Jay Currie

Bless Larry C. Johnson; two car bombs found and the brilliant, ex-CIA guy, don’t you know has this: Now we’re being told there are two cars (both Mercedes I might add) with a Rube Goldberg contraption consisting of propane tanks, some petrol, a light bulb (or maybe light bulb filaments), etc. A propane tank explosion [...]

Given the state the Conservative Party is in, that general election would almost certainly be lost, as our poll today seems to indicate. It is so blindingly obvious that I am amazed Gordon Brown has not chucked caution to the wind and given Dave his wish. The Tories are incoherent, policy-free, a PR stunt going [...]

As Mordecai Richler pointed out at length, anti-semitism has a long and nasty history in Quebec. I’m late to the party but Alan, Chris and Flea all link to this exposure of the really vile anti-semitism which passes for editorial comment in parts of the French Canadian press. I sullied my browser with a quick [...]

“I had been puzzled by the intensity and systematic and methodical character of the violence of the 20th century, because that century was dominated not by religious belief, but by secular belief in progress or the capacity of human beings to create a better world. It also featured unprecedented levels of mass murder. “But I [...]

Mr. Fennyman, allow me to explain about the theatre business. The natural condition is one of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster. Hugh Fennyman: So what do we do? Philip Henslowe: Nothing. Strangely enough, it all turns out well. Hugh Fennyman: How? Philip Henslowe: I don’t know. It’s a mystery. shakespeare in love [...]

And all shall have favours: The Bush administration is laying the groundwork for an announcement of Tony Blair’s appointment as a special Middle East envoy for Palestinian governance and economic issues after he steps down as Britain’s prime minister, following two months of behind-the-scenes negotiations, according to U.S. officials. washington post Is Blair nuts? Sure, [...]

The identities of two of three Canadian soldiers killed Wednesday in a roadside bomb blast in southern Afghanistan were released by the Department of National Defence (DND). The three soldiers were killed at approximately 7:49 a.m. local time, when their unarmoured all-terrain vehicle received the force of a nearby bomb blast. ecanada

In some fields the science is indeed “settled.” For example, plate tectonics, once highly controversial, is now so well-established that we rarely see papers on the subject at all. But the science of global climate change is still in its infancy, with many thousands of papers published every year….. Solar scientists predict that, by 2020, [...]

I suppose it takes one to know one: “There is no dialogue with these murderous terrorists.” That’s how Mahmoud Abbas, president of the Palestinian Authority, characterized his attitude toward Hamas after the radical Islamist party seized control of the Gaza Strip. For a holder of his office, this was a first: honest condemnation of behavior [...]

LOL It kinda reminds me of that scientifically factual story about the single mother who immigrated here from Jamaica, the Philippines, and Albania; whose son, in spite of his being shot dead by a fellow gang member at the age of 15, pulled himself up by the bootstraps after a life-altering experience at 17; got [...]

China has overtaken the United States as the world’s biggest producer of carbon dioxide, the chief greenhouse gas, figures released today show. The surprising announcement will increase anxiety about China’s growing role in driving man-made global warming…the guardian via instapundit This may have something to do with the fact that China uses roughly 7 times [...]

Coyne gets it, So perhaps it is time for conservatives and market liberals to have a little rethink. The strategy of throwing their lot in with the Conservatives has been tried, and failed—failed, not in the sense that Conservative parties have been unable to win power, but that they win power, if they do, at [...]

Brooks has a story of a Canadian who has been arrested on his way home from Afghanistan in Dubai. Bert Tatham, apparently, had a dried poppy head and 6/10s of a gram of has stuck to the seam of his pants. This is where out diplomats and External Affairs wallahs earn their salaries. He’s our [...]

Mohammad Ali Hosseini, a spokesman for Iran’s foreign ministry, said the decision to honour the novelist was an orchestrated act of aggression directed against Islamic societies. He said Rushdie was “one of the most hated figures” in the Islamic world. “Honouring and commending an apostate and hated figure will definitely put the British officials [in [...]

KMG and I were having a chat about the way children are raised presently. He sent along an article from the Daily Mail, When George Thomas was eight he walked everywhere. It was 1926 and his parents were unable to afford the fare for a tram, let alone the cost of a bike and he [...]

My sweetie asked me why, if global warming is so preposterous, no one but me seems to think so. Of course there at millions of us out there who a skeptical about the the global warming scam or about the proposed cures, but our voices are muffled by the media/political all green all the time [...]

Gaza continues its inevitable descent into Hell, Among yesterday’s dead was a 14-year-old boy and three women, all killed in a Hamas attack on a Fatah security officer’s home. “They’re firing at us, firing RPGs, firing mortars. We’re not Jews,” the brother of Jamal Abu Jediyan, a Fatah commander, pleaded during a live telephone conversation [...]

Hamas and Fatah are shooting it out in Gaza. It is pretty clear that Hamas is willing to put on a full scale civil war. Fatah has its wide boys ready to shoot back. At this point about the only realistic solution would be for Egypt to send in a several thousand strong security force. [...]

No, not the bodacious tatas featured in a Calgary bar; rather this lovely line from Canada’s newspaper of record, More recently he (Prince Harry) was photographed there punching a photographer outside a pub. globe and mail Bertie Wooster and the Drones are gone but not forgotten. Hope he wasn’t wearing a hoodie.

Hayden’s wife of 42 years, Katie, who was also on the flight, was less impressed. Even as her husband struggled with the agitated passenger, she barely looked up from “The Richest Man in Babylon,” the book she was reading. “The woman sitting in front of us was very upset and asked me how I could [...]