This isn’t a byelection. It’s a fringe festival.
Stephane, please – a favour. When the Orchard Davidians are ready to spit out the chewed up husk of your political credibility, please leave Elizabeth May’s phone number where they can find it.
Thank you.
I really mean that – thank you.
Since We Were Having The “Freedom of Speech” Discussion, Anyway…
How timely…
Your Daily Islamophobic
The Ezra Levant battle with Alberta HRC has brought into perfect focus our right as citizens of a liberal democracy to express our opinions. It’s a debate that Canada’s lemming population should’ve had a long time ago.
So, keeping in the spirit of things, here’s my contribution to Islamophobia.
On my Favorite Cartoon:
Let me make it clear that the point is not to attack Muslims as individuals … but to attack the doctrinal basis of their faith. We have every right to do so. We have every right to call a spade a spade or a barbaric doctrine what it is. We have every right to argue … say, that Jesus never existed, or that reincarnation is a fantasy. We have every right to criticize the beliefs and doctrine of any faith or political bent … once we lose that right, we will no longer be a liberal democracy. And, if it offends those who believe the doctrine we criticize … so be it. Part of living in a liberal democracy is being able to “suck it up!”
There’s an unwritten rule among “progressives” that one is not allowed to condemn Islam. We aren’t allowed to say “I oppose Islam in general”. It’s not allowed because to do so is bigoted or racist (I’m not sure how racism gets into the equation). The understanding is that religions are above general condemnation (although you’d never know it by the far Left’s rants against Christians).
There Are No Muslim Extremists:
How to Stone the Truth … by Dodging, Ducking, Diving, Dipping …. and Dodging
Aussie blogger Tim Blair has cancer
He faces major abdominal surgery next week.
Bush, you Magnificent Bastard
We in the VRWC can finally let you in on the joke*.
Bush was “Rove’s brain”.
Reader Tips
I’m off this morning for a set of shows on the west coast, so while I will be online from time to time during the trip, the guest bloggers will be filling in when they can. If things get a little slow, check out the sidebar and expand your reading horizons!
Reader tips open.
Mark Steyn: “You need this book”
Sure. Like I wasn’t gonna post this:
“By the way, Kathy Shaidle has a new e-book out. I’m so square I’m not sure I quite know what that is, but I’ve read it, and it reads like an old-fashioned non-e-book, only better. You should get it. (…)
“She has fans around the world: in the course of the last year, I’ve sat in a restaurant on the beach at Malibu and at the Savoy Grill in London and listened to various long-distance admirers regale me with favourite examples of her prose…”
(PS: you can download a free sample chapter if you want…)
Those Moderate Muslims
New, on Facebook: Ezra Levant is a piece of shit JEW
Screenshot.
Group members:
Ali Zee – Admin (Calgary)
Usher Ahmed (Calgary)
Super Samer (Calgary)
Issam Zeineddine (Forest Lawn High School)
Khalil Jeha (Calgary)
Hussien Abdulbaki (Calgary)
Abe Rafih (Calgary)
Bassam Youssef (Lebanon)
Issam Khalil (Calgary)
Manal Abdallah (MRC CA Alum ’07)
That should give the bored among you something to do.
Update: The group now looks to have disappeared – oddly enough!
(h/t to The Greek)
A Plot To Kill The Queen
At the Commonwealth Conference in Uganda;
That sounds mighty close for comfort: An al-Qaeda subsidiary had planted its terrorist cell inside the official satellite trucks of the national broadcasting network?
Wny not? They’ve successfully planted their propagandists in ours.
More.
Comment Of The Week
“If Kinsella didn’t misspeak, if he does judge people so much on the basis of race that he insists on calling someone who’s only half-white “black”, then I don’t know what to think of him anymore.
“Personally, I think it’s time for a crippled President, as long as he’s not a Jew. I mean, just to clarify, I wouldn’t oppose someone because he’s a Jew, nor would I support someone because he’s a Jew, it’s just that America’s not ready for someone who’s both a Jew and a cripple. It’s just not time, not yet; cripples are first in line, then blacks, then Jews, then women, then mulattos, then Asians.
“Mind you, if the candidate had merely converted to Judaism, and had only a slight limp, he should be given a chance, but only if “it’s time”, at that particular time, for that particular mixed-identity group to be next in line to get their token president.”
Related (which used to be comment #4 at the Politico).
Reader Tips
The big mean blogosphere sends the baby baracudas scurrying for the rocks.
Blacks-only schooling in the new Ontario millenium – what a difference terminology makes!
Clashing civilizations, revisited.
Add yours in the comments.
Tony Blair’s Britain
Where the foxes caper unmolested, the government packs your school lunch and “we’ve come for your liver”;
Mr Bloke: Look, I can’t give it to you now. It says ‘In The Event of Death’…
First Man: No-one who has ever had their liver taken out by us has survived…
‘He’s dead, by the way”
More.
Update: It’s like an IQ test for the HRC-cheering section of the Canadian leftosphere, really. When even Glen Greenwald gets it, it speaks volumes about those who don’t;
Here are the noxious fruits of hate speech laws: a citizen being forced to appear before the Government in order to be interrogated by an agent of the State — a banal, clerical bureaucrat — about what opinions he expressed and why he expressed them, upon pain of being punished under the law. This is nothing short of stomach-turning…
The Orphaned Baby Star Shivered Fearfully
Anthropomorphic “science writing” at its stellar best – complete with violent batterers, hugging quadruplets and post-menopausals giving “unlikely birth”.
One Man’s Fairy Tale
Is another man’s racial slur. The Obama campaign plays the language cognition card.
Update: “One of the stranger things of an increasingly strange campaign season is to hear that a former President of the United States obsequiously called into the Al Sharpton radio show to sort of apologize?—or at least to gain a reprieve from Sharpton for Bill Clinton’s supposedly intemperate caricatures of Sen. Obama.”
Reader Tips
Choosing his battles poorly.
A collection of weird photos, and potential roadkill.
Mr. Carlin! Tear down that wall!
Yours in the comments. I have a busy day (preparing for another road trip), so expect things to be a bit slow.
Solidarity
Give ’em hell, Ezra.
The rest.
Scratch A Socialist
And you’ll find an anti-Semite;
‘The situation we have now in Venezuela is that for the first time in modern history we have government-sponsored anti-Semitism in a Western country,” said Sammy Eppel. “That is why this is very dangerous, not just for the Jewish community in Venezuela but for the Jewish community as a whole.”
Among the examples offered by Eppel:
Venezuelan government intelligence services twice have raided the country’s most important Jewish center in a vague, ultimately unsuccessful search for weapons. Publications of the government’s cultural ministry run articles entitled ”the Jewish Question,” along with a Jewish star superimposed over a swastika.
I’ve noticed that my comments about bulldozers don’t draw nearly the level of outrage they used to.
Do You Think It’s Easy To Keep Librano Secrets?
Liberal leader Stephane Dion went thermonuclear for the cameras this week, accusing the Conservative government of hiding a damning auditor general’s report on the federally owned atomic energy company.
Seems the report made public this week has been around since last September.
Turns out that’s about five years less than an even more alarming report on the same nuclear agency by the same federal watchdog, buried by the Liberals since 2002.
In fact, the Liberals never did release Auditor General Sheila Fraser’s earlier bombshell. You are reading from it here first.
[…]
On Nov. 15, 2002, Fraser sent a copy of her report to then Liberal resources minister Herb Dhaliwal, along with a covering letter imploring him to meet to discuss her alarming findings, particularly “unresolved issues with the government” and their potential impact on “the management of environmental risks at AECL sites.”
Two months later, Dhaliwal replied, in part: “As your report was quite clear and acceptable to me, I felt no need for us to meet at this time. I was particularly pleased that you saw evidence of strong leadership … and found that good systems and practices existed in several key areas.”
h/t reader Al W.
The Man Who Couldn’t Say No
An interesting exchange between CKOM talk host John Gormley and Ralph Goodale just now, roughly quoted;
Gormley: Did you ever say to David Orchard there will not be a candidate selection in this riding?
Goodale: The responsibility for informing candidates is with the candidate committee to handle the process… and to be fair when David came forward they were told of the leader’s perogative to appoint … they received a kit…
Gormley: Ralph is your answer “no”, you never told him?
Goodale: In a telephone conversation with David, I mentioned to him that the leader had the power to designate a candidate… I’ve seen that comment from David and don’t want to get in a he-said she-said…
Advantage, Orchard.
Update: Speak of the devil…