ONE set of values. I don’t care if you speak spanish or chinese.
Can we all agree on one set of values? Is peace and tolerance not part of the Canadian Charter of Rights?
It is.
Deal with it.
I was at work today, busy as a bee, but a job I know by heart.
So my mind wanders quite a bit.
Those who remember VE DAY are lucky. They are priviledged to have witnessed the defeat of the Nazi regime, the downfall of Hitler and his minions. Victory in Europe was a day to remember, and I remember the spirit of it although I was born 25 years after the fact.
Key images of those days live on to tell the story. I have some idea of what the event was like because of those images.
When someday, perhaps in the near futur, we defeat the Taliban and Al Qaeda in this War On Terror which is likely to persist, what pictures will represent that historical event?
What picture would truely capture the spirit of T&A Day?
I can’t wait for T&A Day. It’s gonna be the best day of my life.
This is an odd personal message I’m posting here. I don’t plan to give out names, but this is a random list of cousins of mine, I just got some news from a few of them.
A cousin of mine died four years ago. I didn’t know him, my sister did. We just learned about it. He was heavily into drugs and got cancer, I don’t know which came first. He died alone, away from his loved ones. No family of his own.
The twins, in the last year or so, were both beaten up. One by her Read the rest of this entry »
Yup. I’d expect a blind black man to recognise bullshit when he hears it.
Nope.
I’d expect any black man to vote for those who aren’t Read the rest of this entry »
I’ve never watched that show Rescue Me, but I have seen a couple of Leary excerpts. I think that role was written for him. Perfect.
Political correctness is a joke. Actions count for a lot. Language falls into “freedom of speech” as far as I know.
You don’t like it? Wear a helmet.
As my hability to get more proficient at editing gets noticed, I feel that Microsoft Movie Maker lets me down at every turn.
It sucks. It really does. I can only hope that Windows Vista has a better version eventually. That gives me hope, because XP’s version just sucks ass.
You have to handle it with tweezers, and I have a sledgehammer waiting in the wings. I’m ready to bash it into new frontiers, but it crashes at every turn.
Imagine box A being put into place.
Then box B is put into place.
When you put box C into place, the whole thing crashes, tells you Dr. Watson is on the case and you’re back to square one.
You start Windows Movie Maker again, and boxes A and B are not there any more. All you did beforehand is gone. Please start over.
**** you. Just go **** yourselves if your name is attached to that product. Eat shite and die, please.
This should be a pleasant procedure, but instead it’s pain at every turn. Screw you.
ADDED: I’ve taken out the F word a couple of times. I should be more careful. I used it because it was right, but the next day I think it’s too much, inappropriate. Sorry about that. I’ll be good.
I bought her book around Christmas time and I’ve just finished reading it.
I didn’t stay up late to finish it, I couldn’t read the first chapter at all for months. I didn’t get into it, but the information that it holds is from a perspective that I agree with, the facts revealed are what I believe to be the truth.
This is the only book I’ve read which specifically talks about multiculturalism and the islamic threats within, and I can’t tell you if it’s better or worse than any other authors. I didn’t care for her writing. It didn’t grab me. The facts she mentions mirror what I’ve been reading on Little Green Footballs and Jihad Watch, two anti-terrorist weblogs. It also mirrored what I was seeing in the daily news.
Here’s an excerpt.
On the Sunday after the London bombings, the parish priest of the church that stands a few yards away from where the number 30 bus was blown up in Russell Square delivered a sermon in which, having urged his congregation to rejoice in the capital’s rich diversity of cultures, traditions, ethnic groups and faiths, he added: “There is one small practical thing that we can all do. We can name the people who did these things as criminals or terrorists. We must not name them as Muslims”
When the memorial service for the victims of the London bombins was being planned for St. Paul’s Cathedral, church leaders wanted to invite the families of the bombers. Two senior bishops believed that this would “acknowlede their own loss and send a powerful message of reconciliation to the Muslim community.” (…)
After relatives of the murdered victims expressed their outrage at this suggestion, the government declined to accept it. The reaction of the churchmen was typical. The first instinct of many British clerics was to emapathize and agonize not with the victims of the atrocity but with the community of the faith in whose name it had been committed -and to deny that religion had had anything to do with it at all.
(chapter 8, p.138-9)
If I had to sum up her book, or her philosophy behind the book, it’s not to denounce multiculturalism as such. She sees a lot of liberal thinking and liberal politicians who don’t want to make any waves, and the policies of countries controled by these liberal minds are lax, inconsiderate and frankly dangerous in the long run.
As I’ve said before, if you can’t discriminate between a bear and mother bear with her cub, you’re in for a lot of trouble. A bear will usually keep to itself or run away. The mommy bear won’t back down. It’s in your best interest to know what is inside your area and discriminate between law abiding, generous individuals and the hate filled 5th colomn. They’re not the same. You can see that they’re not that same.
Melanie Phillips did a remarkable job on this. It’s well researched and she honestly believes that the fundamental values of good that once shaped Britain risk being lost in the long run. And I agree with her on that.
Other authors have touched this subject. Irshad Manji is one, Glenn Beck is another. You probably can’t go wrong with Caroline Glick’s book Shackled Warrior, or Robert Spencer’s The Truth About Mohamed.
Mark Steyn will probably be the next author I look into. I’m curious to read his words on multiculturalism.
I’m coming back to the Toronto Star report about the Montreal Riot and Villanueva.
The comments left by readers are interesting.
I posted a comment under the name “Serge”.
For Serge, I think you are grossly oversimplifying the issues at stake. It’s not that nobody ‘dares to mention’ but what has happened has happened. Fundamentally, being a cop means accepting the risk to be in harm’s way. Wake up. I’m quite sure that there are many more incidents in the city we don’t hear about where officers are injured in the act of duty.
Good grief. Is it so hard to understand that shooting at cops is not acceptable behaviour in our society? I say it shouldn’t be a freedom the citizens have, should not be something cops have to face (in a perfect world).
Perhaps I do oversimplify, but I don’t think I “grossly” oversimplify. I see good vs bad, right vs wrong. Gangs thrive on crime, that’s not news to anyone. Defending gang members is somewhere in the range of supporting terrorism, in my opinion.
My society is worth protecting. It is valuable in my eyes. Human rights are defended, gay rights are recognised from coast to coast, and criminals in Canada can not be submitted to the death penalty. In fact, criminals have access to health services and mental health services, free of charge (to them). That’s the kind of society I live in and I like it that way.
Gangs don’t make this a wonderful society: Police officers make this a wonderful society. And judges, and social services employees and community leaders and those who feed the poor. Law abiding citizens make this a wonderful society. Not gang members.
Pick your side. I picked my side a long time ago. If you can’t pick a side, if you can’t discriminate against evil, then you end up saying nothing. What you will say will be beige and meaningless. We have enough of that to go around already, try again.
