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And I am sure their carbon footprint is exactly zero.

“A 12-YEAR-OLD girl in Scotland brought up by her parents on a strict vegan diet has been admitted to hospital with a degenerative bone condition said to have left her with the spine of an 80-year-old woman….

Last year, an American vegan couple were given a life sentence for starving their six-week-old baby to death. In 2001 two vegans from west London were sentenced to three years’ community rehabilitation after they admitted starving their baby to death.”

One of the primary factors inhibiting McCain’s campaign is the issue of age. The betting markets are actively reflecting this concern. On intrade.com the “Barack Obama to win 2008 Presidential Election” contract is trading for 61.3 and “John McCain to win 2008 Presidential Election” contract is trading for 34.8. These contracts will go to 0 in case of a loss and 100 in case of a win.

Given that the Obama contract is trading at 61.3, the corresponding McCain contract should be trading at 38.7, i.e 100-61.3, if contracts are fairly priced. The fact that the McCain contract is trading under the defined “fair price”, and has done so consistently since Obama essentially clinched the nomination, is a reflection of health concerns in the election betting market. The market is pricing in 3.9pts, i.e. 38.7-34.8, as the McCain health risk premium or it might be a case of Obama benefiting from the “Audacity of Vacuity“. It will be interesting to watch how this risk premium varies and if it diminishes completely.

I have maintained that the hostility shown by Human Rights Commissions towards Steyn and Levant comes from lawyers, some of whom drink deeply from poisoned wells on their passage through three years of law school.

The message being conveyed to the students who take courses from certain professors is that free speech is an American concept, which they are wrongfully exporting to Canada and other places through the usual instruments of cultural imperialism. Mr. Stacey of the federal branch of our human rights commissions was typical in his view that free speech was an “American doctrine”.

I cite as an example the essay found in (2003) 49 McGill Law Journal 59 by Professor Jane Bailey, “Private Regulation and Public Policy: Toward effective restriction of Internet hate Propaganda” as a pertinent example of the creeping abrogation of free speech in the name of “multiculturalism”, and “equality” that were enshrined in Trudeau’s 1982 Constitution. I argue that the consequences of that Constitution are being witnessed now in the prosecution of Steyn and Levant.

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Űber-keen Eurotrash cavort in a One Europe propaganda video in Benneton revivalist style:

Almost makes one miss Car-B-Que season in Paris.

Oh, and Britain: run the hell away from this project as fast as you can.