Tuesday, October 28, 2008

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.


Saturday, October 11, 2008

Actor Vijay Hindu Or Christian

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.


See also:

Programs, Federal Edition
Program I: NPD
Program II: Liberal Party of Canada
Program III: Bloc Québécois


Thursday, October 9, 2008

Bloods Get Along With Nortenos Or Surenos

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 ...




See also:

Programs, Federal Edition
Program I: NPD
Program II: Liberal Party of Canada
Program IV: Conservative Party


Thursday, October 2, 2008

Pokemon Soulsilver Freeze Patch Rom

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?


In this series:

Programs, Federal Edition
Program I: NPD
Program III: Bloc Québécois
Program IV: Conservative Party