A long but very much worth reading essay on politicial correctness being another form of Marxism. Commentary on the recent arrests in Toronto appears near the end of the article.

http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2006/06/political-correctness-revenge-of.html

DiManno link doesn't appear to be working.

Ted
Cerberus

Pakistani newspaper, The Nation, has reported that the Danish editor of "Jyllands Posten" "was burnt to death" in a fire in his bedroom.

Pak newspaper says the report originated in a Saudi newspaper.

Cartoon akbar ...-

Israeli-Canadian women trafficking ring busted

The police have busted an international women trafficking ring between Israel and Canada. Details of the ring were released by police Tuesday morning, with the arrest of three suspects in the case.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3259333,00.html

Canada's missing daughters

In China and India, the selective abortion of female fetuses is common. New evidence suggests immigrants have brought this disturbing practice to Canada

http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/story.html?id=9faa3351-3db1-40d7-9e40-ccd59f4d3838&k=5557

Increasing immigration a mistake: demographer

EDMONTON - Governments trying to solve Canada's labour shortage are making a mistake to push for a significant increase in immigration right now, the country's foremost demographer said Friday.

http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/story.html?id=f5913689-6196-455e-8526-c5eb64956eac

ISPs like plan to curb hate, porn

TORONTO (CP) - A proposal to give Internet service providers the power to shut down hate-mongering or pornographic websites received an enthusiastic response Monday by top telecommunications executives, said the plan's creator.

Bernie Farber, chief executive of the Canadian Jewish Congress, presented the idea at the Canadian Telecom Summit in Toronto to senior managers from such major Internet providers as Rogers, Cogeco, and Sympatico, owned by BCE Inc.

http://money.canoe.ca/News/Sectors/Telecommunication/BCE/2006/06/12/1628415-cp.html

Houston offers help

Houston, we have a labour problem -- and the mayor of the Texas city says he can help.

During a speech at the Global Petroleum Show yesterday, Houston Mayor Bill White said Alberta should look to his city to cope with severe labour shortages.
...
"There is a labour pool in Houston," said White.

"I'm not saying they're all model employees ... but I tell you what, there are a lot of people just looking to get back on their feet again."

http://calsun.canoe.ca/Business/2006/06/14/1631449-sun.html

Legislature needs more women, party leaders all agree

McGuinty pledged that candidates in half the seats not held by his party would be women, meaning the Liberals should have at least 34 females.

Tory said his party would exceed the Liberals' 34 and Hampton also vowed to field a healthy slate of women candidates.

The promises and speeches were thanks to the work of Equal Voice, a non-partisan advocate for more women in electoral politics across Canada.

"Ontario's record has not been good. Only 24 women sit in the Legislature," said Equal Voice chair Rosemary Speirs, a former Toronto Star reporter and columnist at Queen's Park and former Ottawa bureau chief.

http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1150321812630&call_pageid=968332188774&col=968350116467

An essay to make the cockroaches wither, but first writhe in agony and scream "racist! fascist!" etc. etc. (ho hum)

But still a very thorough and important essay:

Political Correctness — The Revenge of Marxism

Good essay by David Warren. He really hits the nail on the head with this: "The 'liberal' instinctively identifies with the criminal, the 'conservative' instinctively identifies with the victim." That's as close to a concise, accurate description as we'll ever get.

And "(The liberal) is attracted almost sexually to the idea of transgression', to soiling the respectable." (emphasis mine).

I find that last quote apt, so apt as to be almost regrettable, because the core truth it illuminates can never find purchase on the rocky slopes of political discourse. False descriptions and innuendos about the supposed motivations of those on the right are deeply embedded in the political discourse in our media, whereas the actual personal characteristics and motivations of the excessively liberal are not examined, because they're often, um, personal. Standing in that "no-go" zone allows them to freely peddle the canard that all their actions are purely informed by enlightenment.

-- THE GREAT DIVIDE -- In Canada we have a "CIVIL WAR" raging, right now, in our cities, towns and country side. Positions have hardened to a point where it may go out of control. From social issues to Caledonia the activists are taking control. There really is a great divide. A seemingly straitforward matter such as law and order is an example. On one side, those for a lawfull society. On the other side those who "allow" a certain amount of crime to "destabilize" society and perpetuate the call for government action, controls of a situation that should not be there in the first place. Let's all list those who are on one side or the other. Liberals, Socialists, Conservatives, criminals, NGOs, media, business people, teachers, lawyers, police, judges, terrorists, social workers, families, activists, ........

Off-topic (sorry): Larry Zolf is now criticizing multiculturalism...I think that makes three essays in a row (I think) from him that aren't nauseatingly "rah-rah" Liberal in content. I suspect he's been reading SDA, Kate. Keep up the good work, everyone!

I have always liked David Warren particularly his take on the Islamo-fascist threat. I think he is off the mark on a couple of issues.

First, he only references gay marriage in an oblique way, but I know it is a big deal to him and other social conservitives. They seem to think this is some sort of devastating attack on the sanctity of the family. I think you can all relax on this one. It harms nobody and cannot possibly make heterosexuality less popular. If you want to blame something for the decline in marriage rates or the increase in divorce rates, which began long before gay marriage was an issue, look at Hollywood first.

Second, he thinks restrictions on public smoking is a big part of the problem. There is a good case to be made on libertarian grounds that somebody smoking in public is committing an act of violence against those around him. His concern for the poor publicans is misplaced according to all the evidence I have heard. Here in Vancouver, there was a great wailing and gnashing of teeth when the smoking ban came in a few years ago. All the bars and restaurants would lose a large portion of their business. Smokers would no longer go out and spend money. Well they were all wrong and business has never been better.

I never thought I would have a reason for saying this to or about a columnist of the Star but here goes.

I never thought I would have a reason for saying this to or about a columnist of the Star but here goes. Rosie DiManno: God job. Please keep following this up and pressure the military and our government to do right by this brave young Afghan. He is an example of what everyone in that tragic country can be and he deserves everything that we can offer.

David Warren’s assessment of Islamofascism is terrific. Having been raised in the sub-continent, he has first hand views on Lahore, Calcutta etc. He can get quite pessimistic at times over the refusal of a big portion of the West’s population to fight this fight. He’s a high school dropout who’s familiar with Kipling and Aristotle. He’s a bit like Mark Steyn, not as funny.

Reading Warren and Steyn is not uplifting. They seem to be saying that the reason the socialists won’t fight is that what they believe in, simply isn’t worth fighting for. Hard to argue with that. Hence, we have a whole section of our society appeasing and submitting because they just don’t think that what they carry around in their heads is worth the fight.

Now, that I’ve figured that out, I’m not sure I feel any better. Because there’s a lot of them.

However, now that the Star has more than one rational person on board:
I always thought Richard Gwyn can be sensible (like David Warren’s background, his father was stationed in India); there is now DiManno and Rondi Adamson both smart women and I think we need more women that understand the that Islamofascism is a big security risk to women.

Bottom Line: maybe the MSM is turning a wee bit?

The point on Gay marriage isn't whether it's a threat to heterosexual marriage - it's that it's one more win in the pc destruction of commonly and legitimately held institutions, words and meaning - done without democratic consent.

Regardless of this new, illogical definition - it still stands that two things of the same type cannot be 'married.' For example, try as you might to marry two bolts, it won't happen.

Also, how is it that gay people define themselves as being different from the norm, in other words 'gay' - and yet want to share the same word - marriage?

It makes no sense. But then again, nothing coming from the left makes any rational sense anyhow.

Fjordman's article on pcism should be required reading.

A document found by coalition troops in al-Zarqawi's not-so-safe safe house vowed to use the media to make themselves look good and the Americans to look bad.

Was al-Zarqawi successful? One only has to read the mainstream media (US or Canadian) or listen to the liberals in order to be satisfied that they take their news and talking points from al-Qaeda, not from what is actually happening in Iraq.

-Michael McCullough
Stingray: a blog for salty Christians

So the GG snubs the Queen's birthday bash (80th at that) so she can see a highschool play about her. talk about the me, me, me generation.

Someone want to tell the broad that she is supposed to be the queen's rep and not a Liberal riches to riches poster child.

I've been keeping tabs on the Margaret Somerville honorary degree fiasco at my blog (linked below). The university is refusing to reverse its decision, so protests are planned for the convocation ceremony on Monday. I'll be on campus that day for an exam, so further details will be coming.

Contradiction necessary. Facts presented in Al Gore's documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth" are now widely accepted 'science-based facts.'

To ignore what is presented is to buy into annihilating our very species. The short-term vision has to be revised and quickly by whatever shred of intelligence is left.

For any one following the Australian Wheat Board/Iraq "scandal", here's an interesting story:

"Gun-toting executive leaves wheat exporter" ... the whole stroy is here:

http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/guntoting-executive-leaves-wheat-exporter/2006/06/15/1149964675952.html

If Al Gore is so sure about his Kyoto scam being science based, why does he not accept a debate challenge ?? For months now there has been an openned challenge to the American Gore from our own Canadians like Dr.Tim Ball and Dr. Patrick Moore. To name just two.

Gore has already admitted Kyoto is NOT science based but is a moral/religious "issue". The-sort-of religios "thing" explains his association with one Maurice Strong and the involvement with such "ideas" as; One World Governance, The Earth Charter, UN standing Army, UN taxation powers, Forced Population Control and yes the ultimate of world Hoaxes and Scam-of-the-century, Kyoto. A money laundering scheme, not a pollution control policy at all. The good intentions of some clean environment groups have been hyjacked by the likes of Gore, Suzuki, May, Martin, Clinton, Chirac, ...... fo social engineering purposes.
By the way, I drive a 49cc scooter, 200 mpg and 4-stroke to boot.

Carter's assessment seems to agree with those of the scientists I've met who have expertise in the field. Having reviewed the IPCC reports myself, I must say I find them utterly unconvincing wrt blaming human CO2 production for "global warming" (What point of origin does one use for defining the trend in temperature change?) Solar flux seems to correlate best with temperature trends, CO2 levels not at all.

I'm entering a phase of nostalgia about global warming. It was nearly 20 years ago that i took my first environmental science course and was duly lectured about this impending disaster. Kind of scared me that summer as I walked to my car in the blazing heat, and I pretty much figured we were toast, pardon the pun.
Ah, the good old days. Two decades and we still ain't toast.
Yeah, I figure there's "climate change" but when hasn't there been? Plus, that phrase seems like an excellent way to fuzz the issue.

What ever happened to the Club of Rome doom and gloomers anyway? Did the sky fall in only on them and leave the rest of us untouched?

Message:
Bad Canadian (freely adapted from Bad American that George Carlin did not write).
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I like big cars, big hooters, and big pay checks.

I believe the money I make belongs to me and my family, not some midlevel governmental functionary with a bad comb-over who wants to give it away to useless social programs, like National Day Care.

I'm not in touch with my feelings and I like it that way.

I believe that it doesn't take a village to raise a child, it takes two parents. But if it takes a village to raise a child, then the village has the right to discipline the child.

I think owning a gun doesn't make you a killer.

I think that being a student doesn't give you any more enlightenment than working at Tim Horton’s Coffee Shop. In fact, if your parents are footing the bill to put your lazy butt through university, you haven't begun to be enlightened.

I believe it's called the Boy Scouts for a reason.

I don't think being a minority makes you noble or victimized.

My heroes are Sgt. Tommy Prince, Madeleine de Vercheres, and whoever cancels Canadian Idol.

I don't hate the rich. I don't pity the poor.

I know wrestling is faked and I don't waste my time arguing about it.

I've never owned a slave, or was a slave, I haven't burned any witches or been persecuted by the Roman Catholic Church and neither have you, so shut up already.

I think the cops have every right to shoot your punk ass if you're running from them. I also think they have the right to pull you over if you are breaking the law, regardless of what color you are or who you are.

If that makes me a BAD Canadian, then yes, I'm a BAD Canadian.

If you too are a BAD Canadian please forward this to everyone you know.

I like the article by Warren

"Indeed, the most obvious contemporary way to distinguish between a “liberal” and a “conservative” is in their views on any passing spectacle of crime and punishment. The “liberal” instinctively identifies with the criminal, the “conservative” instinctively identifies with the victim. The liberal instinctively accuses the conservative of lacking compassion, or of wanting vengeance against the criminal, with whom the liberal has identified. The conservative instinctively remembers that the criminal showed no compassion to the victim with whom he identified."

Then he ties this in with current events -

I was thinking about the Toronto terror busts, and the siege at Caledonia, but glancing through the Canadian papers and websites, I see dozens of examples of this “great divide” -- set out exactly as I have described it, above. I invite the reader to make his own correlations.

I haven't been following the Terrorist trial, but I have been following the developments in Caledonia. It just boggles my mind that the Natives are allowed to assault the freedom of movement of non-Natives by blockading roads. If they have a beef with the court system for not moving their claims fast enough to their liking, then to me, the logical action for the Natives to take would be to blockade the Courts. When any other group in Canada blockades the roads the blockades are removed immediately by police in full riot gear. This is what happens when people breach the CC of C.

Another thing that irks me is the 6 or 7 criminal suspects being shielded by the Leaders of the Six Nations on the Reservation. McGuinty and the OPP have the unmitigated gall to engage the Leaders in talks regarding those being sought on assault charges giving the Criminal Code of Canada an equal basis with the Great Law of the Six Nations. There is nothing equal there. The Criminal Code of Canada applies equally, or is supposed to, to all Canadians. The Great Law of the Six Nations applies only to the Six Nations, all others are secondary outsiders. If you want to understand what I mean by this, look up the etymology of the word Mohawk.

Free said: ""Bad Canadian (freely adapted from Bad American that George Carlin did not write).
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I like big cars, big hooters, and big pay checks...,""

LOL. You had me for a minute, Carlin would never write anything like that. Kid Rock, he's alright with me.

http://www.alzarqawismomsblog.com/

Rated: PG (Pork Good).

The Conservative government tabled a "street racing" bill in the House of Commons. The bill has scared/shocked the left liberal/NDP critics who say it's "window dressing". The usual blather from the hug-a-thug socialists.

In the capital city of Ontario, aka TO, last night, a street racing caper turned into "window dressing" with one car demolished and "someone" in critical condition.

Meanwhile, G. Kennedy, from TO,who is the great socialist hope of the federal Liberal leadership "race" is proposing a tax on SUVs... the usual tax-and-spend dogma of the socialists.

Taxes kill economies. Taxation, if not restrained, can kill a country. Down with taxes. ...-

The couple killed a couple weeks ago by a street race were out on their anniversary. Left behind a child. It's about time that if people want to give their little darlings fancy cars they are going to be held responsible as well. Two race cars, seized after road racing accident were destroyed. If there is serious injury or death there is going to be some serious time. Finally, the victims of crimes rights are being protected.

The point on Gay marriage isn't whether it's a threat to heterosexual marriage - it's that it's one more win in the pc destruction of commonly and legitimately held institutions, words and meaning - done without democratic consent.

That is not an argument for preventing gay couples from enjoying the same legal rights as straight couples. Somehow I think your problem with it is not merely syntactical.

Regardless of this new, illogical definition - it still stands that two things of the same type cannot be 'married.' For example, try as you might to marry two bolts, it won't happen.

Languages, especially English, change over time. There is no official government document that definitively describes English like they have in France. Dictionaries describe popular usage, they do not dictate it.

I agree that not all redefinitions or alternate usages are appropriate or honest. Sometimes it seems to be deliberately obfuscating. For instance, when many Christians use the word "love". You can't love somebody you have never met and do not know.

Also, how is it that gay people define themselves as being different from the norm, in other words 'gay' - and yet want to share the same word - marriage?

Non sequitor. Gay is an adjective that is unrelated to the legal state between couples.

It makes no sense. But then again, nothing coming from the left makes any rational sense anyhow.

I would say that only a *little* of what comes from the left makes any rational sense. *Most* of it does not.

and whats your husbands name randall? or is that randaaalll?

http://arcologist.blogspot.com/2006/06/not-for-gores-sake-but-for-your-sake.html

"...the existence of a bad argument for an extreme scenario does not in any way weaken the good arguments for reasonable - and still serious - scenarios of global warming."

Al Gore and friends predict a future of worse storms due to global warming. Using their own claims this is not scientifically accurate. Severe weather is created by either large barometric pressure differences (by high and low pressure systems), or by large temperature differences, ie different temps of land and ocean water, which is what drives the monsoons. Gore claims clear evidence of the Arctic warming even faster than other parts of the world. This in fact would LESSEN the temperature difference with the equator and therefore create a more benign climate.
Katrina, an average storm, was an example of mans stupidity of tempting nature by building a city 10 to 20 below sea level and not double buffering it from the possibility of a levee collapsing.
Actually the Holy Grail of meteorology is to find the firm connection between the sun and the earth's climate. Maybe someday, someone will fill in the blanks to show people how most of it all works.

Randall - I'm with Irwin Daisy on this one. All of his points made sense, and your replies don't resonate. I understand the argument "how does it harm heterosexuals to allow SSM", etc. But Irwin's first point is significant. Undoing the threads that keep the family unit in place will eventually ruin the fabric, no? Every society on earth has seen fit to recognize (heterosexual!) marriage in some form--why is that? Maybe it needs to be protected, maybe a society cannot function long without it.

I will agree with one of your points: "Somehow I think your problem with it is not merely syntactical." I can't speak for Irwin, but many of those I know object to SSM from a Biblical perspective (okay, full disclosure, I do too). To put it simply, the Bible warns of dire consequences for nations (not just individuals) that flaunt God's laws. Can you blame us if you want to avoid those consequences? And are how very sure are you that we're wrong?

...correction to my last two sentences. Should read:

Can you blame us [Christians] if we want this nation to avoid those consequenses? And how sure are you that we are wrong?

I'll quit now before I fat-finger anything else.

and whats your husbands name randall? or is that randaaalll?

Actually I'm not gay. Does it matter?

Undoing the threads that keep the family unit in place will eventually ruin the fabric, no?

No. I don't know if Kate appreciates this, but you are going to have to describe in detail your scenario under which gay marriage destroys the fabric of the family unit. I simply don't see it happening, or at least I don't see it being caused by gay marriage if it does.

many of those I know object to SSM from a Biblical perspective (okay, full disclosure, I do too)

At this point we permanently part ways. As an atheist I do not consider the Christian Bible to be ultimately authoratitive, although I do agree that there are some lessons to be learned from it. However I think it should always be reevaluated in the light of increased knowledge and understanding, given that it was written by people in a fairly primitive society.

the Bible warns of dire consequences ... Can you blame us if you want to avoid those consequences?

Given your axioms, I don't blame you at all. Although I'd be tempted to think that a being that powerful has plenty of ways to get what he wants. Thank you for keeping your dissent peaceful. There are SOME religions that can't do that!

And how sure are you that we are wrong?

Almost entirely! Got a new argument I've never heard before? :-)

Others have pointed out better than I the erosion of the traditional family and the consequences. A recent example I found on PTBC: http://www.proudtobecanadian.ca/blog/index/writergroup/thanks_ej_dionne_for_explaining_it_all_to_me/

I could go on, but for Kate's sake I won't.

Getting really OT, I am equally sure that you are wrong on the atheism thing :-)! You can say with certainty that there is no God? Such hubris! Agnosticism I can (almost) understand, but atheism seems to be a difficult position to hold from a logical point of view.

Documents Found in Zarqawi Hideout Decimate Democrats and Drive-By Media--This is going to panic them. They're not going to know what to do, and they're going to have to go out and do polls. They're going to have to do focus groups, folks...They may just go straight for the kook websites, the blogs out there, to find out what their reaction to all this is. I can predict to you that nine out of ten of them or six out of ten are going to say, "It's a forgery," that Bush and Rumsfeld wrote it.

The left and logic will never share the road of life.

The government will change the definition of marriage back to what it should be or it will not be the government for very long.

There was a time when a family meant married mom dad and children. Continuing the marriage part became not neccessary. Divorces became common. There was no harm to the children by becoming divorced.
Then marriage itself became unneccessary. Just by living together common law became the same as marriage. The breakup of the family was easier.
Unwed motherhood used to be condemned. Now it is fine. Save the hassle of a relationship and skip the breakup part. No need for fathers other than for sex.
Now, skip the sex. No need for men other than sperm donor. No men at all in their lives other than say their homosexual friends.
Parenthood and the nuclear family has been diluted to this point. Marriage has been diluted through common law marriages, now further watering down by inclusion og gay marriages.
Over the last 30-40 years things that have held human societies together for thousands of years have beendiscarded, transformed and diluted. This "wonderful" social experiment has had what impact on our society?
enough

CUPE Members Locked-Out By CUPE...

CanPress is reporting some members/locals of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) are "outraged" at CUPE's call for a boycott of Israel.
They are picketing the offices of CUPE in Toronto.
CUPE's offices are closed.

Does that constitute a "lock-out".

These members are to be congratulated and supported.

Sid Ryan, president of CUPE must resign; he must renounce the hateful "boycott" in no uncertain words, without equivocation. ...-

Field Marshal Kofi Annan and Brigadier-General Maurice Strong, along with Chief of Staff, Citizen of The World, Order of the CSL/SSM, Paul Martin, Jr. have announced that the UN has establised a permanent, standing army with headquarters to be disclosed later. Arrrghhhh...

Not yet. It's being considered.

Don't dial 911/9/11; dial UNO. The "conflict transformation experts" will be teleporting up to 15,000 of their members to your "conflict". Remember Darfur where Muslims are killing Muslims?

Peter Langille of University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada will present his book tomorrow at the UN.

Title: "A United Nations Emergency Peace Service: To Prevent Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity."

(With files from the Toronto Red Star)

Cayuga, Ont.

Bribery by the Socialist Government of Premier Dalton McGuinty/David Peterson.

CP reports that the socialists have paid off/bought/bribed the developer and bought the land, etc. which the Indians say is their land.

The socialist government said it will hold the land "in trust". For who/whom?

The value of the bribe has not been made public said the McGuinty socialist regime's spokeman, David Ramsay, as it is none of the taxpayers' business; Henco, the developer has "concerns about proprietary information", Ramsay said.

Furthermore, Ramsay said, "the deal effectively eliminates one player."

The taxpayers, aka "non-native residents of Ontario" have been eliminated, also.

The Indians are hanging together in anticipation.
( files from cnews )

Yes , but Dr Bob Carter is a well known oil industry stooge: :::[Global warming denial funded by ExxonMobil]. So how can you believe him?

London Times reporting.

Political correctness displayed in the report: The word "Pakistan" appears, the words "Mr. Mohammad" appears, the word "caste" appears, "honour killing" appears, "Miss Nazir" appears.

The word Islam does not appear.

The word Muslim does not appear.

Those two words are conspicuous by their absence.

The Times has failed its readership: the complete "story" is as dead as the "sister".

The London Times is a stooge of the Muslim Islamist terrorists. ...-

Exhibit:

Sister is stabbed to death for loving the wrong man
By Steve Bird
Children were made to watch an attack on a woman who was forbidden to marry outside her caste

Samaira Nazir was murdered by her brother and his cousin. Her father, allegedly involved in the attack, is in hiding ...