Showing posts with label Cultural Differences. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cultural Differences. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 21, 2011

What Is Next?

Remove IN GOD WE TRUST from currency, public buildings, etc and replace with ALLAH IS GREAT? I am being facetious but trying to illustrate how petty beauracrats add to the arsenal of racists, bigots, etc. of ALL faiths.

Feds' War on Religion

Wednesday, December 21, 2011

'No Merry Christmas,' U.S. House Members Told

Control of the USA has definitely fallen into alien hands:
Members of the House of Representatives are being told that no holiday greetings, including “Merry Christmas,” can be sent out in official mail.According to the Washington Examiner, members who submit official mailings for review by the congressional franking commission that reviews all congressional mail to determine if it can be "franked," or paid for with tax dollars, are being told that no holiday greetings, including "Merry Christmas," can be sent."I called the commission to ask for clarification and was told no 'Merry Christmas.' Also told cannot say 'Happy New Year' but can say 'have a happy new year' – referencing the time period of a new year, but not the holiday," a Hill staffer who requested anonymity told the paper.Another Hill staffer said that "we were given that advice after submitting" a draft mailing.

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Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Read BEFORE Getting On The Bus...

Stephen Quinn

The commuter’s guide to happiness

Oct 09, 2010 1:08PM EDT

Don’t practise any form of personal hygiene while riding the bus, and other insights

Wednesday, August 04, 2010

Attendance Figures Are Not In But...

...Caribana organizers are covering their ass;

American family hassled at border en route to Caribana

Tue Aug 03 2010
Difficulties crossing the Canadian border could factor into a possible dip in American attendance at the renowned Caribbean festival this year.

...and in retrospect the attitude of Border Guards in the following should result in higher attendance at Muslim events.

Muslim groups fear backlash over video

Wed Aug 04 2010
A video appears to show two veiled women boarding a flight without having their identities verified.

Thursday, July 22, 2010

Comrade Miller Banned Hand Guns...

...social in-activists in the black community want the TAVIS program scrapped, Mothers Against Gun Violence march and blow whistles while their neighbors are silent when a crime occurs, etc., etc.

Crime figures belie policies

Thu Jul 22 2010
“Unfortunately, our safe streets and healthy communities are increasingly under threat of gun, gang and drug violence.”

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Diversity And Politicall Correctness Breeds Contempt For The West...

Editorial: The West must recognize its true enemy — and its true allies

  July 12, 2010 – 5:13 pm
 
Uganda
AFP / Getty Images
People watch the World Cup final at a restaurant in Kampala, Uganda, moments before two terrorist bombs exploded, killing nearly 80 people.
Just a generation ago, mass-casualty terrorist attacks were rare — so much so that a bombing that took the lives of a few dozen people was guaranteed to be front-page news. Nowadays, sadly, we’ve become inured to such slaughters — especially in the case of attacks that take place in the developing world, such as the bombing that killed nearly 80 people in Kampala, Uganda, on Sunday. Following the numbing effect of 9/11 and the countless atrocities that have taken place in its wake, stories about Muslims slaughtering scores of innocent civilians to fulfill some YouTube-peddled apocalyptic notion of God’s will have become just another part of the normal weekly news cycle.
But it is not normal, of course: The deliberate extermination of human life as part of a religious program is a hideous and pathological affront to the values of all life-loving human societies — including moderate Muslim societies. And we must never allow ourselves to forget that, no matter how often this same sickening plot line plays itself out. We must never lose the ability to be shocked at such inhuman crimes.

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Heather Reisman

Saving Sakineh: Let’s get noisy

The time has come to use our individual and collective voices to support the besieged women of Iran

...we are way beyond shouting when it comes to Iran's policies and leadership.

Friday, June 04, 2010

Attracting Your Kids....


The T.O. Do List: June 4

Jun 04, 2010 - 12:00 AM
Today: Fucked Up "cave-pop" offshoot The Bitters launch both their new album and the new concert venue in Parts & Labour; Basia Bulat brings her mesmerizing folk-rock to the Phoenix; Canadian punk pioneers The Diodes return to the Horseshoe; Hank III honours the family tradition at the Opera House; and SNL wunderkind Simon Rich reads from his new novel at Blue Moon.

Monday, May 17, 2010

S*$&@! Along With N^%%#! Verboten...

Hate law goes to 'most absurd level': Jewish group

A Jewish group is "mystified" by the Toronto Police Service's listing of "non-Jewish Shiksa" as a victim category in its latest hate crime...

Thursday, May 13, 2010

Mengala Proponents?


Jonathan Kay on B.C.'s $50 ultrasound fee: A modest proposal for igniting a much-needed abortion debate
Posted: May 12, 2010, 12:16 PM by NP Editor Filed under: Jonathan Kay,human rights,abortion,sex selection
 
If you ever want to make a militantly pro-choice feminist cough nervously and stare at her shoes, bring up the subject of sex-selective abortion. All over the world -- but especially in China, Korea and India -- modern ultrasound and home-testing technology is being used by boy-crazy parents to weed out (to use a metaphor roughly in keeping with the value that dogmatic pro-choicers place on unborn fetuses) tens of millions of female babies every year ... for no other reason than that they are female. And it's happening here in Canada, too. To quote from a 2006 National Post story: "Extrapolation from Statistics Canada census data reveals that in several areas highly populated by immigrants from India and China, the gender ratios are often out of proportion. Boys and girls aren't supposed to be born with equal frequency, of course. Mother Nature accounts for the higher male mortality rate by producing, under normal circumstances, 105 boys for every 100 girls. But in Surrey [B.C.], where the total population of nearly 350,000 includes 114,725 immigrants --35,380 of whom are from India -- the number is dramatically different.

Thursday, November 12, 2009

We Trumpet Getting Guns Off Our Streets......

....and police are fairly successful in doing so and we could only wish the judiciary were as dedicated to getting those arrested off the streets in a timely and firm manner.

Scott McLeod: Grandstanding in the name of gun safety
Posted: November 11, 2009, 1:15 PM by NP Editor
Filed under: Full Comment

As a Fire Chief, I believe it is important to keep abreast of emerging trends and news. While I frequently review news articles and blogs surrounding many issues, I am often bewildered at the thinking behind some of the articles which appear in Canadian news.

I cannot say that I have been more astounded than when I read about Project Safe City, which the Toronto Police have recently embarked on.

I am a member of the Canadian Association of Fire Chiefs, a sister organization to the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police, and believe that our long-term goals are very similar. Ultimately our organizations want Canadians to be safe and enjoy a stress-free life.

Canadian Values Don't Get The Diversity Vote

Father Raymond de Souza: Immigration and values
Posted: November 11, 2009, 9:00 PM by Ron Nurwisah
Filed under: Father Raymond J. De Souza,multiculturalism,citizenship

Jason Kenney, the Citizenship and Immigration minister, told National Post columnist Father Raymond de Souza that one of the factors that encouraged him to rewrite the citizenship guide was a column, titled Immigration and Values, that Fr. De Souza wrote in 2006.

Here is that full column:

Originally published 9 March 2006

Vancouver – The success stories of Canadian immigration are rather easily told here on the west coast, where a massive influx of Asians has transformed this city. There are sushi bars on Robson Street and luxury goods stores catering to newly-arrived wealth. The excesses of success – shocking house prices and bridge-choking traffic – are present too, but there is a palpable sense that mass immigration has worked in Vancouver, creating a leading city at the dawn of what might be the Pacific century.

The family work ethic and emphasis on education that mark the cultures of the Indian subcontinent, Indochina, China, Korea, Japan and the Philippines is everywhere evident. Small business owners seem predominantly Asian, as it seems are the high achievers in high school and university.

Racial conflicts are minimal, and the scourge of Toronto violence seems very far away – though there have been about a hundred killings within a Sikh community that has known factionalism.

Perhaps that general confidence leads a greater willingness to discuss immigration frankly. Martin Collacott of Vancouver’s Fraser Institute did that last week in a paper that is being excerpted this week on these pages. Mr. Collacott’s paper focused more on combating terrorism, but he raise the question of what we expect of our immigrants. He advocates a greater commitment to “Canadian values” – a call that has earned him the usual criticisms. The local paper here had a page of letters, some of which denounced the push for Canadian values as racist.

Monday, August 10, 2009

I Didn't Know That.........

Casino keeps CNE in the game

Brodie Fenlon

From Monday's Globe and Mail

Without gambling proceeds from the Canadian National Exhibition casino that quietly opened a week ago today, the fair as Toronto knows it would be mired in red ink, forcing taxpayers to cover the shortfall.

Financial figures obtained by The Globe and Mail show “The Ex” would have posted a $1.4-million loss last year, a $1.5-million deficit in 2007 and more than twice as much in 2006 had it not been for the profits of poker, blackjack, roulette and other games of chance, which account for more than a quarter of all fair revenues. Instead

The City of Toronto is on the hook for any profits or losses the 18-day fair incurs under a long-standing agreement between the board of governors for Exhibition Place and the non-profit Canadian National Exhibition Association.

“The casino is a significant contributor to our annual operating revenues,” said David Bednar, the fair's general manager.

“By all means, we would have a CNE without a casino, if it came to it, but we just wouldn't have as good a CNE,” he said.

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Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Much Ado About......


  • Issue isn't the hijab, it's the choice
    by Antonia Zerbisias

  • Jonathan Kay: Banning the Niqab/Burqua is wrong
    Posted: June 23, 2009, 6:09 PM by Jonathan Kay

    French President NIcolas Sarkozy says that Burquas and Niqabs represent a "debasement" of the Muslim women who wear them, and shouldn't be welcome in France. He's also voiced support for the creation of a Parliamentary panel to study the matter. The outcome could be a legsislated ban on garments that cover an woman's entire face and body. In this regard, Sarkozy is at odds with Barack Obama, who declared in his Cairo speech that Westerners should "avoid dictating what clothes a Muslim women should wear." I agree with Sarkozy that Buqas and Niqabs are creepy — and that they are inherently debasing. But as a matter of government policy, I'm taking sides with Obama — for three reasons:

    (1) The right to wear what you want, pray how you want, and generally conduct yourself as you please — providing you don't harm others — is part of the liberal tradition that we're supposed to be fighting for in the war on terrorism. (If Muslim women residing in Western nations are being forced to wear black tents out in public, that's a matter for the police, not the clothing cops.)

    (2) Once you start dictating religious practices, you never know where it will lead. Many Chassidic Jewish women, for instance, are treated in more or less the same degrading chattel-like manner as many Muslim women (though the details are different — shaven heads instead of Niqabs, etc.). If you ban one, how can you justify not banning the other?

    (3) The Burqa and Niqab are actually the best advertisment we have for the retrograde, dehumanizing nature of militant Islam. As far as I'm concerned, these peole are walking sandwhich boards for the necessity of continuing the war in Afghanistan.

    jkay@nationalpost.com

    Thursday, May 07, 2009

    Would It Be Liberals In Canada?

    If all the little black kids succeed in life...

    who then would vote for the Democrats..?

    American Blacks, the Democratic Party is that good-time, lying, back-stabbing excuse for a “friend”. The DC Voucher story is an illustration — hardly a unique story — of how Democrats continually seek to set you up as a permanent underclass, so that you’ll depend on them to throw you scraps and believe their lies, in order to secure your votes to keep them in power.

    [..]

    I leave it to you to decide why the Democrats would cancel a wildly successful, much sought after program that merely seeks to give children a chance at success. In a school district so rife with corruption and waste that the per-pupil spending is the highest in the nation, while producing some of the lowest test scores, some parents want better for their kids.

    Choice is strictly reserved for the privileged few of the proper ideological persuasion...like the ones who serve the soup, not the ones who need it.

    Friday, April 17, 2009

    Most People Will Benefit From Reading This Column

    Barbara Kay: The brand new "Canadian Charger" invites Taliban stooge to keynote fundraiser
    Posted: April 17, 2009, 8:09 AM by Jonathan Kay Filed under: Barbara Kay
    "Canada deserves better!" That's the opening salvo on the donation-seeking website of the newest journalistic kid on the Canadian block, The Canadian Charger (TCC), a "national weekly multimedia interactive online current-affairs" venture. TCC is "committed to presenting a diversity of views and counter-views on issues of importance to Canadians...for one vital and urgent reason: We believe that Canada deserves better!" They don't say what they think they can do better than, but I am assuming they mean better than what you are reading right now.
    As Jonathan Kay noted here in December, 2008: "Given that the Charger's editorial board includes outgoing CIC chief Mohamed Elmasry and 9/11 skeptic Michael Keefer, it's not hard to imagine what the outfit's politics will be: Think Counterpunch for Canadians." So far, so good. Instead of moaning and groaning about how the mainstream media never gives Muslims an even break, here's a group of Muslims (not all contributors listed are Muslims, but a majority are) who've adopted the time-honoured democratic habit of using free speech to counter free speech. Axcellonto, as a young friend of mine says.
    Now TCC is holding its first fundraisers, one in Toronto on May 30, another in Waterloo May 31. And who did TCC ask to speak on this significant occasion? None other than Yvonne Ridley, not a household name outside of jihadist circles, but very popular within them.
    Just as nothing makes an honest policeman more unhappy than a cop on the take from criminals, nothing makes journalists more unhappy than a columnist on the take from our enemies. The name of Pulitzer prize-winning reporter Walter Duranty lives on in infamy, because he acted as a shill for Communism during his stint as New York Times Bureau Chief from 1922-36. He saw and failed to report massive famine in Ukraine. He saw and glossed over Stalin's obscene show trials. In an ordinary person, such a blinkered will to believe that evil is good is a trait to be pitied. But in a journalist it is wicked, for there are public, often tragic consequences for the victims of that evil springing directly from the writer's duplicity.
    Yesterday it was the Soviet Union, today it is Islamism. British journalist Yvonne Ridley, whose claim to fame rests on her conversion to Islam after a brief (and by her account very jolly) internment in Kabul as a kidnapee of the Taliban is not likely to win a Pulitzer prize any time soon, for she has none of Duranty's intelligence and writing skill. Her blatant support of Islamist terrorism is so transparent it was too much even for Al Jazeera where, after a brief stint of employment, she was fired for her "overly vocal and argumentative style."
    You can find many of Ridley's more outrageous anti-western and terror-supportive statements here, some of which I catalogued in a column I wrote about her in September, 2007. That column was a response to Ridley's appearance at a fundraiser for the Canadian Islamic Congress in Montreal, at which she openly boasted of the thousands of pounds she had raised at a Hezbollah fundraiser abroad. She concluded her remarks - misty-eyed - with the rather chilling, "I wish I had that [Hezbollah] flag tonight." I pointed out then - it is still true - that Hezbollah is officially classified as a terrorist organization in Canada, and fundraising on their behalf forbidden in the criminal code.
    Indeed, it is on that very ground that the even more odious George Galloway, Ridley's companion on a recent trek to Gaza to deliver a whole whack of money to the terrorist Hamas, was denied entry to Canada a few weeks ago. I have a call in to Immigration Minister Jason Kenney's office to ask him why, if Galloway has been refused on fundraising grounds, his partner in crime should not be subjected to the same constraints.
    To be clear, I am a great believer in freedom of speech, but freedom of movement is something else. Visiting Canada is a privilege, and I think it makes perfect sense to say to someone who whitewashes all Muslim terrorists (no exaggeration with Ridley) and paints the Taliban as kindly, misunderstood idealists, while Canadian soldiers are dying in Afghanistan: You're not welcome here. Anyone can listen to Ridley's nauseating drivel on the web, so it isn't about suppressing speech.
    And now let's turn to the wisdom of a new political media organ advertising itself as a seeker of a "diversity of views" and an "alternative news source" in aligning itself with a journalist who works for Press TV, as Ridley does, an Iranian government organization. In other words, Ridley's employer is a mullah-run government that cheerfully suffocates the "progressive" and the "alternate" news sources vaunted by TCC in its self-presentation. Ridley herself has often proved impervious to any understanding of irony, and I think I could say the same for Prof Elmasry, but consider the absurdity of a state functionary of a media-censoring, journalist-jailing dictatorship being welcomed as an advocate of alternative media.
    For example, in its press guidelines around election campaigns the Iranian News Agency includes, as "impermissible acts": the release of any news about popular boycotts of elections; the release of "insulting" materials about candidates; the release of any news which may disrupt the elections; the release of opinion polls and the like; disclosure of the number of voters or release of information about complaints; any reference to the purchase of votes or other fraudulent methods of tampering; disclosure of the opinions of personalities of the regime without their consent; the instrumental use of pictures of women and the lack of adherence to Islamic behaviour in internet electioneering. The list goes on.
    Back in the day Lenin called those naïve leftists in the west that were so eager to advance the cause of Communism they prostituted their integrity in every conceivable way, up to and including passing sensitive information to the Soviets, "useful idiots." Today the same western leftists, briefly bereft after the fall of the Berlin Wall of a cudgel to beat themselves up with, have found a new cause: Islamism. It's true that leftists and Islamists are odd bedfellows: Islamists aren't very nice to women, suppress freedom of speech and have some rather nasty things to say about infidels, homosexuals and Jews, all of which should be anathema to liberals. But hey, you can't have everything. Islamists hate the west and that's the main thing for useful idiots.
    In the current context, though, I think we need a new, more pertinent name for Islamist-hugging leftists like Yvonne Ridley and her ilk. How about "useful jihidiots"? And what about the folks who invite useful jihidiots to speak at their fundraisers? When you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas. If TCC wants to have a shred of credibility amongst reasonable Canadians, they would do well to withdraw their invitation to the toxic - and even more damning to supposedly intelligent people, the ridiculous - Yvonne Ridley.

    Sunday, April 12, 2009

    A Contributing Factor In Toronto's "Mediocrity"

    Toronto might not be the centre of the universe, but you can tour the globe within its borders. From Korea to the Caribbean, Tibet to Tunisia, Italy to Eritrea, NOW covers the earth in eight days around town. Who needs Google Earth when you live in Toronto?

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    Ask Jessie About A Rainbow Being A Solution

    Changing face of Toronto not yet visible at city hall
    Michael Adams
    Rahul K. Bhardwaj 8 min. ago
    While many Torontonians fret about the security of their jobs, the declining value of their homes and/or their retirement savings tumbling into a deep hole, some lie awake wondering whether economic hardship will lead their city into another kind of ...

    Saturday, August 09, 2008

    The Solution To Predjudice-Bring Back The Bookmobile

    I'd like to renew Lesbian Feminist

    Living Libraries lend out people instead of books. The aim is to overcome prejudices.

    PATRICIA TREBLE | July 23, 2008 |

    At a Living Library held at the end of May in London, the 26 "books" available for loan included Funeral Director, Witch, Indian Atheist, and Post-Op Transgender Person, not to mention Irish Traveller. What the blandly uninformative titles don't convey is that the books were actual humans. Living Libraries allow "readers" to have a candid chat with people (referred to as books) they'd normally never meet. The process, from searching the catalogue to taking out the book, mimics a real library. But the intent is to overcome stereotypes and prejudices. The organizer in London, Anne Kilroy, advised readers to "choose a book to reflect their prejudice." By that she means "challenge," and to that end the books wore T-shirts with the slogan "What's Your Prejudice?" and the catalogue description attached to each listed common stereotypes — those attached to Police Officer, for example, included "racist," "homophobic" and "bully."

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    Friday, June 27, 2008

    More On Comedy Freedome Of Expression

    John Oakley: B.C.'s Human Rights Tribunal takes on comedy clubs
    Posted: June 26, 2008, 6:07 PM by John Turley-Ewart
    Filed under: John Oakley

    These three lesbians walk into a bar, which sounds like the start of a joke, except the punch-line will ultimately be delivered by a B.C. Human Rights Tribunal.
    In yet another example of our burgeoning culture of complaint, three admitted sisters of Sappho took umbrage with a Toronto comedian who answered their incessant heckling of his act in a Vancouver nightclub by tastelessly riffing on their sexual orientation. According to the complaint, the three were subjected to a “tirade of homophobic and sexist comments.” In his defence, Guy Earle says he regrets the unsavoury exchange, but insists the tribunal hearing is taking him out of context.
    If, by context, he means the setting of a comedy club, he’s spot on. What part of this unbridled art form don’t these three understand? When did bad taste or a perceived slight in any idiom become enough to invoke the full weight of the state’s bureaucratic complaints department? Going into a comedy club with delicate sensibilities is like heading into the deep end with water wings. Enter at your own risk, and if you’re in over your head, just leave the pool. Don’t drag the rest of us down with your petulant assault on one of our last cherished forms of free expression.

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