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  1. Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, we have the 1953 movie Flying, hosted by Mr. Arthur Godfrey (48 minutes), and starring the famous Constellation:
    video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=3233965115528187277
    (Don’t watch this Kathy, it will remind you of Glenn Gould 😉

  3. Not at all, Doug, my technique is much more refined than that.
    Alas, I cannot say more, for a magician does not reveal his tricks.

  4. Why Israel can’t survive.
    http://www.macleans.ca/world/global/article.jsp?content=20080423_11237_11237
    There is an article in this week’s Macleans about the demographic challenge facing Israel. The fact that in the territories between Jordan and the mediterranean sea (under Israel military control) arabs will soon be the majority.
    That article addresses the same concerns that Mark Steyn raised 2 years ago about Europe in the same magazine.

  5. Caught the article about the judge firing the weapon on the Nation Newswatch site. It was highlighted by a graphic showing a automatic pistol and the heading was something along the lines of “Judge discharges firearm in court”. That was this morning it has since been removed and now I’ve just learned that it was a BB gun. Trust the media to label a BB gun as a firearm.

  6. In the 1980’s in Britain the left had melted into an unsightly puddle. An educated member of a Marxist faction and a fellow who’d been working as a journalist on Fleet Street but was now looking for more political activism in his life decided to try to pump some life into the po-faced beast that was the far left so they joined together with a bandy collective of far-left travelers — Maoists, Communists, Marxists, Trotskyites, revolutionary socialists, radical feminists and so on — in an attempt to launch a credible, mass-market left-wing newspaper.
    It was called “News On Sunday”. The unprecedented, ambitious venture, well-funded, in large part by unions, fell apart comically within two months for reasons that are openly, amusingly apparent in Vanessa Engle’s roundly entertaining documentary “Lefties”. David Thompason has kindly posted this must-see documentary in six short parts on one thread. It loads well. (Handy tip: although it’s not necessary at all, it’s well worth it to hit his paypal for three British pounds — five something Canadian — before you watch, as this prevents the film from getting jammed in the sprockets and melting onscreen.)
    For those who watch the far left out of one calloused eye with a mixture of amusement, trepidation and schadenfreude, Engle’s film is a goldmine that will leave you with a renewed interest in…voting. In one brief and memorable segment a former reporter at News On Sunday recalls “I remember just before the paper launched, when you might expect everybody to be working to get it out — you know, deadlines, these great stories we’re going to run — (but) the office was half empty…I thought, ‘hmm, this is interesting, I wonder where everyone’s gone? (Turns out) everybody was sent off on a deafness awareness course….just before, you know, we were about to launch a paper. So I said to one of the people, I said, ‘what’s a deafness awareness course?’ And…they walked around the streets of Manchester with earplugs. I thought, well, okay, well…”
    I highly recommend “Lefties” to all of Kate’s readers and commenters, particularly our leftist brotheren and sisteren…enen, who may well recognize themselves with a fond chuckle, only to realize, horror-struck, that that one single chuckle means they can never go back.
    http://www.davidthompson.typepad.com/davidthompson/2008/01/lefties-revisit.html

  10. False and misleading headlines in Canadian MSM. This will never include AdScam Chretien-Martin,Jr.,-Citoyen Dion. Never.
    There will be no spilling of beans; no ratting.
    Nor, will Alfonso Gagliano be charged with being a Mafia made-man.
    It’s all hogwash.
    …-
    “Police set to turn spotlight on Liberal officials
    With fraud investigations into ad agencies nearly wrapped up, Mounties to intensify scrutiny of possible corruption, influence peddling”
    “A former Liberal official said the charges against Mr. Corbeil “are a signal to the political class of the day that there are more things to come.”
    Another source said the RCMP is hoping to obtain more information on the inner workings of the party in coming months. “If everything goes well, a bunch of people could spill the beans at the same time,” the source said.”
    DANIEL LEBLANC
    From Friday’s Globe and Mail”
    http://tinyurl.com/6xq8eq

  11. Having found no reference to sparrows in the actual courtroom article, I suspect a crude attempt here to goad Spurwing Plover.

  12. Shocking news here. Just shocking. How is a lefty to respond to this? Call the facts a “paradox”; beyond belief; deny the facts and “feel good”.
    …-
    “BBC correspondent discovers gun-owning America feels safe
    Thomas Lifson
    Justin Webb, BBC’s North America editor, reports to UK listeners and readers on the “paradox” that America is less violent (and feels much safer) than Britain, where private hand gun ownership is banned.”
    “Why is it then that so many Americans – and foreigners who come here – feel that the place is so, well, safe?
    I have met incredulous British tourists who have been shocked to the core by the peacefulness of the place”
    A British man I met in Colorado recently told me he used to live in Kent but he moved to the American state of New Jersey and will not go home because it is, as he put it, “a gentler environment for bringing the kids up.”
    This is New Jersey. Home of the Sopranos.
    Brits arriving in New York, hoping to avoid being slaughtered on day one of their shopping mission to Manhattan are, by day two, beginning to wonder what all the fuss was about. By day three they have had had the scales lifted from their eyes.
    I have met incredulous British tourists who have been shocked to the core by the peacefulness of the place, the lack of the violent undercurrent so ubiquitous in British cities, even British market towns.
    “It seems so nice here,” they quaver.
    Well, it is!”
    “I credit Mr. Webb for his honesty, but wish he would explore the logic of this reality on which he reports with such surprise.”
    http://tinyurl.com/6qye5s (amerthinker)

  13. “Olympic chiefs prepare their lines in case protests turn to tragedy
    Olympic chiefs are prepared for deaths along the torch relay route, The Times has learnt.
    In a confidential memorandum, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has drawn up possible scenarios including incidents where people are hurt or killed during demonstrations in China and cities around the world that are hosting the torch.
    The IOC, which approved the route through Tibet, has also prepared “response protocols” for its 205 national committees. The “suggested statement” in the case of a fatality is: “We extend our deepest sympathies or condolences to anyone that was injured or killed, and their families.””
    http://tinyurl.com/6kvs6l
    …-
    “Interpol chief warns of ‘real possibility’ of violent acts during Beijing Games”
    http://tinyurl.com/676pco (asspress)
    Mao Stlong say, “The most saddening a poem: whistle intestinal has broken, isolated from world trip!”

  14. “Here is an interesting comment about the current ad flap from an NDPer:
    A former national director for the New Democratic Party says the Tory transactions sounds like normal practice that’s been followed by all parties for decades.
    Robin Sears, the NDP’s national director from 1974 to 1981, says central parties have always transferred money to help out local candidates and they’ve always asked local candidates to help pay a share of national advertising.
    “I have a hard time understanding what it is, beyond what everybody’s always done, that (the Tories) are being accused of here,” Sears said in an interview.
    “To claim that national and local expenditures were always rigorously divided and it was a very clear definition of what fell into which camp, it’s just bullshit.”
    In an odd twist, Sears has since become a spokesman for prime minister Brian Mulroney concerning the former prime minister’s dealings with businessman Karlheinz Schreiber.
    Sears said he’s not familiar with the details of the current election spending controversy. But he said it doesn’t sound much different from the regional ad packages that all parties have produced during campaigns for years, wherein national ads are paid for by groups of candidates in a region, whose names are identified in microscopic type at the bottom of the ad. ”

  15. The “taxman” is the original/prototype for the Lucy Warman/Barbara Hall/HRCs. Sniff the test here.
    Loss of freedom of speech is a yawner. Income tax is a drawer of crowds: $$$$$$
    …-
    “As Mr. Kroft stated, “Everyone is motivated to tax plan. Tax minimization is accepted as a basic tenet of tax law. Abuse should not be determined on a ‘smell test’ or on an offended sense of morality.””
    “Supreme Court hears interest deductibility case
    Jamie Golombek
    Wednesday morning, in a jam-packed Supreme Court of Canada, the country’s highest court heard arguments in the now-infamous Lipson tax case, involving interest deductibility and the General Anti-Avoidance Rule (GAAR).
    So great was the interest in the case that a line snaked its way outside of the courthouse onto the front steps as anxious observers waited with patient anticipation to pass through the security checkpoint just inside the building and to secure a coveted seat inside the courtroom.”
    http://tinyurl.com/5n4y87

  16. maz2 –
    “False and misleading headlines in Canadian MSM. This will never include AdScam Chretien-Martin,Jr.,-Citoyen Dion. Never.”
    MSM have been the enablers for corrupt Liberal adminstrations for decades, and appear ready to continue on in that role to this day.

  18. Now, why are our Human Rights Commissions, with their focus on internet or other speech that ‘is likely to cause hatred or contempt’ not focusing on the speech of this young Islamist in Canada?
    http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=469449
    “Naeem Muhammad Khan wants everyone to “Support Our Troops,” but he’s not talking about the Canadian Forces in Kandahar.
    From his apartment in Toronto, Mr. Khan has been posting messages on the Internet calling Osama bin Laden a “hero” and “champion of Islam.”
    In his online postings, Mr. Khan calls Tarek Fatah, Irshad Manji and other moderates “apostates” and says that under Islamic law the punishment for apostasy is death. The same goes for those who insult Islam.
    “Behead her!!! And make a nice video and post it on YouTube,” he writes about one so-called “Islam basher.” As for “Jews who support Zionism and Israel…since they are killing Palestinians…killing them is not bad…they deserve to die.”
    Why doesn’t the HRC go after this? Well?

  19. “If God Is Dead, Who Gets His House?
    The fastest-growing faith in America is no faith at all. And now some atheists think they need a church.
    It seems unlikely that many of the 850 or so people at the Society for Ethical Culture on a recent Saturday night believed that God was still extant. But evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, author of The God Delusion and possibly the most famous atheist in the world, was not taking any chances. He gave a PowerPoint presentation driving home that religion does not meet any of the standards of basic scientific inquiry, before casually flicking away a few of His last crutches. Doesn’t God provide people some solace? asked an audience member. “Isn’t that a little childish?” Dawkins replied. “Just because something is comforting doesn’t mean it’s true.” Then someone asked about death, and Dawkins quoted Mark Twain: “I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born.”
    The room erupted in loud applause. God had definitely left the building—if he were ever here at all. Dawkins and his colleagues had helped to produce a kind of atheist big bang, a new beginning. But what kind of new structures might evolve?
    The Society for Ethical Culture was formed in 1877, eighteen years after Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species and made the religious universe wobble on its axis. But godlessness can be a little scary, even for an atheist. Ethical Culture’s imposing 1910 edifice on Central Park speaks to its patrons’ wealth, as well as their concern that society might fall apart if it didn’t have a church. But for all the grandeur of its secular cathedral, Ethical Culture peaked at maybe 6,000 members, with only about 3,000 today.
    Now, once again, nonbelievers have a fresh sense of mission. The fastest-growing faith in the country is no faith at all.”
    http://tinyurl.com/43vwcu (printthis)
    Mark Twain also said:
    “I don’t give a damn for a man that can only spell a word [eg, God] one way.”
    “It ain’t those parts of the Bible that I can’t understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.”

  20. WHY I AM NOT GREEN:
    Green is the colour of envy, jealousy, and a few other well known character flaws.
    Even plants reject the colour green.There must be a reason plants won’t let green into their system and cause it to bounce off into space. They must know something we don’t.
    The only time plants are not green is when they die or go dormant. Could it be that that the cause of this is their absorbing to much “green”?

  21. (Via CSP) Con Coughlin, Real reason Syrian base was wiped off the map
    Piece by piece, the intelligence jigsaw puzzle concerning Israel’s air strike on a top-secret military site in northern Syria last September is finally taking shape. When a squadron of Israeli F-15 fighter-bombers destroyed a hitherto unknown Syrian military facility at Dayr as-Zawr, close to the country’s north-eastern border with Turkey, there was much speculation that Israel had staged a repeat of its 1981 mission against Iraq’s Osirak nuclear facility, which thwarted Saddam Hussein’s ambition to acquire a nuclear weapons arsenal…
    The other reason the Israelis want to take a back seat is that they are keen not to reveal too much detail about the technical aspects of the air strike, which is regarded as the most sophisticated operation by the Israeli air force since Osirak. To carry out the attack undetected, the fighter-bombers had to be fitted with equipment that extended their bombing range, while the pilots also had to contend with the challenge of penetrating Syria’s state-of-the-art, Russian-built air defence systems. The mission was so successful that the first that the Syrians knew of the attack was when their Turkish neighbours reported that the bombers had returned safely to their base in northern Israel.

  22. (Via Comment Central) Vote for the world’s top public intellectuals
    Prospect magazine is asking for our top five choices from their long list. Familiar names on the list include Anne Applebaum, Michael Ignatieff, Robert Kagan, David Petraeus, Pope Benedict XVI, Richard Posner (I guess blogmate Gary Becker has to make do with his Nobel Prize), Noam Chomsky, Yusuf al-Qaradawi, Tariq Ramadan, Jared Diamond, and many others.
    There is also an option to nominate other candidates.

  24. Mocking the Liberals? Uhoh. Lookeee what He said, in Quebec.
    “”We spend our own money, the Liberals spend stolen money,””.
    Now, He is in deep doodoo with HRCs, Warmanites, Hallites, Wornouts. His defence will be, It’s just a mockery. But, this is offensive; it smells. Gagliano has ordered a gag for He.
    …-
    “Harper mocks the opposition”
    http://tinyurl.com/5uajks (montgazette)

  25. U.S. Says New Find Shows Iran Still Sends Arms to Iraq
    The U.S. military says it has found caches of newly made Iranian weapons in Iraq, leading senior officials to conclude Tehran is continuing to funnel armaments into Iraq despite its pledges to the contrary.
    Officials in Washington and Baghdad said the purported Iranian mortars, rockets and explosives had date stamps indicating they were manufactured in the past two months. The U.S. plans to publicize the weapons caches in coming days. A pair of senior commanders said a presentation was tentatively planned for Monday…

  26. supreme court handcuffs the cops, allows drug traffic a free ride and provides lawyers with millions in fees all in one stupid decision.
    http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20080425/sniffer_dog_080425/20080425?hub=TopStories
    if they thought about it for one second, they would realize , yes , there was a reasonable suspicion that they would find something in the school. I suppose there are some proud parents out there happy that little johnny got off his drug trafficking charge and can head along his merry way.

  27. (Via Contentions) Gap opens between Al Qaeda and allies
    Al Qaeda increasingly faces sharp criticism from once-loyal sympathizers who openly question its ideology and tactics, including attacks that kill innocent Muslims, according to U.S. intelligence officials, counter-terrorism experts and the group’s own communications…

  28. The NEW YORK SLIMES,WASHINGTON COMPOST,BOSTON SLOB,ATLANTA URINAL CONSTIPATION,L.A. SLIMES NEWSREEK,SLIME,U.S. NOOSE AND WORLD DISTORT,USA DECAY,cBS MORNING NEWS,DECAY,GOOD MORONS AMERICA,cBS SUNDAY MORONS, and the rest of the lie a day liberal left-winf news media

  29. Here’s the link to a Times article on the battle for Basra:
    http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/iraq/article3671861.ece
    It appears that the Iraqi government largely won the battle for Basra, instead of being subjected to a humiliating defeat as we are led to believe by the MSM. The article also mentions that the previous ascendancy of radical Islamists in Basra was mostly due to the British policy of doing next to nothing to stop it.

  31. A new movie from BEN STEIN:EXPELLED
    In a controversial new satirical documentary, author, former presidential speechwriter,
    economist, lawyer and actor Ben Stein travels the world, looking to some of the best scientific minds of our generation for the answer to the biggest question facing all Americans today:
    Are we still free to disagree about the meaning of life? Or has the whole issue already been decided… while most of us weren’t looking?
    Call your local Canuckistanian theatre today, demand they show it!!!!!

  32. A new movie from BEN STEIN:EXPELLED
    In a controversial new satirical documentary, author, former presidential speechwriter,
    economist, lawyer and actor Ben Stein travels the world, looking to some of the best scientific minds of our generation for the answer to the biggest question facing all Americans today:
    Are we still free to disagree about the meaning of life? Or has the whole issue already been decided… while most of us weren’t looking?
    Call your local Canuckistanian theatre today, demand they show it!!!!!

  34. Angry’s latest has brought the Moonbat/Puffins to his site. They are squawking with disinformation/deceit.
    First comment was from Liblogger with a promise to post da proof:
    “What a ridiculous argument. I shall post on this tomorrow. I will post the 67 financials if I must and all 308 Liberal returns if I have to. It should also be noted that in the Province of Quebec, the Conservatives also levied a $3875 fee to virtually every riding for TV ads. EC hasn’t even included that in allegations.”
    …-
    “How the Conservatives were singled out by
    Elections Canada”
    http://stevejanke.com/archives/261024.php
    …-
    Canny pundit John Robson, was gonna bet (a wee bit) on the Tories, until, as he says, “Until I made a crucial blunder: I did research.”
    But, Robson, hedges a wee with the weasel word: “might”.
    …-
    “John Robson . The Tories might have a point …”
    http://tinyurl.com/6mmyxt (citizen)

  35. “Only 33% believe Khadr trial will be fair. But few have sympathy for prisoner, poll reveals” (Toronto Star)
    Mario Canseco, director of Global Studies at Angus Reid Strategies, said the results were surprising.
    “It’s almost like we have two different countries. One that wants to get him here, and the other that says this is not really our business in the first place, which is surprising … with all this coverage about what actually happened when he was detained,” Canseco said.
    “We expected people to side a little bit more with his cause.”
    …….
    What, the cause of killing non-Muslims? Or, the cause of treason? Which is it?

  36. “A home-grown ‘Champion of Islam'”
    (National Post)
    TORONTO — Naeem Muhammad Khan wants everyone to “Support Our Troops,” but he’s not talking about the Canadian Forces in Kandahar.
    From his apartment in Toronto, Mr. Khan has been posting messages on the Internet calling Osama bin Laden a “hero” and “champion of Islam.”
    The 23-year-old fundamentalist’s on-line logo combines the black Taliban flag and the outline of an AK-47 above the Support Our Troops slogan.
    Between sips of iced coffee at Tim Hortons, Mr. Khan explained that he is a supporter of the Taliban, as well as other armed Islamic groups.
    “‘Support our Troops’ means supporting the mujahideen [Muslim soldiers of God] who are fighting for their freedom and rights against illegal occupation in many, many places over the world like Afghanistan, Iraq, Chechnya, Kashmir, Palestine and Somalia,” he said later in an e-mail.
    Views like these are becoming increasingly common in Western countries, Canada included, and they are worrying to governments concerned about radicalism and violence.
    Mr. Khan is an Islamist, not a terrorist, but what most disturbs moderate Muslims like Tahir Gora are his harsh comments about those who do not subscribe to fundamentalist beliefs.
    In his online postings, Mr. Khan calls Tarek Fatah, Irshad Manji and other moderates “apostates” and says that under Islamic law the punishment for apostasy is death. The same goes for those who insult Islam.
    “Behead her!!! And make a nice video and post it on YouTube,” he writes about one so-called “Islam basher.” As for “Jews who support Zionism and Israel…since they are killing Palestinians…killing them is not bad…they deserve to die.”
    ———
    So, where’s Barbara Hall, Lucy, Kinsella and the rest of the anti-hate speech brigade on this filth? Deport the savage now.

  37. The “inner strugglers” are still struggling. Oh well, two more for the British penal system. Wonder if their percentage of Muslim inmates is approaching Spain’s 70% yet?
    “Two accused of rape on roller coaster”
    (blackpoolgazette.co.uk)
    TWO men face charges of rape allegedly committed on Blackpool’s Big One roller coaster.
    The duo, who are charged with sexual assault involving four schoolgirls on a trip to the Pleasure Beach, have made their first appearance at court.
    The sex attacks on the four 13-year-old girls are alleged to have taken place in the queue for and on the roller coaster on September 7 last year.
    Mechanic Asad Mahmood, 19, and Haqnawez Razzaq, 26, who are both of Oldham, each face one charge of rape and four charges of sexual touching

  38. Daimnation! has been hacked and there’s some unfunny Apelord stuff presented in its place.
    I don’t get it …

  40. Walk softly but carry a big Quebec stick.
    …-
    “PM outlines how Canada’s balanced economic plan will deliver long-term prosperity for Quebec
    24 April 2008
    Laval, Quebec
    In an economic speech to the Laval Chamber of Commerce and Industry today, Prime Minister Stephen Harper outlined how the federal government’s balanced approach to fiscal policy will address short-term economic challenges and deliver long-term prosperity for Quebec. The Prime Minister noted that over the course of three budgets and two economic statements introduced by the Government and passed by Parliament, roughly half the fiscal allocations for the five years between 2006 and 2010 have gone to tax reduction, with the remainder evenly split between debt pay down and new spending.
    “Our government believes in lower taxes, less debt and carefully targeted assistance that helps workers, families, communities and businesses build a better future. We do not believe in raising the GST, spending recklessly and running deficits. We are responding to short-term economic challenges and we are planning for long-term prosperity. More than anything, these are the things we are focused on. Unlike our opponents, we don’t want to rekindle the old battles of separatists and centralists. They are great champions of these positions – but it’s not our fight”, said Prime Minister Harper.”
    http://www.pm.gc.ca/eng/media.asp?id=2076
    …-
    ChuckerCanuck was there & has blogged about the speech/audience/reception, etc.
    “Thunderstruck”
    […]
    “The Speech
    Stephen Harper is a funny many. He is the funniest political leader I know.”
    Comment:
    “Gabby in QC said…
    Good synopsis, Chucker.
    I was impressed by the size of the crowd and its enthusiasm, and PM Harper’s witty and natural delivery. He looked at ease and as though he was enjoying himself, despite the heavy schedule he’s been keeping, what with
    trip to Bucharest, followed by the 3 Amigos summit.”
    http://tinyurl.com/pxj7d

  41. Anyone see last night’s CBC National where two Polar Bears ended up about 500K south of where they normally live?? They were nearly starved. Watch the enviro-canada weather on Nunuvut. The truh is that it’s been so cold, the poor bears are starving. Far cry from what CBC has been telling us in the last four years.

  42. (Via MESH) Dr. Sherifa D. Zuhur, Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, Precision in the Global War on Terror: Inciting Muslims through the War of Ideas
    This monograph will not revisit the origins of Islamist violence. It is instead concerned with a type of conceptual failure that wrongly constructs the GWOT and which discourages Muslims from supporting it. They are unable to identify with the proposed transformative countermeasures because they discern some of their core beliefs and institutions as targets in this endeavor.
    [Full paper available in PDF].

  43. Where’s the HRC indeed! Read Mark Steyn’s excellent analysis of the HRC in Macleans.
    http://www.macleans.ca
    Then click on Mark Steyn’s column on the right side.
    He notes that the oft-repeated argument that ‘hateful words’ lead to ‘hateful actions’, ie, visions of the Holocaust, is invalid.
    He writes: “Isn’t it obvious that in the case of Adolf Hitler, “hateful words” led to “unspeakable crimes”? This argument is offered routinely: if only there’d been “reasonable limits on the expression of hatred” 70 years ago, the Holocaust might have been prevented.
    There’s just one teensy-weensy problem with it: pre-Nazi Germany had such “reasonable limits.” Indeed, the Weimar Republic was a veritable proto-Trudeaupia. As Alan Borovoy, Canada’s leading civil libertarian, put it:
    “Remarkably, pre-Hitler Germany had laws very much like the Canadian anti-hate law. Moreover, those laws were enforced with some vigour. During the 15 years before Hitler came to power, there were more than 200 prosecutions based on anti-Semitic speech. And, in the opinion of the leading Jewish organization of that era, no more than 10 per cent of the cases were mishandled by the authorities. As subsequent history so painfully testifies, this type of legislation proved ineffectual on the one occasion when there was a real argument for it.”
    “The idea that “hate speech” led to the Holocaust is seductive because it’s easy: if only we ban hateful speech, then there will be no hateful acts. But, as professor Anuj C. Desai of the University of Wisconsin Law School points out, “Biased speech has been around since history began. As a logical matter, then, it is no more helpful to say that anti-Semitic speech caused the Holocaust than to say organized government caused it, or, for that matter, to say that oxygen caused it. All were necessary ingredients, but all have been present in every historical epoch in every country in the world.”
    The reductio ad Hitlerum is the laziest form of argument, so it’s no surprise to find the defenders of the ever-more-intrusive “human rights” enforcers taking refuge in it. But it stands history on its head. Most of us have a vague understanding that Hitler used the burning of the Reichstag in February 1933 as a pretext to “seize” dictatorial powers. But, in fact, he didn’t “seize” anything because he didn’t need to. He merely invoked Article 48 of the Weimar Republic’s constitution, allowing the state, in the interests of the greater good, to set — what’s the phrase? — “reasonable limits” on freedom of the press, freedom of expression, freedom of association, freedom from unlawful search and seizure and surveillance of postal and electronic communications. The Nazis didn’t invent a dictatorship out of whole cloth. They merely took advantage of the illiberal provisions of a supposedly liberal constitution.
    Oh, and by the way, almost all those powers the Nazis “seized” the morning after the Reichstag fire, the “human rights” commissions already have. In the name of cracking down on “hate,” Canada’s “human rights” apparatchiks can enter your premises without a warrant and remove any relevant “document or thing” (as the relevant Ontario legislation puts it) for as long as they want it. And without anybody burning the House of Commons or even the Senate.”
    Steyn continues: “I quote from “Concepts Of Race And Racism And Implications For OHRC Policy” as published on the OHRC website:
    “The denial of racism used by so many whites in positions of authority ranging from the supervisor in a work place to the chief of Police and ministers of government must be understood for what it is: an example of White hegemonic power over those considered ‘other.’ ”
    “Got that? Your denial of racism merely confirms your racism — because simply by being a “White hegemon” (like Barbara Hall or Jennifer Lynch) you wield racist power. The author, Frances Henry, cites the thinking of “modern neo-Marxist theorists” as if these are serious views that persons of influence in Canada’s “human rights” establishment ought to be taking into account, rather than just the latest variant of an ideology that’s led to the deaths of millions in Russia, China and everywhere else it’s been put into practice. ”
    So- our new HRCs are modelled after Marxism-Leninism. Remember, a key factor of the Canadian HRCs is that they totally, completely, reject the right and the ability of Canadians – to think. We are too dumb to Reason, to think, to make up our own minds about the validity of what we read, hear and think. Our bureaucrats – these appointed, unaccountable, elitist bureaucrats – they self-define themselves alone as having this ‘innate capacity to think’. We ordinary Canadians aren’t able to do so; we have to be Ruled by Them.
    Only in Canada, eh?

  44. Regarding the chickenhawk thing, I guess it IS a noteworthy occasion when you can find one conservative who, as McCain can at least on some level, walk his talk. And as far as I know, nobody ever claimed that chickenhawks are exclusively Republican, or CPofCanada supporters. We all know they comprise only the vast majority. Conservatives don’t hold a patent on hypocrisy. They just make everyone else look like not very gifted amateurs in that area.

  45. Socialists at work.
    In Zimbabwe, the socialists raid the Opposition.
    In Canada, the socialists raid the Government.
    …-
    “Zimbabwean Police Crack Down on Opposition Activists, Election Monitors
    In an unprecedented move against Zimbabwe’s political opposition, police have arrested hundreds of opposition supporters at the headquarters of the Movement for Democratic Change. The police claim they were looking for the party’s election data from the March 29 polls.”
    http://voanews.com/english/2008-04-25-voa8.cfm
    …-
    “Liberal.ca :: News
    15 Apr 2008 … The RCMP raid of Conservative Party headquarters is proof that Prime Minister Stephen Harper must explain to Canadians about his party’s …”

  46. Mike @ 9;.50AM, that’s quite expenseive. A Lakh is 100,000. So this purchase costs 4.5 million rupees.

  48. I hear that talks between China and Tibet are imminent.
    Gee, if the Dalai Lama could bring about some kind of cessation of hostilities, maybe he might be able to edge out Al Gore for the Peace Prize.
    (Can you win it twice?)
    Not likely if the Nobel lefties have anything to say about it.

  49. Baird mocks the Greenie-wackos.
    “standing in front of a stuffed polar bear”
    …-
    “Polar bear in trouble, not endangered-Canada panel”
    “”Let’s take action now and that’s exactly what we’re going to do,” he told reporters, standing in front of a stuffed polar bear at the Canadian Museum of Nature in Ottawa.”
    http://tinyurl.com/5u4jmw (reuters)

  50. Thanks, Charles MacDonald, @ 10:44 a.m.
    I voted for four of my five, and added Mark Steyn as my choice for a person I think should be on their list.
    The ubiquitous Al Gore is there: what a bore.

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