The Last Day of February

...is also the last day of Sarah Palin month.

Don't worry, sad cat. She'll come back... some day.

In the meantime, enjoy some plain talking:

Gaddafi was Osama before Osama hit the scene. He ordered the bombing of a disco in Germany to kill Americans. When he paid the price for that – after President Reagan rightly ordered retaliation – he directed his agents to blow up Pan Am Flight 103. They did, and more than 250 innocent people died. Gaddafi tried to come in from the cold in 2003 – scared by the demonstration effect of Iraq. But we should have no illusions. Gaddafi is a brutal killer and Libya – not to mention the world – would be better off if he were out of power. Now is the time to speak out. Speak out for the long-suffering Libyan people. Speak out for the victims of Gaddafi’s terror. NATO and our allies should look at establishing a no-fly zone so Libyan air forces cannot continue slaughtering the Libyan people. We should not be afraid of freedom, especially when it comes to people suffering under a brutal enemy of America.

Harper steps up to bat:

Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced Sunday that Canada will impose sanctions to penalize Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's for his brutal repression of protesters in that country.The actions that Canada joins other members of the United Nations in implementing include:

- An arms embargo to stop the shipment of weapons to and from Libya.
- A cargo inspection system.
- A travel ban on Colonel Gaddafi and 15 members of his family.
- A freeze on the assets of Col. Gaddafi and his family.

Furthermore, Mr. Harper announced that Canada will take additional measures beyond those announced by the United Nations Security Council. Canada will immediately place a freeze on financial transactions with the Libyan government, particularly with the central bank of the country.

Mr. Harper said these actions will "help restrict the movement of, and access to, money and weapons for those responsible for violence against the Libyan people.

Let us compare with the Commander-in-Chief:

Foreign powers talked openly on Monday of imposing a “no-fly” zone or making other military moves against Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, as rebels fought government forces trying to take back strategic coastal cities.

The United States said it was moving U.S. naval and air forces closer to Libya to provide “options and flexibility.”

British Prime Minister David Cameron said Britain would work with allies on preparing for a “no-fly” zone in Libya to protect its people from military attacks by Gaddafi’s forces.

 
Waiting for what, precisely?  What "flexibility"?


Related: Rex Murphy can see right through the UN:

Why was the tyrant’s chamber of Libya  ever, ever on a UN Human Rights council is the real question. A question that speaks to the moral ambiguity, even moral blindness of the entire United Nations apparatus. The action negated, nullified the very point of such a council.  Imagine constituting a Human Rights Council with such members: with Libya, a prison presided over by a decaying dictator, with Cuba, another prison presided over by another decaying dictator, and then pair these two with the grand exemplar of their kind, China — the last great communist despotism.

One reason why tyrants have so long a lease in our brave new world  is that temporizing, accommodating, trimming organizations like the UN give them, over the years, the bureaucratic sheen that allows them to present themselves as somewhat normal.  These moral hell-holes are seen or read to be in public concert with the “better nations” of the world, that overtime it erases in the eyes of the world the  great gulf that should separate evil or cruel states from the better, civilized ones. They earn a slovenly, lazy pass.  Come crisis times, as this week, and everybody is suddenly ready with a unanimous cry of Horror! Horror!

Also related: celebrities suck:

Victoria pop songstress Nelly Furtado says she was paid $1 million to perform for members of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's "clan" in 2007, but she now intends to donate the money to charity.

The New York Times recently reported that several Western pop stars had accepted massive sums of money to perform for Gadhafi's family in recent years.

Beyonce and Usher reportedly performed at a New Year's Eve party for Gadhafi's son Muatassim — Libya's national security adviser — on the Caribbean island of St. Barts, while R&B singer Mariah Carey was hired to sing at a previous New Year's bash.

What the hell?! That is the last thing we want!:

NASA computer models reveal what a small, regional nuclear war in one part of the world would do to the global climate and environment. The results are grim.

If 100 Hiroshima-sized bombs, each as powerful as 15,000 tons of TNT, were exchanged in a war between two developing-world nuclear powers such as India and Pakistan, models show the resulting fires would send five million metric tons of black carbon into the upper troposphere - the lowest-altitude layer of the atmosphere.

There, the soot would absorb solar heat and rise like a hot-air balloon, reaching heights from which it would not easily settle back to the ground.

In the shade of this carbon shield, Earth would cool. "The effects would [lead] to unprecedented climate change," said NASA physical scientist Luke Oman at a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science last week. Oman's and his colleagues' models show that for two to three years after a regional nuclear war, average global temperatures would drop by at least 2.25 degrees F (1.25 degrees C), and as much as 5.4 to 7.2 degrees F (3 to 4 degrees C) in the tropics, Europe, Asia and Alaska.

But the reversal of the global warming trend wouldn't be a good thing. "Our results suggest that agriculture could be severely impacted, especially in areas that are susceptible to late-spring and early-fall frosts," said Oman, who compared the likely post-war crop failures and famines to those that followed the 1815 volcanic eruption of Mount Tambora in Indonesia.

Additionally, the models showed global precipitation would reduce by 10 percent globally for one to four years, and the ozone layer would thin, resulting in an influx of dangerous ultraviolet radiation. These results confirm predictions made previously by researchers at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Who put these people in charge? Where are the smart scientists, the ones who are actually being productive?


Remember- this guy wasn't charged for killing Mary-Jo Kopechne:

An FBI file contends that a young Edward Kennedy arranged to rent a brothel for a night while visiting Chile in 1961, a year before he was elected to the Senate.

The previously redacted memo, dated Dec. 28, 1961, was released by Judicial Watch, a Washington-based organization that said it obtained it through a Freedom of Information lawsuit.

According to the memo, Kennedy made arrangements to rent the brothel "for an entire night" in Santiago earlier in 1961.

Thank God somebody said it:

Really? Seriously? Jack Layton has a new attack ad accusing Ottawa insiders of “getting all the breaks?”

We’ll, I guess he should know. He and his wife, MP Olivia Chow, are among the ultimate Ottawa establishment couples.


I’m not making this up. The New Democrats have a new smear ad out claiming that Ottawa no longer works for the little guy. (Yeah, the little guy making $140,000 a year as a full, tenured sociology professor or $90,000 a year as a mid-level provincial health care bureaucrat — the kind of “little guys” who now make up most of the NDP’s supporters.)...

Sure, Jack. I’m touched by your concern for poor seniors, especially given that between the two of you, you and Ms. Chow racked up nearly $1.2 million in taxpayer-covered expenses in 2009, the last year for which reliable figures are available. That was $530,000 for her, $629,000 for you. The average MP consumed $469,000.

Admittedly, that’s not pocketed expense money. But neither does it include the couple’s salaries and honoraria as MPs. Nor Jack’s stipend as a party leader. It’s above and beyond their pay and benefits.
Much of it goes to staff salaries back home in the constituency, constituency office rent, flyers, hospitality and advertising,  leasing computers and copiers, flying to and from the home riding to Ottawa several times a year and renting a place to live while in the nation’s capital.

Oh, and dining out — a lot.

Scratch a leftist, find a mooch.


Finally, crime really doesn't pay:

The Facebook burglar pleaded guilty to second-degree burglary in D.C. Superior Court on Tuesday. 

In a case of social networking at its worst, Rodney Knight stopped to post his dirty deeds on the Facebook page of the son of the homeowner, a local journalist. It was like leaving a taunting calling card at the scene of the crime. 

Knight broke in to the Northwest home of Washington Post writer Marc Fisher in December, police said. He helped himself to a number of items, including two laptop computers, a new winter coat and about $400 in cash. 

Before leaving the scene of the crime, he put on the winter coat and posed with the cash for a photo he took of himself. He then posted his “loot” photo on Fisher’s son’s Facebook page, the writer said.

Sunday Post

Sunday tends to be slow and that isn't bad.


A few quibbles:


Libya might still be run by a madman but at least its oil doesn't have 20 more grams of carbon dioxide per megajoule of oil than Canadian oil does.


At one time, Europe could rightly say it was a cradle of culture and civility. Now, its non-breeding, selfish inhabitants cater to those for whom freezing in the dark is normal.


Once again, Ezra Levant strikes the nail of common sense with the hammer of justice.Or something.


Speaking of one half of the Wonder Twins, a call for civility:

Here we are still struggling to get out of a deep recession and coping with high unemployment, record deficits, rapidly rising food prices, and a host of other economic problems; and Wisconsin union bosses want union members out in the streets demanding that taxpayers foot the bill for unsustainable benefits packages. I am a friend to hard working union members and to teachers. I come from a family of teachers; my grandparents, parents, brother, sister, aunt, and other relatives worked, or still work, in education. My own children attend public schools. I greatly admire good teachers and will always speak up in defense of the teaching profession. But Wisconsin teacher unions do themselves no favor by closing down classrooms and abandoning children’s needs in protest against the sort of belt-tightening that people everywhere are going through. Union brothers and sisters: this is the wrong fight at the wrong time. Solidarity doesn’t mean making Wisconsin taxpayers pay for benefits that are not sustainable and affordable at a time when many of these taxpayers struggle to hold on to their own jobs and homes. Real solidarity means everyone being willing to sacrifice and carry our share of the burden. It does no one any favors to dismiss the sacrifices others have already had to make—in wage cuts, unpaid vacations, and even job losses—to weather our economic storm.

Thank you!


Watch the flapping gums and tell me how badly they are missing enormous clues.


I know for leftists, demonising certain groups is just one of the many standard tactics in discourse (others include cries of racism, purporting false things are true and saying obscene things out loud) but really- if the video did not show you how morally decrepit the left are, then you weren't watching it. Accusations of racism and gun-toting only make you look empty.


For any who still hold out that Sharia law is just:

Women's shelters in Afghanistan may soon come under the control of government leaders who follow Sharia law.

Battered women, child brides, and rape victims who may be killed by their families have few choices in Afghanistan.  Islamic clerics endorse wife beating, and women who run away have been cruelly punished.  Shelters, supported by independent groups and the U.N., sprang up after the U.S. and allies overthrew the Taliban.  They provide security, skill training, and education for illiterate women.

But adherence to Sharia has become the basis of political one-upmanship.

Enayatullah Balegh, a member of Afghanistan's Council of Muslim scholars, said Sharia allows women to live only with a close male relative -- her husband, father, brother, or son.  Thus women's shelters are illegal and should be shut down.

Read the whole thing.



I dare them to try this in the Middle East. Dare them (hat tip: BFC).



I know it's not "politically correct" in some circles to abhor IVF or surrogacy but here is one good reason why it is wrong:

The fate of around nine unborn children hangs in the balance as Thai authorities weigh what to do with the offspring of Vietnamese women freed from an illegal baby breeding ring in Bangkok.

A total of 14 women, half of them pregnant, were freed on Wednesday from an operation using them as surrogates for wealthy childless couples overseas who placed orders for newborns online.

Campaigners fear for the future of the infants who are born to desperate women -- perhaps not their biological mothers -- and into a legal grey area, with Thailand still mulling the ramifications of the case.

"There is a risk that those children might end up as stateless, that they won't get citizenship anywhere," said Benedict Phillips, Asia strategy director at Save The Children.

Public Health Minister Jurin Laksanawisit has described the gang, which operated under the name Baby 101, as "illegal and inhuman" and suggested some of the women had been raped.

What this guy said:

If South Korea really wants some effective nuclear deterrence, let it build its own nukes, and let it be known to all that hot-tempered, chain-smoking ajoshis are holding all the keys. For that matter, let Japan and Taiwan build them, too. 

I like little baby ducks and the people who save them.

Oh Shut Up

An open post to miserable people:


I gather from your responses that you are miserable. It's not just your contempt for all the good things in life; it's your complete disgust for children.


Not everyone is meant for the vocation of parenthood. I suppose that happens. But a mature, self-effacing person who has arrived at this decision doesn't begrudge parents or belittles them. No one likes cleaning up after a messy, crying three year old but that three year old will grow up and look after himself one day. Do you think anyone wants to put up with your miserable emotional baggage and your complete inabilities to wash your hands after using the bathroom, cleaning up after yourselves or turning off your cell phone in the theatre? What about when you want the stewardess on an overnight flight to give you your wine spritzer NOOOOOOOOOWWWW? Yes, this poor woman doesn't have enough to take care of thirty thousand feet in the air. At least the baby in coach has stopped crying and is resting comfortably. Now the stewardess has another baby to look after- an intolerant, impatient, wrinkled, bitter, flatulent grown-up-child who will only leave a mess SHE has to clean up. Who's the baby, now?


So- have kids or don't. If you do have them, enjoy them. Who else can you go trick-or-treating with or have long, involved discussions about Spider-Man? If you don't like your kids, do tell them BEFORE they get you an ice cream cake with THEIR paper route money which they bought under the impression that you actually have feelings for them. Or are you that much of a mooch that you would lie to them and steal that cake (yes, you're stealing an ice cream cake from YOUR CHILD, how craven of you). Watch as they grow up into bitter, little people just like you.


Not much of a legacy.

Mid-Week Post

Tragedy in New Zealand.


Severe food shortages in North Korea? Again? Does no one question why its leader and his son are fat but no one else?


The teachers of Wisconsin are shouting out slogans because they care about "the children" or are desperately trying to drown out the sounds of their incompetence:

Two-thirds of the eighth graders in Wisconsin public schools cannot read proficiently according to the U.S. Department of Education, despite the fact that Wisconsin spends more per pupil in its public schools than any other state in the Midwest.

In the National Assessment of Educational Progress tests administered by the U.S. Department of Education in 2009—the latest year available—only 32 percent of Wisconsin public-school eighth graders earned a “proficient” rating while another 2 percent earned an “advanced” rating. The other 66 percent of Wisconsin public-school eighth graders earned ratings below “proficient,” including 44 percent who earned a rating of “basic” and 22 percent who earned a rating of “below basic.”

The test also showed that the reading abilities of Wisconsin public-school eighth graders had not improved at all between 1998 and 2009 despite a significant inflation-adjusted increase in the amount of money Wisconsin public schools spent per pupil each year.

Won't some please think of "the children"?!


(hat tips: MM, ST, PJ)


Do you think Che Guevara was actually a pants-wetting boy-killer? Is there an irony in the artist who marketed his image wanting copyright?



A wafer-thin mint.

Monday Post

From the shores of Tripoli:

Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi fought an increasingly bloody battle to hang on to power on Monday when anti-government protests against his 41-year rule struck the capital Tripoli after days of violence in the east.


Residents reported gunfire in parts of Tripoli and one political activist said warplanes had bombed the city.

Forces loyal to Gaddafi had killed dozens of people across the country, human rights groups and witnesses said, prompting widespread condemnation from foreign governments.

No independent verification of the reports was available and communications with Libya from outside were difficult.

But a picture emerged that suggested the survival of a leader who has loomed large on the world stage for decades and controls vast reserves of oil was in jeopardy.

The popular press and otherwise ill-informed masses might be over the moon about the "wave of democracy" coursing through the Middle East. I'm sure no one remembers- or cares- about the transition from communism to democracy in eastern Europe. It's not an easy transition but, proving you don't have madmen blowing themselves up or raping news reporters, it is achievable. In the Middle East, one can choose a military dictator or a theocratic state based on the words of a seventh century war-monger. Politics abhors a vacuum more so than nature. Who fills that void? This is a logical stumbling block for me.


Related:  a visit to Libya.


We haven't heard from the Korean Peninsula in a while. What the hell are South Koreans doing in Libya, anyway? Their pork-eating, soju-swilling and church-going ways make them the ultra-infidel. I told you we shouldn't trust the North Koreans. Didn't I tell you? From Kim Jong-Il's bodyguard to a duck farm, the stories of a neurotic man "...who is not qualified to be a world leader."  Democritizing North Korea. If one switched South Korean teachers with Wisconsin teachers, would anyone notice? China is blocking a UN report detailing North Korea's violating sanctions on its nuclear program. Surprise, surprise. That's a lot of snow.


Soylent Green is people:

A growing, more affluent population competing for ever scarcer resources could make for an "unrecognizable" world by 2050, researchers warned at a major US science conference Sunday.

The United Nations has predicted the global population will reach seven billion this year, and climb to nine billion by 2050, "with almost all of the growth occurring in poor countries, particularly Africa and South Asia," said John Bongaarts of the non-profit Population Council.

To feed all those mouths, "we will need to produce as much food in the next 40 years as we have in the last 8,000," said Jason Clay of the World Wildlife Fund at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

"By 2050 we will not have a planet left that is recognizable" if current trends continue, Clay said.

We've heard these arguments before and it usually means more padded wallets for "family planning" groups. Determining how bad one is for the planet rests on how Asian or black you are to this heavily white, affluent and liberal community of fear-mongers. The facts are these:

• an active adult male needs anywhere from 1,600 to 2,000 calories a day to survive (see here)
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• approximately 31,000,000 km² (12 million square miles) of the Earth's surface is arable.
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• Canada ranks eighth in the world for cereals production (wheat, oats, ect). Despite some significant declines, total wheat crops amounted to 21.0 million metric tonnes on the Canadian Prairies which have a growing season of about three months (see here). These declines were attributed to poor weather. Other food sources- such as fresh produce, dairy, meat and seafood- are produced all over the country. Seventy percent of food brought into Canadian households was produced domestically. Though Canada's climate and landmass may seem forbidding for food production, Canadians are some of the most obese citizens in the world. Canadians themselves tend to eat 3,118 to 3,384 kilocalories. One study suggests that Americans waste thirty percent of food they acquire.
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• countries with the most undernourished citizens have either unstable political environments or dictators
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• many countries reclaim water using a variety of methods
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• countries that observe sex selection abortions and female infanticide run the risk of demographic ruin. There were will be more males than females, meaning that fewer marriages and births. Japan is already in what is called a death spiral where fewer births and more deaths with little or no immigration means massive depopulation.

Why the rush to depopulate the planet?



Oh look! Selfish people!


My answer to cultural and moral relativism is cut and pasted here for brevity:

Cultural and moral relativism isn't consistent as scathing attacks on Christian, Jewish or European values is deemed perfectly acceptable.
Just focussing on the qualities of cultural and moral relativism, there is no way these liberal (read: lazy) values can survive given that one culture or group will assert itself over another. In this case, a culture that allows the mistreatment of women and religious minorities will triumph over the culture that says anything goes. That culture will become moot over time. history has show us this.
It is also juvenile to suggest that criticism of a culture is somehow an indictment of that culture as a whole. It suggests a lack of knowledge or a dislike of one's own culture and a fear that a criticism - well-placed or not - means something we've been conditioned to believe is the worst sin or crime one can commit. A discerning mind can point out the admirable and terrible qualities of a culture and point to something that works. That's reason. Clapping one's hands over the mouth or ears is silliness and fear.
If anything, cultural and moral relativism are antithesis of progress. No one in their right mind should embrace them.

What I said.


In case someone didn't get it, this is libel and this is a waste of time.


Libel:  is the written act of defamation. Slander is the oral act of defamation.


What Father Raymond Gravel said: "I am pro-choice and there is not a bishop on earth that will prevent me from receiving Communion, not even the Pope." 




What Lifesite said: 

While he styles himself as "pro-choice" rather than "pro-abortion" Gravel was, during his stint in politics, rated as "pro-abortion" by the political arm of the pro-life movement in Canada - Campaign Life Coalition.

Gravel attacked LifeSiteNews’s coverage on Development and Peace as "dubious," "hypocritical," and "a false report on the part of these fanatical pro-lifers."  He added: "And the worst of it is that a good number of believers let themselves be influenced by these defamations and fund these extremists who claim to defend the Christian values of life, family and morality."

Gravel concluded his piece in Le Devoir, saying, "We must denounce LifeSiteNews and stop funding it. We can believe in life, defend it and promote it, without supporting these fanatics who call themselves Catholics, but who never stop judging, condemning and excluding all those who do not think like them."


What this idiot said:


LSN did not criticise or demean him as a priest. They slammed and demeaned him as a PERSON. More power to him. I hope he wins!  


He does not stop being a man just because he is also a priest. And he's not suing because he was being criticized. He's suing because he's being slanderd and libeled...as a MAN who is also a priest. 

Actually, you're quite incorrect about libel laws in Canada. Have you not heard the expression that "truth is no defense for libel?" ONLY in Canada is that true. And what he was labelled is inaccurate. He says he is against abortion. How does that translate to your hearing that he supports it? And his being a priest has nothing to do with whether or not he loses money, either. 

And:

We have more than three. I, myself, have several. But don't ever equate the Christians with freedom...it's true for some, but definitely not for all. 




One can see why power shouldn't be put into the hands of idiots. They have thin skins and not enough synapses working.


Have you ever wondered what time it is on other planets? Now you can find out.




 

Red Pill or Blue Pill?

The world is a stupid place.


At least- some of those in the world are stupid.


Or crazy.


Whichever pill they took- either one which makes them crazy or one which makes them stupid- they washed it down and now they opened their mouths and removed all doubt that the cylinders might be there but none of them are firing.


Here is a list in no particular order because I couldn't decide whether I should class them by type, country or how dim-witted they are.


Enjoy, and remember- this person with no control over the words that escape their mouths could be near you. Use caution as that person might not have motor control, either.


Obama is charging an entrance fee:

Prime Minister Stephen Harper says there are better ways for Americans to raise money than to charge Canadians to get into their country.

U.S. President Barack Obama wants to charge Canadians entering the U.S. by air or sea a $5.50 inspection fee, although private vehicles would be exempt.

"They're running deficits down there well over a trillion dollars a year," Harper said Thursday. "Some 40 per cent plus of the American spending is financed by borrowing. These are enormously challenging figures."
But Harper says the inspection fee is not a ''useful'' way to raise revenue.

"We want to ensure that trade and travel is easier, not more difficult, and we don't need additional taxes on that kind of economic activity," said Harper.

Harper has it right: Obama messed up the economy and now is siphoning money wherever he can. Obama seems to be adept at not only wasting money but alienating his neighbour.


Who asked Michelle Obama anything?

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin told a group New York businessmen Thursday that it isn’t surprising that first lady Michelle Obama is encouraging mothers to breastfeed.

“No wonder Michelle Obama is telling people to breast feed their babies, because the price of milk is rising so high,” Palin told the crowd.

Many people idiots will see this as an opportunity to attack Mrs. Palin as their synapses work only one way but what they should really be asking is why Michelle Obama is intruding in what is a personal family matter. Maybe mothers of infants and their physicians should determine what is best, not some vain, nosy tart or the rising prices in food.


If Saint Francis de Sales says something, you should probably listen because he is a saint and you think "LOL" is a perfectly pithy rebuttal. Yes, yes, all the juvenile Dungeons and Dragons players might have had a chuckle at a crudity they couldn't even begin to fathom themselves what Saint Francis meant was that if we aimed for higher things instead of coating our fingers with cheesy puffs we might be better people.


Watch as this guy proves what an idiot he is without the help of the Zionist war machine or whoever it is he thinks is after him:

The media has been portraying the recent conflicts in Indonesia as if they were instigated by Muslims. Why Muslims in Indonesia went violent was left unanswered, as if Muslims are mindlessly violent and attack churches and Ahmadis when they have nothing better to do. Truth that the international mass media does not want you to know. Whose operators have so far been quiet about all the oppression and violence Muslims face in the West and all the violence and oppression Muslims face from puppet regimes of the West.

 

The mass media has forgotten its morals, its journalistic integrity and has simply become a mouthpiece for Zionist Fascism and all those aligned with the New World Order. It thus becomes incumbent upon us to bring to light the real reasons why Indonesians are tired and frustrated, and the main instigators of the present spate of violence....

 

The truth of the matter is as follows: In Cikeusik, it was the Ahmadiyah who instigated the incident that triggered the riot, writes our correspondent from Indonesia. He writes that there was genuine incitement by the Ahmadiya community and, while violence is always regrettable, there is a limit to what the Muslim masses will take, even the meekest and gentlest souls from Indonesia.

And in Temanggung, where apparently an angry mob of "evil Mooslaaambbs" attacked a church, apparently for no good reason other than apparently an irrational hate of another religion, it was the Christian Pastor that insulted Islam. He made violent and false accusations against Islamic teachings.

There is also a serious conspiracy element. Our correspondent writes that peculiarly, people from outside Temanggung came to the riot all prepared and in an organized manner, along with full press coverage. These men were possibly similar to the pro-Mubarak protesters in Egypt, paid and serving a very sinister purpose.  

The evangelicals and the covertly operating Western NGOs have a powerful influence in these regions. They have plots being set up to serve very specific purposes. One example of many is the operation of Malteser International, a suspected terrorist Christian organization masquerading as an NGO. Internationally renowned and respected investigative reporter, Seymour Hersh, has recently written about the secret and violent operation of the Knights of Malta. Malteser International is their NGO cover arm and apparently finds time, money and people to work in Indonesia. This secret Christian terrorist outfit that has members in the US military hierarchy is but one of many Western implants the Indonesian people are facing with patience. But you may have pushed the patience out too far. 

Oh really? Did Christian schoolgirls fall on bolos? Do churches just burn on their own? Do peaceful people normally encircle others and beat and kill them?


Maybe there are bugs on him. Or maybe it's another candy company funding the "suspected terrorist Christian organisation". Or maybe it's just a bunch of emotionally retarded thugs who attack people because they cannot tolerate anything.


Father Gravel is using the courts to launch a vendetta suing Lifesite News for printing things he said. That's embarrassing, as embarrassing as his groupies:

Defrocked for defending himself? Sheesh, you're tough! "If he didn't say those things, he'd better be prepared to prove it,..." How do you prove that you didn't say something?   

HE is not required to "prove" what he didn't say. LSN is required to prove that he did. 

Um, he did. And no, Father Gravel has to prove Lifesite News is at fault. See here (part D).

LSN did not criticise or demean him as a priest. They slammed and demeaned him as a PERSON. More power to him. I hope he wins!

He does not stop being a man just because he is also a priest. And he's not suing because he was being criticized. He's suing because he's being slanderd and libeled...as a MAN who is also a priest. 

He was SLANDERD!


Let's keep in mind that the speaker is often an obnoxious, rude ("violent aggression"? Oh boy...) and patronising troll who thinks Christmas is a pagan holiday and thinks Christians wear "dead effigies" of Him around their necks when they go to their temples. Yes, temples. Had Father Gravel decided to sue, let's say, the Red Toronto Star for attacking the Church, where would the love and support for him be? Oh where?!


Then there is this:

He can have vowed whatever, the church still neither has the power nor the right to allow or disallow this lawsuit. They can excommunicate him if they like or something like that, sure. and BTW the Catholic Church is not a democracy. Obviously not. It's a totalitarian regime. They still can't stop him from suing people.

Aahh, the old "the Church is a big dictator" meme.  Always a crowd pleaser. It gets trotted out like some tired, old nag to show the rest of the world what a big bully the Church is whenever it stands up for itself.


Let me put this in more "worldly" terms. Why should you speak for your boss? What would happen if you shot your mouth off and betrayed your workplace's trust? I'd dare say a Christmas bonus is the last thing you would be getting. Yes, the Church is a hierarchy, having the people who work in it toe the line as it were. Just like any other group. Should one of its middle-management say things that are contrary to its mission statement? Try pulling that stunt at a sit-down. So shouldn't the Church prevent a total tool from falling flat on his face by taking a private organisation to court over things he said?



It goes without saying that none of these pundits would defend Father Gravel had he not been diametrically opposed to the Church and trying to embarrass himself. With friends like these, who needs enemies?


From that springboard to the next:

It is an assembly hall of the sort found in any ordinary school. Boys aged 11 and upwards sit cross-legged on the floor in straight rows. They face the front of the room and listen carefully. But this is no ordinary assembly. Holding the children’s attention is a man in Islamic dress wearing a skullcap and stroking his long dark beard as he talks.

‘You’re not like the non-Muslims out there,’ the teacher says, gesturing towards the window. ‘All that evil you see in the streets, people not wearing the hijab properly, people smoking . . . you should hate it, you should hate walking down that street.’ 

He refers to the ‘non-Muslims’ as the ‘Kuffar’, an often derogatory term that means disbeliever or infidel....

We recorded a number of speakers giving deeply disturbing talks about Jews, Christians and atheists.

We found children as young as 11 learning that Hindus have ‘no intellect’ and that they ‘drink cow p***’. 

And we came across pupils being told that the ‘disbelievers’ are ‘the worst creatures’ and that Muslims who adopt supposedly non-Muslim ways, such as shaving, dancing, listening to music and – in the case of women – removing their headscarves, would be tortured with a forked iron rod in the afterlife.

 

If any other school had tried this... Oh, who am I kidding? No one cares! Some people are allowed to spew garbage and mould children into spitting bigots.


Related: some people cannot see the connection between CAUT's witch hunt and Israel Apartheid Week at universities.


Question: how can someone born in 570 AD be willfully omitted from a Bible (which contains an historical figure born in 0 AD) translated in the fourth century? I bet these guys know:

Allah Almighty sent down the Torah and the Gospel, and charged the Jews and Christians with guarding them. They (however) distorted and changed them. … The Qur’an is overflowing with verses (which) reveal the reasons for the distortion and change, among which was wiping out the description of the Messenger (peace be upon him) which (the Christians and Jews) could find written in the Torah and the Gospel… [see Qur’an 4:46 and 5:41].

Did they change the timeline, too?

"Jim, I have a way of tinkering with the cosmological timeline. Ask me how."

"Accountability for thee not definitely not for me. I'm late for pilates":

When confronted with the numbers, Chief Shirley Clarke of the Glooscap First Nation admitted that while only 87 people actually live on the Reserve, she personally takes home $243,000 per year, but she said she “works hard” for that salary and that it’s “unfair” for those numbers to be made public.


The numbers revealed by the CTF show that in 2008-2009, 50 reserve politicians made more than the Prime Minister, 160 made more than their respective provincial premier, and more than 600 received the tax free equivalent of someone off the reserve who made $100,000.

Given that poverty is rampant on reserves which have an average population of 1100, there is something very wrong with the way in which the Billions of taxpayer dollars Canada gives to it’s First Nations communities each year is distributed. This comes as no surprise to anyone who has taken even a cursory look at how First Nations finances are handled by Canada, but it’s a shocking number that gives us a small glimpse at what Aboriginal accountability could do.

Yes, continue fomenting hatred of the predominantly white hand that funds you while you exploit your own people's misery. God forbid they should ever find out how corrupt you are or that they should finally support themselves leaving you in the financial lurch.


Scratch a leftist, find a misogynist jackhole who thinks rape is funny:

"Jesus Christ, at a moment when she is going to become a martyr and glorified we should at least remember her role as a major war monger" wrote Rosen.

For as much as people like to pretend Islamic societies are rife with love for their fellow man and woman, they are not. They are not considered tribal hellholes for nothing. We are shocked and appalled but so, too, should we be when we see this happen everyday and say nothing about it.



Right now, that's it. I cannot progress any further. There is too much stupidity to go around.

A Tuesday Post To While the Happy Hours Away

... or something.


I'm sure this is no surprise to some- boys are not learning language skills in school:

Boys lag behind girls and emerge from school ill-prepared for a world that demands stronger language skills than ever before, according to a new book, and their careers and even their relationship prospects are suffering as a result. 

In Why Boys Fail: Saving our Sons from an Educational System That’s Leaving Them Behind, former USA Today writer Richard Whitmire argues that the gaps between boys and girls are only widening, but there’s resistance to acknowledging and fixing the problem.

“It’s politically incorrect to watch out for the boys,” he says. “There’s still this mindset that girls have to be protected and nurtured, that men succeed so well in the marketplace, let’s not worry about them. I don’t think people realize the implications of not doing something.”

The central contention of Whitmire’s book is that: “The world has gotten more verbal; boys haven’t.”

Girls have an easier time with reading and language than boys in the earliest years of school, he says, but until the past two decades, boys would catch up by the time they reached Grade 4 or 5. Now, however, school curricula are more challenging in earlier grades -- particularly when it comes to language -- and many boys never get a firm footing in reading, he says. 

And with science and math increasingly taught in word-problem format, boys struggling with language fall behind in other subjects, Whitmire says. 

“Some boys absorb it just fine but a fair number don’t, and they struggle, they get turned off to reading,” he says. “They look around and see that mostly girls are succeeding and they conclude that school is for girls and look elsewhere for satisfaction.”

Barry MacDonald, a Vancouver-based education counsellor and author of Boy Smarts: Mentoring Boys for Success at School, says boys tend to like visual, active learning and feel alienated by “traditional” classrooms where every answer has to be written down. He doesn’t favour single-sex classrooms, but he says there aren’t enough role models to show boys that learning and reading doesn’t have to be girls’ work.

I don't think Mr. McDonald has it right when he declares reading to be "girls' work". Reading isn't gender-based, unlike brain wiring. It is true boys lag behind until they reach a certain age before catching up. However, the entire education system in Canada is  behind other countries (see here). The bar has been lowered. What may have been apart of the curriculum when one was a student is not so now. Things like reading aloud, independent learning and critical thinking are not encouraged or even developed in school. It is no surprise, therefore, that boys would fall behind in language studies.


There are many factors that can determine a student's outcome- the student's personal commitment, the parents' involvement, the teacher's fitness as an educator and the materials provided. There are also ideological factors, as well. In the rush to get girls caught up with math and science, boys have been left on the wayside. Why abandon a chunk of a country's population now?


Related: we've devolved as a race because we can't, like, talk:

I recently watched a television program in which a woman described a baby squirrel that she had found in her yard. "And he was like, you know, 'Helloooo, what are you looking at?' and stuff, and I'm like, you know, 'Can I, like, pick you up?,' and he goes, like, 'Brrrp brrrp brrrp,' and I'm like, you know, 'Whoa, that is so wow!'" She rambled on, speaking in self-quotations, sound effects and other vocabulary substitutes, punctuating her sentences with facial tics and lateral eye shifts. All the while, however, she never said anything specific about her encounter with the squirrel. 

Uh-oh. It was a classic case of Vagueness, the linguistic virus that infected spoken language in the late 20th century. Squirrel Woman sounded like a high school junior, but she appeared to be in her mid-40s, old enough to have been an early carrier of the contagion. She might even have been a college intern in the days when Vagueness emerged from the shadows of slang and mounted an all-out assault on American English.

When I was a kid, my parents made me look words up in the dictionary. Why aren't parents making kids do that now? Must an entire generation be reduced to making gibberish sounds in order to communicate with others? Spoken and written language sets us apart from the other species that walk this Earth. Why not use it?


Surprise, surprise:

A top Chinese official has backed ailing North Korean leader Kim Jong-il's plans to hand power to his son, the North's state media said on Tuesday, hailing the "successful solution" to allow continued socialist rule.

Meng Jianzhu, China's public security minister, congratulated Kim's youngest son Jong-un on his appointment as vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission last year, "hailing the successful solution of the issue of succession to the Korean revolution," KCNA news agency reported.

Who didn't see that coming? Thus, China's continued thumb over North Korea remains.


Sarah Palin is annoyed with Time magazine:

Sarah Palin's recent email to Time Magazine Congressional Correspondent Jay Newton-Small started off congenial enough. The mood soon shifted dramatically when Gov. Palin attacked the magazine over the "total lies" that had been published about her. Included in her email is not only a call for a retraction of the false stories, but a demand for an apology to Fox News' Sean Hannity and Christina Aguilera who were both included in the story Time ran. The text of the email follows:

"Subject: Great job, MSM!

Jay - pls tell your bosses there at Time Magazine thank you for the invitations to attend the upcoming functions. I'll sure put a lot of thought into those invitations.

Then, have your editors retract Time's most recent ridiculous lies about me supposedly giving Sean Hannity a radio interview wherein I supposedly talked about Christina Aguilera (that I slammed her for her Nat'l Anthem mistake, and called for her deportation, etc). You guys were fooled into running a fake story that even US Weekly pulled and apologized for their blunder. Total lies - and you guys (once again) even put quotation marks around things I have never uttered. Then, Time needs to run an apology to Christina along with the retraction. (Add Hannity in your apology, too...those good folks don't deserve to be in a caustic, untrue story about me.) Thanks much - keep up the great work, Time Magazine."

I honestly don't know how this woman deals with this day in and day out. How does she have the patience to be calm about the slanders and lies people toss at her? It's bad enough that idiots print things that patently absurd and untrue, it is quite another to do this to one person in particular. Journalists aren't just not doing their jobs; they are the equivalent of catty high school girls spreading rumours and hoping one will stick.


High school is over, guys.


What people fail to realise is that after an overthrow (or a desired one), there must be something or someone filling the void. Right now, neither Egypt nor Iran have that. Democracy and stability do not magically happen. It takes time and a keen understanding of human will and ability. It's childish to assume that after a revolt, the chips will fall neatly into place. No. That's a fool's paradise. Things gel together when something rational fills the void of a dreadful totalitarian state. I don't suspect that will happen in the Middle East any time soon.


That's what happens when you let military dictatorships, communism or Islamofascism have free reign. Except I sincerely doubt the Poles were ever mad thugs who married their cousins and blew up houses of worship.


And now, by the snowy power of Grayskull.

Saint Valentine's Day- Not Just a Feast Day for Saints Named Valentine

It's not just International Love Day.

If only the world could love the way this goat and dog love.

Saints Cyril and Methodius also share this feast day.

They developed an alphabet known as Cyrillic and converted the Slavs to Christianity.


To them, I say: Lyubyu.


And now, let us keep our evil in check with a classic love song, "Monster Mash".


Or Ella Fitzgerald.

Blinders

I should probably let Mr. Coren handle this one but this was too tempting to sit on.


Said Musa, an Afghan Christian, is slated to die because, according to Islam, he is an apostate.


Mr. Coren's post entitled "Why We Fight":

Not sure if the title I’ve used in ironic or not. Either way, according to The Daily Mail, “An Afghan physiotherapist will be executed within three days for converting to Christianity. Said Musa – 45 -has been held for eight months in a Kabul prison were he claims he has been tortured and sexually abused by inmates and guards.

“He lost his left leg in a landmine explosion in the 1990s, has worked for the Red Cross for 15 years and helps to treat fellow amputees. Musa is facing execution unless he converts back to Islam.He was arrested in May last year as he attempted to seek asylum at the German embassy following a crackdown on Christians within Afghanistan.He claims he was visited by a judge who told him he would be hanged within days unless he converted back to Islam.But he remains defiant and said he would be willing to die for his faith.”

As we always hear in North America and Europe, all religions are the same really, and they all have their extremists. Thing is, some extremists write strong letters and moan a little, others cut your head off and slaughter your family.

One response in particular confirms rather than contradicts Coren's words. I will break it down paragraph by paragraph (it's rather long).


Paragraph the first:

Religion has always been an effective conduit for all manner of hate and horrific violence. Even saying this strikes me as incredibly banal. Almost as banal as this ever-durable straw man assertion that hordes of elitist westerners regularly make the relativist arguments that Coren is raging against. Who? Where? Unless anyone is really going to mount a reasoned argument as to why Christianity is empirically superior to Islam (which is by definition, impossible) then we’re left with sociology, politics and history, which I think are far more interesting ways to explore the roots and reality of Islamic terrorism than these endless shopping lists of horrific deeds and snide remarks. We get it. You root for the home team. Can we move on?

Uh, no, we can't move on.


First of all, making blanket statements about religion is a quick or lazy answer to the serious fundamental questions now posed to us. Yes, there have been religionists of all stripes doing monstrous things. There have also been religious adherents who have been remarkably humanitarian. Can one make blanket statements about Nazis and communists as well? Forget the liberal dance of denial and deflection regarding the pre- and post-Cold War world, both parties, though evil, were still different in their political aims and even strategies. As far serious analysis goes, lumping in political factions (or religions) robs the earnest scholar of the very character of what is being examined. Yes, Stalin and Hitler were evil, but only one of them lost the Second World War and is recognised- ad nauseum- as evil incarnate while the other has been relatively unscathed by criticism, which it deserves in spades. The only thing they have in common is the moral conclusion of evil. That's a five second answer. So, too, is it facile (being generous here) an answer to just sum up religion and its adherents, as if all could be described as such, anyway. Are all Sikhs evil because of Air India 182? Only a handful of Sikhs committed the atrocity. Should an entire community be judged as Leftist Hack Zealot deplores the Islamic community being judged?


If Mr. Zealot's own statement strikes him as banal, I hope the irony is not lost on him as he proceeds to run down a succinctly worded post.



Nowhere in Mr. Coren's post did he say Islam was somehow inferior. If anything, Mr. Coren has been largely apologetic to Muslim populations declaring that most Muslims are good, hard-working people who want what anyone else wants- peace and stability. His point, however, was the relativism and the ignorance of those who would lump all religions and cultures into one mass and deny what is painfully obvious to anyone who reads a newspaper, that being violence in the Islamic world is rampant.


If Mr. Zealot wishes to go that route, fine. Is Christianity empirically superior to Islam? Why not? Can Mr. Zealot show how Islam has positively affected both the West and the East? Christianity has built churches, museums, hospitals, charities, libraries, universities and produced art, literature, music, philosophy and science. World leaders don't worry about restive Christian populations. Will they assimilate? Will they be angered over this, that or the other? Look no further than the Danish cartoon crisis for an idea of how "peaceful" Muslim communities have dealt with it. If Mr. Zealot wants to use the more secular methods of sociology, history and politics to analyse Islam, that's fine, too. He still won't get far. When was the Golden Age of Islam? What are Islamic countries like? Surely Mr. Zealot has some easy answers for those questions.


The second paragraph:

I agree that the extremist excesses displayed by Islamic fundamentalists are more of an immediate worry than what the Christian wing of Crazytown is doing these days, but that doesn’t mean that these horrific acts exist in a vacuum either. It’s not just about religion.

"Extremist excesses"? Well, if that isn't an understatement. If whipping girls and women, beheading journalists, using airplanes as weapons, throwing firebombs, suicide killings and fatwas are simply "excesses", what does Mr. Zealot think about acts of terrorism from people like the IRA, the ETA or even the thugs at Caledonia? That euphemism is beyond insulting. "The Christian wing of Crazytown" isn't even worth responding to. I defy Mr. Zealot to back that up. When was the last time Lutherans beheaded a journalist and put it up on Youtube? Don't expect an answer. Furthermore, don't expect an explanation regarding the logistics of this vacuum. If it's not about religion, do enlighten the audience, Mr. Zealot.


Third paragraph:

Religion is a tool, and as tools go–they all pretty much do a good job of clouding men’s minds, especially if the other elements are in place. Elements such as abject poverty, an absence of secularist reason and leadership, years of brutal leadership (abetted in no small part by the “Christian” leadership of the US) a lifetime of war.

Religions cloud men's minds? Another blanket statement that holds as much water as a sieve. It is said that Kannada literature was quick revolutionary for its time (not so much Can Lit, however). Again, count the number of Christian writers and their works. Not bad for some mind clouding. Or did Mr. Zealot mean "Christian", some vague, fuzzy sort of personage or adjective? He doesn't say. He also fails to mention that abject poverty DID exist under secular leadership, followed by brutal violence. That was called Nazism and communism. All of that is beside the point as Mr. Zealot is free to make blanket and even absurd and unverifiable statements about religion (Christianity in particular) but seems reluctant to acknowledge violence in the Muslim world.


Fourth paragraph:

This doesn’t mean it’s OK to set bombs off in shopping malls, or that Operation Rescue is as dangerous as the Taliban. But that’s beside the point, it really is. On the rare occasions I’ve actually heard this “relativist” argument, it’s usually an attempt (sometimes misguided) to put religion in a historical context. What I find troubling about MC’s daily anti-Muslim post is not that he’s objectively wrong about what’s happening and who’s doing it- it’s that his analysis doesn’t go much further than his intimation (which is becoming less and less subtle) that Christianity is inherently superior to Islam, and that there is something inherent in Islam that drives men to commit these horrible deeds, something (we assume) that is absent from Christianity. (You know, that same Christian god who spoke to the American president and told him to invade Iraq.) 

Again, Mr. Zealot falls back onto blanket statements and accusations that Mr. Coren is not apologetic to Islam enough. He clearly has not read or watched Mr. Coren, otherwise he wouldn't be saying that. Oh, of course he would! Who calls daily acts of horrific violence "excesses" or jumps to a conclusion that Christianity is superior to Islam when that clearly wasn't the point of Mr. Coren's post (but thanks for bringing it up)? Mr. Zealot is welcome to show how Christianity has put the West in decline or how Islam is the pinnacle of humanity or even not respond to posts he finds so offensive. He hasn't put Christianity in some sort of "historical context". Then again, he hasn't done so for Islam or any other religion or philosophy, either. That would take work, objectivity, honesty and a lack of sneering tone.


"Christian god"? Is there another one? Shouldn't God be capitalised as it is a name? Or is English grammar "reactionary"?


The final paragraph:

All Muslims are by definition, prone to terrorism. This is what MC is arguing, even though he still seems unwilling to really stick his neck out. Maybe he’s right, but I do know that another go-round of gory rhetoric doesn’t actually prove anything.

No, that was not what Mr. Coren was saying. The gist of his post was how people would rather dance around something that is crystal-clear to an amoeba than ever admit there is a problem. How he has proven Mr. Coren right.


Leftist Hack Zealot has proved a few things with his voluminous post. He is quick to jump the gun, says bizarre and unsubstantiated things and really is a hack.

Friday Post

Mubarak has stepped down and the army has taken over:

Hosni Mubarak stepped down as Egypt's president on Friday, handing over to the army and ending three decades of autocratic rule, bowing to escalating pressure from the military and protesters demanding that he go.

Vice President Omar Suleiman said a military council would run the affairs of the Arab world's most populous nation. A free and fair presidential election has been promised for September.

A speaker made the announcement in Cairo's Tahrir Square where hundreds of thousands broke down in tears, celebrated and hugged each other chanting: "The people have brought down the regime." Others shouted: "Allahu Akbar (God is great).

The 82-year-old Mubarak's downfall after 18 days of unprecedented mass protests was a momentous victory for people power and was sure to rock autocrats throughout the Arab world and beyond.

Egypt's powerful military gave guarantees earlier on Friday that promised democratic reforms would be carried out but angry protesters intensified an uprising against Mubarak, marching on the presidential palace and the state television tower.

 It was an effort by the army to defuse the revolt but, in disregarding protesters' key demand for Mubarak's ouster now, it failed to calm the turmoil that has disrupted the economy and rattled the entire Middle East.
The military's intervention was not enough.

The tumult over Mubarak's refusal to resign had tested the loyalties of the armed forces, which had to choose whether to protect their supreme commander or ditch him....

The army statement noted that Mubarak had handed powers to govern the country of 80 million people to his deputy the previous day -- perhaps signaling that this should satisfy demonstrators, reformists and opposition figures.

"This is not our demand," one protester said, after relaying the contents of the army statement to the crowd in Cairo's central Tahrir Square. "We have one demand, that Mubarak step down." He has said he will stay until September elections.

The Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamist opposition group, urged protesters to keep up mass nationwide street protests, describing Mubarak's concessions as a trick to stay in power.

Now what?


The Obama-backed Muslim Brotherhood is not even remotely a democratic and secular organisation, despite what James Clapper, US head of intelligence, thinks. I fear this is Iran all over again.


From former US ambassador John Bolton:





Precisely. Clapper must be dreadfully out of his depth if he thinks that an organisation with the word "Muslim" in it and whose mandate is jihad is "secular" and is somehow fit to fill the void Mubarak now leaves.


Further:




Again, correct.

The leader of the free world cannot back- either through ignorance or personal belief- such an organisation. His initial support and his failure to speak out against what is obviously a dangerous concern in the Middle East should strike anyone as a blow, not a boon, to democratic interests.


Now, for Charles Krauthammer to weigh in:

The Brotherhood may today be so relatively strong in Egypt, for example, that a seat at the table is inevitable. But under no circumstances should a presidential spokesman say, as did Robert Gibbs, that the new order “has to include a whole host of important non-secular actors.” Why gratuitously legitimize Islamists? Instead, Americans should be urgently supporting secular democratic parties in Egypt and elsewhere with training, resources and diplomacy.

Yes- why legitimise Islamists?


Proof that Liberals do not belong in the Canadian political scene ever:

Some news out of Ottawa: On Wednesday, our capital saw the worst anthem-related disaster since at least err … well, OK, since Sunday. But this is still pretty bad. A group of Liberal MPs, having apparently all been on a field trip or something last year when we had this same stupid argument, are out to make our anthem better. And they don’t mean punching it up with a good bassline and moving it up tempo better. They mean making it “gender neutral, secular, [and] bilingual.”


The revamped anthem (find the lyrics below) sounds more or less like the one everyone is familiar with, and seems to be the brainchild of MP Carolyn Bennett. She was somehow able to corral some other MPs into standing up and singing the new anthem. They seem to have invested so much time and energy in eliminating any possible source of offence that they skimped on the singing practice. Some of them look about ready to faint from embarrassment. And so they ought to, not because the singing is bad (not only because it’s bad), but because the idea is ridiculous, has already been soundly rejected and Bennett’s explanation for why this is even necessary is far, far from convincing.

Only the Liberals (possibly the NDP) would try to ruin a perfectly good anthem so as "not to offend anyone". Well, I'm offended.

Liberals- stand on guard for THIS!

Further proof of Liberal idiocy:

Cultural mosaics create ghettos; melting pots create diverse communities.

Just look at Canada to see what the cultural mosaic envisioned as Utopian by Liberal prime minister Pierre Trudeau and you will see a disaster....

Why should anyone be allowed into Canada who has no facility in either of our official languages, or any commitment to learn and be tested, and who believe it is acceptable to disrupt this country with the radical ideologies and distasteful mindset of the countries they fled?

The left will argue various ethnic festivals across Canada are somehow proof of multi-racial peace and harmony.

But when those festivals end, so does that Kumbaya moment.

The social interaction halts, and the ghetto returns to its cocoon.

That's the reality of multiculturalism. It's segregation not assimilation.

And it's why our immigration rules must change.

Precisely. Trudeau's multiculturalism created an illusion of security and peaceful co-existence. There was never any unity, nor a genuine desire to befriend newcomers. It has marginalised those who should be brought into the fold and divided Canadian society along fractured cultural, social and linguistic lines.


What is wrong with being Canadian?


What a failure Trudeau-style multiculturalism is.



Don't just take my word for it:

French President Nicolas Sarkozy declared Thursday that multiculturalism had failed, joining a growing number of world leaders or former leaders who have condemned it.

“My answer is clearly yes, it is a failure,” he said in a television interview when asked about the policy which advocates that host societies welcome and foster distinct cultural and religious immigrant groups.

“Of course we must all respect differences, but we do not want ... a society where communities coexist side by side. If you come to France, you accept to melt into a single community, which is the national community, and if you do not want to accept that, you cannot be welcome in France...”

The fuzzy feelings are over.


Now, just because, La Marseillaise (which I'm sure offends the Liberals for being exclusively Frenchy).


Children are better off with their parents. Yes, we know:

A study published in October 2010 by the Montreal-based think-tank CIRANO has found that in the province with the most extensive child-care subsidies in the country — Quebec — the emphasis on daycare has actually led to worse learning outcomes:


“More pre-school children are in non-parental child care at a younger age and the intensity of child care has increased over the years … The evidence presented shows that the policy has not enhanced school readiness or child early literacy skills in general, with negative significant effects on the [picture and vocabulary test] scores of children aged five and possibly negative for children of age four.’’

The study also found that daycare is not the optimal environment for very young children. It appears that children under the age of one, in particular, may benefit from being at home with a parent more than by “interacting” with educators or peers.

At the same time, as a society, we have to acknowledge that there are reasons why 69% of mothers with children under two are in the labour force. One parent’s income often is not enough to support a family. Mothers fear becoming unemployable if they are out of the labour force for too long, or don’t want to lose their skills. Others enjoy their career and want to combine work with kids. Some are single parents, who have no choice but to work.

But for all these groups, there are other ways to address their concerns rather than by expanding the daycare industry. Research by the Vanier Institute on the Family, corroborated by work done at the Institute for Marriage and Family, reveals that institutional daycare ranks last on the list of parents’ preferred child- care options. Care by a parent or relative ranks first. So why not empower parents to make that choice?

One cannot call politicians clowns and then expect them to do a better job raising their constituents' children than the parents themselves.


Sometimes they come out at night and now they will come out in the day.


Way to play favourites, House of Commons.


Because he's Mark Steyn and he's unbelievably right:

 A government back alley, licensed and supposedly regulated, is worse than the old kind, because it implies the approval of the state, and of society. That's what Gosnell thought he had, when he murdered those babies and mutilated those teenage girls. That's what Planned Parenthood think they have, when they facilitate the sexual exploitation of Third World children. And, given the silence of the PC media, maybe they're right. Aside from the intrinsic evil of not only Gosnell but a state that knowingly colludes with him, these "little" abortion stories reveal an almost totalitarian mindset in the "pro-choice" movement's determination to brook no intrusion of reality upon the official myths. You may be one of those wealthy suburban "feminists" or "new men" indifferent to the fate of eight-pound "blobs of tissue" or 14-year old "women", but the gulf between propaganda and truth, between the fatuous feelgood bumper stickers and the rusty crochet hooks, is profound - and, in a world where statists and social engineers serve as ruthless enforcers for the prevailing ideology, its deep moral corruption will eventually swallow you, too. America should be at the very minimum deeply disquieted by these revelations. That it is not - that it is dismissed as a "little thing" - is even more disquieting.

Read the whole thing.



And now, sharks eating.


Because it's cool.