If you didn't know...

...why Sir Salman Rushdie is so despised in the Islamic world, you will after hearing this passage from "The Satanic Verses":



Long live Sir Rushdie!

History lesson

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Breaking News: "Fuel crisis" poll not dumbest poll...

...This one is. (From CTV.ca)

"Canadians still think it's a good idea to negotiate with Afghanistan's Taliban insurgents as a way to end the violence there, a poll finds.

In The Strategic Counsel poll conducted for CTV and The Globe and Mail, there was almost two-to-one support for the notion"

Of course, the Taliban have been active with their "insurgent" activities. Maybe they can't fit negotiating into their busy schedules. A small sampling from Jihadwatch and Dhimmiwatch:

Jihadist video shows boy beheading man

Rights group: Taliban targets civilians

Jihadists cut off Afghans' noses, ears

Bombings destroy music store, barbershops in Pakistani border area

Taliban beheads US "spy," carves message into his forehead

Taliban flee battle using children as shields: NATO

Taliban to spend $1 million to open "jihad schools" in Afghanistan

Refugee school torched in eastern Afghanistan

Taliban commander vows bloody 2007 in Afghanistan

Taliban rules: A warning, a beating, then death for teachers

Afghan jihadists gun down five, including two female teachers

NATO says Taliban using civilians as shields

Afghan women's affairs chief dead

Suicide bomber kills 16 in Afghanistan

"We have the Islamic right to kill these journalists and media"

"It is a part of our noble responsibility to spoil the Western society with drugs"

Indian Hostage Beheaded in Afghanistan

Taliban condemns release of Christian convert, calls for jihad

Suicide Car Bombing Kills 4 in Kabul

Axe-attacked Canadian soldier opens his eyes

Suicide bomber targets Kandahar cops

Afghanistan: teacher beheaded

Afghani principal, district chief shot

Taliban Say Cut Throat of Afghan Christian

Taliban ban music in N. Waziristan

Taliban execute teacher in front of his pupils for educating girls

Woman poet ‘slain for her verse’

Taliban fining people for listening to music in their cars

Taliban warns male doctors: no ultrasound tests on female patients

Gunmen burn coed Afghan school

Use your vote and you'll die, Taliban tell Afghan women

Taliban 'poisoned schoolgirls'

Huh???

According to CTV.ca there's a fuel crisis. A fuel crisis?? Did I miss some important piece of news? Dumbest poll ever.

In the interim, perhaps a career in used car sales beckons.

From the Ottawa Sun:

Raising the spectre of airline terrorism, a judge has banned a Moroccan-Canadian from working in the airline industry for seven years.

But the man wasn't accused of being a terrorist, just faking a log book of his work so he could finish his airplane mechanic's apprenticeship -- a violation of Canada's Aeronautics Act...

...Ertel told court his client had been an apprentice aircraft mechanic at First Air, but got fired after a dispute with his employer. As a result, El Mahdi had only performed about 50% of the required tasks to get his licence. He then falsified a logbook.
Meloche told court the false entries came to the attention of a Transport Canada inspector who realized some of the tasks listed in the log couldn't have been performed because the aircraft listed didn't have the parts for the stated jobs.

Some background. The logbook referred to is the apprentice's personal AME task log. Assuming that he's only working fixed-wing, that gives us 50 ATA chapters of tasks in his book. Now if we assume an average of 5 tasks per chapter, at 50% complete, that leaves about 125 representative tasks. My point is this. Not only did this guy have to fake 125 tasks in his book, he also needed to forge an AME's signature that many times.
Not the kind of person you'd want maintaining your aircraft eh?

"Fashion" police harpy gets a whuppin'

While in this country the useful idiots of the left continue to pander to the Islamists, somewhere in Iran there's a brave young lady who's decided she ain't gonna wear that medieval sackcloth:

An inconvenient web poll (from CTV.ca)

Er, sorry Dr. Suzuki.

Happy Earth Day!

"The IPCC has used models to predict the future that cannot explain the past. They have ignored evidence that conclusively refutes their hypothesis. And, though the community of scientists in the field of climatology has largely abandoned the global warming paradigm, the IPCC has not."

From Schlueterica, an essay about the IPCC's methods. Still valid today.

Another evil Zionist plot no doubt

Widespread panic over mobile phone death threat.

Scratch a Greenie, find a Truther

While the Conservatives move further toward the centre, the others have decided to start occupying the lunatic fringe. From todays National Post:

A federal Green party candidate in Vancouver-Kingsway is standing behind a controversial editorial he wrote more than four years ago in which he describes the falling of the World Trade Center twin towers as "beautiful."

The editorial, entitled, A Revolting Confession, was first published on Nov. 28, 2002 in an alternative newspaper, The Republic of East Vancouver, which Kevin Potvin founded.

"When I saw the first tower cascade down into that enormous plume of dust and paper, there was a little voice inside me that said, 'Yeah!' When the second tower came down the same way, that little voice said, 'Beautiful!' When the visage of the Pentagon appeared on the TV with a gaping and smoking hole in its side, that little voice had nearly taken me over, and I felt an urge to pump my fist in the air," Mr. Potvin wrote in the editorial...

...He continued: "I know lots of people were killed. But then again, I see lots of people getting killed whenever I turn the TV news on, and frankly, it doesn't really get to me any more....

Perhaps the jihadis should start attacking trees, THAT would get Mr. Potvin's attention! Here comes the Truther part.

Mr. Potvin said in a telephone interview last night that he is now skeptical that the events of 9/11 were entirely the work of terrorists.
"I have no idea what happened on that day, but it's certainly not the story that Washington propagates."

So, let's see if I can understand this... Mr. Potvin is gleeful that the terrorists attacked the USA, but hey, you know, the terrorists didn't really attack the USA. But wait! Shouldn't Mr. Potvin now be upset that Bushco's dastardly plan to attack the USA went off without a hitch??

My head hurts