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Weekly Archive: October 09, 2005 - October 15, 2005



October 15, 2005

Orgies at teen proms!
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What I've never understood is why a school would pay and sponsor a purely social event. I get the appeal of having some sort of rite of passage, but let the kids and parents set it up and pay for...


Muslim Rage: Danish newspaper being threatened over cartoons
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A Danish newspaper ran a series of satirical cartoons featuring the prophet Mohammed. Not surprisingly, they've had to hire security guards.


A message to Cindy Sheehan
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A message to Cindy Sheehan. I've been told you read my blog. If so, follow this link, and answer the question. It deserves an answer.


Michelle Malkin or Michael Moore: Who serves the truth?
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Michelle Malkin provides a round-up of history in the making in Iraq. Michael Moore, maker of documentaries that document nothing, makes no mention of the Iraqi constitution whatsoever. And he calls George W Bush Orwellian?



October 14, 2005

What did you expect? She's still a man!
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Another one of those things that everyone should have seen coming, but a combination of willful blindness and abject stupidity compounded with a shocking lack of common sense has compounded the misery of people whose lives are full of misery...


Poet, Activist, Friend of Sheehan, Mangler of the Bible
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I wish liberals would not quote from the Bible. Not because I don't think the Word of God is for them. Of course it is. But because they can't resist misquoting the Bible in order to make a political point....


Bush vs Sheehan: Staging the news?
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There is a difference between being organized and holding a staged event. One runs smoothly, the other manipulates. One has real people, the other actors in roles. Compare these two news events and see which one you think is staged.


Canadian Health Care: Wondering how long it'll take us to die
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Gruesome as it sounds, this seems to be the approach to fixing health care....


Good news -- Kyoto is dead! Someone tell the Liberals
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From the Ottawa Citizen:Polls always show that Canadians claim to support environmental measures. But polls only show good intentions, not reality. If one thing was clear this summer, it's that the Canadian public will not under any circumstances be told...


Getting fired from a government job? Ka-ching!
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From the Ottawa Sun:According to the government's little-known guidelines, employees who work for cabinet ministers and ministers of state are eligible for rich departing rewards that come close to a full year's pay. "Employees have a right to severance pay...



October 13, 2005

What about Jesus, God, and the Bible? What about rules?
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From Bay Windows, a story about two bloggers who decided to punish "homophobic" ministers in African-American churches:Last month, [Keith] Boykin and [Jasmyne] Cannick profiled nine ministers on their Web sites...Throughout the campaign, Boynkin and Cannick argued that the ministers' homophobic...


Bill Clinton's General, Wesley Clark, is stuck on stupid
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The New York Times seems to be less stuck on stupid when it comes to Iraq. Unfortunately, the same can't be said of Wesley Clark.


Harold Pinter and what it takes to win a Nobel Prize
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For the Nobel Prize in Literature, apparently impeccable leftie politics and a pottie mouth.Harold Pinter, Nobel Prize...



October 12, 2005

Cindy Sheehan -- Putting family "above all things"
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Cindy Sheehan gives us a lecture on family values. But her family is suffering because Cindy Sheehan has, for some reason, neglected to have a headstone placed at Casey Sheehan's grave. [Apparently, she can afford a brand new car.]Cindy Sheehan,...


Best of the Blogs
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From the print edition of the Toronto Sun, in the "Best of the Blogs", page 21:WHAT'S HOT AND ON THE WEB Not just black and white Angry in the Great White North (angrygwn.mu.nu) offers an analysis of a proposal by...


USS Cole Remembered
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The USS Cole is remembered today. Remember as well the link to the 2000 millennium attack plot, and Sandy Berger's destruction of information related to the Clinton's administration's reaction to that plot.


So which is it? Army or Navy
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Noticed this interesting entry in Sitemeter:Domain Name: army.mil (Military) IP Address: 147.240.236.# (Naval Ocean Systems Center) ISP: Naval Ocean Systems Center So why is "army.mil" being serviced through the Naval Ocean Systems Center ISP? Just wondering....


Why this flag won't fly
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The Newfoundland Tricolour has been raised! But there is a fundamental reason why this flag won't fly in today's Canada.Newfoundland...



October 11, 2005

Taxing the Church -- Why it's a bad idea...for the State
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In my post about Slinger's suggestion about how to deal the Catholic Church with the audacity to enforce her own rules within the walls of her own churches, I focused on how the attitude Slinger exhibits essentially puts politicians, and...


The clueless artistic elite
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Any writer who works in the cluelessness of the artisitic elite deserves to be read. So go read! Or are you waiting for some CBC hack to read it for you on the air? Not going to happen:In 2005, Canadian...


Salvation or a Bowl of Soup
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Joey Slinger of the Toronto Star gets clever, pushing hard to put the Roman Catholic Church in her place. Why? For daring to decide who does and does not get communion. Who the hell to these guys think they are?Church...


Make the CBC a bastion of eco-communism
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From the opinion pages of the Toronto Star:Patrick Watson [former chairman of the CBC] has taken the recalcitrant bull by the horns in proposing a bold new start for public broadcasting in Canada, and demolishing the CBC in its present...


People who watch the BBC are nutty
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From the BBC:Former South African President Nelson Mandela has topped a BBC poll to find the person most people would like to lead a fantasy world government. More than 15,000 people worldwide took part in the interactive Power Play game,...


I'm fed up with engineering
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Engineering is headed to the scrap heap as a profession in Ontario. Why? Because people are forgetting that engineering is about being scientifically right, not about about being politically correct.engineering, affirmative action...


Catholic Carnival #19
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The Catholic Carnival #19 is up at Living Catholicism....



October 09, 2005

Newsflash: Norway surrenders to al Qaeda
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Norway has preemptively surrendered to Islamic terrorists. Preemptive surrender? It just like George W Bush's doctrine of "preemptive war". But where preemptive war means to take action against an enemy before a massive terror attack, preemptive surrender is to guess...


"7 Myths About Islam" -- from the History News Network
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Read the whole article. To entice you, here is the countdown:First, it is untrue that Islam is the world’s fastest-growing religion. Second, despite the claims of even President Bush in a number of public statements, Islam is not solely a...


Justice in Ontario -- Blind, but not if you're black
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In Toronto, black community leaders are demanding special treatment for blacks in the schools and in the justice system. But according to Michael Moore, Canada is a paradise.