It's Saturday Night

... and you know what that means!

I find it adorable that any Canadian politician thinks he can sway China into anything resembling humanity, especially after getting on one's knees to worship one of China's favourite useful idiots:

Canada's ambassador to China expects to see a change in Chinese foreign policy that could help the United Nations intervene to stop more bloodshed in Syria.

In an interview with guest host James Fitz-Morris airing Saturday morning on CBC Radio's The House, David Mulroney said Canadians "need to see, and we expect to see, change in the way China engages the broader world."

"[Chinese] foreign policy has up until now focused largely on a doctrine of non-interference. That clearly isn't something that is particularly helpful or effective when we're facing a regime like Syria's," Mulroney said, calling on China to join the international community in "committed action."

The United Nations estimates at least 14,000 people have been killed in Syria since March 2011, when an uprising against the regime of President Bashar al-Assad began. Activists put the death toll at several thousand higher than that, offering shocking reports of violence by government forces against not only rebel fighters, but also civilians, including women and very young children.

While sanctions and other diplomatic efforts have been underway for months, China and Russia as permanent members of the UN's Security Council have blocked efforts for the UN to intervene to a greater extent to stop the violence.

Good luck with that.


Related: China undermines UN sanctions against North Korea, has been sending stolen technology into North Korea and has been propping that Stalinist state up. No word on whether Tony Clement will siphon Canadian tax dollars into the Kim Jong-Il Visitor Centre for Understanding and Dynastic Brutality.


PLEASE, PLEASE sign this important petition to give North Korean refugee children a chance at life. They will thank you for it.


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It wasn't a brawl, gunfight or even a shouting match. It was a "protest":

Islamist gunmen in Mali shot in the air to disperse protesters trying to block them from attending Friday prayers, witnesses said, the latest clash between locals and rebel groups controlling the country's north.

The protest in the town of Goundam, 90 km (56 miles) southwest of Timbuktu, erupted after self-appointed morality police beat a woman for not wearing a headscarf, injuring her baby, the witnesses said.

Most people living in northern Mali have long practised Islam, but frustrations with the strict form of sharia, Islamic law, being imposed by Islamists have sparked several protests.

Perhaps the article writer could enlightened his readers with what a lenient form of Sharia looks like in mad, theocratic states.


Islamist fail (ure) or Reuters fail? You decide?



Oh this little-vetted, instantly praised, least accomplished and terribly incompetent "leader" ought to know:

There are a lot of wealthy, successful Americans who agree with me — because they want to give something back. They know they didn’t — look, if you’ve been successful, you didn’t get there on your own. You didn’t get there on your own. I’m always struck by people who think, well, it must be because I was just so smart. There are a lot of smart people out there. It must be because I worked harder than everybody else. 

Let me tell you something — there are a whole bunch of hardworking people out there. If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business — you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.

There is no limit to this man's arrogance. It's just vomit-inducing. That someone worked hard to get where they are must astonish one such as him who has had things handed to him.


Hopefully his @$$ in November.



Let's stop the pretense. Tae kwon do classes would be a better use of resources:

New anti-bullying legislation coming to Ontario schools in September is a step in the right direction, but hopes that it will eliminate bullying completely are unrealistic, say education advocates.

"I'm not really sure you can eradicate it," admits Annie Kidder, executive director of the Toronto-based group People for Education.

Nonetheless, she says, the Accepting Schools Act, which passed last month in the Ontario legislature, gives school administrators and teachers an opportunity to address not only victims of bullying, but the bullies themselves.

Kidder says this distinction shows that lawmakers get the big picture — that bullying is a complex problem that doesn't just go away by punishing the perpetrators.

"What we really need to be working on in our schools is kids' mental and social health, because bullying is really a relationship in a way," she says. "We have to deal with the bullied and the bullies."

But it was never about bullying, was it?




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