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.)

“The 9/11 hijacking attacks were very likely facilitated by a rogue group within the US government that created an Islamic terrorist “Pearl Harbor” event as a catalyst for the military invasion of Middle Eastern countries. This weblog will explore the incredibly strange events of 9/11/01, and other issues of US government responsibility using paper airplanes and towers built from popsicle sticks.”

h/t Ted.

Overheard on CBC radio news just now – a World Report “news” item on the suicides of three inmates of Gitmo, complete with editorial comment from Dwight Smith that the suicides “spoil the brief moment of success” the US had with the death of al Zarqawi.
Smith made no attempt to explain just how the two incidents are related, much less how the self-inflicted demise of three hard core terrorists in a prison in Cuba dimish the achievement of bringing to an end the career of the world’s second-most wanted butcher.
Because, you know, he’s the CBC and you, lowly listener, should just know these things in your heart.
Update – there are a number of commentors who would do well to read this before continuing with their flawed arguments demanding that those who violate the rules of war have the “right” to protection under the Geneva conventions.

Strangely reminiscent, that.

On cue, lefties and assorted others are plugging up the comments section declaring that “truth was the real casualty” in the air strike that bagged Al-Zarqawi. They base this theory on the premise that the body should be more damaged – “hamburger”, “paper thin” are the medical terms being used. (What there might be to gain from faking the cause of death remains unexplored. )
Now, one would think that anyone clever enough to find and kill one of the world’s most elusive terrorists, then keep the body on ice until politically advantagous to “rekill” him on a photo-op bombing raid, would probably be clever enough to run the dearly departed through an Acme Jihadi Meat Grinder to fulfill the visual expectations of the “should be hamburger” armchair coroners.
If one thought.
However, listening to radio reports develop over the day, it has occurred to me that there may be a bit of a propaganda operation underway in the circumstances surrounding the overdue demise of Mr. Zarqawi.
But I do find it odd that with over 100 comments in the bin on the topic. not a single “expert analyst” has yet mentioned it.
(I reserve the right to be wrong, of course. But if I’m not, I find it reassuring that the folks in the upper echelons of the US military haven’t discarded that most useful tool of war to appease those who are openly cheering their enemies.)

“And still, says a source, it is difficult to find a common denominator.”

(Related thoughts from Frum)

Ten things they can do to save the planet. (Did you know that fewer than 25% of the Screen Actors Guild and Directors Guild have been spayed or neutered?)

“This volatile and dangerous source of energy” is no answer to the country’s energy needs, shouted a Greenpeace fact sheet decrying the “threat” posed by the Limerick reactors Bush visited.
But a factoid or two later, the Greenpeace authors were stumped while searching for the ideal menacing metaphor.

h/t

Chris Selley challenges some of claims of the allergy police;

You’ll find this little nugget on the American Academy of Allergy Asthma & Immunology’s website, for instance:

Peanut allergies in children increased two-fold over a five-year period from 1997 to 2002.

That is impossible to believe. Either it isn’t what it seems to be or it must be one of the greatest medical mysteries of all time. There are the usual explanations for such anomalies, of course: heightened awareness leads to more accurate diagnoses. But I will admit to wondering if some children claiming to have such allergies aren’t victims of parental misdiagnosis, which is facilitated by peanut-free schools and the ever-increasing incidence and acceptance of such allergies. (I avoid bananas because they almost invariably give me the shits, but I wouldn’t claim to be allergic to them.)

He’s surprised however, that pets weren’t already banned from the passenger cabin on commercial airliners;

Evacuating a smoldering Airbus is hard enough without panicky Weimaraners running around or someone’s cat digging its claws into your eyelids.

Having flown my dog in the cabin from Saskatoon to Rio De Janeiro, I can assure Chris that neither is likely. Getting a Weimaraner in a 12″ by 18″ canvas pet bag would probably preclude that scenerio. Most passengers don’t even know when a pet is on board – the pet bag must be kept in the space under the seat.

Most of the time.

In this amusing interview with Tony Jones of the Australian Broadcasting Corp.

ROBERT FISK, AUTHOR AND JOURNALIST: They do look like Zarqawi. I think it’s pretty clear that he is alive, which I doubted for some time and that he, indeed, made this videotape. It clearly is a blow to the United States in the sense that they have several times claimed that they’ve killed him, which they obviously haven’t done, and the tape is obviously new. But I think it is part of the bestialisation, if you like, of those people we want to hate, in the sense that I think individuals like Zarqawi or bin Laden don’t actually matter. It’s a bit like, you know, after you make a nuclear bomb, you go around arresting all the nuclear scientists and putting them in prison. It doesn’t do any good. The nuclear bomb exists. Al-Qaeda exists. The organisation which bin Laden has created exists. So, the individuals per se don’t actually matter anymore, but that’s something which I think the Americans don’t yet grasp.
TONY JONES: The last time we spoke, you did indeed think it very possible that he’d actually been killed and no-one knew where he was. So that’s not so surprising.
ROBERT FISK: Yeah.
TONY JONES: You also thought he was a creature invented to fill the narrative gaps. In other words, a creature created, in a sense, by American propaganda. He’s much more than that; isn’t that evident from this video?

Yeah.

(Bumped to April 30 with updates)
Has this image appeared anywhere in the mainstream media to date?

There was a rally today in Saskatoon to support these criminals. A spokesperson (identified as Colleen Thomas) was interviewed on radio claiming that Six Nations invented democracy and that their system of governance was inspiration for Benjamin Franklin.
Apparently, they’ve forgotten how it works since then.
UPDATE: The website at CitizensofCaledonia.ca has now been pulled due to threats and intimidation. That’s too bad, but considering the documented acts of property damage and arson, perhaps it was considered too risky to continue publishing the photographic evidence.
I was able to pull up the documentation that was available on the site (pdf) and have saved it here:
To_the_people_of_Haldimand_County.pdf
LandClaimResearch2.pdf
As always, keep checking for updates and commentary at the indispensible Dust My Broom;

NON-ABORIGINAL GROUPS DECLARE SUPPORT. CHECK OUT SOME SAMPLES FROM THE LIST. THE GAME OF FOOTSIE WITH RADICAL ANTISEMITES CONTINUES***********:
Al-Awda (Palestinian Right of Return) Coalition-Vancouver
Canada Palestine Association
Palestine Community Centre
Palestine Solidarity Group
Palestinian Arab Women�s Association
Voice of Palestine-Vancouver
Iranian Federation of Refugees

A more general column on the failings of institutionalized welfare and the reserve system in today’s Ottawa Sun by Pat MacAdam.

No longer a reptilian kitten eater!
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Update: Steve Janke asks “Did Exclusive Advertising accept a paid ad that read “Stephen Harper Eats Babies”?
May 1st Update: Exclusive Advertising claims a hacker is responsible, and issues an apology.

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At Dust My Broom, an especially compelling comment from Jack;

Canada is presently governed by a very scary individual, we all have to be aware of this individual. A person who shares the same birthdate as Hitler, a person who is only concerned about his desire for power. This country will be lifting their arms and saying, �Heil Harper, Heil Harper, Heil Harper!!!�”� Now that is scary.

Except, Adolf Hitler was born April 20th. Stephen Harper on April 30th.
However, he missed this.

Remember the dinosaurs?
And where are they at now?
They’re at $74US a barrel, that’s where.
Well, Connect the dots, eh?
(Via McGehee.)

So what we have is the Winnipeg Free Press allowing [columnist Colleen Simard] to promote a Hitler-sympathizer and apologist. I can only assume that the reason for this is that the idiots at the Free Press have no clue who Horn is and don�t care; or else are too afraid to say anything against the house indian for fear she�ll go raving on about racism and censorship.
Imagine the outrage if someone promoted Zundel as a source, or a potential leader for that matter? Imagine if someone used Tom Flanagan as a source in an Indian-related story?
That�s what we have. And nothing, nothing, will be done about it.
I can rant and rave all I want. Simard will not be called to task.
I can write letters to the editor, I can write to B�nai Brith and point out what the Free Press allowed in their paper, but nothing will happen.
Simard will still have a job next week; despite promoting a Hitler-apologist in the pages of the Winnipeg Free Press, she will not be called to task for it.
[…]
I�m just too exhuasted to give a crap anymore. I�m tired of fighting on behalf of reason and getting pissed on.

He’s reposted the Horn article in full. Read the whole thing, and consider his request.
Last word to Jeff Goldstein;

[A]s I point out in one of my essays on race, the only real difference between those modern progressive race theorists who promote the social construction of race as a way to keep race a politically controversial issue and, say, the KKK, is that the latter doesn�t contort itself trying to justify its position: they believe in racial essentialism, and do so overtly.The social constructivists, on the other hand, are �animated� by an essentialism that THEY have �stripped� of its racist trappings in order to make it more palatable to mainstream progressives and liberal democrats. Utlimately, however, both groups wish to use that essentialism to promote a social policy of their liking.

(Definition: Essentialism )

Telegraph;

Consider the simple fact, drawn from the official temperature records of the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, that for the years 1998-2005 global average temperature did not increase (there was actually a slight decrease, though not at a rate that differs significantly from zero).

Of course, little matters like data are irrelevant to the larger picture – for as the true believers frequently remind us: cold winters, warm winters, hot summers, cold summers, average summers, more tornados, fewer thunderstorms, heavy snowfall, cold snaps, chinooks, drought and heavy rainfall are all signs of the coming global climate apocollapse. It’s a point the Telegraph also notes;

In response to these facts, a global warming devotee will chuckle and say “how silly to judge climate change over such a short period”. Yet in the next breath, the same person will assure you that the 28-year-long period of warming which occurred between 1970 and 1998 constitutes a dangerous (and man-made) warming.

Indeed.
I’m reminded of this every time the local (or national) news breathlessly reports “breaking a record set in 1913” – often with added commentary that global climate specialists have warned that we “will see more of this”.
If global warming is truly a recent and accelerating phenomenon – why are these hottest/coldest/dryest/wettest records so old? Shouldn’t the majority of records broken be recent ones?

Fox News;

Al Qaeda conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui helped himself get one huge step closer toward getting the death penalty Monday when he testified that not only did he know about the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks ahead of time but that he and shoe-bomber Richard Reid were supposed to hijack a fifth airplane and fly it into the White House.

Now, on to the larger question – just how long before these people thicken the plot and uncover evidence that Moussaoui is in reality, George W. Bush’s secret half-brother?

It’s the splashing of the Democratic base being washed out to sea.