Another Day At The Funny Farm....

...the inmates are running the asylum and those that voted for change (twice) are silent and hiding.

Remember Who Spawned The "leaders" Of Today...

The Children Are Our Future


And that's why I'm building a compound in Idaho.

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Black History Month

N-word wickedness Do kids of other minorities have to accept insults in the name of free speech?

By George Elliott Clarke

An English Prof in the “New South,” shy about uttering the N-word even in university, sought a remedy – and now a U.S. publisher will shortly release a new edition of the 1884 American classic Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), in which the word “slave” replaces “nigger” 219 times.

More...

...NO but if you really want to learn about history they will have to accept the facts something current day messiaha are oppossed to as it threatens funding of their cottage industry, Racial Harmony.

The N- word challenge


Local celebs weigh in

Surprise! Not What I Expected...

Drawn Off Topic

Elizabeth May on Huck Finn

Anthony Jenkins

...from a leftist save the world icon. Maybe I am spending too much time at Timmies in discussion with other old farts.

At Least They Have An Agenda...

Dan Gardner: Who’s afraid of the hidden agenda?


I’m not very good at reading minds, and so, absent other evidence, I can’t say if Michael Ignatieff is secretly planning to defile all that is good and righteous by forming a post-election coalition government with socialists, separatists, and satanists. I suppose he may. Stephen Harper sure sounds convinced. “They will deny it every day of the campaign,” he recently told a reporter. “The day after, they’ll do it.”

I don’t know how Harper knows that. I guess he’s psychic.

And he’s not the only one. The opposition benches are filled with Amazing Kreskins. They all know that if Stephen Harper wins a majority in the next election he will restore capital punishment, ban abortion, outlaw evolution, make church attendance mandatory, and otherwise turn Canada into a bigger, colder Alabama. Liberals lynched. Jack Layton hunted with bloodhounds. The editors of the Toronto Star, in orange jumpsuits and shackles, collecting roadside garbage while Sheriff Ford picks his teeth with an unregistered shotgun. This is Stephen Harper’s hidden agenda. Read More »

One USA Position Canada MUST Adopt...

Canada Will Not/Must Not Deal With Terrorists!

Read Between The Lines Of The State Of The Union...

It Could Also Be Harper Asking The Question...

Shedding Light On Anons And Window Drape Commandos...

The anonymous commentator in action.No freedom to lieWe read:

"Cyber-bullying may become a criminal act in Georgia. That’s because a Blairsville man and his attorney are working with state legislatures after the man was accused of being a pedophile and drug user – on an Internet website.
Last week, Gene Cooley received a settlement for the internet libel case. Cooley got a 400-thousand dollar court settlement on January 13th.
Now, this all started in 2008, after Cooley’s fiancé was murdered. Colley says that while he was in Florida for her funeral, an Internet user posted several comments under various IDs on a website.
Colley says the user accused him of being a pervert and a drug addict. And he says because of those online accusations, his future in laws kicked him out. He also lost his job in Blairsville, and most importantly, he says, his reputation. So he moved to Augusta where he works as a hairstylist.
Cooley’s attorney got clearance to track down the IP address of the user and filed a lawsuit against Sybil Denise Ballew, who’s been accused of similar actions in the past.
And last week, Cooley says justice was finally served. And he hopes this will set a precedent for cyber bullies. "Literally it’s been murder,” Cooley says. “Not only was my fiancé murdered by an ex-husband, but my life and what little shred I had, was murdered by this person."
Attorney Russell Stookey adds, "What we need to do is to make some peace in this law that will bite these people who go on and do character assassinations by ambush. If we can get this law ruled, maybe we can clean up, these blogs where they go on blast people."
Source

Good that the b*tch was tracked down. Hopefully a warning to others

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Some Thoughts On Making And Funding Social Issue Cottage Industries...

Thnk about it. Evaluate the performance and results of social in-activists in your neighborhood and decide whether you are receiving value for your tax $$$. Why would you expect positive results from people who would become unemployed if they solved the "problems" they champion?

To implement these principles, the City of Toronto's grants programs will ensure that:
(1) all organizations receiving City grants are non-discriminatory and promote the goals of anti-racism, access and equity;
(2) all organizations receiving City grants take reasonable steps to ensure their services, programs anddecision-making reflect the community they serve;
(3) the City of Toronto's grants programs are accessible to organizations from Toronto's diverse communities, including organizations representing equity-seeking communities; and
(4) all required documentation and conditions will be reasonable and grants will not be withheld if the applicant is taking reasonable steps to comply with City policy.
 
The State Against Blacks

'The welfare state has done to black Americans what slavery couldn't do. . . . And that is to destroy the black family.'

Source

Seers, Clairvoyants, Physics, Gypsies, Et Al Returning To...

Canadian Logic...

Obama, Harper, Et Al Need to Improve Their Texas Hold'em Skills...

Hmm...Odds 'N Sods

Editor’s Picks: Bob Dylan should write a song about dead birds

You Choose...GOD or Dylan!

Kelly McParland wonders that since we now know that the U.S. Department of Agriculture deliberately killed more birds than died in the oil sands mishap that hit Syncrude, the environmentalists will soon be marching on cattle ranchers in South Dakota. Right?
Multi-culturalism is a Canadian value, Barbara Kay readily grants. But as the kirpan kerfuffle illustrates, it’s not a Quebec one.

Know the Bob Dylan song where he calls for an innocent black man to be released from prison on bogus charges? The one about Rubin Carter? It uses the N-word. Matt Gurney asks whether or not the CBSC will ban it … but doubts it.

Lorne Gunter was unhappy enough when Canada was just a nanny state. Now it seems we’re a wimpy one, too.

Thanks Gary...

Iggy Moment...

Where is Bob Rae these days?

Keith Beardsley: Liberals depend on ‘Let’s Pretend’ strategy


To: Liberal MPs and party members
From: Liberal 2011 Campaign Team

Subject: New sure-fire winning election strategy

We have commenced phase one of our Campaign 2011 election campaign with the release of our first attack ads. These ads highlight our new winning strategy which builds on that used by some Liberal candidates in the 2005-06 election.

In 2005-06, some Liberal candidates viewed our leader, Paul Martin, as a liability and as such didn’t mention his name at the local level, took any reference to him out of their brochures and removed “Team Martin” from their posters etc. As a result we won an incredible 103 seats! Read More »

Here We Go.....

Loony Lunar Blip...

Did The Hudsons Bay Trading Posts Have...

...a bow wow section along with the beads and other shiny trade merchandise?

Barnum And Bailey Seminar...

Jonathan Kay reporting from University of Toronto: Among the Israel-haters

Last night, I went to the University of Toronto’s George Ignatieff Theatre, plunked down my $5, and, along with about 130 other interested observers, walked into a 2-hour panel discussion called “Exposing Israeli Apartheid and the Violation of Palestinian Rights: A public forum on the second anniversary of the Gaza massacre.”

Speakers included Khaled Mouammar (head of the defunded and marginalized Canadian Arab Federation); gay activist Tim McCaskell; and Jenny Peto, who, by this point, really needs no introduction. The Toronto Star‘s Antonia Zerbisias was originally on the speaker’s list, but withdrew for mysterious reasons, and was replaced by an earnest U of T undergrad named Vivien Douglas from “Students Against Israeli Apartheid” (not to be confused with McCaskell’s group, “Queers Against Israeli Apartheid”; or Peto’s “Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid”).

As someone who’s familiar with both sides of the Israel-Palestine debate, I didn’t expect to hear any new arguments. But it is always interesting to see activists in their native habitat, as it were — preaching to their own.

Mouammar started off the proceedings with a speech about the evils of Canada, not Israel — dwelling at great length about all the ways that his CAF had been mistreated by Stephen Harper’s government.

Then came McCaskell, who focused on the controversy surrounding the 2010 Pride march. A lot of what he said was new to me, because he resisted the opportunity to simply bash Zionists, and spoke more broadly to the dysfunctionality of the Pride organizers, whom he described as “weak, politically immature, incompetent opportunists.” He also spoke at some length — though often cryptically — about tensions between Queers Against Israeli Apartheid and an allied faction known as “The Pride Coalition for Free Speech,” which marched separately in the parade. (McCaskell complained that the “big yellow signs” of the Free Speech contingent somewhat overshadowed QAIA.)

In general, McCaskell comes across as articulate and humane — even if his politics are quite radical. His motivations, I believe, mirror those of a lot of older anti-Israel activists trying to recreate the sense of tilting against evil windmills that lent energy and meaning to their younger years. His experience as an anti-South-African-Apartheid campaigner, in particular, seems to have seeped deeply into his political DNA. (In fact, he lapsed into mini-speeches about South Africa at several points during the eventing). The campaign against Israel allows him to recycle the same slogans and sense of moral righteousness.

Vivien Douglas then took the floor. Like a lot of young campus activists, she speaks in the code phrases with which she’s been programmed — referring casually to the Gaza War as a “slaughter” and “massacre.” She also attacked the University of Toronto for cozying up to Israel and for making life difficult for Israel Apartheid Week activists. She reached her state of highest dudgeon when she recited how U of T president David Naylor had travelled to the hated Zionist state where he’s reached out a hand of friendship to Israeli universities. Several cheeky Israel supporters who’d snuck into the back of the room clapped wildly at this — making it clear that they were applauding Naylor, not Douglas. This earned them a “warning” from the event moderator, who told us that anyone who received three warnings would be asked to leave.

Then came Jennifer Peto. Give the woman credit: She is a tough nut who has not at all been intimidated by criticism from this newspaper, from the Ontario legislature, or even from her own brother (whom she referred to, by the way, as a “pro-Israel racist fanatic”). She said a few ludicrous things (such as that “[Palestinian] violence is a result of apartheid — when Apartheid ends, the violence ends,” which completely ignores the half-century of Arab violence against Jews that preceded the Israeli presence in the West Bank and Gaza). But overall, like McCaskell, she came across as a highly intelligent (if misguided) activist who could effectively communicate her dogma, and think on her feet, in any debate about the Middle East.

Perhaps more interesting than the speakers themselves was the crowd — which was disproportionately female, almost entirely white, and (by my casual observation of whose arm was wrapped around whom) heavily populated by lesbians.

This was not entirely surprising to me: Anti-Israeli activism has attained a sort of cult following among Toronto gay activists, who otherwise would be twiddling their activists thumbs in a country where gay marriage is legal and uncontroversial. But it is an interesting phenomenon nonetheless: anti-Israel types like to make a very big deal of the broad “community” and “coalition” they are forming. McCaskell, in particular, spoke (naively, I thought) about how queer anti-Israeli activism was allowing gays to forge links with Arabs and Muslims (He can prove this point to my satisfaction by holding a Gay Anti-Israel rally in any Arab or Muslim country of his choosing). Yet when it came time to hold an anti-Israel meeting in downtown Toronto last night, just about the only people who came out were seven or eight dozen campus rainbow-flag types.

In fact, self-delusion is a pronounced strain among radical anti-Israel types more generally. Every speaker last night spoke of the anti-Israel BDS movement — “boycott, divestment and sanctions” — as a sort of tidal wave that was gaining strength every day, and which would ultimately destroy Zionist apartheid. Vivien Douglas in particular spoke of the “huge progressions and successes” of the movement — then added that she did “not have enough time to list them.”

Actually, she did have time — because the movement has been a complete failure. Not a single major Canadian institution of any type has boycotted Israel. In fact, BDS supporters can’t even successfully sanction a single Israeli store or product because (as happened in Toronto last year in response to an attempted Israeli wine boycott), pro-Israel types flood in and buy up the product in question. The Israeli economy is booming compared to those of other nations, and every mainstream Canadian politician has declared himself Israel’s friend.

Only in the somewhat pathetic shadow world of BDS activism is the opposite true. That’s what makes these meetings kind of sad, more than anger-inducing.

One more thing to add: The most bizarre part of last night’s meeting was when the moderator announced that in the Q&A session, she would be enforcing an “equity policy” in her selection of who was permitted to ask questions — with preference given to women, visible minorities and gays (which was kind of ironic given the composition of the room). Sure enough, when the Q&A began, a white man aged about 60 was first to the microphone. But the moderator made a great show of instead picking a black man sitting in one of the back rows and asked him to come to the mic. So we all waited while this affirmative action pick ambled over to the microphone to toss Peto a softball “question” about how she had “inspired” other academics.

Then a woman said she wanted to ask a question, and the mortifying process was repeated. Finally, the man at the mic — who had been patient thus far — shouted out “Am I invisible?” Even some members of the crowd declared “Let him speak!” and the moderator looked unsure of what to do — before (naturally!) threatening the man with expulsion from the room for his impudence. (Eventually, he was allowed to ask his question.)

The fact that this man had to wait there at the mic, merely because of the colour of the skin, while others got to speak before him — why it reminded me of that thing they once had in South Africa … Apar… Aparth …

What’s that word I’m looking for?

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Cut Red Tape? What Are You.....

...some sort of labor hating right wing ding dong. If red tape is cut the size of government will shrink and the beauracrats and unions will not allow erosion of their power base.

Gerald Chipeur: Top ten targets for the red tape commission


On January 13, 2011, Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced that Rob Moore, the Minister of State for Small Business and Tourism, would chair a commission to cut red tape and reduce the regulatory burden on businesses.

Minister Moore is a lawyer and well suited to separate the wheat from the chaff. This exercise is necessary because all bureaucrats are slaves to the precautionary principle, which suggests that if a precaution can be taken, it should be taken. The problem is that they don’t take the overall cost to society into consideration.
For the past 25 years, my legal practice has focussed on helping businesses navigate the oppressive regulatory regime created by Canadian governments. There are three levels of bureaucracy in this country and each one produces its own set of red tape.

Here are my top ten recommendations for the Moore Commission:

Statutes and Regulations should not have everlasting life. All new statutes should have 10-year sundown clauses and all new regulations should have five-year sundown clauses, requiring the government to justify any red tape on a periodic basis;

Health Canada should be limited to international and inter-provincial matters. All regulation of retail business in a province should left exclusively to local authorities, as most of what Health Canada does falls under provincial jurisdiction;

Agriculture Canada should be shut down, as there is nothing Agriculture Canada delivers that cannot be delivered at the local level;

CRTC should be merged with Industry Canada. Technology has made this commission of little public benefit — shut it down and leave any necessary functions with Industry Canada;

Canadian Wheat Board should be dismantled. The modern world of international trade makes this agency irrelevant. It should be a crime to jail farmers for selling their own grain;

Canada Border Services Agency should be refocused. Canada should not duplicate the American paranoia about terrorists crossing our mutual border. Instead, we should unilaterally open our side of the border and reallocate border guards to the coastline;

Canada Revenue Agency should no longer regulate charities. The CRA has an inherent conflict of interest and has burdened charities with regulations that effectively deprive them of funds that are intended to help those in need. The Canadian International Development Agency should be given responsibility for charities;

Fisheries and Oceans forces maritime businesses to file confidential proprietary data and intellectual property and then destroys such businesses by distributing this proprietary information to their competitors. All government departments should be absolutely prohibited from distributing any private data without consent;

Parks Canada superintendents seem to resent any human activity in our national parks. All regulation of development in such parks should be left to local communities and not duplicated at the federal level; and

Canadian Air Transport Security Authority should be dismantled and the tax dollars redirected to real police work, as top security experts at Harvard University and in government agree that airport screening is of no value whatsoever.

The foregoing recommendation will, if implemented, do more for small business than all the billions in tax dollars expended to stimulate the economy over the last two years.

Gerald Chipeur, Q.C., is a Partner with Miller Thomson LLP in Calgary, Alberta.

Looking For Universities/Colleges That HAVE NOT Beem Hijacked...

...left wing anarchists whose vision of Freedom Of Expression is 180 degrees from the vision of most persons in a democracy. Waterloo, York, Calgary, Ryerson, etc. etc. etc.
Ryerson University Public Affairs Department: 2008-09 Gaza War was a “massacre”


Look what just landed in Canadian journalists’ inboxes, from the same university that provides gainful employment to Jennifer Peto and Judy Rebick

Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 09:41:41 -0600

Subject: Ryerson Faculty Expert available to speak on Gaza Massacre anniversary
Good Morning, The following Ryerson University faculty member is available to speak on the second year anniversary of the Gaza Massacre:

Alan Sears
Associate Professor
Department of Sociology Ryerson University 416-979-5000

Looking for other experts to round out your new stories? Please visit Ryerson’s online faculty experts guide at: www.ryerson.ca/news/media/facultyexperts

What a great way to “round out” a story … with a sound bite from an Israel Apartheid Week activist who apparently thinks that Israel’s effort to suppress rocket fire against its towns constitutes a “massacre.”

Taliban Jack Is Resurrected...

Terry Glavin
 Jack Layton’s Afghan fantasy

A Taliban member is presented to the media while being held for safety in a mosque belonging the National Department of Security in Herat

 

...someone should tell Jack that this Taliban cannot vote but there is no question those in Canada that support these terrorists can vote!

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Politics, Politicians, Voters.....

Don't Tell Me You Don't Need It.....

Protecting Someone Somewhere...

What Did You Do To Piss Off Mother Nature?

Thanks To SDA...

January 15, 2011
Pat Caddell: NY Times columnist Krugman ‘a flat-out asshole’

Pat Caddell is a lifelong Democrat. He is a public opinion pollster & adviser who worked for Democrat presidential candidates Jimmy Carter, Joe Biden, George McGovern, Gary Hart, and Jerry Brown. His credentials on the Left side of the political aisle are rock solid.
But he is also a man of principle and a proud American who only wants the best for his country. Thus, when he saw what was happening this past week, he decided he had to speak out against it. Vehemently! More here.

Posted by Robert at 4:01 AM

Lying to promote an agenda is no crime for leftists or Islamists

An Open Letter to the New York Times Regarding Paul Krugman

Posted by jerry at 5:41 PM 0 comments

Accountable Nations for All

In the news today is Chief Darcy Bear of the immensely successful Whitecap Dakota Reserve.

He's thrown support behind Saskatoon-Rosetown-Biggar MP Kelly Block's Bill C-575 An Act respecting the accountability and enhanced financial transparency of elected officials of First Nations communities.

Chief Bear joins the FSIN in endorsing Kelly's Bill.

Come on Mr. Ignatieff, Mr. Rae, let's all emulate these successful and prosperous leaders of the First Nations and push this though.

Cheers, lance

Posted by lance at 6:36 PM

Iggy Moment

Tough sledding: a look at the ridings on Ignatieff’s winter tour


By John Geddes - Friday, January 14, 2011 - 56 Comments

Obama Doesn't Already Have Enough On His Plate...

Freedom Returning To USA! At Least In Maine...

Maine guv to NAACP: 'Kiss my butt'...

Censorship And Political Correctness...

Talk about money for nothing
Jan 14, 2011 7:50PM EST


In arriving at its small-minded decision on the Dire Straits song, the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council may have got a blister on its thumb

Possibly Two Things.....

Today’s letters: What was Bob Rae thinking?

1) Continuing to undermine Iggy as "leader" of the liberal party.
2) Trying to gloss over his massive failure as "leader" of the Ontario NDP and Premier of Ontario.


Re: Speaking Up For Our Economic Interests Abroad, letter to the editor, Jan. 13.

One of the low-lights of my career as a trade commissioner with the Department of Foreign Affairs occurred in the early 1990s. As the trade commissioner responsible for trade development with China, I was tasked in Canada with an incoming mission, led by the vice-governor of an important, leading industrial hi-tech province.

At the time, all Canadian provincial trade departments were eager to expand trade with China and responded to the incoming mission by lining up key business and government meetings. The federal government’s policy at the time was not to isolate China for its human rights policies, post-Tiananmen, but to use trade as a device to address those issues. Provincial governments accepted this policy and responded accordingly.

Except for the Rae government in Ontario. Not only did the Ontario minister responsible for trade refuse to meet with any Chinese government representative, but bureaucrats in his department refused to co-operate.

Post-Tiananmen, I met regularly with Canadian business leaders, particularly those in the Chinese/Canadian community in Toronto, to assure them that we would not isolate China but would continue to foster our mutually beneficial trade ties, despite the Rae government’s attitude to the contrary.

If the UAE is so eager to fight violent extremism, as claimed by Mr. Rae, why are UAE ports crammed with vessels from Iran, as noted during U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s current visit to the Gulf States? Some Canadian ambassador, eh?
Irving W. Rosenfeld, Canadian Trade Commissioner (retired), Ottawa.

Liberal MP Bob Rae may be correct that in the past, Stephen Harper and Stockwell Day attacked the Liberal government’s decision not to join the United States in its decision to invade Iraq. Read More »

The Cadre Who Voted For Change TWICE...

...might be reluctant to make the same mistake three times. But unless there is a major change in the Conservative Party it could boost Mcgoonty...

Kissin' Ass Not A Ford Family Trait...

Doug Ford loses cool over budget 'grandstanding'


By DON PEAT, City Hall Bureau

Five days into budget deliberations Councillor Doug Ford lost his cool with left-leaning councillors.

It's No Surprise...

Goar: Who is looking after your parents?


By Carol Goar Thu Jan 13 2011

Canada turns to migrant workers to care for its aging population

...when you consider that 2nd and 3rd generation "Canadians" seem to find anything that requires manual labour, dealing with bodily functions, etc. to be demeaning and the majority of persons in nursing and provinding patient care in nursing homes need to be recognized. We have thousands of homeless and able bodied persons on social assistance but we need to bring in migrant workers during havest times.

Hume Deserves Credit For Putting The Ball Into Our Court...

Hume: The sudden importance of language in city politics

by Christopher Hume

Treason Raising It's Ugly Head In Quebec...

Quebec A small Fish In A Large Pond

Barbara Kay: Francophone students choosing English-language schools, oh my

A Quebec language study enrages linguistic cannibals.

According to a study commissioned by the Centrale des syndicates du Québec (CSQ), Quebec’s largest and reliably nationalist union body, since 1997 more than half of the students enrolled in anglo cegeps (Quebec’s post-secondary, two-year college programs preceding university) come from the francophone and ethnic communities.

The study found that these students chose the anglo institutions expressly because they served as immersion centres for gaining proficiency in English. And why did they wish to learn English? Because — prepare for a shock — they felt they would get better jobs if they spoke both French and English, you see. And if that weren’t insult enough to sovereigntists, the study also found that many students of ethnic background were actually more comfortable speaking English than French.

Gaaaa!

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Giving Equal Time...

Name that Boat: Readers christen the Canada boat to Gaza

REUTERS/Bazuki Muhammad..Malaysian man wears a paper hat depicting the Mavi Marmara, the Turkish ship stormed by Israeli marines as it approached Gaza

In an editorial that appeared in Friday’s National Post, we invited readers to name the proposed Canadian Boat to Gaza, a project backed by Canadian activist groups who support the small terrorist-controlled enclave next to Israel.The response was immediate. The activists have proposed a number of names, including “Apartheid Buster,” “Ark of Eden,” “The Louis Riel,” and (our favourite) “Gaza Post.”

Following is a list of some alternatives proposed by National Post readers:  • S.S. Moronic • Wankers Aweigh • The Falla-sea • Hamas-ter and Commander

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Money For Nothing Is The Thin Edge Of The Wedge Of Mind Cntrol...

...here's my Top 10 Moses. Not a single song on the list but just wait.

Matt Gurney: If we’re banning songs, let’s ban these too

On Wednesday, the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council released a decision banning original versions of Dire Strait’s 1985 smash hit Money for Nothing from our radio waves due to the use of the word “faggot” in the song. The CBSC opened their investigation after a complaint from a listener in Newfoundland, and concluded the song breaches several of its policies designed to protect Canadians from “abusive or unduly discriminatory material.” Bizarrely, though the CBSC permits the use of offensive language if it has fictional merit (for example, racist language in a movie set during the South during the Civil War), it did not apply this exemption to Money for Nothing, despite its use in the song being self-evidently not an example of prejudice, but of commentary on a prejudiced person who would use such a term. Given the precedent set by the CBSC, will the following songs be next?

The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun (1968): It hardly seems necessary to explain this one. Happiness is a warm gun, bang bang, shoot shoot? Yikes. Can we say “incitement to violence?” What’s the point in registering guns if the Fab Four can just go out and call them neato? Better get this off the air, pronto, before some poor gentle soul happens to be listening to it while surfing Sarah Palin’s Facebook page, leading instantaneously to a violent rampage.

Jimmy Hendrix, Hey Joe (1966): A man finds out that his wife has been having an affair (running all over town), so logically, he goes after her with a gun in his hand, and plans to flee to Mexico after murdering her. So that’s violence against woman, unsafe use of a firearm and illegal immigration all in one. Sorry, Jimmy. You’re banned.

Johnny Cash, Folsom Prison Blues (1955): It doesn’t matter if you regret what you did and hang your head and cry when all the rich folk ride past in a train, drinking coffee and smoking big cigars. You should have listened when your mom told you to always be a good boy and never play with guns, but instead, you shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die. Sorry, Johnny. No way we can expose Canadians to this. Banned.

Frank Loesser, Baby, It’s Cold Outside (1944): This song can be summed up in two words: Illegal confinement. Date rape. Banned!

Collective Soul, The World I Know (1995): Look, I don’t really know what this song is about, just that I listened to it a lot during high school, and it talks about a guy who’s crying, walking up on high and stepping to the edge. Where is he walking? What edge is he at? Who knows? If it prevents one crying man from jumping off a bridge (or a cliff, or a balcony, or a roof), though, this song has got to go.

Elton John, Jamaica Jerk-Off (1973): Again, not really sure what’s going on in this song, but let’s just deem it both racist and overtly sexual and call it a day. It’s not exactly I Guess That’s Why They Call It The Blues, anyway, so no big loss.

Kurt Weill & Bertolt Brecht, The Ballad of Mack the Knife (1928): Mack is a bad dude, guys. In the English version of the German ballad first popularized by Bobby Darin, Mack stabs a guy, robs another, and is seen possibly throwing a body into the river. And that’s tame compared to the original version, where he rapes a widow and commits arson. How can we be a progressive nation when we let filth like this play on easy listening and swinging standards stations? Old people are impressionable too, you know.

Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, Can’t Take My Eyes Off of You (1967): Is this a love song, or a song about an obsessive man stalking a woman who, as he readily admits, is too good be to true, thus suggesting some degree of mental illness? I’m not sure, and you can’t be either, so, sorry, cast of Jersey Boys. You’ve been promoting criminal behaviour all along.

Huey Lewis and the News, I Want a New Drug (1984): No explanation required. But at least it gave the Ghostbusters theme something to work with.



National Post

mgurney@nationalpost.com

Reality In The Mailbox...

Freedom Of Expression Massacre...

...stay tuned for memorial service!

Demise Of The Club District...

On Adam Vaughan’s Dance card
Councillor who declared war on clubs – and won – talks up culture and change in the entertainment district

Dangers in District master plan

What killed the club district?

Where do we go from here?


...will the Homeless Hilton set the tone of the neighborhood?

To Serve And Protect...

Christie Blatchford


Band of brothers copes with loss of ‘the boy’
 

Toronto Police Sergeant Ryan Russell

R.P.I.

Iggy Moment...

...And Where Is Bob Rae?

Kelly McParland: Bob Rae and the UAE

Only In Canada You Say....

Canada, the world’s most easily offended country

You may have noticed the global snort of derision when it became known that Money For Nothing, a 25-year-old Dire Straits song written by Mark Knopfler and Sting, has been ruled too offensive for Canadian radio play.

What’s interesting, apart from the simple lunacy of suddenly banning a tune that’s 25 years old and has already been played about a billion times, is the reason: A radio station in St. John’s received a complaint.

That’s all it takes in Canada: One person to take offense. Read More »

As Misguided As It Might Seem We Have An Obligation...

...to try and help and I guess if we help even one child to survive that is a measure of success.

Lorne Gunter: Why Haiti can’t recover

Haiti been misruled for so long by drug lords, kleptocrats and voodoo cults that it lacks the ability to rebuild itself even with aid donations.

Of all the words I’ve read to describe post-quake Haiti, the most apt is “dystopian.”

Haiti is not only the poorest nation in the Western hemisphere, it is also the most wretched and dysfunctional. By nearly every measure — stability of civil society, corruption, GDP, per capita income — Haiti is in the bottom 10% of nations worldwide. The UN’s human development index pegs it at 145th of 169 studied. The only greater cesspools are in Africa.

Every tropical storm that blows through proves deadly because over the past couple of decades Haitians have completely denuded their country’s mountain forests for timber and firewood. The Dominican Republic, which occupies the eastern half of the island of Hispaniola — Haiti takes up the western half — watches the rains come and go. Meanwhile, in Haiti every thunderstorm washes more hillside into the valleys and onto the coastal plains, submerging shantytowns and washing away souls in its path. Read More »

Travers: Slow Haiti recovery gives Harper second chance

Haiti one year later Land disputes and rubble have stalled the job of rebuilding Haiti

Why has Haiti's recovery stalled?

Will The $58M Reduce The Wait Times...

Job not done with the TTC


By SUE-ANN LEVY, City Hall Columnist

Different day. Same old story.

Decades Of Permissiveness Has Buried Personal Accountability...

Sam Clements Wrapup...

Right, Left, Right, Left...

...at least that is what the media wouldd have you believe but the simple fact is that an individual named Loughner pulled the trigger.

The worst sheriff in America; Update: Dupnik covers up

By Michelle Malkin • January 12, 2011 08:25 AM

 Update…Friend says Loughner “did not watch TV. He disliked the news. He didn’t listen to political radio. He didn’t take sides. He wasn’t on the left. He wasn’t on the right.” Over to you, Sheriff Dupnik…

Update…Dupnik refuses to release public reports on Loughner…see below…

Dupnik's Evidence

Give Him Credit....

...he is welcome down in the trenchs with the common person unlike the past mayor who will be remembered for his couffiure and new Brooms.

If You Don't Excercise Some Level Of Oppression...

...don't expect your children to strive to be over achievers and we don't have to look to those families where the children set the standards. 

Barbara Kay: Implications of the ‘Chinese mother’ school of oppression
Is the parenting style of Chinese mothers really superior to those in the west?

I attended a public high school in Toronto whose population was virtually all Jewish. The scholastic achievements of the school vis à vis other Ontario high schools were so remarkable (about 90% of our high school population went on to university at a time when about 15% of the general population did) that a sociologist wrote a book about it (Crestwood Heights, a gauzily disguised version of the real name, Forest Hill).
What explains the disparity? Culture. When my older sister, a top student would come home and tell our parents she got 95% on a test, my father wouldn’t say, “Oh, my brilliant child, how fabulous you are,” he would say, “What did Lorrie Capp and Syd Goldenberg get?” They were the recognized geniuses of her class. Naturally they had gotten 97% and 98%. My parents were proud of her, but she got the message: They would be even prouder if she beat Lorrie and Syd. Read More »

Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior’ fuels parenting controversy


Wed Jan 12 2011

Ultrastrict parenting is why Chinese kids are so successful, insists Amy Chua, author of the Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother. (0)

What Are The Odds He Will Win His Suit...

N-word revisited: Anchor sues over firing

...winning the 649 lottery is more likely.

Downside To Being Good Neighbor...

Albertan to clear snow despite ticket

By FRANK LANDRY, QMI Agency

St. Albert hasn't seen the last of Jon Cooper and his plow-equipped quad.

R.I.P.

Officer killed by stolen snow plow
By ROB LAMBERTI, JENNY YUEN, CHRIS DOUCETTE and TOM GODFREY, Toronto Sun
Flags to fly at half-mast
By DON PEAT, City Hall Bureau
Ford's statement on officer's death
The following statement from Mayor Rob Ford on the death of Sgt. Ryan Russell was released around 10:45 a.m. Wednesday

And At Our F*#@kingham Palace...

Would The Tragic Events Be Lessened...

...if the gun had been purchased in New York, Miami or any other jurisdiction where guns are sold? People will champion the outright banning of gun sales as a solution and I would ask them to read the newspapers in Toronto or any other major city in Canada. People will if deeply motivated find a way to obtain weapons and other materials that can take a life.

Hate Laws Take A Backseat When The Target Is Jews And I Wonder...

if this applies if the Jew is black, gay, transgendered, disabled, female, et al?

Toronto Star writer apparently withdraws from anti-Israel hatefest

I'm Sorry Hazel But This Not A Good Idea...

...if someone wants to honor you with a birthday party let the councilors and "leadership" team put up the cash not the taxpayers. I have attended many functions honoring friends who have reached milestones and the majority attending, even though they are told not to by the organizers, drop something into the hat.

Mississauga offers $10,000 to send councillors to Hazel McCallion’s birthday


The City of Mississauga has offered to shell out more than $10,000 to send all councillors and members of the city’s leadership team to a massive birthday party for Mayor Hazel McCallion next month.

McCallion's career a lesson in strategy

Mississauga's rebellious councillors given reduced committee duties