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No Iranians were harmed in the taking of this photo.

Iran, led by the forever ignorant Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has issued a travel ban for the most preposterous reasons:

Iran's foreign ministry issued a statement Wednesday referring to the break in diplomatic ties, saying that's primarily why Iranians should avoid travel to Canada.

The state-run news agency IRNA said the ministry has deemed there is growing "Islamophobia and Iranophobia" in Canada.

The Tehran Times said the Iranian Foreign Ministry issued the travel advisory because criminals and "anti-Iranian groups" bent on revenge could now target Iranians visiting Canada, knowing they no longer have an embassy.

IRNA quoted the ministry as saying Iranians in Canada have been denied the right to access their bank accounts to "do ordinary transactions."

Now, why wouldn't one come to Canada? We don't rape or gun down political dissidents, nor are homosexuals hanged publicly. Perhaps one should ask who would want to go or stay in Iran?


And let's not forget the scenery!

Look at that blue water!

The Rockies- decidedly neutral in Middle East issues.

Could this have been Mohammad's canoe?

A stuffed bear? Or a Zionist in disguise?!

Nothing anti-Iranian here.


(two paws up)

An Open Letter to MP Rick Norlock

... from Mr. Wally Keeler.

Dear Mr Norlock

I write this letter with deep concern for the safety of my fellow Canadians.

The Prosecutor-General of Egypt announced that warrants were issued, charging two Canadians, Coptic Christians, with blasphemy crimes for their alleged involvement in the making of a satirical video. By naming and outing these two Canadians, the Prosecutor-General of Egypt has ostensibly targeted these two men for the benefit of murderous assailants. The two men advised CBC that they are in fear of their lives and the lives of their families.

If the Prosecutor-General of Egypt fails to provide any evidence supporting the charges, then it would appear that the two men are nothing more than political scapegoats for the Muslim Brotherhood regime to play into the hands and demands of the militant Islamists. It is well known to Canadian authorities that Coptic Christians endure lethal discrimination in Egypt.

January 7, 2011, Foreign Affairs declared that "Canada condemns the attack on Coptic Christians in Nag Hammadi. We extend our deepest sympathies to the families and friends of those killed and wish a speedy recovery to the injured. That the victims were innocent civilians congregating for a religious celebration makes this attack especially tragic.”

Recently a young Coptic Christian dissident blogger in Egypt, Alber Saber, was arrested on charges of blasphemy relating to the satirical video, Innocence of Muslims. He has been beaten, tortured and imprisoned. He will be standing trial this coming October 3.

(1) I request that Canadian authorities consider laying slander charges against the Prosecutor-General of Egypt.

Ghulam Ahmad Bilour, a cabinet minister for railways in the Pakistan govt, explicitly offered $100,00 to anyone who kills those involved in the making of the satirical video. This is “head money.” It is counselling murder. It is incitement to murder the two Canadians who have been unjustly listed by the Muslim Brotherhood regime of Egypt.

(2) I request that Canadian authorities should consider laying charges against that Pakistani cabinet minister for counselling murder against two innocent Canadians. Canada should request his extradition, or demand that he brought to trial in Pakistan on charges of counselling murder. He still remains a cabinet minister.

Furthermore, Mufti Mohammad Yousuf Kasuri, chief of Jamiat Ahle Hadith Party for Sindh Province, added his own reward of approximately $105,000 "for the one who will hand exemplary punishment to the blasphemer."

(3) I request that Canadian authorities should consider his extradition or demand he brought to trial on charges of counselling murder.

Producing and distributing a lowbrow satirical video is free speech, as protected by our Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Counselling murder is NOT free speech; it is a crime.

Free speech is under attack by the forces of theological tyranny. It is time that all Western nations refuse to apologize for our constitutionally protected free speech.

(4) Lastly, I request that the law of blasphemous libel be removed from Canada’s criminal code. It is hypocritical and weakens Canada’s position vis a vis blasphemy and free speech when we oppose the second stage effort by the 56-nation OIC to impose shariah planet-wide. In this contest there will be only one winner: FREE SPEECH, and more of it. 

 

 

We shouldn't act on the behalf of another country regarding their blasphemy laws, nor should we let our country be a hotbed of Islamism, violence and intolerance.

 

Mid-Week Post

Today is Coptic Solidarity Day. The Muslim Brotherhood, of which Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi was a member, is persecuting Coptic Christians with the Americans still offering financial assistance. Demonstrate against Morsi and the MB’s designs to turn not just Egypt but the whole of the Middle East into a large series of failed Islamic states where religious minorities are persecuted.

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A surprise in every post.

Except here:

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Monday Israel has no roots in the Middle East and would be "eliminated," ignoring a U.N. warning to avoid incendiary rhetoric ahead of the annual General Assembly session.

Ahmadinejad also said he did not take seriously the threat that Israel could launch a military strike on Iran's nuclear facilities, denied sending arms to Syria, and alluded to Iran's threats to the life of British author Salman Rushdie.

The United States quickly dismissed the Iranian president's comments as "disgusting, offensive and outrageous."

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has hinted Israel could strike Iran's nuclear sites and criticized U.S. President Barack Obama's position that sanctions and diplomacy should be given more time to stop Tehran from acquiring nuclear weapons.

Iran denies it is seeking nuclear arms and says its atomic work is peaceful and aimed at generating electricity.

"Fundamentally we do not take seriously the threats of the Zionists," Ahmadinejad, in New York for this week's U.N. General Assembly, told reporters. "We have all the defensive means at our disposal and we are ready to defend ourselves."

There would be no need to “eliminate” Israel if its “Zionist” threats are not worth taking seriously. Even the Coward-in-Chief’s sanctions could work if given time. Why, Iran has even stopped building its nuclear arsenal. Something must be ready to give.

Why are we still a part of the UN? What purpose could our continued involvement possibly serve other than giving Iran an platform on which to speak, even considering letting a country like Sudan sit on the human rights council and keeping China and Russia in seats of great power and influence?

Withdraw today, Canada.

Related: the Coward-in-Chief, who promised to meet Iran without pre-conditions, warns Iran. WARNS. Speaking as a man who loathes intolerance (he’s grovelled enough to know), maybe Iran will listen to him. Maybe:

President Barack Obama urged world leaders on Tuesday to put an end to the intolerance and violence that led to the recent killing of the U.S. ambassador in Libya and warned Iran he would do what it takes to prevent Tehran from getting nuclear arms.

In a 30-minute address to the 193-nation U.N. General Assembly, Obama called anew for the ouster of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad following an 18-month civil war without saying how to make it happen. He also offered no fresh ideas on solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Beginning and ending his remarks by evoking Christopher Stevens, the U.S. ambassador to Libya who died with three other Americans in a September 11 assault on the American Consulate in Benghazi, Obama called on nations to fight such violence.

"Today, we must affirm that our future will be determined by people like Chris Stevens, and not by his killers," said Obama, who seeks re-election on November 6. "Today, we must declare that this violence and intolerance has no place among our United Nations."

While condemning the violence sparked by a video made in California that depicts the Prophet Mohammad as a womanizer, fool and child abuser, several Muslim leaders called for international action to outlaw acts of blasphemy.

U.S. missions also came under attack in Egypt, Tunisia, Indonesia and other Muslim nations.

Obama - while repeating his condemnations of the video as "crude and disgusting" and stressing that the U.S. government had nothing to do with its production - staunchly defended free speech.

(Sidebar: the video is a red herring. The plan to kill the poorly defended ambassador was already devised. And, really, if you’re that emotionally retarded that you would riot over a video no one has seen, you deserve to live in a hellhole run into the ground by equally emotionally retarded crooks and liars who drum up “Zionist” boogey-men distractions whenever they cannot feed their own population or just deal with the fact that women are capable of going shopping without male owners watching their every step.)

Strong words from a man who is used to apologising. If Obama defended free speech the way he defended the embassy in Benghazi, why is Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens dead and why is he letting countries like Pakistan boss him around? No live ammo for embassies? No vigorous defense of the Constitution of the United States?

Further evidence that this man is not fit to water a fern let alone lead the United States for any period of time, let alone another four years. Americans, do yourselves- and the world- a favour and really, really consider what the past four years were like and what things will be like if this jack@$$ gets re-elected. You owe it to yourselves to be able to put food in your stomachs, gas in your car and to hold your heads high.

(full video here)

It’s possible to include Islam in a Catholic school’s curriculum:

The demand to include Islamic teaching in Catholic schools is proving controversial again. A few months ago, the Education Department in Tegal District (Central Java) warned St Pius Catholic Schools to include Islamic courses for Muslim students. …

The situation is critical because the sisters of the St Pius Catholic Schools have received threats and warnings, including the threat of having their schools shut down if they do not comply with the requests.

First of all, start with the definition of some basic terms. A heresy is a lie against the Revealed Truth (or the denial of what is held true in the Catholic faith). Jesus is the Son of God is an example of the Revealed Truth. 

But according to the Koran, sura 5:75:

The Messiah, son of Mary, is no more than a messenger like the messengers before him…

But that inaccurate description would just be plain nutty, not to mention heretical, if not apostate.

See- you CAN include Islam in Catholic religion classes.

The trip that Malia Obama did not go on is now the subject of a lawsuit:

A watchdog group with a history of exposing the taxpayer costs of President Obama’s vacations is now suing the Secret Service for records detailing how much it cost the agency to protect first daughter Malia Obama when she traveled to Mexico for spring break earlier this year.

It’s a trip that the White House has famously tried to keep out of the news.

The group Judicial Watch announced on Tuesday that it has filed the lawsuit, known as Judicial Watch v. U.S. Secret Service, for the records. The agency has so far, according to the group, not responded to a Freedom of Information Act request made on March 29.

The White House has gone out of its way to stop news outlets from reporting on the trip. When Malia Obama went on the Mexico vacation in March, the White House reportedly forced a number of news organizations to remove their stories online reporting on the trip.

China asks Canada to be fair as it has been fair.

The TDSB has found a new way to molest the kids.

Who says? Um, this guy. And this guy.

Since when were the Conservatives (in name only) never “gay-friendly”? When they didn’t fight gay “marriage”? One would think an activist liar would try harder to smear an opponent.

Why the NDP isn’t a party but a laughing stock:

Kenney is one of the government's most prominent cabinet ministers and the only one to say publicly that he is in favour of studying the Criminal Code's definition of when life begins. He said Monday that he would vote in favour of Motion 312, put forward by Conservative MP Stephen Woodworth, to create a parliamentary committee to study the definition.

The vote is scheduled for tomorrow night.

NDP MP Niki Ashton, the party's critic on status of women, says she's concerned a cabinet minister has said he supports the motion, calling that support "in clear opposition" to Prime Minister Stephen Harper's longstanding position that no one wants to see the debate re-opened.

"Not only has the debate been opened through this private members motion coming forward, but ... a senior member of this government has clearly stated his support," Ashton said. …

Clearly people DO want to talk about this so they might as well dispense with their usual avoidance and rhetorical crap and catch up to the twenty-first century. That now the NDP critic would support Stephen Harper shows the mettle of her and her party’s convictions.

(With gratitude for all)

Monday Post

Some quick thoughts for the beginning of the work week.


Offend Mohammad. Draw a cartoon about him. He's not God. He's not Jesus. He's not even Santa Claus. He was the founder of a religion completely antithetical to the liberal democratic values we enjoy and take for granted everyday.



You know the left. Know the people they would eat dirt for. Gladly. There is something about being dominated by tribalists that they crave.



Pray, how does one pay for "free education"?

The most vocal of Quebec's three major student groups plans to keep up its campaigning and possibly protesting in the months to come, hoping for an eventual 100 per cent cut in university tuition fees.

The Coalition large de l'Association pour une solidarité syndicale étudiante, or CLASSE, protested Saturday in Montreal and is planning to hold meetings at the end of this week to decide how to proceed with its strategy.

Quebec's two other major student groups — the federation of college students, or FECQ, and the federation of university students, or FEUQ — say they're content with the new provincial government's decision to cancel an 82 per cent tuition hike imposed by the former Liberal administration.

But CLASSE, which has about 100,000 members among Quebec's 450,000 post-secondary students, says it wants education to be completely accessible by being entirely free.

Is there a magical money tree I don't know anything about?



Science's biggest impediment isn't creationism; it's junk science and "rock star" scientists who use the veneer of professional respectability to promote their own causes while completely ignoring the elephantS in the room:

If you haven't heard about it, about a month ago, Bill Nye released a video, as part of the Big Think series, and it made quite a stir. Bill was asking people who deny evolution and instead believe in Creationism — the idea that the world was created only 6,000 to 10,000 years ago — to not pass on that belief to their children.

Yes, but Romney didn't get on his hands and knees and grovel to the ever-offended masses, Mr. Bump-in-the-Road:

President Barack Obama hit back hard in a "60 Minutes" interview broadcast Sunday at Mitt Romney's criticisms of his handling of Syria and Iran, saying that if the Republican standard-bearer "is suggesting that we should start another war, he should say so."

Obama is such a tool.



And now, let eating with these fractal utensils freak you out.



(Muchas, muchas gracias)

Wuthering Post

It’s like Emily Bronte’s classic “Wuthering Heights” but light on the angst and stuff.

THIS is vetting:

Obama's mother met her second husband, an Indonesian named Lolo Soetoro, while working at the East-West Center in Hawaii. They married, and in 1967, the young Obama, then known as Barry Soetoro, traveled to Indonesia with his mother when the Indonesian government recalled his stepfather.

In Indonesia, the family's circumstances improved dramatically. According to Obama in his autobiography "Dreams from My Father," Lolo's brother-in-law was "making millions as a high official in the national oil company." It was through this brother-in-law that Obama's stepfather got a coveted job as a government relations officer with the Union Oil Co.

The family then moved to Menteng, then and now the most exclusive neighborhood of Jakarta, where bureaucrats, diplomats and economic elites reside.

A popular Indonesia travel site describes Menteng: "Designed by the Dutch Colonial Government in 1920s, Menteng still retains its graceful existence with its beautiful parks, cozy street cafes and luxurious housing complexes."

In 1971, his mother sent young Obama back to Hawaii, where his grandmother, Madelyn, known as Toots, would become one of the first female vice presidents of a Honolulu bank. His grandfather was in sales.

Obama's grandparents moved the same year into Punahou Circle Apartments, a sleek new 10-story apartment building just five blocks from the private Punahou School, which Obama would attend from 1971 to 1979.

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Time magazine gushed in 2008 about Barack Obama's 12-year tenure as a law lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School, saying, "Within a few years, he had become a rock-star professor with hordes of devoted students."

That may have been true during his first two years, when he ranked first among the law school's 40 instructors, with students giving him a rating of 9.7 out of a possible 10.

But law student evaluations made available to The Washington Examiner by the university showed that his popularity then fell steadily.

In 1999, only 23 percent of the students said they would repeat Obama's racism class. He was the third-lowest-ranked lecturer at the law school that year. And in 2003, only a third of the student evaluators recommended his classes.

His classes were small. A spring 1994 class attracted 14 out of a student body of 600; a spring 1996 class drew 13. In 1997, he had the largest class of his tenure with 49 students. But by then, his student rating had fallen to 7.75. Twenty-two of 40 faculty members ranked higher than Obama.

Some former faculty colleagues today describe Obama as disengaged, doing only what was minimally required and almost never participating in faculty activities.

And, unlike others on the Chicago Law School faculty who published numerous articles in legal journals, Obama's byline did not appear in a single legal journal while he taught there.

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Four years after Barack Obama's historic election as president, little seems to have changed for the African-American communities on Chicago's South Side.

The lack of change -- or the sense that these neighborhoods are getting worse -- is eroding the president's standing among African-Americans in his hometown.

In 2011, Chicago suffered the third-highest black jobless rate among the nation's major metropolitan areas, at 19 percent, according to the liberal Economic Policy Institute.

Chicago still lacks enough affordable housing. Not only did the city demolish 25,000 public housing units in the previous decade, it also experienced more than 80,000 foreclosures, mainly in low-income neighborhoods.

Chicago "black nationalist" Eddie Read contends Obama has never fought for the black community. "I would not honestly tag Obama as a fighter for black people, black agenda or black issues," Read told The Washington Examiner.

After Obama's election, Read said, "I hoped that it would change."

But four years later, as he looks around Chicago's neighborhoods, he said things haven't improved under Obama.

"I don't see where the quality of life or the quality has changed," he said, "except that it's worse."

 

So what took the popular press so long to do its job? Is there no more love for the Chosen One? Have the ratings and subscriptions tanked so badly that the editors got a clue? Or did someone wake up one morning and have an epiphany: one's job is to report the news, not stroke the ego of an obviously deficient world leader?

Bambi will not vote for Obama.

TEE!

Related: Mitt Romney's tax records have been released. He paid more than what he owed and somehow that isn't good enough.

Remember: the left don't work for NASA for a reason.

Iranian woman kicks some cleric @$$:

An Iranian cleric said he was beaten by a woman in the northern province of Semnan after giving her a warning for being “badly covered,” the state-run Mehr news agency reported. 

Hojatoleslam Ali Beheshti said he encountered the woman in the street while on his way to the mosque in the town of Shahmirzad, and asked her to cover herself up, to which she replied “you, cover your eyes,” according to Mehr. The cleric repeated his warning, which he said prompted her to insult and push him. 

 

“I fell on my back on the floor,” Beheshti said in the report. “I don’t know what happened after that, all I could feel was the kicks of this woman who was insulting me and attacking me.” 

Relive the glories of Iranian girl beating some morality police @$$.

What? Pakistani teachers use their students the way Wisconsin, Chicago and Ontario teachers do- as pawns to further an agenda? 

The children in Karachi — seemingly between the ages of 6 and 8 — demonstrated across from the Karachi Press Club, said Ghulam Qadir, a Karachi police official charged with keeping track of all demonstrations at the club.

The event was not formal or planned, so authorities didn’t know ahead of time it would happen, he said. In general, Pakistani parents are not informed about every event organized by a school.

At least four teachers accompanied the children to the demonstration, Qadir said. There did not appear to be any parents there.

What are the benefits like for Pakistani teachers? A free jerry can of gasoline and an American flag for a successful school year?

Related: the Day of Love winds up with a church burning.

Remember: the messenger in Islam is greater than the message. Theological problem right there.

A liar and a girl’s blouse at that:

A KEY organiser of an Islamic rally to be held in Melbourne on Sunday has cancelled the protest amid fears of a backlash and police concerns it will be overrun by violent activists.

Swaybah Javed, who had helped invite supporters through social networking to a rally outside the city’s State Library, said she’d been forced to scrap the event.

“I am calling off the protest as I do not want more violence on the streets, as Islam does not promote violence,” the university graduate said today.

“It is a shameful day for Australia when Islamophobia has boiled over to the point where it is impossible to carry out a peaceful protest.”

We could wax ad nauseum how Islam is as peaceful as a Great White shark with a seal in its jaws but let’s touch on the Islamophobia aspect for a moment.

Ibn Warraq:

Most important, Ibn Warraq  describes the “mind-set” of most Muslims as intolerant, self-pitying, stagnant, and trained to blame others for their own failures.

Did you catch that? Instead of being honest, self-reflective and responsible, Miss Javed created the canard of Islamophobia as a convenient deflection and distraction. ‘Oh no! No one in the ummah has been violent or irrational. Or, if they have, it’s Islamophobia that’s clouded the issue. Let’s not talk about it anymore’. Is the populace Islamophobic because they saw droves of screaming bearded men who hate their current country demand Sharia law took to the streets in what is truly a sectarian harbinger? How impotent these apologists must feel when people cannot be convinced of the incredible. It has now come to the point where the State acts with greater urgency and speed to squash any criticism or depiction of Islam lest it erupt, quite predictably, into violence. It’s one thing when a member of this overly sensitive mob deludes itself into thinking that they are not violent when in fact they are and that they are victims not of their own ideologies or communities but of external liberal democracies. It’s another thing when someone else believes it and will do nothing to fight against it.

Fat Ninja Park is not just a sign of the times; it's a warning.

The United States, a sovereign nation with universal suffrage, got rid of the draft in 1973. There should be no reason why someone who volunteered to join the armed forces should be hiding in Canada.

Oh my God! If I thought that Australia was populated only with these cute little wombats and not things that could maim or kill me, I would think: “Wow! I could swim at night or walk in tall grass and never be afraid!”

But Nature, she does laugh.

(A round of applause and more)

But Wait! There's More!

Current portrait of the Commander-in-Chief

Who is out-of-touch with the American people: a candidate who declared that forty-seven percent of voters would vote for a government that would allow them to live off the largesse of others or a candidate who was not properly vetted in 2008, admitted in 1998 he believed in "redistribution", did not want his daughters "punished with a baby", returned a bust of Sir Winston Churchill (a gift, I might add), would not have his photo taken with the troops in Baghdad, golfed while an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico threatened the local ecology and economy, has done nothing to fix an over eight percent unemployment rate, attacked the Catholic Church, has reduced women to their internal organs because he cannot run on his rancid economic and foreign policy record (which now officially stands in ruins after cowering to his beloved religion of peace), claimed not to know or really did not know the total amount of debt his country was in (in an interview he snubbed the Israeli prime minister for), has alienated the Great White North and attended yet another celebrity-sponsored fundraiser wherein bottles of champagne pricing at $300 a bottle lined the bar while many are on food stamps?

Well, that's awkward:

Chinese authorities are investigating a number of cases in which steel documented in receipts was either not there, belonged to another company or had been pledged as collateral to multiple lenders, industry sources said.

Ghost inventories are exacerbating the wider ailments of the sector in China, which produces around 45 percent of the world’s steel and has over 200 million metric tons (220.5 million tons) of excess production capacity. Steel is another drag on a financial system struggling with bad loans from the property sector and local governments.

Related: what the poor in China eat.


(Think about that when you buy their cheaply-made slave labour crap.)



STAMPEDE!



By the way, give Triple F a round of applause for a scintillating twelve years.



Unless they were teetering over the edge of a cliff or running on a highway, I'm not seeing what the problem is:

Allowing your kids to play on scooters outside the house on a quiet street seems innocent--and common--enough. But a Texas mom was arrested and spent the night in jail after a neighbor complained that the children were unsupervised.

The parent, Tammy Cooper, disputes the "humiliating" charge, saying she was watching the kids, ages 6 and 9, the whole time from a lawn chair.

But police took the neighbor at her word, and a few hours after the call, arrested Cooper for child endangerment. Cooper told KPRC that the arresting officer told her, "We're here for you."

The accused parent spent the night behind bars. "Orange jump suit, in a cell, slammed the door, for 18 hours," she said.

Cooper is suing the La Porte Police Department, the officer, and the neighbor who made the call. In a statement, the police department said it was "confident of the known actions of the officers on the scene that evening." The neighbor had no comment.

This is something:

The Edmonton teacher who was fired for giving his students zeros has got a new job at a local private school.

Lynden Dorval, a former physics teacher at Ross Sheppard High School, was suspended in May for giving students zeros for work that wasn't handed in or tests not taken.

That method went against the school's policy of not awarding zeros and on Friday Dorval found out he was fired.

However, less than one week after his termination, Dorval is now employed at Tempo School.

Peter Mitchell, head of Tempo School, says he had been looking for an advanced placement physics teacher and noticed Dorval’s passion for teaching during the public battle with the school board.

“I had been following Lynden’s case through the papers and realized I know a teacher who’s looking for work,” Mitchell said.

He added that he values Dorval’s decades of experience.

“It's certainly vindication that giving zeros is the right approach,” Dorval said in regards to his recent hire.

And now, cute desert animals. Enjoy.



(Applause for many)