NELSON, British Columbia — Plans for a bronze monument and festival to honor U.S. draft dodgers in 2006 in this picturesque lakeside town have generated a wave of anger in the United States, local officials say.
[…]
In announcing Our Way Home, a celebration set for July 8-9, 2006, director Isaac Romano said the purpose was to honor “the courageous legacy of Vietnam War resisters and the Canadians who helped them resettle in this country during that tumultuous era.”

This calls for a photoshop contest – put your creative juices to work, and help the good people of Nelson in their quest to make absolute asses of themselves.

Q: What do you get when you cross Pierre Pettigrew with a French Foreign Minister?
A: Would you wait just a minute? They aren’t finished banging each other.
(Added to the Beltway Traffic Jam)

I won’t spoil the surprise.
hat tip – Flea

Carolyn Parrish’s anti-Americanism may be a clever front to deflect attention from her anti-semitism.
David Frum was all over her in February 2003.

This past June, for example, she joined a delegation of nine MPs on a trip to the West Bank and Gaza paid for by Canadian Palestinian radicals. On her return, she told the sponsors of the trip: “You got your money’s worth. You have nine members of parliament who’ve come back completely and totally convinced that what’s going on over there is a crime against humanity.”
The point of the June mission was to publicize the Palestinian claim that the Israelis committed unspeakable atrocities during their raid into the city of Jenin. (One of the 9 MPs on the trip referred to Jenin as the Palestinians’ own “ground zero,” a phrase that at one and the same time spreads a lie about Jenin while denying the truth about 9/11.) Four months later, Parrish attacked a Canadian reporter named Stewart Bell for his work debunking the Jenin hoax, suggesting that his independence had been compromised by his acceptance of a press award from the B’nai Brith. Her own junketing, presumably, affected her judgment not at all.

There’s more.
Hat tip to Kathy Shaidle at the Shotgun

The Liberal Party’s Minister Of Official Anti-Americanism is at it again.

Canadian Member of Parliament Carolyn Parrish had said she hated “damned Americans” and called them bastards in the run- up to the Iraq war. She found a new moniker, idiots, on Wednesday in discussing the planned U.S. missile defense system.
“We are not joining the coalition of the idiots. We are joining the coalition of the wise,” the Liberal legislator told a small group of demonstrators.

One of her coalition partners spoke about the incident today during his Afternoon Show on 650 CKOM. Reportedly, the grrrrlll power female members of caucus are firmly against Canada’s participation in the missile defense plan. Noting the fragile nature of Paul Martin’s minority government, Leavins offered this bit of brilliant analysis;

Do ya think this missile defense plan has a chance, in the long run?”

Kurt is onto something, I think. It could well be that Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin is going to “pull the plug” on the $40B US Missile Defense System.
Right after he raises Pierre Trudeau from the dead.

This just in:
Canadian Bar Association affirms lawyer’s right to screw client.

Searing memory, updated;

“Mr. President, I remember Christmas of 1968, eating kutia, varenyky and pampushky on a gunboat in Cambodia. I remember what it was like to be shot at by the Vietnamese and Khmer Rouge and Cambodians, and have the president of the United States telling the American people that I was not there; the troops were not in Cambodia. I have that memory which is seared–seared–in me. And this pysanky my Baba sent me.”

Memri follows up on the case of Ranya Al-Baz, a Saudi TV host.

On April 4, 2004, Yunis left her in a hospital in a state of unconsciousness. The story received extensive media coverage in the Arab world, and the abusive husband was arrested. He was first accused of attempting to kill his wife, but the charges were subsequently reduced to the use of severe violence. Yunis was sentenced to six months imprisonment and 300 lashes.
However, Ranya decided to pardon her husband – a measure allowed by Saudi law. Yunis was spared the lashes and was released in early July after three months imprisonment.

The domestic abuse experts weigh in;

Sheik Abd Al-Hamid Al- Muhajir who asked rhetorically: “[In the case of] a wife who endangers her husband and her own life, what’s better, that she gets slapped or that she ruins her family, herself, and society?”
Egyptian Sheik Muhammad Al-Massir of Al-Azhar University also explained the circumstances in which a husband is allowed to beat his wife. If a woman is disobedient, he explained on the Saudi-based channel Iqra TV, ” a woman for whom marital life is important suffers when she is left alone in the bed. If we get to a point where abandonment [in bed] does not pain her and words do not deter her, we may have come to the stage of beatings.”

More here, including insight into the subject from Muslim clerics in North America.

Via The Monger.

Based on an old classic;
“Take your 65,000 jobs and shove it…”

Gwynne Dyer explains the root causes of poverty and female illiteracy in the Arab world;

“… President George W. Bush … West … Western nations … the West … France … U.S. troops … Britain … the CIA … It was Britain that carved … joint Anglo-U.S. project. The British Foreign Office … conspired with France and Israel … West … Washington … U.S. foreign aid … Britain …the West’s purposes. The United States and France … The West … the West … the West…”

(I told you so.)
There’s no mention of literacy rates in Israel.
Odd, that.
hat tip- Pol:Spy

Evidence that extended use of marijuana can turn you into a whiney tit.
Well, nobody should be surprised. The whole “I want my medical marijuana legalized” campaign has been one long activist whine-fest, long on outrageous claims and short on fact. Hoping they’d metamorphize into grateful recipients by giving them what they want is expecting too much.
No, I have no special sympathy for their suffering. There are too many other suffering people out there who will never recieve bona fide drugs and new treatment protocols because they must first pass rigid safety and effectiveness standards. They will wait, in sickness and pain, and many will not live long enough to recieve them.
Marijuana got a free pass. If you’re using it for medicinal purposes, and think it helps, great. I’m happy for you. But you didn’t want to wait for marijuana to jump through the testing and development hoops that all other drugs must clear, so stop complaining about the quality.

Why would he do this? Is Michael Moore’s compulsion to lie a pathological defect, or is he so used to getting away with it, that he’s getting sloppier than usual?

Rapid City Journal – When asked about Moore’s account of a hug after the premiere and the criticism Daschle has received for it, the South Dakota Democrat said he and Moore did not embrace. Daschle said his schedule forced him to arrive late and leave early.
“I know we senators all tend to look alike. But I arrived late, and I had to leave early for Senate votes. I didn’t meet Mr. Moore,” Daschle said.
In a lengthy Time magazine piece about the movie and its political effects, Richard Corliss reported Moore’s criticism of Daschle’s leadership and the filmmaker’s account of a hug with Daschle.
“At the Washington premiere, Moore sat a few rows behind Daschle. Afterward, says Moore, ‘He gave me a hug and said he felt bad and that we were all gonna fight from now on. I thanked him for being a good sport,'” Corliss wrote.

I suppose it could be Daschle who’s pulling away from the truth. Somehow, I doubt it.

Jaegar administers a smackdown to Gwynn Dyer.
For my American friends unfamiliar with Gwynn Dyer – imagine you were able to cross Michael Moore with Robert Fisk. (It is strongly recommended that your imagination first provide an airlock, protective suit and robot arms.)
When the resulting organism emerges from the ooze, lobotomize it, and give it a Canadian passport. With that, the creature will become completely self-sustaining as it moves into its natural niche as a military analyst for the CBC.
Don’t believe me?

Liberal MP Dan McTeague’s $224 pizza…..
You know, I have done a fair bit of travelling in my time, and while my destinations don’t generally include stops for lunch in high rent exotic locales, and I don’t expect my elected representatives to pack a George Foreman[tm] grill so they can cook out of their hotel room … I have managed to eat in lower Manhattan, and well, for around $25 bucks.
So, how is it that our politicians manage to rack up meal bills as bloated as this, meal after meal, meeting after meeting? And why do they insist on feeding everyone they talk to?
Doesn’t anyone work in the middle of the friggin’ day like the rest of us?
hat tip – Bourque
Update – McTeague isn’t happy about the attention….

Inspired by a private email from someone who should have known better, exhorting her “undisclosed recipient” list to go see F9/11, another fact-checking deconstruction of Moore’s lies and innuendo.
More detailed than most.
Fahrenheit 9/11: The temperature at which Michael Moore’s pants burn
Go read it, so that the next time someone starts wasting your time arguing Moore-inspired mythology, you have a few blunt facts in your back pocket.

Dear Mr. Nader,
I would like to thank you for your input on the Canadian federal election. Considering that you managed to receive 2882955 votes from a population of a third of a billion, while a bunch of God-fearing, capital-loving, deregulating conservatives in the Canadian Alliance managed to garner 3277037 votes from a population approximately a tenth of your country’s, I can only imagine how valuable your comments are to us.
Sincerely,
Kelvin Chan

Mark Ames has a challenge for Ann Coulter.

“So here is my public challenge to Ann Coulter: I propose that you and I spend a night together in a four-star hotel. We will wine together, we will dine together, we will harden each other’s nipples with erotic pillow talk about Sen. Joe McCarthy, and yes, Ann, we will fuck. Ann, here’s the dare: I am betting that no matter how much you try, no matter what prostate-massaging tricks a John Birch Prom Queen like you possesses, you, Ann Coulter, cannot make me come.”

Ahem.
Mr. Ames – a real man would challenge the woman not to come.

Former NDP member of parliament Svend Robinson has finally been charged with theft of a diamond ring to impress his boyfriend with. That was two months ago.

NDP leader Jack Layton was sympathetic at the time.

“Now Svend’s inner strength must be applied to a very personal inner challenge,” Layton said. “I have every confidence that my friend Svend will overcome.”

It took a special prosecutor to figure out that grabbing 50K of someone else’s stuff and leaving the premises is like, illegal. Robinson’s snap impulse had been preceeded by casing the joint a shopping trip to the store two days earlier.
NDP Lorne Nystrom, who incidentally, also had a personal shoplifting crisis a few years ago;

“It is a personal tragedy,” … “All of us, under certain circumstances, crack and do something that’s really strange and weird.”

Strange how that happens. They always “crack” in the presence of something expensive. You don’t hear of people succumbing to stress and say…. making off with the neighbor’s garbage.
Equally forgiving, was Prime Minister Paul Martin, ” who called Robinson a dedicated parliamentarian who’s clearly under a lot of stress.”
Well, you can’t say he’s inconsistent on the issue of being holding thieves accountable. Though, at least Svend gave back the ring.