In last night’s Reader Tips SDA regular ‘nv53’ had a very interesting analysis of the Alfred Apps editorial published yesterday in the National Post.
As the President of the Liberal Party of Canada, he sure has a lot to promise to a whole lot of different groups! But are the majority of Canadians buying the Liberal message anymore? Here’s what Charles Adler had to say.

SDA regular Gord Tulk posted this in Reader Tips:

I think that SunTv owes Kate a royalty cheque too:

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2011/06/11/18271031.html
“Twelve months after Fox News launched in the U.S. in the late 1990s, it had the same number of viewers Sun News has after just two months on-air.”
Bravo!!

In case you weren’t aware, you can watch many Sun News videos here.

Remembering the history of the Winnipeg Jets and celebrating their return. (h/t Derek)

May the citizens of Winnipeg one day be able to enjoy what happened in Vancouver last night!

SDA commenter Sammy has kindly provided a link to a very special story written by TSN’s Gord Miller. It’s long but well worth reading to the end. In it, Miller outlines a recent journey that he, Jarome Iginla, Jayna Hefford, and Marie-Philip Poulin recently took to Europe & Afghanistan with Prime Minister Stephen Harper. A most profound experience for all of them!

“If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun.” – Barack Obama

BATB;

For many in the States, who are convinced that the Obamessiah’s agenda is madness, their solution has been to join the Tea Party, which is not a violent or terrorist group. The Tea Party is a legitimate, grass-roots coming together of individuals to propose alternative programs to those of the Obama-led government. The Tea Party is a bona fide element of the democratic process in the U.S. — and to suggest that U.S. citizens shouldn’t form groups like this because they might incite violence or domestic terrorism is tantamount to political blackmail: Don’t push back, folks, because something violent might happen.

As Glenn Reynolds wrote yesterday– If you’re using this event to criticize the “rhetoric” of Sarah Palin or others with whom you disagree, then you’re either asserting a connection between the “rhetoric” and the shooting — which based on evidence to date would be what we call a vicious lie — or you’re not, in which case you’re just seizing on a tragedy to try to score unrelated political points, which is contemptible. So which is it?

Matt Hillier;

That’s problem with Chinese internet crackdowns. After you ban one website, you still feel like banning another a half hour later.

“
Well if religious tolerance were the order of the day – The Dome of the Rock Mosque would be a Jewish temple. The Hagia Sophia would be a Christian Church, the Buddha statues in Afghanistan would still be evident, the twin towers would still be standing and there would be no mention of the GZ Mosque.
Trying to appease your enemy means you’re losing the war. ”

“He could end all of this if he’d just show us his dog licence.”*

I’m going to quote the whole thing;

Afghanistan was politically oversold because it was not Iraq. It was useful in order to establish the narrative of a “good war” in contrast to the ‘bad wars’ of GWB. The price for doing this was to pervert its true value while while the centers of enemy gravity were simply defined out of policy existence. Eventually they would have to take back their shoddy goods. To weasel out from under their extravagant promises.
What we are watching is a changing of the narrative. The “good war” is about to become “a failure of bad intentions made worse by the blunders of George W. Bush”. Well it was never the former nor the latter; worst of all it was never what it was said to be: one battlefield in a global war whose existence is too inconvenient to be recognized.
The Wikileaks episode, considered in the context of the last 9 years, suggests that the media and the political elite are almost totally dishonest. Their economics is a lie; their global warming a lie; their military ’strategy’ another lie; and even their accounts of the lies are lies. Personally I think [Wikileaks founder Julian Assange], far from being a revolutionary outsider, is just another operative in the backroom. But that’s not news. The really significant thing is that things don’t work the same way any more. That apart from being total liars they are now total bankrupts. The global financial crisis, the discrediting of “global warming” and the crisis in the media are really reminders that the old magic is losing its power.
Your credit is good, but we need cash.
Maybe someone had the idea that mega-exposes like the Washington Post’s Secret America and the Wikileaks dump of classified would bring back the golden years of 1973. When everybody wanted to be Woodward or Bernstein. Maybe Assange thinks that Hollywood will soon get a top matinee idol to play him in the new version of ‘All the President’s Men’. Maybe. But I wouldn’t take out a big loan to attend J-school just yet. The sparkle isn’t there any more; and the movie that is really going to bill is ‘Sunset Boulevard’. There is a curious flatness in the public response to these earth-shaking revelations. It’s the dog that didn’t bark in the night.

h/t Maz2

Find an anti-Semite;

Today’s blockade of the Port of Oakland by anti-Israel forces, in collaboration with the Longshoremen’s Union (ILWU), is the opening of another front in the war on Israel — economic, politcal, propagandistic, and military — which escalates week by week. Will it ever end? Not according to the masterminds of the flotilla:

Meanwhile, Yasser Kashlak, a Syrian businessman of Palestinian descent who heads the “Free Palestine Organization” and is funding this boat, as well as another that is to carry journalists and parliamentarians, said over the weekend on Hizbullah’s al-Manar television station that he was more and more optimistic that one day these same boats would take “Europe’s refuse [the Jews] that came to my homeland back to their homelands.
“Gilad Schalit should go back to Paris and those murderers go back to Poland, and after that we will chase them until the ends of the earth to bring them to justice for their acts of slaughter from Deir Yassin until today.” Kashlak, a fervent Hizbullah supporter, called Israel a “rabid dog sent to the region to frighten the Arabs. He said he had a message for Israelis: ‘Get on the ships we are sending you and go back to your lands. Don’t let the moderate Arab leaders delude you, [you] cannot make peace with us. Our children will return to Palestine, you have no reason for coexistence. Even if our leaders will sign a peace agreement, we will not sign.’”

h/t

Reader Jim H. emails –

I was reading your site tonight and had a thought regarding the Islamic convention that just wrapped in Toronto.
All we’ve heard here for the last 2 days is about the chaos at Pearson Airport, something like 15% of flights to the US cancelled, incredible delays etc. I’m given to understand the problems are not as severe in other parts of the country or in the US. And then I began to wonder if the presence of 8000 politically active Muslims in the city might have more to do with the extensive searches and cancelled US flights than some guy whose underwear caught fire.
Not the sort of angle our local media is likely to suggest. But if you were an edgy head of Homeland Security and knew 8000 people who don’t like you very much were camped that close to the border, you might be putting some pressure on your opposite number here to tighten things up.

Yes, I suspect so.
Related.

“You right wing conservatives just can take a little truth and when a socialist fights back scream: “censorship him”. It already happens hear at SDA, trust me.”*

That one came this –> || close to making it to the masthead.

Reader Brian Mallard is looking for input;

I am going to be in Ottawa this coming week. I will attend a meeting where the prime minister will take questions in an open forum. There are no media in the room. What question would you ask if you had the chance?

Heh.

You are a very sick man Jonathan Kay who finds comfort and pleasure in a sick cartoon in a foreign government’s web page and gleefully reproduce it in the NP. Like your mother you have no shame and thoroughly disgust me. You are simply put a traitor and indeed belong there and not in this great country of ours.

h/t Bourque
(Some people are having trouble viewing the cartoon, so here’s a copy).

Speaking of terns and er, unthreshed barley straw which of course you weren’t but: My brother, the farmer of the family, heard that barley straw put in small sloughs stopped the formation of blue-green algae so he raked up a quantity of said unthreshed barley straw and dumped it in a slough on his farm. That was in in the heat of the summer. A couple of days later he checked to see if it was working as he had been told. Instead he found hundred of terns make a horrendous sound of slurred piping, flapping about uncontrollably and seemingly unable to fly. It seems the unthreshed barley in the straw had fermented and he had left no tern unstoned for miles around.

It’s the same hypocritical language that blows through SDA every day “You losers take potshots at us perfectly centered grey area people, well we say your nothing but knuckle dragging, red neck Nazi’s that want to kill baby’s who don’t smoke pot and have the government pay your way. Just die and go away, so that big brother and John Lennon can tell us how to live because it’s a grey world out there”.

“Perfectly centered grey area people”. That reminds me of someone.

Me No Dhimmi;

… I had a chat with my daughter who went to Queens in the early 90s. She told me that one of the best essays she ever wrote came back with every single ‘he’ circled in red ink. Every single one. She was scolded by the marxist-feminist prof and told to use the gender-neutral, but ugly and unprounceable, s/he.
Fair enough, I supposes, except …. the essay was about Gulliver’s Travels.

First Liberal: “I got the impression that Canadians are split on the issue“.
Second Liberal: “Funny. That’s how I felt about Peter Mansbridge shagging Cynthia Dale when he was married to Wendy Mesley.”
*

“The fact that the decline in Harper’s fortunes seems to go lock step with a decline in the stock market indicates that the entitlement psychology has spread far beyond starving artists and cranky university students: apparently middle class Canadians now feel “entitled” to a rising stock portfolio and soaring real estate values, and feel that it is the job of the state to guarantee those things.”

Bingo.

John Neish writes;

I’m stuck here in the States for the time being, and my usual rounds of errands take me through several towns in the area. One to the north and another to the east are those kinds of towns where one would go to hunt lefties, were there ever a government enlightened enough to add them to the ‘varmint’ category. The towns are insanely wealthy — Doctors, lawyers, professionals of all stripes — and both towns have a very solidly-entrenched population of ‘country-club Liberals’. In the last Presidential election both towns fairly bristled with Kerry placards, but this time around. I’ve been looking for, but so far I have not seen a single Obama poster in either town. There are posters for other Democratic candidates — no shortage of those — but none for Obama: not a single one.
Prior to the Primaries, Hillary was considered by many to be one of the most-disliked woman in the US. Negative polls — those that ask you ‘who do you *dislike* the most’ (as opposed to ‘who do you *like* the most’) — had her in the upper numbers. Even so, Obama had to really work hard to beat her. Now, of course, she’s a figure of pity because of the shabby way that the little twerp has treated her. He even announced his choice of Biden in a text message sent out at three in the morning: anyone who doesn’t think that that was a dig at her for her ‘phone call at three a.m.’ advert deserves to be sold the Brooklyn Bridge (or maybe even the ‘Bridge to Nowhere’).
So, you heard it here first: being barely able to beat a person who at that time was not very regarded, and now being absent from the thickets of Democrat placards in these upscale towns with a well-establish Democrat presence, I predict that he’s going to get whomped in a big way come election day.
It couldn’t happen to a nicer guy.