Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Hurricane Hazel Taught Us A Lesson...

...and we ended up with a flood control plan and the TRCA. It took us a few years but Kinsella's advice that we could learn much from our US cousins is a joke. What have they accomplished since Katrina?
Let's learn a lesson from Americans


Kinsella: If something like Hurricane Irene had hit Toronto, or Montreal, or Calgary or Vancouver, would we have been ready? I know, I know. Toronto, Montreal and Calgary are sufficiently inland that any hurricane would have a difficult time causing the damage Irene did in places like New York City. I know.

Now That We Have A Break In The Media Circus Let's Get Back To Reality,,,

Monday, August 29, 2011

NO! NO! NO...

...are people that niave that they don't think there weren't discussions between Layton and the NDP organization about making some political points from a sad but inevitable event.

Was Christie Blatchford unfair to skewer the Layton ‘canonization’?

118 Comments

De mortuis nil nisi bonum. This Latin phrase, meaning “Say nothing but good about the dead,” broadly sums up scores of letters that came in this week. Specifically, these notes critiqued Christie Blatchford’s Tuesday column about Jack Layton, titled, “It’s fitting his death is a public spectacle.”

Unlike other columnists, Ms. Blatchford didn’t allow the emotional impact of the NDP leader’s death to cloud her image of the letter he was credited as writing on his deathbed. In her words, “it’s remarkable because it shows what a canny, relentless, thoroughly ambitious fellow Mr. Layton was … the letter is full of sophistry … [it] is vainglorious too.”

This assessment brought in hundreds of angry notes, either as comments on fullcomment.com (the blog of the National Post comment pages) or to the Letters mailbox. Many of these notes evidently were written from the heart.

“I know Christie Blatchford’s job is to criticize and create controversy,” wrote Sharon Griffin. “But couldn’t she have taken at least one day off, out of respect? Read More »

Reality!
Brian Topp admits he's considering a leadership run to succeed Layton
Diebel Analysis: Will Olivia run for the top NDP job?
NDP leadership race effectively starts now
NDP already picking up where Layton left off — McDonough












Saturday, August 27, 2011

CancerAids! Bringing Brevity To The Spoken/Oral Word...

Christie Blatchford: Testing the limits of civil discourse

141 Comments

“Ahhhh,” my friend Mary said cheerily early one morning this week around the kitchen table where a bunch of us have coffee before our run, “CancerAids.”
I’d been telling the group about the deluge of ghastly email I’ve been receiving about a recent column, and was in mid-description of same when Mary interrupted.
“CancerAids?” the rest of us chorused. Read More »



Sun News Adds Another Gladiator Of Truth...

Coren steps into the Arena

Michael Coren agrees there is a fine line between being sensitive to issues and aggressively pushing for answers — and with his new show, he consistently plans to cross that boundary.

...and as a reader, who made a comment to the article, we are going to get all viewpoints; "He will also have a show where people like Sid Ryan, Michael Shapcott, James Clark, John Clarke, Harry Kopyto, Andrea Calver, Tarek Fatah, Justin Trotier, Carolyn Parrish, Peggy Nash, John Downs, Martha Hall Findlay, Atif Kubrusi, Michael Skinner, Akassh Maharaj, Burt Archer and a whole host of others will be provided with their own left leaning soap box.
Only those who never watched the show would think all sides were not represented. There were hard line and orthodox Muslims who were regulars, gay activists, pro life activists and people from all the political parties."



REALITY...

Opinion

Editorial: A politician, not a saint

He was little more than the leading salesman for a discredited brand of politics. Despite the prolonged rending of hearts in Ottawa and Toronto over the death of Jack Layton, that - and a buck-fifty - would buy you a coffee in most parts of the rest of Canada.

Layton turns into a legend


John Ivison: How did this happen? How, in the space of a week, did Jack Layton become a Canadian icon — Tommy Douglas and Terry Fox all wrapped in one?


...and from the public; "Oh please John, Layton's purported status as a legend and/or an icon is an invention of the Canadian media, many of whose employees are clearly in need of an aging pop-pol to go gaga over.  Layton's iconic stature will fade within a couple of weeks of his burial as you and your colleagues find other newsworthy flashes in the pan to blabber about.  Dress him up however you like, he was at the end of the day an opportunistic politician who stood for whatever might get him another photo opp.  If anything, this bizarre adulation is putting more people off than it is bringing over to Layton's cause - whatever that was."








Thursday, August 25, 2011

And It Looks Like He Still Has A Shot...

MARGARET WENTE


Message to McGuinty: Most green-job schemes have been miserable failures

Message to McGuinty: Most of the schemes have been miserable failures

"Rubber Rooms" Have Been Integrated Into The 3Rs...

...how does the system work in your area schools?

Opinions


Teachers who don’t deserve union protection

You Have To Wonder Why Mother Nature Is Not Mourning?

So far "she" has sent down two deluges of rain to wash away people's messages of mourning...

John Moore: Why people are mourning Jack Layton


Blatchford is right that our society overflows with false sentimentality. But she missed that, this time, it’s not false.

Jack Layton’s death has precipitated an outpouring amongst Canadians. In Toronto, the public square in front of city hall where he served as a councillor has been blanketed in a rainbow of chalk-written tributes. People who never met the man have wept. They will likely turn mourners away at his laying in state.
For some this is all a little overwrought. Ground zero for that perspective would be my friend Christie Blatchford’s column in Tuesday’s National Post. Christie’s greatest skill is her ability to not only take the public pulse but to interpret it. She’s one of the few print columnists who can prompt you to say “Exactly!” out loud while you read her. But her column on the keening accompanying Jack Layton to his final rest has provoked a ferocious pushback. True, the column was “liked” on Facebook by thousands but it has also drawn a record number of flaming online comments and countless emails to Christie, many she tells me opening with the salutation “Dear C–t.” Read More »



Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Possibly A Lesson For Canadians...

Opinion


In India, charity begins – and stays – at home

A Valid Question?

...who are these "rebel leaders?" Who do they represent? What are their politics? Have the inmates taken over the zoo?

George Jonas: Could Libya’s next rulers be worse than Gaddafi?

If jihadists fill Libya’s power vacuum, the result may dwarf all of Bush’s foreign policy errors combined.
Even allowing for the uneasy relationship between reporting and reality from both sides in Libya’s civil war, Muammar Gaddafi’s regime seems on its last legs. Feeling jubilant over the downfall of Libya’s tyrant wouldn’t be a hard task as a rule. A particularly loathsome specimen even by Middle East standards, Gaddafi’s departure would have felt like a net gain for humanity as well as for his own country in 1969, when he seized power; in the 1970s, when he was murdering his rivals and opponents; in the 1980s, when he was sponsoring and facilitating terrorism all over the world; and in the 1990s and 2000s, when he was merely assassinating dissidents while pretending to turn over a new leaf.
But, except for token shows of force, no one took him on. He was virtually rehabilitated, even fussed over at the 2009 G8 summit by the very NATO leaders who spent the last few months trying to dethrone and preferably pulverize him. Read More »



Jack Layton’s letter to Canadians???

Before his death, Jack Layton wrote a letter to Canadians. Here it is in full.

...The letter was first presented as Mr. Layton’s last message to Canadians, as something written by him on his deathbed; only later was it more fully described as having been “crafted” with party president Brian Topp, Mr. Layton’s chief of staff Anne McGrath and his wife and fellow NDP MP Olivia Chow. IMHO it is meant as a message to the faithful that will be involved in electing the new leader.

Dear Friends,

Tens of thousands of Canadians have written to me in recent weeks to wish me well. I want to thank each and every one of you for your thoughtful, inspiring and often beautiful notes, cards and gifts. Your spirit and love have lit up my home, my spirit, and my determination.

Unfortunately my treatment has not worked out as I hoped. So I am giving this letter to my partner Olivia to share with you in the circumstance in which I cannot continue.

I recommend that Hull-Aylmer MP Nycole Turmel continue her work as our interim leader until a permanent successor is elected.

I recommend the party hold a leadership vote as early as possible in the New Year, on approximately the same timelines as in 2003, so that our new leader has ample time to reconsolidate our team, renew our party and our program, and move forward towards the next election.

A few additional thoughts:

To other Canadians who are on journeys to defeat cancer and to live their lives, I say this: please don’t be discouraged that my own journey hasn’t gone as well as I had hoped. You must not lose your own hope. Treatments and therapies have never been better in the face of this disease. You have every reason to be optimistic, determined, and focused on the future. My only other advice is to cherish every moment with those you love at every stage of your journey, as I have done this summer.

To the members of my party: we’ve done remarkable things together in the past eight years. It has been a privilege to lead the New Democratic Party and I am most grateful for your confidence, your support, and the endless hours of volunteer commitment you have devoted to our cause. There will be those who will try to persuade you to give up our cause. But that cause is much bigger than any one leader. Answer them by recommitting with energy and determination to our work. Remember our proud history of social justice, universal health care, public pensions and making sure no one is left behind. Let’s continue to move forward. Let’s demonstrate in everything we do in the four years before us that we are ready to serve our beloved Canada as its next government.
To the members of our parliamentary caucus: I have been privileged to work with each and every one of you. Our caucus meetings were always the highlight of my week. It has been my role to ask a great deal from you. And now I am going to do so again. Canadians will be closely watching you in the months to come. Colleagues, I know you will make the tens of thousands of members of our party proud of you by demonstrating the same seamless teamwork and solidarity that has earned us the confidence of millions of Canadians in the recent election.

To my fellow Quebecers: On May 2nd, you made an historic decision. You decided that the way to replace Canada’s Conservative federal government with something better was by working together in partnership with progressive-minded Canadians across the country. You made the right decision then; it is still the right decision today; and it will be the right decision right through to the next election, when we will succeed, together. You have elected a superb team of New Democrats to Parliament. They are going to be doing remarkable things in the years to come to make this country better for us all.

To young Canadians: All my life I have worked to make things better. Hope and optimism have defined my political career, and I continue to be hopeful and optimistic about Canada. Young people have been a great source of inspiration for me. I have met and talked with so many of you about your dreams, your frustrations, and your ideas for change. More and more, you are engaging in politics because you want to change things for the better. Many of you have placed your trust in our party. As my time in political life draws to a close I want to share with you my belief in your power to change this country and this world. There are great challenges before you, from the overwhelming nature of climate change to the unfairness of an economy that excludes so many from our collective wealth, and the changes necessary to build a more inclusive and generous Canada. I believe in you. Your energy, your vision, your passion for justice are exactly what this country needs today. You need to be at the heart of our economy, our political life, and our plans for the present and the future.

And finally, to all Canadians: Canada is a great country, one of the hopes of the world. We can be a better one – a country of greater equality, justice, and opportunity. We can build a prosperous economy and a society that shares its benefits more fairly. We can look after our seniors. We can offer better futures for our children. We can do our part to save the world’s environment. We can restore our good name in the world. We can do all of these things because we finally have a party system at the national level where there are real choices; where your vote matters; where working for change can actually bring about change. In the months and years to come, New Democrats will put a compelling new alternative to you. My colleagues in our party are an impressive, committed team. Give them a careful hearing; consider the alternatives; and consider that we can be a better, fairer, more equal country by working together. Don’t let them tell you it can’t be done.

My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world.

All my very best,

Jack Layton



Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Spectacle Is An Apt Comment...

...but let's revisit his loss in a couple of months after parliament resumes and his legacy is exposed to the reality of being the "official opposition."

Layton’s death turns into a thoroughly public spectacle


Christie Blatchford: Reporters who would never dream of addressing any other politician by first name were proudly calling him 'Jack'

Saturday, August 20, 2011

Toronto City Council Approves "Walker" Lanes...

The British Kicked The Butts Of The Germans, Spaniards, French, Et Al So...

...they will overcome the antics of the leftist cradle to grave kiss ass miscreats.

Christopher Hitchens: The English tradition of gratuitous violence

I realized that the collapse of British society into a Hobbesian nightmare of mutual predation and despair was still some distance off when I caught two little straws in the wind. The first was a well-framed photograph of a badly scorched bit of London, taken on the morning after a night of riots and vandalism. Apart from heavily accoutered cops, the only human figures on the scene consisted of a forest of sleeveless forearms, all brandishing the long handles of mops and heavy-duty scrubbing brushes. The ordinary working day had scarcely begun, but the process of digging out and cleaning up, inaugurated by the volunteer locals, was already under way. Of course, I thought to myself. Inflict a physical disaster on any British city, but especially on London, and the inhabitants seem to know, without any previous training for the role, that they have been cast in a remake of Britain Beats the Blitz.

The second exhibit you may already have seen. If not, then make haste to YouTube and watch the video of Pauline Pearce. Pearce is a resident, of West Indian descent, of the London borough of Hackney. She is a woman suffering from a physical disability and on an early night of the disorders, she had found herself confronted and menaced on the street by crowds of young hooligans and help-yourself artists. By the time the next day rolled around, the whole area knew of the terrific on-site harangue she had delivered and of the vials of shame that she had upended over the heads of the offenders. She was being stopped in the street and invited to revisit the high points again. For undiluted outrage and brilliant street humour, the result is hard to beat. Interviewed the next day, Pearce took a strong line on property rights, demanding to know why, if people worked and saved to buy a car, anyone should have the nerve to come along and set fire to it. She then pointed across the street and asked how the thugs knew there weren’t babies asleep next to the windows that were suddenly red with arson. Read More »

Peter Shawn Taylor: The man who helped kill personal responsibility




COREN COMMON SENSE

Cleaning up pre-riot Six ways to prevent a repeat of London, Vancouver, Toronto scene


By Michael Coren ,QMI Agency

If the British riots disaster is not to be replicated elsewhere, here is a manifesto of advice. Ignore it at your smug peril.

1) Reduce the role of the state and, as a balance, increase the role of the family.
For many years in Britain, parents have been told their children’s social, sexual, moral and cultural formation was better achieved by schools and social workers than mothers and fathers. Not only is the notion flawed philosophically, in practical terms it emasculates parents and enables children to act out every aggressive and narcissistic fantasy imaginable.
In West Indian families, for example, there are numerous cases of poor but good and responsible parents who, in trying to discipline their children, are prosecuted by white, middle-class lawyers for spanking a kid who goes on to join a gang and spend years in prison. Equally, parents are not informed by law if their underage daughters tell doctors or teachers they are sexually active, but they are left to face the consequences when teenage pregnancy or STDs occur.

2) State-supported education and health care may, arguably, serve a purpose, but state-supported welfare and social services have become so all-embracing that individual self-reliance has evaporated. The balance is important here. Neither the fanatical libertarian nor the obsessive socialist model works.

3) Stop the war on religion. Whatever your view of faith and God, the massive decline of religious observance and community in Britain has removed one of the glues that held the country together.
When churches disappear, the vacuum is filled by gangs or tribes. Beyond this is the disappearance of moral standards and ethical absolutes. Witness how in the black community it is the Christian evangelical youths who are least touched by the anarchy.

4) Control immigration, so it is based on the cultural and social needs and unity of the host population as well as on compassion and economic growth. The privileged people who decide our immigration policy seldom live in those areas where the mass of newcomers settle. A nation is more than an assembly of financially viable shopping malls, and without some sort of national and emotional fraternity we see inevitable decay.

5) Liberate the police from the whims of political correctness and government fashion. If London police had reacted swiftly and harshly to the rioting, there would not have been copy-cat incidents throughout Britain. Because of years of “racial sensitivity” training, they were held back in Tottenham, meaning — irony of ironies — law-abiding local people were attacked and robbed.
The police are not guardians of the state but protectors of the people. Their job is not to arrest storekeepers protecting their property, not to hand out traffic tickets, not to control controversial speech, not to be empathetic, but to stop crime and arrest criminals.

6) Do not romanticize the worst of lower-class antics on TV and in cinema and music. Entertainment once presented a world worthy of aspiration, now it glorifies the mud and muck. It makes the rich richer, keeps the poor poorer.

In conclusion, will any of this be achieved? Keep the baseball bat handy.

Thursday, August 18, 2011

More Privileges For The Privileged Classd...

Only In Canada U Say? What A Pity!

Religeous Equality...

Muslim outreach or inroad
NEW WARNING ABOUT MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD’S INFLUENCE ON WHITE HOUSE FROM…LIBERAL MARXIST MUSLIM

Niow who are this man's friends: Revs. Wright, Phleger and yes Obamaa
HATE PREACHED IN HARLEM: NATION OF ISLAM LEADER FARRAKHAN SAYS FORT HOOD SHOOTER IS NOT A TERRORIST JUST A GOOD MUSLIM WHO WAS DRIVEN CRAZY BY THE TERRORIST AMERICAN SOLDIERS WHO RAPE MUSLIM MEN, WOMEN & FAMILIES

In fairness
American Christian Fundamentalist Leader Calls For Global War

Posts by John J. Ray
Q. "Why are evangelical Christians like the Taliban?
A. They are both religious fundamentalists"

The latter "joke" is not a joke at all, of course. It is a comparison routinely touted by Leftists. Both "jokes" are greatly offensive and unfair to the parties targeted but one gets a pass without question while the other would bring great wrath on the head of anyone uttering it. Why? Because political correctness is in fact just Leftist bigotry. Bigotry is unfairly favouring one or more groups of people over others -- usually justified as "truth".

















Banning F*%& S#@@%^ And Labelling By The Left...


Free Speech (F*%& S#@@%^) and expression not tolerated by the left and will have them rushing to the closet to get out their sandals and tie die blouses and a copy of Mao's Red Book which is a primer on how to attack those that have not mixed up the polygrip and preperation h.

Flash mobs, grievance-stokers, and RAAAAAACISM!


August 17, 2011 11:36 PM by Michelle Malkin 25 Comments

Graduates Will Probably Be Barred...


...from taking part in Tim Horton Old Farts discussion groups but will find a home at Starfusks, Second Coup and other Californication purveyors of "specialty" brews.

Rhizomes!


Why complain about students when professors are teaching this!

Term 1 - September to December 2011
CCFI 502 (3 credits) Cyborgs, Rhizomes & Margins: A Cross-cultural Conversation in Education
Thursdays, 4:30 to 7:30 pm
Dr. Pat O'Riley (EDCP)

Drawing on a range of transdisciplinary and cross-cultural theoretical perspectives, this course examines the complicities, complexities, and potentialities of the dominant technology narratives in education in a time of neo-colonialism, global capitalism and global warming. Students have an opportunity to critically reflect on the shape these technology discourses might take when intersected with social justice, civil society, Indigenous and environmental voices and agencies. What are the power/knowledge dynamics of the emerging geo/cyber/politics, respacialization, and limitless new frontiers of empire and technological capabilities? Making affiliations with the work of Donna Haraway, Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari, Jody Berland, Vandana Shiva and other nomadic/ rhizomatic thinkers and activists, this course is a space for reimagining and remapping potential shapes, text(ure)s, and actions for a radicalized/rhizomatic technology conversation in education.

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Wednesday, August 17, 2011

How Many G20/Vancouver Rioters Been Tried And Sent To Jail

Tough sentences for two who used Facebook to organize U.K. riots (28)
Late Tuesday, two men in northwestern England were handed stiff jail terms for inciting disorder through social networking sites. Cheshire Police said Jordan Blackshaw, 20, and Perry Sutcliffe-Keenan, 22, both received 4-year sentences for using Facebook to “organize and orchestrate” disorder.

Post-riot justice in Vancouver has been too slow Justice delayed after a riot is a terrible idea. Yet only two people have been charged in connection with the Vancouver riots, two months after they happened. In London and Manchester, by contrast, more than 1,000 people have been charged, and some have already been tried, convicted and sentenced – within days of the last riot. Some courts even heard cases on Saturday and Sunday.

Levant: Gangster culture

Hashtag Of The Entitlement Generation
CS Monitor;
The mayor’s crackdown has placed him in the center of a simmering debate about how black community leaders should respond to violence within their own community. On one side are those who admire the mayor’s take-no-prisoners rhetorical style and use of police force, while others say this approach lets the mayor off the hook for failing to address the needs of young black Philadelphians.

Possible answer for Canada is fewer basketball courts and more work camps.









Just What Toronto Taxpayers Need...Another Study

The only solution I have heard that has a chance of working is to charge those that give in to beggars. It would help if ALL the local media highlighted  panhandling on a daily basis and I am sure they could find an army of citizen volunteers who would supply pictures and prose of the problem in their neighborhoods.

News
Panhandling study in the works

Sue-Ann Levy
Time for action on panhandlers

Truth And McGoonty The Ultimate Oxymoron

Opinion


Blizzard: The 'truthiness' of Dalton McGuinty

Thursday, August 11, 2011

Toronto In Training To Be The Canadian Tottenham...

Editorial: U.K.'s tough love approach
What British Prime Minister David Cameron said about chasing down the thousands of rioting criminals was music to anyone who believes in both justice and punishment.

National Post editorial board: British rioters have no excuse
Tens of thousands of British police are taking to the streets to combat an anticipated fifth night of civil unrest. The chaos began in London on Saturday night, and while a major police operation in the capital has restored law and order, rioting has erupted in other major British cities. The death toll now stands at four, including three men from the city of Birmingham, killed on Tuesday night, apparently while trying to protect their property from the mob (a man has been arrested in their deaths).
There already has been a rush to explain such behaviour. Members of the British media and self-professed experts are hastening to absolve the rioters of any responsibility, blaming instead the state of the British economy, unemployment, racism, cutbacks to social services and other default “root causes.” Read More »

Matt Gurney: The government’s duty is to protect law and order, not rioters

When the government finally stamps out the violence roiling across the United Kingdom, a Tin Ear Award should be immediately given to Theresa May, British Home Secretary. Under pressure to explain why police in London hadn’t deployed water cannons against the mob, May scoffed at the very notion. “The way we police in Britain is not through use of water cannon. The way we police in Britain is through consent of communities,” she told reporters. She has also fretted about using too much force against the mob, saying that Britons enforce the law in the courts, not on the streets.
Nice sentiment (if one that her boss, Prime Minister David Cameron, quickly overruled). May’s position is appropriate for run-of-the-mill crimes against property and persons. But riots aren’t simply criminal acts, but threats to the security of the state. They should be treated as such. Read More »



A senseless display London is ablaze because of thugs with nothing better to do

By Michael Coren ,QMI Agency

Welcome to the world of euphemisms.

A riot erupts in Tottenham in London, England. Within days copycat violence occurs throughout the country.
Yet, instead of genuine analysis, we hear about a man shot by the police being “a father of four,” of the rioters being “angry at cutbacks,” and of “years of racism and police brutality.”

I was born a short distance from Tottenham and it was the area of my social life all through my teenage years. I know this place, know the people who live there, and have seen the overwhelming decay of what was always a rough area, but not the hellhole it has become.

Let’s cut the politically correct garbage immediately and speak truth to power.

The overwhelming majority of the young punks who began the rioting, fighting, looting and burning were black. That is truth, not racism.

Remember, though, many of the victims were black, too.

For goodness sake, simply look at the pictures with your own eyes. Tottenham has been a largely black area for more than a generation now, with the traditional population still there but in a minority.

Unlike the U.S., Britain does not have exclusive ghettos.

Places like Tottenham, Hackney, Brixton and most of the other areas hit have enormous black communities, but they live alongside whites. This is why you will also see white kids on the periphery of the trouble.

To provide some context to all this, the last time Tottenham rioted 30 years ago, a young policeman was murdered. His killers admitted later they intended to decapitate him and run around the area with his head.

Yes, these areas are poor and rundown, but the immediate cause of the first riot was the shooting of a member of a notorious and sadistic drug and murder gang. He was shot by the police’s Operation Trident team, risking their lives to stop black-on-black gun crime, while trying to help people on housing estates run by drug dealers and killers, who exploit their own people and torture and shoot for the flimsiest of reasons.

There is no political agenda here, in spite of what white, liberal, guilt-soaked journalists and politicians might try to tell you. The truly poor do not communicate their poverty on expensive cellphones, do not steal giant TVs because they are starving. Britain enjoys free schooling, health care, welfare and a plethora of public services.

The recent cutbacks are minimal. Disregard the propaganda. While extremist agitators are trying to take advantage of over-stretched police and social instability, the people who began all this were thugs.

They are the offspring of broken families, who cannot control their appetite for fathering children with numerous women, who shoot rivals and innocent people with indifference, and who define themselves by how much vulgar jewelry they wear and how much fearful “respect” they receive from law-abiding neighbours.

They are joined now by the white, petulant product of a generation told to despise authority, education and religion, and to rely on the state. Tattooed gargoyles raised on antisocial entertainment, instant gratification, socialist dogma and empty materialism. The triumph of the meaningless, burning a city near you sometime soon. Be warned.

Tuesday, August 09, 2011

Substitute "Actual person who grew up in TORONTO writes"

...once again we have a very, very small number of the community that are directly involved in Gangsta activities but the "community" bears the shame and the blame and they should until they rise up in an organized manner.

Society’ doesn’t shoot looters and rioters any more. Apparently that would be ‘uncivilized.’
By Kathy Shaidle on Tuesday, August 9th, 2011
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Unlike, say, this — which $10 says will be the cover of Peter Hitchens’ next book:

UPDATE: Actual person who grew up in Tottenham writes:
For decades in Britain, black and Asian gang culture has been allowed to develop and triumph in the school system. Teachers and social workers are either too physically frightened or too politically correct to intervene, and an increasingly ineffectual police force is tied by “anti-racism” policies to stop the horror. The racism of lowered expectations has led fatuous, liberal, white people to argue that gang culture is somehow part of the black and brown experience, with most of the victims of course being other black and brown people.
In fact this sub-culture despises women, gays, the weak, and anybody who stands in its way. It has no respect for anybody and anything, and is obsessed with promiscuity, violence, and cheap greed. Idiot politicians have done little, because they can afford to live in areas usually untouched by the violence and anarchy.

Sunday, August 07, 2011

Obama's Message To His People...


...but on Wall Street


Minor Point Rex But It Is Not OUR COUNTRY...

...but a multitude of immigrant enclaves who enjoy our "freedoms" and social programs but passionately adhere to their "heritage" and ties with their "homeland." IMHO they probably support the concept of seperation. Hopefully they will reciprocate when WASPs become a minority.

Rex Murphy: Our country’s un-loyal leader of the opposition


In our political system, the leader of the Opposition holds a cardinal position: She is the second most important member of parliament. In the case of constitutional deadlock or crisis, the opposition leader is the first who may be called upon to become Prime Minister. An Opposition leader doesn’t merely decorate the other side of the House while waiting for an election to happen. That’s why his or her party is often referred to as the government-in-waiting.

It should therefore be beyond all contention that Her Majesty’s Loyal Leader of the Opposition be committed to the nation, and to the Parliament of the nation in which that leader sits. Indeed, I’d argue that the deepest and highest passion for the good of the country you aspire to lead is the very principal qualification for anyone, anytime, seeking office.

I’d argue, in other words, for unclouded, unashamed, stamp-your-feet and wave-the-flag patriotism in all our politicians. There is nothing new or outré or excessive in such thoughts. Till our hip and ironic age, they were right out of the Politics Primer — love your country and do it honour was Grade 1 civics. Read More »

Heartache: majority of Canadians now right wing fringe extremists
By Kathy Shaidle on Friday, August 5th, 2011
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Have your say on immigration — and don’t be shy: half the country admits to agreeing that we let in too many foreigners (and half of the remaining half are too sucky or brainwashed to say otherwise.)

Saturday, August 06, 2011

...and put the blame on the Tiara Moms who have their children walking on stage as soon as they are mobile. We promote...


...so why are we surprised at this example of child abuse?

Mallick: Image of girl, 10, on Vogue cover is retching
The way we regard children and use them is changing, and infinitely for the worse. (0)

Libraries Were a Community Focal Point Before Tim Hortons..

...and they still are today and if anyone takes the time to visit their local branch they will see a segment of the population they won't see at Timmies; single moms getting resources for their child's school work, immigrant parents and children expanding their use of english, many getting videos for family entertainment (have you checked the cost of taking a family to the movies), etc.

FP’s Lawrence Solomon: Atwood’s library
Library branches are often about computers and movies more than books..
Toronto has an extraordinary library system with close to 100 branches. The former is mostly about books; the latter mostly about everything but books. This is true of most Canadian cities, where the great history of building public libraries to bring books to the people is running up against rapidly changing cultures and technologies.
The old public library business model, such as it was, is under attack. In Toronto, author Margaret Atwood is fighting for the status quo against cost-cutting Mayor Rob Ford. Before Ms Atwood takes this cause too far, she should open her eyes to the distinction between libraries as a system and libraries as branches. The library branches of her youth are no more. Read more

Will Tories Get Praise And Kudos...

...not bloody likely! There are too many in the indian community who feed at the trough.

Reform of aboriginal land claims Tory success story
John Ivison: By any measure, reform of the specific claims process has been one of the Conservative government’s success stories since coming to power in 2006

NO! The World Is Pretty Well The Same...

...but technology, the media, bloggers, etc. are utilizing a worldwide platform to put forward rhetoric that not too long ago was restricted to a soap box in a park or a public square or Timmies.

Opinion
Coren: World gone mad?
We cling to an island of truth and sanity in a sea of hatred, lies, confusion, and sheer stupidity.


A good example is beauracrats sending out language police to ensure everyone is providing service in english/french when in reality this foolishness is mandated for government bodies it has no place in the private sector...you don't provide/speak one of the two "official" languages I can protest by not leaving my $$$ in your place of business...

Opinion
Adler: Secret shoppers no bargain
And the saga of official bullying bilingualism continues.

Friday, August 05, 2011

No One Else On The Right Will Let Rest So...


...might be more than the leftist intellect can handle:

Straighten Up, Quit Kissin' Ass And Expecting GOD To Solve All Our Problems...

FFF Perspective...

‘There are bloggers who have become very popular in Canada and say things about Muslims that I find absolutely disgraceful…’

By Kathy Shaidle on Thursday, August 4th, 2011
1 Comment

Jonathan Kay is NOT the f*ck amused!

They talk about [Muslims] the way people used to talk about blacks or Catholics and the way that our opponents talk about Jews. You can’t attack shrill anti-Zionists who veer into antisemitism on one hand and then on the other hand say, ‘Oh, by the way, the Muslims are breeding like rabbits and aren’t they filthy.’ It’s just wrong…. Some things are just beyond the pale. I don’t think these people should be thrown in jail or slapped with Human Rights Commissions sanctions, but they do deserve our criticism.”
***
I’ve never written “the Muslims are breeding like rabbits and aren’t they filthy” — so OBVIOUSLY he can’t possibly be talking about me.
Ha ha.
But let’s look at what “people used to say”.
Let’s see:
What did people “used to say” (and still do) about Catholics, for example?
Well, Chick Comics would have you believe the Jesuits killed Abe Lincoln. Pretty funny.
But were “nativists” right that Irish Catholic immigrants were clannish, ignorant, drunken wife beaters who got into too many fights?
That “the Irish are breeding like rabbits and aren’t they filthy”?

(KEEP READING...)

Wednesday, August 03, 2011

This Is A Political Trait And Was Promoted By Dressup Jack...

Beware the cats in the hats

Homeless Insight Into Economic Chaos...

...possibly soon to become the latest government sponsored homeless shelter.

Homeless man jumps fence at White House...

Elimination Of Phone Booths Spelled Demise Of Superman But Now...

MARVEL Kills Off SPIDER-MAN,
Replaces with Half-Black, Half-Hispanic Reincarnation...
...Jose Jimeniz coming back.
'Miles Morales'...
...could be gay

Weren't Guns Banned By Comrade Miller And His Band Of Clowns?

Victim a poster boy for Toronto gun violence
Christie Blatchford: His was one of the cases featured in a 2004 newspaper story about gun violence in the city. The story highlighted examples where people were convicted of serious and weapons offences, but received light sentences
Christie Blatchford: Another bullet in the reputation of Toronto’s Caribbean festival

It appears likely that two innocent bystanders shot along Toronto’s Caribbean Carnival parade route on Saturday, one of whom remains in hospital in critical but stable condition, were struck by Toronto Police bullets.
But the 30-year-old man shot and killed by two officers who frantically shouted at him to put down his gun allegedly had been robbing onlookers in the crowd and was so well-known to police that he was on a list of wanted men given to undercover officers working the parade route.
With information from various sources, Postmedia has put together a partial picture of the chaos that unfolded on Lake Shore Boulevard West shortly after the parade with its costumed dancers and steel bands had passed by, with thousands of revellers still on the wide street. Read More »
Complaint filed against Ontario judge who tossed guilty pleas

SO WHAT? She Is A Leftist And This Is Par For This Goup...

...they tend to hedge their bets when it come to increasing their access to the trough!


Acting NDP leader held ties to 2 sovereigntist parties
Acting NDP Leader Nycole Turmel has held membership in two separate Quebec-based sovereigntist groups, though she maintains that she is "a federalist."

Editorial: Turmel throws NDP into turmoil

Tuesday, August 02, 2011

Too High A Price ESPECIALLY...

...you consider that our government and judiciary protect deserters from the US Forces!

Sailing, Sailing...


Boat People Some questions for the "activists" aboard the Gaza flotilla.


Christopher Hitchens July 4, 2011

...how some of the Arab and Muslim editorial cartoonists depict it

· A vicious caricature of a stereotypical hook-nosed, black-hatted Jew with tentacles wields a bloody machete and an assault rifle (Al-Watan, Qatar, June 2, 2010).
· An Israeli flag with a Nazi swastika replacing the Star of David flies over a skull and crossbones (Al-Iqtisadiyya, Saudi Arabia, June 2, 2010).
· Uncle Sam washes blood from the hands of a knife-wielding Israeli prime minister (Filastin, Gaza/Hamas, June 2, 2010).

Gettting On The Aboriginal Gravy Train?

Meet Running Bear and Small Warrior (or John and Pauline from Coventry)



(Thanks to Jeff Meyerson)
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Let's Not Get Too Cocky...

160 Leftists Don't Make A Revolution...


...especially when the mesage is give me, give me.

Chris Selley: All-nighter didn’t shed any light on budget process

 "a parade of angry union bosses, troubled interest groups and alarmed residents"

Lawrence Solomon: KPMG’s timid Toronto cuts


Few taxpayers would notice any diminution of service

By Lawrence Solomon

‘Even if city council votes for a fraction of the several hundred millions of dollars in suggested cuts, the cuts suggested by city-hired consultants KPMG could transform the city,” the Toronto Star warned last week in an article about proposed budget cuts under Toronto Mayor Rob Ford.

Added Gord Perks, a municipal Councillor and Ford critic: “These cuts would change Toronto from a city that is great to live in to a city that no one would want to live in.” Hundreds of Torontonians turned out to City Hall Thursday to plead with Mayor Ford and the rest of city council to spare city services.

In fact, the potential cuts that KPMG laid out are just what you’d expect from a consulting group inspired by accountants: cautious and uninspired. If Mayor Ford adopted most of the cuts, few Toronto taxpayers would notice any diminution of service, some would see an actual improvement in service, and all would benefit from a lower-taxed, more vibrant city. As an added benefit, Torontonians would learn lessons in independence and responsibility.

Many of the KPMG cuts fall into the spoonfeeding category. Does the Toronto municipal government really need to take animals to the pound when owners tire of their pets? Or to run a “toxic taxi” service to pick up paint cans from residents unwilling to dispose of them on their own? Or to send cleanup crews out after neighbours or local businesses have a street party? Or to perform any number of other conveniences — from running an employment agency to providing daycare — that the private sector does more efficiently and at lower cost?

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Passage on an urban graveyard train

Toronto’s business-minded mayor needs to be reminded that there are two sides to a ledger – expenses and revenue

...how many of those making presentations to the Executive Committee suggested raising property taxes, city imposed fees, etc. 


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