Category: Great Moments In Socialism

Why Minivan Drivers Rule The World

Hey boys – mind looking up from your beers for a second so I can draw something to your attention?
If you – meaning “you” in the 18 – 30 male demographic – could rouse the sense to haul your asses to the polling booth in meaningful percentages, you might find yourselves with the political clout that helps prevents these legislative assaults on your property and liberty;

Police in Canada’s most populous province have the right to seize and destroy any car that has been modified for street racing, Ontario’s top prosecutor claims.
“If we can establish someone has parts and they’re juicing up their car — obviously for the purpose of street racing — then we can seize those vehicles,” Ontario Attorney General Michael Bryant said Wednesday, according to the Canadian Press.
“We will seize it and you will never see it again. We will crush your car, we will crush the parts.”
“We don’t need to wait until that car hits the road fully loaded,” he said, adding that modified cars are as dangerous as explosives, capable of causing catastrophic damage.
Mr. Bryant was also an architect of Ontario’s recent pit bull ban, which was designed to “protected from the menace” of “dangerous dogs,” which he characterized as “nothing but a loaded weapon waiting to go off.”

Otherwise, get used to that squeeze of nanny’s hand on your testicles. She ain’t nearly done with you yet.

Free Dominion Targeted by HRC, Updated

Big Blue Wave is following the HRC complaint against Free Dominion.

Now the details of the complaint are emerging.
The subject of the complaint is one Bill Whatcott, who has already been the target of complaints by other quasi-judicial tribunals. For instance, he was fined $17 500 for by the Saskatchewan Human Rights Tribunal for distributing flyers denouncing homosexual behaviour. SLIGHT CORRECTION: Whatcott was fined for photocopying a classified ad from a gay magazine which solicited boys for sex. Nevermind that could be illegal, he was still fined.

Mark Fournier has more on the complainant;

Marie-Line Gentes a wildlife biologist who studied at the University of Saskatchewan and now teaches at Vanier College in Quebec. She obviously has a serious hate on for Bill Whatcott and Free Dominion is caught in the crossfire.
The odd thing is she isn’t whining about what everyone would expect, she is whining on behalf of her poor Muslim brothers and sisters. I guess she figures they are too stupid to act on their own behalf so she will condescend to do it for them.

Some of the comments Gentes alleges to have violated her human rights:

04/24/06 “I can’t figure out why the homosexuals I ran into are on the side of the Muslims.
After all, Muslims who practice Sharia law tend to advocate beheading homosexuals.”
03/09/06 “I defy Islamic censorship and speak about what I believe is the truth about violent Islamism and its threat to religious liberty in Canada.”

No kidding.
I can’t figure out why women in academia are on the side of the Muslims, either. After all, Muslims who practice Sharia law tend to advocate executing women who learn to read, expose their ankles and appear in public in the presence of men who are not family members. I defy Islamic censorship and speak about what I believe is the truth about violent Islamism and its threat to womens’ liberty in Canada.
(Good enough?)
On further thought, it’s probably not.

White girls theyre pretty funny
Sometimes they drive me mad
Black girls just wanna get f*cked all night
I just dont have that much jam

That pretty much ought to do it.
Free Dominion’s Connie Wilkins will be interviewed by Michael Coren on CFRB on Sunday at 7:30 pm.
Previous: Free Dominion Targeted by HRC

Shutting Down Canada’s Busiest Highway

For a moment there, I was worried they were cutting off Fort MacMurray;

Ontario Provincial Police shut down Canada’s busiest highway early Friday morning west of Kingston due to native protesters in the area, who had earlier blockaded a section of secondary highway and a stretch of nearby railway track on the eve of the National Day of Action.
Friday morning, the Ontario Provincial Police closed Highway 401 both ways between Napanee and Belleville and were diverting traffic north onto Hwy 7 due to native protesters “being in the direct area, for safety reasons,” said Sergeant Kristine Rae of the Smith Falls detachment.

Mark my words – the moment is approaching when a bandana prowling these police protected barricades will end up in the crosshairs of someone’s high powered rifle.
And right after that, Dalton McGuinty will blame Americans.
h/t.
Update: At the BBC, forum comments that go horribly wrong.
Related: Speaking of stereotyping and double standards – note the photograph chosen to illustrate this post. Bigot, heal thyself.
Astonishingly, Dawg responds with this: “I’d say some folks do a pretty good job of stereotyping themselves.”
Stereotype? When I see a cowboy hat, I think “cattle industry”.
In Dawg’s “progressive” world, cowboy hat means “racist”. Because, as we all know, western rural culture is synonymous with intolerance.

Tony Blair’s Britain: Mind the manners, please.

Times Online:

The Government has decided that young people are rude and must be taught better manners in school. Of all the currish, lily-livered, puke-stocking ideas dreamed up by those odiferous tickle-brained rump-fed codpieces, this must be one of the most addle-pated.
There, that feels better. Rather than teaching children courtesy (which cannot be taught, only learnt), schools would do far better to instruct their wards on the long and glorious history of the British insult. The ability to give and take offence is a vital part of our national heritage, but it is a tradition of scorn that is fast dying out.
One of the more depressing aspects of political discourse in Britain over the past decade is the lack of memorable insults. The late Robin Cook was the last politician willing and able to dish out really inventive invective, and even he was mild compared with his more malicious predecessors.

Maybe Brits are worried that all those surveillance cameras are also equipped with microphones.

CWB Leaving Money On The Table

A new report analyzing the value that the Canadian Wheat Board insists it delivers to Prairie farmers offers “instant absolute proof” to the contrary, says its author.
Far from maximizing returns back to producers, the board is actually leaving an “astounding” amount of money on the table, costing farmers and the Prairie economy as a whole, said Rolf Penner, the report’s author and agriculture fellow at Winnipeg’s Frontier Centre for Public Policy.
According to Penner’s “apple-to-apple” analysis, western Canadian farmers on June 14 were getting at least $1 less per bushel for their hard red spring wheat, depending on the contract, than farmers just across the border in the U.S.
For the average Prairie producer growing 200 hectares of spring wheat, the price difference translates into a minimum loss of $20,000, he said. Factored over the 6.8 million hectares of spring wheat planted in western Canada this year, that translates into an economic loss of between $585 million and $1.2 billion for the Prairie economy, Penner said. — Calgary Herald

SDA flashback here. And here. And here too.

So much for “innocent until proven guilty”

Nice:

Cars adapted for street racing can be seized and destroyed, even if charges haven’t been laid and a race has not taken place, Ontario Attorney General Michael Bryant said Wednesday.
Bryant warned potential racers that all it takes is a tip from police to seize and destroy their cars. Car junkies who pour thousands of dollars into their vehicles to make them as fast as possible are wasting their money, Bryant said.
“If we can establish someone has parts and they’re juicing up their car — obviously for the purpose of street racing — then we can seize those vehicles,” Bryant said.
“We will seize it and you will never see it again. We will crush your car, we will crush the parts.” — cbc.ca

I miss the old days where we actually waited for someone to commit a crime before we punished them. I suppose this is to be expected in a country where we enjoy less protection of our private property than a citizen of communist China does.

Tony Blair’s Britain

Where the foxes caper unmolested, the government packs your school lunch and used diapers have eyes;

Householders in a seaside town have been told to put their bins out at the front of their homes and not in an alleyway to the rear.
They must also leave their rubbish out between set times to ensure it does not attract pests or miss the dust cart.
To enforce the new rules, a camera will be placed in a rubbish bag and left in an alleyway to blend in with the surroundings to catch offenders. Those filmed breaking the rules will be given a ticking off.
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More than 30 councils have already secretly fitted microchips to wheelie bins as the Government comes under increasing pressure to increase recycling rates.

Pucker Up, America

And kiss your ass goodbye. Politicians have found a way to bring lawyers into the carbon offset pyramid;

Specifically, the House government Reform Committee under “Hollywood” Henry Waxman (D-CA) agreed to create a new litigation pathway where plaintiffs can sue to make the government buy these indulgences in a mandatory drive to be “carbon neutral”. (The amendment also exposes the taxpayer to liability for paying plaintiffs — “aggrieved parties” in the bills’ parlance, and their lawyers, of course — who the federal government has “harmed” by causing global warming. Investment advice: Go long on environmental ambulance chasers in the 9th circuit, whose judges love such claims.)

That’s right – giving Americans the right to sue the government for failing to change the weather.

“You Gonna Get It Nigger”

Note basketball courts.

Language warning.
As if you hadn’t already figured that out.
From the comments“You heard that in the wee hours of June 14, 2007 Toronto police conducted a major anti-gang raid, arresting and charging upwards of 60 people. But did you know that it’s now being whispered that Jordan Manners’ sister is one of the gun-tottin’ criminals picked up by police?
(It’s been Confirmed)
(Sorry about the comments malfunction. Fixed now)

Redundancy Watch

Mario Loyola notes a North Korean “disaster”, as though this new state of affairs represents a deviation from the norm;

The Treasury ruling has been a disaster for North Korea, and the disaster can’t be undone, except by North Korea. I certainly agree with Ambassador John Bolton and others who argue that we should not be negotiating with the North Koreans. But it strikes me that these are not real negotiations. If the North Koreans are only pretending to negotiate, in order to get something for nothing, it seems as if we are also pretending to negotiate — in order to give them a taste of their own medicine. The $25 million is coffee money compared to the problem North Korea has now.
Conservative commentators and former administration officials have publicly and privately criticized Condi Rice and assistant secretary of state Christopher Hill for being “desperate to make a deal” with North Korea, and willing to make foolish unilateral concessions in order to get it. I don’t think historians will see it that way; the story is more complicated than that. Without making a single concession of strategic significance, Christopher Hill is driving the North Koreans crazy — and making an example of them. Not a bad result for otherwise pointless negotiations.

Driving? North Koreans “crazy”? How is that possible?

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