Music, Speech that Offends, Missing Info--Hard Copies, "Covenant of security"

So you hate classical music? Try Opera without words

Search: "Listen to Samples" and select "Listen to all" -- light and lively

Down from that, there are other samples listed (Bizet, Puccini, Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Beethoven and Verdi, for example) to which you may listen. Sometimes, music is so insistent that it interferes with my thinking, but these are perfect while I'm doing something else. I hope someone else will enjoy them.

I'd better stop or I'll be posting another recipe . . . or a list of good wines . . . Well, that amounts to passable plonk in my world so you'll be relieved if I omit that.

May you have a great weekend.



David Ahenakew found guilty of hate crime

Former First Nations leader David Ahenakew lashed out at the Jewish community, the courts and the media after being found guilty of promoting hate.

Provincial court Judge Marty Irwin handed down his ruling in a Saskatoon courtroom filled with Ahenakew's supporters and members of the Jewish community, including some Holocaust survivors.

Ahenakew, 71, was spared jail and instead was fined $1,000 for his crime. The Crown had asked for a fine of $2,000.

This might sound like a good decision to those he maligned and hurt, but I believe it is the thin edge of the wedge to end speaking out and/or telling uncomfortable truths in this country. Consider the two pastors punished for reading from the Koran in Australia. Who is going to decide what is offensive?

To whose benefit would it be to curb free speech -- for example, among bloggers?

Suppose that, in the face of something dangerous, you are trying to warn and you are speaking truth--not the assinine comments made by Ahenakew--but what if you cross one of the currently politically favoured groups? Government lackeys who don't want truth to be revealed? Appointees who have changed your world and you want to speak out about it, for the good of Canadians? . . . Someone doesn't like what you say. Who is going to protect your right to free speech when truth should come out? My right?

Is there any longer free speech if someone . . . anyone . . . might be offended? I am not talking about vicious lies; I am talking about truth . . . offensive to someone truth.




Video: Palestinian child abuse Earlier today, I mentioned this but I didn't have the link.




Krauthammer -- worth reading -- very good via Newsbeat1 or CCD (I forget; sorry.)

Charles Krauthammer is a nationally syndicated columnist for the Washington Post and an essayist for Time. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1987, and in 2003 was a recipient of the Bradley Prize. This essay, in somewhat different form, was delivered in New York City in May as Commentary’s first annual Norman Podhoretz Lecture.




[London Terrorism:] British "Covenant of Security" with Islamists Ends Daniel Pipes, New York Sun, July 8, 2005

Covenant of security? What is that? In an August 2004 story in the New Statesman, "Why terrorists love Britain," Jamie Campbell cited the author of Inside Al Qaeda, Mohamed Sifaoui, as saying, "it has long been recognized by the British Islamists, by the British government and by UK intelligence agencies, that as long as Britain guarantees a degree of freedom to the likes of Hassan Butt [an overtly pro-terrorist Islamist], the terrorist strikes will continue to be planned within the borders of the UK but will not occur here." [. . . . ]

It means that Muslims can no longer be considered to have sanctity and security here, therefore they should consider leaving this country and going back to their homelands. Otherwise they are under siege and obviously we do not want to see that we are living under siege.

Search: Dar ul-Harb , the kuffar

Doesn't Canada have one of those, a "Covenant of security", too? Our government just hasn't admitted it -- or else why the desperation to appear so anti-American and to be seen not to support the US War on Terror? It would assure the jihadis that they have nothing to fear from Canada . . . so we'll be okay -- just as was London.




Missing from the Government Site

Next time, make a hard copy

For those researching, who have not been able to find this: Public Declaration of Declarable Assets of Paul Martin, "The former deck-hand who bought the company -- Paul Martin will be the first Canadian prime minister with a true, blue-ribbon background in business" November 4, 2003, Glen McGregor, Ottawa Citizen

[Paul Martin - 6th Disclosure -- is missing from the government website -- "strategis.ic.gc.ca/epic/internet/ inoec-bce.nsf/en/oe01379e.html" ]

History could be re-written if there is no hard copy; we can be assured our leader(s) would not want that. The moral? Make a hard copy.

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