Saturday Architecture: Farnsworth House
Quote of the Day: Political Video of the Day
“I have only one firm belief about the American political system, and that is this: God is a Republican and Santa Claus is a Democrat,” P.J. O’Rourke
U.S. Senate: Climate Skeptics

The damning U.S. Senate report on the “Global Warming Industry” should give the UN and the IPCC pause to adjust their scurrilous tactic.
Not only have several hundred respected scientists, and many were formerly party to the IPCC process, condemned the report but they refute any “scientific consensus” is possible.
Abuse of Process: Islamists File Human Rights Claim Against Mark Steyn
This is a story that needs broader distribution.
This is a rebuttal requiring thorough examination.
This is a comment [and post] with more common sense than most.
This is a “faux” complaint that will test the multicultural policies of a great nation.
The “yellow” lawyer, a former crown attorney, no less will be hoisted eventually. Canadians will not stand by while the politically correct and professional “useful idiots” stretch Canadian rights to free speech to the breaking point.
I trust the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal will reject the make believe complaint and rebuke the CIC.
Tuesday Funny: Existentialist Attack Ads
Damn Multiculturalism
“Only a bigot would argue that every Muslim was violent or opposed to Western freedom. But only a coward or a liar would argue that there was not a profound and deeply worrying link between conservative Islam and myriad acts of terror, intolerance and hysterical anger.”
Mr. Parvez murdered his daughter last week. She refused to submit to his religious beliefs. Asqa Parvez was a typical teenager in that she wanted to fit in, she liked fashion and she changed her clothes on her way to school.
But her father was far from typical in his reaction. Did this have to do with his conservative Islam beliefs or his native culture? Is multiculturalism a contributor to the said case of murder of a young woman at the hands of her father, watched by her brother?
CAIR-CAN stated it was nothing about the fathers religious beliefs but it was about “domestic violence.” That is a little like saying that drunk driving isn’t about bad judgment and alcohol consumption, its about controlling a car when you can’t see straight from being pissed up. In other words, its the cars fault!
Domestic violence in Toronto, or any major city in the western world isn’t typically about a father murdering his daughter about her behavior and lack of obedience. The vast majority of cases are husband wife altercations, usually, but not always, about a man using his physical superiority to humiliate his wife with violence.
“The murder was prompted by an ideology of bigotry and terror masked as a faith-tradition — an ideology of radical Islamism at war with the modern world of freedom and democracy.
The fear of this perverted ideology and its fanatical promoters silences most Muslims, regardless of their numbers in society, for they fear that speaking out against this ideology might place them in greater jeopardy within their community and with those who claim its leadership.”
The American Thinker nails down some background that undeniably implicates her brother. This is the brother who has been released on bail!
Astonishing!
Update: 10:00 PM
Doug Saunders, London Bureau Chief for the Toronto Globe and Mail, meanders into the story! He refers to a dated debate surrounding Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s affect in Dutch society as argued by French philosopher Pascal Bruckner.
Mr. Saunders engages, rather dispassionately, the subject in the briefest way possible. In fact, he practices some breathtaking deconstruction of the event. Reducing the alleged murderer, Asqa’s father, to a simply an adherent of God’s law over man’s laws is a gross simplification
How rational of Mr. Saunders! By ignoring a recent set of stories wherein the so called “unobserant” are persecuted by conservative Muslim values and by failing to note a very well established pattern of violence inflicted upon Muslim women and children, he undermines his own logic.
I’ll take Pascal Bruckner’s side in this debate. I’ll also look for law enforcement to step us its vigilance of what I consider the vilest of bigoted behavior in the West.