America as “Faith-Based”
October 30, 2006 · By Tom Cerber
A lot of nonsense has been written about the US apparently being taken over by an evangelical “theocracy.” NLT dissects a recent example of this genre.
New Jersey Same Sex Couple…Is a Foursome
October 30, 2006 · By Tom Cerber
A curious story about how a lesbian couple got the fathers to surrender the rights to make a foursome.
H/t:Â iMAPP
U. S. Defense Department Pushes Back At Media
October 30, 2006 · By Tom Cerber
The US Defense Department has a webpage devoted to rebutting what it regards as false news stories about its activities. And in case you think it’s all about the New York Times, they’ve also provided a rebuttal against a Weekly Standard editorial.
H/t:Â Belmont.
Repent, or Global Warming You Will Suffer … or Not!
October 30, 2006 · By George Freeman
In light of more jeremiad prophesies bewhaling the future consequence of man-induced global warming …
Global warming could devastate the world economy on a scale we haven’t seen since the world wars and the Great Depression, a major report by a British economist says.
Sir Nicholas Stern, the report’s author and a senior government economist, said unchecked global warming could shrink the global economy by 20 per cent — and cost a whopping $7 trillion in lost output.
However, taking action now would cost just one per cent of global gross domestic product, Sterns says in his 700-page study.
… and subsequent calls for repentance …
If no action is taken, says Stern, up to 200 million people could become refugees as their homes are hit by drought or flood from rising sea levels.
Further, up to 40 per cent of wildlife species could become extinct, and melting glaciers could cause water shortages for one sixth of the world’s population, the report says.
“It is not in doubt that, if the science is right, the consequences for our planet are literally disastrous,” said Blair.
“This disaster is not set to happen in some science fiction future many years ahead, but in our lifetime.
“Unless we act now … these consequences, disastrous as they are, will be irreversible.”
… it is solacing to have Friends of Science. Check out the video: “Climate Catastrophe Cancelled: What You’re Not Being Told About the Science of Climate Change.”
And you thought you understood the meaning of “equality”
October 30, 2006 · By Aaron Unruh
Ha ha ha, sucker. Even when white males win, they lose under the Charter:
The Manitoba government is trying to appeal the decision by arguing, in part, that the charter guarantee was not designed to provide a level playing field for white males.
Heather Leonoff, director of constitutional law in Manitoba’s Justice Department, said Manitoba wants to argue that the charter guarantee of equal treatment under the law was meant to address historic wrongs.
“Not make everybody treated the same, not level the playing field necessarily, but to have an opportunity to address certain historically disadvantaged groups,” she said.
So next time you see someone smoking in a native-run bar, feel the inner glow that derives only from the satisfaction of seeing past mistreatment of a historically disadvantaged group is being redressed.
The Company Garth Keeps
October 29, 2006 · By Aaron Unruh
Garth Turner gave an interview to someone named Greg Felton and Bourque linked to it. Here are some excerpts from the hard-hitting questions asked of Garth:
“It doesn’t sound as if the MPs in the Harper government have any freedom whatever…”
“How would you characterize the Harper government? It doesn’t sound democratic.”
“Would it be too much to say that Stephen Harper’s approach to government is that of a dictatorship?”
“Would you say that…Stephen Harper has criminalized dissent within the party?”
“…have any other MPs been intimidated or coerced”…
“Do you think the Harper government dead-in the water…”
I guess the only question I have is: With interviewing skills like that, why hasn’t Felton been hired by the CBC?
The Freedom to Criticize
October 29, 2006 · By Aaron Unruh
The Dixie Chicks have a movie coming out entitled “Shut Up and Sing.” The sanctimonious cover photo should tell you everything you need to know about the movie:
The tag-line is “Do you believe in free speech?” Why yes, I do. The question for the Dixie Chicks, if they are able to come down from their crosses long enough to answer, is: Do The Dixie Chicks believe in free speech? If yes, then why are they making a movie in order to complain about being called “Dixie Bimbos” in the wake of their criticisms of George W. Bush? Isn’t that free speech too? Or should they have been protected from that sort of free speech?
I won’t pretend that the Dixie Chicks only believe in free speech when it’s something they agree with. But what is amusing to watch is how the left has come to interpret “free speech” as the freedom to say what’s on your mind and the right to be protected from criticism.
Perfect example: Michael J. Fox wades into an issue that is the new abortion in a hotly-contested electoral race and takes one side over the other. Amazingly, his newfound involvement in the race draws some tough criticism from his opponents. Is it insensitive to suggest that Fox went off his meds for the ad? Sure. But there’s alot at stake in the senate race and, more importantly, over the issue of stem cell research as a whole, and Fox shouldn’t have expected his opponents to have reacted kindly.
To his credit, Fox, in contrast to his teary-eyed defenders on the left, seems to have understood this. He is, after all, a man. Not a chick. And we will now be subjected to weeks of commentary on the Dixie Chicks whining, cowardly “movie” on how they were *gasp* criticized
following their own unclever involvement in a political debate.
Andrew Sullivan’s Sidearm
October 28, 2006 · By Marsilio Facino
Listening to Sullivan on Hugh Hewitt and reading his continuing incomprehensible rhetorical meanderings on his blog, he reminds me of nothing so much as an increasingly isolated General who points to bullet holes in the wall behind his head as being of different caliber and says:
“The enemy is divided.”
Another US Campaign Ad Lampoons Canada
October 28, 2006 · By Tom Cerber
Last week it was a Republican ad running in Tennessee.
This week it’s a Republican incumbent in Houston for the Texas state house. Geeky Canook accent and all.
UPDATE: It turns out the Democrat Ellen Cohen, the target of the ad, isn’t even Canadian. The Houston Chronicle explains:
And the best we here in Houston can get is Houston state Rep. Martha Wong running a bizarre ad featuring a cartoon representation of her challenger, Democrat Ellen Cohen. A male voice with a bad Canadian accent says, “Hello. I’m Martha Cohen, the tax-increase lady. And I moved here from Canada, the land of big government and big taxes.”
Cohen admits to being guilty of moving here from Montreal. She married a Canadian and moved there in 1960.
She was born in Cleveland, attended Ohio State and has lived in Houston since 1977.
That’s right. The rest of the country is getting sex, violence and 17-carat sleaze.
And we get an accusation that a candidate lived in Canada. What are we Texans doing wrong?
I’m unsure what Texans have against Ohians to make it an election issue, but maybe someone at NLT, which is based in Ohio, could explain that.
U.S. Testing Lasers for ABM
October 28, 2006 · By Tom Cerber
Attached to 747s, to shoot down missiles soon after launch.
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