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Rubicon

I crossed the Rubicon last week. Literally. I was visiting a friend archaeologist at Ravenna on the Adriatic coast of Italy - a few miles north of the Rubicon, which crosses without realizing it when you're on the highway. And what to do when visiting a friend, archaeologist, otherwise visit archaeological sites?

Archaeological sites, therefore, a good half-dozen Byzantine churches but also the installation port of Ravenna. Oh I know your little inquisitor air. I know you typed "Ravenna, Italy" in Google maps, and you rub his mustache while enjoying the satisfaction that I understood before Everyone I talk to the Marina di Ravenna because, hey, Ravenna, it's still ten kilometers from the coast, it's a little far when p'tits boats on the water will have no legs.

Mwouin. No. No, I'm not talking about the marina. I speak indeed of a city, a millennium ago and a half, was an important seaport, and is now a two-hour walk from the Adriatic.

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Michael Crighton died two weeks ago, and I'm sure you've cried a lot. Much, or not at all, if you're the type Ecologist informed. Because environmentalists informed they know that Michael Crighton Jurassic Park was a destroyer of global warming, and therefore a form of postmodern Antichrist.

Crighton criticized Al Gore of this world, and not necessarily on the most solid foundations. Since its public release on this, much of its conclusions (based on solid research in the scientific literature, but also on a flawed analysis of the data it is found) have proved inaccurate. Obviously, you say, because global warming is undeniable.

OK, OK, OK, but did not say that Crighton bullshit on the subject. In his speech Aliens Cause Global Warming (read, really, the title is a joke), he imagines that the people of New York in 1900 could imagine as the worst problem that would face New Yorkers hundred years later, in 2000, after the city's population has more than doubled. And it suggests that for much of this population horse-drawn, the worst problem in New York in 2000 would be the tremendous amount of horse manure produced by the transportation of eight million. How to solve the imminent problem of a tidal wave of horse shit?

Obviously, the question is not relevant today. Not because the population has not doubled, or because New Yorkers no longer move, or because the horse manure magically disappears. No, the question is no longer relevant because the methods of transportation have changed in a way that New Yorkers of 1900 would have predicted, because the answer requires consideration of factors not included in the question, in short, because the world is too complex for the simplicity of the question.

It's the same thing when we talk about rising sea level, which is expected because of global warming. Is a rise of one meter means that whatever is located at an altitude of less than one meter will be swallowed up? Absolutely not. Some coastal areas will be eaten away by erosion, although the sea remains the same. Other areas, like the ancient port of Ravenna (and many others besides) will gain ground and sandy sea

mechanics becomes more complicated when one tries to calculate the effects of natural phenomenon in a human population. How death can be an earthquake, say, 7.5 on the Richter scale? None of the tens of thousands, depending on factors as diverse as the density population and residential building standards in force.

In almost every conversation about global warming, in all evaluations of its effects, it implies an "all other things being equal" which is still rarely discussed. But all things are not equal. If climate was the only variable with an influence on agricultural production - one of the victims most often cited by climate change - this is not agriculture. That would be the collection of wild fruits.

And humans, well, humans adapt. Not always easy either, not that it is always fun, not that there ever who suffer or die. But they are building houses on stilts in flood-prone areas, not in the Alps. All other things being equal, the day when your computer will stop working, you stay sitting exactly where you are currently at a computer off. But all other things are not equal, and you find out a way to move the back when the need arises. It's called the world's complexity, and it does not receive the attention it should. * * *



The Rubicon today is more than a stream. Oh sure, you can always start a campaign to save the is left. But if you want to understand how he reached this point, begin immediately to study the geomorphology, the dynamics of urban sprawl and environmental history of the last two thousand years. And hurry up, the die is cast almost ...

Is A Bmi Of 20 Too Big?

Without censor censorship

When I tried to pass the gates of the Embassy the other day, it is not not my usual security guards ("User name" Password! Welcome Mr. Ambassador! ") who welcomed me. No, this is a barrier rather unexpectedly, the following message in big red letters: "Bu siteye erişim mahkeme kararıyla engellenmiştir", "Access to this site is prohibited by court order." Two additional line, one Turkish and one in English, adding that access to the site has been suspended in accordance with Decision 2008/2761 of the 1st Criminal Court of Peace of Diyarbakir, the Republic of Turkey. And when I say "this site" is obviously Blogspot referred not only to the Embassy.

I was a little surprised, because, well, let's be polite, but the fact remains that the small local judge in Diyarbakir (south-east Turkey, long the center of Kurdish separatism and hot by the very fact of the government's fight against Kurdish separatism), he seems to carry off, to block the access of all countries to one of the most popular sites internets.

Still it is not entirely new. In recent months, the Turkish judges seem to take perverse pleasure to ban websites on the left and right. The victim is the most famous Youtube (it works more efficiently in Turkey since last May), but there are dozens of others - many of which (including "video.google.com") have seen their access to new permit . The reasons for this censorship vary, including the usual references pornography and child prostitution, but also insults against the memory of Atatürk and user guides too explicit for budding terrorists. To my knowledge, there has been no case where the insult to the Muslim religion was invoked directly - sorry for those who love to explain everything with the phrase "wah but it is a Muslim country." In the case of Blogspot, it was a cable TV channel who opposed the unlawful redistribution of their channels through a blog.

I am a staunch supporter of freedom of expression. This is one of the most essential principles for my work and for what I consider an otherwise healthy company, at least be able to heal his own pain. And what I am a staunch supporter, is the principle itself, not its application to all those who have the same opinions as me. Those who argue that anorexia is a choice of living, those who deny the Holocaust, those who shout from the rooftops that Islam is a terrorist nature, they are human scum. But even more dangerous than human shit is a shit man who develops a persecution complex. If their ideas are indefensible, they respond with their arguments, they are ridiculed. Censorship is the worst evidence of intellectual weakness.

Yet this is not a denunciation of censorship Blogspot (and myself, by extension) was a victim. No, that court in Diyarbakir, I'm just saying do what you want, make yourself at home, maybe the decision was correct. Maybe this is the right thing to do in a country like Turkey - no matter what the expression "a country like Turkey" could mean.

past few months, things heat up around here. Some trying to outlaw the ruling party. Other trying to sue a group that had perhaps intended a coup - or exist any just not. During the Turkish lira is affected, and we at times feel that the situation could turn into a political crisis with grave consequences.

ago who organized a movement against Internet censorship in Turkey. A movement by Turks for Turks. And if things go badly, if not religious or nationalist or military or terrorist end up deciding that a little abuse of power or even violence is necessary, these same Turks, these citizens of the Republic of Turkey may suffer the full consequences. Legal consequences, physical, or when any change on the theme of exile. And I, for my part, I'll be back home, and I will cultivate my tomatoes without much worry about the shit I left behind me. A bit like the brave little beavers who are going to demonstrate for Tibet last summer and have not felt the need to share the batons distributed on the streets of Lhasa after the riots they have encouraged. The courage to stand fearless when nothing is left to others to suffer the consequences.

access to Blogger has just been restored to Turkey. And me is my duty to non-citizen to close my mouth, and speak of the beam planted in my own country.

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Program IV: Program III

The program of the Conservative Party of Canada is as modest and made commendable efforts to prove themselves as such. Thus one of the main promises are done there than to fight against the scourge of adulteration of petrol pumps (p. 7), help the millions of Canadian seniors who receive Social Security payments United States Government (p. 10) and to enact anti-spam legislation (p. 6) which, one suspects, will have a cleansing effect on the immediate behavior Romanian hacker. And even when tackling more serious problems, the promises are modest. Thus, it promises to do something about the lack of doctors and nurses where it is missing, carefully avoiding mention of any concrete action whatsoever (p. 34).

But that does not mean that the program is empty of content, but rather that the content appears in the form of innuendo. So, do not search too long to realize that the assertion that "People who work hard, pay their taxes and play by the rules [and, one might be tempted to add, who go to church] are doing. "(P. 2), is specifically addressed to that cursed BS should not have the right to complain. Similarly, if "A Conservative Government will do more to strengthen the security of our system of justice" is of course to protect the justice system against abuse of citizens and non citizens against abuses of the system justice. When it was announced that the party's objectives is to "Establish a proud history and Canadian identity," certainly not be forgotten that the word "create" does in cases where the thing does not exist before. And when we say that a "re-elected Conservative Government led by Stephen Harper will introduce legislation to try to improve the representation in the House of Commons on the basis of population for the provinces of Ontario, British Columbia and Alberta, while protecting the seat counts of other provinces. "(P. 25) that the people of Quebec and the Maritimes who have failed their mathematics classes to be addressed primarily.

This promise of reducing the relative political weight of Quebec, we have yet been able to leave outside of the French version of the program. Of course, the English version and the French are very similar (people who have failed their second language are many, but not enough to ensure a majority in the Conservative Party), but not totally identical. Thus, we replaced two photos on pages 14 and 19, and seeing the placards emblazoned with slogans in the English monolingual, we wonder why we did not find photos of supporters waving French slogans. Perhaps it is simply because the ADQ with cuts Longueuil Quebec Conservatives sistematicman de fons fote of hortografe Soeurs Lé pankart.

And let's talk about the pictures. If Stéphane Dion is hiding in the penultimate page of the program of his party, Harper appears on most pages of his own (23 times in 44 pages). A bit like the rest of his party was a constant source of embarrassment. Mind you, the little white children who accompany him in the third of his photographs are certainly less dangerous, politically speaking, a troupe members that limits most of its interventions in the national media to the genre classic, the An apology for inappropriate comments.

And, like all other parties, the Conservatives made a few promises that leave us perplexed. It thus promises to open a trade office in Mongolia (country with a GNP amounting to less than a third of North Dakota, p. 16), invest "$ 50 million in slaughter capacity across the country to support the livestock industry and the dairy industry, and other farmers "(forgetting a little faster than the slaughter of a cow's milk production reduced by approximately 100% per 21) and it will "help youth at risk of falling into the hands of gangs ... "By sending them to prison, away from other criminals (P. 3).

But, well, anyway, by dint of reading I managed to find a reason to vote Conservative. On page 37, states that "re-elected Conservative Government led by Stephen Harper will introduce legislation allowing Canadians affected by terrorism to sue the sponsors of terrorist organizations."

If this is not to be "touched by terrorism" to see the Government of Canada to use Bin Laden to intrude security procedures endless, totally unnecessary and downright humiliating every time I pass by an airport, I wonder what it is.

call my lawyer right away.


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Conservative Party: Bloc Québécois

Imagine yourself in a fashionable occasion, a cocktail, a meeting Bison Prairie, in short, the kind of opportunity where you're forced to be polite to everyone. And imagine that someone approaches you and takes you about this language:

"On 23 November 2005, the Bloc Québécois had asked for a motion for unanimous Bill C-301 for full retroactivity: the acceptance of this motion would have to accelerate the adoption of the Law . It would have to rescind restrictions on retroactive payments monthly income supplements and benefits, allowing a retroactive payment complete. All members in the House of Commons voted for the motion, except that the motion was not adopted because a Liberal MP said the Speaker of the House she no longer wanted to vote for the project. Today, the Conservatives may well reject the liberals responsible for this injustice, but they have not the decency to fix it. "

Welcome page 160-1 the Bloc Québécois election platform . And do not look better elsewhere, it remains as stunning throughout the 232 pages of the program.

Yep, the Programme of the Bloc Québécois is such a pain in the ass you explain that it is responsible for everything that goes well, he has nothing to do with anything that goes wrong, and that when certain results are mixed without being ill, he can take credit for the flattering part of the sentence, putting the disaster that occurs after the comma in the account of the wicked Tories. The Bloc, in fact, lost so much in such detail as the only country for which he seems to have something like a coherent overall plan is neither the Quebec or Canada but Afghanistan (pp. 210 - 4).

The Bloc appears first as timid as a party unifier, "[f] or Quebec, federalists as sovereign, is the first Quebec. "(P. 6) He then spent two hundred and twenty-five pages following to sigh that "the Quebec nation can hardly control the development of Quebec as it will be a Canadian province and Canada held in his hands a number of our key drivers of development" (p. 15). And when he says he "has a major role to play in advancing the cause of sovereignty" (p. 23), say that federalists should ask themselves if they really spin to be gathered.

And even when it comes to defending Quebec values that are supposed consensus in Quebec ("Quebec values" that many followers of Mario does not seem to share, elsewhere), the defense is that the Bloc sometimes goes too far and justify some questionable choices, such as when he brags to promote "safe use of asbestos" (p. 11). It is also allows for the least original interpretations of history. For example, when you said that the Parliament of Lower Canada, together for the first time in 1792, is "one of the oldest parliaments in the world" and would give Quebec any moral authority on democracy ( p. 16) we forget that "parliaments" (perhaps not all democratic liberal sense, but Parliaments anyway) were numerous in medieval Europe and the rest of the Upper Canada also had an elected legislature at the same time. Similarly, this little gem: "Canada is a sovereign country, and when the House is unanimous, that is all. Why should it be different for the people of Quebec? "(P. 19) The answer, of course, is simple: Because the people of Quebec itself has voted twice for a referendum that is not the case.

In some cases, however, the subjectivity of the Bloc Quebecois is a little scary. When one says that Supreme Court of Canada, "which all judges are appointed by Ottawa, not being impartial enough to decide a dispute between Quebec and Ottawa" (p. 30), it directly attacks the legitimacy of the institution responsible for making Canada's rule of law. And if we add a little later that "the Bloc Québécois has designed a strategy that integrates the capacity of the federal government. A plan that could be implemented fully, tomorrow, in a sovereign Quebec "(p. 81), the plate of bad faith that gave me that I might compromise for federalists exhales an aroma that recalls the heyday of the backward fear of Mr. Lévesque and his friends unilateral terrorists.

Oh, and plunge the point: as NDP, the Bloc says that "the minister has removed the word" equality "objectives of the Promotion of Women," just go see Program Promotion of Women, Guidelines for funding for 2008-2009 to discover that the word "equality" is central in both the mission statement and program description of the criteria for funding by it.

But ultimately, with the Bloc Québécois, it all comes down to the history of the mote and the beam. And when he says that "the cultural policies of the federal government have often useful to promote the identity, pride and Canadian unity" and the "State support for culture, however, must be free of any political objective "(p. 54), is it any wonder that this passage immediately follows a full page summaries of arguments, a few lines later, by the promise that the" Bloc Quebecois will introduce his bill on the recognition a national cinema Quebecois? A beam, uh, I mean, a bill while it is most apolitical of course ...




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Program IV: Conservative Party

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Program II: Liberal Party of Canada

Sometimes called the performance a party or a government run school, wondering whether or not deserve a passing grade. But, Professor, do you take off points for mistakes? The program of the Liberal Party of Canada , as part of his Green Shift, hope not.

Is it normal to have a paragraph that ends with a comma after the third page of his program? One by one decimal point ("." P. 53)? Lines that begin with semicolons (pp. 43, 52 and 69)? A paragraph that begins with a quotation mark (p. 49)? Otherwise, one speaks of "grandparents" without a hyphen (probably the parents of seven feet, p. 72), we are assured that the Auditor General "sveillera" (P. 7) is repeated a paragraph of eight lines, word for word, twice on the same page (p. 38) and we can give the name "Stephen Harper" is not capitalized on surname ( p. 4). I was always told there was nothing more deadly than a typo in a job application. Perhaps the rule is different when the job we are asking is that of Prime Minister of Canada.

M'enfin, we understand the Liberals. One, typos, it diverts attention from the personality of their leader. Moreover, the picture of Stéphane Dion does not emerge until page 82 (of 86), well after the presentation of more popular members of his party, such as polar bears (p. 39), the chubby baby (p. 46) and the gentleman excited to be on the verge of a colonoscopy (p. 42).

And two, they must focus on their Green Shift, the universal answer they found all the problems, the level of income taxes to the financing of universities. And the Liberals (and, if you want my opinion, most environmentalists fans) seem to consider that the ecological themes justify all slides Logically, all small falsehoods that may be useful to their argument. It asserts, for example, that "Currently, renewable energy sources account for less than 5% of the electricity produced in Canada. "(P. 30). Of course, we can blame some polluting effects to hydro-electricity, which constitutes about 60% of the electricity produced in Canada. But the call of non-renewable, really? Is the Liberal Party of Canada plans to moisten What could Pantoute Pantoute to fill the tanks?

is proposed to create financing options for "building networks distribution of clean energy. " Since it is certainly not about fossil fuel, we speak of son who know the difference between the electricity comes from wind turbines and those of coal plants? Similarly, on page 17 it says that when we talk about investment in infrastructure in remote areas under the Green Shift, he "is not just roads and bridges." In other words, this plan 'green' is not 'not only to promote pollution'. Impressive. And for keen observers, tell me, evoked for you this photo of a woman (an engineer, do we suppose), who runs a construction plan in front of some windmills on page 11? If the turbines are already built, we can conclude that it has other plans. And construction projects (on what appears to be an agricultural land) can only limit the effectiveness of those windmills. Yep, no need for substance consistent when the general color greenish.

I was so amazed by the environmental performance of the Liberal Party that I was unable to understand the table on page 15, regarding investments in infrastructure. Mind you, the inconsistency comes perhaps not from my side: One of the items in the left column ("Infrastructure Programs") is "$ 25 billion annually by province." Elements corresponding to the latter in the two right columns (respectively "Infrastructure [billion dollars] Total amount after 4 years" and "Infrastructure [billion dollars] Total sum after 10 years") are ... 1.3 and 3.3. Since when is it 25 billion times ten provinces, four years equals $ 1.3 billion?!?

Amazed, too, by the proposed solutions Violence Against Women:
"To fight against [violence against women] and end the social acceptance of those who incite hatred against women, a Liberal government will begin by amending the Criminal Code so include the sex of the person in the provisions on incitement to hatred. "(P. 51)

Note that not talking about hate crime, we are talking about incitement to hatred. Because, as everyone knows, peace would reign on the home only if we banned the ads, yet so popular, that are promoting violence and marital

for Finally, this little gem, which gives a good idea of the historical perspective of the party

"The last time Canada faced a challenge from [the extent of climate change], it was during the War World. At that time, all sectors of Canadian society, government, workers, businesses and ordinary citizens have answered the call and rallied throughout the country to cope. "(P. 27)

So tell me, if you remember the conscription crisis, is what this passage means that we do not consider Quebec as part of "all segments of Canadian society?


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Program IV: Conservative Party

Blood Stains On My Feces

Program I: NPD

You want to download the program from the NDP? The answer is no. No, it's impossible. Or so damn impractical, since ' is offered in HTML (and on a yellow-orange Reno-Depot), but not. Pdf.

M'enfin when I say not practical, I mean obviously those who want to keep a copy for future reference. Because the party itself, it can not only change things on the sly when they see fit, but also to recycle arguments.

Thus their odd structure allows them to assert that the reductions offered by Harper to large companies have made education inaccessible , contributed to the warming of the planet , prevented the backup jobs Forestry , encouraged the crisis in manufacturing , made everyday uncertain and unapproachable, multiplied scams engineered by big business against consumers and made cell phones unaffordable, and that the absence of Liberal Stephane Dion during key votes is simultaneously responsible for pollution of abandonment of the Kyoto targets , the poor health of Canadians , of job loss in forestry workers , destruction of family and hopes of immigrant of the crisis in manufacturing , of poverty in Canada , of corporate profits of cost of living in Canada of abysmal standard of living Amerindians of that your vote does not count and lack of child care spaces - as if it were so many independent facts.

In fact, the NDP excessive profits are an aggravating factor that leads to a somewhat unsettling lyricism. Thus, we attribute part of bank profits to the "despair of poor countries" and said it Jack Layton

"filed a bill to ban unfair advertising to children under 13 years. In general, these are ads that promote unhealthy food whose profits are massive. "

(as if a nonprofit organization would have the moral right to announce" cookies that Grow "seasoned DDT) .

The NDP stands for free, even in areas less used nowadays, as evidenced by this passage :

"When he signed a free trade agreement with Colombia, [Harper] has negotiated a clause which allows businesses connected to the paramilitaries to pay a simple fine every time they kill a trade unionist. "

Program NDP has been written in English, and the thing quickly becomes clear from reading. That may be, at least in part, because the translation also seems to have been entrusted to the English gent found there some bizarre formulations. It says such as Stephen Harper

"has broken his election promise to protect funding for higher education by allocating it through a transfer to Canada's education, as is the case for health care. "

(You really have suffered cuts in education to understand something) that "only 11 percent of Conservative MPs are women" (the most conservative members of Parliament would therefore transsexual - surprising that the information comes from the NDP). They say also that

"Instead of addressing the backlog of the immigration system in Canada, he passed a law that gives the Immigration Minister arbitrary powers to move people in the waiting list of 900,000 people, or eliminate them. "

(a denunciation of genocide that the NDP has put himself in italics) and that "one third of the jobs available will require Soon an apprenticeship or college training, "implying the mutually exclusive nature of learning and training college (mind you, this may not be true).

In some cases, however, may be assumed deliberate manipulation of language, as when we recall that the NDP has "filed a motion banning the use of pesticides for cosmetic purposes," which, unless they try to ban lipstick PCB corresponds to a reference herbicide lawn that just wants to avoid obscure enough to antagonize the electoral segment not completely is marginal represent owners of suburban lawns.

The program is not an unstoppable logic. For example, he denounces Conservative targets on carbon emissions as unrealistic, before (a few paragraphs down) bragging to propose more stringent.

Sometimes information is missing, like when we says that "[w] hile Dion sat in the cabinet, the Liberals have imposed a ceiling of 2 percent in spending on essential services" for natives, it is impossible to determine what this is two percent (although can be assumed to match fifty percent to four percent, one hundred percent and two percent).

Similarly, when we add Jack Layton "requested the establishment of binding rules for energy efficiency to help drivers consume less gasoline," remind us that we must always wary of a government that thinks that the verbs "help" and "force" are perfect synonyms.

More seriously, some claim the program are clearly outside of this category of events called "reality" as when one says that Harper government "has even removed the word" equality "from the mandate of the federal agency that focuses on issues relating to women," while the homepage of Status of Women Canada says "His work is to advance equality for women and remove barriers to the participation of women in society, putting particular emphasis on increasing economic security and eliminating violence against them. "

Similarly, any its health section speaks constantly of a hypothetical system Canadian public health single stamped with the provinces as partners in federal, while health is clearly and unambiguously under provincial jurisdiction.

Finally, the defense that the NDP promises to manufacturing (which "should be the spearhead of a prosperous and sustainable future") is puzzling. Of course, one can seek the votes of plant workers. But when one says that "[s] ince 2002, more than a quarter of a million jobs in manufacturing have disappeared or have been outsourced overseas due to unfair trade agreements", it admits a better vision simplistic game international competition. In trying to focus the economy on "shoppe" is also suggests an economic plan that is a little scary, a plan based on logic (the cost is not a relevant factor in the selection of economic sectors to be developed) that , pushed to its limit, could be worth of grants to any proposed planting of sugarcane in southern Ontario.

Tell me, since I am a big fan of implied bad faith, I ask you a question? Someone has already played in "Professor Layton and the Last Time Travel ?



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Program III: Bloc Québécois
Program IV: Conservative Party

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Programs, Federal Edition

During the last provincial election I offered to a population in delirium she waited for years without ever really knowing the true source of this emptiness she felt inside: A textual criticism of the political agendas of various parties . The response was overwhelming, bringing me a big fifteen additional drives (which are distributed over the election) and making me one of the main culprits in the tsunami, which devastated ADQ tide pools suburban Quebec. I may also be grown at the ego, but you know, when the fate of the world is in your hands is the kind of thing happens.

I have not had my lesson, ladies and gentlemen ladies. I'm not repentant. Worse, I suspect that the Honourable Prime Minister Harper occasionally ("Look into my eyes") is en route to a victory that will lead directly to moral ruin, the economic disaster and physical destruction (and the forfeiture psychic too, but you still do not know why, I do not want to create too many expectations). So since everything is slipping away as the world's end is near, I take the reins of my cart and diabolical

And since the innocent are always wrong, my first victim will be the NDP Jean Latvian-uh-Jack Layton.



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Program II: Liberal Party of Canada
Program III: Bloc Québécois
Program IV: Conservative Party
Programs V: Party Green (canceled - ha ha, I'm a pig undemocratic! You also want me to talk about Andre Arthur? At least he was elected a member!)

Bloods And Surenos Banded

Storytelling

Three small stories, to get back in shape.

The first takes place in a university class, a class which gives a history lesson of Islam. While the teacher speaks, a student gets up (just as you enter, late as usual) and started to bawl like rotten fish. You know this student, finally, you know who he is, is a bearded Pakistani from religious genre, who is studying electrical engineering. And you do not need to listen to his tirade over a minute or two to realize that the teacher was a little too historian, theologian and not enough for his taste. "No," says he, "it is absolutely impossible that this companion of the Prophet of Islam had acted out of political expediency, as the tradition leaves no doubt about his spiritual perfection."

The second story is a bit more abstract. She speaks with a slight decrease in the rate of unemployment in an area which we will not name due to an increase in jobs in manufacturing.

The third Finally, it is that of a man who has slept well last night, which breathes well for the first time in six months because, for the first time in six months, he may respond to calls from representatives of its card Credit harassing him: "Yes, I can repay. Yes, I have a job now."

The first of these is the haunting story of people like me who are looking for a job that will be asked to teach the history of a religion that is not theirs. And, frankly, universities recognized for their engineering programs are the most feared among historians of Islam. Several researchers have noted that the Islamist terrorist typical, far from being illiterate, tends to be a graduate in engineering, and have very little formal religious education (apart from the hours spent with a master self-taught). The same anger, the same conviction of being custodian of the Truth, the same binary perspective on the world (or the machine works or it does not work, or offer a theology of Truth or it is a lie) in a version slightly less deadly: That is a major source of stress among teachers of history of the Muslim World.

And if it is not Muslims, what will the fundamentalist Christians or fundamentalist atheists (who sometimes takes the urge to rip the guts to anyone who refuses to submit the Koran as a human invention misleading), in short, a throng of people who "know" who "know" much better than commonly historian prof. But I think I found my lifeline - and she did not even ask me intellectually dishonest. Yes, the adaptation will be difficult.

Look at my last two stories, two stories that are not actually one. And yet we do not understand much 'thing of the economic health of a region full when it is reduced to states of mind of an unemployed debt. Yet the moral dignity of a human being can never be reduced to a column of numbers.

The fact is that the historical and religious perspective can coexist, since we do not try to reduce one to another. And I know what I'll tell my students before they speak of the beginnings of Islam, whether Muslims, Christians and atheists: Your faith is simply too important to depend on the historical method.

And I do not even lie, except perhaps for those that the historical method is a religion but a few, they are heretics. And they deserve all the persecution that may have to submit them.

Not Brushing Teeth Sore Throat

Antoine

I leave my silence to tell you a little story, a story that never ends as it should. It happens there fifteen years, a versatile ugly as there are dozens in Quebec. In my

versatile ugly, as in all-purpose ugly, there are bad guys and good guys. There are also competent and incompetent. Antoine was the captain of the second team. In civilian, it was he who gave us during the so-called educational career. I doubt there is still, it was already on the verge of retirement at the time. Notice the intensity with which I do not deplore this state of affairs.

One day after class, I approached Anthony to ask him a question about showbiz. "Anthony, you know, then, specialists of all kinds of countries are invited to the news' on telly to answer questions when there's something going on in those countries, then, well that is how to do to become one? ".

A transcript of the scene does not suggest much more than a factual answer. "They have doctorates in political science." But the tone, oh! tone ... the tone in which he gave me his answer was an uppercut to knock my second question even before it arrives. The tone he used, in short, told me crush, back to reality, in short, they have PhDs and ti-guy you will not worry, not too much to dream and the National Hockey League either.

I remember a column in which Foglia spoke of these talented teens who have become adults because they have received any, to use his expression, "kick in the ass that would put in orbit. "That all this potential overgrown that I dedicate the conclusion of my story:



In exactly one week I get a PhD from Harvard University.


Eat a chariot of shit, Antoine.

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I weigh on the anvil 'Pause'. Last semester before submitting your dissertation, you would do as much.

Or do.

Or do done.

Congratulations, Doctor, and later.














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