Cdn-Firearms Digest Sunday, November 30 2008 Volume 12 : Number 700 In this issue: Too bad no one in the house was prepared for self defense. Evil and stupidity regarding; It's silent light after gun ban U.S.: Fallen Pa. Soldiers Tribute Struggling- WGAL ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2008 09:50:47 -0400 From: "M.J. Ackermann, MD" Subject: Too bad no one in the house was prepared for self defense. http://www.ottawasun.com/News/National/2008/11/30/7580076-sun.html *Sun, November 30, 2008* 2 killed during birthday rampage *By CHRIS DOUCETTE chris.doucette@sunmedia.ca SUN MEDIA* OSHAWA -- Two people are believed to be dead and four others injured, including a police officer and a toddler who is fighting for his life, after a man went on a rampage at a birthday party in Oshawa yesterday. The province's Special Investigations Unit is investigating and few details were available last night. However, some reports suggest the enraged man was shot to death by Durham police after he attacked a family inside their home and then stabbed an officer who was responding to the apparent domestic incident late in the afternoon. RAN FOR LIVES A distraught woman who called the Sun last night said her nephew, 11, was in the home at the time of the attack. He and another boy, about 12, ran for their lives and hid until police arrived. "Oh my God!" said the woman, who would not give her name. "I can't imagine what they saw and what they are going to have to live with now." Durham police would not comment on the violence and the SIU could not immediately be reached. STAB WOUNDS But unconfirmed reports suggest a couple, their four-year-old son and another seven-year-old boy were rushed to hospital with stab wounds after being attacked by someone who was known to the family, a man whose son was also in the home and might have been one of the boys who ran and hid. The woman reportedly succumbed to her injuries. It's believed her husband will survive as will the seven-year-old boy. But the couple's son was thought to be in grave condition at Sick Kids hospital in Toronto late yesterday. The assailant is believed to have been killed by a police officer who was forced to fire on the man after being stabbed. - -- M.J. Ackermann, MD (Mike) Rural Family Physician, Box 13, 120 Cameron Rd. Sherbrooke, NS Canada B0J 3C0 902-522-2172 mikeack@ns.sympatico.ca "Hope for the best, but be prepared for the worst". ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2008 09:47:49 -0400 From: "M.J. Ackermann, MD" Subject: Evil and stupidity The marriage of evil and stupidity at Carleton University By David WarrenNovember 30, 2008 5:01 AM http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/todays-paper/marriage+evil+stupidity+carleton+university/1013551/story.html The marriage of evil and stupidity at Carleton University By David WarrenNovember 30, 2008 Last Monday, the student council of Carleton University attracted much attention to their university and to the city of Ottawa -- around Canada and the world -- with their decision to cancel their annual Shinerama fundraising efforts on behalf of the Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. Their argument was that this disease afflicts "white people and primarily men." They would rather choose a charity that is more "inclusive." Little I can add to the outcry against this. Some things are so simple, we do not need a university degree to understand them. One of them is that, unlike prostate cancer, which afflicts men exclusively, or AIDS, which primarily afflicts men (and fighting the latter is not more politically correct than the former because it is more inclusive) -- cystic fibrosis afflicts men and women fairly equally. Proportionally more "Caucasians" may suffer, but only in the widest sense of a term which subscribes the off-white inhabitants of North Africa, the Middle East, and India. Many of "Negroid" and "Mongoloid" race also suffer cystic fibrosis, if fewer proportionally. So the disease is reasonably inclusive of humans. To be apagogical about this, one might argue that the disease is exclusive, since like every other, only a minority of people have it. This would at least be self-consistent. But without further inquiry or thought, the Carleton University Students Association bought into a proposition from one of its members, a certain Donnie Northup, that was both evil and quite superlatively ignorant. "Good intentions" do not excuse them, as their president, Brittany Smyth, has tried to argue with several media callers. Anti-white and anti-male prejudices are not well-intentioned; she should have been corrected publicly on that. And here is how Ms. Smyth dismissed the disgraceful preamble of Mr. Northup's motion, to CTV News: "It's 100 per cent their opinion. Their opinion doesn't have to be fact or anything really. It's just how this individual felt." This remark reveals an extraordinary degree of incuriosity, allied perhaps with lethargy and cowardice, on the part of the student councillors. Political correctness has numbed their brains. How has it done so? By instilling indifference to truth in their souls. Evil and stupidity reinforce one another. Even acts which appear, on their face, to be devilishly clever, turn out not to be, with a little extra cunning. There are arguable exceptions, but in the main, the reason so many criminals get caught, even by rather flat-footed policemen, is that they suffer from cruel deficiencies of intellect. They can't keep up with the lies they are living. And likewise, the number of leftist activists who get unwanted attention from media and the blogosphere. Through sheer stupidity, they utter aloud or in print the rationale for their actions, instead of covering this over with a slather of additional falsehoods and misrepresentations. Behind the Carleton students' behaviour is the vicious but unquestioned totalitarian ideology of multiculturalism. The "white man" is taken as the symbol of hatred for everything associated with western civilization. Cultural achievements which include the founding of universities, the elimination of slavery, the emancipation of women, and equality before the law, are overlooked. Any "alternative" social order is idolized, no matter how barbaric. What have evil and stupidity in common? Once again: indifference to truth. The very western ideal of liberal education was to cultivate the truth-loving mind. Far from contenting itself with slogans, and Pavlovian responses to questions of the day, that mind should be seeking the truth behind appearances. This is a moral quest, requiring such disciplines as courage, to confront the malice that is implicit in every kind of lie -- including the unknowing malice in unknowing lies. How many letters I have received, from students in Carleton and other universities, who tell me their experience of higher education is nothing like this; who say they are surrounded by students, professors, administrators, and course materials that consistently subvert the ideals of liberal education. Glib remarks by Carleton's new president, Roseann O'Reilly Runte, reinforce this impression. In an "open letter" that I would characterize as a rote public relations gesture, she expressed her "personal regret," over "language that was not appropriate," and so forth. That's an insufficiently robust response. Tomorrow, the student council meets again, to revisit their decision. Let me helpfully propose a fresh motion for them to consider: "Last week we made a major decision that was indefensibly evil and stupid. We feel deeply ashamed of what we did, the more as we needed outsiders to explain to us why it was wrong. We hereby rescind last week's motion, with our apologies. We have all agreed to resign from the student council, and we invite all eligible students to think more carefully before electing our replacements. Each of us further undertakes to withdraw from the university for the rest of the academic year, to take stock." Today is, incidentally, the beginning of Advent. It is thus an opportunity for every man and woman, inspired by the deeper traditions of Western civilization, to take stock, as we begin the new liturgical year. David Warren's column appears Sunday, Wednesday and Saturday. © Copyright (c) The Ottawa Citizen - -- M.J. Ackermann, MD (Mike) Rural Family Physician, Box 13, 120 Cameron Rd. Sherbrooke, NS Canada B0J 3C0 902-522-2172 mikeack@ns.sympatico.ca "Hope for the best, but be prepared for the worst". ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2008 09:29:00 -0600 From: Joe Gingrich Subject: regarding; It's silent light after gun ban Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2008 14:00:50 -0600 From: "David R.G. Jordan" Subject: [UK] It's silent light after gun ban - Article Comments And if this is just what people over there are willing to say in public, you can only imagine what all that they'll say in private conversation. - - -DRGJ - --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Over here, a taped private conversation has a strong potential for a law suit initiated by our statists. David Ahenakew's case shows this as reality now in Kanukistan. Yours in Tyranny, Joe Gingrich White Fox ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2008 09:52:56 -0600 From: Joe Gingrich Subject: U.S.: Fallen Pa. Soldiers Tribute Struggling- WGAL http://www.wgal.com/news/18047763/detail.html Fallen Pa. Soldiers Tribute Struggling Portable Wall Honors Pa. Soldiers Killed In Iraq A traveling tribute to soldiers killed in the war in Iraq may soon come to a stand-still. Fred Nunemacher, of Millersburg, Dauphin County, created the portable wall last year. It lists the names of Pennsylvanians killed in the war in Iraq. "In order for me to do that, I got to take off work and when I take off work, then I don't get paid," said Nunemacher. "So, that's kind of how I get into a bind, but it's a sacrifice I'm going to make." Donations can be sent to: Wall of Fallen Heroes, P.O. Box 112, Millersburg, PA 17061. For details on the Wall Of Fallen Heroes, click here. http://www.myspace.com/walloffallenheroes Copyright 2008 by WGAL.com. 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