 Posted: Wed Sep 13, 2006 4:35 pm |
Quote: September 10th people have a role model. He was pleasant and fashionable and well-meaning and wrong. His name was Neville Chamberlain. September 11th people have a role model. He was curmudgeonly and hard-nosed and right. His name was Winston Churchill.
in my books being compassionate is a better than being a hard-nosed bigot. (not saying churchill was a bigot, but his self-admitted 'follower(s)' sure seem to be.
i don't think it's a good idea to try to fight ideology with physical weapons. you can't kill all the 'terrorists'. that is unrealistic and will lead to the same conditions that existed during the cold war, eg mcarthyism. the freedom we enjoy will be taken away just like the terrorists aim to do.
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Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 10:00 pm
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ok my last entry is switching colours depending on how i refresh the page. one time the entry was the right colour (according to the blog CP) but the quote window was gone, then the quote window was back but the text was grey and impossible to read w/o squinting at the screen..... 
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Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 9:53 pm
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Quote: Mon, September 11, 2006
Sept. 10 people wrong
Projecting liberal values onto Islamic fascists mistaken
By Ezra Levant
Are you a September 10th person or a September 11th person? September 10th people think the world hasn't fundamentally changed since the terror attacks of 9/11. September 11th people know it has.
When September 10th people hear about a jihadist attack -- like last week's firebombing of a Montreal Jewish school, or the attack the week before in San Francisco, or the month before in Seattle -- they say it is a random crime, not related to a global struggle between Western civilization and Islamic fascism.
September 11th people know even if such terrorist acts aren't centrally controlled from Iran or Pakistan, they are part of a larger movement, and that Islamic fascists use the motto "think globally, act locally."
September 10th people look at Islamic fascists and project their own liberal values onto them. They wonder what we did wrong to provoke such rage; they wonder how we could split the difference with our attackers and buy peace, for that is what reasonable people do. If only we can sit down and reason this thing out together.
Jack Layton is a September 10th person. He thinks we can negotiate with the Taliban, to tackle the "root cause" of their alienation. Maybe he'd bring Dr. Phil along to really get a good discussion going, have a good cry and walk away as friends.
September 11th people are more culturally aware. They know liberal ideas -- like allowing a difference of opinion, like peaceful resolutions of disputes, like a belief in the innate worth of every man and woman -- are not shared by all men. In fact, liberal values like tolerance of dissent and freedom of religion and speech are the "root cause" of terrorism; it is that liberty the terrorists seek to replace with abject submission. The concept of compromise itself is anathema to the perfect truth the terrorists claim to represent.... [ Continued ]
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Posted: Mon Aug 14, 2006 6:41 pm
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well guys, i started my job today. i had to go in a couple of days ago to fill out forms and stuff like that but today was my first actual day of work. i started at 8 today (7 tomorrow) and worked till 4.30. i was a little surprised because i am starting off at a plant in a different part of the city from the main plant, but that's ok, i kinda like it over there. also, when i was hired i was told that i would start at $8/hr but they decided to start me at a tech 2 level and at $9.25/hr, and i get $0.50/hr raise in 3 months, which is good. i know a guy who works there and because i referenced him on my application he gets a bonus if i stay and he said he'd split that with me.
anyway, so the first thing i did was learned how to use the wrapping machine, that was kinda cool...real easy, too. it's basically a mechanized saran-wrapping thing to wrap up pallets of wood after it's been cut by the giant computerized saw. so basically, the person who operates the saw stacks the wood that he cuts onto pallets that are on rollers, which were then brought over to me by forklift and then i wrap them and write the info about it from a sheet onto the plastic wrap and then the forklift operator puts it away somewhere else. he also brings the saw operator more sheets of wood to cut to the sizes needed.
after doing that a couple of times i was shown how to use the dado machine. this is basically just a table saw that doesn't cut the wood all the way through, it just cuts a groove on one side. it's kinda the same idea as a router, but it has a circular blade like a table saw does. this is to make the side walls of drawers for hotel furniture, so that the bottom of the drawer fits into the grooves of the sides i cut with the dado. anyhow, after that's done i take those side walls to the edge sander which is like a belt sander but bigger and the sandpaper goes around and around facing towards you. so you take the other end of the wall (opposite the side with the groove) and you sand... [ Continued ]
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Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 12:43 am
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well i changed the colour scheme of my blog page just to play around with the blog control pageand to see what i could do.......i kinda like the new colour scheme but i was ok with the original CKA colour scheme too. i made sure that everything contrasts so that there isn't anything that is hard to read or whatever. i wonder what i can do if i want to change it bak to the original scheme?? it doesn't really matter too too much.
anyway, the renos on the basement are coming to a rapid conclusion. today we painted the basement, and i'm so glad that i don't have to live down there! the colour my roommate (who owns the house) wanted was like a beige colour but it turned out to be more pink than we exected! now it's almost like a salmon colour. so now basically all that needs to be done is 2 coats of paint in the new kitchen room, hooking up the stove and the fridge and putting in the flooring. oh and putting up one more cabinet in the kitchen. the lady who's going to be living in the basement suite has already moved a large portion of her stuff over alreadt, in the midst of all the reno work, she only lives something like 2 blocks away. the wierd thing is that she got my roommate's dad to help her move stuff in his truck. the bedroom she will have soon is already crammed with boxed upon boxes of her stuff and apparently there's still more that she needs to move! i have no idea what she's gonna do aoubt that because we simply don't have the storage room for that stuff if she doesn't unpack it or something. i mean it's incredible! the room is packed with boxes from foor to ceiling already with only a little path from the door to the closet left. i wish i had pictures i could post but i don't. anyway, it doesn't really matter to me, it's none of my business anyway. as long as she's not loud at night (which i doubt, she's like 40 or 50) or really cranky about us upstairs i'll be happy. there's been some problems still with the house that haven't been solved yet, and now there... [ Continued ]
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