The Sun Rises...

...here.

http://truenorthreport.ca/today

Good luck folks!! We need your voice.

Found a New Website

Post by The Galileo Movement.

Post by The Galileo Movement.

Post by The Galileo Movement.

Post by The Galileo Movement.

Post by The Galileo Movement.

Does That Include Me, I Wonder

IRAN MINISTER SAYS ALL WEB SURFERS TO BE ‘IDENTIFIED’

Islamic Regime in Iran Is Planning for a System to observe the Identify of all Internet Users in Iran !

Come and get me, assholes.

This Explains Some Of...

...the comenters at SNN's website:


Internet Trolls Are Narcissists, Psychopaths, and Sadists

Ain't That The Truth

Luv It!

I was searching for information about the time, long, long ago when present day Vancouver Island was actually connected to the mainland and I came across this website: The Underwater Archaeological Society of British Columbia. On their website they have a series of images that rotate, one after the other. On one of them it says: Life's a Beach. And Then You Dive

LOL!!

I was actually looking for info about the rising sea levels through geological time. I knew that the stretch of water between Vancouver Island and the lower mainland was once land and ancient human settlement sites dating from that era have been found underwater there. Global warming zealots want us to believe that rising sea levels are a recent phenomenon.

"The Road To Hell...

...is paved with Ivy League degrees."

Best damn quote I've ever heard.

Check out this discussion with Thomas Sowell. That little bit of wisdom comes at about the 27:27 mark:



Dammit. I spend too much time in front of this small boob tube and it's thanks to folks like Sowell (with due thanks to Al Gore for inventing the internet, of course) and whomever invented blogspot.com, even though I have some issues with them. They were probably a bunch of university computer science geeks working on a collaborative project for credit towards their degree and every fresh crop of CS students has been tasked with making it "new" and (cough, hack) "improved" (double cough, hack, spit and sputter).

Speaking of Mad Mullahs

Egypt's variety suffers a setback.

Egypt's Islamists set back in presidential race

"The elimination of three of the main contenders from Egypt's presidential race has eroded the chances of an Islamist candidate to seize the country's top job.

The Muslim Brotherhood, the most powerful political group to emerge from last year's uprising, finds itself increasingly in a bind. It is unable to exercise the power of its electoral wins so far and is jostling with the ruling generals and liberal and secular groups that drove the uprising but now fear religious domination of politics."

I'm of two minds about this. First I'm glad to see the Islamists being shut out of power, but, on the other hand, in a true democracy, no one should be shut out other than via the voting booth in a free, universal and secret ballot. On the other hand...

Oh well. The road to democracy and the elimination of clerical domination of political power in the West took a very long time and a whole lot of violence. We shouldn't be surprised that similar processes are at play throughout the Muslim world. We can only hope it doesn't take as long. The trail has been blazed.

Indeed, with modern technologies with global reach now available, it should take much less time. After all, the journey from John Wycliff (early 14th century) to the Gutenberg Press (1436) to Martin Luther (1517) and the protestant reformation many years after took hundreds of years.

We now have the Internet and a universal language - English. Information and ideas whiz around the world in mere minutes. Throughout history, great social upheaval has often been spurred by technological innovation. It can't be stopped.

Wait Five Minutes..

...the Mad Mullahs will blow it up:

Iraq Emerges From Isolation as Telecommunications Hub

"Iraq, cut off from decades of technological progress because of dictatorship, sanctions and wars, recently took a big step out of isolation and into the digital world when its telecommunications system was linked to a vast new undersea cable system serving the Gulf countries.

The engineers who designed and installed the cable that made shore in Al-Faw, near Basra, had to deal with an unusual number of challenges. There were more than 100 oil and natural gas pipelines to cross; stretches of shallow water where the cable had to be buried; and unexploded ordnance from the Iraq war that had to be avoided.

“It was not easy,” said Ahmed Mekky, chief executive of Gulf Bridge International, the company that built the system. “But this could be a significant foundation stone for the country’s recovery.”"

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"Much of the world takes lightning-fast broadband service for granted, but any kind of Internet access remains a rarity in Iraq, where fewer than 3 percent of households are online. The new capacity could help bring Internet connections to 50 percent within two years, said Mohammed Tawfiq Allawi, the Iraqi communications minister."

In the meantime, the boys will have fun watching porn at internet cafes.

Being in a State of Forced Withdrawal

Yesterday, as I was at the counter preparing to pay for some stuff I was buying at a local hardware store, the Internet died. Neither my bank card nor credit card worked. Thankfully, I had my chequebook with me. So I paid for my stuff by cheque, something I rarely do anymore. I'd almost forgotten how to fill out a cheque. The clerk had to print the sales receipt and write on it with her own hand that it had been paid for by cheque # such and such.

When I got home, my access to the Internet was down, too. As it turned out, there had been some major Sasktel cable severed at a construction site in Regina and a large swath of territory in Southeast Saskatchewan was without Internet or cell phone access. People couldn't even call 911 if there was an emergency. However, strangely enough, texting was possible.

Being an Internet freak, I kept trying to go online, but to no avail. On the radio, in the evening, a Sasktel spokeswoman said the problem may not be fixed until well into the night. So I packed 'er in early last night.

One good thing about it is I got lots of other stuff done, like long overdue housework. But communities all along the TransCanada highway from Regina to very nearly the Manitoba border were without access, so it sure shows how a major disaster might affect us all, if the Internet and cell phone service is knocked out. Good thing we still had electricity.

Rex Murphy Weighs In on the Scandal de Jour

He makes some really good points between 3:00 and 3:41, and again, in response to the host's question, at 3:52 to 4:25. And then there's the vacuous hypocrisy of the self-appointed policing agency, Anonymous: And they don't know how to pronouce his name, either: And as Ezra Levant points out, there's enough hypocrisy to go around.