Friday, September 26, 2008

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 ?



See also:

Programs, Federal Edition
Program II: Liberal Party of Canada
Program III: Bloc Québécois
Program IV: Conservative Party


Thursday, September 25, 2008

Puzzles By Josephine Wall

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.



In this series:

Program I: NPD
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!)




Saturday, September 20, 2008

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.