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Demands 50% Canadian content in its…er…”programming” selection.

Your tax dollars at work, O Reader.

I still haven’t figured out why people bother doing this kind of statistical polling, but I have to admit that the results are often interesting.

Other findings of Peter Schweizer, in his book “Makers and Takers,” using “the latest statistical data,” include:

• Some 71 percent of conservatives say you have an obligation to care for a seriously injured spouse or parent versus less than half (46 percent) of liberals.
• Conservatives have a better work ethic and are much less likely to call in sick than their liberal counterparts.
• Liberals are two and a half times more likely to be resentful of others’ success and 50 percent more likely to be jealous of other people’s good luck.
• Liberals are two times more likely to say it is okay to cheat the government out of welfare money you don’t deserve.
• Some 55 percent of conservatives say they get satisfaction from putting someone else’s happiness ahead of their own, versus only 20 percent of liberals.

Yes, it’s all polemical, and I’m not entirely sure what point it serves. It’s still interesting. To me, at least. And this is my blog.

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Update 2 - The Wrath of Update: More confirmation of same, with some added bits:

In particular, liberals were five times more likely to participate in unmarried sex (20% vs. 4%), more than three times as likely to view pornography (30% vs. 8%), more than twice as likely to lie (21% vs. and to get drunk (17% vs. 7%), and twice as likely to engage in retaliation (13% vs. 6%) and gossip (17% vs. 9%).

Interesting.

As predicted*, Pickering, Ontario nuclear power plant worker Shaukat Khawja has responded to my post from yesterday by calling me a Zionist. Dude’s gotta get some new material…

…anyhow, since it seems that Shaukat is the only one who ever really comments on his blog (there was a Jewish guy who posted a few comments here and there, but I haven’t seen any new material from him and can only assume that he’s packed up and moved on rather than attempting to sort through the lies and stupidity — Shaukat’s death threat against him also stands out as a possible reason for the departure), his follow-on commentary concerning what I said yesterday appeared in a comment on his site. Dude must feel lonely and unloved or something…is there any other reason to be your own sole commentator?

Anyhow, this post is certified non-halal, as it is accompanied by a byline picture of pork chops. With that in mind, let’s see what Shaukat has to say, shall we?

The other day I received another comment from Kenneth, the Zionist scum at Time Immortal — whining about my post pointing toward the real thugs behind 9/11 — and his great ignorance about Hizb’Allah — the fool doesn’t know that Israel, the US and Canada are the only three countries in the entire world, which have labeled Hizb’Allah a terrorist organization under Jewish Lobby’s pressure.

Now, the Reader may recall that my comment was specifically that Hezbollah is considered to be a terrorist organization in…Canada. I wasn’t commenting on anywhere else in the world because, well, I wasn’t talking about anywhere else in the world. And to be perfectly frank, I don’t care what any other government in the world thinks at the moment — I live in Canada, and Canada is a country which considers Hezbollah to be a terrorist organization. End of story.

Also, Shaukat really needs to learn a thing or three about the Wordpress blogging platform. As it is, I didn’t leave a comment on his site, but by linking to Rehmatpedia I probably did generate either a trackback or pingback, which is what Shaukat would have seen arrive. These look like comments from an administrative perspective, but are quite different animals indeed.

However, I was surprised Ken did not attach his usual porn link.

Immature playground mentalities aside, does it sound to anyone else as though Shaukat is disappointed by the absence of porn in correspondence directed to him?

Here is a news item for the fool – in which 500 Canadian has questioned the US ‘official story’ of 9/11.

And here, in turn, is news for Shaukat: 500 Canadians is approximately 0.0015% of the country’s population. Quite frankly, I don’t care one iota what 500 Canadians think — I’m sure one can easily find 500 Canadians who believe that they have personally been anal-probed by aliens. I’m sure one can easily find 500 Canadians who believe that Winston Churchill was a myth. I’m even sure that one can easily find 500 Canadians who think that honour killing is a legitimate form of discipline for errant daughters.

The point is, the consensus of a few — or even a few hundred — people does not a truth make; there are many people in the world who will gladly, for one deluded reason or another, buy into even the most absurd of conspiracy theories.

Some of them, as Shaukat points out, are even in government:

New Democratic Party Deputy House Leader Libby Davies delivers a Parliamentary Petition signed by over 500 Canadians demanding a new 9/11 investigation, in Canada’s House of Commons during Routine Proceedings at 1:10 pm on June 10, 2008.

“We, the undersigned citizens of Canada draw the attention of the House to the following:

THAT, scientific and eyewitness evidence shows that the 9/11 Commission Report is a fraudulent document and that those behind the report are consciously or unconsciously guilty of covering up what happened on 9/11/2001. This evidence overwhelmingly supports the conclusion that World Trade Center Towers 1, 2 and 7 were brought down by demolition explosives and that the official theory of the towers collapsing from the airplanes and the ensuing fires is irrefutably false.

We further believe that elements within the US government were complicit in the murder of thousands of people on 9/11/2001. This event brought Canada into the so-called “War on Terror,” it changed our domestic and foreign policies for the worse, and it will continue to have negative consequences for us all if we refuse to look at the facts.

THEREFORE, your petitioners call upon Parliament to:

(1) Immediately launch its own investigation into the events of 9/11/2001 on behalf of the 24 Canadian citizens murdered in New York City.

(2) Act lawfully on the findings of its own investigation by helping to pursue the guilty parties in the international courts.”

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=9625

So what does this prove, exactly, apart from the fact that a few people in Canada’s opposition parties might just be conspiracy nutters and “Troofers”? Well…it proves nothing, really. The various 9/11 conspiracies, especially those surrounding the WTC 7 tower, have been debunked — only madmen — or those who will embrace any convenient lie in pursuit of a strictly pacifist agenda — need cling to them.

And Shaukat — being a fan of Hezbollah — doesn’t strike me as a pacifist.

Sleep tight, Pickering. Your nuclear power plant is in good hands.

Interestingly, I notice that Shaukat goes after me on the basis of my comments about Hezbollah and September 11th conspiracy nonsence. But there was a third component to my posting, which was to call out as bunk his comments that Islam was somehow fair to women, that women under Islam somehow enjoyed higher standards of equality than in the West. Strangely, Shaukat has let this point stand uncontested.

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* My prediction was more of a question, to be fair — I wondered how long it would be before Shaukat called me a Zionist again (implication: he was going to call me a Zionist again). The answer, as it turns out, is “about fourteen hours” (assuming that Shaukat’s blog’s timestamps reflect the time-zone difference between Pickering and Edmonton)

I was just about ready to chew through solid lead after reading this article in magazine (which Dr. Helen linked to initially). The article — entitled Relationship Conflicts: Your Annoying Habits; 8 Things She Hates About You — was written by a young (?) lady to highlight…well, here, why not have it in her own words (once again, we have an example of a woman columnist talking trash about her husband/boyfriend):

Most of the time he has no idea of what sets me off. Which is why I’ve prepared this handy inventory of things men tend to do that we tend to find annoying. If you study up, you’ll be able to stop repelling the women you want to meet — or aggravating the one you have. And we women can continue not telling you why we’re mad, because we’ll figure, “Hey, he should know already!” Besides, who said this would be fair?

While I’ll grant that there are a few good points made in the article — let us be honest, O Reader: men should be mindful of some things, such as basic cleanliness, the different emotional and conversational needs of women as opposed to other men, the nature of commitment (especially when sex has been a factor in the relationship prior to marriage), and the ugliness of porn — there is also an undeserved harshness to the article as well. It comes off as, at best, condescending (the general air of the article is one of a smart, enlightened woman talking down to barely post-cave-dwelling men), and at worst downright demeaning.

And annoyance #7 made my blood boil, and was the principle contributor to the aforementioned desire to bite through lead:

Annoyance #7
You turn down sex.

When it so happens that we’re the one who wants sex and you’re the one who doesn’t, we find your refusal to be confusing* and irritating**. Reassure us that we’re attractive and that you love us, but that you just aren’t in the mood. It helps to throw out a hint at what’s going on — that you’re tired, depressed, anxious at work, whatever, says Aline Zoldbrod, Ph.D., a Boston-area psychologist***. That way we won’t obsess or be too pouty or aggressive****. If we happen to be fresh off a girls’ night out liquored up and ready for sex, which you’re refusing, tread extra carefully. Horny can change to emotional, crying wreckage very quickly when your girl has a couple of glasses of Prosecco in her*****.

Points I might make:

* why is this confusing? Or is the author writing from the assumption that men always, by definition, want sex, and that no “real” man would ever turn down sex when offered the opportunity for it?

** this part of the argument is specious, since it is probably of no issue or concern to the columnist that her man might find it a bit irritating when she turns down sex for any particular reason

*** this is not bad advice, to be sure, but how often is the requested action reciprocated?

**** I thought “no means no”…yes?

I was actually going to highlight the absurdity of this particular point by re-wording it to appear as though it had been written by a man and addressed to women…but I see that I was beaten to the punch.

When it so happens that we’re the one who wants sex and you’re the one who doesn’t, we find your refusal to be confusing and irritating. Reassure us that we’re attractive and that you love us, but that you just aren’t in the mood. It helps to throw out a hint at what’s going on — that you’re tired, depressed, anxious at work, whatever, says Aline Zoldbrod, Ph.D., a Boston-area psychologist. That way we won’t obsess or be too pouty or aggressive. If we happen to be fresh off a boys’ night out liquored up and ready for sex, which you’re refusing, tread extra carefully. Horny can change to emotional, crying wreckage very quickly when your man has a couple of shots of Wild Turkey in him.

Once again, I am counting my blessings that I married a girl who doesn’t treat men with condescension, and who is genuinely fair in terms of how she matches the treatment she expects from others with the treatment she gives to others. Thank you so much, honey!

In the wake of that undersea cable failing (it now appears that two cables were accidentally severed!), Egypt has called on its internet-using citizens to curb the amount of time they spend online, and what content they access when browsing.

Egypt’s Internet situation is in dire straits after two undersea cables in the Mediterranean were accidentally severed yesterday, cutting off much of the country’s access to the outside world. 70 percent of the nation’s Internet has been disconnected, according to Egypt’s Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, with phone calls to Europe and the US also being disrupted. As a result, the ministry has launched an emergency task force to deal with the situation and has asked the general public to avoid downloading more bandwidth-intensive items for now in order to allow businesses priority.

It’s not just Egypt, either; other countries throughout the Middle East also suffered outages, with some being completely disconnected. And both India and Egypt, which run high-volume call centers, have taken a major hit in communications because of the disruption.

“Two of our cables are affected; everyone will go onto a third cable,” ministry spokesperson Mohammed Taymur told the AFP. “But that will not be enough bandwidth. [...] People should know how to use the Internet because people who download music and films are going to affect businesses who have more important things to do.“

You know, in 2006, Egypt was the #3 hotspot in the world from which Google-searches for the keyword “sex” originated. One wonders if this sort of failure would be sufficient to create a noticeable dip in the revenues of the porn industry?

Probably not, unfortunately, but one can always hope.

Ungrateful bastards.