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Mentioned the other day by SDA regular Derek was this extended version of the Molson “I Am Canadian” anthem. And, as an added bonus for SDA readers, is a little something I created, combining hi-res photos of Canucks fans around downtown Vancouver, along with Aaron Copland’s “Fanfare for the Common Man” in the background. Hoping both help to cheer on a Canadian team’s victory in the NHL Stanley Cup playoffs tonight!
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  1. I’ve always hated the Molsen’s commercial.
    …
    I have a Prime Minister, not a President.
    I speak English and French, NOT American.
    I can proudly sew my country’s flag on my backpack.
    I believe in peace keeping, NOT policing. DIVERSITY, NOT assimilation,
    AND IT IS PRONOUCED ‘ZED’ NOT ‘ZEE’, ‘ZED’!!!
    CANADA IS THE SECOND LARGEST LANDMASS! THE FIRST NATION OF HOCKEY! AND THE BEST PART OF NORTH AMERICA!
    MY NAME IS JOE!! AND I AM CANADIAN!!!!!!!!
    If an insecure guy in a lumberjack shirt shouting Trudeupian doublespeak is a Canadian then I don’t think many regulars at SDA are.
    Nice touch in the posted YouTube video; hauling down the Dominion flag and hoisting up The Liberal Party’s brand. If I’m not mistaken that’s Tommy Douglas & Bob Stanfield lending a hand.
    The log rolling was ok.

  2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVYzkkRnRq8&NR=1
    One of the best ‘Jets returning’ montages I have found.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtQG_POQ69o
    This guy was on Adler. Parody of Adam Sandler about the Jets.
    Hockey = Canada
    Robert, enjoyed the video you cooked up. Awesome to see everybody getting behind something.
    Oh, and what an OT goal tonight! I’m still not over 82. King Brodeur, Stan Smyl and ‘Tiger’ Williams (Weyburn boy). Roger Neilson waving the flag will always be remembered.
    More ‘History will be Made!”

  4. Today while watching the Canucks win at a friends place, he mentioned a theory that a referee in the final game of the 1994 Vancouver/NY series was bribed to ensure that the Rangers won. Apparently the impetus behind this was the potentially huge losses by bookies given that the Canucks weren’t supposed to get anywhere close to the Stanley cup finals that year. I’m not nearly as into hockey minutae and never read the sports pages and wonder if there is anything to this theory or not.
    Unfortunately the only thing I remember about game 7 in 1994, aside from major irritation at the Canucks loss, is heading over to St. Pauls hospital ER to help out with the aftermath of the post game riot.

  6. A fascinating article for buffs; movie, and history.
    “‘the Lone Ranger and Tonto” are given a bow:
    Ugh. Hi Ho Silver ….
    …-
    “Stalin at the Movies
    Peter Wollen
    The Red Atlantis: Communist Culture in the Absence of Communism by J. Hoberman
    Temple, 315 pp, £27.95, November 1998, ISBN 1 56639 643 3
    J. Hoberman’s book, appropriately enough, is a cinematic montage of reflections on the long-drawn-out demise of the former Soviet Union, seen through the eyes of a New York journalist and film critic: a process that began with the death of Stalin and ended with the sale of chunks of the Berlin Wall in Bloomingdale’s. Hoberman chronicles these events from the point of view of three related personae: the thoughtful Jewish New Yorker, reading the novels of Victor Serge or reconsidering the Rosenberg case; the compulsive film aficionado, intrigued by the representation of the Communist world in Soviet films, Hollywood movies and the work of the East European New Wave directors, such as Gyula Gazdag or Dusan Makavejev; and then the cultural historian, provoked by the appearance in a New York gallery of Sots Art, an ironic appropriation of ‘socialist’ art by Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid, into trying to understand the deeper significance of Socialist Realism. This fascinating book swoops and lurches from topic to topic, but the reader’s feeling of disorientation is more than compensated for by the exhilaration of the ride, which ends in a nightmare dream-sequence, a crazy amalgam of Hellzapoppin’ and October (‘an imaginary documentary projected on actual locations’) with the Rosenbergs cast as ‘the Lone Ranger and Tonto of Knickerbocker village’. In other words, a provocatively chaotic and hilarious book about a rigorously controlled and tragic era.
    The most extraordinary section deals with the Soviet region of Birobidzhan, created by Stalin as a new Jewish homeland and located in the far east of Siberia, on the north bank of the Amur River. Established in May 1934, Birobidzhan was supposed to provide a shining alternative to Palestine, Yiddish-speaking and playing a positive part in the construction of socialism. Supported largely by fund-raising abroad – especially in New York – the dream project never attracted more than a few thousand Jews, only 20 per cent of the population by 1939, less than 5 per cent fifty years later, although a Yiddish newspaper and radio programme still plodded bravely on. Birobidzhan had been the victor in a struggle within the Jewish Section (yevsektsia) of the Bolshevik Party in the Twenties between the Far East, Belorussia and the Crimea as contending sites for a homeland for the Jewish nationality, in which the diaspora could gather and share joyfully in the task of constructing socialism, just like all the other nationalities – Georgians, Armenians, Chechen-Ingush and so on.
    Stalin, it should be remembered, cut his teeth as a Party theorist on the conundrums of what was called ‘the nationalities question’ and was eager to try his hand at solving the Jewish problem once and for all in the real world of socialist construction, funded, to a considerable extent, by gullible comrades in America. Besides which, Birobidzhan was a long way from anywhere and might even serve as a bastion against Japanese expansion into Manchuria – two birds with one stone. For Hoberman the whole doomed experiment, a utopian scheme for modernisation and kolkhozisation of the luftmensh, was just another exemplary twist on Jewish Luck, the title of a strange Yiddish-language Soviet film of the Twenties, which shows the pathetic adventures of a down-at-heel marriage-broker, whose misfortunes in the Pale of Settlement should have led him to embark on the long journey to the banks of the River Amur, had Stalin already had his brainwave: instead, he ends his days in squalor, humiliation and defeat in the waterfront district of Odessa. The main part in the film was played by the great Jewish actor, Solomon Mikhoels, whose murder marked the beginning of Stalin’s anti-semitic campaign (‘rootless cosmopolitans’) after the end of the Second World War.
    At the very end of his life, Stalin turned his mind once again to the ever-irritating Jewish Question.”
    http://www.lrb.co.uk/v21/n23/peter-wollen/stalin-at-the-movies

  8. *O’narcissist: as expected.
    …-
    “Obama tunes out, and business goes on hiring strike”
    “Last week I noted that various forms of the word “unexpected” almost inevitably appeared in news stories about unfavorable economic developments.
    You can find them again in stories about Friday’s shocking news, that only 54,000 net new jobs were created in the month of May and that unemployment rose to 9.1 percent.
    But with news that bad, maybe bad economic numbers will no longer be “unexpected.” You can only expect a robust economic recovery for so long before you figure out, as Herbert Hoover eventually did, that it is not around the corner.
    Exogenous factors explain some part of the current economic stagnation. The earthquake and tsunami in Japan caused a slowdown in manufacturing. Horrendous tornadoes did not help. Nor did bad weather, though only a few still bitterly cling to the theory that it’s caused by man-made global warming.
    But poor public policy is surely one reason why the American economy has not rebounded from recession as it has in the past. And political posturing has also played a major role.
    Barack Obama and the Democratic congressional supermajorities of 2009-10 raised federal spending from 21 to 25 percent of gross domestic product. Their stimulus package stopped layoffs of public employees for a while, even as private sector payrolls plummeted.
    And the Obama Democrats piled further burdens on would-be employers in the private sector. Obamacare and the Dodd-Frank financial regulation bill are scheduled to be followed by thousands of regulations that will impose impossible-to-estimate costs on the economy.
    That seems to have led to a hiring freeze.”
    http://washingtonexaminer.com/politics/2011/06/obama-tunes-out-and-business-goes-hiring-strike
    *”Barack Obama – Narcissist or Merely Narcissistic?”
    “* Devoid of empathy. Is unable or unwilling to identify with, acknowledge, or accept the feelings, needs, preferences, priorities, and choices of others;
    * Constantly envious of others and seeks to hurt or destroy the objects of his or her frustration. Suffers from persecutory (paranoid) delusions as he or she believes that they feel the same about him or her and are likely to act similarly;
    * Behaves arrogantly and haughtily. Feels superior, omnipotent, omniscient, invincible, immune, “above the law”, and omnipresent (magical thinking). Rages when frustrated, contradicted, or confronted by people he or she considers inferior to him or her and unworthy.
    Narcissism is a defense mechanism whose role is to deflect hurt and trauma from the victim’s “True Self” into a “False Self” which is omnipotent, invulnerable, and omniscient. This False Self is then used by the narcissist to garner narcissistic supply from his human environment. Narcissistic supply is any form of attention, both positive and negative and it is instrumental in the regulation of the narcissist’s labile sense of self-worth.”
    http://www.globalpolitician.com/25109-barack-obama-elections

  9. ET, read Mark Steyn’s latest column in The Corner over at National Review Online:
    http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/268831/it-bird-it-plane-no-its-mark-steyn
    I’m afraid there really is such a comic book.
    This is what I posted, it’s being monitored, and I wasn’t allowed to use the last word in my comment that I am allowed to use here!!!
    Women should be weighing in on this topic!
    Some of the leading causes of cervical cancer are STDs spread by unsheathed members of the opposite sex.
    Groups with the least likelihood of contracting cervical cancer are Jewish women who, almost exclusively I should think, have sex with circumcised men, and nuns who, almost exclusively I should think, don’t have sex with anyone at all.
    There’s some kind of moral to this story. Too bad these idiots in San Francisco are such schmucks.
    (How does one make a substitution for schmuck? — This is all I could come up with: the-Yiddish-word-that-starts-with-schm-that-I-can’t-utter-in-this-forum-but-that-was-the-perfect-punch-line-for-the-point-I-was-trying-to-make!) Oy vey!

  11. batb – thanks for the Steyn link but he’s not commenting enough on that comic book brochure. I’m still stunned by its images; I can’t believe that it was even published and given out.
    The Hero, so obviously aryan, with his blond hair..and notice, his short nails, muscles and hero costume; the villains, so obviously the stereotype of the evil, bloodthirsty, fangs and claws barred, Jew.
    Did you notice that the Jews have claws?! Unbelievable. And why are they carrying guns? And called ‘monsters’.
    It’s quite incredible. Pure anti-semitism. Where’s the outrage in San Francisco?
    I won’t debate the pros or cons of circumcision as there are too many ‘facts’ on both sides. My comment is the shocking, open anti-semitism in the images and comments in this brochure.
    This brochure has to rank on an equal level with anything put out by the Third Reich.

  12. Apparently, the guy who is the activist behind this agenda and who wrote the brochure, was asked if his brochure was anti-semitic. [I don’t see how this is even a question!] His reply:
    “Saunders asked Hess if his comic is anti-Semitic. His answer: “A lot of people have said that, but we’re not trying to be anti-Semitic. We’re trying to be pro-human rights.”
    Now wait a minute. If you want to debate circumcision then you stick to the factual, medical aspects. None of these were presented in the brochure. Instead, the images were a violation of human rights by portraying the Jews as ugly, fanged, clawed, bloodthirsty monsters. How’s that for ‘human rights’?
    Where’s the outrage in San Francisco? Isn’t this a clear example of promoting hatred?

  13. Am I the only one commenting on the Fanfare for the Canucks clip? Have always loved Aaron Copeland’s music, combined with the photos – excellent! Loved all the different faces – men, women, all the different peoples who have come to Canada for a better life. Do we not live in the best country in the world?

  14. The thirty year move of the left toward anti-semitism has become so ingrained in our society and educational system that there is little protest in opposition. Note Obama attempting to throw Israel under the bus.

  15. The Molson “I AM’ rant was all about selling crappy mass produced beer to developmentally arrested inebriates who have nothing better to relate their nationality to than corporate brands. Whether it be beer or politics.
    As any developmentally unimpaired Canadian knows, there is better beer and more intelligent politics and social institutions available in this great nation than those romanticized in a low brow beer commercial. Molsons only was appealing to the lowest common denominator in Canadian society – just like Trudeaupian left dogma does.

  16. Of stars: One nameless man says No! to socialist/communist Chinese Red tyranny June 05, 1989.
    Leftists are silent.
    …-
    “YouTube – Tiananmen Square – Holding Up A Tank
    16 May 2007 … The Unknown Rebel confronted the tank column next day as the …”
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4xtkpO7ZqU
    …-
    “Kelly McParland: Cancel the election results. Brigette DePape is not happy
    National Post – ‎47 minutes ago‎
    A new star, it would appear, has appeared in the firmament of Canadian political activism.”
    (googlenews)

  17. ken (kulak) – Obama’s rejection of Israel might be or might not be, anti-semitism.
    I’m very specific in differentiating between the political entity, Israel,…which as a political construct, must be open to analysis and critique..but anti-semitism is an entirely different issue. Some people think that if you critique Israel then you are also anti-semitic but I reject that merger.
    Anti-semitism is an emotional, irrational attack against a religion or ethnic group, simply because they ‘are’ that religion/group. Nothing to do with politics, or land base, or nation.
    That brochure, as I said, ranks on an equal par with any put out by the Third Reich. Where’s the outrage? The Jews are depicted as blackened faces, fangs, and yes, claws. And, called ‘monsters’. This – in the USA? And it goes without any comments from the press? Or how about the ACLU? How about other religious groups commenting?

  18. Of the Green movement a metaphor: green organic E.coli.
    “a local fruit and vegetable supplier suspected of passing on contaminated produce,”.
    Government of, by, and for narcissists.
    …-
    “German hospitals swamped with E.coli victims”
    “HAMBURG (Reuters) – German hospitals are struggling to cope with the flood of E.coli victims, Health Minister Daniel Bahr said on Sunday, as the death toll rose to 21 with more than 2,000 people infected across Europe.
    Also on Sunday, officials in the northern state of Lower Saxony said they were investigating a local fruit and vegetable supplier suspected of passing on contaminated produce, a spokesman from the state consumer protection office said.”
    http://ca.reuters.com/article/topNews/idCATRE7511UX20110605
    …-
    “Germany Opts for Economic Suicide”
    “The narrative of the Obama presidency has been a soap opera, with the lead character careening from one dilemma to another — never resolving any. Each episode ends on a cliffhanger — a promise that the next show will grant resolution on whether the economy will grow or descend into a double-dip recession or will the Middle East become a idealized democratic wonderland or the tinderbox of a new world conflict.
    Yet the lead in this drama is so self-assured that he feels a sense of entitlement to the trappings of the role he now portrays. President Obama has become the personification of political expediency and cynicism as his ego and vanity allow him to say or do anything in order to win re-election irrespective of the short or long-term well-being of the American people.
    He is not alone. In Germany they too have a leader who feels no compunction in doing whatever it takes to win re-election regardless of the impact on the country’s economy and future.
    The government of Germany in an astonishing about face has decided to phase out all nuclear energy by 2022, shuttering many plants (up to 17) this year. It was only in September of 2010 that the same government headed by Angela Merkel came to the conclusion to extend the operating lives of Germany’s 17 nuclear power plants, which had been scheduled to go off line by 2021 as a means of helping the country meet its ambitious goal of reducing CO 2 emissions.
    The Green Party and movement have become a potent force in German politics and using the Fukushima reactor meltdown in Japan as a rallying point calling for the abolition of all nuclear power.”
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2730104/posts

  21. Get over yourself, big fish. Are you equally outraged at the enormous flubs made by obama, including the fact that the idiot thinks it’s still 2008 and the US has 57 states?
    Next time don’t break the Prozac in half before ingesting.
    As for Joe Canadian, I too loathed that commercial, and it made me embarrassed to be a Canadian. That the same dude hauled stakes and went stateside to make his fortune was delicious irony at the whole stupid affair, especially when moron sheila copps presented the commercial to showcase canadian “identity” while on a trip to boston.
    mhb23re

  22. I was never a fan of the Molson beer commercial and its so called nationalism. I personally don’t compare my nation, Canada, to other nations in order to believe my nation is superior. I also remember that the add offended a lot of Christians and Jews because of the emphasis on the words I AM. I AM, for the uninitiated, is the actual name of the Christian/Jewish God and using it in a beer commercial is for some blasphemous.

  23. The vote compass ‘tool’ has now been taken off the CBC website,as of June 1,and to access the ‘tool’ and see the results you have to go to; http://votecompass.ca/
    The results are the results for individual questions. They do not give the results of party affiliation. Hmmm,that’s a bit of a noodle-scratcher,isn’t it?
    I googled around a bit and ended up on Rabble. The people there were PO’ed that the ‘tool’ put most of them (hardcore NDP) into the Green Party.
    So we have a ‘tool’ that puts conservatives into the liberal party and puts NDP’ers into the Green party. Who benefits from this the most? Hint,it’s not the BQ.
    CBC likely committed electoral fraud,someone should look into it.

  25. Such hypocrisy from Jack Layton!
    On CTV’s Question Period, Layton sanctimoniously voices his worries about tax breaks for big businesses, saying that their profits have been going “through the roof.”
    http://www.ctv.ca/qp/#TopVideoAn
    As he’s saying this, I’m thinking of the profits that he and Olivia made last year on the taxpayer’s “dime,” actually $1.2-million-worth-of-expenses: That’s a lot of dimes. Layton then goes on to say that banks and oil companies are gouging Canadians.
    Um, pot, kettle, black, Jack?
    The two MPs who appear to most gouge Canadians are Jack Layton and his wife, Olivia Chow. Jacko talks the talk but he doesn’t walk the talk. His concern about “hardworking Canadian families” is nothing but hot air, except for the fact that Canadians do need to work hard to support the lifestyle to which the Chow/Laytons have become accustomed.

  27. German E.coli came from bean sprouts. Rawfoodists and other sandaled progressives are in shock.

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