[...]ANSWP Commander Bill White speaking on the film, Jesus Camp:
I just saw the movie "Jesus Camp", which is a documentary on the Evangelical movement, particularly the bizarre and largely heretical Presbyterian speaking in tongues dancing around version of it. (And by "heretical", I mean a movement which, in its teachings, is largely in discord with the word of the Bible and Christ).
I am not a Christian, but....
TORONTO -- A provincial cabinet minister resigned and Premier Dalton McGuinty publicly apologized yesterday, following a highly critical report by the auditor general into the so-called "Colle-gate slush fund" scandal.
Citizenship and Immigration Minister Mike Colle took a political swan dive yesterday after the auditor reported that he was involved in the handing out of $32.5 million in capital grants to multicultural groups with little scrutiny and, in some cases, based on no more than a conversation with him or his political staff.
"Mike and I agree the minister must be held accountable and that stepping aside is the right thing to do," McGuinty said.
Auditor General Jim McCarter found no evidence the organizations were given funds because they had political ties, although a few groups did have some links to the Liberal party.
[.....]
180 kg of drugs seized in Halifax
HALIFAX (CP) - Almost 200 kilograms of hash oil and marijuana from Jamaica were seized at the port of Halifax after border officials searched a shipping container packed with yams, the Canadian Border Services Agency said Friday.
FULL STORY
London police say they made a "substantial" dent in crime in the Forest City after arresting 19 people and charging 12 from this area for firearms and drug-related offences.
FULL STORY
OTTAWA (CP) - Brian Mulroney has been ordered by a court to pay $470,000 to former business associate Karlheinz Schreiber.
Mulroney's lawyer Kenneth Prehogan appeared shocked by the ruling, saying it would be set aside because he has argued all along that the Ontario court had no jurisdiction to consider the lawsuit.
In his statement of claim, Schreiber said the cash was to enlist Mulroney's help in establishing an arms factory in Quebec and a pasta-machine business.
[....]
Seeing a neighbour's underwear billowing in the wind may be unsightly but a growing number of environmentalists are calling on the province to lift the ban on clotheslines.
The Liberals passed a law shortly after their election in 2003 that would override local bans on clotheslines imposed by municipalities and residential associations.
But the Liberals never formally enacted the regulation so it's still against the law in some places to hang your clean laundry out to dry.
Okay, I know the title of this blog is a little cheesy. Bare with me.
Reading the LONDON FREE PRESS' letters to the editor section, I came accross the following.
T. Anne Knight, I agree 101% with you!
To see what she(?) is refering to, please click here.
Flags flapping in the breeze
In my opinion the only flags that should be flown from any government building are the Canadian flag, the provincial flag and the city flag.
Anyone who wishes to fly any other flag may do so from their own home, office or club.
T. Anne Knight
The 154-year-old Elgin County Courthouse in St. Thomas is doomed if the province doesn't end
the search for a new courthouse site, the building's owner warned yesterday.London real estate dynamoShmuel Farhi -- who has offered the building to the city in a desperate bid to save it -- said "it's a travesty" the province and city aren't working together to preserve the landmark.
[....]
Eluding a border posse near Waterton park has left a pair of suspected illegal immigrants between burning timber and a grizzly bear.
On Tuesday night, RCMP apprehended two Hispanic men running along Hwy. 6 on the Canadian side of the border near the Chief Mountain Crossing, 200 km southwest of Calgary.
Another man was apprehended in shrubbery nearby, but two other males escaped.
[.....]
Black slavery in America was pretty bad, kids, but it wasn't anything special. Throughout history, every color of the rainbow has owned slaves and been enslaved. The dictionary tells us that the root word of "slave" is "Slav," because Slavic peoples—who are REALLY pale and white—were the primary slave population throughout the Middle Ages. And though your teachers will never tell you this, there have been long stretches of history where Africans have owned white people as slaves! How do you like THEM apples? The empire of Carthage transported white slaves to Africa. The African Moors ruled Spain for 500 years and sent white Christian slaves to Egypt. And poor, defenseless white kids—just like you!—were kidnapped by Muslims during the Children's Crusade and sold into Egyptian slavery.
No, kids—the blacks, Arabs, and Jews were involved, too.
Of the 10 to 15 million Africans who were transplanted to the New World, no more than 6 percent—around 400,000—went to the Northern Hemisphere. Almost all of them went to South America, but you don't see your teachers giving Brazil a hard time, do you?
Blacks were never close to a majority in America, so it's mathematically impossible for most whites to have owned black slaves. At the peak of black slavery in the South, only 6 percent of Southern whites owned slaves. If you include the white people in the North, it means that only 1.4 percent of white Americans owned black slaves at the HEIGHT of slavery.
An estimated 3,000 blacks owned a total of 20,000 black slaves in the year 1860. One study concluded that 28 percent of free blacks owned slaves, which is a far higher percentage than that of free whites who owned slaves.
Although your textbooks are silent about it, most historians agree that two-thirds of ALL whites came to the colonies in some form of bondage. Legal papers on both sides of the ocean referred to them as "slaves." White slaves outnumbered black slaves in America throughout the 1600s.
Hundreds of thousands of white slaves were kidnapped and brought to America; their middle-passage death rates were comparable to those of black slaves; they were sold at auction and traded for livestock, they were routinely beaten—sometimes to death—and an estimated one half of them died before gaining freedom. It's possible that more whites came to America against their will than blacks. Historians from both ends of the political spectrum say that white slaves were treated worse than black slaves.
England only started sending convicts to Australia in 1776—when the American Revolution made it impossible for them to continue sending their convicts here. By 1776, more than 50,000 convict slave laborers had already been sent to America. That's a lotta criminals, kids!
According to statistics, farm work is relatively safe. It is far more dangerous to be a lumberjack, Alaskan crab fisherman, coal miner, or cabdriver. Either way, white slaves were forced to pick cotton under the hot sun, too, which is where they got those red necks.
American blacks enjoy the highest standard of living of any black population on earth. Their average per capita income is TWENTY to FIFTY times higher than in any of the African countries from where they were displaced. It's true that part of America's wealth was built on black slavery; it is also true that American blacks are enjoying the fruits of that wealth. You, fair child, whether you were born black or white, weren't born in debt to anyone. You were born free. Don't let the bad people take it away from you.
When General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant, it had been nearly 20 years since Lee owned slaves—he freed his slaves in the late 1840s. In 1856, five years before the Civil War started, he wrote that slavery was "a moral and political evil." On the other hand, General Grant STILL owned slaves at the end of the Civil War, because Abe Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation cleverly outlawed slavery only in the South. Grant had stated that he would refuse to fight if he thought the war had anything to do with slavery. And hey, kids, even if it WAS fought to end slavery, how often do you see the descendants of slaves thanking the 600,000 or so white soldiers who died in the fight to free them?
The US government estimates that 50,000 humans are brought into their country every year for the purpose of forced labor. Various agencies estimate that there are anywhere from 27 to 200 million humans currently enslaved worldwide. (Compare this to only four and a half million slaves at American slavery's peak.) Most of these slaves live in South Asia, Africa, and South America. Their labor comes far cheaper and is much more profitable than black American slavery was. In many horrifying cases, poverty-stricken women sell their vaginas on the black market and become lifelong sex slaves to fat, stinky men for as little as $1,500. In today's dollars, a black slave in the American South cost approximately $40,000.
Atom Feed (xml)