Well, Someone was sober

h/t attu who is rarely safe for work

Written by jay on June 22nd, 2008 with 1 comment.
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Boo!

As Father Dall’Oglio warns darkly, Muslims are in dialogue with a pope who evidently does not merely want to exchange pleasantries about coexistence, but to convert them. This no doubt will offend Muslim sensibilities, but Muslim leaders are well-advised to remain on good terms with Benedict XVI. Worse things await them. There are 100 million new Chinese Christians, and some of them speak of marching to Jerusalem - from the East. A website entitled Back to Jerusalem proclaims, “From the Great Wall of China through Central Asia along the silk roads, the Chinese house churches are called to preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ all the way back to Jerusalem.” spengler, the asia times

One hesitates to imagine what the more excitable Mohammedans will make of the idea that Christianity has been in the conversion business several hundred years longer than they have. Surely the Socks can pony up a complaint about the Pope.

Imagine suggesting that people who believe in Islam will, well, go straight to Hell. Can one say this? Does this ensure a Human Rights Complaint? Is evangelization contrary to the Canadian Human Rights Act?

Written by jay on June 22nd, 2008 with 3 comments.
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Strangely, The Spectator thinks this is “Market Failure”

watch the oil tankers bobbing about the Gulf. A popular flutter among the gambling rich recently has been to hire a tanker, fill it with oil (it will hold two million barrels) and park it in front of a refinery. Watch the price; if you lose your nerve, you can quickly dock and sell your cargo; but a $1 rise means you’ve netted $1.5 million. During the 1979–80 oil shock, 30 tankers were famously moored off Manhattan. Their owners spied on each other for any sign of movement until market spirits fell abruptly, and all 30 simultaneously raced to dock. the spectator

Tony Curzon Price writes a bit about oil prices and how the high price of oil is likely due to speculation. He takes The Economist to task on the basis that the “free market” is not working.

Mr. Price seems to be incapable of understanding the critical role speculators play in discovering price. He quotes George Soros “Oil prices are high because of a series of self-feeding beliefs, which, as George Soros says, are ‘intellectually unsound, potentially destabilising and distinctly harmful’. Soros has it about right and I have to bet he is short in the oil market.

Markets correct, often violently. The oil market is no different. Sometime in the next few days, weeks or months, the tankers will rush to port. When they do the price will fall and the shorts will make perhaps the biggest killing ever seen on the planet. And what they are being paid for is providing the needed correction to a market in which real supply and real demand are in rough balance but there is a perceived gap. That is the value of the short seller in any market.

Written by jay on June 22nd, 2008 with no comments.
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You say Zimbabwe, I say Rwanda: Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off

“We can’t ask the people to cast their vote on June 27 when that vote will cost their lives. We will no longer participate in this violent sham of an election,” Tsvangirai said.

He addressed a news conference in Zimbabwe’s capital after thousands of militants loyal to Mugabe prevented opposition supporters from gathering for its main campaign rally. the star

Tsvangirai made the right call. Unfortunately he may have made it too late.

Peter Osborne makes the case for our (meaning the West’s) duty to protect; but given the WEst’s capitulation an Darfur there is no reason at all to suppose we are likely willing to go in and prevent the creeping genocide which is Robert Mugabe and the thugs who surround him.

After all, to march a brigade or two of well equiped Western soldiers into a failed state in Africa would look a bit too much like neo-colonialism (or adult supervision which is even more insulting). Best to leave the Africans to sort it out in their own, culturally approved of, manner with Chinese supplied AK47s and the delights of the machete.

Heaven forbid that we trample on the soverign rights of nations and the inherent right of elderly black potentates to preside over the slaughter or starvation of their political opponents.

The UN, the bien pensant and the lefty internationalists cling to the Treaty of Westphailia and solemnly intone that “We Must Always Forget the Lessons of Rwanda.

And so we shall.

Written by jay on June 22nd, 2008 with no comments.
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