Welcome to the 4th of July edition of No Pants Friday™. Remember, painting the Stars & Stripes on your backside is a no-no.

I was up way too early this morning, so I am pretty much useless on content till MUCH later today. In fact, I’m going back to bed shortly. Yeah yeah, shut up.

• Mark Steyn regarding Blazing Cat Fur, brilliant as always
• Um, I thought Gary Coleman was gay
• 4th of July TEA Party roundup - my latest at Examiner. You clickee, they payee
• Krugman on job loss (ironic, since he works at the NYT, which will undoubtedly soon fold)
• Michael Jackson is still dead, I think
• So is Karl Malden
• I’ve wanted one of these for a while, and finally ordered one

Reminder: Brass Balls Radio is on Independence Day hiatus this coming week. You can catch previous shows by downloading from our website. Show 50, if you haven’t heard it yet, is the one hosted by Mark Steyn.

Updated: This guy, a prof at the University of Toronto who may be teaching your children, believes that plans for jihad are merely moral arguments. Canada’s broad strata. Nothing to see here, folks.

And it’s my blog, so I can bitch all I want.

Every day I come across blogs that have so much potential to expand on their subject matter, but all they do it copy and paste their entries from other sources. Be it press releases, email updates or other people’s content, these sites just copy, paste and post.

That’s not blogging. It’s laziness and a lack of creativity. Do a little of your own research, clip and paste relevant paragraphs to expand on, or delete your blog. Seriously. Because at this point, even with links to give credit, you are really just stealing other people’s content. You make us all look bad.

Most people start blogs because they have something to say. And yes, there will be times when someone else can say it better than you, and you make the exception to post their full content (I hope with permission). But that shouldn’t be the norm. That shouldn’t be what I see 2 out of 3 days when I go to your site. You’re just wasting my time, and you’re wasting your own, too, because clearly you are not a blogger.

We now return you to regularly scheduled (and predominately original) content.

To me it’s just another work day, because most of my clients are American.

But if you want something special for Canada Day, check out Kathy Shaidle’s book sale - for Canadians only!

I’ll be scarce for a while, since today is the monthly Vast Right Wing/Vast Zionist Conspiracy luncheon. I’ll be there with Kathy, along with other members of the VRWC/VRZC, and Kevin Gaudet of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation. While I’m off helping decide the news and market cycles for the next four weeks, while drinking the blood of Palestinian babies, do check the links below:

• RIP Billy Mays - the uber-marketer
• Friday was a good day to bury bad news
• I’m quoted in this piece about the Toronto garbage strike
• I’ll never understand the queer/Palestinian dynamic - ever
• People who know me know that I don’t give anything away for free
• Brass Balls Radio kicks ass this week - have you listened yet?
• I ordered the winning t-shirt from Alexander of Hollywood last night - they are limited edition, so you have to order via email

Have a great day. Kisses on your pink parts and all that.

Jacey Paladino’s correspondent mug from her stint covering CPAC 2009 for Brass Balls Radio.

Tabitha Hale’s guest host mug for when she filled in for Mike Williams a couple of weeks ago.

Mark Steyn has one for guest hosting in May. These are rare, people. They are not for sale. You have to earn them.

So is the Rat Pack and Billie Holliday. No word yet on Elvis. Francisco Franco though is still confirmed as dead.

Thoroughly disheartened by the deathapalooza of the last week, I am chucking it all and running away to Rib Fest with Kathy and Arnie. FTW!

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This is hilarious, and somewhat touching. I know this (totally hot) guy in London who got it into his head on Friday to stage a “Mass moonwalk” in front of London’s Liverpool Station. Rented speakers, blocked off the street, and thousands of people showed up to pay tribute to Michael Jackson and to dance in the street.

Lunatic. But at least he’s a resourceful lunatic, because I sure as heck couldn’t have pulled something like that off on short notice. We should bring him over to America to help us organize the Tea Parties next weekend! Well done, Milo.

But I think I’m the only one. What a day! Farrah Fawcett succumbed to the cancer she’s been battling for years. She was 62, and her friends and family were at her side.

But poor Farrah barely got half a day’s news coverage before the madman that is/was Michael Jackson was rushed to hospital in a coma. He was later pronounced dead. He was 50 years old.

And then… rumors started flying around the Internet that Jeff Goldblum was dead. He’s not. And Harrison Ford dead. He’s not. What the high holy hell is going on? Relax people, before you break the Intertoobz.

I would like to address petty pieties, which I will get into further on Monday’s Brass Balls Radio (which is going to sound a helluva lot like the annual Oscar death list roundup). I didn’t like Michael Jackson. I wasn’t even a big fan at the appropriate time in 1984. As I grew older he disgusted me. He paid off parents to let him fondle their children - both he and the parents involved should rot in hell. And on top off all that, he was a joke. He was butt of eleventy-billion jokes for more than 15 years. So those of you who are all pious today about his passing are full of shit if you were part of that two-decade ridicule. Jackson leaves behind 2 or 3 kids (I don’t care enough to look it up), and I have a feeling their lives are about to get really, really normal. Good for them. I am not going to mourn his passing any more than I mourned wife-beater James Brown’s or will mourn murderer Ted Kennedy when he finally kicks it.

That said, Jackson was insanely talented (insane being the operative word), especially in his youth. And talent should be respected and remembered. So if you’re going to take a moment to mourn the death of Michael Jackson, at least remember him at his best and blackest.

And if you need a laugh after all the deaths, this is from Twitter:

“Heeeeeeeeeere’s Farrahhhhhh!”
“Heeeeeeeeeere’s Michaelllll!”
God: “Dammit Ed. Cut it out.”

Another politician has extramarital sex. It’s a Republican, so it’s important. No, his wife isn’t dying, and no, there’s no love child. But he’s a Republican, so it’s news, dammit. My latest at Examiner (remember, you click today, I eat next month).

Brass Balls Radio continues to wow ‘em weekly, and I’m using some of what I’ve learned from the show to educate others. My latest project, with First Blog Media.

I got an email from a girl last week telling me about our unexpected kinship. Check out Chicks on the Right. Heh.

Fascinating article on the conspiracy to shield the House of Saud from any links to terrorism. This isn’t just about Obama, though. Bush was annoying for parroting that bullshit line “The Saudis are our friends” every 15 minutes.

The case has put the Obama administration in the middle of a political and legal dispute, with the Justice Department siding with the Saudis in court last month in seeking to kill further legal action. Adding to the intrigue, classified American intelligence documents related to Saudi finances were leaked anonymously to lawyers for the families. The Justice Department had the lawyers’ copies destroyed and now wants to prevent a judge from even looking at the material.

The Saudis and their defenders in Washington have long denied links to terrorists, and they have mounted an aggressive and, so far, successful campaign to beat back the allegations in federal court based on a claim of sovereign immunity.

Don’t forget, 10pm EST on RFC Radio (Radio For Conservatives) is the lovely Dr. Melissa Clouthier on The Right Doctor. Tonight is the second part of her interview with Washington insider Saul Anuzis. There’s a chat room, too, where you can interact with Melissa and other listeners.

If Toronto city employees have enough time and money to run around town sealing off garbage cans because they’re having a strike, they’re already overpaid and underworked. Given the time, money and effort it took these squaling whores to do this, they could have collected the damn trash.

BTW, the ad on the bin is for Toronto childcare. Which is also shut down this week because of the strike. How precious.

Get your festering asses back to work. You can live with short-term disability (which still pays for your malingering) instead of your 18 unqualified sick days per year.

My trash will be hand delivered to Mayor Miller’s front lawn in Bloor West at the first sign of vermin.

Tonight.

Tuesday, June 23, 2009
8:00pm - 10:00pm
Gole Sorkh to Mel Lastman Square (and back)
Meet in front of Gole Sorkh (6184 Yonge Street)
Toronto, ON

I will try to be there, but I have my reasons for wanting to avoid the crowd. On that point I know Winston will forgive me. That said, I will make the effort to at least check it out, and anyone else in the area should too. The Iranian people fighting the Mullahcracy are running on adrenaline, hope and moral support.

They need that moral support from those of us around the world.

Tabitha Hale from Raisin Hale and pinkelephantpundit.com guest hosts.

Special guests are Steve Schippert and Winston.

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I’m not here, and I’m not blogging. I’m over on Twitter, watching big things unfold. The images coming out are unbelievable. I just watched a girl die in the streets of Tehran.

Brass Balls Radio will be released on iTunes tomorrow, and will include an interview with Steve Schippert and Winston, talking together about the present and future of the Iranian regime.

But here’s the thing - Iran is still an Islamic shithole, no matter the outcome of the revolution. They will still hate America, still hate the West, still burn the Stars and Stripes. But they will have democracy. And they will be working toward freedom. Baby steps.

Anyway, back to Twitter. Later, y’all.

Listened in on a great radio show last night. Dr. Melissa Clouthier’s The Right Doctor over on RFC Radio had Matthew K. Tabor on to discuss the education system in the US. No Child Left Behind, the power of teachers’ unions, teaching to the test, homeschooling, special needs kids and more. It was a brilliant hour of talk radio, and I don’t even have a dog in the fight.

The podcast can be downloaded by right-clicking here.

And yeah, if a few things sound familiar to you, it’s because Melissa and I share a producer. The great Mike Williams. (but don’t tell him how great he is, because he gets diva-y sometimes)

I sincerely hope the National Post got good revenue from the CHRC for the one page ad they took out here. Oh, it’s not an ad? Sure reads like one. Actually, it’s the context of Lynch’s speech (since when did she need to stump?) that she gave on Monday.

Today, many Canadians’ perception of our human rights system has been, in large part, informed by the misinformation and spin of our critics. Many no longer see the connection between the societal values that they cherish and the organizations that are there to promote and protect those values.

It is critically important that we step forward and inform Canadians of the vital role that the human rights system plays in our multicultural society.

Right. So the Canadian Islamic Congress and the Supreme Council on Islamic Supremacy of Supremeness can continue to haul Jews in front of tribunals, and Jews can continue to pay people to pretend to be Nazis in order to point to a Nazi threat, and Richard Warman can also get paid to pretend to be a Nazi while most likely chatting it up with Nazis hired by the Canadian Jewish Congress. Oy.

Mexico’s navy has seized more than a ton of cocaine stuffed inside frozen sharks, as drug gangs under military pressure go to greater lengths to conceal narcotics bound for the United States.

Armed and masked navy officers cut open more than 20 shark carcasses filled with slabs of cocaine after checking a container ship in a container port in the southern Mexico state of Yucatan, the navy and Mexican media said on Tuesday.

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According to Janet Napolitano, acts of terror like those committed on September 11, 2001 should be referred to as “man made disasters”. That means 19 Arabs with poison in their hearts and Jihad in their pants should be on the same level as a drunken ship’s captain who slicked up a bunch of waterfowl.

Three thousand dead humans in New York, Pennsylvania and Virginia mean no more than a bunch of ducks. Is Janet Napolitano a member of PETA, by chance?

Won’t be fought on CNN.

I will admit I haven’t been following too closely. Just when I have Tweetdeck open and can see the trending topics. The messages have been flying around, and at one point I teared up when it began to circulate the people were opening portals and proxys to keep the news flowing from the people in the middle of it, despite Ahmedinejad’s attempts to filter and eventually shut down the internet.

A million people rallied in Tehran today. A million! A general strike has been called for tomorrow, to bust the regime’s economy. Ahmedinejad is flailing, his military is raiding and shooting, the university in Tehran was raided and burned in some places… but the people march on.

CNN, Fox and the other major media sources are obsolete. It is too easy for the Ayatollah and Ahmedinejad to ban the media, just like they do in North Korea and China. Instead, the news comes out by text message, Twitter and email. This is a people’s revolution.

I’m getting a lot of my news from here, from Winston. An Iranian exile in Canada. He’s been awake for two solid days. He’s shaking and bordering on the hysteria that comes from lack of REM. And if I’m not around later this afternoon, I will probably be with him, manning the messages with my Persian-to-Redneck dictionary while he sleeps.

Godspeed Winston, to you and your family back home. This, unlike much of what we’ve seen elsewhere, is a hope for change we can belive in.