For those of you who get Showtime, you’ve probably seen the ads for HBO’s Big Love. There’s a Patsy Cline song used in the ad.

What is it? I’ve never heard it before, and I’ve tried Googling the lyrics to no avail. Go forth and find this out for me!

Merci.

Download the MP3

It was founded on the principle, in fact.

Stephen Boisson, Alberta Public Enemy #1 and recipient of future-crime complaints because of his Christian stance on homosexuality, brings us a surreal conversation with a Human Rights Commission employee.

He said the following recommendations were the responsibility of the people who invited me, not my responsibility.

2. Ask the church to get a signed consent form from everyone, parents and children, everyone, stating that they are not forced to attend and are there of their own free will. Later he added that this consent should be drawn up by a lawyer who is familiar with the Human Rights Laws.

3. The weekend retreat is considered one-occasion situation and that a license was probably not required.

4. The church needs to contact the education people and take a curriculum of the program and demonstrate that it is an educational program that is not unwelcome by the group there and everyone is there by consent. Also, the church needs to ask the education people if a license is required. At this point Ralph was uncertain and seemed to think a license would be helpful if problems occurred.

5. The church needs to contact the police to make sure they do not view the program as bordering on criminal activity—need to show them the curriculum so they know what is going on and do not arrive on the scene.

WTF? With the exception of the occasional 8-year-old who would probably prefer to be at home playing Wii, people are usually at church or any church program by their own free will. There aren’t people herding them in at gunpoint.

I then told Ralph that the church had already distributed a CD of mine to each of their families to prepare for the retreat that had some statements on it about homosexuals. He said that they needed a consent form from each family that this was not unwelcome material and that their kids would not be talking about any of it in the schools.

He said, “You may have a problem with the CD if it is seen as gay bashing and if anyone who has it displays it before the public, i.e., talking about it in a classroom. It needs to be used by a select group who consented to receiving the material. Religious material must not be forced on anyone who is not a part of the group who consented. If a student did this, and the person complained, you would be liable and it would not matter that all the safeguards were in place.”

Again, that free will thing. But even more worrying, what is this about keeping teachings secret and not talking about them with others? Is it now official policy of the Alberta Human Rights Commission to drive Christianity underground? Are we in Iran, where Christian teachings must be done in basements and behind closed curtains, never letting the neighbors know? Is this still Canada?

This is absolutely terrifying, if you stop to think about it. Whether you are Christian or not, you must agree that it is heinous that the main religion of Canadians is being forced into hiding by these Commissions. Is this what was originally intended when our government drew up the Charter? Nowadays, kids go to school and learn about every religion except Christianity. No one is allowed to complain. But if one of these kids attending the workshop goes to school and tells his friends about it, all hell will break loose. It has to be kept a secret. The founding religion of the modern world: Now a dirty little secret for backrooms and speakeasies.

First they came for the basement Nazis.

Then they came for the publishers and newsmen.

And now they’re coming for our laughs. No, really.

A Canadian stand-up comedian will face a human rights tribunal hearing after a woman complained she and her friends faced a “tirade of homophobic and sexist comments” while attending one of his shows.

In a decision released this week, the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal ruled there is enough evidence to hear the case of Vancouver woman Lorna Pardy against Toronto comedian Guy Earle. Zesty’s Restaurant in Vancouver, where the May 22, 2007, show took place, was also named in the complaint. The restaurant has since closed.

“Two of them started making out, flipping me the bird and saying I hated lesbians,” he said.

Basically some dumb comedian pulled a Michael Richards on some lesbians, and instead of being shamed and shunned like Richards was, these bitter broads decided to run crying to the teacher. A good public shaming would have nullified any career he might have had, but instead he will now become a free speech hero. Is that what these man-haters had in mind?

Oh well. The trial will be funny. Maybe this guy and Steyn can do a road show together or something. Have Ezra as emcee…

I’m an insomniac. So I headed our for a jog this morning, a little after 5. As I went past Our Lady of Perpetual Help, I read the sign outside:

Many small good moments will outweigh one big event.

I needed that this morning.

He was originally charged with obstruction.

A Mississauga man is now facing a first-degree murder charge in the 2007 death of his teenage sister.

Waqas Parvez, 27, was originally charged with obstructing police after his 16-year-old sister, Aqsa Parvez, was strangled in early December at her Mississauga home.

Aqsa Parvez was murdered for not wearing a Muslim headscarf.

Which is not to say that I don’t get and agree with her point. I just think she’s reminding me a little too much of those nerdy boys we used to wedgie in school.

Instead, consider the fictitious aliens portrayed on the Star Trek television series, the Ferengi. If ever there were a group deserving of contempt, the Ferengi would be it. They are unrepentantly deceitful, scheming, cheating, money-grubbing, obsequious, obnoxious scoundrels. Their written code of conduct explicitly promotes dishonesty.

Are these hateful comments? If I wrote such things about any real group in Canada, no doubt there would be several human rights commissions breathing down my neck.

But suppose Ferengis really existed and immigrated to Canada. Nobody who had ever watched Star Trek would want them as employees, tenants or customers. But nobody would dare say why, fearing a hate speech charge.

Instead, people would surreptitiously avoid dealing with them in whatever subtle ways were possible without triggering a discrimination complaint.

There are three possibilities about the televised portrayal of Ferengis: it might be true for all Ferengis, it might be false for all Ferengis or it might be true for some Ferengis and false for others. In each case, allowing people to make disparaging comments like the ones I made above would offer benefits the Supreme Court apparently couldn’t imagine.

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, Muslims are not the new Jews. They are the new… Ferengi. (somewhere, Mr. Right is laughing at me for even discussing this)

Putting aside the uncomfortable geekiness of it all, she makes the point many of us have been making all along. Those who behave in a way that is not conducive to integrating into our communities should be shunned until they mend their ways. That goes for both violent immigrants and neo-Nazis. Back when we still had shame, we didn’t need commissions. But since we adopted this anything goes mentality, we need Nanny to tell us when we’re over-stepping. Shunning isn’t allowed, as it might hurt someone’s feelings. Theoretically, I couldn’t shun a neo-Nazi skinhead because his feeling would be hurt on account of me disagreeing with his belief. I can’t shun a Muslim whose religion teaches him to kill me, because I might offend his beliefs. And I’d have to hire a goddam Ferengi.

Where do we draw the line??

Now he’s Vogue-ing. Holy crap this is well done.

I am not John McCain, but I approve this message.

A blond girl is raped by two North Africans in a busy railway station. Nobody stops to help. Nobody. Disgusting.

The article gets translated by Google, so please be kind with the language mish-mash.

It was June 12. “My daughter was returning from Waterloo. It was 21 h. At its exit from the train, she headed to the Bancontact.” A place of passage. Yet this is where the tragedy took place.

“In the midst of a station. But how is this possible?,” The father of Lola, 21 years. “Two men have accused him [sic] of not wearing the veil. My daughter is pretty. She is blonde with blue eyes.”

“One of the assailants took out a knife. My daughter was plated against the wall of Bancontact. Knife to her throat, one of the boys raped her. The other watched.”

The rape ended, the attackers left, quiet. “They were two North Africans. They did not even have hoods. And do not tell me that I am racist because I give you their origin! My daughter was raped because she was not wearing a veil. That it’s reality! ”

It’s bunk. I’ve been thinking about it a bit in the last week, and I can’t come up with a valid reason for Obama to show his birth certificate publicly. Some are saying they worry he was actually born in Kenya, negating his run for office. Ok, well, leave that to those in charge of swearing him in. Surely someone in a position of authority has seen it.

Others say, “Well, what if it lists him as a Muslim??” My answer? If it does, then he’d better not show it. The fact that he’s been a practicing Christian for over 20 years at least means he would be marked for death as a Muslim apostate.

There are many legitimate reasons not to vote for Barak (no middle name) Obama. Not seeing his birth certificate is not one of them.

Ok, here goes:

Mohammed, terror, Islamism, fundamentalist Islam, race, religion, cult.

George Carlin is dead, yet none of the news articles have pointed out the dramatic reversal. Carlin was arrested for talking about the Seven Words you cannot say on television. Liberals (back when there were such things) used to praise Carlin for daring to speak about topics that had been kept away from television.

And now, people like Mark Steyn and Ezra Levant are being hauled before so-called human rights tribunals for speaking on topics that are no longer allowed in Canada. The dispute is getting a lot of press in Canada, but what do those people in the U.S. who used to praise George Carlin have to say about it? Nothing.

A wonderful gift to perk up my spirits. Thanks.

I just can’t seem to care enough about this year’s presidential election. In 2004, I felt invested. This year, all I see is two Democrats running against each other. There’s no excitement, no real policy, and - despite what the Obama camp would have you believe - no real hope for change. I’m bored. American politics should not bore me the way Canadian politics does. Yawn.

Toronto will never have crime again! I’m so excited! At long last, the murders will end, the sirens will be silenced, and candy gumdrops will grow on money trees.

After a long, at times bitter and widely diverging debate, Toronto city council passed a series of measures to stamp out gun violence this afternoon by a two-thirds margin.

The 31-9 vote was a victory for Mayor David Miller, who had championed the steps in order to give the city the moral authority to push other levels of government to get tough on gun crime after council voted strongly in April to ask Ottawa to enact a national handgun ban.

We’ll all sleep soundly from now on. Those pesky target shooters and gun collectors are going DOWN!

Today was the wedding day. Kathy should have been married at 4:15 Eastern time.