People Are Dying On The Streets Of The Middle East...

...for freedoms we take for granted and this is how we abuse these freedoms

Asterisks run amok censor words unfit for Virgin ears
British telecom’s online TV listings feature the films of Alfred Hitchc**k, the football team A***nal and other naughty names Dec 22, 2011 9:21PM EST 1

Must not call blacks "colored"?

In that case the NAACP are seriously out of line
"BBC pundit Alan Hansen is the latest to come under fire in football's race row after making an embarrassing gaffe on Match of the Day. The commentator - who is paid a huge £40,000 per show - shocked viewers by twice describing black players as 'coloured' when discussing the John Terry and Luis Suarez cases.Fellow pundit Lee Dixon looked on in apparent discomfort as Hansen, 56, said: ‘I think there’s a lot of coloured players in all the major teams and there are lots of coloured players who are probably the best in the Premier League. ‘If you look at 25 or 30 years ago it was probably in a bad way - not as bad as some of the other nations on the Continent - but certainly there is always, always room for improvement.’The ex-footballer had been discussing the separate allegations that England captain Terry and Liverpool striker Suarez have hurled racist abuse at other players on the pitch.

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Kathy Doesn't Mince Words...

Muslim calls Mark Steyn a ‘racist’ on TV (video)


By Kathy Shaidle on Saturday, July 30th, 2011
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And calls for media censorship — so: you first, asshole!

This man represents everything that is wrong with Canada today.

And I’m obliged to help pay for his bullshit, through my extorted tax dollars. (Don’t tell me that OMNI/Rogers is a real capitalist company; all television and film in Canada gets government money in one way or other.)

Congratulations to all the liberal wimps who let him in, and encourage his blather about of “censorship” — on the same airwaves he wants to police. What a genius.

But wait, there’s more – from his website:

Among the writers he introduced into the business was author Naomi Klein.

PS: from the OMNI website …

The ethnic population in Toronto/Hamilton is growing rapidly, at about twice the rate of the population as a whole. By 2011, over 68% of the people living in the Toronto area will be of ethnic origin,” says Madeline Ziniak, Vice President and Station Manager of Multilingual Television, Rogers Television. “The launch of OMNI.2 on the analog dial will mean accessibility to more ethnic programming for more ethnocultural groups, in more languages, free, over-the air.”
And here’s one of them!

(KEEP READING...)

The Star Doesn't Seem To Have Heard Of THE SUN CHANNEL...

A new reason to support the CBC


In era of fragmentation, CBC provides essential platform for discussion.

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Obama Doesn't Have Enough Problems At Home?

...anyone think Obama believed the world would end on May 21st so whatever he said prior to then didn't matter.

Ottawa won’t back Obama’s Mideast peace proposal

Charles Krauthammer: Making sense of Obama’s Middle East speech

Did he just say what I think he did? Oh no he didn't.

Herewith President Obama’s May 19 Middle East speech, annotated:

“It will be the policy of the United States to promote reform across the region, and to support transitions to democracy.”

With this Barack Obama openly, unreservedly and without a trace of irony or self-reflection adopts the Bush Doctrine, which made the spread of democracy the key U.S. objective in the Middle East.

“Too many leaders in the region tried to direct their people’s grievances elsewhere. The West was blamed as the source of all ills.” Read More »

Freedom Of Expression Has Become An Oxymoron...

...but nobody should be surprised when you consider that you and I are limited in the words we can use in our politically correct nirvana. The "N_word" is a prime example.

Doors barred to Israel hater, but Islamophobe ushered in


Kinsella: The Harper Government© sure didn’t take long to show us all what they’d do with a majority, eh? This week, they let a Muslim-hating white supremacist into Canada. For good measure, they gave the creep a platform at.. MORE...

Not A Penny Until...

...parade organizers mandate in writing that the queers against Isreal will not be allowed to spout their hatred and support for palestian terrorists and what immediate action they will take if incidents occur.

Proud to support Pride again

Sat Apr 16 2011

The way is clear to continue municipal funding of Toronto’s Pride parade now that an anti-Israel group won’t be taking part.

GayandRight to Toronto Pride: Stop Whining....

Why on earth does Toronto Pride need funding from the Canadian Government? Barbara hits the right note here...

The Ramallah miracle: Is Palestine ready for independence?

It Would Save Money If Timmies...

...were designated as polling stations.

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.”

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.



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Freedom Of Expression Massacre...

...stay tuned for memorial service!

It Started with Banning Words...

Blog Nuggets: Ontario’s most insensitive council, Israel’s spy vulture


Bite-sized bits of bloggery to chew on, from the day’s headlines

Last night I watched an old episode of Corner Gas in which Davis is forced to take sensitivity training after Karen objects to him and Oscar telling blonde jokes. Davis returns so obnoxiously sensitive, Karen locks him in a cell while Oscar recites rude jokes to snap him out of it. Karen is so dumb she doesn’t get one of the jokes. I don’t believe there was any national uproar. Today, this: The entire city council in London, Ont. has been ordered to take sensitivity training after the female friend of one councillor watched a rude video on his Facebook page (which he promptly removed). One person complained. One. My God, people.

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Point, Counterpoint...

John Moore: Atheism and the irrational mind

Yoni Goldstein: Agnostics are the conscientious objectors of the God wars

It Was Only A Matter Of Time...

The not so soft bigotry of the elites

NPR's Nina Totenberg Apologizes For Saying "Christmas"

Posted by jerry

University/College Freedom Of Speech...

Political correctness is most pervasive in universities and colleges but I rarely report the incidents concerned here as I have a separate blog for educational matters.

American "liberals" often deny being Leftists and say that they are very different from the Communist rulers of other countries. The only real difference, however, is how much power they have. In America, their power is limited by democracy. To see what they WOULD be like with more power, look at where they ARE already very powerful: in America's educational system -- particularly in the universities and colleges. They show there the same respect for free-speech and political diversity that Stalin did: None. So look to the colleges to see what the whole country would be like if "liberals" had their way. It would be a dictatorship.

Take Newfie Humour Out Of Our Culture And We Fail To Have Any Unique Culture

Canada: talking like a normal person gets you fired


Even in Newfoundland:

In an interview, Ms. Pardy Ghent said her comment was a tongue-in-cheek response to an ongoing political furor over revelations that an opposition Liberal staffer had sent Mr. Williams’ communications director an e-mail asking whether the premier had mental illness or syphilis.

Instead of eliciting a laugh, Ms. Pardy Ghent got a call from a deputy minister earlier this month, telling her she was being let go from the Burin Peninsula Regional Council, a government advisory board she helped found in 2005.

That prompted the board’s chairman, Michael Graham, to issue a letter demanding she be reinstated, essentially arguing that making off-colour jokes is part of the province’s unique character.

(...)

Geoff Meeker, whose political blog appears on the website of the St. John’s Telegram, said this incident is part of a more worrying trend in the province, where people who call in to talk radio shows to air their complaints about the government end up getting calls from ministers or their deputies chastising them for their comments.

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Question:

Was the "Liberal staffer" whose bizarre email sparked this incident fired, too?

# Kathy Shaidle

Blatchford Speaks Out...

Latest tool in war on free speech: bike locks


 Joseph Brean, National Post · Monday, Nov. 15, 2010

Why Is The Leftwing So Opposed...

Why we need more Sun TV and CBC


G.Fox: Rob Ford’s election as mayor of Toronto and the “how did this happen?”post-game analysis triggered yet another round of hand-wringing about what’s wrong with political coverage in Canada.
 
...possibly because their version of Freedom Of Expression (you are free to express your opinions/thoughts as long as they concur with our version) is under attack?

50% Turnout In Toronto...

...this concept should be enshrined in the Criminal Code with penalties ranging from being barred from Timmies/Starbucks to being removed from the invitation list to leftwing summer bar-b-ques.

Would The G20 Anarchists...

...be more confortable protesting in the countries that now make up the InSecurity Council?

Globe Essay


What to do if Canada wins a seat at the Security Council table

Forner UN ambassador Paul Heinbecker offers 10 goals Canada should persue if it makes it to the hoseshoe Sep 25, 2010 10:20AM

Root Cause Of Hysteria...

...IMHO is the mainstream media and the Jones debacle is a prime example. I will admit that their is a fine line between the publics right to know and censorship but there has to be a point where the media walks away but right now this doesn't happen until some more outrageous comes along.

Muslims fear Muslims more than Jones


By SALIM MANSUR, QMI Agency

Over the past few weeks the mainstream media in the U.S. provided a textbook lesson of how to inflate an obscure story, and by implication suggest an overwhelming majority of Americans are perilously close to being bigots in opposing the building of the Ground Zero mosque in New York City.