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.

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...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."
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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.'

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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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