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More – “Canadian Soldiers are murderers” – on the scene reporting that you won’t get from the CBC.
Update: Make Mercedes! Not War!.

Just when you thought political correctness couldn’t become any more ridiculous.

A ranking Democrat in the House of Representative is apologizing for saying an African-American Senate candidate “slavishly” supported the Republican Party.
House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer, D-Maryland, said he meant no offense when he made the remark about Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael Steele, the GOP nominee for the seat being vacated by longtime Democratic Sen. Paul Sarbanes.
In a statement issued Tuesday, Hoyer said, “I should not have used those words.”

Dems charge Republicans were niggardly in their acceptance of the apology.

Only when they start shooting Texans in the back, Mr. Gorbachev.

From the comments;

I’m an academic; I know that it is, except within the sciences, a self-organized, self-created reality. It is entirely and completely fictional. There are no consequences to what you think and say. It is an entirely rhetorical world; you can write, say, read, talk – anything. And there are no real world, hard time, practical, material reality consequences.
That was obvious in the TVO interview. The fact that Ignatieff’s three statements about Israel and War Crimes were all contradictory to each other puzzled Steve Paikin who kept trying to get Ignatieff to, as we do in the Real World, select ONE. Ignatieff held to all three statements. You can do that in the academic world of semantics, the world of fiction, of postmodern relativism, where statements just ‘hang in the air’ but don’t have to operate in concrete, material reality. Therefore opinions don’t have to be consistent.
The fictional academic world can say three different perspectives, the fact that they are contradictory is irrelevant, for you can verbally, semantically, link them in an emotional surge.
Ignatieff uses this emotional underpinning to ooperate as the ‘cohesion’ in his opinions. Rather than logic, rather than hard core reality, he uses emotion to tie togther concepts which do NOT relate to each other.
So, he can define Quebec as a nation and use the emotional threat of ‘civil war’ to justify it. He can bring in trivia such that Quebecers are upset because their health cards aren’t recognized elsewhere as a justification for their being ‘upset’ and wanting a nation. ?? The fact that this would open up the country to a set of at least five distinct nations (Alberta, Ontario, north etc)..he hasn’t a clue, because he’s not emotional about them.
His rubbish about ‘absence makes the heart grow fonder’ is another tactic of emotion. He’s not running on practical agendas of fixing things, as is Harper. He’s running on pure emotion. That’s been the Liberal strategy for years.
Remember Chretien and his emotional plea for ‘da little guy from Shawinigan’? A lie of course.
Chretien and his emotional plea for ‘sponsorship funding’? Yet another lie; it was money laundering to retain Chretien in power.
Ignatieff is the same. No practical ideas, as we are getting from Harper. Instead, it’s all rhetoric and emotion. The rhetoric is filled with contradictory opinions, which is the norm in the academic world, for there are no consequences to verbal spouting of your opinions in the academic world. The emotion is a tactic to woo the plebeian and ignorant voter – a stance basic to the Liberals, who view the voter as ‘beer and popcorn’ types who must be appealed to via their emotions.
As I said, I like Ignatieff’s books, but, it isn’t that he isn’t a politician. It is that he cannot exist outside of the fictional make-it-yourself world of academia. He can’t exist in the real world where you can’t operate with contradictions, where you can’t operate with a perspective that is a generation out of date. Ignatieff should go back to the safe rooms of academia.

Emphasis mine.
More from Toronto Sun columnist Michael Coren (who’s been reading blogs).

Medienkritik on the selectively angry left;

Putin is visiting Germany. He is visiting Dresden, the city where he served as a KGB agent with the express purpose of keeping an oppressive dictatorship up and running. He is visiting shortly after the brutal murder of yet another independent journalist who dared to question his regime. He is visiting in the midst of a protracted, bloody military campaign in Chechnya, in which tens of thousands have died or simply “disappeared.”
And where are the throngs of angry protesters??? The media reports that Mr. Putin was confronted by a heckler or two and a few “uncomfortable” questions from journalists and politicians. Where are the masses of drum-thumping, flag-waving, dreadlock wearing, morally superior protesters who gathered by the thousands when Bush was in country?

This “skin-crawling piece of satellite imagery”* via Chris Selley
Shape of Days has more.

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The Assembly of the State of California periodically gathers to bark at the moon…
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Question;

“[W]hat must it be like for a Democratic politician to go to an event and know, even before he or she walks in that door, that a significant percentage of the people there will be utterly insane?

The left joins hands to sing “Imagine”.
h/t
July 15 update – More imagining…

Kathy Shaidle;

I wonder if the nuts even believe what they are saying. Because if something like 9/11 happened in Canada, and I believed with all my heart that, say, Stephen Harper was involved, I don’t think I could still live here. I’m not sure I could stop myself from ripping up my passport and ID and running screaming to another country.
How can you believe that your President killed 2,000 people and in between bitching about this, just carry on buying your vente latte and so forth? I would have to be literally locked up, as a danger to myself and others. That’s why I think a lot of this is just adolescent style posturing on the part of conspirazoids. They want to bitch about their dad but still want to use the pool and borrow the car.

Read the comments at Damian Penny’s, too. There’s something to this observation;

Not that I’m a poster girl for mental health today, but when I was into conspiracy stuff years ago, I was also really messed up. I have a pretty good insight into what makes some of these folks tick, and it isn’t pretty. I hope they get the help they need.
It is like a kind of autism — seriously.

Following the debating “techniques” of some of the more extreme commentors here and elsewhere, (not just on conspiracy theories, but on virtually any hotly debated topic) one often sees this “something not quite right going on there” trait in other aspects – cognitive problems that include an inability to recognize hyperbole and sarcasm, along with serious issues with reading comprehension.
Is it a result of a failed education system, is it organic brain damage, or a little of both? A good many of these people seem to gravitate towards professions in education, after all.

Like strawberry shortcake, the center of a steak cooked rare, or a raspberry blizzard from Dairy Queen.
Via McGehee (who’s also spotted a pretty funny headline.)

Bill Ardolino on the email flooding into Jeff Goldstein’s inbox on the consequences befalling the nutty ex-professor;

Achieving Malkinesque levels of hate mail is a noteworthy event; achieving Malkinesque levels of hate mail that actually reference Malkin, racism and chimpmunks has got to be some sort of milestone in the annals of online animus.

Jeff’s site undergoing a third DOS attack, courtesy of the ever tolerant left.

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(Man, we’re getting good at this.)

The evidence mounts;

“… that a fairly flimsy steel structure does not distort and bend and collapse very easily from a simple hydrocarbon fire. And thus, it is not clear why the much stronger steel columns in the WTC towers weakened so much from fires that the towers underwent global collapse.”

h/t Kathy Shaidle.

“I’d like to hear more about your “tyke” by the way. Girl? Boy? Toddler? Teen? Are you still married to the woman you ephed to give birth to the tyke?
Tell all, bro!”
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“[…] as I said elsewhere, if I woke up tomorrow and learned that someone else had shot you and your “tyke” it wouldn’t slow me down one iota. You aren’t “human” to me.”
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” Ooh. Two year old boy. Sounds hot. You live in Colorado, I see. Hope no one Jon-Benets your baby.
Are you still married to the woman you humped to produce the toddler? ”
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Give your pathetic progeny (I sure hope that mofo got good genes from his mama!) a big fat tongue-filled kiss from me! LOTS AND LOTS OF SALIVA from Auntie MOONBAT, if you don’t mind!
Somehow, Jeffy boy, I think you get off on the possibility of Frenching your pathetic progeny, even if it is a boy. You seem like a VERY, VERY sick mofo to me, bro.

That’s just a small sample pf comments made at Protein Wisdom, by Dr. Deborah Frish. Frish teaches psychology at the University of Arizona.
Protein Wisdom is currently down. Her supporters responded to the exposure of her comments by placing Jeff’s site under DOS attack.
More – Cheers for the London bombings. Though, she’s a little sorry about the widows and amputees.
UPDATE – The newly minted victim apologizes . She has also resigned from the University of Arizona. Before they fired her, is my guess.
Now Doctor, heal thyself.
UPDATE 2 – Protein Wisdom is back.

Via email, an announcement from a noble member “of an oppressed minority asserting their civil rights”;

ANTI-CANADA DAY RALLY
Saturday July 1, 2006
12 Noon @ Oppenheimer Park
(Powell & Dunlevy, 1 block North of E. Hastings St. in DTES Vancouver)
Drumming & Singing * Speakers
Community Feast * Take the Streets
This is a CALL TO ACTION.
Canada portrays itself as a “peaceful multicultural” society when in fact, Canada is responsible for an ongoing assault on the identities, lives, and lands of the Original Peoples of these lands. In light of recent mainstream media smears and intimidation tactics and police/military threats against the Six Nations people, lets us demonstrate once more that our peoples do have power when we stand together and communicate with our feet and our shouts in the streets of Vancouver, in the occupied territories of the Coast Salish.
These, including numerous other systemic issues, will be discussed and the subjects of focus in how we can shame Canada and improve the situation of all of our peoples:
Over 500 dead and/or Missing Aboriginal Women across Canada;
Routine police abuse, racism & violence against Indigenous Peoples;
Indigenous Peoples in Canada have the highest rates of cancer, aids/HIV, tuberculosis, and other diseases;
Indigenous peoples have the highest levels of poverty, unemployment, homelessness, and imprisonment;
Indigenous peoples have the highest suicide rates in Canada;
Indigenous lands & territories remain under attack by government and corporate forces;
Canada is guilty of the attempted genocide of Indigenous peoples;
Canada is guilty of the theft of Indigenous lands;
No Olympics on stolen land (and get the fu*k out of Haiti & Afghanistan).
If everyone remembers the good feelings we all had on April 26th, when 400-500 of us took the streets of Vancouver and blocked the Lions Gate Bridge, we demanded an end to state violence and the racist provocation against Six Nations and all Indigenous peoples. Let us do that again on July 1st, and shame Canada for all that it has done and continues to do against Indigenous peoples.
There will be a workshop on security and safety during a rally as well as direct action tactics the week following and leading up to July 1st.

SDA Flashback – July 2005 Canada Day swarming in Saskatoon – “this is what you get for celebrating the day you stole our land”.
If you’d like to know more, the contact is sixnationsolidarity@gmail.com

Anyone who believes that the average Canadian is culturally distinct from the average American has never viewed an episode of Canadian Idol.

Anti-Semitism bubbles up at the left’s most popular blog. Well, it’s never far from the surface.
(As a bonus – the elitist distain of the academic left for the “common working man” is also caught with its pants down.)

Well, I guess the next time someone spots a “Thanks for the truck, whitey” bumpersticker around town, they’ll know who to complain to;

Trevor Baragar says he felt compelled to phone the police and the Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission after seeing someone display a sticker that reads, “Caution: I stop for all pedestrians, including natives”.

Here though, is the really funny part;

He made a formal complaint to the Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission on Monday. He was told on Tuesday there was nothing it could do because he is non-aboriginal.

(Don’t help the resident lefties with this one. Let them try to figure it out themselves.)