Sunday, July 31, 2005

Muslims vs.

Mark says the West has got to stop providing luxury accommodations for the terrorists, and start realizing that this is a worldwide war.

And whatever one’s opinion of the various local conflicts around the world—Muslims vs. Buddhists in Thailand, Muslims vs. Hindus in Kashmir, Muslims vs. Jews in the Holy Land, Muslims vs. Russians in Chechnya, Muslims vs. Christians in Africa—the fact is the jihad has held out a long time against very tough enemies. If you’re not shy about taking on the Israelis and Russians, why wouldn’t you fancy your chances against the Belgians and Spaniards?

Friday, July 29, 2005

The rest of the story

A little ditty on recycling and Harry Potter, and how you may think you’re doing your environmental best, when you really are not.

So, Greenpeace International is urging us all to waste resources, become marginally poorer, in pursuit of their particular vision of the world. How nice of them to do that for us.

So little has changed

I can’t be the only one wondering if this should be the end of NASA...all that money and time spent, and the same problems are occurring with the latest shuttle?

That dirty devil

So that’s what Santa’s doing in the off season.

Surrounded by young female Santa Claus assistants, a Swedish Santa takes a swim during the annual Santa Claus World Congress in Copenhagen

Such problems

Ok people, it’s either pay no PST and live in Alberta or head to Norway.

A boom in oil revenues flowing into the country can, for example, make political quarrels over pension plans moot, leave Norway with no economic incentive to join the European Union, and literally provide “money for everything.”

via Fjordman

Wednesday, July 27, 2005

Where’s the gun registry now?

More proof that the wild west here in Toronto with daily daytime shootings are in no way affected by our billion dollar gun registry.

“There were five shootings, at different locations in the city. The victims are known to police. It
seems clear, at this stage, that the shootings are not connected and that they are retaliatory in
nature. A number of the victims are not co−operating with investigators; others are being less
than helpful. None of the injuries is believed to be life−threatening.

What say the Liberals now about their useless gun strategy?

Predictably, Mayor Miller has no answers, so he simply lashes out at America.

Toronto’s Mayor David Miller is blaming the gun violence in Canada’s largest city to “lax” gun laws in the United States.

Saturday, July 23, 2005

Fjordman: The Second Fall of Rome?

Here’s a post you won’t find in mainstream media.

Is it a coincidence that the last time we had migrations like this was when large parts of the European continent suffered a complete civilizational breakdown? Is that what we are witnessing now? The second fall of Rome?

Makes far more sense than any of the pablum in today’s newspapers.

I suspect it will take some local bombs to rouse the Canadian psyche.

Take a break

If you’re in the Toronto area and need a great place to get away from it all and jump in a lake, check out this lovely resort. Family run for 75 years, they must be doing something right.

The best part about it is the food, and the lack of telephones or internet.  A great disconnect.

Friday, July 22, 2005

Bankrupt the drug companies

...and eat healthy foods.

For the first 5000 years of civilization, humans relied on foods and herbs for medicine. Only in the past 50 years have we forgotten our medicinal “roots” in favor of patent medicines. While pharmaceuticals have their value, we should not forget the well-documented, non-toxic and inexpensive healing properties of whole foods. The following list is but a sampling of the health benefits from whole foods.

via JWalk

Overpaid bottle baggers

Nice work if you can get it.

Full-time LCBO employees make up to $21.80 per hour.

Apparently Ontarians don’t mind overpaying retail clerks, since they’re already used to overpaying for their alcohol.

Health care review

Mark has some words on the latest judicial activists ruling on private health care, and another gem following it on the Conserative party’s complete dropping of the ball on the issue.

Tuesday, July 19, 2005

Hand them the knife

More stating the obvious from our solo crusader - the Limousine Liberals will take the multicult road to the very (dead) end.

It has been sobering this past week watching some of my “woollier” colleagues (in Vicki Woods’s self-designation) gradually awake to the realisation that the real suicide bomb is “multiculturalism”.

Monday, July 18, 2005

Read, Weep, Trash

Another report costing a fortune, telling us what we already know, and the government throws it on the scrap heap.

The Ontario government should get out of the booze business by selling its liquor agency and allowing grocers and other big retailers to sell alcohol, says a report calling for sweeping changes to the system.

Ideology over common sense.  Well, at least they didn’t break a promise over it.

Saturday, July 16, 2005

Back to stone age

I often thought the same thing as Mike did here.

If we are told not to use our water and electricity when we most need them, doesn’t this make you think that maybe, just maybe, the government is not doing a fantastic job managing our utilities?

All the scarcity issues are really government caused...it’s time for a new way of thinking.

Old enemies surface

It’s odd in today’s modern age to read a story of an enemy kamikaze (suicide bomber).

The U.S. warships were so close that Toshio Yoshitake could see the black puffs of anti-aircraft-gun smoke wafting up from the blue sea below. Flying over the Leyte Gulf in the Philippines, he figured that in another 20 minutes he would be upon them and, in a ball of fire, fulfil his duty.

What’s even more odd is that he was involved in a battle where my grandfather’s ship was sunk.

A class act

In an era of overpaid sports brats, the old Golden Bear is a breath of fresh air.

But it meant everything to the fans who jammed every nook and cranny of the historic 18th hole, straining to get a look at the greatest championship player in the sport’s history. Even some of his fellow players came out on the porch of the Royal & Ancient Club, clapping for Nicklaus every step of the way.

Him and Wayner have a lot in common - classy, soft spoken, and the best at their game.

Children of divorce

An interesting expose into the hearts of 10 year olds, and their reaction to being victims of divorce.

What does a child really feel when his parents divorce? The BBC gave 10-year-old Ben a video camera and asked him to confide in it. For his family, Olga Craig learns, the results add up to an uncomfortable evening’s viewing

via Family Scholars

Wednesday, July 13, 2005

British terror state?

LGF has an entry linking to a Pipes piece on how France is far more proactive in routing out terror suspects.

Tuesday, July 12, 2005

Know thy enemy

If there was a more stark and clear example of the enemy in the war on terror, this is it.

The man on trial in the slaying of filmmaker Theo van Gogh admitted his guilt in court today, declaring he acted out of religious conviction and would do it again if given the chance.

Mohammed Bouyeri also turned to van Gogh’s mother, Anneke, in court and told her: “I don’t feel your pain.

These are a whole new breed of killers, one that a liberal justice system has no clue how to deal with.

What needs to be done

Steyn explains what needs to be done if we are to ever stop the “martyrs” from blowing us up.

But the coaxing is what counts - wooing moderate Muslims into reclaiming their religion. We can take steps to prevent Islamic terrorists killing us, most of the time. But Islamic terrorists will only stop trying to kill us when their culture reviles them rather than celebrates them.

Monday, July 11, 2005

Man of steel

On the passing described below, we have a quote from Ross Perot, who once described Stockdale as ``a man of steel.’’

``He has been hammered on the forge of brutality,’’ Perot said. 

Unequaled War hero

James Stockdale, Perot Running Mate, Dies

Can you imagine how tough he would have been as a leader?  He wasn’t polished, but wow was he ever through hell and back.

During the Vietnam War, Stockdale was a Navy fighter pilot based on the USS Oriskany and flew 201 missions before he was shot down on Sept. 9, 1965. He became the highest-ranking naval officer captured during the war, the Navy said.

Stockdale was taken to Hoa Lo Prison, known as the “Hanoi Hilton.” His shoulders were wrenched from their sockets, his leg had been shattered by angry villagers and a torturer, and his back was broken. But he refused to capitulate.

Rather than allow himself to be used in a propaganda film, Stockdale smashed his face into a pulp with a mahogany stool.

“My only hope was to disfigure myself,” Stockdale wrote in his 1984 autobiography “In Love and War.” The ploy worked, but he spent the next two years in leg irons.

After Ho Chi Minh’s death, he broke a glass pane in an interrogation room and slashed his wrists until he passed out in his own blood. After that, captors relented in their harsh treatment of him and his fellow prisoners.

Stockdale spent four years in solitary confinement before his release in 1973.

I honestly don’t believe they make men like him anymore.

Parts falling off

Things just won’t get any better for our sagging military.

Sunday, July 10, 2005

Defend yourself

Here’s something that never happens here.

A 79-year-old man armed with a .357 magnum revolver shot two men after they broke into his home overnight, News 5’s Bina Roy reported.

Imagine, defending your own home.  How un-Canadian.

Friday, July 8, 2005

Manhattan Energy Project

Maybe this is an idea whose time has come. 

How many more terrorist attacks on unsuspecting civilians will it take to jar the United States and other sane nations into embarking on an all-out, Manhattan-project type of effort to rid us of dependence on foreign oil?