on October 5th, 2007 with 1 comment.
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“He is really sharp, he cuts to the chase. There’s no bullshit about him,” the banker said. “I like him. He rubs some people the wrong way … he’s a little bit cocky,” he said. reuters
Mark Carney, economics PhD, Harvard, Oxford, Goldman Sachs, 42 - all that Iggy had but twenty years younger and with serious, earned, money and the next Governor of the Bank of Canada…hmm, bet he speaks French. (Yup, “Carney had to hone his French after arriving in Ottawa to meet the bilingual demands of public service” Bloomberg)
Which would mean, assuming that Harper either wins a majority or hits the minority wall, our man Mark in three years can switch to the politically pointy end of public service for either the CPC or the Liberals. And, given that Harper appointed him over the head of a 35 year vet, I can’t but think that the CPC might be the ticket.
Written by jay on October 5th, 2007 with no comments.
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The leader of destitute North Korea gave his presidential guest from the South four tonnes of prized pine mushrooms worth up to $2.6 million at their summit this week, South Korean media reported on Friday. reuters
Ok, perhaps I am a bit strange but I can’t help but admire Kim Jong-il. The perfect gift.
“Hi honey, I’m home.”
“What’s in the several trucks parked outside dear?”
“Pine Mushrooms.”
“No, really, what’s in the trucks?”
“Four tonnes of pine mushrooms, honeybunch. A tonne more than that twat Kim Dae-jung got.”
“I’m thinking quiche….”
Mr. Roh is in a world of trouble on the home front.
Written by jay on October 5th, 2007 with 1 comment.
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