Well, I should hope so.

Canada stood alone before a United Nations human rights council yesterday, the only one among 47 nations to oppose a motion condemning the Israeli military offensive in Gaza.

The body would be better named the United Nations Council for the Destruction of Israel;

In addition to its recent adoption of an Islamic-sponsored agenda item that singles out Israel for permanent scrutiny, the [Human Rights Council], since being established in June 2006, has directed all of its country censures, now numbering eleven, against the Jewish state. The only other country addressed has been Sudan, though instead of issuing condemnations, the council has praised Khartoum’s “cooperation” and repeatedly called for further reports.

The Star continues…

The United States, regarded as Israel’s greatest ally, is not a member of the council

They’re not a member because they voted against formation of the farce to begin with and refuse to legitimize institutionalized Jew hatred with their participation.
Update: I meant to link to this earlier – “Go Canada!

Oh, wait….
h/t

Israel is shaking up the information war

… signaling the end of legacy media’s influence. The big Internet story this week is Israel’s magnificent end run around the mainstream media. The IDF’s new weapons of war: YouTube and Twitter. According to the head of the IDF’s press team: “The blogosphere and new media are another war zone, we have to be relevant there.”

h/t Robert W.

Western leftists take to the streets.

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Also related – Axis of Idiots (h/t Nancy)

The Iraqi government has declared Christmas an official holiday.

On a deaths per gigawatt-year basis, nuclear is safer than wind power.

MIchael Yon is back from Afghanistan.

“Unless we understand the prolific criminal legacy of Alderman Roti, we can’t understand how today,in 2008,Alderman Roti along with his friends,relatives,and associates have turned Chicago’s city government into a racketeering enterprise…”

The article includes a helpful family tree…
Related – the Blagojevich point of view.

Immigration to the US, 1820-2007 v2 from Ian S on Vimeo.
h/t

“… than held in the U.S. oil repository at Cushing, Oklahoma.”

Of course, this is precisely the type of vehicle that the government restructurists would have Detroit phase out in favour of the greener, cleaner, teenier product lines that are currently losing money. Via Tim Blair

“Ford’s newly-redesigned F-150 is selling well enough right now that the Blue Oval has added an extra shift of production at its assembly plant in Kansas City, MO, along with approval for scheduled overtime. An extra shift is also being planned for the Dearborn assembly plant. These are the types of “problems” that automakers don’t mind dealing with after a successful new product launch.”

Meanwhile, Prius sales have fallen in half, Tesla is begging for handouts, and Brits are rejecting electric cars, perhaps out of concern for the lights staying on.
(The things they don’t tell you on the CBC!)

Like they “fixed” the housing market;

Last summer, Pennsylvania senator Bob Casey joined his Democratic colleagues in piling $85 billion in new regulatory costs on the Detroit Three by mandating a 40-percent fuel-efficiency increase by 2020.
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At this afternoon’s Senate Banking Committee hearings, Casey … demanded quick passage of $34 billion in taxpayer money to save the Detroit companies from bankruptcy.

After the war, there seemed to be a consensus among Jewish leaders about Pius. On Dec. 1, 1944 the New York Times reported that the World Jewish Congress publicly thanked the Holy See’s protection of Jews, especially in Hungary. In October 1945, the World Jewish Congress made a financial gift to the Vatican in recognition of Pius’s work to save the Jews. In May 1955, the Israel Philharmonic played at the Vatican as a gesture of thanks to the pope for his services to Jews during the war.
When Pius died on Oct. 9, 1958, the public accolades continued. In fact, the New York Times received so many tributes over the next three days that it could only publish the authors’ names, among them, leaders of major Jewish organizations. Two days later, the Times cited memorial services for Pius in several New York City synagogues.
Last month, at a meeting of the Vatican’s synod of bishops, Haifa’s Chief Rabbi Shear-Yashuv Cohen advised that Pius “should not be seen as a model” or be canonized. Israeli social affairs minister Isaac Herzog called the canonization process “unacceptable.”
What sparked the sea change? Most historians mark 1963 as the year that soured public opinion, with the production of a play, “The Deputy, A Christian Tragedy.”

An interesting read about the power of historic revisionism.
Related – A Jew recommends John XXIII for the title “Righteous among the Nations”

Glenn Reynolds;

“THE WAR IS OVER AND WE WON:” Michael Yon just phoned from Baghdad, and reports that things are much better than he had expected, and he had expected things to be good. “There’s nothing going on. I’m with the 10th Mountain Division, and about half of the guys I’m with haven’t fired their weapons on this tour and they’ve been here eight months. And the place we’re at, South Baghdad, used to be one of the worst places in Iraq. And now there’s nothing going on. I’ve been walking my feet off and haven’t seen anything. I’ve been asking Iraqis, ‘do you think the violence will kick up again,’ but even the Iraqi journalists are sounding optimistic now and they’re usually dour.” There’s a little bit of violence here and there, but nothing that’s a threat to the general situation. Plus, not only the Iraqi Army, but even the National Police are well thought of by the populace. Training from U.S. toops has paid off, he says, in building a rapport.
He says the big problem everybody is talking about now is corruption. But hey, we have that here, too. He’ll be heading to Afghanistan next week. “Afghanistan is a bad situation, but on Iraq I can’t believe things have turned out so well.”
He thinks that Obama will be able to pull troops out, and send some to Afghanistan, without creating problems in Iraq. Michael will be reporting from Afghanistan soon, and sending back video, so stay tuned. Things aren’t going swimmingly there.

Confederate Yankee – “We can declare victory because President Bush wouldn’t quit on his troops. If Barack Obama had his way, a triumphant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi would have had a chance to have made the same claim over the Caliphate of Iraq.”
Yup. I miss him already.

Terry Glavin, for the National Post – The new Kabul .

Among Kabul’s human rights activists, student leaders and women’s rights groups, the big fear isn’t the spectre of Taliban militias rolling back into Kabul. The much greater threat comes from places like Washington, Tehran and Islamabad. It’s the clamour for a backroom deal with the Taliban (with President Hamid Karzai’s signature on it for the sake of appearances). The stink of a looming betrayal is everywhere, and Kabulis, betrayed so many times before, can smell it a mile away.

Via The Torch, where, on a related note, is posted this memo – “But when it comes to the Canadian mainstream media vocally telling all of us just how hard it was for them to decide what to do [in the case of Mellissa Fung], I have one more thing to say: shut up.”

Last evening a request landed in my inbox;

Dear Kate,
I have attached two flyers for the UNIFEM Canada Gala event. This year’s winner is Louise Frechette, former Deputy Secretary of the United Nations. Our Honorary Chair for the event is Carolyn McAskie, former Assistant Secretary General at the United Nations.
The Gala will take place in Ottawa on November 20, 2008. The start time is 18h00.
It would be greatly appreciated if you could mention the event in your
blog.

I had a pretty good idea what something called UNIFEM might be about, but it never hurts to ask – “What the heck is UNIFEM?” The reply;

UNIFEM is the United Nations Development Fund for Women. The global branch
is based in New York. Please see: http://www.unifem.org/
There are branches or offices of UNIFEM throughout the world, including Canada. UNIFEM Canada is run by volunteers to raise awareness of women’s issues in Canada and issues facing women throughout the world (sexual violence, forced marriages, rape as a weapon of war, inequality in the education system and so on ).

My feminist creds know no bounds. But the name rang a bell.

You mean this Louise Frechette from the Volker report?
…there was “a systematic attempt by the Deputy Secretary-General, Canadian Louise Frechette, to block results of audits into the Oil-for-Food program from the Security Council”.
Of course, there weren’t any disadvantaged women in Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, so what’s a little corruption between friends?

There went my invite.

A book by Paul Palango, that comes recommended by Brian MacAdam – Dispersing The Fog

There has never been a Canadian expose as complete nor as explosive as “Dispersing the Fog”. Revelations abound. This book will leave no head in Ottawa unturned. Its revelations will either change the RCMP or plow it under, because there is no other option left.

I received a copy a few days ago – look forward to reading it.

It’s working in Europe!

Another reminder of why you no longer bother with Lloyd Robertson.

… going against the expressed wishes of the leader of his party in the statehouse? The same reason Rezko approached the Broadway bank for a $13 million loan for his real estate projects. In Chicago, it’s not who you are but what you can do for me. The payoff for Obama was Giannoulis raising a ton of money for him in his presidential campaign. This was set up by Obama’s endorsement of Giannoulis for treasurer which in turn was set up by almost certainly a generous loan arrangement on Obama’s first townhome run through Broadway.

More.