Because the Earth still revolves around the sun...
... and me...
Alright, not the last part.
How to take a reasonable discussion on official languages and turn it into some kind of childish name-calling spat:
Read the whole thing.
When Pareene could have actually listened to the panel instead of assuming it was one big, concentrated effort to stamp out diversity forever, he went on some girlish and illogical tirade against the speakers themselves. If you can't ignore the message, kill the messenger. Mr. Derbyshire has already done a fine job of hashing out Pareene's baffling attacks so I won't bother with that much. An official language- or official languages- is a unifying standard in any nation. It allows the new immigrant to converse, live and work in his new country. I'm not seeing what's wrong with that. Maybe Pareene does, I don't know.
Yet another reason why liberals/leftists are mentally off.
North Korean defectors are being held in China:
I wonder if this ran through Stephen Harper's mind when he signed trade agreements with the Chinese.
If it will do some good, please sign a petition to rescue these defectors. Sign it and pass it along.
Thanking you in advance....
Remember- this is the religion of peace:
Damn Methodists!
Related: if it's a book you can't read anyway, why do you care?
Also related: stop apologising to these terrorists!
And:
Atheists, agnostics and believers of all stripes, libertarians and liberals, everyone, had better start caring about this right now. If you hold to be true that no government should tell its citizens what they can or cannot believe, they had better start caring that some emotionally retarded fundamentalists are thwarting that very right to worship or not worship. Pretending one benign religion is worse than a malevolent one or that all religions deserve such censure is not going to make this very volatile and pandemic problem go away. Own your stance or get swallowed.
Wasn't I just saying this?
Some nutjob started waving around a pipe in Caledonia but it was someone else`s fault. See the pictures yourselves.
Cut these bozos off until they agree to give up their siege and lawlessness.
Some very sound reasons for home-schooling.
OECTA = NEA.
And now, could there be a planet beyondthe planet formerly known as Pluto?
... and me...
Alright, not the last part.
How to take a reasonable discussion on official languages and turn it into some kind of childish name-calling spat:
Call me naïve, but the left’s coarse brutishness still shocks me. The only thing that shocks me more is the right’s suicidal cowardice.
Here’s a sample of the first. The topic is CPAC, last weekend’s gathering of the Conservative Political Action Conference, in particular a panel where I participated. The panel was organized by ProEnglish.org, which, to quote from their mission statement,
…is the nation’s leading advocate of official English. We work through the courts and in the court of public opinion to defend English’s historic role as America’s common, unifying language, and to persuade lawmakers to adopt English as the official language at all levels of government.
Read the whole thing.
When Pareene could have actually listened to the panel instead of assuming it was one big, concentrated effort to stamp out diversity forever, he went on some girlish and illogical tirade against the speakers themselves. If you can't ignore the message, kill the messenger. Mr. Derbyshire has already done a fine job of hashing out Pareene's baffling attacks so I won't bother with that much. An official language- or official languages- is a unifying standard in any nation. It allows the new immigrant to converse, live and work in his new country. I'm not seeing what's wrong with that. Maybe Pareene does, I don't know.
Yet another reason why liberals/leftists are mentally off.
North Korean defectors are being held in China:
The recent detention of 22 defectors in and around Shenyang was the result of joint work by North Korea’s National Security Agency (NSA) and the Chinese Ministry of Public Security (MPS), according to a source inside China.
According to the source today, “10 defectors went from Yanji to Shenyang on the 8th, but they were being watched from before they even departed by the Chinese MPS and the NSA and so they got tracked. They were detained as they tried to board a bus after arriving in Shenyang.”
The source added that a broker who was meant to transfer the group in Shenyang sensed the danger and was going to warn them not to take the bus, but it was too late.
In addition, NSA agents then threatened the detained group and forced them to make contact with another six people they had agreed to meet elsewhere in Shenyang so that the six could also be tracked to their locations and caught.
The defectors apparently had no connection to religious or other groups, but were being helped by Kim, an ethnic Korean broker with a long history of aiding those trying to reach South Korea.
According to the source, three further defectors were captured in Changchun on the 12th, and another three in Shenyang on the same day. All 22 are known to be under investigation in Shenyang.
Six of the 22 are children of 16 or less; the group is said to include a family of three and one more of five.
The latest defector captures come hard on the heels of a failed attempt to stop the MPS from repatriating another group of 19 defectors arrested in Shenyang on February 9th. Despite the efforts of both North Korea human rights groups in the region and even the South Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, finally the group was returned to the North at Namyang.
The sharp uptick in arrests comes following alleged agreement between the NSA and MPS in January that resulted in MPS units being ordered to step up efforts to uncover and detain defectors in their jurisdictions, the source claimed.
This has inspired likely presidential candidate Park Geun Hye of the Saenuri Party to pass a message to the Chinese president, Hu Jintao, expressing the depth of her concern; however, the Chinese government has so far shown little interest in South Korea’s protestations.
I wonder if this ran through Stephen Harper's mind when he signed trade agreements with the Chinese.
If it will do some good, please sign a petition to rescue these defectors. Sign it and pass it along.
Thanking you in advance....
Remember- this is the religion of peace:
The Afghan government said Monday that police had rescued 41 children from becoming suicide bombers as they were about to be smuggled across the mountains into Pakistan.
Interior ministry spokesman Sediq Sediqqi told a news conference that the children aged six to 11 had been released on February 15 from the clutches of four insurgents in eastern Kunar province.
He told AFP their families "were fooled by terrorists", who promised to send them to seminaries in Pakistan where they would be "brainwashed" and "prepared for suicide bombings against Afghan and international troops in Afghanistan".
Police arrested the four suspects and the children were returned to their families, the spokesman said.
Damn Methodists!
Related: if it's a book you can't read anyway, why do you care?
Also related: stop apologising to these terrorists!
And:
“Next week I will present a draft law to remove all churches from Kuwait because Kuwait is an Islamic country where churches are not permitted to be built,” a source quoted an Islamist MP Osama Al-Monawer as saying. Another source, however, said Monawer is only against the construction of a new church.
According to the source he also stated, “the proposal is consistent with calls of the majority in Parliament to amend Article (2) of the Constitution to implement the Islamic Sharia law.”
In a press statement, Al-Monawer warned the Minister of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs of political questioning if his ministry approves the construction of a new church in Kuwait, in spite of the existence of the fatwa which has been issued by Awqaf which states “the building of any house of worship for non-Muslims in a Muslim country is not permissible. It is also not permissible to rent houses to be turned into churches.”
However, another source denied Al-Monawer has threatened to present a draft law on the removal of churches from Kuwait pointing out he knows such a thing does not apply to Kuwait.
The source said Al-Monawer will only focus on not allowing the construction of a new church. He stressed under no circumstances will he allow the construction of a new church in Kuwait. He also threatened to grill the Minister of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs if the ministry gives the approval to build a new church.
He added he will take up the issue with the Ministry of Awqaf which has recently agreed to allow the construction of a new church in Kuwait in violation of a standing fatwa from the Awkaf which forbids the construction of houses of worship for non-Muslims in Muslim land.
He said his vision stems from the fact that churches can be built everywhere except in the Arabian Peninsula. “That is not permissible because it is a Sharia rule and it is mentioned in the Hadith that: ‘No two religions can exist in the Arabian Peninsula.”
He added the late Islamic scholar Sheikh Bin Baz had presented a research on the prohibition of building churches in the Arabian Peninsula.
Atheists, agnostics and believers of all stripes, libertarians and liberals, everyone, had better start caring about this right now. If you hold to be true that no government should tell its citizens what they can or cannot believe, they had better start caring that some emotionally retarded fundamentalists are thwarting that very right to worship or not worship. Pretending one benign religion is worse than a malevolent one or that all religions deserve such censure is not going to make this very volatile and pandemic problem go away. Own your stance or get swallowed.
Wasn't I just saying this?
But the EU vote comes against a landscape newly shifted by research showing that on a global scale, oil-sands emissions are not the dark-shirted villain some have made them out to be. That research, published in the journal Nature and co-authored by one of Canada’s most respected climate scientists, throws a wrench into the debate over an energy source whose reputed “dirtiness” has sparked fiery debate around the world. In North America, climate concerns have been at the heart of the concerted environmental movement against Keystone XL and Northern Gateway, a pair of proposed oil-sands pipelines that have struggled against a tide of public opposition.
The research, by University of Victoria scientists Andrew Weaver and Neil Swart, calculates the climate impact of producing the oil sands. Dr. Weaver is an internationally respected scientist who has contributed to United Nations climate-change documents. He and Dr. Swart completed several analyses.
The most important examined the impact of producing the roughly 170 billion barrels of oil-sands crude that the industry currently considers economic to produce. If it’s all hauled out of the ground – a process that will take more than a century, even at the forecast 2020 rate of three million barrels a day – the cumulative global-warming impact is 0.02 to 0.05 degrees Celsius, according to the research.
If every barrel of the oil-sands resource is produced – a near-certain impossibility that would see some 1.8 trillion barrels, seven times the size of Saudi Arabia’s current reserves, brought out – it would raise global temperatures by one-third of a degree.
By comparison, burning all of the world’s enormous coal resources would raise temperatures 15 degrees, while consuming the new global bounty of shale gas would produce a lift of just under 3 degrees. (Using up economically accessible reserves of natural gas and coal will raise temperatures 0.16 and 0.9 degrees, respectively.)
Some nutjob started waving around a pipe in Caledonia but it was someone else`s fault. See the pictures yourselves.
Cut these bozos off until they agree to give up their siege and lawlessness.
Some very sound reasons for home-schooling.
OECTA = NEA.
And now, could there be a planet beyond
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