tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6231586Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:29:55 +0000http://thelondonfog.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Mike)Blogger4716125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6231586.post-1932754767070757397Wed, 16 Jul 2008 20:42:00 +00002008-07-16T16:47:05.448-04:00Until Omar Khadr gets inducted into the Order of Canada, this is the funniest thing ever. (HT FullComment) http://thelondonfog.blogspot.com/2008/07/title.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Mike)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6231586.post-6436706470868430508Wed, 16 Jul 2008 04:42:00 +00002008-07-16T00:42:21.100-04:00Budget 2009LondonFacing expected demands for wage parity with police services in upcoming negotiations with the firefighters' union, Mayor Anne Marie DeCicco-Best sounded off to the London Free Press against a provincial arbitration process that routinely awards emergency service settlements based on top wage-and-benefit packages throughout the province rather than on "local conditions.""They don't consider that http://thelondonfog.blogspot.com/2008/07/local-condition-forecast.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (MapMaster)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6231586.post-3820440359229693758Wed, 16 Jul 2008 04:12:00 +00002008-07-16T00:12:58.114-04:00It's hard to wrap your head around, yes, but after reading two books by Theodore Dalrymple, a physician who worked intimately with the underbelly of British society seduced by the influence of intellectual ideas gone bad, I'm reluctant to doubt that this idiotic 'solution' is actually being seriously considered: Inmates are signing up for a National Lottery-funded project to assess and measure http://thelondonfog.blogspot.com/2008/07/justice-for-tree-huggers.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Lisa)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6231586.post-7621937775988040928Wed, 16 Jul 2008 03:16:00 +00002008-07-16T00:15:28.153-04:00Such ingratitude from Omar Khadr. The Geneva Conventions don't grant combatants caught out-of-uniform the privilege of being taken alive as prisoners. That's to protect civilians by giving harsh penalty for impersonating one. Count yourself lucky we live in stupider times, "Canadian".Now, may we view any of the thousands of similar videos of vicious and manipulative murderers, rapists, and thugshttp://thelondonfog.blogspot.com/2008/07/why-do-we-even-know-this-guys-name.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Mike)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6231586.post-3925389218039865776Tue, 15 Jul 2008 01:43:00 +00002008-07-14T21:43:36.685-04:00Municipal WasteLondonWith hardly a moment's pause after ratifying a new three-year contract last week guaranteeing wage increases of 2.75 per cent this year and next and 2.5 per cent the following year, London's CUPE Local 101 inside workers union was warning the City that it is going to have a lot of work on its hands repairing labour relations — this despite the City having caved on its apparently contentious http://thelondonfog.blogspot.com/2008/07/monkeys-on-back.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (MapMaster)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6231586.post-7993128160879740207Tue, 15 Jul 2008 01:36:00 +00002008-07-14T21:36:41.629-04:00OntarioIs it any wonder the native occupation in Caledonia, Ontario continues while Dalton the Gimp and his cronies remain in power? McGuinty says the government will work with First Nations and other residents to develop a plan to prohibit commercial activities in about half of the province's boreal forest. And mining and forestry companies will have to consult early with First Nations before startinghttp://thelondonfog.blogspot.com/2008/07/advantages-of-blockages.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Lisa)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6231586.post-832649181030504455Mon, 14 Jul 2008 23:42:00 +00002008-07-14T20:45:58.581-04:00HeritageLondonThere is no more certain way to convince an ordinary passel of well-meaning idiots to exaggerate their pretensions to officiousness than to dress them up in the semi-officious garb of a City Advisory Commmittee. According to the London Free Press, the London Advisory Committee on Heritage is challenging the province's exemption to its 2005 Heritage Act giving municipalities more power to http://thelondonfog.blogspot.com/2008/07/utter-importance-of-being-utterly.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (MapMaster)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6231586.post-5681519854145753243Mon, 14 Jul 2008 23:01:00 +00002008-07-14T19:01:35.701-04:00LondonAnyone who travels the streets of London on a regular basis knows that the $3.9 million dollars spent on a synchronized traffic light system three years ago has done little to improve the traffic flow. I've had the occasion to ask taxi drivers their opinion and the response has always been one of cynical amusement. The topic is once again a subject of study at city hall, for it seems the http://thelondonfog.blogspot.com/2008/07/parked-at-intersection.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Lisa)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6231586.post-5440648313806405803Mon, 14 Jul 2008 00:34:00 +00002008-07-13T20:36:39.297-04:00OntarioLondonAs London Mayor Anne Marie DeCicco-Best would have it, "the sniping between the federal and provincial governments over taxation policy has been an obstacle" to fixing the economic downturn in Ontario that has seen unemployment rise from 6.4 to 6.7 per cent between May and June. "'They could do one thing that would a make a huge difference and that's stop fighting.'" For a senior politician whohttp://thelondonfog.blogspot.com/2008/07/make-work-province.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (MapMaster)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6231586.post-5402396116423049965Sun, 13 Jul 2008 00:58:00 +00002008-07-12T21:15:51.327-04:00Enviro-commiesOntario MP Ken Boshcoff admits the Liberal's Green Shift plan will shaft Alberta and the wealthy, sort of. An Ontario Liberal MP said yesterday his party's Green Shift carbon tax proposal will raid Alberta's energy riches and transfer wealth "from rich to poor, from the oilpatch to the rest of the country." [..] Mr. Boshcoff said on a political news blog that the Green Shift is the "most http://thelondonfog.blogspot.com/2008/07/redistributive-justice-canadian-liberal.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Lisa)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6231586.post-882781581890950612Thu, 10 Jul 2008 00:39:00 +00002008-07-09T20:39:22.588-04:00More tolerant ideas from Britain, the country where young children can be labeled as racist for expressing disgust at unfamiliar or undesired food: Burglars should no longer be sentenced to jail, official advisers have said. Unpaid work or a curfew would normally be a better way of punishing break-ins and thefts, said a panel that issues guidelines to judges. [..] For the first time, http://thelondonfog.blogspot.com/2008/07/were-all-victims-these-days.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Lisa)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6231586.post-7738609550316430956Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:05:00 +00002008-07-08T20:15:20.559-04:00Finally, a fair and equitable solution to the doctor shortage in Canada has been discovered by a Newfoundland medical clinic. Social justice has nearly been achieved, though one wonders if the wealthier members of the community purchased more than one ticket. A Newfoundland medical clinic held a lottery this week to determine which patients could see its two new doctors. The clinic had 4,000 http://thelondonfog.blogspot.com/2008/07/bingo.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Lisa)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6231586.post-8485487343995077386Mon, 07 Jul 2008 22:28:00 +00002008-07-07T18:29:52.720-04:00Thee haughty tyrants ne'er shall abate: All their attempts to bend thee down Will but arouse generous make-work schemes for social-science graduates, To work their woe, and thy decline. From The Telegraph, via Roger Kimball:The National Children's Bureau, which receives £12 million a year, mainly from Government funded organisations, has issued guidance to play leaders and nursery teachers http://thelondonfog.blogspot.com/2008/07/school-brittania.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (MapMaster)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6231586.post-6749967993861651552Sun, 06 Jul 2008 22:46:00 +00002008-07-06T18:46:41.104-04:00LondonLabel me a philistine if you will, but when this trailer first showed up in the parking lot of my local branch library, I figured it was an abandoned piece of junk. Imagine my surprise when I was told it was "art." There was nothing indicating this - no accompanying name or explanation, nothing, just this "construction" sitting in the parking lot. No seriously, this "art" piece by Stephen http://thelondonfog.blogspot.com/2008/07/glimpse-into-londons-art-scene.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Lisa)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6231586.post-8354730963683834889Sat, 05 Jul 2008 22:36:00 +00002008-07-05T18:36:18.261-04:00When Zimbabweans are forced to go naked before the voting polls as it were, the rest of us should remember the value of our clothes. The following is an extract from the essay "Equality" published by C.S. Lewis in The Spectator on February 11, 1944, reproduced in the Essay Collection and suggested by a short excerpt posted at Gods of the Copybook Headings (thanks go to The Monarchist for http://thelondonfog.blogspot.com/2008/07/modest-equality.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (MapMaster)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6231586.post-3596423389037691926Fri, 04 Jul 2008 19:12:00 +00002008-07-04T15:16:04.319-04:00The Objective Standard is offering T-shirts with this great logo. Exploit the Earth or die. It’s not a threat. It’s a fact. Either man takes the Earth’s raw materials—such as trees, petroleum, aluminum, and atoms—and transforms them into the requirements of his life, or he dies. To live, man must produce the goods on which his life depends; he must produce homes, automobiles, computers, http://thelondonfog.blogspot.com/2008/07/exploit-earth-or-die.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Mike)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6231586.post-2951698325373005279Fri, 04 Jul 2008 04:05:00 +00002008-07-04T00:05:14.157-04:00Tayside Police in Dundee, Scotland have apologized for not seeking the advice of the force's diversity advisor before introducing a ritually unclean animal in adverts for a new non-emergency phone number … proving that a manufactured supply of gratuitous sensitivities will always create a demand. One could throw a thousand stones or more in a crowd of Canadian Muslims before striking even just http://thelondonfog.blogspot.com/2008/07/diversity-welfare-office.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (MapMaster)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6231586.post-1111648808312295378Fri, 04 Jul 2008 03:18:00 +00002008-07-03T23:21:23.903-04:00A feasibility study will soon be conducted by Toronto Board of Health after a recommendation by Dr. David McKeown, the city's medical officer, to impose a bylaw limiting the amount of time a vehicle can be left idling to 10 seconds. Harmful emissions from idling vehicles contribute to the deaths, he says. Health officials say cutting down on unnecessary idling will save people money on gas, http://thelondonfog.blogspot.com/2008/07/citizens-shut-off-your-engines.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Lisa)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6231586.post-8343639346649428446Sun, 29 Jun 2008 01:52:00 +00002008-06-28T21:53:06.205-04:00I'm seeing red: Canadians who get behind the wheel while under the influence of drugs will face tougher consequences and will no longer be able to refuse roadside drug tests when new laws kick-in next week. As of July 2, police officers will be able to require drivers to submit to a roadside sobriety test. As well, they can take drivers they suspect of being on drugs to a hospital for either a http://thelondonfog.blogspot.com/2008/06/jackboot-justice.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Lisa)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6231586.post-8949429808149501145Thu, 26 Jun 2008 10:59:00 +00002008-06-26T18:22:12.831-04:00Did you hear the one about the Heckling-Lesbian-Canadians who took the Crassly-Responding-Comedian-Canadian to the Human Rights Tribunal? I'm sure nobody will ever dare make fun of them ever again, now, ever. HT SDA UPDATE: Here's the story from the Comedian-Canadian community member in question. Let us hope his appearance before the tribunal makes him richer and famouser. "If you're an http://thelondonfog.blogspot.com/2008/06/hecklers-rights.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Mike)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6231586.post-6622430369329482172Mon, 23 Jun 2008 22:13:00 +00002008-06-23T18:23:41.385-04:00Climate ChangeEnviro-commiesFree SpeechI thought this video would be a fitting tribute to Carlin's outspoken views on environmental extremism. Perhaps some London city councilors could learn a point or two from it.http://thelondonfog.blogspot.com/2008/06/george-carlin-1937-2008.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jake)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6231586.post-1662044129286546167Mon, 23 Jun 2008 12:16:00 +00002008-06-23T08:31:30.067-04:00Good luck ramming through the lingering systematic barricades of racism in a Smart Car. The Kelly Lake Cree Nation took down a highway blockade near the Alberta-B.C. border Saturday because of a close call with angry and dangerous drivers, band spokesman Clayton Anderson said. Anderson said he was walking toward a vehicle at the blockade on Highway 52, about 180 kilometres southeast of Chetwynd,http://thelondonfog.blogspot.com/2008/06/another-argument-for-driving-big-heavy.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Mike)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6231586.post-249251090836432646Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:54:00 +00002008-06-18T20:54:40.330-04:00RegulatocracyLondonA motion by Coun. Roger Caranci to hear opposition to proposed by-laws regulating and limiting the construction of drive-throughs in London (PDF) drew cheers from a capacity crowd in Council Chambers last night whose own purposes as social participants contradict Coun. David Winninger's contention that drive-throughs "don't serve any useful social purpose." Apparently neither do Couns. Winningerhttp://thelondonfog.blogspot.com/2008/06/how-to-pull-pork.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (MapMaster)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6231586.post-1477908979787992940Wed, 18 Jun 2008 01:18:00 +00002008-06-17T21:19:29.658-04:00HypocritesAl Gore As usual, Al Gore doesn't practice what he preaches, and why would he bother when someone else will pay the consequences while he reaps the benefits of the fear mongering. I have reason to believe that this man attended the Fenris Badwulf School of Telemarketing Excellence. Via the Tennessee Center for Policy Research: In the year since Al Gore took steps to make his home more energy-efficienthttp://thelondonfog.blogspot.com/2008/06/milking-taxpayer-one-carbon-credit-at.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Lisa)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6231586.post-7301326046920789857Mon, 16 Jun 2008 22:00:00 +00002008-06-17T21:52:24.904-04:00A man who otherwise gives no meaning to his words or deeds will be known by the company he keeps… at least they have a pretty good notion of what they expect from him. HT: SDA. See also this.http://thelondonfog.blogspot.com/2008/06/audacity-of-revolutionary-communism.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (MapMaster)