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One of the reasons that conservatives have been losing ground in the cultural battle over the last forty years or so has to do with the fact that we are far less likely than those on the left to sing painfully earnest, plaintive songs while exchanging meaningful glances. In the interest of remedying this deficit, let’s watch and learn from Maggie Huang and her friends, as they nourish each other’s souls with a stirring rendition of My Name Is Palestine.
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  2. According to documents filed today in an Ottawa courthouse, Rahim Jaffer met in China with state-owned Chinese technology companies, then flew back to Canada where he used his wife’s MP email account to make enquiries about Canada’s space/satellite policies/technologies, including “a sensitive ‘automatic identification system’ (used by the military) to identify vessels in Canadian waters.” Then he…
    Wowee. The whole incredibly dodgy-sounding thing here.

  3. Sorry, EBD, but that was about 10.5 seconds of the worst moments of my life.
    Fans don’t play pro football, Joe and Janette six-pack shouldn’t share their campfire, beer-soaked attempts at singing.

  4. Ten days ago in the Globe & Mail (I missed it at the time) Terry Glavin reviewed two books with opposing views on Omar Khardr: Ezra’s The Enemy Within, and Janice Williamson’s Omar Khadr, Oh Canada.
    Excerpt:

    Intrigues abound, but there are many documented and necessary facts will will not read in Omar Khadr, Oh Canada about the boy hero of the anthology’s title. For one thing, you will not learn that Khadr, an accomplished al-Qaeda bomb-maker, is still keen on jihadism, or that his forensic psychiatrist, Michael Welner, deems him to be “full of rage” and a serious danger to society even 10 years after his arrest in Afghanistan.
    Neither would you know that Khadr, whose claims of torture were dismissed by U.S. Military Judge Colonel Patrick Parrish two years ago as utterly without evidence or credibility, “even using a liberal interpretation considering the accused’s age,” is a cunning manipulator who has skillfully traded on his al-Qaeda status among his fellow inmates, or that he has admitted that when he feels a bit glum, he will cheer himself up by recalling happier times building infidel-killing land mines.

    At one point in the article Glavin, umm, praises Ezra with faint damn:

    “Levant is a flamboyant lawyer-activist, author and faintly clownish but maddeningly astute Sun News Network personality…”

    (emph. mine)

  6. EDB…. I watch the whole youtube clip with hope there is an explosion at the end. Now, I lost appetite, can not finish my supper.

  7. But lance, we *have* to sing earnest songs while looking into each other’s eyes. It might make us uncomfortable, but it’s the only way to win the hearts and minds of the people.
    Keep hope alive.

  9. The trio are good candidates for burka’s as well, and if not at least a face veil. mike

  11. Short excerpt from Victor Davis Hanson’s “Barack the Healer“:

    When the president announced that the son he never had might have resembled Trayvon, one wondered what would have been the reaction had Bill Clinton weighed in right in the midst of the O. J. trial, lamenting that the second daughter he never had might have looked like the slain Nicole. Are the daily accounts of black-on-white violence and flash-mobbing that splash across, say, the Drudge Report racist in their emphases, or are the mainstream media’s efforts to ignore the incidents completely more likely to be racially illiberal?

    The whole thing here.

  15. EBD: Appreciate the post, but I could only last about 12 seconds before I threw up in my mouth a bit.
    I’ll pass on the rest…

  16. Bruce, seriously, you need to put it on auto-replay for a couple of hours, and take copious notes.
    Do it for the children.

  19. KevinB, that approach is far from scientific.
    Sensitive types shouldn’t click this link.
    Further proof that there is a South Park reference for most things.

  22. “My Name is Palestine” made me want to throw up. What sick deluded souls.

  26. And our enemies will believe ???
    People will believe whatever best fits their preconceived notions of what is true. Most don’t possess the analytical skills to sort out truth from fiction so they believe whatever ‘news’ media their friends believe.
    The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits. Albert Einstein

  28. Re. peterj at 1:16 am: First time I heard it, ‘knew it was “Sudden Jihad Syndrome”. Now the taqqiya starts.
    1.) For the “They Took All The Rights, Put ‘Em In A Rights Museum” file, from Manitoba’s Black Rod – “Is the Canadian Museum for Human Rights headed for tax sale?”
    Excerpt: “Psst. Hey, buddy. Wanna buy a museum? Have we got a deal for you. Big mofo. Ugly as sin. No heat. No lights. It[‘]s still unfinished [—] but you can’t beat the deal. Once in a lifetime opp, pal. Buy it for a song, and the federal government pays you $21.5 million a year.
    “Not a word of a lie. Hey, where you goin’? Buddy…”
    2.) Excerpt from Michael J. Totten’s new book “Where the West Ends”, from his trip to Ukraine. Ken, buddy, you got the all-expenses-paid version – Totten had a nocturnal adventure on the cheap.

  29. EBD, 10:39; 10:44; 11:04 —
    On the general subject of self-immolation on the part of the left, I’m wondering if an understanding of the stupidity involved hasn’t now seeped in with the general public to such an extent that a big shift in structural public opinion (i.e. opinion not influenced by performance on shorter-run events) is in the offing:
    10:39 — I always wondered about the weird juxtapositioning by the media (up to and including Mansbridge One on One, I think) of Stephen Harper and Helena Guergis: if their purpose was to take Stephen down a notch or two (by trying to make him look like a meannie; even asking him about her on the campaign trail last year the day after her nationally-televised meltdown), it was pretty obvious from the beginning that it wasn’t going to work. Why would they not consider how over-matched she was? How did they figure the public would react to a “show down” if it went awry? Where’s the judgment? And now this new information: how does Stephen Harper not come off looking even more considered and professional in his comportment than he did before?
    10:44 — Omar Khadr, Oh Canada? Really? Aside from it not even being a proper parallel construction, aren’t we a little beyond the Liberal hand-wringing era of the Canadian literati implied by titles like Oh Canada! Oh Quebec!? Without having read this new book (and I’m pretty certain I’m not interested), rather than a white-wash that has no chance of standing for more than five minutes, how about coming up with some reasonable suggestions about what to do with this guy? My Canada does not include Omar Khadr: I don’t want him back here, and, aside from a few left-over 1970s-style left-ist anti-American types who are only for him because of their Bush Derangement Syndrome, who does?
    11:04 — I posted a couple of comments at the Sunnunu article on Obama’s deliberate strategy of dividing America at all costs, but I’d add one thought. I think there is a real chance of a big backlash against Obama and the media over the provocations VDH discusses: I feel that among white Americans (who are largely post-racial), Obama is dangerously close to making people feel that they are being manipulated and that their intelligence is being insulted. He would have been much farther ahead to stay out of the Trayvon Martin thing and to condemn the black-on-white stuff: he may already have lost the advantage he may have had around not defeating the first sitting black president.

  30. Our beloved state broadcaster put up another story on sweet little Omar yesterday.
    To the left of the article is a direct link to the petition started by Liberal Dallaire that wants Omar brought home.
    The cbc used this same tactic to enhance the robocall fiasco. They encourage their readers to sign petitions and then use the increased numbers to justify another article on the subject and so on.
    This is not covering the news,this is manufacturing the news. A billion dollars doesn’t get you much anymore. FIRE.THEM.ALL.
    http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2012/07/17/pol-khadr-dallaire-petition.html

  31. BTW,a quick search of the cbc site using “Kapoor” the name of the woman that has organized a petition against Khadr’s return,and also has organized rallies for today in 4 cities, yields ZERO results.
    FIRE.THEM.ALL.

  33. jwkozak91 @ 4:15 am, I have many of the books Michael Totten mentions. BTW, we landed in Kiev, took a train to Dnepropetrovsk, then a bus to Zaporozhia where we spent a week visiting that area, as well as the Tokmak area. My mom was born in the Krivoy Rog area and my wife’s family also came from and left the Zaporozhia area in the early 1920s after the civil war (good thing). The main and secondary roads in that area are decent, but not up to North American standards.

  35. David (5:05): Stephen Harper’s deportment around the time of Guergis’s teary performance on Mansbridge’s soapbox was everything I’ve come to expect from the PM in difficult situations, but yes, absolutely, this new information about this toxic couple makes his disciplined, long-view response look even better in retrospect. The fact that he clearly knew a lot more details about Guergis/Jaffer than the media, combined with the fact that, to the extent that the CBC et al did have additional information, they were more interested in running with the “poor little woman as victim of the big meanie” angle (the meme that Harper/the Conservatives were ‘anti-woman’ was big at the time) put him in a tough spot. It must have been tempting to say “look, there’s a lot of damning information that you are either unaware of or are withholding from the public”, but he took the long view and showed a great deal of discretion and restraint. He took short-term hit, in effect, in order to do the right thing in the long run.
    He’s just a great PM overall, in my opinion – the best in my lifetime, with no close second – and we’re very, very lucky to have him.
    On your third point, I agree that there is the potential for a serious ballot-box backlash when liberal-ish, well-intentioned white people realize that the fraudulent “healer” who seemed to herald a post-racial society is actually a divider of the worst kind who deliberately, and with great tactical acumen, sets groups – racial, economic – against each other. He’s revealed himself to be a con man and a fraud, and it’s got to be increasingly difficult for reasonable people to pretend otherwise.

  38. Left-liberalism.
    “Toronto has to take action to avoid more shootings
    Toronto Star”

  40. What was really needed was for John Belushi to come by and grab and smash the guitar…..And you listened to the whole thing?

  41. What was really needed was for John Belushi to come by and grab and smash the guitar…..And you listened to the whole thing?

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