The World Is Taking Crazy Pills (Pt. 11)

Fight Night- it's on.


One of the contenders.


Craziness from our home and native land:


We won't even make our own passport covers. We're just a sad people:

I think most people understand the economic concept of 'comparative advantage.'

Simply put, it means that countries should produce the goods they're most efficient at producing and import the goods in which they're not.

But when it comes to things like passports — or other symbols of 'Canadiana' — economic concepts should be thrown out the window.

CTV News is reporting that Canadian Bank Note, an Ottawa-based company that has been given the federal contract to produce Canadian passport covers, is outsourcing the job to a company in the Netherlands.

For the last three decades the contract belonged to a Cornwall, Ontario company called Columbia Finishing Mills. Officials from the company told CTV News that they would now have to lay off up to 25 per cent of their staff.

"We were told from the beginning when tender came out that Canadian content had no bearing," sales manager Dan Ploure said.

Shocked Cat just can't believe what the flap happened.

Canadian content has no bearing? A country we bailed out during the Second World War is producing part of our national identification papers for us?


O Dio....

The evil Huawei? We have no proof yet

 

Yes, about that:  

Huawei (Officially Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd.) is a Chinese multinational networking and telecommunications equipment and services company. It is the second-largest supplier of mobile telecommunications infrastructure equipment in the world (after Ericsson).

The Chinese company has been disputed as being too close to the Chinese government and the Chinese People’s Liberation Army. Do not forget that the government of Beijing has often is accused of meddling in the private affairs of the nation's companies. Many Huawei is fully under Chinese government control - pointing out that Ren Zhengfei, the founder of the company, served as an engineer in the Chinese People’s Liberation Army in the early 1980s.

The Chinese company has been the subject of numerous allegations in the past regarding its proximity to the government, as the company has provided support in the implementation of systems of censorship. Also, Huawei has been questioned in the past for having supported numerous operations of cyber espionage and cyber attacks such as the operation GhostNet.

Try publishing this article in China and see how far you get.

 

An unrepentant terrorist and murderer and his freeloading, Canada-hating family get to stay in Canada but an American preacher cannot even enter:

 

Florida pastor Terry Jones, who inflamed Muslims for once burning the Qur'an, says he has been denied permission to enter Canada to attend a Thursday evening speaking engagement in Toronto.

Jones told CBC News he would appeal, but for the time being, he said he was heading back to Florida.

The Canada Border Services Agency made Jones go through a secondary inspection when he arrived at the the Ambassador Bridge in Windsor, Ont., around noon. Secondary inspection involves a search of a person's vehicle and more extensive questioning.

He was held there for a couple of hours before being told he would not be allowed to proceed to Toronto. Jones says the CBSA cited a previous peace bond infraction in the U.S. as well as an incident in Germany to keep him out. 

The pastor was on his way to a scheduled speaking engagement on the lawn of the Ontario legislature at 6 p.m. Thursday. The event is titled "Canadians united against terror." It was to include a memorial for U.S. Sgt. 1st Class Christopher Speer. Canadian Omar Khadr pleaded guilty and was convicted of the murder of Speer, a soldier who died from his wounds during a firefight in Afghanistan in 2002.

A discussion was to follow dealing with the anti-Islamic video Innocence of Muslims. The film sparked protests and outrage throughout the Middle East. Organizers said the video would not be shown at the event. Instead, a panel discussion would broach the issue of whether it should be shown.

Jones is best known for burning a Qur'an on the anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

This is what will happen: domestic Islamists and their leftist joy-toys will be emboldened because there is something about squashing free speech and dissent that they love more than a good girl-shooting. Reverend Jones, on the other hand, will continue saying what he will and can say with complete vindication that Canada is a cowering mass of free speech deniers.

There's crazy and then there's Heather Mallick crazy:

M-408 would condemn “discrimination against females occurring through sex-selective pregnancy termination.” In other words, Canadians of South Korean and Indian origin are to be condemned, and by extension all parents who want to know the sex of the fetus, and by extension, ultrasounds themselves, which give women unnecessary information.

The Tory boys’ plan is this: If we oppose aborting female fetuses, that might be a backdoor way to ban all abortions because surely women can’t back the slaughter of baby women. It’s as though Conservatives think grown women and cell clumps are members of the same voting bloc, as though they have the same interests, and the same IQ.

Now, I could parse the ways in which crazy cat-lady Heather Mallick is wrong, like her blanket and unfounded accusations, calling well-developed unborn babies whose genders are clearly identifiable as "cell clumps" or painting MP Warawa as a Korean-hater (because nothing stops a debate in its tracks like calling someone a racist) or the absurd idea that any effort to stop a culturally backward practice (one that benefits truly chauvinist cultures that would tolerate Heather Mallick's very existence the way they would a house fire) is, in itself, racist and misogynist and might even spur on the abortions one wishes to prevent but I don't know if you can reason with someone who writes insane things on a regular basis. I'm not sure if the Lithium Heather Mallick should be taking is working or if the dose should be ramped up.


This isn't the first time she has written some paranoid-sounding screed:

"And you have a Glock.  Every day must be like this in Michigan. ""What's the frequency Kenneth?" you think you hear someone say. Then imagine the paranoia, the expense of bullet removal and lung replacement, your videotaped interrogation, your incarceration with some guy named Black who never shuts up. And of course missing the Stampede, which was the reason you went to Calgary in the first place. And now you’re famous. Infamous. Do you feel lucky? Well, do you, Wally? "

(Gracias, BM)


And:

Canada would increasingly resemble the U.S., a model that makes European countries shudder. Guns on the street, gated communities, rampant drug use, unlimited anonymous corporate political donations, no government safety standards for food and medicine, classrooms that resemble holding pens more than civilized safe rooms for the young to learn . . . If Harper got his majority, these things would hit us like an avalanche.

Citizens regarded as “ethnics” would be courted until election day, and then abandoned. Forget family reunification, forget federal money to ease non-whites' path into Canadian society, forget English classes.

Women's rights would retreat, including abortion rights, access to medical advances and the right to go to court to protest inequality.

Is anyone else seeing the pattern of paranoia usually found in unnecessarily fearful leftist middle-aged women who see conspiracies of white male power everywhere they go? Calling Heather Mallick divisive would be giving her too much credit. No one who repeatedly states outright that everyone she hates is a violent racist who would take away abortions she can't shut up about is rational. Sadly, these ravings feed the obviously functionally illiterate masses' narrative and their loudly spoken desire to smash people and things like a bunch of Twitter-using troglodytes (and we thought Iran's Onion flap was funny). Somebody left the asylum door open.

Heather Mallick on a good day

(Muchas gracias)



One of my favourite photos from the Second World War has received the paranoid, bored feminist treatment:

…Far from being a kiss between a loving couple, we learn that George and Greta were perfect strangers. We learn that George was drunk, and that Greta had no idea of his presence, until she was in his arms, with his lips on hers… It seems pretty clear, then, what George had committed was sexual assault.” 

Really? That's not what the nurse said:

In 2008, Shain told The Daily News that she regretted never getting the young sailor's number. "In retrospect, I should have said, 'Hey, wait a minute!'" she told the newspaper.

Why should the Greatest Generation be subjected to this crap? Aren't there actual crimes against women to speak out against or would that be counter-productive and Korean-hating?



(With thanks)