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Men at Work
This post is timely, because during Coren yesterday, Marilyn Churley spoke of something similar.
At the behest of PINK Magazine editor Cynthia Good, Atlanta officials are replacing “Men Working” signs with “Workers Ahead” signs. It seems “Men Working” is now deemed sexist.
Good began bellowing her demands after the police took issue with her vandalizing the signs by spray-painting “wo” before “men.” Now she plans to take her campaign national.
Uh huh. I wonder how these people would feel about the French language, where you can have 1,000 women in a room, but if there is one man, the group is referred to as ils - the masculine plural. And after all, isn’t that what a modern day construction site looks like? A few dozen men, and one or two women for diversity’s sake?
Yesterday, on the Coren show, during the segment about the Anglican church, Marilyn related a story of how when she was elected as an Alderman, she petitioned City Hall to have the title changed to Councilor. My question (which was drowned out and not answered) was “Is that what you spent your constituents’ money on?”
For shame.
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Today is the third anniversary of the day that four Muslims murdered 52 British commuters in London. Three bombs on the London Underground, and a bomb on a double-decker bus. In the name of Allah.
Kings Cross Bomb
* James Adams, 32, a mortgage broker who was travelling from his home in Peterborough to London through King’s Cross from where he called his mother.
* Samantha Badham, 36, had taken the Tube with her partner, Lee Harris. The couple usually cycled to work but caught the Tube because they were planning a romantic dinner to celebrate their 14th anniversary.
* Lee Harris, 30, an architect who died after receiving treatment at the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel, east London. His partner, Samantha Badham, also died in the attacks.
* Phil Beer, 22, a hair stylist, was on his way to work at the Sanrizz salon in Knightsbridge with his best friend, Patrick Barnes, who was injured.
* Anna Brandt, 42, a Polish cleaner living in Wood Green.
* Ciaran Cassidy, 22, of Upper Holloway, north London, on his way to his job as a shop assistant for a printing company in Chancery Lane.
* Elizabeth Daplyn, 26, an administrator at University College Hospital in London, left home in Highgate with her partner, Rob Brennan, before taking a Piccadilly Line train.
* Arthur Edlin Frederick, 60, from Grenada, living in Seven Sisters, north London, on his way to work at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
* Karolina Gluck, 29, from Poland, said goodbye to boyfriend, Richard Deer, 28, at 8.30am. The IT consultant was travelling from Finsbury Park to Russell Square.
* Gamze Günoral, 24, a Turkish student, left her aunt’s house in north London to catch the tube to go to her language college in Hammersmith.
* Ojara Ikeagwu, 55, a married mother-of-three from Luton, was on her way to Hounslow where she was a social worker.
* Emily Jenkins, 24, from Richmond.
* Adrian Johnson, 37, a keen golfer and hockey-player with two young children. He was on his way to work at the Burberry fashion house in Haymarket where he was a product technical manager.
* Helen Jones, 28, a Scottish (London-based) accountant who had previously escaped death in 1988 when wreckage of Pan Am Flight 103 crashed upon Lockerbie. Her family, from Chapelknowe Dumfries and Galloway, said: “Helen will live on in the hearts of her family and her many, many friends”.
* Susan Levy, 53, from Cuffley in Hertfordshire, the mother of Daniel, 25, and James, 23. She had just said goodbye to her younger son.
* Shelley Mather, 26, from New Zealand
* Michael Matsushita, 37, left his fiancee, Rosie Cowen, 28, at the couple’s flat in Islington for his second day at work as a tour guide.
* James Mayes, 28, worked as an analyst for the Healthcare Commission and had just returned from a holiday in Prague. He was heading from his home in Barnsbury to an ‘away day’ at Lincoln’s Inn and was thought to be travelling by Tube via King’s Cross.
* Behnaz Mozakka, 47, an Iranian biomedical records officer from Finchley who worked at Great Ormond Street Childrens Hospital.
* Mihaela Otto, 46, from Romania, known as Michelle. A dental technician of Mill Hill, north London, who was killed at King’s Cross.
* Atique Sharifi, 24, an Afghan national who was living in Hounslow, Middlesex.
* Ihab Slimane, a 24-year-old waiter from Paris who was working at a restaurant near Piccadilly Circus, was said by friends to have caught a Tube from Finsbury Park.
* Christian ‘Njoya’ Small, 28, an advertising salesman from Walthamstow, east London.
* Monika Suchocka, 23, from northern Poland, arrived in London two months earlier to start work as a trainee accountant in West Kensington.
* Mala Trivedi, 51, from Wembley was manager of the X-ray department at Great Ormond Street Childrens Hospital.
* Rachelle Chung For Yuen, 27, an accountant from Mill Hill, north London, who was originally from Mauritius.Edgware Road bomb
* Michael Stanley Brewster, 52, a father of two who was travelling to work from Derby.
* Jonathan Downey, 34, an HR systems development officer with the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea from Milton Keynes, had just said goodbye to his wife at Euston .
* David Foulkes, 22, a media sales worker from Oldham, Lancashire, was on his way to meet a colleague.
* Colin Morley, 52, of Finchley, marketing consultant.
* Jenny Nicholson, 24, daughter of a Bristol vicar, who had just started work at a music company in London
* Laura Webb, 29, from Islington, a PA.Aldgate bomb
* Lee Baisden, 34, an accountant from Romford who was going to work at the London Fire Brigade.
* Benedetta Ciaccia, 30, an Italian-born business analyst from Norwich.
* Richard Ellery, 21, was travelling from his home in Ipswich to his job in the Jessops store in Kensington, via Liverpool Street Station. He texted his parents, Beverley and Trevor, at 8.30am to say he was on his way to work.
* Richard Gray, 41, a tax manager from Ipswich.
* Anne Moffat, 48, from Harlow in Essex, who was head of marketing and communications for Girlguiding UK.
* Fiona Stevenson, 29, a solicitor who lived at the Barbican, London. Her parents, Ivan and Eimar, of Little Baddow, Essex, described her as “irreplaceable”.
* Carrie Taylor, a 24-year-old graduate from Billericay, Essex. June Taylor, her mother, said: “We have a little farewell ritual. Carrie gives me a kiss goodbye”.
Tavistock Square bus bomb* Anthony Fatayi-Williams, 26, an Nigerian-born executive with an oil and gas company based in Old Street, had been living in the UK for eight years.
* Jamie Gordon, 30, from Enfield, worked for City Asset Management and was engaged to be married to his girlfriend Yvonne Nash.
* Giles Hart, 55, a BT engineer from Hornchurch and father-of-two, was travelling to Angel via Aldgate.
* Marie Hartley, 34, from Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire, was in London on a course.
* Miriam Hyman, 32, from Barnet, North London, a picture researcher. She had spoken to her father by phone after being evacuated from King’s Cross station and reassured him that she was all right.
* Shahara Akther Islam, 20, from Plaistow, East London, a bank cashier who lived with her parents, and was both fully Westernised and a devout Muslim.
* Neetu Jain, 37, was evacuated from Euston and caught the bus to take her to work as a computer analyst. Ms Jain was planning to move in with her boyfriend, Gous Ali.
* Sam Ly, 28, from Melbourne, died at the National Hospital of Neurology - the only fatality of ten Australians caught in the bombing.
* Shyanuja Parathasangary, 30, a Post Office worker travelling from Kensal Rise to Alder Street.
* Anat Rosenberg, 39, an Israeli-born charity worker who called her boyfriend to tell him she was on the Number 30 bus moments before the blast. John Falding, 62, her boyfriend, said: “She was afraid of going back to Israel because she was scared of suicide bombings on buses”.
* Philip Russell, a 28-year-old finance worker at JP Morgan who lived at Kennington in South-East London.
* William Wise, 54 , an IT specialist at Equitas Holdings in St Mary Axe.
* Gladys Wundowa, 50, from Ilford in Essex, a cleaner at University College London. She had finished her shift and was heading to a college course in Shoreditch. Her body was taken to her homeland of Ghana for burial.
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The Americans have finally figured out that while not all Muslims are terrorists, all terrorist are Muslims. It only took seven years.
The Justice Department is considering letting the FBI investigate Americans without any evidence of wrongdoing, relying instead on a terrorist profile that could single out Muslims, Arabs or other racial and ethnic groups.
Law enforcement officials say the proposed policy would help them do exactly what Congress demanded after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks: root out terrorists before they strike.
Although President Bush has disavowed targeting suspects based on their race or ethnicity, the new rules would allow the FBI to consider those factors among a number of traits that could trigger a national security investigation.
Currently, FBI agents need specific reasons - like evidence or allegations that a law probably has been violated - to investigate U.S. citizens and legal residents. The new policy, law enforcement officials told The Associated Press, would let agents open preliminary terrorism investigations after mining public records and intelligence to build a profile of traits that, taken together, were deemed suspicious.
Among the factors that could make someone subject of an investigation is travel to regions of the world known for terrorist activity, access to weapons or military training, along with the person’s race or ethnicity.
Somebody give these guys a smiley-face scratch’n’sniff sticker on their paper, and move them to the front of the class.
Brass Balls Radio Episode 4 Reaches 1 Million Downloads
Brass Balls Radio Episode 4 featuring our interview with Mark Steyn was downloaded over ONE MILLION TIMES in the month of June. Thanks to all of you, I do believe we have arrived.
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Stephen Boisson, Alberta Public Enemy #1 and recipient of future-crime complaints because of his Christian stance on homosexuality, brings us a surreal conversation with a Human Rights Commission employee.
He said the following recommendations were the responsibility of the people who invited me, not my responsibility.
2. Ask the church to get a signed consent form from everyone, parents and children, everyone, stating that they are not forced to attend and are there of their own free will. Later he added that this consent should be drawn up by a lawyer who is familiar with the Human Rights Laws.
3. The weekend retreat is considered one-occasion situation and that a license was probably not required.
4. The church needs to contact the education people and take a curriculum of the program and demonstrate that it is an educational program that is not unwelcome by the group there and everyone is there by consent. Also, the church needs to ask the education people if a license is required. At this point Ralph was uncertain and seemed to think a license would be helpful if problems occurred.
5. The church needs to contact the police to make sure they do not view the program as bordering on criminal activity—need to show them the curriculum so they know what is going on and do not arrive on the scene.
WTF? With the exception of the occasional 8-year-old who would probably prefer to be at home playing Wii, people are usually at church or any church program by their own free will. There aren’t people herding them in at gunpoint.
I then told Ralph that the church had already distributed a CD of mine to each of their families to prepare for the retreat that had some statements on it about homosexuals. He said that they needed a consent form from each family that this was not unwelcome material and that their kids would not be talking about any of it in the schools.
He said, “You may have a problem with the CD if it is seen as gay bashing and if anyone who has it displays it before the public, i.e., talking about it in a classroom. It needs to be used by a select group who consented to receiving the material. Religious material must not be forced on anyone who is not a part of the group who consented. If a student did this, and the person complained, you would be liable and it would not matter that all the safeguards were in place.”
Again, that free will thing. But even more worrying, what is this about keeping teachings secret and not talking about them with others? Is it now official policy of the Alberta Human Rights Commission to drive Christianity underground? Are we in Iran, where Christian teachings must be done in basements and behind closed curtains, never letting the neighbors know? Is this still Canada?
This is absolutely terrifying, if you stop to think about it. Whether you are Christian or not, you must agree that it is heinous that the main religion of Canadians is being forced into hiding by these Commissions. Is this what was originally intended when our government drew up the Charter?
Nowadays, kids go to school and learn about every religion except Christianity. No one is allowed to complain. But if one of these kids attending the workshop goes to school and tells his friends about it, all hell will break loose. It has to be kept a secret. The founding religion of the modern world: Now a dirty little secret for backrooms and speakeasies.
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A blond girl is raped by two North Africans in a busy railway station. Nobody stops to help. Nobody. Disgusting.
The article gets translated by Google, so please be kind with the language mish-mash.
It was June 12. “My daughter was returning from Waterloo. It was 21 h. At its exit from the train, she headed to the Bancontact.” A place of passage. Yet this is where the tragedy took place.
“In the midst of a station. But how is this possible?,” The father of Lola, 21 years. “Two men have accused him [sic] of not wearing the veil. My daughter is pretty. She is blonde with blue eyes.”
“One of the assailants took out a knife. My daughter was plated against the wall of Bancontact. Knife to her throat, one of the boys raped her. The other watched.”
The rape ended, the attackers left, quiet. “They were two North Africans. They did not even have hoods. And do not tell me that I am racist because I give you their origin! My daughter was raped because she was not wearing a veil. That it’s reality! ”
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Vancouver puts carboard model cutout police car on patrol
A life-size replica of a Vancouver traffic cop pointing a radar gun at oncoming traffic was unveiled Thursday on city streets.
The police force has up to eight replica cops that initially will be deployed on Knight Street to try to reduce speeding and traffic fatalities.
Maybe Vancouver should have spent a little less on its 2010 Olympic plans, if it’s cutting into the police budget. Or perhaps the money was spent on “safe injection” sites. Either way, it seems like a bit of a desperate attempt at control by a city that has completely dropped the ball.
The fake officers were relatively inexpensive to make, Pauw said.
“We got the city sign shop to put them together, so it’s really only the cost of the plastic,” he said, adding the cardboard is covered in rainproof plastic, so any graffiti just wipes off.
I’m sure that will be very comforting to someone with car trouble or who is lost, and wants to turn to their local constabulary for assistance. I’m sure the citizenry is thrilled at the use of their tax dollars for fake cops.
D’you think the fake ones are unionized, too?
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Rogue cartoons kill six in Pakistan
A suspected suicide bomber blew up a car outside the Danish embassy in the Pakistani capital on Monday killing six people and wounding about 20, police and hospital officials said.
The blast will raise fresh questions about the safety of foreigners in Pakistan even though militant attacks have dropped off since a new government came to power after a February general election vowing to negotiate to end violence.
Danish newspapers infuriated Muslims around the world when they published cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad in late 2005. The cartoons, considered blasphemous by Muslims, sparked deadly protests in 2006 which included attacks on Danish missions.
The embassy in Islamabad was temporarily shut in 2006 after violent protests over the cartoons.
Residents of the neighborhood said they had feared an attack on the mission.
“Since the printing of cartoons, we always had this fear,” said Sana Khalid, a resident of the area. “But what they did to our religion, they deserve it.”
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