It's not Dingwall or Coffin or Boulay or Pelletier or Copps or Gagliano or any of the Librano$$$$$$$.

BTW, two words hated by Islamist murderers: Mo-ham-medanism and PORK!

When following one of the links at that site last night, I got a Trojan Horse, not sure of all the details, but my computer savvy roommate cleaned it up...something about a registry (?) cleaner I think.

See Mark Steyn's column, "Making a pig's ear of defending democracy", Daily Telegraph, Oct. 4
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2005/10/04/do0402.xml

Sub-head on his website: "Talking the talk and walking the pork".

Excerpts:

'Alas, the United Kingdom's descent into dhimmitude is beyond parody. Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council (Tory-controlled) has now announced that, following a complaint by a Muslim employee, all work pictures and knick-knacks of novelty pigs and "pig-related items" will be banned. Among the verboten items is one employee's box of tissues, because it features a representation of Winnie the Pooh and Piglet. And, as we know, Muslims regard pigs as "unclean", even an anthropomorphised cartoon pig wearing a scarf and a bright, colourful singlet.

Cllr Mahbubur Rahman is in favour of the blanket pig crackdown. "It is a good thing, it is a tolerance and acceptance of their beliefs and understanding," he said. That's all, folks, as Porky Pig used to stammer at the end of Looney Tunes. Just a little helpful proscription in the interests of tolerance and acceptance.

And where's the harm in that? As Pastor Niemöller said, first they came for Piglet and I did not speak out because I was not a Disney character and, if I was, I'm more of an Eeyore...

Likewise, Piglet is deeply offensive and so's your chocolate ice-cream, but if a West End play opens with a gay Jesus, Christians just need to stop being so doctrinaire and uptight. The Church of England bishops would probably agree with that if, in their own misguided attempt at Islamic outreach, they weren't so busy apologising for toppling Saddam.

When every act that a culture makes communicates weakness and loss of self-belief, eventually you'll be taken at your word. In the long term, these trivial concessions are more significant victories than blowing up infidels on the Tube or in Bali beach restaurants. An act of murder demands at least the pretence of moral seriousness, even from the dopiest appeasers. But small acts of cultural vandalism corrode the fabric of freedom all but unseen...

It has been clear since July 7 that the state has no real idea what to do to reconcile the more disaffected elements of its fastest-growing demographic. But at some point Britons have to ask themselves - while they're still permitted to discuss the question more or less freely - how much of their country they're willing to lose. The Hundred-Acre Wood is not the terrain on which one would choose to make one's stand, but from here on in it is only going to become more difficult.'

Mark
Ottawa

Cox and Forkum has a op-ed cartoon on this at:
http://www.coxandforkum.com/archives/000682.html

Apparently the Union Jack and pet dogs are under threat too.

Perhaps if these folks find British society such a fearsome situation, they could flee back to the various dictatorships they initially fled. Shame on the Brits for even paying attention to these whiny punks. Evidently the spirit of Chamberlain has supplanted that of Churchill. On the bright side, now Canadians can say we come by it honestly when others point out what a quivering, equivocating tribe of appeasement junkies we have become.

So Piglet (a character in a book) is free everywhere except the benefits department at Dudley Council, West Midlands, England.

Kathy again takes on the tough targets, and not the hypocricy of the Catholic Church (the abuse scandals and cover up, condoms in Africa, banning gay men from the clergy-does this mean most cardinals will have to quit?).

Further in Steyn's piece he quotes Inayat Bunglawala of the Muslim Council of Britain that "there is absolutely no scriptural authority for this view. It is a misunderstanding of the Koranic instruction that Muslims may not eat pork."

Moderate modern Muslins here, in England, and the Middle East should be recognized and supported in their struggle with extremists.

Dhimmi
is only sought now by the Taliban and Al Qaeda.

Whenever I read someone's blog, whether they are right or left, I am careful that some enjoy the power of manipulating and jerking their base.

2002-12-21: The British Red Cross has ordered a near total ban of Christmas decorations from its charity shops so as not to offend Muslims, a London newspaper reported yesterday.

Save a pig. Eat a Muslim.

As a child I read all of the Freddy the Pig books, all 26 of them.
Gratefully, I now realize that they were anti-Islam, and probably shoud be burned. I can't imagine what my parents were thinking about in exposing me to the smartest pig in upstate New York. I will deal with them.

Brian, you remind me of why I sometimes want to disavow membership in the human species.

Thanks Tony. Guess it's a good thing I didn't say what I was really thinking.

God save the pigs!

Love,
Brian

I don't think we need to bother god with this one, Brian, this should do:

Rule, Brittania,
Brittana rule the waves,
Porcines ever, ever, ever,
Will be hip.

(With appologies to the Bonzo Dog Band.)

By the way, did you know that it is now safe to eat factory-farmed pork medium rare. That's right, them little piggies simply don't have trichina worms any more! And you try to tell that to the authors of the ancient religous texts; they won't believe you.

Now where'd I put my bangers and bubble and squeak? (I like mine with sour cream. Yeah, I'm weird.)

Race fears spark St. George ban
October 4, 2005
LONDON, England (CNN) -- British prison officers who wore a St. George's Cross tie-pin have been ticked off by the jails watchdog over concerns about the symbol's racist connotations.

The pins showing the English flag -- which has often raised hackles due to its connection with the Crusades of the 11th, 12th and 13th centuries -- could be "misconstrued," Chief Inspector of Prisons Anne Owers said in a section on race in a report on a jail in the northern English city of Wakefield.

The banner of St. George, the red cross of a martyr on a white background, was adopted for the uniform of English soldiers during the military expeditions by European powers to recapture the Holy Land from Muslims, and later became the national flag of England.

..."A lot of Muslims and Arabs view the Crusades as a bloody episode in our history," he told CNN. "They see those campaigns as Christendom launching a brutal holy war against Islam.

"Muslim or Arab prisoners could take umbrage if staff wore a red cross badge. It's also got associations with the far-right. Prison officers should be seen to be neutral."...

http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/10/04/britain.redcross/

I am the first to admit that the Brits are taking religious sensitivity and political correctness way way too far with this. How can anything/anyone with such a squeaky voice be insulting? He (she? it?) hardly even really looks like a pig. So I have to admit that the right-wing swarm gathering on this are right to point out the lunacy of banning Piglet because he's a, well, pig, or at least an animated rendition of something that resembles one sort of.

But which is the bigger problem here: some religious faithful who have made a silly request for sensitivity or the intellectually challenged bureaucratic peons who can't think for themselves in an ugly display of intolerance of common sense? Why isn’t the focus on political correctness running amok instead of someone’s faith and how they interpret it? Wacko religious fanatics are making looney demands on their saner citizens all the time: remember how they treated my good friends Bert and Ernie, Barney, Spongebob, Tinky Winky and Buster? I don’t seem to remember these fine concerned conservatives displaying a similar outrage against the likes of Jerry Falwell, James Dobson, Reverend Campbell, or Vice President Quayle. I don’t recall any call to arms asking us to place stuffed Barneys and Tinky Winky's on our windowsills or dashboards.

So really, once again, some on the far right are allowing their true colours to shine through clearly in their zealous focus on sticking it to Muslims rather than the too-politically correct bureaucrats, especially when they show no similar concern when it is the far right Christians. Nice display of intolerance in an attempt to castigate intolerance. So these conservatives, as is their norm, get it wrong even when they are right.

More about this hypocrisy and silliness here.

TB
Cerberus

Do we have to ban all pigs? Couldn't Miss Piggy just wear a burka?

Miss Piggy couldn't POSSIBLY wear a bhurka, it would ruin her hair!

Occam:

A quick bit of research: all but one of the current judges were formerly on a provincial court of appeal (Binnie was appointed directly from private practice but was very well known in the profession as a superior litigator and constitutional law expert); and, ever since it mattered (i.e. when the SCC became the final court of appeal and not the UK House of Lords), it seems they were only two examples of non-judges being appointed - former Chief Justices Cartwright and Taschereau.

TB
Cerberus

I never thought Anne McLellan's hairstyle was that fancy, Candace.

Ooops. That comment was made on the wrong post. Ignore it (or respond to it over on the Miers post).

Kelly, I got the same Trojan Horse. Any idea how your roomate cleaned it up?

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