“My doctors told me this morning my blood pressure is down so low that I can start reading the newspapers.” ~ Ronald Reagan, US President, 1987
Once again, a major MSM outlet presents to the world a “fact” that is total and complete fantasy … and it does it to manipulate public opinion, not disseminate knowledge:

What’s interesting though, is that like all leftist points of view, suspension of reality is critical to keeping the concept afloat. The NYT attempt to push the “soldier as felon” myth, shatters under even the most basic scrutiny. Less than a day after the first part of the series ran, troop supporters were doing due diligence and discovering that like most (L)iberal concepts, the NYT “soldier as felon” story was a load of crap.
It turns out, that soldiers, including vets, are involved in violent crime at LOWER rates than the average population … by a magnitude of FIVE TIMES.

… more.

“Material previously appeared here in which a guest blogger made an allegation that Mr. Richard Warman had posted a bigoted attack on the internet against Senator Anne Cools. I have no evidence that this is true and I retract it and apologize to Mr. Warman for it without reservation.”
— Kate McMillan

Small Dead Animals gets results again.
After Someone read this recent post, that Someone promptly sent an email to all Conservative staffers on Parliament Hill.
The stated goal of this mass emailing is to “markedly improve the content of letters other MPs now produce on the subject.”
The email included Jason Kenny’s instant classic response to whatshisname, plus a link to this article.
But I’m a terrible person who shouldn’t be allowed to post here, so I’ll go away now.

Via The Torch, Christie on Afghanistan this week:

“I pretend no expertise in politics, diplomacy, soldiering or Afghanistan, but I have been in Kandahar, well outside the safety of Kandahar Air Field, four times in less than two years, and note the following.

On Mr. Dion: A few days before Mr. Dion and his No. 2, Michael Ignatieff, made their surprise tour to Afghanistan last weekend, the federal Liberal Party made its formal submission to Mr. Manley’s panel.

In other words, before the Liberal leader met Canadian troops and posed in the cute camo outfit (I would knock the block off whoever lent the gear to him, by the way) he had his mind made up – the combat mission, as the party’s submission said, should end as scheduled in February, 2009. His visit there was a disingenuous and fraudulent exercise in bullshit public relations.

However, the “Mohammed Mohammeds” who write in to call me “a speck of dirt on Hitler’s shoe” aren’t Canadian politicians.
Yet…
Give it a couple more years.
Here’s a beaut from a district counsellor in Rotterdam to one of her constituents:

Listen well, dirty madman, WE’LL STAY HERE, hahahahahahhahah, DROP DEAD. I am a dutch moslem, and I shall stay one until my death. I feel pity with your kind, you must live with hatred, really sad. My father and mother have worked hard to help building this country, and I have nothing to do with what others think or say. You are a miserable devil worshipper!!! You have sold your soul!!! Rather bizarre, to believe in the devil and his entourage, and to negate god the allmighty and ruler over heaven and earth. Your kind are the worst terrorists, you have been terrorizing our lives for years here in Holland.

Etc etc.
Note the poor grammar and spelling, unrestrained hysteria and hyperbole, the twisted logic — all very common in Muslim written complaints.

You’d almost think they had a tradition of mass illiteracy or something.

Toronto blogger Mike Brock went to a public forum yesterday, ostensibly a “debate” about the Mark Steyn/Maclean’s case.
Two of Steyn’s belligerent Muslim accusers spoke at the event. The organizers tried to shut Mike up when they realized he didn’t support their cause.
Luckily he recorded the good parts.
One of Steyn’s accusers, a supposedly well-educated young woman, up-talks like a Valley Girl, so it isn’t pleasant listening.
But I’d better get used to it. She and the other law students are determined to be the future leaders of Canada.
If I’m lucky, I’ll die before they achieve that ambition.
PS: more new stuff on Steyn/Levant at my place.
PPS: luckily, there’s another forum set for Calgary that sounds less retarded. I’m guessing Alan Borovoy et al at least know how to speak without sticking unnecessary question marks at the end of their sentences…

“George Bush is forcing Hollywood to put out movies about pregnant girls who don’t get abortions.”

Old soldiers never die, they just open up a big ol’ can of whupass on painfully ignorant Liberals:

After 36 years wearing her majesty’s uniform, I am well aware that political direction, no matter how impossible or ridiculous, has to be obeyed – except in the rare circumstances when the order is illegal. Regrettably, in Canada, we have a dearth of any kind of military experience represented in Parliament in general and in the Liberal Party in particular.
Liberal leader Stéphane Dion’s latest opinion on Canada’s future in Afghanistan calls for us “remaining engaged” in Afghanistan with roles including “training, protection of civilians and reconstruction.”
The last time I received an order regarding the “protection of civilians” was in 1992 when the UN Security Council, as is its habit, came up with its usual lowest-common-denominator direction and told the United Nation’s Protection Force in Croatia to “protect civilians” without engaging in combat.
After shaking our collective heads at the idiocy of the order, we came up with a scheme to place our troops in badly sited defensive positions around the civilian concentrations so that anyone attacking them would have to pass through our positions and we could, therefore, use deadly force in our own self-defence.
In other words, rather than taking the initiative to defeat the threat to the civilians, we were forced to put our soldiers at increased risk to life and limb to appease the sensibilities of the Security Council. Any of our units given the task of protecting civilians in Afghanistan, having abandoned their “combat emphasis,” would face the same dilemma.

And that’s just the beginning.

“There was an email making the rounds in Ottawa this week. It was written by an assistant to a federal Conservative Member of Parliament. I don’t know the assistant’s name, or which MP he (or she) works for, but it doesn’t really matter. The note was sent around to all the other assistants in Conservative MP’s offices. It was a simple request, really…”

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Quiz of the day.
Global warming is:
a) the most serious issue of our times, dooming us to certain death any time now, so use paper bags and crappy lightbulbs, you peons!
b) a great excuse for rich people to fly over to Spain for the Climate Change & Wine Conference, to listen to Al Gore speak while enjoying a fine, robust red.
c) obviously a complete load of crap and a total hoax and scam, based on the discordance between a) and b), a disconnect obvious to you and me, but not to our moral and intellectual superiors on the elite Left.

As previously mentioned, Dion stepped on a landmine . . . but he didn’t know . . . .

“We are dismayed by the statement of the leader of Opposition,” the government said in a statement released late Thursday by the Pakistan High Commission in Ottawa.

“It shows a lack of understanding of the ground realities.”

Oops!

Update: “As a result of unclear reporting and a partisan Conservative response, the Pakistan High Commission has been tricked into making a public statement on the matter.” Elfin Ears

Upperdate Apparently this reaction is because of Stephen making a phone call! h/t to BB in the comments.

… military ad … my, how the mighty have fallen:

At Celestial Junk we posted some slightly better material a while back … link to your favorites in the comments.

“Canada’s ‘Human Rights’ Commissions have managed to get anonymous website comments designated a crime and its investigators now go around leaving such comments themselves? Is that right? Traditionally, an ‘agent provocateur’ in the men’s room has to entrap the guy into the adjoining stall into propositioning sex. In other words, the target still has to commit the actual crime. But in the case of the HRCs the agent provocateur can, in effect, commit the crime himself and then charge the target with it.
“Nice work if you can get it. Agent Steacy and other current or former CHRC employees who do likewise would undoubtedly insist that they’re nice liberal progressives posing as anti-Semitic white supremacists. But who’s to say it’s not the other way round? Maybe someone should take them to the CHRC.”

“It is no wonder that our allies sometimes raise an eyebrow with respect to Canada. It is equally wondrous that we permit such rivalries to make a great nation small.” – Col George Petrolekas

Read why a distinguished serving Canadian officer is moved to make such a statement.

Like doctors overprescribing antibiotics, modern civilization’s social engineers are gradually killing our most valuable defenses. Consider Ezra Levant’s fight as that of a doctor battling to preserve the antidote.
At Cjunk I consider how far Europe has gone in letting pathogens run wild:

No wonder then, that the call to prayers echoing across the rooftops of British cities or vast no-go Muslim zones in France are replacing open, frank, and truly free speech. No wonder then, that the creep of hyper-chauvinism into European culture is greeted with hardly more than a sigh.
What most Europeans don’t even realize, is that they’ve effectively killed off the most effective antidote to civilization-killing pathogens like Islam; free speech.

or we’d have another tedious “ripped from the headlines” episode of Law & Order to look forward to.
PS: don’t you think a sane member of a sane group of people would consider legally changing his surname to something less suspicious or incendiary, just to make his life easier and other people more comfortable?
Oh, wait…

Breaking news here
Canadian Press story
Riders media conference at 12PM CST. You can listen to it live here

“…the study found that gay men in San Francisco were about 13 times more likely to be infected [by flesh eating disease] than other people in the city.”

Back in the early 1960s, two British teenagers pulled off something arguably more impressive on a similar subject, since they did it without green screens or computers…