Daniel Hannan: The stimulus fallacy

 

An atheist convention in the Middle East!

In the only country in the Middle East free enough to hold one:  Israel!!!

Contrast this with Egypt’s new Constitution:  No God-given right to atheism in Egypt

“The constitution defines Egyptians as Muslims and Christians. This alienates anyone else who does not fit into these categories,” a 24-year-old teacher who describes himself as a “secular humanist” says. 

While some Islamists widely attack liberals and Christians, describing them as “infidels” (some even going as far as justifying their killing), nonbelievers are not even acknowledged, let alone guaranteed rights in an Islamist Egypt. 

“The Egyptian people are religious by nature, and there are no atheists,” said Yusuf al-Qaradawi, one of the most prominent Islamic scholars, if not the most, a few days ago.

Indeed, the only place in the Middle East where one can openly say they subscribe to reason over mythology is in Israel.

Reason TV: Feds Sentence Aaron Sandusky to 10 Years for Medical Marijuana

Daniel Hannan: Protectionism is killing the EU

Thunderf00t: Why ‘Feminism’ is poisoning Atheism (Part 2)

 

So, how about a thought for Mrs. Warman?!?!?

Jay Currie raises some very important questions – ones everyone ought to demand answers to:

… In other words, the nature of her job meant that she did very much the same sort of thing as her husband except, of course, she was prosecuting actual internet criminals under the Criminal Code. (And good for her say I.)

However, it does raise some interesting and, I suspect, important questions. First, did Mrs. W. have a computer at home for work or simply because she was a wired up kinda gal? Second, did the Warmans trade tips on how best to engage their respective prey? Third, why have none of the defendants in the assorted Cools related defamation cases sought to examine Mrs. W’s computer (assuming, rather plausibly, she had one) to determine if hubby might have been using it as a back up/cut out machine? …

I’m afraid I am nowhere as nice and generous as Jay Currie….

The questions that get raised in MY mind are much more sinister:  did Richard Warman subvert his wife’s integrity by his ideas and methods?

After all, he is on record as saying that people who are actively evil, people who commit crimes and are hateful, ought to be treated the same way as his political rivals and/or people whom he simply finds ‘annoying’ – like Connie and Mark Fournier of Free Dominion – and that ‘maximum disruption’ methods ought to be used to make their life a living hell!

Now, this is all bad and tragic when it occurs in the civil courts sphere and downright despicable when it occurs in the ‘Human Rights Commission/Tribunals’ sphere…but people know that these are the ‘softer’ courts.

But – what if Warman has convinced his wife to apply his tactics against people in the criminal courts?

After all, if she loves him, shares a child with him and continues to be married to him, she must – on some level – respect him as a person, with all that he does.

And if she respects him as a person, she must not think his professional conduct is in any way ‘wrong’/’immoral’/’unethical’…

Richard Warman believes it is justifiable to use any methods to persecute and discredit his political opponents, in what he terms ‘maximum disruption’ doctrine.

Mrs. Warman prosecutes pedophiles.

Any accusation of pedophilia, even without a conviction, is enough to ruin peoples’ lives and careers in so many intangible, non-provable and thus non-prosecutable ways…

How can we possibly be sure that his wife is not just another tool in Richard Warman’s arsenal to discredit his political opponents?!?!?

Please, do think about it…

Pat Condell: Patronising the Palestinians

LET US START 2013 THE RIGHT WAY. BLAZINGCATFUR NEEDS OUR FULL SUPPORT

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EFF Patent Project Gets Half-Million-Dollar Boost from Mark Cuban and ‘Notch’

From the Electronic Frontier Foundation:

San Francisco – America’s broken patent system needs major reform to protect innovators and the public. Today, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is announcing a major new boost to its patent work: a half-million dollars in funding from entrepreneur Mark Cuban and game developer Markus “Notch” Persson.

“The current state of patents and patent litigation in this country is shameful,” said Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks. “Silly patent lawsuits force prices to go up while competition and innovation suffer. That’s bad for consumers and bad for business. It’s time to fix our broken system, and EFF can help. So that’s why part of my donation funds a new title for EFF Staff Attorney Julie Samuels: ‘The Mark Cuban Chair to Eliminate Stupid Patents’.”

Cuban’s $250,000 donation also funds the hire of a new attorney experienced in patent reform and high profile patent litigation: Daniel Nazer, who will join EFF in January as a Staff Attorney. The rest of EFF’s seasoned intellectual property team includes Intellectual Property Director Corynne McSherry, Senior Staff Attorney Kurt Opsahl, and Staff Attorney Mitch Stoltz. The team is also assisted by EFF fellows Michael Barclay and Jason Schultz.

Persson’s separate donation of $250,000 cements EFF’s ability to tackle the systemic problems with software patents. With a blend of lawyers, technologists, and activists, EFF will push for reform in the courts, through activism campaigns, and by educating the public and politicians about what is wrong with software patents and what needs to change.’

Read the rest here.

Daniel Hannan: How about a Nobel Prize for Margaret Thatcher?

Growing up as the daughter of a political dissident behind the iron curtain, it would have been just about impossible for me to have not become aware of ‘politics’ from a young age…

And, aware I of politics I did become!  On both the macro and the micro scale.

When I was of kindergarten age, the parents of other kids feared letting their children play with me:  what if someone saw it and noted in their dossier that from an early age, the child had consorted with political undesirables?  It may seem preposterous or paranoid to most people living in our society, but, back then and there, even a small notation like that could prevent a student from being accepted to the school of their choice…

I also started to notice political cartoons in the only newspaper available – the party rag.  Rather, I noticed a change in tone, or tenor, or whatever the roper term is, in the political cartoons.  First, they were contemptuous cartoons depicting a buck-toothed smiling guy.  The others were not contemptuous – even though they were meant as a ridicule, even I could see that the woman they depicted struck true fear into the political people in charge.

The one openly disrespected and ridiculed was Jimmy Carter.

The one clearly feared was Margaret Thatcher.

And that was when I began to admire her!