Go over to Proud To Be Canadian and nominate your pick for Canada’s Most Annoying Liberal of 2004. (You’ll have to register, at which point you can vote for Most Annoying Nominating Process of 2004).
My choice is Tommy Douglas, for crawling back from the grave to remind us all that he is not dead enough – first, by being selected by viewers of the CBC as the “Greatest Canadian”, then (adding insult to insult) by getting a day named after him in Calvert’s Cuba.
Bush, democracy and the Middle East – the wind at their backs.
Lefty bloggers who saw a right wing conspiracy in the persons of two Iraq bloggers – the wind between their ears
More on Sharia Law. Why let a little thing like subjugation of women stand in the way of cultural equivalence?
Victor Davis Hanson delivers a reality bitchslap. (Tip for trivia buffs – it is a well known fact that if Gwynne Dyer ever looks into the face of Victor Davis Hanson, he will burst into flame.)

And a few quick links of my own. Being the leadup to Christmas, it seems like half the goal masks in western Canada have landed on my doorstep, and they all need to be ready to fit under the tree. So, it’s long days of inhaling solvents and frozen fingers in a very cool body shop for me. And not much energy left for blogging.
So, without further adieu;
Sing along with Paul Desmarais: “The Annan bone is connected to the Strong bone, the Strong bone is connected to the Desmerais bone.The Desmarais bone is connected to the Chretien bone, and the Martin bone, and the Volker bone and the…”
Brought to you by the chief architects of the Canadian Gun Registry; office renovations at the Useless Tit Wing of the Department of Perpetual Indecision at the low, low price of $400 a square foot.
That does it. I’m starting my own damned religion and invoking Kate-ia Law for the parking tickets God forbids me to pay.
Right after I find my long-lost Indian grandmother.

I spent much of the day in the paint booth, working hard on a headache – due more to ingestion of chocolates and Christmas cookies than inhalation of solvents. Not a lot of energy for blogging, so I’ll pass along these reader tips.
A round up of links on the Spirit of America tour featuring Iraqi bloggers Mohammed and Omar Fadhil. Lots of new stuff.
Toronto Sun;

A VETERAN Toronto cop blasted Canada’s immigration system yesterday after the weekend arrest of a twice-deported career criminal. “To me, the fact this guy should have been deported from this country a long time ago says a lot,” Det.-Sgt. Wilf Townley said. “This isn’t the only (case). There’s lots of other ones.
“They should be getting rid of these people. How does somebody get out on a bond who’s committed 27 criminal offences in this country?

Rand: “Ways to Cut Support for Radical Islam and Terrorism”. Charles MacDonald notes, “As always, the problem will be telling the moderates from the closet suicide bombers.”
A laundry list of geopolitical predictions from the Washington Times.
Also;

This, of course, is the sad situation in which we now live. A huge majority of Americans and our legislators believe that the federal government may legislate on any topic, at any time, for any reason, period — so long as the legislation does not offend the Bill of Rights. We used to have all the rights contained in the Bill of Rights, plus untold scores of others. Now, as the framers predicted, we have only those rights contained in the Bill of Rights. This is a disaster, not a blessing.

In Canada, it was the intent.
While Chretien fiddled, subs rusted. “Total bullshit news. Total bullshit.” cries the forlorn vestigial twin. He’s also been asked by the Post to write “1,000 words on Chr�tien’s amazing legacy. “ None of them “sponsorship”, as it turns out.
Thanks to Charles Macdonald, Craig Bett, King Richard the Rednec, and others.

Canada is becoming a preferred route for the loose security travel industry
Rachel Ehrenfeld in National Review – “Had the U.S not gone ahead with its plan to liberate Iraq, we would have never discovered the extent of the corruption in the U.N.’s Oil-for-Food program. But while Oil-for-Food is the biggest, scope-wise, of any known corruption in an international organization, it is merely the culmination of years of corrupt U.N. practices.”
Juan Cole, Professor of History, Middle East Commentator, Idiot.
Craig Brett looks at a bit of disingenuous poll spin by the Canadian media on the success of the Bush visit. Say it isn’t so!

I’m trying a new category here at SDA – reader tips. Always appreciated, I feel badly when I don’t have time, space or the angle to use them. So, instead, I’m just going to offer up some of those I don’t steal for my own use on a periodic linkfest. Chances are, if one of the regulars here thinks something is worth reading, it is. I’ve been “on to” these guys for a while now – most of them are way smarter than I am, but too goddamn lazy to do their own blogging….

“This quasi-medical condition afflicts a nation in the following way. Most people just shut up. They don’t say anything, even when the loudmouth minority around them are saying the most outrageous things.”
Rich Richman is tracking the Sharansky/Bush democracy dialogue.
“Listen, friends, you have to face the truth. You are never going to be rich. The chance of that happening is about one in a million.” – Michael Moore
“With a little bit o’luck, with a little bit o’luck“- New Official National Security Jingle
Insurgents target power grid with explosives. There are ties to the French.

For this inaugural post, I’m just going to say thanks to “everybody” who provided the links. In the future, I’ll list names, unless there’s a specific request not to.