Monday Post

Starting the week off…

I think this sums up the vulture-like behaviour of the popular press:

I hate reporters. They come into camp, pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts.
I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are.

If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world,
but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast.

(and I thank you)

Say what you want but Obama’s acting was at least satisfactory. I wasn’t convinced by his dramatic displays of emotion given that he has proven that he has a great emotional and socio-political disconnect from the average person but when he said this….

"I'll use whatever power this office holds to engage fellow citizens ... in an effort aimed at preventing more tragedies like this,"

I believed.

Related: the very man who was held in contempt for his contempt for the legal process now proposes gun rights review:

“As a nation I think we have to ask ourselves some hard questions. We gather too often to talk about these kinds of incidents. We need to discuss who we are as a nation, talk about the freedoms that we have, the rights that we have and how those might be used in a responsible way.”

That Eric Holder said this should give one’s head a shake.

Also: a defeated mental health bill may have prevented the tragedy in Connecticut and what the statistics say.

A sponsor pulls out of an Islamic conference at which Justin Trudeau is expected to speak:

A group that lost its federal charitable status over alleged ties to Hamas is no longer sponsoring an Islamic conference in Toronto at which Liberal leadership hopeful Justin Trudeau is expected to speak.

On Saturday, the Reviving the Islamic Spirit (RIS) conference posted a release on its website, saying that its organizers had accepted IRFAN-Canada’s unconditional withdrawal as a secondary sponsor of the annual gathering, the largest of its kind in Canada.

“The material evidence used by Revenue Canada against IRFAN are matters best left to the relevant legal bodies to be resolved,” said Fouzan Khan, a founder and director of RIS, in the release. “It is extremely unfortunate that this issue has threatened to detract from the many accomplishments of RIS in the last ten years.”

Mr. Trudeau was criticized last week for his decision to speak at the event, especially by members of the Friends of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre and the Muslim Canadian Congress, who felt Mr. Trudeau’s presence at a conference sponsored by an organization allegedly linked to Hamas ran counter to liberal values.

No doubt, certain words and topics will not be brought up no matter who stays at this vote-trolling fest.

McGuinty and Clark are ranked as Canada's least popular premiers. I wonder why....

Because he’s Rex Murphy:

Naturally, my thoughts, like that of every other thinking person in Toronto, turned to matters primatial earlier this week, with the year-end story of The Monkey who Wore a Sheepskin Coat to IKEA.

Does it not sound like one of those grim Swedish novels that have been so eerily popular lately? The story was everywhere. Not surprisingly, it lit up Twitter, which is perhaps more accommodating to simian communications than other media. But it also played on more traditional platforms —newspapers, TV, radio. …

But where is the cruelty here? Was taking the brute to IKEA cruel? Plausible, but I don’t really think so. Maybe its advice and help were needed with some of the instruction manuals. What is put together by a less-developed brain is perhaps best decoded by the same.

But hey, let’s check the speces-ism at the door. Maybe IKEA was the monkey’s idea … maybe it was he who took his “owner” to the house of Swedish torments.