On A Monday

Square one of the work week.


It won't pass because Stephen Harper is a weasel. Infinitely better than Obama, America's appeaser, idiot and empty-chair, but still a weasel.



The "Dutch Disease" is often a kiss of death for the little socialist party that couldn't.



Obama and all of his appeasement and apologies will not stop this:

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned on Sunday that Iran was just six to seven months away from the brink of being able to build a nuclear bomb, adding urgency to his demand that President Barack Obama set a "red line" for Tehran in what could deepen the worst U.S.-Israeli rift in decades.

Taking to the television airwaves to make his case directly to the American public, Netanyahu said that by mid-2013 Iran would be "90 percent of the way" toward enough enriched uranium for a weapon. He again urged the United States to spell out limits that Tehran must not cross if it is to avoid military action - something Obama has refused to do.

Who will be Israel's friend against this mad, theocratic state where political dissenters and women are treated like chattel?



Why would a Catholic school give a prayer room to a cult whose followers routinely kill believers of other religions? It's not just a general complaint about an unnecessary accommodation; it's the school's negation of the Revealed Truth, an erroneous action saying Christ is just a prophet not the founder of the Church. There certainly would be no reciprocity of beliefs elsewhere, an important distinction deliberately overlooked by apologists and relativists alike.



Related: why we should fight for our values or die:

For a homicidal few in the Muslim world, life itself has less value than religious icons, such as the prophet or the Quran. These few are indifferent to the particular motives or arguments behind any perceived insult to their faith. They do not care about an individual’s political alignment, gender, religion, or occupation. They do not care whether the provocation comes from serious literature or a stupid movie. All that matters is the intolerable nature of the insult.

Why give power to these kinds of people? Why appease them? Their ideologies should be mocked and marginalised. There is nothing "progressive" or peaceful about them.



Food fascism and racial division: tools of the leftist trade:

The latest round of nuttiness involves public education and peanut butter. The humble peanut, you see, has become politicized. It is now a “hate food.” The peanut defiantly blocks school entrances, standing in the way of a progressive putsch to enable American schoolchildren to become as physically and culturally hypersensitive as possible. ...

Portland grade-school principal Verenice Gutierrez, whose bloated frame suggests she’s scarfed down two dozen peanut-butter sandwiches every day of her life, is clearly susceptible to Cultural Marxist indoctrination and appears determined to break down young Portlanders’ immunity to it. 

Gutierrez—whose surname begins with the word “Gut”—presides over a school whose academic performance ranks in the state’s lowest fifteen percent, a dubious honor shared by other Portland schools that, as luck would have it, are named after Cesar Chavez and Rosa Parks.

Although the school recently lost some full-time teachers due to budget cuts, the Portland school district reportedly saw fit to fork over more than a half-million dollars to indoctrinate its teachers about how “white privilege”—rather than, say, low IQs, laziness, or widespread cultural allergies to assimilating—is the culprit for low academic achievement at her school, which is only one-quarter white.

Gutierrez, whom a Portland Tribune writer described as possessing the magical power to hear “the subtle language of racism every day,” says that peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwiches invidiously discriminate against “Somali or Hispanic students, who might not eat sandwiches.” She apparently hasn’t considered that these kids may be extremely privileged by dint of the fact that they don’t live in Somalia or Mexico.

Do you know who else practiced food fascism and social division?


Oliver Cromwell:

In 1644 he enforced an Act of Parliament banning Christmas celebrations. Christmas was regarded by the Puritans as a wasteful festival that threatened core Christian beliefs. Consequently, all activities relating to Christmas, including attending mass, were forbidden. Not surprisingly, the ban was hugely unpopular and many people continued to celebrate Christmas secretly.

The Puritan War on Christmas lasted until 1660. Under the Commonwealth, mince pies, holly and other popular customs fell victim to the spirited Puritan attempt to eradicate every last remnant of merrymaking during the Christmas period. 

Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of England (Puritan)

Dictators, even in miniature form, never get lost in time.



Why Celebrity Apartheid Week matters:

Abby Goodnough of The New York Times is reporting as the California state government is setting up its ObamaCare exchange, the exchange has hired a PR firm (with federal government money).

"Realizing that much of the battle will be in the public relations realm, the exchange has poured significant resources into a detailed marketing plan — developed not by state health bureaucrats but by the global marketing powerhouse Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide, which has an initial $900,000 contract with the exchange," she wrote. Ogilvy's plan is to tap major network TV shows like "Grey's Anatomy" and "Modern Family" to sell Americans on the health care law...

Common sense from Australia:

Coalition MP George Christensen has suggested that the small child who held up a sign which read "behead all those who insult the prophet" during weekend protests should be put in the care of "better people".

The Queensland MP said that authorities should track down the parents of the child "immediately" - as they would when another child was exposed to "such a violent upbringing".

If it makes things more palatable for the squeamish, the parents in question are against climate change.



And now, popsicles that are both refreshing and mouth-scorching.



(With thanks to lots)