Thursday Is the Christmas Eve of the Work Week

It is.... in a way.


James Jay Lee, whose bizarre and dangerous behaviour was noted in yesterday's post, was killed by police thus ending the stand-off. No one else was hurt.


The jury is still out as to whether he was a garden-variety fanatic or just mentally ill, but rest assured that had he been a white gun owner, there would be cries for gun registry; had he been pro-life, this would be passed off as typical behaviour; had he been a Catholic priest, there would be demands for marriage or female priests; and had he been a Muslim fanatic, an Islamic special-interest group would be kicking its PR spiel into high gear.


Just saying.


The Palestinian Authority and Christian leaders are renovating the Church of the Nativity, no doubt to make up for when terrorists used the church as a toilet:

The Palestinian Authority and Christian leaders on Thursday signed an accord to repair the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem on the traditional site of Jesus's birth.

The one-million-dollar project, to be carried out by an international consortium supervised by Italian renovations expert Remigio Rossi, will fix leaks in the roof that could otherwise threaten the interior of the building.

The funding will come from the Palestinian Authority, and prime minister Salam Fayyad was on hand for the signing ceremony.

"This renovation is the first of its kind in the modern history of Palestine and the first of this size to be carried out on the church," he said.

Margaret Atwood is a moron. She is a hack and a twit who rests on laurels she has no business resting on. She is resented by every high school student who is forced to read her dreck because his or her puffy, pasty English teacher thinks her juvenile prose speaks to a higher truth.



How is this for truth?

Margaret Atwood will sign anything, apparently.

The well-known Canadian author and campaigner for liberal causes has reportedly appended her signature to a campaign by a New York-based organization to block Sun Media from obtaining a licence for its proposed TV channel.

Why? Well because, according to the U.S. group, Sun Media will bring “American-style hate media onto our airwaves.” As Sun reporter Brian Lilley notes, Canada isn’t actually in the United States. And, in fact, they already have Fox TV in the U.S., so how Sun Media can bring Fox-style TV to a country that already has Fox TV is a mystery.

Without things like the CBC, Margaret Atwood would have starved to death years ago. Oh, the trees in northern Ontario she spoke of. How they might have lived knowing their paper-producing brethren would never be sawed down for her drivel. Alas, the poor trees!


Here's something for Margaret Atwood to chew on:

This brings us to a truth about classical feminists: They hate traditional motherhood -- which, dare I say, is true motherhood -- because they are jealous of traditional mothers. When they ridicule a woman who tends to hearth and home, it's not so much because she is kowtowing to the patriarchy or not taking her place in the phalanx of the sisterhood. It is because the mother has a good that they, for some reason, cannot have. And women are notorious for being jealous of one another.

Some will point out that devout feminists don't see motherhood as a good, but this is irrelevant. A thing has certain inherent qualities, and they aren't a function of others' perception of them. Motherhood is a good by nature, and people will, as a group, desire what is good -- and be envious of others who have it when they cannot.

Read the whole thing.