Afghan protests, cruise ships, jumpsuits and other pressing matters
Christie Blatchford: Is anyone else growing just a tad weary of Afghanistan and Afghans and all those who continue to carry on about the accidental burning of Korans?
...and then we have the liberals and ndp:
Robocalls scandal is bad, but politicians are being a little hypothetical
Chris Selley: Trying to trick someone into not voting is indeed more offensive than trying to trick him into voting for the other guy. The law, however, seems not to make any distinction
Scott Stinson: Robocalls scandal sinks Question Period debate to new lows
...you really have to ask yourself if there is even a smigden of truth do those who were swayed really deserve "the right" to vote? I know we allow criminals in prison to vote and I have to wonder whether this same right is extended to those in mental instituations? The success of the ndp in quebec might say yes!
Showing posts with label Reality. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Reality. Show all posts
Saturday, March 03, 2012
Monday, February 06, 2012
Blazing Fur Doesn't Mince Words...
Rabble.ca says - "Israeli Apartheid Week: Call it as it is"...Ok, You're Nazis
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Sunday, January 08, 2012
Saturday, January 07, 2012
Wednesday, January 04, 2012
Reality Check...
Print copies of Christie's article and place on the fridge, beside every tv in the house, all the computers and the outside doors and get a life.
‘Stay warm’ and other silly advice for the urban helpless
Christie Blatchford: I am buggered if I’m going to look for instruction on how to fold a sweater or name a child, and I don’t need a bureaucrat to tell me it’s cold outside
‘Stay warm’ and other silly advice for the urban helpless
Christie Blatchford: I am buggered if I’m going to look for instruction on how to fold a sweater or name a child, and I don’t need a bureaucrat to tell me it’s cold outside
Friday, August 05, 2011
Thursday, December 09, 2010
Happy birthday, Ann Coulter
From Ann Coulter's new column:
"Today's military features 'victim advocates' and sensitivity training facilitators, the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services personnel and a million other goo-goo positions.
"How did we ever take the shores of Normandy without a phalanx of "sensitivity training" counselors? (...)
"Who cares if the Pentagon's sexual harassment task force supports gays in the military? The combat units don't, and they're the ones who do the job. The rest of us shouldn't get to vote on gays in the military any more than we get to vote on the choreography of 'Chicago.'
"Racial prejudice is not the same thing as sexual attraction, so please stop telling us this is just like integrating blacks in the military..."
(via)
# Kathy Shaidle :
...and just so Canadians aren't excluded from this issue:
Canada's Military Changes Uniform Rules For Transgendered Soldiers
Canada's transsexuality bill passes, goes to third reading
Transsexuals are neurotic castration fetishists who need a cure, not a cuddle.
But in the midst of a recession, they're a priority for the Canadian government.
# Kathy Shaidle
From Ann Coulter's new column:
"Today's military features 'victim advocates' and sensitivity training facilitators, the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services personnel and a million other goo-goo positions.
"How did we ever take the shores of Normandy without a phalanx of "sensitivity training" counselors? (...)
"Who cares if the Pentagon's sexual harassment task force supports gays in the military? The combat units don't, and they're the ones who do the job. The rest of us shouldn't get to vote on gays in the military any more than we get to vote on the choreography of 'Chicago.'
"Racial prejudice is not the same thing as sexual attraction, so please stop telling us this is just like integrating blacks in the military..."
(via)
# Kathy Shaidle :
...and just so Canadians aren't excluded from this issue:
Canada's Military Changes Uniform Rules For Transgendered Soldiers
Canada's transsexuality bill passes, goes to third reading
Transsexuals are neurotic castration fetishists who need a cure, not a cuddle.
But in the midst of a recession, they're a priority for the Canadian government.
# Kathy Shaidle
Sunday, December 05, 2010
Saturday, October 30, 2010
Awakening Of Minority Groups...
Diversity bites back
By MICHAEL COREN, QMI Agency
Now that a few days have passed and the cliches have been exhausted, can we please explain what really happened in Toronto this week?
...to the reality that it is their hard earned tax $$$ that go to pay for political barbeques, cultural events, etc.
By MICHAEL COREN, QMI Agency
Now that a few days have passed and the cliches have been exhausted, can we please explain what really happened in Toronto this week?
...to the reality that it is their hard earned tax $$$ that go to pay for political barbeques, cultural events, etc.
Thursday, October 21, 2010
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Thanks Howard! I Didn't Know I Was An Embiggener...
...but rather I viewed myself as a person who saw the silliness of much of the news.
Howard Richler: A language embiggened by cartoons
By Howard Richler
‘If a future turn of events in Africa was seen as requiring the island’s military role to be embiggened and its facilities rendered much more secure, it might be convenient if the islanders had no legal right to remain where they were.”
— The Economist, Sept. 21, 2010.
Could my aging eyes be betraying me? Would my favourite magazine, The Economist, have deigned to use such an unlettered barbarism as “embiggened”? Just to be sure that I hadn’t suddenly morphed into a pedant, I checked my word bible, the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), as well as two other dictionaries, to confirm that “embiggened” did not enjoy any lexicographic existence.
On the other hand, fans of The Simpsons would more than likely recognize “embiggened.” It was first used in 1996 during the episode Lisa the Iconoclast, and Wikipedia reports that it “has seen use in several scientific publications,” although it didn’t specify which publications. I say, shame on The Economist for stooping to use a non-word such as “embiggen.” At least in The Simpsons episode the word had a specific sense — that of ennoblement: “A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man.” In The Economist article it merely refers to the possibility of enlarging the military role of the Ascension Island.
Another word first used on The Simpsons (but so far not found in The Economist) is “cromulent.” On the website Urban Dictionary we are told that “[‘cromulent’] is used in an ironic sense to mean legitimate and therefore, in reality, spurious and not at all legitimate.” This word came out of the same Simpsons episode that bred “embiggened.” A character states “my friend didn’t believe me when I told her that meese was the plural of moose, but she admitted that it was entirely cromulent.”
Googling “cromulent” and “embiggen” elicits thousands of hits, but whereas “embiggen” won’t be found in any mainstream dictionaries, “cromulent” does appear in Webster’s New Millennium Dictionary of English.
The Oxford Companion to the English Language lists nine ways that neologisms (newly invented words or phrases) are formed including: compounding (e.g., “blackboard”), shifting meaning (e.g., “spin” to mean “bias”), blending (e.g., “smog” from “smoke” and “fog”) and borrowing from other languages (e.g., “glasnost” from Russian).
Under its ninth category it states that we “very rarely [see] root creation, or coinage from sounds with no previous known meaning.” The designation “very rarely” is hardly an exaggeration. While there are over 750,000 words listed in the OED, no more than two dozen of these words fall into this ex nihilo (out of nothing) category. There are many words in our language that are named after people such as “lynch” and “sandwich,” but these words derive from flesh and blood rather than appearing out of the blue.
A good chunk of the truly ex nihilo words in our language started their lives simply as trademarks, such as Band-Aid, nylon and Kodak, but there are some others that display far more interesting origins.
For example, just this past September, the word “eggcorn” found its way into the hallowed pages of the OED with the following definition: “An alteration of a word or phrase through the mishearing or reinterpretation of one or more of its elements as a similar-sounding word.” The word was created by linguist Geoffrey Pullum, who noticed that some people call an “acorn” an “eggcorn,” probably due an acorn’s egg shape. However, the OED definition needs honing because it doesn’t differentiate an eggcorn from a malaprop (e.g., referring to a “tubal ligation” as a “tubal litigation”) or a mondegreen (e.g., hearing “the cross I bear” as “the cross-eyed bear.”)
An ex nihilo word may find its way into our language simply because the word’s progenitor likes its sound. When American physicist Murray Gell-Mann discovered a new particle in 1964, he at first called it a “quork.” He eventually switched the name to “quark,” a word he discovered in this passage from Finnegan’s Wake by James Joyce: “Three quarks for Mister Mark,” which referred to an order for three quarts of beer placed in a pub.
The science fiction writer Robert Heinlein is also credited with creating an ex-nihilo word. In his 1961 novel Stranger in a Strange Land, he introduced the verb “to grok” to refer to intuitive understanding. The term caught on and in 1968 Tom Wolfe used the verb in The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test: “Instead they are all rapping and grokking over the sound.”
One need not be an author, physicist, linguist or, come to think of it, even an adult to create a lasting ex nihilo term. Perhaps the best-known of this genre of words is “googol,” which refers to the numeral 1 followed by 100 zeroes. In 1940, distinguished American mathematician Edward Kasner asked his nine-year-old nephew, Milton Sirotta, to make up a name for a very big number and the lad responded, “googol.” Not bound by the confines of “googol,” Milton suggested that the term “googolplex” be applied to the number one followed by a googol zeroes. Using “googolplex” as shorthand for this finite number is definitely a time-saving device, for, as Kasner noted, “there would not be enough room to write it, if you went to the farthest star, touring all the nebulae, and putting zeroes every inch of the way.”
Just think. There’s probably a kid out there who is going to embiggen the language and grok new words we can’t fathom. How cromulent is that?
National Post
Howard Richler’s latest book is Strange Bedfellows:The Private Lives of Words.
Howard Richler: A language embiggened by cartoons
20th Century Fox
By Howard Richler
‘If a future turn of events in Africa was seen as requiring the island’s military role to be embiggened and its facilities rendered much more secure, it might be convenient if the islanders had no legal right to remain where they were.”
— The Economist, Sept. 21, 2010.
Could my aging eyes be betraying me? Would my favourite magazine, The Economist, have deigned to use such an unlettered barbarism as “embiggened”? Just to be sure that I hadn’t suddenly morphed into a pedant, I checked my word bible, the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), as well as two other dictionaries, to confirm that “embiggened” did not enjoy any lexicographic existence.
On the other hand, fans of The Simpsons would more than likely recognize “embiggened.” It was first used in 1996 during the episode Lisa the Iconoclast, and Wikipedia reports that it “has seen use in several scientific publications,” although it didn’t specify which publications. I say, shame on The Economist for stooping to use a non-word such as “embiggen.” At least in The Simpsons episode the word had a specific sense — that of ennoblement: “A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man.” In The Economist article it merely refers to the possibility of enlarging the military role of the Ascension Island.
Another word first used on The Simpsons (but so far not found in The Economist) is “cromulent.” On the website Urban Dictionary we are told that “[‘cromulent’] is used in an ironic sense to mean legitimate and therefore, in reality, spurious and not at all legitimate.” This word came out of the same Simpsons episode that bred “embiggened.” A character states “my friend didn’t believe me when I told her that meese was the plural of moose, but she admitted that it was entirely cromulent.”
Googling “cromulent” and “embiggen” elicits thousands of hits, but whereas “embiggen” won’t be found in any mainstream dictionaries, “cromulent” does appear in Webster’s New Millennium Dictionary of English.
The Oxford Companion to the English Language lists nine ways that neologisms (newly invented words or phrases) are formed including: compounding (e.g., “blackboard”), shifting meaning (e.g., “spin” to mean “bias”), blending (e.g., “smog” from “smoke” and “fog”) and borrowing from other languages (e.g., “glasnost” from Russian).
Under its ninth category it states that we “very rarely [see] root creation, or coinage from sounds with no previous known meaning.” The designation “very rarely” is hardly an exaggeration. While there are over 750,000 words listed in the OED, no more than two dozen of these words fall into this ex nihilo (out of nothing) category. There are many words in our language that are named after people such as “lynch” and “sandwich,” but these words derive from flesh and blood rather than appearing out of the blue.
A good chunk of the truly ex nihilo words in our language started their lives simply as trademarks, such as Band-Aid, nylon and Kodak, but there are some others that display far more interesting origins.
For example, just this past September, the word “eggcorn” found its way into the hallowed pages of the OED with the following definition: “An alteration of a word or phrase through the mishearing or reinterpretation of one or more of its elements as a similar-sounding word.” The word was created by linguist Geoffrey Pullum, who noticed that some people call an “acorn” an “eggcorn,” probably due an acorn’s egg shape. However, the OED definition needs honing because it doesn’t differentiate an eggcorn from a malaprop (e.g., referring to a “tubal ligation” as a “tubal litigation”) or a mondegreen (e.g., hearing “the cross I bear” as “the cross-eyed bear.”)
An ex nihilo word may find its way into our language simply because the word’s progenitor likes its sound. When American physicist Murray Gell-Mann discovered a new particle in 1964, he at first called it a “quork.” He eventually switched the name to “quark,” a word he discovered in this passage from Finnegan’s Wake by James Joyce: “Three quarks for Mister Mark,” which referred to an order for three quarts of beer placed in a pub.
The science fiction writer Robert Heinlein is also credited with creating an ex-nihilo word. In his 1961 novel Stranger in a Strange Land, he introduced the verb “to grok” to refer to intuitive understanding. The term caught on and in 1968 Tom Wolfe used the verb in The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test: “Instead they are all rapping and grokking over the sound.”
One need not be an author, physicist, linguist or, come to think of it, even an adult to create a lasting ex nihilo term. Perhaps the best-known of this genre of words is “googol,” which refers to the numeral 1 followed by 100 zeroes. In 1940, distinguished American mathematician Edward Kasner asked his nine-year-old nephew, Milton Sirotta, to make up a name for a very big number and the lad responded, “googol.” Not bound by the confines of “googol,” Milton suggested that the term “googolplex” be applied to the number one followed by a googol zeroes. Using “googolplex” as shorthand for this finite number is definitely a time-saving device, for, as Kasner noted, “there would not be enough room to write it, if you went to the farthest star, touring all the nebulae, and putting zeroes every inch of the way.”
Just think. There’s probably a kid out there who is going to embiggen the language and grok new words we can’t fathom. How cromulent is that?
National Post
Howard Richler’s latest book is Strange Bedfellows:The Private Lives of Words.
Monday, September 06, 2010
Good Luck...
Can Holmes fix native reserves?
HGTV’s Holmes on Homes recently joined forces with the Assembly of First Nations and will oversee an initiative aimed at building sustainable homes on reserves
Saturday, September 04, 2010
During The last Two Days I Contirbuted $212...
...to the used on these "free" roads and annually I contribute at least another $2K+ but I don't have a problem with road tolls but I do object to the hidden costs that are passed on to me when I go to the corner store for essentials and part of the cost would be transportation companies regaining the $$$ they spend on tolls.
Editorial: No alternative to road tolls
Sat Sep 04 2010
Continued “free” use of our major highways costs too much
Wednesday, September 01, 2010
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
In Depth News Items...
The morning after...
South Africa Realizes All Its Things Were Stolen During World Cup
JOHANNESBURG—Although the nation is receiving positive reviews of its job hosting the 2010 FIFA World Cup, South Africa was shocked to discover Monday that most of its belongings had been robbed while the nation was distracted by the month of soccer... more»Lack of stimulus $$$...
Struggling High School Cuts Football—Nah, Just Kidding, Art It Is
God Hinting At Retirement
THE HEAVENS—At a press conference Tuesday, God Almighty, our Lord and Heavenly Father, gave his strongest indication yet that he might soon step down from his post as the supreme ruler of all things. more»
Educational system reaching out to it's constituency:
Arizona High Schools To Now Teach Spanish Entirely In English
Thanks to The Onion
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
There Is A Hidden Message For Torontarions...
...get off you butt and get out and vote and don't let organized left wing social in-activists send their people to Silly Hall, Queens Park and Ottawa.
They don’t need no census in Muskoka
July 13, 2010 – 1:45 pm
Tony Clement must have thought he was looking at an easy summer, what with the G8 being over with, and such a resounding success too.
He’d managed to snag millions of dollars in government cash for his riding. He’d made that swell video promoting some firm in his riding that was looking for business in China (no other Canadian companies, just the one.) And he signed off on some unimportant change to the census — something about long forms, dead boring stuff, not anything people would ever notice.
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He’d managed to snag millions of dollars in government cash for his riding. He’d made that swell video promoting some firm in his riding that was looking for business in China (no other Canadian companies, just the one.) And he signed off on some unimportant change to the census — something about long forms, dead boring stuff, not anything people would ever notice.
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Monday, July 05, 2010
Thursday, June 24, 2010
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
If You Purposely Leave Your Blinds Open...
...expect "peeping toms/tomasinos" and save your condemnation!
Cautionary tales about frolicking on Facebook
InStep by Christine Williams
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