Like doctors overprescribing antibiotics, modern civilization’s social engineers are gradually killing our most valuable defenses. Consider Ezra Levant’s fight as that of a doctor battling to preserve the antidote.
At Cjunk I consider how far Europe has gone in letting pathogens run wild:

No wonder then, that the call to prayers echoing across the rooftops of British cities or vast no-go Muslim zones in France are replacing open, frank, and truly free speech. No wonder then, that the creep of hyper-chauvinism into European culture is greeted with hardly more than a sigh.
What most Europeans don’t even realize, is that they’ve effectively killed off the most effective antidote to civilization-killing pathogens like Islam; free speech.

or we’d have another tedious “ripped from the headlines” episode of Law & Order to look forward to.
PS: don’t you think a sane member of a sane group of people would consider legally changing his surname to something less suspicious or incendiary, just to make his life easier and other people more comfortable?
Oh, wait…

Breaking news here
Canadian Press story
Riders media conference at 12PM CST. You can listen to it live here

“…the study found that gay men in San Francisco were about 13 times more likely to be infected [by flesh eating disease] than other people in the city.”

Back in the early 1960s, two British teenagers pulled off something arguably more impressive on a similar subject, since they did it without green screens or computers…

Some find her “over the top”, some find her “embarrassing”, some are moved to paroxysms of spittle fuming rage, but I find that she has advanced liberal-baiting to a fine art form … a ballet of high dudgeon that’ll have them coming back for more no matter how badly they smart:

– I imagine sex with a Democrat would be very complicated. They’d keep changing positions for no apparent reason and every few minutes they’d ask if you think things were moving in the right direction. Sometimes, in the heat of passion, they’d yell out someone else’s name, like “Generic Democratic Candidate!” or “Anyone But Hillory!” Republicans believe in negotiating from a position of strength. Democrats believe the first step in negotiations is to lay down their arms. Whom would you rather be ravaged by?
– FREEDOM of speech isn’t working out so well for liberals now that they aren’t the only ones with a microphone. It’s not so much fun when the rabbit’s got the gun.
– President George W. Bush is evidently the first mentally retarded person to get a Harvard M.B.A., graduate from the U.S. Air Force Flight School, be elected governor of Texas, and then be elected president of the United States twice. I guess this is what they call “mainstreaming.” Admittedly, it took Bush two weeks to learn to prounounce “Shiite,” but he had higher grades at Yale than John Kerry. Then again, who didn’t?
– Liberals claim to be against terrorism in a theoretical sense, but they oppose any concrete action to stop it, which is kind of how I feel about adopting the metric system. All we know with any certainty is that liberals were sad the World Trade Center was destroyed. But they talk about it as if it were a cholera epidemic. How about anger? Did that emotion ever occur to any of these spineless pieces of pasta?
[…]
Democrats suddenly become big civil libertarians when it comes to the government tracking terrorists in this country. If any agency of the federal government shows the slightest interest in monitoring terrorists, liberals scream that America is becoming a police state engaging in racist reprisals against innocent Muslims. Merely having associations with terrorist groups is going to get you in trouble in Bush’s Amerika!
[…]
Criticize Democrats’ policy positions and they will fly into a sentimental rage as if you’ve insulted their mothers. Then, they’re spoiling for a fight. They only seem to lose their nerve when their country is threatened.
– LIBERALS titter about conservatives imagining Communists under every bed, while they hysterically claim to see racists under every bed. If, in addition to murdering tens of millions of people, Stalin had maintained “Whites only” water fountains, America would now celebrate a national Joe McCarthy Day.
– Maybe there’s a better committee for Senator Drunkkennedy to sit on – one that does not require constant moral grandstanding from the Democrats. Fortunely for the Democrats, People For the American Way holds the copyright to the words “troubling” and “concerned.” I bet Mary Jo Kopechne was “troubled” and “concerned” about the senator leaving her trapped in a car underwater while he went back to the hotel to create an alibi.
– Q: A number of folks have criticized you for generalizing about liberals. Is this a fair criticism?
A: In other words, we can’t recognize liberals as a group! They should be allowed to do as they please without anyone being able to talk about them. If we couldn’t “generalize” about liberals, your question would make no sense. I simply could ask, “What do you mean by ‘liberals’?”
– SIX imams removed from a US Airways flight from Minneapolis to Phoenix are calling on Muslims to boycott the airline. If only we could get Muslims to boycott all airlines, we could dispense with airport security altogether.

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Clearly, Dufus une and Dufus two have trouble with cognitive maps. Their eyes glaze over when they hear:

Continuity … maintaining momentum … the security situation remains too volatile for a major shift in strategy … troop levels must be increased.

Either that, or they are two of the most slimy (L)iberal weasels to foul the Afghan air in a long time.
I suppose we should look at the bright side, though. If by some chance the liberals defeat Stephen Harper in the next election (peace be upon him), and they opt for premature withdrawal, at least the marines will be in place to take over.
Update:
From Mark in the comments … USA Marines in Afghanistan will be under Canadian overall command.
I see the hand of Harper in this … evil … conniving … genius. Let’s see premature withdrawal now.
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“Well, in the case of Soharwardy, it appears that he himself is the subject of a human rights complaint — for discrimination against women. There’s a shocker. It was filed with the Edmonton and Ottawa offices of the Canadian Human Rights Commission. Some women in his mosque allege that…”
Keep reading. Ouch!

“I recently attended a conference in Budapest, where I made the mistake of saying that Europe was in danger of ‘going under’ to Islam. It was something like passing loud and smelly wind in public. Not too many people wanted to talk to me after that, and no one wanted to talk about my remark. What’s so appalling is that it’s precisely that failure to face the problem that makes it so likely.
“Here Melanie Phillips pulls no punches…”

A paraphrase:
“It’s ok for me to make fun of evangelical Christians, but the rest of you: leave Muslims alone!”