Wednesday, May 23, 2007

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'




Monday, May 21, 2007

Huh???






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

Monday, May 14, 2007

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?

Friday, May 11, 2007

"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: