More autism

CBC reported on a new study about genetic variations found in people who suffer from autism spectrum disorder, which may lead to more efficient ways to diagnose and treat autism.

Of course, some people have far more holistic opinions on what causes autism spectrum disorder,

It's a long one, but a good one.

BruceVoight, from beneath his tinfoil hat, went beyond the expected "vaccine causation" theory and wrote:

"Something new every day!

Autism may be caused by things like Vaccines and Nutrition influencing the slowing of brain cell nuclei orbit speed but I suspect magnetisim to be the culpert.

The Earth force magnetism has been weakening and magnetism is another component that prods the orbiting nuclei of cells (including the brain) to maintain the speed that keeps us high up on the food chain.

We have this in premonition, invention, like when the hair on the back of your neck stands or something staring, you know what I mean.

All life requires its food after digestion (aura to be absorbed by the blood) to have a slower orbiting nuclei than the cell it is to stimulate. If it does not then you get a tummy ache or die! Fat is our safety device.

The animal is not running from your gun, it can sense its food and it will determine through your info cells (scent) that you are predator not prey.

Now here is the thing

Man kind (because of brain stimulation been less) like the animal is more able to process info cells. Particularly in the past 100 years or so. Where these info cells come from giving us the transistor and every thing else will be another chapter.

The thing is that you should be concerned because a lot of the problems like animal attacks, autism, attention deficit, downs syndrome and the likes can be avoided.
Bruce Voigt Science"

From: "Autism linked to rare genes" (CBC)

"But Aquaman, you cannot marry a woman without gills!"

In response to an article about BP's continuing effort to salvage the oil that is flowing through the Gulf of Mexico:

DarkQuark said:
"PRESIDENT OBAMA HATES FISH PEOPLE!"

From: "BP brings in 6,000 barrels of oil in first day of new well containment system" (The Times-Picayune)

How to plug the oil spill

While politicians, engineers, business people and Kevin Costner have spent the past 30 + days trying to figure out how to stop the oil spill in the Gulf Coast, a simple Canadian farmer has held the answer all along:

Doug said:

"IT's easy to kill this well ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS GET A SUPER TANKER OF WHEAT , MIX IT WITH THE KILL MUD , PUMP IT DOWN HOLE IT WILL EXPAND WITH WATER AND SEAL THE WELL OFF. IT IS ENVIROMENT FRIENDLY EASY TO GET TO THE RIG AND A EASY QUICK FIX. gIT ER DONE. fARMER FROM CANADA."

From: "Obama arrives on Gulf Coast, pledges to 'keep at it'" (CTV)

No more caribous = no more tasty caribous.

I came across an older article about the decline of Canada's boreal caribou population. Part of a species considered ubiquitous to Canadian wilderness, some have a hard time believing that these creatures may be at risk of disappearing.

NWT Emma lamented:

"i don't understand why someone would ever do that to our animals we had caribou for a very long time and now they say it might die out next century i wonder how it would be not to taste another caribou again i wish for the caribou to be stay for more century's to come. (:

WHO AGREE'S WITH ME???"

No caribou = no caribourgers :(
From: Half of Canada's boreal caribou herds in decline: report (CBC)

Illegal immigrants, higher education, and conspiracy theories about losing control of a nation

In the past few months, I have read quite a few pieces about high school graduates who came to the United States as infants, or young children. Some came at such a young age that they didn't even realize they were illegal immigrants until just before graduating high school. So what happens when kids like this -- particularly the one's with impressively high GPA's apply for college? They cannot afford to go.

GITD has a very good reason why these kids should not be able to attend university: because they will become lawyers and take over the USA and destroy everything that it is:

"So many of these illegals study political science.
It is the stepping stone to law school, they
then use our own laws to pursue a course
of promoting more of their own kind, twisting
and spinning the laws that were not written
to promote the stealth theft of our country.
Such as the anchor baby abuse that allows
pregnant latinas to cross the border illegally
and use our medical facilities free of charge
on the tax payers back to birth the hordes
of ninos and then claim the legal right to remain
in the U.S. Make no mistake this is an attempt
to steal this nation for Mexico and the Mexicans.
Vote for those who put our interests and our
citizens first. If I must obey our laws , why
does the federal government not demand the
same of the millions of illegal latinos? One
more time vote accordingly, you owe it to
your grandparents and your grandchildren."

From: Girl who came to U.S. illegally can't get loans (San Bernardino County Sun)

"This is America"

FOXNews.com posted a story about some Californian teenagers who got in trouble for wearing American flag shirts to school on Cinco de Maya.

Seeing as the website was FOXNews, there were close to 2,000 comments when I read the story. Many were quite fascinating; many started with "This is AMERICA". Yes. Yes it is, if you are writing from America.

azfox1270 found the actions of the school treasonous:

WHEN DID WE (STOP HONORING THE UNITED STATES FLAG?) WHEN DID OUR SCHOOLS STOP (HONORING THE UNITED STATES FLAG?) WHEN DID , IT BECOME OK TO PROSECUTE OUR KIDS FOR HONORING THE UNITED STATES FLAG?????????........THIS SCHOOL SHOULD BE UNDER INVESTIGATION FOR (TREASON)

dontstepotheusa wrote:

"So, we want to ban OUR AMERICAN FLAG because Mexicans want to fly their flag? If it's not our flag being ban it's AMERICANS being "ban" from working at some American jobs because they only speak English. So, why is it' American Schools teach classes primarily in English and fly AMERICAN FLAGs IN front of the buildings? Lets see, so people can come to AMERICA, tell us we need to speak their language and we can not fly OUR AMERICAN FLAG because it's disrespectful to them. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. I AM A PROUD AMERICAN WHOSE BLOOD BLEEDS RED, WHITE AND BLUE. If you are not A PROUD AMERICAN this is for you, pay close attention, Regardless of who you are and where you come from, if you do not want to adapt to AMERICAN WAY OF LIFE IN AMERICA then you are FREE TO LEAVE. AMERICANS HAVE BEEN PUSHED FAR ENOUGH. America and AMERICANS have worked around everybody else long enough it's time for you to adapt to AMERICA's WAYS. If you didn't know, the first step in becoming an American is to be here legally so you can have the right to complain about the way America is ran and pay taxes and start waving OUR AMERICAN FLAG "

And, as to be expected from a FOXNews fan, golf67 announced:

"get your guns out white AMERICANS, lets send these wetbacks back to wherew they belong!"

FROM: "Tensions High at California High School Following Flag Flap"

Communism etc etc etc

In the United States, President Barack Obama has nominated a woman to be a justice of the Supreme Court. This is freaking some people out, even though there are still more men than there are women in the Supreme Court, and nomination, I assume, is based on merit... but who's counting?

Liberal Sodomy comments:

"barry X, the abandoned b a s t a r d of an illicit union between a deranged, teen aged, communist w h o r e and malcolm X, has his instructions from london to permanently destroy America and her economy via debt, euthanize the greatest generation, demoralize her military via homosexuality and exhaust it in a wild goose chase in the "graveyard of empires", and disarm it via fiat. He does hate America, especially White America, and does love his works of treason and destruction. It is through this that all his actions may be understood.

I hope the military honors their oaths, steps up and eliminates this a s s h o l e. This son of a w h o r e is the walking definition of a "domestic enemy" and we won't sit still anymore for his treason.

NEVER EVER forget the mainstream media that conspired to foist this muslim nation wrecking b a s t a r d on America is responsible. They intentionally sold us this traitor.

The democratic soviet is comprised of 22% of the population (blacks, jews, queers, transgenders, communists, and abortionists) An amalgam of misfits tied together by nothing more than malevolent envy and hate for Property Rights and Natural Law.

This man is actively destroying an America he was raised to hate, is supported by communists in the media and must be neutralized for the good of all.

It should be considered that barry soetoro is a communist or muslim plant groomed to completely destroy America from within."

Wow! That's a whole lot of tinfoil.
From: "AP source: Obama chooses Kagan for Supreme Court" (via Yahoo!)

Dead presidents

The president of Nigeria, Umaru Yar'Adua, has reportedly died. Amazingly, CNN.com's blog post about this has a very high volume of comments that have been left by respectfully mournful, religious Nigerians. Comments like "May his gentle soul rest in perfect peace."

Except for this guy, who is clearly not from Nigeria; probably American?

Earthling wrote:
"O wow the vice presidents name is great lol. V.P. Goodluck Jonathan. Goodluck. Thats better than naming ur kid Megatron any day!"

From: "Nigeria's president dead, government minister says"

(CNN)

Keeping the cannibal terrorists from Boogobungawongaland away.

The pretrial for Omar Khadr, a young Canadian man accused of terrorist acts when he was just 15 years old, has begun in the United States. Khadr was arrested for allegedly throwing a detonating device which killed an American soldier in Afghanistan. He has been imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay for most of the past 8 years.

Canadians are divided over whether it is right to repatriate Khadr; whether a 15-year old should be considered an adult; whether he is a victim of circumstance; and, whether if he is innocent, can he even be rehabilitated after spending 8 years at Guantanamo Bay.

Many people, including Larry O do not reailze that Khadr is even Canadian, and have expressed their fear of foreign people with funny names living in Canada:

"
I'm heraring things like Omar Khadr was only defending the Motherland...excuse me, but wasn't he born in Canada? That's the problem with Multi-Culturalism, if your come to Canada from Boogobungawongaland from a tribe of Cannibal's we're suppose to accept your culture as equal to Canadian Culture. We are suppose to make allowances for you until you learn Canadian values. In the end we end up in a pot served with a nice Chianti. No.... Omar Kadhr was exposed to Canadian Freedoms and Values he could have just said No. I was raised in a Cult as a child but figured it was a crock by the time I was 13. Al-Qaeda, Fedayeen, Mufti Mujahideen, Turkey's Special Organization, Ustashi, Taliban, Fatah, PLO, Islamic Jihad, HAMAS, Hizballah, Abu Nidal, Shamil Basayev, Army of Muhammad, Order of Holy Warriors, Salafia Jihadia, Tawhid & Jihad, Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, ...all have one thing in common. Omar Kadhr could have run to the Canadian Authorities for help. If Omar Kadhr is not procecuted what will stop other young Canadian Muslim radicals from hearing their god's voice telling them to go kill the Infidel's in....... Canada."
From: "Treat Khadr as child soldier: UN envoy" (CBC)

Missing the point: Native edition

The following comment isn't awesome in the sense that most people interpret awesome -- as something with some form of merit; it is awesome in the sense that the I am filled with awe at the complete failure for people to understand the issues that they concern themselves with. At first I wasn't sure if I actually wanted to post it on here, because so far, most of the content has been stuff I can sort of chuckle at.

Comments relating to the Aboriginal peoples of Canada, on the other hand, are often the most ignorant and hateful posts that I have ever read. For the most part, I'd like to keep this blog free of much commentary, even though this is obviously not an objectively written blog. I'd rather people come to their own conclusions, without knowing 100% what side I'm on. In this case, I can't be neutral. This comment represents just one out of thousands that represent uneducated views of self-righteous Canadians who do not understand how colonialism has impacted the original inhabitants of their country, and who look at Aboriginals with such disrespect.

Simchi said:, in response to an article about the possible extinction of many of B.C.'s native languages:


"And you wonder why First Nations isn't set up for success. Instead of learning a language that only 10 other people in the world know, why not enable them to be productive citizens and learn English, French, Chinese, Spanish or German?

Simply, a language that actually has use and will enable them to rise out of an endless cycle of poverty and despair?"

From: B.C.’s native languages at risk of extinction (CBC)

So, please, educate yourselves. If you live in Canada, or anywhere else that has an Aboriginal population that was royally fucked by colonialism, please educate yourselves about what that means, and try to imagine what it's like. Then you'll understand why these languages are on the verge of extinction.

Illegal immigrants will infect your tomatoes with tuberculosis

The state of Arizona has passed a new immigration law which, for those of you out of the loop, allows law enforcement to practice racial profiling. Basically, if you look like an illegal immigrant and you are stopped by the police in Arizona, you had better have all your identification handy, regardless of your citizenship. There are plenty of reasons why it is good to have a robust list of immigration laws, but I'll let the expert below summarize that in all their capslock glory:

noimmiez said: (I think this name means "no immigrants"; "immiez", I suppose, is a regional pejorative in Arizona.)

"THERE ARE A LOT OF GOOD REASONS FOR IMMIGRATION LAWS:

1. WE DO NOT WANT ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS WITH DEADLY DISEASES LIKE T.B. COUGHING ALL OVER OUR VEGETABLES AT THE GROCERY STORE AND DO NOT WANT THEM IN OUR SCHOOLS COUGHING ALL OVER OUR CHILDREN
2. THERE ARE THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE WHO HAVE LEGALLY IMMIGRATED TO THE UNITED STATES AND FOLLOWED ALL THE RULES. ILLEGALS NEED TO GET INTO LINE BEHIND THEM AND WAIT THEIR TURN AND FOLLOW THE SAME PROCESS. THERE IS NO EXCUSE FOR BEING HERE ILLEGALLY. PERIOD.
3. WE NEED TO KNOW THAT THE PEOPLE COMING TO THIS COUNTRY ARE NOT: RAPISTS, PEDOPHILES, DRUG DEALERS, MURDERERS, SERIAL KILLERS, TORTURERS, OR TERRORISTS DISGUISED AS MEXICANS.

THE HISPANICS PROTESTING DO NOT SEE THE BIGGER PICTURE. THAT IMMIGRATION LAWS ARE IN PLACE, AND LAWS EXIST SO THAT THERE IS EQUALITY FOR ALL."

From: A War Over Borders Inside America (CBS)

A duck walks into an oilslick...

Syncrude, a synthetic crude oil company, has been charged under the Alberta Environmental Protection and Enhancement Act and the Migratory Birds Convention Act for the deaths of 1,600 ducks in one of its tailing ponds. The company's lawyer is calling bullshit, noting the social trap that is our globalized, oil-dependent dystopian world. We all have blood on our hands, but Syncrude just has adorable duck blood on their hands; if the company loses in court, a precedent is set that would force businesses to be [more] accountable to environmental laws. Honestly, what company can be horribly profitable and continue to experience financial growth at a global scale if they can't engage in destructive behaviour?

I mean, what are a few ducks anyway?

Iggy.Wontgofar says:
"sick and tired of hearing about a few ducks dying - we consume many more than that daily at every cinese restuarant - PEKING DUCK ever heard of it????

The greens in this world make what suits them as a cause; hypocritical I'd say!!!"

From: "Syncrude conviction would end industry, lawyer argues" (CBC)

Tinfoil hats and the death penalty

I am not quite sure what the following comment has to do with the state of the death penalty in California, but it's pretty brilliant anyway:

CATEYESPRETTY said:

"I wish that Mr.Billy Graham would speak to the Presidents wife and tell her to quit terrorizing me by Satelite with my own dysfuntional family.And also meet with Mrs.Cindy McCain and Mrs.Ronald Reagan.They are terrorizing me and my family by satelite,stealing from us,putting the Lagos mafia on us.Cindy McCain put my father in a convalesant home in 2008,where he was strangled,then stole all of his money along with Michelle Obama.Now they are here at 23 Azalea Dr.Gretna,La trying to put me away for telling people what they have done and are still doing.They are controlling every aspect of my life.They even drove my sister into insanity,and she is still lying in a La mental hospital since hurricane Katrina.They also exploited me to thousands of people.Michelle Obama has people working for her saying she wants me powerless and she goes around tell all of the law informent agencies that we are mentally ill ,when we are not so she can lock us up and steal everything we have for her people in Lagos Nigeria and Kenya...."

From: "Calif. case spotlights dysfunctional death penalty" (Yahoo! via Associated Press)

Women serving on U.S. submarines = Frankenbabies

While women have been chivalrously been given the right to serve on submarines for quite some time in other countries, up until now, this was not the case in the United States. This is about to change, as it looks like the Navy is going to allow women, as well as non-closeted homosexuals to serve on submarines. To make matters "worse", smoking will now longer be allowed. Manly men are not happy.

The more scientifically inclined are not just concerned about moral issues of letting gays serve in the Navy; they are also concerned about how life on a submarine could damage a woman's ability to reproduce, which is totally counterintuitive to natural selection, right? Oh, the costliness of it all!

Postman2 said:
"Women of child-bearing age must be protected from the radiation and chemical loaded environment encountered in a submarine. Without the ability to deploy it's snorkle to "breathe" for weeks at a time, submarine atmosphere can become highly polluted with amine and other chemicals. Should a women be or become pregnant in this toxic environment, who knows what damage can occur to the fetus. How is the Navy going to protect against that?"

From : Plans to allow women and gays, ban smoking shake world of Navy submarines (Washington Post)

A few words on restructuring and budget cuts

André found this great comment. Not all comments need to be crude or poorly informed. When you bring Machiavelli in to illustrate fiscal choices a city can make, you know you have a winning comments.

Anthill said:
"Transit City [Note: Transit City is an expensive transit expansion plan in the city of Toronto] is the easiest cut, because it's hard to imagine how good it could be.

"The innovator has for enemies all those who have done well under the old conditions, and lukewarm defenders in those who may do well under the new. This coolness arises partly from fear of the opponents, who have the laws on their side, and partly from the incredulity of men, who do not readily believe in new things until they have had a long experience of them." - Machiavelli, "The Prince""

From: Newstand: April 23, 2010 (Torontoist)

Happy Earth Day!

It's Earth Day, which means lots of articles about how to be green. Just last week, the thoughtful man in front of me at the grocery store had remembered to bring his reusable cloth bags. He had purchased a good ten bags of groceries, which is a lot to carry. Luckily his SUV was only parked a short walk from the entrance to the store. Hey, at least he's trying, right? As Kermit the frog lamented, "it's not easy being green".

To celebrate the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, here are some earthy comments:

Over at CBC, OwenAbrey said:

"Isn't it incumbent on science to qualify who has an invested interest in the outcome going a certain way?

If the only way a "climate scientist" can continue to be funded is if he produces a certain conclusion, shouldn't alarm bells be going off?

Finally, if Canada is paying grants on this area of science, who determines the terms of reference. For example, lets say this Mr Weaver influences funding, I would like to know yes or no. If he does, does the terms of reference in any way include AGW? If it does, it has prejudiced the study, and that study should be invalidated. What irritates me is the lack of disclosure.

No other field of science would tolerate the sloppiness, the lack of rigor, and the failure to disclose. It is the most serious blow to science perhaps ever. But like a chicken with its head cut off it is running all over the barnyard oblivious."


"B.C. climatologist sues National Post" (CBC)


Tractor said:
"Wasn't the murderer Ira Einhorn one of the founders of Earth Day....hmmmmmmm...I'll bet Holly Maddux would like to have something to say about it all. Oh I forgot, Ira turned her into compost in his closet while he was at an Earth Day rally. "

From: Earth Day turns 40: started humble, now global (Salt Lake City Tribune)

I'd want to think that this last comment is an attempt at trolling, but unfortunately I think I am incorrect:

unregistered user said:
"dude u suck who gives a crap i mean we arnt goin any where fast so u dont need to worry u envirment freak!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! so in conclusion havent u noticed that ppl dont realy care about hybrid cars and houses also who gives a crap about alternitive recources so ur stupid and GAY"

From: Earth Day 2010 - 40th Anniversary (Seattle Post Intelligencer)

I lolled

The following comment is not original or surprising. This one is pretty popular.
Still, when I came across this comment today, I actually laughed out loud:

Some yahooligan wrote:

"QUESTION - IS IT TRUE OBAMA IS A MUSLIM ?"

From Obama keeps up pressure for financial overhaul (Yahoo!)

Mmm.. steamed cabbage... nomnomnom

I think this commenter's name "AustrianEconomics" was some sort of vague political reference to what the commenter thinks Austria stands for. I'm not quite sure, because this is from an article discussing the sodium content of Americans' diets, and potential government interventions to promote better eating habits.

AustrianEconomics posted:

"OMG, well it's about time, of course we should tell people not to eat salt!!!! how dare they eat food with flavor, no one should eat food with flavor. we should eliminate sugar, and spices as well. how dare we enjoy food. how DARE WE"

From: "FDA calls fort salt cutbacks" (Los Angeles Times)

Check your PhDee at the door, evolutionists!

New rule to keep dinosaurs fun: All dinosaurs must be at least 2 metres tall, because anything smaller isn't cool enough to merit a trip to the museum.

Thanks, Lukas, for this little gem!

"6sidedraftweber" said:

"Oh how cute… doggy “dinosaurs”…. So now we have Fido-rex as a new “species” to be inserted in the brain dead evolutionary agenda of the utterly duped. Mmmm hmmm there “science”… your paper PhDees in ‘man-came-from-monkees’ is making you guys look about as smart as a door stop…. I do like the artistic drawing however… that certainly “proves” that these cute little Dinos’s existed… for sure…"

From: "Doggy Dinosaur Was Built for Head-Butting" (FoxNews)

Charter of Rednecks and Freedom

Anonymous said:

"AND I HAVE WAY MORE FANS THAN THE RIGHTWING TROLLS WHO DESECRATE BOTH DEMOCRACY AND POLITICAL FAIRNESS, SOME OF WHOM POST DOZENS OF COMMENTS, WITHOUT USING CAPS TO MAKE IT OBVIOUS THEY ARE THE SAME PERSON, ESPECIALLY POOR BASHING COMMENTS THAT QUALIFY AS HATE SPEECH UNDER THE CANADIAN CHARTTER OF RIGHTS YOU REDNECKS DESPISE SO MUCH!! AND YOU ONE OR TWO PEOPLE KNOW WHO YOU ARE, AS DO CANWEST EDITORS NO DOUBT!"

Comment posted in response to "Half of Vancouver Olympic Village social housing may go to market-rate rentals" (Vancouver Sun)

Capitalism stole my virginity

An important lesson for all about who wins at winning correctly:

Rick said

"People stop your whining and saying this and that about my Country and my Capitalism,if you don;t like it here then go back to where you came from and whine to your own government.If you want to live in a Capitalism country then shut your mouth, some of us are sick of your whining and trying to change OUR ways to suit you and by the way it was Capitalism that defeated Hitler and because of Capitalism the US became the most powerful country this a world has ever seen and the US of A is only a few hundred years old!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Comment posted in response to the story "Canadian flight lands in London as air traffic resumes" (CTV)